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Ever wondered about the blue sign onNorth Quincy Street near theWashington-Lee High School in Ar-
lington which says “I-66 Civitan GarageSale”? There is a story behind that signwhich was told, in part, by local high schoolstudents who attended a conference at thePiankatank Camp and Conference Centerin Hartfield, Va. over the weekend of Jan.6, with two of their mentors, PatriciaKoepsel of McLean/Tysons and Brian “Pat”Robson of Richmond.
Why is the Middle East so complex? Whatmakes a good leader? Am I a leader? Whyis the U.S. Constitution so important? Thesewere questions wrestled by young men andwomen from area high schools at the annualCivitan Leaders in Freedom Conference.
The Arlington Civitan Club sent sixstudents, at a cost of over $2,000: JosephAndres from Bishop O’Connell High School,Youssef T.C. Thomas from Yorktown HighSchool, Alistar J. Watson from WakefieldHigh School, and Bethlhem Dumtie fromWashington-Lee High School. The TysonsCivitan Club sent six more: CarolineBrunner from McLean High School, FabianE. Gonzalez and Orah Cecile Smith fromOakton High School, Anusha Ashrat fromLangley High School and Claire Julia Troy,Zachary Holden, Jong Eun Jung, Emily AnnServiss, and Jackson Thomas from MadisonHigh School. Those students made up amosthalf of the 39 students who attended theconference, picked for having alreadydemonstrated leadership skills in theirschools or other organizations.
“We bring them in on Friday, on severalsmaller buses, from Northern Virginia, fromRoanoke and Charlottesville, from out in theTidewater area,” said Robson, who has ledthe conference for 18 years. “We get themall on one bigger bus. None of them haveever met each other, and when they get onthe bus they don’t want to know each other— but then they start to warm up. Everyonegets to ride the bus for 60 miles, and at theend of that 60 miles they have had time to
look at each other and ask themselves: ‘DoI want to know you?’ Two days later theyare so busy hugging each other and sayinggoodbye we can’t get them back on thebuses. They get together afterwards.Convene their own meetings. They establisha real camaraderie.”
Nationally renowned professors ofpolitical science and law moderatedexercises at the conference to teach studentshow to apply the principles of the First andFourth Amendments of the U.S.Constitution as they role-play. Motivationalspeakers challenged everone to embraceindividual differences instead of allowingthem to be platforms for division.
“I learned about how to make a positivedifference in the world and made closefriendships that will last a lieftime,” saidBrunner.
“I learned a lot through this great leader-ship experience,” said Will Wallace, fromsouthwest Virginia. “I truly feel like my lead-ership skills were strengthened through aseries of leadership and team buildingexercizes along with world-class speakersfrom across the nation. This event has trulychanged my life and I cannot wait to applythe skills I learned to help change theworld.”
Civitan International was founded in1921 in Birmingham, Ala. It is an associa-tion of community service clubs. Theorganization aims to build good citizenshipby providing a volunteer organization ofclubs dedicated to serving individual andcommunity needs with an emphasis onhelping people with developmentaldisabilities. There are about 30,000 mem-bers — referred to as Civitans — in nearly1,000 clubs around the world, located in50 countries.
You have to look at Civitan on two levels:their model is builders of good citizenship,but in the 1950s there was a member ofthe Baltimore Club, Tom McNulty, who hada son with Down’s Syndrome, TommyMcNulty. He convinced Civitan to take itsmission focus to kids with developmentaldisabilities. Then in the 1990s, Civitanteamed up with the University of Alabamaand created the CIvitan National ResearchCenter. That would be a separate story,” saidRobson, but “if you see those blue plasticboxes with candy in them as you pay yourbill at the restaurant, that is money we pour
Students from all over Virginia attended the conference. From leftare Jong Eun Jung, Emily Serviss, Jasmine Nguyen, Mary Wachawski,Jackson Thomas, Ethan Johnson, Zack Holden, and Claire Julia Troy.
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S Four Mile Run Drive is not the pret-tiest view in Arlington. A trip westalong the southern road starts witha scenic overlook of the ART bus
parking lot. From there the southern viewtransitions into broken down cars proppedup outside garages and featureless concretebuildings.
But all of that is changing soon. The FourMile Run Valley (4MRV) initiative, startedin May 2016, aims to develop a compre-hensive vision, policy, and strategy for thearea’s future. A 20-person working groupwas established to advise county staff.
The main changes to the 4MRV will cometo the park and waterfront area, which iscurrently unaccessible to Arlingtonians. Thedesigns presented to the 4MRV WorkingGroup on Jan. 18 showed possible visionsfor a promenade and elevated walkwaysthat would transform the creekarea into a riparian trail. The ri-parian, an area adjacent to the wet-land, would provide a new outdoorrecreational space in Arlington butcomes with challenges. Currently,the water is several feet belowstreet level. Any park space builtalong the banks of Four Mile Runwould need to plan for flooding.
One of the biggest concerns inthe local community is the futureof the Shirlington Dog Park, one ofthe few currently existing attrac-tions in the area. At the Jan. 18meeting, dozens of citizens showedup to the meeting after a sign wasposted at the park warning citizensthat the group was going to voteon closing the dog park. Theyweren’t, but the show of supportwas noted by members of theworking group. While closing thepark wasn’t on the agenda, someof the proposed plans for the areacould have a substantial impact onthe dog park. Some of the park de-signs included bisecting the dogpark and other natural space in thearea for more street accessibility.
“We are reviewing changes to the
dog park as part of the Four Mile Run Re-development,” said Edie Wilson, a memberof the working group to the concerned dogpark users. “We need you at this meeting.”
While many on the working group didn’tlike the idea of roads through the naturalspace, Wilson also noted that the 4MRVdoes need more bridges and connectivitywith Shirlington and Alexandria. CharlesMonfort, chair of the working group, saidthere needed to be at least three bridges inthe area that cross to Shirlingotn to makethe new spaces viable and accessible.
Many of the potential redesigns for the4MRV include park space extended intocurrent office and business buildings. FrankMcCreary, a property owner in Four MileRun with a local business incubator, warnedthe group that purchasing that space couldbe expensive and suggested that as thegroup move forward, it try to find a way towork with private owners for the redesignrather than try and buy them out.
“When you start talking about taking overall of the private property in a long-termplan, are you going to put your money inthat or take those buildings and do what acouple people suggested: working with thebusinesses to incentivize property ownersand business owners,” said McCreary.“[Most will be] more than happy to workwith you. Maybe there’s a tax incentive wecan get. Maybe the county knows how wecan get grants for building owners and prop-erty owners so we can enhance the look.”
The redesign of the 4MRV extends beyondthe nature spaces. The plans include a re-design of the local streetscape, implement-ing a more attractive “shared use streets”model based on developments in Houston,Texas. The streets would be livened up withgreenery and have the asphalt replaced witha more permeable surface to help controlflooding.
Mike Katrivanos, co-founder of New Dis-trict Brewing in the 4MRV, said with the new
street designs that the countywould need to keep parking ac-cessibility in mind.
“Regardless of whether you’rea county employee, a propertyowner, a business owner or aresident, everybody needs topark here,” said Katrivanos. “Wesee a shortage of parking herealready. As a community benefit,let’s look at parking and the lo-cation of a parking structurehere.”
Roberta Talmich, a Shirlingtonresident attending the meeting,said the priority should be onwalkability.
“We hear a lot about parking,but I would like to think aboutwalkability,” said Talmich.“There has to be a sidewalk.Would encourage you to think alittle bit further out in terms ofyour area so I can walk to mycommunity theater [in Four MileRun].”
The next meeting of the FourMile Run Valley Working Groupwill be on Feb. 7 at 7 p.m. at thePark and Natural Resources Op-erations Building. At this meet-
ing, the work group will be presented witha second set of diagrams for potential rede-signs of the 4MRV.
Hidden Valley Long neglected Four Mile Run reimagined and redeveloped.
The Four Mile Run Valley Working Group.
Cranes and herons (top) are acommon sight along Four MileRun. One of the few pedestrianbridges (bottom) currentlyconnects Four Mile Run Valley inthe north to Shirlington villagein the south.
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Thirty-eight thousand prisonersare incarcerated in Virginia with12,000 adults and 500 juvenilesprojected to be released each
year. Ninety percent of those released re-turn to their communities. Ex-offenders mayface stigma, lack of family support,inadequate life skills suitable for making iton “the outside” and difficulty getting andretaining employment.
Local solutions include Offender Aid andRestoration (OAR) serving Arlington,Alexandria and Falls Church; Guest Houselocated in Del Ray serving women in North-ern Virginia; and St. Joseph Catholic Churchin Alexandria which ministers to both adultand teen-age former offenders including anemployment initiative for teenagers. In ad-dition, the prison system emphasizesintensive reentry training for ex-offenders,and parole and probation officers focusingon ex-offender rehabilitation as well as lawenforcement.
OAR provides reentry services topreviously incarcerated individualsincluding transition assistance andemployment coaching. A new reentryprogram begins working with prisonerswhile they are still in jails or correctioncenters. On a 12-degree day in January thephone is busy and the reception room ofthe OAR office on N. Uhle Street in Arling-ton has a steady stream of visitors. ElizabethJones Valderrama, executive director ofOAR, says it may be someone withsweatpants and a plastic bag of clothes whohas just been released from jail and whoneeds temporary assistance like warmerclothes, transportation, or snacks while theyare filling out the two hours of paperwork.
Sometimes it is a client with a clothingappointment who has come to be measuredfor a complete wardrobe suitable for that“look good, feel good” job interview orsomeone with an intake appointment todiscuss their community service and workout a schedule around their job and family.OAR manages a community service pro-gram that is an alternative to jail or prison.A bright yellow table with crayons and acoloring book sits in the corner. “We wantour clients to feel they can come with theirchildren. A lot of them don’t havebabysitters,” she said.
OAR’s pilot of the reentry program isbased on 20 years of research focusing oncriminogenic principles. The case managerdoes an in-house assessment of the prisonerto determine who is at high risk. “Then weset up meetings with them and give theminformation on the program and they de-cide whether they want to participate.”Jones Valderrama says since they launchedthe program in July 2015 they have workedwith 24 participants both pre-and post-re-lease. The first class of five graduated in
July. “This program is very labor intensive.It takes 300-600 hours of services for oneprisoner each year. “And,” she said “it takestwo and a half years of training for eachstaff member to be able to effectively ad-minister the services offered.’
Jones Valderrama added, “We havechanged everything in the last two yearssince the intensive reentry model.” Thisprogram focuses on cognitive developmentand behavioral thinking. “Before we didn’tfocus on the cognitive; we helped peopleget jobs. We found that in prison they hada lot of groups but people didn’t getindividual attention. “That’s when peoplecome back.” She said in the past we werecounting a lot of widgets like how manybus tokens we gave out but that didn’tchange behavior.” For instance, JonesValderrama remembers one person whosaid, “Yes I did steal from that family butthey had insurance so they could buy newthings. I did them a favor.” She says theyhave to change that kind of thinking.
OAR’s reentry program serves Haynesvlleand Coffeewood Correctional facilities andPeumansend Creek Regional Jail as well asthe Arlington and Alexandria jails. Thereare five high-risk prisoners enrolled in theprogram at Coffeewood out of 1,193 pris-oners. “We are trying to assess the need outthere,” Jones Valderrama said. OAR workswith about 2,100 people in a given yearincluding about 1,600 individualscompleting community service hours and
800 men and women receiving reentry ser-vices.
While there are a number of communityresources offering food, housing and otherassistance to the general populationincluding ex-offenders, there are not manyorganizations specifically addressing theirneeds. Jones Valderrama said, “That is agood thing because It is difficult to do thiscorrectly and easy for well-intentioned butuntrained people to do harm and frustratethe client. We want our clients to have apositive experience.”
ANOTHER RESOURCE is Guest Houselocated in Del Ray for recently incarceratedwomen who are on supervision. It is theonly residential house of its kind servingwomen in Northern Virginia. There is nocomparable residential house for men inNorthern Virginia.
The participants at Guest House must benon-violent offenders with priority given tothe Northern Virginia area. They must havebeen free of drugs and alcohol for threemonths and willing to make seriouschanges.
Terry Garrett, a nine-year alum of GuestHouse said, “If I hadn’t come here, I’d prob-ably be back in jail, high or dead. I’m vot-ing for dead the way I was living.” Now sheis a speaker for Guest House and a part timemonitor responsible for logging the womenin and out, distributing passes if they goout, administering breathalyzers and urinetests “just as a precaution.” But she says thebest part is sharing her experiences with thewomen going through the exact same thing— helping them get through the rough spotsto know they can make it like she did.
The program offers a three-month resi-dential stay providing a structured homeenvironment with services and support.Each of the 24 women receives a mentor aswell as a case manager who helps themdevelop an individual program with shortand long-term goals. It can include visits todoctors, referrals to counseling and therapy,life skills development and mentoring, jobcounseling, or AA meetings. The after-careprogram can last 6-9 months.
Kari Galloway, director of Guest House,says both of these parts have to becompleted in order to have a successfulcompletion. “I wish we could keep themlonger. I can’t even stay on a diet for sixmonths, but we expect them to change their
whole life in that period of time.” She addsif they stay in the program for a year therecidivism rate is 10 percent, “but they haveto go the whole year.”
Galloway says when she came 12 yearsago, there were nine beds. The Departmentof Corrections increased it to 17 beds threeyears ago and then in July to 26. “There isa huge need. We have a waiting list of 6-12at a time.”
Galloway said, “There is a misconceptionabout their circumstances. They have hada lot of trauma, domestic violence, child-hood abuse. They have so many barriers.”
Garrett said, “We are amazing womenwho made a mistake.”
Jones Valderrama added, “There are a lotof injustices in the criminal justice system.If they had better counsel or opportunity togrow up in a different neighborhood, theywouldn’t be where they are.”
Jones Valderrama said, “I stay on becauseI went to Coffeewood in 2010 and saw myfriend from childhood incarcerated. So Isaid to myself wonderful people makemistakes. “
ST. JOSEPH Catholic Church on N.Columbus Street in Alexandria has enteredinto a partnership with the Court ServiceUnit of the Alexandria Juvenile DistrictCourt to help youths on probation findemployment.
“We are only eight months into theprogram; nevertheless, we can already pointto some successes,” Michael Diffley said.“Six teenagers have found employment sofar with our help.”
Diffley also works with adults, an effortbegan after meeting panhandlers on thestreet and finding out who they were. “Iconnected with them, all homeless and allex-felons. It hasn’t been without its ups anddowns. But we have to help them cross thestreet from their side to our side. There is aplace for programs which help a lot ofpeople, but there is a place for intensivefocus — a place for holding onto a guy’shand while going through a hard time.Guidance on how to help them when theyfail. They can’t make it without it.”
Harold Clarke, director of the VirginiaState Department of Corrections, says thereare intensive reentry programs in 16 of thestate’s 39 facilities in an effort to help themget contacts and get out in the community.These programs begin 3-6 months beforerelease from prison or jail.
“We teach motivational interviewing toengage the offender,” he said.
Clarke explains that the culture of pris-ons depends on which of the six levels theprisoner located in; the higher the level, themore control. “As people move from higherto lower, they approximate outside society.”
Under Clarke’s leadership there has beena new focus on prisoner reentry. He saysthe DOC is responsible for public safety but“if we help ex-offenders make better deci-sions and help them become successful,then in the larger picture we are helpingcreate public safety.” Clarke adds that it
Local programs, serviceshelp ex-offenders.Prisoner Reentry: Some Solutions
Part IIIn a three-part series focusing on prisoner reentry
in Northern Virginia.
Elizabeth JonesValderrama, execu-tive director of OAR:“OAR partners withMen’s Warehouse toprovide a closet ofsuits for that lookgood, feel goodinterview.”
Kari Galloway, direc-tor of Guest House:
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Jennifer Male, probationand parole officer in Alex-andria: “We don’t wantthem to think of us aspolice. We want to help.”
takes a process to focuson the culture of an orga-nization and to helpchange the mission of anagency. It takes clarity ofpurpose and “we have an-nual training seminarsand speakers to focus onour mission and vision.”Clarke said in Virginia 26percent of ex-offendersare back within a yearcompared to over 40 per-cent nationwide. “Wemust be doing somethingright.”
Gail Arnall, former di-rector of OAR said, “Un-der his wonderful leader-ship Clarke has turned theculture for parole officers from law enforce-ment to guidance and encouragement.”
Jennifer Male, parole and probation of-ficer in Alexandria, says when she firststarted in 2003 a lot of emphasis was onlaw enforcement. Now there is also an em-phasis on helping the client. “We don’t wantto be known as police. We want to be surethere isn’t another victim but also that theclient enters society successfully. That re-duces the number of victims.” Male says she
has a passion for thisjob and has so muchinvested because “Itcould be him. It couldbe me.”
Male currently has 50in her caseload but had100 at a different loca-tion. “We’re lucky in asmall area like Alexan-dria to have so manyresources available,” hesaid.
How often she seesan ex-offender dependson their needs and risklevel. Male has an ini-tial meeting with theex-offender and thendoes a risk assessmentbased on background,
family history, education, and how they feel.They make a case plan together with a goal.“It doesn’t have to be like keeping clean. Ilet them set the goal and what they have todo to get there. We talk about things. I don’tjust tell them what to do. This drives thesupervision. People say to me ‘You must seea lot of bad people.’ I say some have beenhere one time and never again. There are afew revolving doors in and out time andtime again. I try to figure out why.”Pho
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There is so much going on this week:Locally, the effects of a travel banat odds with American valuesplayed out at Dulles International
Airport, but stimulated a heartening response,with volunteer attorneys offering help, local,state and federal elected officials demandingaccountability and peaceful demonstra-tors protesting the un-American assaulton travel from particular Muslim-major-ity countries.
“I was just amazed at the number of people,the energy, the spirit, the spontaneity,” said Del.Marcus Simon, who used FaceBook Live toshare the scene over several days. “In someways, it was heartening, to see so many North-ern Virginians reacting.”
See reporter Tim Peterson’s story in this pa-per.
CROSSOVER is Feb. 7; that’s when only billsthat have passed either the House of Delegatesor the Virginia Senate can move forward.
As this date approaches, the General Assem-bly has a serious transparency issue, as it con-tinues to kill most proposed legislation withunrecorded voice votes in subcommittee, withno accountability or record of how membersvoted.
This was raised to new heights earlier thisweek, when a House of Delegates subcommit-tee killed proposed constitutional amendmentsincluding non-partisan redistricting and restor-ing voting rights of felons, along with morethan 20 proposed amendments, in a singlevote.
John Horejsi of Vienna, who heads the orga-nization Social Action Linking Together, notesthat his organization is unable to track whathappens to legislation they support. This head-
line, which ran last week onwww.roanoke.com, says it all: “Bill to requirerecorded votes dies on an unrecorded vote,again.”
State Sen. Creigh Deeds continues importantwork on mental health reform, citing threepriorities this year, requiring most of Commu-
nity Services Boards around the stateto provide same-day service and cer-tain outpatient services; to assess andprovide care for inmates who have
mental health needs; and long-term support-ive housing to help avoid repeated mentalhealth crises.
About 200,000 people in Virginia have hadtheir motor vehicle licenses suspended for alegal infraction that has nothing to do with adriving offense. And 650,000 people in Virginiahave a suspended license for failing to paycourt costs. This is an obstacle to holding a joband being able to meet other obligations, andlegislation to stop this counter-productive prac-tice is still alive in the Virginia Senate.
The sale of high-proof grain alcohol in Vir-ginia Alcoholic Beverage Control stores passedthe House of Delegates earlier in the session,and is just foolish.
EFFORTS by state Sen. Adam P. Ebbin andothers, supporting repeal of the Virginia con-stitutional amendment approved by voters in2006 forbidding gay marriage should moveforward. The 2006 amendment is no longervalid because the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015legalized same-sex marriage.
State Sen. Chap Petersen introduced adoomed bill to ban contributions from publicutilities. “Monopolies like Dominion or Appa-lachian Power have an undue influence on thepolitical process. That leads to legislation
which has a direct cost to Virginia consumers,both residents and small businesses,” Petersensaid.
It looks like the felony threshold will increaseto $500 from $200, an important distinctionchampioned by Petersen and state Sen. ScottSurovell.
While the constitutional amendment to ad-dress voting rights for felons who have servedtheir sentences died in the above action, Gov.Terry McAuliffe should be commended for re-storing the civic rights of more than 128,000Virginians, and his plans to restore rights forany remaining Virginia citizens who lost theirrights. This has been a laborious and worthyprocess, adapted as needed to meet legal chal-lenges and court rulings.
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So Much Happening, Don’t BlinkDemonstrations at Dulles in reaction to travel ban; fast movingGeneral Assembly lacks transparency; other key issues.
Editorial
Letters to the Editor
A NeighborhoodSwing SetTo the Editor:
We had built a house when my son was afew months old (he is 29 now), and mydaughter a little over two. It was on a cul-de-sac where the back yard of each house wasinterconnected. Simply put, those eight houseshad a common back yard.
Soon after we moved in, we put a swing setin our backyard for my kids. The next day, Isaw a little girl, age of my daughters’ playingon the swings. She giggled each time her mompushed her. I came out through my back doorwith my kids and introduced us. It took no timefor my kids to become friends with the littlegirl and me with her mom. In the followingfew days my backyard turned into a neighbor-hood playground and a meeting place for allstay home moms.
We started sharing our food and our culture.I was the only non-white American Muslimmom but always felt one of them. From sellingGirls Scouts cookies to walking the kids to bus
stops or singing door-to-door Christmas car-ols became joyful and a neighborhood thingto do.
Without any effort, we became watchdogs,baby sitters, molly maids, carpoolers, andrescuers for each other. Kids became “our kids”and we became extended families.
Along with many of my inexcusableshortcomings, I was notorious for forgettingmy house keys, frequently locking myself outof of my house to the point of embarrassment.My neighbor helped me so many times that hecould open my window without any effort.Perhaps he had acquired expertise in that skillset.
There was never a concern for safety.As I see fear trying to take over our values
and our unity, I started to think about the goodold days! The significance of that swing setstruck my mind. I did not realize until todaywhat it had done; it had brought all neighborstogether as one community.
With all uncertainties, I am still filled withoptimism. That same feeling of neighborhoodstill exists. Today all are coming togethertowards one common ground, that of Ameri-
can values — as one nation — just as if we allhave one swing set to share in our backyards.
Kay NeseemArlington
EconomicOpportunitiesTo the Editor:
When Bob McDonnell was Governor, henamed his Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling“Chief Jobs Creation Officer.” Only one candi-date in this year’s race for Lieutenant Governorhas the ability to be given that title: GlennDavis.
Glenn Davis can be Virginia’s next Chief JobsCreation Officer because he is already one ofVirginia’s chief job creators. Glenn is a smallbusiness owner with over 15 years ofentrepreneurial and executive experience. Heknows what it takes to move Virginia’seconomy forward into the 21st century.
As a young Virginian who is new to theworkforce, I want to make sure that our Com
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Boarding the bus for the Jan. 21Women’s March, Ivy South says sheis 88 years old and “this is my first
march.” Ivy was born in England in a verysmall place, “not even a village” and cameover to America in “I think it was 1947.”She has voted in every Presidential electionsince she was 21 years old.
But South said, “I have had time to paymore attention to politics this year thanevery before. I wasn’t very happy with theoutcome. I did not feel it was very honest. Ireally didn’t like the things they said aboutHillary. And he was so disgusting and somuch of a liar. I would watch the clips andTrump would say one thing one day andthe next day say he never said it.” Southsaid one thing she was troubled about washim wanting to get rid of the AffordableCare Act.
South said the March felt great, “It wasvery nice indeed.” She said there werepeople coming in from the side streets,sometimes on both sides, but she didn’t seeor hear any violence. She had never seenso many people together in her life. But shewas disappointed not to hear a speaker. “Wefound our way blocked so we ended upgoing back the way we had just come.” Sheadded that “the police people told us therewas a big TV screen but we never found itand Cher was supposed to be there but therewas such a big crowd she couldn’t get in.”
When the bus was ready to return, Southdidn’t get on it. “I was disappointed. I cameto march.” So South stayed on until about8 o’clock and then she and two others tried
to get a taxi home but “of course they wereall full. But finally we got one.”
South said she saw so many signs. “I wasreally pleased. But I am 4’ 9 1/2” inchestall so I spent most of my time looking upat the signs all around me. I got a stiff neck.”South said when she got home “I wasn’teven tired. I’m ready to march again.”
— Shirley Ruhe
88 and Ready to March Again
Eighty-eight-year old Ivy Southboards the bus for the Women”sMarch on Saturday, Jan. 21. Shesaid it was her first march, “ButI’m ready to go again.”
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At the County Board meeting onJan. 28, the board approvedamendments to a recent regula-
tion change that legalized Airbnb andother services involving the use of pri-vate homes as short-term rentals. Theamendment removed the limits originallyimposed last year on the number of con-tracts allowed at each rental location pernight.
The County Board also approved thefinal purchase of the temporary head-quarters for Fire Station 8. The CountyBoard will pay $800,000 for the prop-erty at 2215 North Culpepper Street. Thetemporary fire station serve the Lee High-way community while the permanentstation is rebuilt at 4845 Lee Highway.
The County Board unanimously ap-proved a resolution outlining items ofsupport and concern regarding the wid-ening I-66 project.
The resolution emerged after an envi-ronmental assessment released by theVirginia Department of Transportation(VDOT) showed the impact the widen-ing would have on nearby Arlingtonneighborhoods.
The environmental assessment foundthat the I-66 widening would have im-pacts on right of way issues along theeasternmost section of the highway. Theproject would require 4.9 acres of prop-
erty easements and acquisitions, 0.16acres of which will be permanent acqui-sitions.
The resolution also calls for VDOT toreview several traffic issues not ad-dressed in the environmental assess-ment. According to county staff, the draftenvironmental assessment did not assessthe impacts of multimodal transit in thetraffic model analysis. The model usedby VDOT does not account for bike lanes,pedestrian and bicycle movement, or theimpacts of buses loading and offloadingalong the route.
County staff also expressed concernabout a VDOT proposal to construct agrade-separated crossing bicycles travel-ling along the Washington & Old Domin-ion Trail. The resolution specificallycalled on VDOT to work closely with thesurrounding communities to mitigatepotential negative impacts from a bridgetrail.
The environmental assessment did notexamine the impact of noise mitigation.According to county staff, the impact ofnoise mitigation measures can only beexamined once the design for the noisebarriers are finalized. However, the reso-lution emphasizes that VDOT must com-municate with affected citizens about thepotential for noise barriers to be erectednear their homes.
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Email announcements to [email protected]. Include date,time, location, description and contact forevent: phone, email and/or website. Pho-tos and artwork welcome. Deadline isThursday at noon, at least two weeks be-fore event.
ONGOINGNicholas Rodriguez Sings 1970’s
favorites. Through Feb. 4, varioustimes at Signature Theatre, 4200Campbell Ave. Rodriguez’s cabaretwill fuse his love of all things 1970swith the music of Bossa Nova, disco,folk and Broadway. Visitwww.sigtheatre.org for more.
The Lion in Winter. Through Feb. 11,weekends only, Friday and Saturdayperformances at 8 p.m., Sunday at2:30 p.m., at the Thomas JeffersonCommunity Theatre, 125 S. OldGlebe Road. After the Feb. 5 matineethere will be a Post-Show Discussionwith the cast and production team tolearn more about the process ofputting together the show. Visitwww.thearlingtonplayers.org formore.
“Color Rush!” Art Show. Throughthe end of February at the GalleryUnderground, 2100 Crystal Drive.Member artists were challenged tocreate dynamic works in splashywake-you-up colors that will pop offthe walls. Opening reception: Friday,Feb. 3, 5-8 p.m. Visit
www.galleryunderground.org.Invasive Plants Removal. Work
parties are held every month to keepthe parks free of destructive invasiveplants. Teens, adults and familieswelcome. Every second Sunday of themonth 2-4:30 p.m. at Gulf BranchNature Center, 3608 Military Road;call 703-228-3403. Every thirdSunday of the month 2-5 p.m. atLong Branch Nature Center, 625 S.Carlin Springs Road; call 703-228-6535 or Visitregistration.arlingtonva.us. Free, noregistration required.
Poetry Series. 6-8 p.m. second Sundayof the month at IOTA Club & Cafe,2832 Wilson Blvd. Hosted by poetMiles David Moore. Featured artistsshare their poetry followed by openreadings. Free. Visitwww.iotaclubandcafe.com or call703-522-8340.
Open Mic Nite. 8 p.m.-12:30 a.m.every Wednesday at IOTA Club &Cafe, 2832 Wilson Blvd. Sign-uptimes are 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m.Bring instruments, fans and friends.Visit www.iotaclubandcafe.com orcall 703-522-8340.
Karaoke. 8 p.m. on the first Sundayevery month at Galaxy Hut, 2711Wilson Blvd. Visitwww.galaxyhut.com or call 703-525-8646.
Pub Quiz. 8 p.m. every Sunday atWhitlow’s on Wilson, 2854 WilsonBlvd. Prizes for first place. Free. Visitwww.whitlows.com or call 703-276-
9693.Storytime. Wednesdays and Fridays,
10:30-11 a.m. at Kinder Haus Toys,1220 N. Fillmore St. Storytime withMs. Laura. Call 703-527-5929.
Lego Club. Monthly on the firstWednesday. 4-5 p.m. GlencarlynBranch Library, 300 S. Kensington St.The library provides tubs of legos anda special challenge and after theprogram the creations are displayedfor everyone to see. No registrationrequired. Call 703-228-6548.
Brunch at Freddie’s. Third Saturdayof every month, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. atFreddie’s Beach Bar, 555 23rd St.The Arlington Gay and LesbianAlliance gathers for an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet ($9.99). All arewelcome. No reservation is required.Visit www.facebook.com/events/700174390103305.
THURSDAY-SATURDAY/FEB. 2-4Crystal Couture Show and Sale. 5-
10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2 and Friday,Feb. 3; 2-10 p.m. on Saturday, Feb.4. 251 18th St. More than 30boutiques and designers under oneroof for a one-stop shoppingexperience that lets guests browsediscounted offerings on the rack andon the runway. Visit crystalcity.org/do/crystal-couture7 for more.
THURSDAY/FEB. 2Budgeting and Saving. noon-1:30
p.m. at Connection: Crystal City,2117 Crystal Plaza Arcade. Gain tipsand tools to help manage money.Free. Visit arlingtonva.libcal.com/event/ or call 703-228-7520.
Maarja Nuut Music Series. 7:30p.m. at Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre,1611 N. Kent St. Northern Estonianfiddler and vocalist. Free. Visitwww.culturecapital.com/ for more.
FRIDAY/FEB. 3Valentine’s Day Card Making. 6:30-
8:30 p.m. at Arlington Arts Center,3550 Wilson Blvd. AAC instructorJennifer Penick will lead the classthrough a few relief-stamp makingand printmaking techniques to createa set of custom Valentine’s cards.Thisone-night workshop has been craftedfor any and all skill levels. $40. Visitwww.arlingtonartscenter.org.
Kleine Kammermusik Concert. 8p.m. at St. George’s EpiscopalChurch, 915 N. Oakland St. “Tidesand Treaties: Music of the 1720s,” aprogram celebrating the changingtides of European culture fostered bythe 1720s treaties of peace andreconciliation. $25/$10 students.Visit saintgeorgeschurch.org.
SATURDAY/FEB. 4Waterfowl at Gravelly Point. 8-9:30
a.m. at Gravelly Point, GeorgeWashington Memorial Pkwy. Visitdifferent birding spots in Arlington
throughout the year and buildCounty bird lists. Birders of allexperience levels can participate andloaner binoculars are available. Ages8 and up. 703-228-3403
Pirate Adventure Family Night. 7-9p.m. at Arlington Mill CommunityCenter, 909 South Dinwiddie St.Participate in a treasure hunt, createeye patches, pirate hats, and play theShipwreck game to hone pirate skills.Go to parks.arlingtonva.us for more.
Night of Ballads. 7 p.m. at RosslynSpectrum Theater, 1611 N. Kent St.Teatro de la Luna presents María delSocorro, Amira Mendoza and JorgeAnaya. $35; $30 for students andseniors. Call 703-548-3092 or visitwww.teatrodelaluna.org for more.
SUNDAY/FEB. 5AFAC Empty Bowls Lunch
Fundraiser. 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. atSt. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 4000Lorcom Lane. On Superbowl Sunday,for the price of a ticket, guestsreceive their choice of a bowl, hand-crafted by local potters, and meal ofsoup, bread, dessert. Two seatings,11:30 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. Ticketsare $35; children 5 and under arefree. Visit afac.org/afac-events/empty-bowls/ for more.
St. Jude Charity Ride. 1:30-2:20 p.m.at CycleBar, 3400 Columbia Pike.Sweat it out for a cause that [email protected] or 434-249-4568.
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The Connection
Everyone can find their grand-mother at BABA’s according toIvan Iricanin, the owner of thenew restaurant on Wilson Bou-
levard scheduled to open Feb. 1. His wifeNya Gill, who designed the restaurant said,“You know your grandmother brings backa certain feeling.”
Iricanin says he wants to create a neigh-borhood place that fits in with what is al-ready there and as a result it will be openfrom 8 a.m.-1 a.m. on weekdays and 2 a.m.on the weekends. Brunch will be serveduntil 3 p.m., “but not like a regular brunchwith egg everything.” He says it will offerthree different oatmeal creations such as theTiramisu Oatmeal with espressomascarpone, organic almond butter, darkchocolate granola, and prunes with maplesyrup. Or a “make your own oatmeal bar.Almond milk, butter, a little honey andshaved almonds — that’s my thing.” If youdon’t want the healthy option, you can getother items like eggs on toast with organicbacon and cheese. At 11 a.m. BABA transi-tions into sandwiches and lunch fare suchas BABA’s bowl of several kinds of beanswith ginger syrup, Parmesan cheese, andcharcoal-grilled kale.
This restaurant is not specifically Balkanunlike Ambar, its sister restaurant whichopened in the space above in August. “It’smore European but we still try to stay withwhat we know.” The dinner theme is small
plates in three categories including meat,vegetables and seafood such as the SeafoodSandwich, open faced topped with seafood,sweetcorn and asparagus salad andSriracha-tarragon mayonnaise.
Glasses hang in a rack over the bar forthe cocktail hour that begins at 4 p.m. “Wehave a mixology bar with different antiqueglasses for each drink,” Iricanin said. “Nya
found the glasses. Nya Is a hunter.”She added, “It’s a sport for me.”Iricanin says he has brought in Esteban
Ordonez with an international reputationas a mixology consultant. The cocktail listincludes names like Serbian Sombrero,Yugo Sidecar and Monastery. One of thecocktails is Beograd No u made with R yeWhiskey, Fernet and Gorki List Blend, Des-
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BABA Brings Alive Grandmother MemoriesHere’s to fun dining.
Ivan Iricanin sits in the “bar zone”created by his wife Nya Gill tobridge between morning coffeeand evening cocktails at the newrestaurant BABA at 2901 WilsonBoulevard. She designed the res-taurant in zones based on theconcept of use so that peoplewouldn’t be crowded on poten-tially busy weekends.
sert Wine and Orange Bitters — strong, onthe bitter side. “The
raspberry Rakia is bound to be a favoriteat lunch. It takes 25 kilos of raspberries tomake one bottle. You’ve got to like it.Ó
Gill, who recently graduated with an MFAdegree in interior architecture and designfrom George Washington University, hascreated three zones in BABA based on theconcept of use. She explains it is so thatpeople won’t be crowded in on busy week-ends. The brightly lit bar is designed with alot of wood to bridge between the morningcoffee and the evening cocktails. “Thisraised area is the VIP zone where peoplecan gather for special events.” And the fire-place zone is cozy with a working fireplaceand bigger stuffed upholstery. The ceilingis covered with salvaged vintage windowsas a response to the location in a basement.Nye said, “Since we didn’t have windows, Icreated them on the ceiling. They are alloriginal blown glass that I found in a sal-vage yard.”
Iricanin said, “We always knew wewanted to do this but wanted to focus onthe opening of Ambar upstairs and then turnto BABA. They worked on the concept. “Igrew up with my grandmother. She tookcare of me.” He continued, “I go there hun-gry, I get food. I go sad, I get out happy.And she made a good baklava, a big tray.”His arms stretch wide. “And I always atehalf of it. For a whole day I was on fire. Shemade an amazing white bean stew withsmoked ribs.”
He added, “We want to bring back thatgrandmother memory. Instead of fine din-ing, we call it fun dining, just like my grand-mother.”
Ivan Iricanin and his wife Nya Gillstand before the fireplace meant tocreate a warm and cozy space inBABA, a new neighborhood gather-ing spot. He explains that BABAmeans grandmother in Serbian,and it is cozy and warm just likememories of your grandmother.
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Super Bowl Wing Party. 5 p.m. atQuinn’s on the Corner, 1776 WilsonBlvd. Specials during the Super Bowlgame including mild, hot, Old Bay, orGuinness BBQ wings and raffling offa 55-inch Samsung Smart TV. [email protected].
MONDAY/FEB. 6Sewers, Knitters and Weavers. 1
p.m. at Woman’s Club of Arlington,700 S. Buchanan St. Sandy Newtonwill demonstrate techniques shelearned while working at PioneerFarm at Mount Vernon doingextensive research of Washington’sera, reviewing his slaves workledgers. Call 703-553-5800 for more.
Meet the Author. 3-4:30 p.m. atArlington Central Library, 1015Quincy St. Encore Learning willcelebrate Black History Month with alecture by Carolyn Quick Tillery, anaward-winning food historycookbook editor. Call 703-228-2144or visit library.arlingtonva.us/locations/central-library/ for more.
Yoga, Live Drumming and Drinks.7 p.m. at Mister Days Sports RockCafe, 3100 Clarendon Blvd.NamaSehkraft event is an hour-long,all-levels class to the transcendentalrhythms of Druminyasa, plus the firstpost-class beer or wine of choice. Call703-527-1600 to register or for more.
TUESDAY/FEB. 7Fix-it Workshop. 4-7 p.m. at the
Central Library, 1015 N. Quincy St.Free. Learn to repair small itemsaround the house. Free. Visittoday.arlingtonva.us/event/12099.
WEDNESDAY/FEB. 8Olympic Gold Medalist Speaker.
6:30 p.m. at the Better Sports Club,2700-2800 Clarendon Blvd.Arlington’s own Tom Dolan, a two-time Olympic gold medal winner willbe the featured speaker. $25. [email protected] or call 703-241-0390 for more.
“Grasses for the Masses”Workshop. 7-8:30 p.m. atFairlington Community Center, 3308South Stafford St., Room 118.Chesapeake Bay Foundation’sprogram provides an opportunity tohelp restore the health of theChesapeake Bay and Virginia. $40.Visit www.cbf.org/grasses for more.
Arlington Committee of 100. 7 p.m.at Marymount University, 2807 NorthGlebe Road, Dining Room, GerardPhelan Hall. Monthly dinner meetingto discuss attendance boundarychanges. Call 703-522-5600 or visitwww.apsva.us/school-board-calendar/ for more.
FEB. 8-MARCH 29Arlington Arts Light & Shadow
Class. 4:30-6 p.m. at Arlington ArtsCenter, 3550 Wilson Blvd. This newmultimedia course focuses on value,arguably one of the most importantelements of art. Exercises in charcoal,acrylic, chalk, and collage will lead todramatic images. [email protected]
THURSDAY/FEB. 9Bingo Happy Hour. 5:30-8:30 p.m. at
Arlington Rooftop Bar & Grill, 2424Wilson Blvd. A benefit for ArlingtonThrive that delivers same-dayemergency funds to those in crisis.Free. Call 703-558-0035 or [email protected].
Dance Company Benefit. 6-8 p.m. atBistro 360, 1800 Wilson Blvd.Rosslyn’s Bistro 360 is hosting thethird-annual Sip & Sample Wine &Food Tasting to benefit BowenMcCauley Dance. Visitwww.rosslynva.org/ for more.
A Centennial Celebration ofAfrican American Churches. 7p.m. Marymount Gerrard DiningHall, 2807 N. Glebe Road. Visitwww.marymount.edu/ for more.
Adapted Yoga for Adults. 7:35-8:25p.m. at Langston-Brown CommunityCenter, 2121 N. Culpeper St. Thisyoga class is specifically for adultswith disabilities and will includesound therapy (chanting), eyeexercises, breathing exercises, bodypostures, and deep relaxation. Aguardian or caregiver is included inthe cost of the class. $87. Visitwww.specialyoga.com for more.
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist.7:30 p.m. at Marymount University,Reinsch Library Auditorium, 2807North Glebe Road. CNNCorrespondent Sara Ganim, who wona Pulitzer Prize for her coverage ofthe Jerry Sandusky child sexualabuse scandal at Penn State, willdiscuss ethics in sports. Visitwww.marymount.edu.
Author Visit and Discussion. 7 p.m.at Woman’s Club of Arlington, 700 S.Buchanan St. Dr. Alfred O. Taylor, Jr.author of “Bridge Builders, Nauck/Green Valley” will present thehistory, discuss the present and thefuture of Arlington’s 172-year-old,earliest black settlements, Nauck.Call 703-553-5800 for more.
FRIDAY/FEB. 10Celestial Stroll. 7-8 p.m. at Fort C.F.
Smith Park, 2411 N. 24th St. Amoonlit walk through the forestsearching for nocturnal animals.Come learn how the moon moves, itsphases, its effect on wildlife andlearn legends about the moon. Visitparks.arlingtonva.us/locations/fort-cf-smith-park/ for more.
SATURDAY/FEB. 11“Grasses for the Masses”
Workshop. 9-10:30 a.m. atFairlington Community Center, 3308S. Stafford St., Room 118.Chesapeake Bay Foundation’sprogram provides an opportunity forVirginia residents to help restore thehealth of the Chesapeake Bay andVirginia. $40.Visit www.cbf.org/grasses for more.
Sustainable Landscaping. 9 a.m.-noon at Fairlington CommunityCenter, 3308 S. Stafford St.Interactive class will present ideas tocreate an easy-to-care-for andenvironmentally sustainable yard orcommon area. Visit mgnv.org or call703-228-6414 for more.
Composer Camille Saint-Saëns.7:30 p.m. at the Rosslyn SpectrumTheatre, 1611 N. Kent St. Frenchromantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns celebrates the Valentineholiday, performing Vive la France:The Magic of Saint-Saëns. Freegarage parking, entrance onArlington Ridge Road. 301-540-4842.
Valentines Concert. 7:30 p.m. atRosslyn Spectrum Theatre, 1611 N.Kent St. Featuring the music ofCamille Saint-Saëns. $33 Adult and$17 Student. Call 703-685-7590 orVisitwww.NationalChamberEnsemble.orgfor more.
FEB 11-12Capture a Valentine’s Day
Memory. noon-5 p.m. at PentagonCity, 1100 S. Hayes St. Celebrate theholiday with the Valentine’s Dayphoto booth. Free. Visitwww.simon.com/mall/fashion-centre-at-pentagon-city for more.
SUNDAY/FEB. 12We Love Animals. 1-2 p.m. at Gulf
Branch Nature Center 3608 MilitaryRoad. Make your favorite animal avalentine, and learn ways you canhelp them in the wild. Ages 6-10. $5.Visit parks.arlingtonva.us/locations/gulf-branch-nature-center/ for more.
MONDAY/FEB. 13Crime Fiction Author Book
Signing. 7 p.m. at One More PageBooks, 2200 N. Westmoreland St.,Ste 101. Ian Rankin introduces“Rather Be the Devil.” Visitwww.onemorepagebooks.com/ formore.
TUESDAY/FEB. 14Black Arts Movement Poet. 2-3:30
p.m. in the Reinsch LibraryAuditorium, Marymount University,2807 North Glebe Road. E. EthelbertMiller is the recipient of the 2016George Garret Award for OutstandingCommunity Service in Literature andthe author of several collections ofpoetry. Visit www.marymount.edu.
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Del. Marcus Simon (D-53)brought his two children, 13and 11, to DullesInternational Airport Jan. 28,
not to fly, but to witness and learn.Demonstrations sprang up at airports
around the United States over the weekend,following an Executive Order by PresidentDonald Trump that blocks travelers fromseven largely Muslim countries — Iraq, Iran,Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Somalia —in the interests of more significant vettingand preventing would-be terrorists fromentering the country.
Simon’s wasn’t the only family inattendance. Many had brought theirchildren to the demonstration.
“You show them this is what you do, howyou protest, be patriotic,” Simon said,“when the government does something youdon’t agree with. You expose them tosomething positive.”
THE BAN was announced Friday andofficials at airports began enforcing itimmediately. Travelers from the sevencountries are blocked from entering the U.S.for 90 days, and new refugee admissionsfrom the same nations blocked for 120 days.Syrian refugees are blocked indefinitely,according to the ban.
Some individuals who hold valid visaswere impacted by the ban, and others withlegal status and green cards have beendetained at airports. A federal judge inBrooklyn passed a ruling over the weekendthat blocked part of Trump’s action, andJudge Leonie M. Brinkema of the U.S. Dis-
trict Court for the Eastern District of Vir-ginia issued a temporary restraining orderSaturday night specifically for thosedetained at Dulles.
Brinkema ordered airport authorities togrant lawyers access to detainees who arepermanent legal residents, and thatpermanent residents not be removed forseven days.
Simon was at Dulles Saturday andSunday, as well as state Sen. JenniferWexton (D-33), U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-8)and U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-11), ask-ing that some of the more than 20 lawyerspresent be given that opportunity to meetwith the detainees.
The scenes were intense and a little cha-otic, Simon said, but the demonstratorswere nonviolent and positive.
“I was just amazed at the number ofpeople, the energy, the spirit, thespontaneity,” said Simon. “In some ways, itwas heartening, to see so many NorthernVirginians reacting to [the ban].”
Gov. Terry McAuliffe appeared and spokeat the airport Saturday. U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine(D) visited the ongoing demonstrationMonday afternoon.
Connolly was able to get one pair ofdetainees released Saturday evening withthe help of immigration attorneys: FairfaxCounty resident and green card holderAhmed Mohedian, 71, who had been heldwith his wife after returning from Iran. Hewas in that country receiving medicaltreatment, Connolly’s office said.
“America has always stood for being abeacon of hope,” Connolly said in astatement reacting to the ban. “DonaldTrump would paint over Emma Lazarus’swords on the Statue of Liberty. There aremillions of us willing to stand withimmigrants coming into our country. Thereare millions of us willing to insist thatAmerica’s doors remain open to thosefleeing injury, violence or persecution. Thisorder was not thought through and mustbe rescinded. We will fight this illegalExecutive Order.”
Simon said airport security officials andborder control told them they weren’tallowed to say anything. One of theconcerns, he said the legislators had heard,
was that individuals arriving from the ban-affected countries were being met once theygot off the plane and asked to sign adocument that essentially forfeited theirgreen card.
“If that’s what’s going to happen,” Simonsaid, “it shouldn’t be.”
If he had just landed in a foreign countryand was met by men with guns whengetting off the plane, said Simon, “I’d signanything that was stuck in front of me.”That’s why it was important for the law-yers to meet with these people and explaintheir rights to them, he added.
Another issue Simon raised was theapparent lack of information and clarity onthe details of the ban — airport officialsseemed unprepared for enforcing it.
“The rank and file employees, they werestuck between a rock and a hard place, areally difficult position,” Simon said.Typically with a ban like this, he continued,“you’d expect there to be some morecoordination with agencies, planning, and
Anti-Immigration Ban Rallies Held at DullesOther AreaLeaders Weigh In
On her Facebook page Monday, FairfaxCounty Board of Supervisors chairmanSharon Bulova said:
“The Executive Order issued on Friday is offen-sive and counter to what defines this country. Weare a nation of immigrants committed to religiousfreedom. I am committed to keeping FairfaxCounty a safe and welcoming place. When I wassworn in as chairman, I swore to support the Con-stitution. I believe this ban on travel isunconstitutional and I urge the judiciary to con-tinue to exercise its role in preventing furtherdamage to our country’s values and our reputationaround the world.”
U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D), released astatement Friday, the same day as the ExecutiveOrder was announced. Warner is vice chairman ofthe Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:
“The Trump Administration Executive Order thatindefinitely suspends the Syrian refugee programand pauses visas from Muslim countries runscounter to our American values. While I have al-ways been open to a pause on our refugee programto ensure appropriate time for intelligence and lawenforcement experts to ensure we protect our na-tional security, these actions by the Presidentpresume the solution before the review is complete.It is a policy targeting Muslims that national secu-rity experts have testified would harm, not help,our national security interests. I join the interfaithcommunity in Virginia and around the country inobjecting to these moves, and I will work in Con-gress to block an effort which trades dubiousincreases in U.S. security for certain alienation ofpartners with whom we must cooperate to addressterrorism.”
The Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge,Bishop of Arlington, released a statement as well,expressing solidarity with refugees:
“In his statement on the Executive Order haltingrefugee admissions, Bishop Joe Vasquez, chair ofthe Committee of Migration and Bishop of the Dio-cese of Austin, highlighted our nation’s long andproud tradition of welcoming newcomers and refu-gees in a humane manner, even as we havepursued a strong vetting system to ensure oursafety and security. Together with Bishop Vasquezand my brother bishops, I encourage Catholics tocontact our elected officials to make our voicesheard: Our communities have been and will con-tinue to be hospitable to refugees, in keeping withour legacy of welcoming the stranger. Together, wealso pray for comprehensive immigration reformand for peace, safety and harmony within our na-tion and throughout the world.”
The full text of the Jan. 27 Executive Order is avail-able online here:
Demonstrators,volunteer attorneysand elected officialswelcome travelers,extend help todetainees.
At right, U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-8)speaks with Dulles airport securityofficials, requesting lawyers begranted access to detainees im-pacted by executive action takenFriday by President Donald Trump.
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One of the most heart-wrench-ing decisions that DeniseSchossler, her two siblingsand her 95-year-old mother
had to make was whether or not to moveher into an assisted living facility, leavingthe home where she’s lived since 1954.Physical limitations and a need for socialinteraction drove the decision to relocateto the newly opened Kensington FallsChurch.
“My mother has managed to stay in herhome all this time with the help of an aidewho comes every day, but she realized thatit just couldn’t continue. One of the mainthings is the isolation and the loneliness,”said Schossler. “She needs more social in-teraction thanshe gets alone inher home. She’ssomeone who’shad an active so-cial life, but nowit’s just televisionand books.”
A dearth of so-cial interaction isone of the factorsthat can lead se-niors into assistedliving facilities. Infact, a recentstudy published in the Journal of Gerontol-ogy shows that seniors living in assisted liv-ing facilities have fewer unmet needs suchas companionship, help with cooking, bath-ing and doing laundry than those who liveindependently. However, the survey of morethan 4,000 people over the age of 65 showsthat even in such retirement communities,unmet needs still exist. To address this chal-lenge, local gerontology experts say thatfamilies must determine whether a lovedone’s needs meet the criteria for assistedliving candidacy and once placed, work toensure that those needs are being met.
“In counseling families making this diffi-
cult decision, I focus on safety factors forthe patient and other family members,” saidMaureen Moriarty, D.N.P., assistant profes-sor of nursing at Marymount University inArlington. “Often cognitive impairment isthe reason for assisted living. Perhapsmemory is affected so the patient can nolonger safely drive or remember the stepsin carrying out activities of daily living suchas cooking, bathing or management of fi-nances.”
In making this decision, an evaluation byan objective gerontology expert can be nec-essary, says Patrice Winter, DPT, assistantprofessor at George Mason University in theDepartment of Global and CommunityHealth. “They come out and evaluate thehouse and the person as well,” she said.“You have an objective, unemotional per-son instead of an adult child going, ‘Momyou can’t live here anymore.’ and the momsaying, ‘Stay out of my business.’”
Such an evaluation will show that thereare times when a lifestyle adjustment is allthat is needed. “Sometimes they can offersimple solutions that can make hugechanges,” said Winter. “Could it be that theyneed their eyesight and hearing checked?Or the washing machine moved upstairs”
so they can dolaundry more fre-quently?
When seekingan evaluation,Winter recom-mends local so-cial service agen-cies such as theFairfax CountyArea Agency onAging. “The issuemay not be cogni-tive, but the needfor a living envi-
ronment with more support may be trig-gered by physical limitations,” addedMoriarty. “Perhaps a chronic degenerativeillness such as Parkinson’s Disease has leftthe patient with physical care needs beyondthe scope of family members.”
Safety can become an issue when familymembers’ physical limitations restrict thequality of care they are able to offer. “Thisopens issues not only to patient safety butalso the family member may be frail or havetheir own physical limitations that limittheir capacity to assist someone who, forinstance, has balance loss,” said Moriarty.“The key assessment as a clinician for me isthat the family no longer has the resourcesto care safely for this individual in a homeenvironment.”
Schossler says that her proximity to theKensington Falls Church will allow her tobe in regular contact with both her motherand the staff.
“My mother has grandchildren and great-grandchildren and we can visit her becausethe Kensington is just a few minutes awayfrom where I live,” she said. “My motherhas already made connections with threepeople who will be there, so she’s lookingforward to moving. We happened to findthe right fit at the right time.”
To Move Or Not To MoveLocal family movesmother into newlyopened KensingtonFalls Church.
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“She needs more socialinteraction than she getsalone in her home. She’ssomeone who’s had anactive social life, but now it’sjust television and books.”
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Jocelyn Hunt Jose Sacin
Winter Concert for Opera Fans
Opera NOVA presented a winterconcert on Jan. 26 at Our SaviorLutheran Church on S. Taylor
Opera NOVA presented a winterconcert at Our Savior LutheranChurch on Jan. 26. Special guestwas Russian Diva YuliaPetrachuk. She was accompaniedby Joel Ayau.
Elise Jenkins, a mezzo-soprano,opened the Jan. 26 program thatwas focused on a senior audience.
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Students work together to playgames and solve problems at theCivitan conference. Zack Holdenleads the group here.
into the national research center.”To sponsor youths to go to the conference,
clubs sell fruitcakes, hold bakesales, andraise funds locally so that the cost of sendingeach student can be met.
“How do I pick these kids?” said Robson,“I go to the guidance counselor and ask, orsometimes see a kid at church that lookslike a good leader, or go to the VIrginia BoysHome, or CIEE (Council on InternationalEducation Exchange) — we try to make surewe have at least one foreign exchangestudent; there were two this year, one fromBrazil and one from Thailand. But the mostimportant criteria: I want kids who will getsomething out of this experience.”
The conference is sponsored by theChesapeake Division of the CivitanInternational. Robson said, “The theme is‘Leaders in Freedom;’ no political ideologyis espoused, and we tell the speakers, ‘atthe end we shouldn’t know whether youlean to the right or the left’ — just focus ontopics near to Americans and ourconstitution. Derius Swinton — a principalof the SOAR group, and an amazing lead-ership trainer and great enthusiasticmotivator, speaks first, then break them fordinner, then comes Tina Ramirez, thepresident of Hardwired, Inc. who talksabout freedom of religion. The whole basisof her organization is to promote religiousfreedom on a worldwide basis, and she’sbeen in some of the most dangerouscountries in the world doing that; she getsan hour.
“Then Aaron Arnold, Junior Achievementof Hampton Roads, speaks on the free en-terprise system, he’s from Colorado, almostlike a tree hugger, and he relates well tothis age group. Saturday morning, we werescheduled to have Andrew Meyer,consitutional attorney in private practive inRichmond, who has argued some significantcases, but he got snowed out. Normally thepresenter takes one of several really thornyissue involving the Constitution and the kids
are supposed to come out with a strongerunderstanding of how it works. You wantthem to understand that the politically cor-rect answer is not always the constitutionalanswer, and the constituional one will al-ways win out.
“Our last speaker is Aram Hessami, a pro-fessor at Montgomery College, he presentsa session on the Middle East. He is stellar.Aram only works from a flip chart, keepsthem mesmerized, and will answer anyquestion you have about the Middle East;he immigrated here from Iran in 1979, andyou don’t know where he stands but youhave a really good understanding why theregion is the way it is and what you can doto fix it,” Robson said.
The conference dates back to 1969, whenVincent Dalfonso, a member of theCatonsville, Md. Civitan Club and a districtgovernor of Chesapeake District, askedCivitan clubs to recruit youths to take themto Freedom’s Foundation, a separate entityset up by Dwight D. Eisenhower in ValleyForge, Pa., to encourage good citizenship.In 1995 they decided to make somechanges, and stopped taking the youths toFreedom’s Foundation, at which point theconference faltered; Robson had been help-ing out since the late 1980s, and when the
district governor asked him to take over theconference, he agreed on one condition:they had to go back to Freedom’s Founda-tion. They couldn’t do overnight confer-ences anymore, which he thought was cru-cial, so their decision was: “Let’s use yourtalent and move the conference somewhereelse, and since I am a Virginian, we movedit to Virginia. We did Camp Easter Seal inMilford, Va., one year there, and it workedOK so I was convinced we have as manytalented people in Virginia as we have inPennsylvania. We kept everything we knewwould work, and just replaced their talentwith our talent. We had some growingpains. Camp Easter Seal was sold, then wemoved to Blackstone, Va. and now finally,to Hartfield, 60 miles due east of Richmond.
“We have the kids run the conference.That’s the idea, that they leave feeling theyran the whole thing themselves. We have10 standing committees: the wake up com-mittee, the news briefers, etc. and then wehave the team-building sessions: one is toname all the state capitals, one is to nameall the college mascots. There is a citizen-ship test, a Jenga game, and trivial pursuit.We break them into teams and try to notlet groups form. If you are on a team withCaroline for one event, then you won’t bewith her for the next event. That keepscliques to a minimum and encourages in-clusion. Leadership changes with the task:one kid will dominate in each — the sports-man or woman steps up in the team mas-cots game and knows them all; the studentwith great manual dexterity will rule in theJenga team. Each team competes with allthe others. Our goal is to create dependenceon a new leader in each group: you have tolet the person who can do it the best moveto the forefront in order to win. I did notcreate this, I borrowed this from Freedom’sFoundation; but it really works, and myphilosophy is, if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it,”said Robson.
What does CIvitan want out of the youthswho attend the conference? “We hope thosewho aren’t already members of a Civitan
Junior Club will start one or will join onewhen they become adults. Sure, it’s nice ifthey do something for CIvitan, but what wereally want is for them to see things differ-ently as a result. Of 30-45 kids who are atthe conference, the light will really go onfor about 4 or 5 of them. You will see anintellectual change. Those are the ones thatare going to change the world, somehow. Ifthey never do anything for Civitan, but aslong they do something for our country,we’ve done what we set out to do.”
As for that sign near W-L High School:the Arlington Civitan Club was charteredin December 1940 to help those individu-als who were less fortunate than they were.Koepsel said, “In 1989 Arlington Countycame to the club and asked them to hold agarage sale at the I-66 Parking Garage sothe neighbors could have their yard salesin a group to alleviate the parking problemon the neighborhood streets. The ArlingtonCivitan Club agreed to hold a Garage Salethe first Saturday of each month Aprilthrough November and donate the profitsto various non-profit organizations in theArlington area that helped the less fortu-nate, with a focus on children with intel-lectual and developmental disabilities. Thisfundraiser has grown over the years withvendors coming from as far as North Caro-lina, Florida, New York, and Pennsylvania.It is known as the Arlington Open Air/FleaMarket Garage Sale now. We continue tohelp 501-C-3 organizations. Anyone inter-ested in more information about the Arling-ton Civitan Open Air/Flea Market GarageSale or the Arlington Civitan Club can con-tact Koepsel at [email protected].”
Robson says this is his last conference. Hedoesn’t want something with an intellectualbaseline like this to become stale. He’s con-fident it will continue as long as they don’tchange the structure. After 24 years of ser-vice in the U.S. Navy, this was his way ofkeeping on doing something for his coun-try, and the Civitans. Anyone interested injoining CIvitan or donating to its causes canvisit www.civitan.org.
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Street. Michael Doan, the Narrator,told the audience that Opera NOVAhas been in this area since 1962. It
has been widen-ing its mission toinclude children,minorities and se-niors. NOVA’s pur-pose is to use thearts to build ac o m m u n i t y“where perform-ing and visual artsare not a luxurybut instead an ex-pression of theunity and soul ofour community.”
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By Adam P. Ebbin
State Senator (D-30)
The VirginiaSenate hasadvanced leg-
islation to establish anextremely aggressivetimeline for the City ofAlexandria to address concerns over itsCombined Sewer Overflow (CSO).
The CSO issue isn’t a new one. Dischargesfrom the combined sewer system in Alex-andria, (like those in Richmond, Lynchburg,Washington, D.C. and the more than-800older cities across the country) that are deal-
ing with this issue, con-cern environmentalistsgreatly as they pollutewaterways with un-
treated wastewater.Cognizant of the importance of address-
ing this situation, the city has made seriousprogress in its stormwater and wastewatertreatment in recent years, engaging in sewerseparation, partnering with Alexandria Re-new to process 13 billion gallons of waste-water every year, and beginning work onthree of the four CSO outfalls, focusing onthe ones that release into Little HuntingCreek. Those three outfalls were prioritizedover CSO Outfall #1 that releases a mix of
wastewater and stormwater into OronocoBay when it rains, because they drain intoa much smaller body of water where thewastewater becomes more concentrated. Inkeeping with the normal regulatory process,there was also an order to address them is-sued by the Virginia Department of Envi-ronmental Quality (DEQ). Planning andconstruction on the Oronoco Bay outfall hadbeen slated to begin once construction ofthe other three outfalls was completed. Lastfall, after concerns were raised in discus-sions with environmental advocates, myself,and other legislators, Alexandria voluntar-ily accelerated the timeline for addressingthis outfall by 14 years, and I proposed leg-islation to advance the project by an addi-tional six years.
Tackling the additional infrastructureproject required to resolve the Oronoco Bayoutfall while simultaneously addressing thethree other outfalls is a daunting task. So-lutions range from the construction of athree million gallon holding tank underOronoco Bay or the shore to, alternatively,a holding pipe, that could be as large as tenfeet in diameter. These large-scale optionscould also be complicated by working inpotentially contaminated soil. The projectwill involve coordination with federal agen-cies, geotechnical investigators and civiliancontractors, and costs under the expedited
timeline could range from $150-$200 mil-lion in addition to the $188 million alreadyslated to address the three outfalls alongLittle Hunting Creek.
Legislation proposed by Sen. Stuart (R-Stafford) and co-patroned by Sen. ScottSurovell (D-Mount Vernon) (SB898), man-dated that the city remedy Outfall #1 by2020 — an impossible deadline of threeyears. Engineers working with the CSOs inRichmond, Lynchburg, and Washington,D.C. have estimated that, if started today,the project would take between 9-12 yearsat a minimum. The bill’s consequences fornot meeting that deadline would have in-cluded a loss of all state funding for the city,approximately $115 million per year. Thebill sought to subvert the regulatory pro-cess by allowing the General Assembly toact as 140 amateur environmental regula-tors over the established procedures of theVirginia Department of EnvironmentalQuality. With an overwhelming 10-3 com-mittee vote, the catastrophic Stuart-Surovellproposal seemed poised to make its wayrapidly through the Senate.
Speaking against the Stuart-Surovell pro-posal on the Senate floor, I stressed theimportance of working toward a deliberate,intelligent and realistic solution. After theoriginal proposal was delayed on the floor,I negotiated with Senator Stuart to bring
the timeline more in step with reality. Whilethe improved bill that passed the Senatemoves towards those goals, it still imposesan onerous completion deadline of 2025.However, it averts the potential loss of statefunds and also likely removes the threat ofthe City of Alexandria having it’s AAA/aaabond rating downgraded.
The Alexandria Chamber of Commercewrote that the original bill was “a draco-nian measure that unfairly targets all Alex-andria business owners, citizens, employ-ees, public servants including public safetyofficers and teachers, and visitors.” And, Iagree.
Though the compromise is far from per-fect, it is a huge step forward and I will con-tinue working to improve the final legisla-tion that emerges. Working with membersof the House of Delegates, a similar pro-posal on has already been improved upon.
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monwealth has the economic opportuni-ties to allow me and my peers to pursuelucrative careers. That’s why on June 13, Iwill be supporting Glenn Davis for ChiefJobs Creation Officer — and LieutenantGovernor.
Peter FinocchioArlington
Town Hall Meeting
Join Sen. Adam Ebbin and other area legislators for an update on the 2017 legislative ses-sion on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2-4 p.m., Arlington Mill Community Center, 909 S Dinwiddie St.
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Public Notice: Proposal to Voluntarily Remediate a
Property
There is contamination from Petroleum impacted soil on site at Gilliam Place, 3507 Columbia Pike, Arlington, VA 22204
The Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is working with Gilliam Place LLC c/o Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing (APAH) to develop a Remedial Action Plan to address cleanup of petroleum hydrocarbons at the site. If you have any questions regarding the cleanup please contact Vincent Maiden, P.G., Virginia Department of Environmental Quality,Northern Regional Office, 629 East Main Street, Richmond, VA 23218, [email protected] or Jason Beck, C.P.G, Senior Environmental Project Manager, ECS Midd-Atlantic, LLC, 703-471-8400, [email protected]
As part of the remedial action process a Remedial Action Plan (RAP) was submitted to the Northern Regional Office of DEQ on January 10, 2017, which allows for corrective action at the property to begin immediately. If you would like to review or discuss the proposed RAP with the staff of DEQ, please feel free to contact the Corrective Action Project Manager, VincentMaiden, whose contact information is listed above. You may also contact Jason Beck, the environmental consultant for Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing, whose contact information is listed above. DEQ will consider written comments regarding the proposed Remedial Action Plan untilFebruary 24, 2017 and may decide to hold a public meeting if there is a significant public interest. Written comments should be sent to DEQ at the address listed above. DEQ requests that all written comments reference the tracking number for this case; VRP Case # 00664.
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By KENNETH B. LOURIEThank God! Another three months, (13
weeks actually) of wedded-type bliss until mynext scan scheduled for mid April. Save for fourweeks of pre- and post-chemotherapy-infusionnon-bliss in the interim when the effects of thebefore, during, after treatment will make mefeel less like the person I will otherwise be — forthe nine or so other weeks, I am indeed lucky tobe “stable” and looking forward.
However, I will be off to a bit of a bumpystart as a result of the timing of my most recentchemotherapy infusion and its negative sideeffects coming so soon on the heels of the previ-ous week’s positive scan news. Not that thenegative overwhelms the positive in the slight-est, it’s more that it slows down my progressionfrom feeling abnormal to feeling normal; well, asmuch as one diagnosed and living with a “term-inal” disease, non-small cell lung cancer, stageIV, can. Which, as you regular readers know, I’mgenerally able to do, except when there a blips,and for the next week, I’ll be “blipped.” Havingconsidered the inevitable taste and eating issuesI typically face post infusion, I spoke with anutritionist this past week to see if I’ve beenmissing a boat somewhere. Unfortunately, otherthan remaining well-hydrated, it seems there’svery little I can do other than to endure thepost-chemotherapy weak.
But of course, it’s the big picture (no tumorprogression, no fluid build up) that mattersmost, not the small picture (the pre- and post-scan anxiety and the post-chemotherapy eatingissues). And of course, it’s nothing new. I’vebeen through variations of this routine going onnearly eight years now, since the diagnosticprocess began on Jan. 1, 2009, when I first vis-ited the Emergency Room. Pain in my rib cagehad migrated from one side to the other andsimultaneously I was having difficulty catchingmy breath. Then, even I knew, I needed somemedical attention. Two and a half months laterafter the usual schedule of tests, interpretationsand more tests, I received my diagnosis withwhich you are all so familiar.
Amazingly, life has gone on and fallen into asort of routine. The most recent one, going backapproximately three and a half years, beganwith my first and only hospitalization followedup a month or so later with the beginning of myAlimta infusion. For the most part, the infu-sion/experience has been quite manageable,and according to my oncologist, “great.” So“great,” in fact, that we have been extending theinterval of my infusions from three weeks origi-nally to four weeks to four/five weeks to nowinfusing forward, every five weeks. This will givemy body more time to recuperate between che-motherapy and give me more quality-weeks oflife (always a concern of my oncologist); mini-mizing eating and anxiety issues.
For the moment, we’re keeping the scanschedule to every three months. As to our con-cern about trying to limit the exposure to radia-tion — per scan; as my oncologist sort of joked,it’s the toxins from the chemotherapy that aremore harmful (it’s akin to the line from themovie “Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid”when Paul Newman snickered at RobertRedford’s concern about not being able to swim— should they in fact jump off the cliff into theraging river below, to escape Joe Lefors and theIndian tracker, Lord Baltimore: “Swim? Are youcrazy? The fall will probably kill you.”)
So by the time you all are reading this col-umn, Thursday-ish, I’ll be mostly back to eatingnormally — well, normal for me. It’s a routineI’ve become accustomed to and one with whichI can live, live being the operable word.Certainly not a life without some hardships anddifficulties, but still a life worth living; withsome weeks harder than others; this week cer-tainly being one of them. It won’t be pretty butsoon enough it will have passed with clear sail-ing ahead for the next four weeks until you-know-what.
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referenced his Freedom of Religion Act heintroduced in 2016, which stated that noone would be denied entry to the UnitedStates based on their religion.
“It’s so ironic that President Trump cameout and said that we’re going to give specialpreference to Christians who are refugeesbecause so many of them are being killed,”Beyer said. “Well I’m a Christian, but I re-spect that there are many more Muslimsbeing killed right now, many more who arerefugees.”
IN A STATEMENT released through herTwitter account on Jan. 29, U.S. Rep.Barbara Comstock (R-10) said she supportsincreased vetting based on national securityconcerns. However, Comstock said she hasconsistently asserted: “I don’t believe it isconstitutional to ban people from ourcountry on the basis of religion.”
“The President’s Executive Order issuedyesterday went beyond the increasedvetting actions that Congress has supportedon a bipartisan basis and inexplicablyapplied to green card holders,” Comstockcontinued, “people who are legally withinour country who have followed the rules.”
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BORROW A SNOWBLOWERThe Department of Parks and Recreation
lends a limited number of snow blowers to civicassociations and community groups, increasingthe number of passable sidewalks during snowevents. Their goal is to ensure snow blowers aregeographically distributed throughout thecounty. Snow blowers are loaned to groups whoagree to plow for the public good and who meetspecific criteria. Learn more atemergency.arlingtonva.us/weather/snow-ice/snow%20blower/
THURSDAY/FEB. 2Unsafe Dating Behaviors. 4:30-5:30 p.m. at
Washington-Lee High School, 1301 N. StaffordSt. “Abusive Behaviors That Can Look Like Love”teaches teens about safe relationships, respect,supporting survivors and creating positivechange. Visit pavingtheway.net/ or call 703-228-6200 for more.
FRIDAY/FEB. 3Nominations for Volunteer Award. Deadline
for Bill Thomas Outstanding Park ServiceVolunteer Award nominations for those whodemonstrate a passion and support for dynamicprograms, natural resources and public spaces.Email [email protected] for more.
MONDAY/FEB. 6Scholarship Application Deadline. 5 p.m. to
apply for one of 70 new college scholarships
worth up to $450,000 that the ArlingtonCommunity Foundation expects to award toArlington students. Visit www.arlcf.org/ or call703-243-4785 for more.
Neighborhood College Applications. Deadlineto apply for Neighborhood College to become aneffective advocate, eight consecutive eveningsthrough March 16. Visit https://projects.arlingtonva.us/or call 703-575-4412.
PBS Documentary Screenings. 3 and 6 p.m. atInova Center for Personalized Health , 8110Gatehouse Road, 600W, Falls Church. “BeingMortal,” a film that explores end-of-life care.Free. Visit www.inova.org/ for more.
Placement Exams for English as a SecondLanguage for Adults. 5 p.m. at Arlington MillCommunity Center, 909 S. Dinwiddie St.Arlington Public Schools’ REEP Program isgiving placement exams for the Feb. 21-May 11.English (ESL) classes to be held at Arlington MillCommunity Center/Thomas Jefferson School.$200 for county residents, $350 for non-residents. 703-228-4200 or www.apsva.us/reep
TUESDAY/FEB. 7Community Read and Conversation. 7 p.m. at
at the Central Library, 1015 N. Quincy St. Bookdiscussion explores issues of race. It provides away for students and community members todiscuss race in the context of the selected novel.Because of language, this book is onlyappropriate for students in high school andadults. Visit www.apcyf.org or [email protected] for more.
WEDNESDAY/FEB. 8New Lubber Run Community Center. 6-9
p.m. at the Lubber Run Community Center, 300North Park Drive. Attend the community kick-offmeeting to design the new community center.Call 703-228-4728 for more.
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“Flourishing After 55” from Arlington Office ofSenior Adult Programs for Feb. 6-10.
Senior centers: Lee, 5722 Lee Hwy.;Langston-Brown Senior Center, 2121 N. CulpeperSt.; Walter Reed, 2909 S. 16th St.; Arlington Mill,909 S. Dinwiddie St.; Aurora Hills, 735 S. 18th St.
