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Vol. 12, No. 16
APRIL 21, 2016
Council paves way for
on-street food trucks
....
Five locations floated
for mobile eateries
BY ERICH WAGNER
PHOTO/CHRIS TEALE
After her talk April 15 in the auditorium of T.C. Williams, Jane Goodall planted a tree outside the school’s
entrance and kissed its leaves. Goodall is one of the world’s foremost experts on chimpanzees, and told
attendees about her career and how they can effect positive change in the world.
We are one family
Jane Goodall advocates for
young people to come together and solve problems
BY CHRIS TEALE
Jane Goodall is considered
one of the world’s foremost experts on chimpanzees, and she
said her love of nature began
very early in life.
In a talk April 15 at T.C. Williams High School, Goodall recalled how at just 1-and-a-half
years old, she collected a handful of earthworms and soil and
took them with her to bed. In an
indication of her mother’s support that would last throughout
her life, Goodall said she was
not disciplined at all.
“Instead of getting mad at
me, she said, ‘Jane, I think they’ll
die; they need to go back into the
garden,’” Goodall said. “So we
carried them carefully back.”
Goodall spoke at an auditorium packed with students, staff
and administrators after being
invited by students involved in
the Roots and Shoots program
at T.C. The program, which
was started by her charitable
organization the Jane Goodall
Institute, is youth-led and looks
to involve young people in projects that help the environment
and change the world.
She met with students who
have led projects and added
her signature to a pledge
promising to use only sustainable bottles rather than disposable plastic ones and to recycle
where possible.
In the auditorium, she shared
ALEXANDRIA’S
SNEEK A PEAK - PAGE 16
GARDEN TOUR
how at the age of 4, she stayed
with her grandmother for a time
and tried to observe hens laying
eggs to understand where they
came from. For four hours, she
sat silently and watched, having
learned that disturbing the hens
would scare them away.
“Isn’t that the making of a little scientist?” she asked. “Curiosity, asking questions, not getting
a right answer, deciding to find
out for yourself, making a mistake, not giving up and learning patience. It was all there in
that little 4-and-a-half-year-old
child, and a different kind of
mother might have crushed that
scientific curiosity and I might
not be standing here now.”
SEE GOODALL | 6
After Alexandria’s
first food truck pilot
program failed to attract meaningful participation from mobile eateries, city council passed
new regulations to allow limited on-street
vending in an attempt
to test whether the
dining trend is viable in
the Port City.
Last November, city
councilors expressed
dismay at a lack of
participation by food
trucks in an off-street
pilot program. Vendors
said the permitting pro-
cess was too expensive,
and the designated
locations did not produce enough demand
to warrant coming to
Alexandria.
As a result, city staff
developed a set of criteria
with which officials
with the city traffic
and parking board
and city council
could approve a
limited number of
on-street sites for mobile
eateries to set up shop.
Staff also proposed
waiving the $250
vendor fee for trucks
looking to enter the
SEE FOOD TRUCKS | 8
PHOTO/CHRIS TEALE
PRESERVING A PIECE OF HISTORY Archaeologists from
consulting firm Thunderbird Archaeology work to catalog
pieces of the scuttled ship found at 220 S. Union St. on the
construction site of the new Hotel Indigo. Approximately onethird of the ship was discovered by archaeologists in January. Residents were able to see the ship April 14-16 in return
for a voluntary donation to Spring2ACTion, Alexandria’s biggest day of online giving. The ship will be moved to a storage
facility for deep-freezing, a process that means it will be out
of the public eye for a decade or more.
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new director of
communications
Schools Superintendent Alvin Crawley announced Monday the appointment of Helen
Lloyd as director of communications for Alexandria City
Public Schools. Lloyd served in
the role on an interim basis for
seven months after the resignation of Barbara Hunter.
Lloyd started at ACPS as a
public relations specialist almost two years ago and in that
role helped launch the ACPS
2020 Strategic Plan, staged
multiple events and led the
communications for both the
Patrick Henry Project and redistricting. As interim director,
she helped launch the ACPS
Express and ACPS Insider
newsletters.
“We know that strong communications can make a difference in how the school division
connects to its families and
community,” said Crawley in
a statement. “We are excited to
have Ms. Lloyd on board and
believe she will continue to
strengthen these relationships
and move the division forward.”
Lloyd was named U.K.
Young Journalist of the Year
in 1998 by Regional Independent Media. She worked
as a producer at the BBC in
London and researcher for
the Japanese national broadcaster, NHK, as well as for
local and national newspapers
including the Times in London. She will work to launch
a new ACPS website and increase outreach to non-English speaking families.
“Our team has a clear vision
of where ACPS needs to go in
terms of communication and
I am excited to be able to continue the work we have begun in
the past seven months to reach
the goals we know we need to
reach,” Lloyd said in a statement.
“Communications touches every
part of the work at ACPS and I
look forward to working with
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school division.”
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fundraiser April 8 at the Hotel Monaco. Guests revelled in the romance of New Orleans’ historic French Quarter, with all proceeds
benefitting children in foster care or at risk of abuse and neglect.
From left to right, Krystal Fenwick, coordinator of community resources for The Fund For Alexandria’s Child, at the department of
community and human services, George Williams, FFAC Foster
Parent of the Year, Mayor Allison Silberberg and Cordelia Cranshaw, former FFAC foster youth and current social worker.
City to hold Earth Day
celebration April 30
The City of Alexandria is
set to host its 23rd annual Earth
Day and Arbor Day celebration on Saturday, April 30 at the
Lenny Harris Memorial Fields
at Braddock Park, 1005 Mount
Vernon Ave.
The celebration begins at 10
a.m. and will run until 2 p.m.
The event includes the sixth annual Upcycling Showcase, featuring students from Alexandria
City Public Schools who will
show their upcycling creations
based on the theme “Choose to
Reuse — Your Choices Matter.”
Upcycling is the reuse of items
to create a product of higher
value than the original product.
Other activities include
“Tent Talks,” featuring topics
such as recycling in Alexandria, choosing native plants in
Alexandria, oyster restoration
and live animal exhibits; the
presentation of the eighth annual Ellen Pickering Award,
Arbor Day tree planting; live
animal exhibits; live music and
environmental education exhibitors and plant giveaways.
Alexandria Earth Day is intended to promote education and
encourage green and sustainable initatives, in keeping with
the goals of the Eco-City Alexandria Initiative. The Alexandria Earth Day Committee has
committed to making this event
zero-waste and carbon neutral.
- Chris Teale
CORRECTION The Times’ editorial last week (“Ethics committee whiffs on reform proposals,”
April 14) mistakenly suggested
that city council had not taken
action to reduce the threshold for disclosure of ownership
stakes in a company with business before the city from 10
percent. Council requested a
change to its code to reduce the
threshold to 3 percent in January, and is expected to pass the
change in May. The Times regrets
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robbery. Police spokeswoman
Crystal Nosal said two male
suspects displayed a firearm
and stole money from the
driver, who was not injured.
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since been arrested. As he is a
juvenile, she could provide no
further details on him. The second suspect is still at large. At
the time, a Fairfax County Po-
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Police laud overall
drop in 2015
crime numbers
Officials acknowledge
worrisome spike in assaults
BY ERICH WAGNER
Although officials with
the Alexandria Police Department celebrated statistics
showing that overall crime
dropped by 2.4 percent in
2015, they said they are continuing to work to curb an
alarming increase in aggravated assaults.
Although many categories
of crime remained flat — homicides, robberies and auto thefts
— or dropped — burglaries
and larcenies — between 2014
and 2015, police saw a 26.7 percent uptick in rapes last year,
from 15 to 19, and a 42.3 percent increase in the number of
aggravated assaults, with 148
such incidents in 2015 compared with 104 in 2014.
Deputy Police Chief David Huchler, who oversees the
department’s
investigations
bureau, said given the nature
of assaults, it is often harder
for officers to make a dent in
those crimes preventatively,
when compared with crimes
like robberies and theft.
“This is one of the more difficult crimes that we can have
a direct impact on,” Huchler
said. “That’s not to say we
can’t, but if you look at the
numbers, I think we had maybe 87 incidents of those aggravated assaults [in 2015] where
the people were known to each
other — either acquaintances,
domestic-related or ones that
occur in the workplace.
“So when we look at those,
it becomes difficult to when
the subjects are known to each
other. … When we talk about
aggravated assaults, they’re
typically spontaneous … so
it’s more difficult to intervene
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Crime Type
Homicide
Rape
Robbery
Aggravated Assault
Burglary
Larceny
Auto Theft
Total
2014
2015
Change
Change%
4
15
139
104
257
2,546
253
3,318
4
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139
148
230
2,443
254
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0.4%
-2.4%
Source: City of Alexandria
I think we had about 41 incidents
that were domestic-related. We have
a very strong domestic violence program
in the department that works closely with
the city commission for women, and we’ve
continued those efforts to prevent incidents
and to prevent recidivism.”
-David Huchler, deputy chief, Alexandria Police Department
proactively because we show
up after the fact.”
While police are still studying the data within the 2015
statistics, Huchler said the department works closely with
a variety of city agencies to
prevent instances of domestic
violence, which fall into the
aggravated assault category.
“I think we had about 41
incidents that were domesticrelated,” he said. “We have a
very strong domestic violence
program in the department
that works closely with the city
commission for women, and
those we’ve continued those
efforts to prevent incidents and
to prevent recidivism.”
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After reading the novel
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said she decided that she wanted
to travel to Africa and study
chimpanzees, but that was easier
said than done in the years during and right after World War II.
After saving money and working as a waitress, she was able
to afford a trip to Kenya in the
mid 1950s to visit a friend, and
then got a job as the assistant to
Lewis Leakey, who helped establish human evolutionary development in Africa.
After securing enough funding, Goodall discovered that
chimpanzees made and worked
with tools, going against the belief that humans were the only
animals to do so. The chimpanzee she first saw working with
tools — known by Goodall as
David Greybeard — became a
great friend of hers who helped
the other chimpanzees overcome their fear of humans. That
tool-working discovery was crucial, Goodall said.
“That was exciting back then
in 1960, because it was thought
we humans were the only toolusing, tool-making animal,”
she said. “We were defined as
man the toolmaker… The other
chimps would look with amazement from me to him and back
again. I suppose they thought,
‘Well, she doesn’t seem too dangerous after all.’”
After 55 years of unbroken research, Goodall said she
learned just how alike humans
and chimpanzees are, from
their behavior to their differing
personalities. She noted that the
DNA makeup of the two species
differs by only just over 1 percent, and that chimpanzee social
structure shares many similarities with human society.
“It’s very clear today that the
chimp mothers who are patient
and above all supportive, just
like my mother, their offspring
tend to grow up to be more successful,” she said. “So the males
will rise higher in the dominance hierarchy and the females
will be better mothers.”
The 1986 convention of the
American Institute for Conservation was held in Chicago,
and Goodall said it changed
her entire outlook on the environment and fueled a desire to
effect change.
“I went to that conference as
a scientist planning to carry on,”
she said. “It was such a good
life. I left as an activist.”
Now, she travels the world
300 days a year advocating for
more environmentally friendly
living, while the Jane Goodall
Institute helped improve the
lives of villagers near where
chimpanzees live in Tanzania
and elsewhere. She noted the
role of humans in damaging
the planet, and noted the irony
in the world’s most intelligent
inhabitants also being its most
destructive.
“Don’t you find it peculiar that the creature with the
greatest intellect is destroying its own home?” she asked.
“There’s only one planet, and
we have this crazy idea that
there can be unlimited economic development on a planet with
finite natural resources.”
But Goodall emphasized
that there is still time to make
the world better and to break
down what she sees as apparent apathy, especially among
young people. She mentioned
Roots and Shoots as one of numerous programs that look to do
just that, and that human beings
have much more in common
than people realize.
“No matter what country,
what nationality, what culture,
what religion we are, nevertheless within us all beats the same
human heart,” Goodall said.
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We are one family, and the most
important thing is to realize the
connection, the connectivity
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Attachment 1
DRAFT ON-STREET VENDING LOCATION MAP as of April 1, 2016
NORFOLK
as of April 1, 2016
MONROE
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Draft On-Street Vending Location Map
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Assistant City Attorney Joanna Anderson explained how
staff developed five possible
sites at which to allow roving
restaurants.
“We wanted to adopt some
minimum standards, so that the
actual locations aren’t in the
code, but would be approved
at a later time,” she said. “The
criteria look for places that can
handle the congestion that food
trucks can cause in the area,
that have measures of pedestrian safety and can handle a
concentration of people in the
area. And we looked at whether
a demand for food trucks would
be there or not.
“[Most] streets in Alexandria
cannot accommodate on-street
vending, but there are certain locations that can, and we should
consider them. That’s what this
criteria tries to get at.”
Anderson outlined five locations staff eyed as possible fits
under the new criteria, and indicated that the city traffic and
parking board would review
them upon passage of the new
regulations. A stretch of North
West Street near the Braddock
Metro station would allow up to
two trucks at once; North Fairfax
Street, adjacent to Montgomery
Park, could accommodate up to
three trucks; the 2200 block of
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800 block of N. West St. north
of Madison Street, near Braddock Road Metro Station/spaces for up to 2 food trucks to vend
2
900 block of N. Fairfax St.,
near Montgomery Park/spaces
for up to 2 food trucks to vend
3
2200 Block of Eisenhower Ave.
near Mill Road/spaces for up
to 3 food trucks to vend
4
300 block of Madison St. between North Royal and North
Fairfax, adjacent to Alexandria
House open space/space for
up to 3 food trucks to vend
5
1700 block of King St. adjacent
to King Street Gardens/space
for up to 3 food trucks to vend
[Most]
streets in
Alexandria cannot
accommodate
on-street vending,
but there are
certain locations
that can, and we
should consider
them. That’s what
this criteria tries
to get at.”
-Joanna Anderson
Assistant city attorney
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Eisenhower Ave. would hold up
to three trucks; a site on Madison
Street near Alexandria House
would fit up to three trucks; and
the 1700 block of King St. could
house up to three trucks.
City Councilor Del Pepper
expressed concerns about what
would happen in the event of a
large number of food trucks vying for the limited spaces available to them.
“How do you determine who
gets, for example near Braddock
Metro, those two spots?” Pepper
said. “Is it first come first serve?
[And could] that end up causing
a good bit of discontent?”
“It could if there’s that much
demand for space,” Anderson
said. “D.C. did end up having
that problem so they implemented a lottery system. We
don’t know if there’s enough of
a demand for those spaces now,
so we can wait and see if we
have that problem. We can always add something to address
that if it turns out we do.”
Mayor Allison Silberberg
sought reassurances that setting
up small zones for food trucks
— where parking would be restricted from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m.
— would not affect residents or
visitors’ ability to park overnight.
“It seems to me that, if I had
been parking on the street and
going to sleep at whatever hour
at night, then I’d have to get up
at 6:30 to move my car,” she
said. “I’m just not sure why we
allow it at 7 a.m.”
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NEWS FROM GREATER ALEXANDRIA | BY CHRIS TEALE
Thomas Jefferson student among
winners of first ever Cutler-Bell prize
A student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and
Technology was among the first
ever winners of the Cutler-Bell
Prize in High School Computing, announced March 22.
Senior Valerie Chen was
among four students from across
the country to win $10,000 for
creating a software tool that
looks to improve how systems
are tested. Chen was an intern at
the Naval Research Laboratory
as part of the Science and Engineering Apprentice Program.
The award was established
by David Cutler and Gordon
Bell. Cutler is a software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems, including Windows NT
at Microsoft, and RSX-11M, in all walks of life, providing
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tive technologies and
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Microsoft Research.
products.”
“We are grateful to Cutler
Estimates suggest there will be
and Bell for creating this prize,” around 4.4 million computer scisaid Association for Computing ence job openings in 2024, acMachinery president Alexan- cording to the Bureau of Labor
der Wolf in a statement. “ACM Statistics. The Cutler-Bell Prize
has led the effort to integrate hopes to encourage, identify
computer science into the K-12 and nurture interest in computer
curriculum. As computing be- science and ultimately produce
comes increasingly prevalent more computer scientists.
Mount Vernon’s Chintz Room to
reopen May 7 after major restoration
Officials with George
Washington’s Mount Vernon
announced last month that
the Chintz Room, formerly
known as the Nelly Custis
Bedchamber, will reopen to
the public May 7 after being
closed for nearly two years.
Tradition holds that this
room was used by Martha
Washington’s granddaughter,
Nelly Custis Lewis, who lived
at Mount Vernon from her
early childhood.
The room dates to the enlargement of the house that
took place between 1758 and
1759, and many of the wooden
elements, including the mantel, trim, floors and closet
shelves are original.
Investigation of the room by
Mount Vernon’s architecture
team uncovered evidence for
early repairs to the east wall
that trapped a small fragment
of the room’s first wallpaper.
This fragment is one of the
earliest-preserved wallpapers
in Virginia, and its blue chintz
or floral pattern was an important piece of evidence for the
reinterpretation of the room by
Mount Vernon’s curators.
Documentary
evidence
shows that during the Washingtons’ lifetime, the space
was referred to as the Chintz
Room. In elite homes, the
bedchamber was highlighted
by the richly patterned textile that draped the bedstead,
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Residents, teachers advocate for expanded preschool services
Supporters, opponents of
centralized pre-K testify ahead
of council budget decision
BY CHRIS TEALE
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City council’s Saturday public hearing was dominated by talk of the city’s preschool offerings, as supporters
advocated for services while opponents of the proposed pre-K center expressed their concerns. Councilors
will address the issue of a centralized pre-K facility during the add/delete process.
OLD TOWN
Alexandria City Public
Schools’ proposal to create a
centralized pre-K center in the
city in fall 2017 took center
stage at city council’s Saturday
public hearing, as supporters
and opponents addressed councilors on the plan and the need
for robust preschool offerings.
Schools
Superintendent
Alvin Crawley suggested a
centralized pre-K facility for
360 students in January when
he presented his $278.9 million ACPS operating budget
proposal for fiscal 2017. City
Manager Mark Jinks included
contingent funds for the preK center in his proposed city
operating budget when he unveiled it in February, meaning
council can either appropriate
them during the upcoming add/
delete process or leave them in
reserve until a later date.
Alexandria City School
Board chairwoman Karen Graf
wrote a letter to ACPS parents
and staff urging them to come to
council’s monthly public hearing
and explain why pre-K is so important. Preschool is offered in a
variety of ACPS and non-ACPS
settings, including through the
federal Head Start program and
the Virginia Preschool Initiative at John Adams Elementary
School, among others.
“Our proposal includes increasing opportunities to offer
families the ability to attend a
center-based program that houses a variety of wrap-around services in an environment specially designed and programmed for
early learners,” Graf wrote. “A
blended model of educational
services promotes equity and
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Part of the department’s policy is to try to connect victims
of domestic violence to city resources when officers respond
to an incident.
“We work very closely with
the commission for women, so
when our officers take a report,
we ensure all resources that
are needed to assist that family
or that victim come into play,”
Huchler said. “When an officer
is on scene, taking a report, they
put the victim in contact with
a domestic violence counselor,
and ensure that that person,
that victim, male or female, are
getting or are aware of the re-
sources available as soon as the
incident occurs.
“Domestic violence is a
crime, obviously, and police
play a huge part in the investigation of that crime, but our
success in intervening and
mitigating comes through
our collaboration with city
departments, mental health
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the like.”
Despite the difficulty in
preventing aggravated assaults in a traditional sense,
Huchler said officials are
analyzing data to see if
there are pockets where such
crimes occur within certain
neighborhoods of the city.
“We have analysts who are
always breaking stats down
by type and by geography,” he
said. “So that if there’s a way
to deploy resources in an area
with a considerably higher
number of incidents, we can
deploy more resources to see
what’s occurring in that area
and providing the opportunity
for that type of crime.”
Looking at the positive
results of the 2015 crime statistics, Huchler attributed the
drop in crimes like robberies
and larcenies to the department’s method for deploying
extra officers to different areas of the city.
“For burglaries and larcenies, a lot of proactive work is
being done by the patrol and
operations bureau,” he said.
“Rather than just responding
to crimes, we’re taking a lot
of steps to work with the community on the strategic placement of resources. A lot of that
is computer analysis of crime
and then doing problem-solving efforts and working with
the community to get ahead of
crime before it occurs.”
One of Police Chief Earl
Cook’s big focuses for 2016
piggybacks off of that spirit
of cooperation with residents,
Huchler said.
“The chief’s big push this
year is community engagement,” he said. “We’ve been
doing community policing
for a number of years to ensure we’re involving the community with information and
strategies in how we can make
neighborhoods safer or improve people’s quality of life.
Last year we did a lot of outreach with the chief himself,
and as we reach the warmer
months, we will get out and
engage the community.
“Members of the community are the experts on what’s
occurring in their neighborhoods, so we need to collaborate with them to meet their
needs and expectations.”
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parking in the morning.”
Chapman said he spoke from
experience that moving one’s
car is already a common experience when visiting a friend in
the city.
“As a significant other, it is
my duty to find parking that allows me to stay for the duration
of time that I choose,” he said.
“I think everybody who is single
and is dating somebody that has
restricted parking in their area
has to deal with that as a part of
urban life.”
Anderson confirmed that
each site being considered is
already subject to daytime restricted or metered parking.
Councilors voted 6-0 in favor of the new regulations, while
City Councilor Paul Smedberg
was absent. The city traffic and
parking board now will examine
staff’s five proposed locations
before making final recommendations for council.
City Councilor John Chapman noted that most of the sites
being considered are either in
commercial areas or the surrounding buildings all have offstreet parking and that removing
the option for morning hours
could potentially hurt some food
truck operators.
“Some folks might come up
with a breakfast-focused truck,”
he said. “Someone might want
a pancake food truck, I don’t
know. And near Metro [stations], you’ll have folks coming
off the Metro in the morning,
and it might be an opportunity
for some people.”
“That point is well taken, but
we have a lot of people who are
single in our city and who have
significant others who, frankly,
stay with them,” Silberberg
persisted with a laugh. “And
then those people wouldn’t have
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Council approves updates to pedestrian
and bicycle master plan
Unanimous approval includes
a step towards city’s own
Vision Zero program
BY CHRIS TEALE
City council approved a
raft of safety improvements
for pedestrians and bicyclists
in an update of the city’s
transportation master plan at
its public hearing last weekend. The proposal passed
6-0, with City Councilor Paul
Smedberg absent.
Included in the plan for the
first time is a proposal to develop a Vision Zero policy and
program for the city, in keeping with neighboring jurisdictions that have done the same.
Vision Zero began in Sweden
in 1997, and is a multi-national
traffic safety project that aims
to achieve no fatalities or serious injuries in road traffic. A
version of the project was approved in 2015 for Washington, D.C.
Jennifer Hovis, chairwoman of the ad hoc pedestrian
and bicycle master plan advisory committee, emphasized
the importance of Vision Zero
for improving road safety in
the city.
“By the end of the two years
[of the committee’s work], Vision Zero has really grown into
a well-recognized initiative,
and the committee did feel
strongly it is something that
should be front and center of
the project,” she said.
Carrie Sanders, acting deputy director of the city’s de-
partment of transportation and
environmental services, said
Vision Zero also helps lower
driver speeds and maintain the
feel of neighborhood roads.
The next step for the program
will be for staff to outline the
framework, budget and staffing needed so that it can be
successful.
The transportation master plan chapter of the city’s
overall master plan was originally approved in 2008, and
envisions the use of alternative
forms of transit beyond cars.
City staff updated the pedestrian and bicycle master plan
after a number of projects over
the past few years, including
the approval of several small
area plans, the expansion of
Capital Bikeshare into the city
and adoption of the Complete
Streets policy to ensure safety
for all users.
The plan provides a roadmap for potential improvements without going into
specific details, as a design
process is required for each
individual project. It proposes
more than 88 miles of new
bicycle facilities, including
44 miles of dedicated bike
lanes and 36 miles of shared
lanes. It also recommends
eight miles of new bike trails,
with continuous connections
to major destinations like Potomac Yard, the Mount Vernon Trail, Mark Center and
various Metro stations.
An extensive bicycle net-
work is proposed for Duke
Street,
including
shared
roadways on side streets like
Wheeler Avenue and dedicated bike lanes that connect
Duke Street to some of its ancillary roads. City Councilor
Del Pepper expressed concerns about taking parking
places away from residents to
accommodate the proposed
new facilities.
“You have to protect those
side areas, because these folks
have no place to park their
cars,” she said. “They need
that protected area.”
Pepper said she hoped
that the trees that line some
sections of Duke Street will
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gives students a solid foundation ahead of beginning elementary school, and that the
gap between those who did and
those who did not attend preschool is noticeable.
“Preschool shapes students’
beliefs and habits as they learn
to cooperate, navigate relationships, solve problems, understand their emotions, make decisions and much more,” said
Sarah Adams, a VPI teacher at
John Adams.
“Kindergarten is a huge
jump,” said Molly McCabe, a
kindergarten teacher at John
Adams. “It’s packed full of
information, it’s a great and
exciting year, but kids need to
be ready.”
Several of those who testified emphasized the importance
of pre-K for those from different
socioeconomic backgrounds.
There is no universal pre-K in
Virginia, despite it having been
proposed several times in previous years, including by former
Gov. Tim Kaine (D).
“I think that it’s very important that the same students with
the same potential with the same
parents that have the same caring that I have be able to access
the pre-K program and get their
students the same start that my
kids had, and not have to miss
out because they can’t pay for
it,” said Lorna Eaton, an ACPS
preschool teacher.
“If it were not for our amazing situation of preschool and
VPI, these children would not
have these experiences,” said
Beth Pellowitz, a preschool
teacher at John Adams, referring to the opportunities for
field trips and other enrichment.
“They come from a multitude of
different socioeconomic backgrounds that might not allow for
this kind of situation.”
Capacity concerns weighed
heavily on the minds of ACPS
officials in proposing the centralized pre-K center. Graf estimated in her letter to parents that
the centralization would free up
20 classrooms, which could then
be used by 500 K-5 students.
She also said overcrowding prevents many elementary
school students from attending their neighborhood school.
John Adams currently has 1,017
students and a projection of
1,192 in 2020 with a building
capacity of 858. William Ramsay Elementary School has 917
students and a projected 2020
enrollment of 950 students with
a building capacity of 748.
Opponents of the proposed
pre-K center said that centralization is not the answer to these
capacity worries. Julie Jakopic,
chairwoman of the board of
trustees at early childhood and
adult education nonprofit Hopkins House, said there is no
evidence to suggest that placing that many 4-year-olds under
one roof is beneficial, and that it
may create tremendous divides
across the school community.
“We want kids to be with
other kids,” she said. “We
don’t want to pit the big kids
against the little kids. We
want the little kids to get everything they need.”
Rob Dugger, a board member at Hopkins House, said that
the need for parents to get their
children to a centralized preschool facility might place undue stress on them. He said if
those parents have work to balance and are seeing their children leave their neighborhood
every day, it could affect both
the adults and children in those
relationships.
“I urge you to forget this
warehouse pre-K plan,” he said.
“It’ll just hurt kids and increase
parent stress.”
Dugger proposed that the
city convene all organizations
involved in early childhood education to discuss how things can
be made easier in the current
system. Kate Garvey, director
of the department of community
and human services, noted that
there will be plenty of collaboration moving forward, whatever
council’s decision.
Councilors will decide in
the coming weeks whether to
earmark funds for the pre-K
center, either appropriated immediately through the add/delete process or left in reserve
to foster more discussion.
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be preserved and factored
into discussions, particularly
as conversation continues
around a proposed bus transitway in the area.
“They are the few things
that turn Duke Street into
something rather nice,” Pepper said. “Otherwise, it’s quite
unattractive. There are parts
of it that are truly beautiful,
like when you get into Old
Town, but also around the
Beatley Library straight on
out to Landmark. There you
have something really pretty,
and that didn’t just happen.”
The master plan also suggests sidewalk improvements
in various areas of the city
where sidewalks are still
lacking, including along upper King Street near Interstate-395. Vice Mayor Justin
Wilson suggested further conversations about some smaller sidewalk projects across
the city that would complete
the sidewalk network. He
mentioned that some property owners might need to
be brought on board, as their
property line may have prevented a sidewalk being installed before.
“It seems like as we talk
about funding going forward
and implementation, we need
to be mindful of setting aside
a portion of that kind of sidewalk money to deal with the
little projects that frankly are
going to be so impactful for a
small neighborhood,” he said.
City Councilor John Chapman agreed, and said that
neighborhood civic associations could be brought on
board to help staff reach out to
neighbors who may be affected. Sanders said staff is looking into a petition process for
residents to ask for neighborhood sidewalks to be connect-
ed, something that Chapman
said needed to be managed
properly to avoid neighbors
“ganging up” on one another.
Mayor Allison Silberberg
suggested further engagement
with residents during the design phase for projects to ensure the inclusion of adding
more grass and other features
when sidewalks are revamped.
Hovis added that the ad hoc
committee recommended having a report card that would
show the public the progress
on implementation of the plan.
Council’s unanimous approval means the ordinance
amending the pedestrian and
bicycle chapter will come
before it at a May legislative
meeting for final assent.
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ith professional,
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on their minds, more and more
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According to statistics from the American Community Survey in 2013, the median average age of first marriages in the United States
is 27 years old for women and 29 for men, up
from 23 for women and 26 for men in 1990 and
20 for women and 22 for men in 1960.
Marilyn Patterson, lead event manager and
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Then, Patterson said the number of
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potential venues, they take into account
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important aspects of their lives.
The wedding of a mature couple
may involve the inclusion of other
family members, specifically any
children from previous relationships.
Patterson said they can be included in
a number of ways, from being in the
wedding party to being part of what
is known as a unity expression. Even
adult children can be incorporated
into this optional element, which uses
the symbolism of materials like sand,
liquid, rope and others joining together, signifying families uniting.
The rise of Internet dating sites
has also helped facilitate more and
more mature weddings, with Patterson mentioning Match.com as one that
has helped bring many of her couples
together. With much of the previous
stigma removed from online dating and
with sites looking to cater to people
with specific needs and backgrounds,
the web has helped bring together mature people that might otherwise have
been kept apart.
“I guess whatever you’re looking for,
if you’re willing to take a chance on one
of these sites, you might hit some success,” Patterson said. “People just move
around a little differently. We’re not
as friendly as we used to be, at least it
doesn’t feel that way. You have to look
to other mechanisms to find a match.”
Plenty of mature weddings take
place involving the gay and lesbian
community, who had their legal right
to marry affirmed by the U.S. Supreme Court last year. Patterson said
these can be elaborate affairs, and often have a celebratory feel as couples
can marry freely and officially.
“The couples have been around for
a while, so what you end up finding
in a lot of instances there are a lot of
more mature LGBT couples marrying
as well, because they’ve had to live in
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and the textiles in the Washingtons’ Chintz Room would
have been no exception. Mount
Vernon’s curatorial staff discovered that the bed hangings
were most likely purchased by
George Washington in Philadelphia in 1774 and made by
Betsy Ross.
“Right from its creation in
1758, the Chintz Room was the
finest bedroom on the second
floor,” said Mount Vernon senior
vice president, Carol Cadou, in
a statement. “The careful research carried out by historic
preservation and collections staff
is breathing new life into this
space. This room will give visitors a real taste of the vibrancy of
the late 18th century.”
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An Alexandria man died at
a local hospital April 2 after being struck by a Fairfax County
Police Department cruiser.
Jeffrey Ponce Aguilar, 26,
died about 45 minutes after
being hit, according to police
officials.
Police said a car on routine
patrol duties was traveling
north on Beulah Street near
the intersection of Old Beulah Road. Officials said that
as the officer approached the
intersection, Aguilar stepped
into the road — against the
green light — and was hit by
the cruiser.
The officer driving the car
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he died at approximately 11:44
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on paid administrative leave
pending the outcome of an investigation. Officers in pedestrian-involved crashes are not
named unless they are charged.
A preliminary investigation indicated that there was
heavy rain and that Aguilar
was dressed in dark-colored
clothing. Neither speed nor
alcohol were factors in the incident, according to a preliminary investigation.
“Our prayers and thoughts
are with the Aguilar family
on the loss of Mr. Aguilar, and
also with the Fairfax County
Police Department,” said Fairfax County Police Chief Edwin
Roessler at an April 3 press
conference. “This is a tragic
loss of a member of our community in a vehicle accident.”
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ALEXANDRIA TIMES
SPORTS
Cardinals chase
hard as postseason
approaches
Ireton softball keeps up
the pace with victory
against Paul VI
BY CHRIS TEALE
On an unseasonably hot
day Monday at Luckett Field,
the Bishop Ireton softball
team’s two pitchers kept cool
heads as the Cardinals defeat-
ed Paul VI 6-4 to improve their
record to 11-9 overall. It meant
Ireton defeated Paul VI twice
in a season for the first time
in years, having already taken
care of the Panthers 9-8 in a
March 22 away game.
Freshman Bailey Misken
and junior Erin Rockwell
PHOTO/CHRIS TEALE
Ireton second baseman Molly Jeffers swings at a pitch during during their WCAC game against Paul VI
Monday at Luckett Field. Jeffers went 2-3 with a walk in the Cardinals’ 6-4 victory.
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combined to lead Ireton, with
Misken pitching 6 innings and
Rockwell closing out the final
frame. The victory came as part
of a gruelling segment of the
Cardinals’ schedule that saw
them play eight games in nine
days, including another home
game against Bishop McNamara on Tuesday, after the Times’
print deadline.
Misken tallied 6 strikeouts,
displaying a changeup that at
times left Panthers batters bewildered. She also managed to
shake off base runners in every
inning, and giving up an insidethe-park home run to Paul VI
shortstop Madison Aker in the
third inning.
“She’s pretty stoic out there
and she doesn’t get baffled, and
she always wants the ball,” said
Ireton head coach Terri Pearson. “It’s sort of like, ‘Give
me the ball, Coach,’ and she’ll
never say, ‘Nope, I don’t want
to go out there, I’m tired.’ As a
coach, you can see later in the
innings she gets a little tired;
everybody’s tired. It’s a hot
day; we’re not used to playing
in this weather.”
Misken said she felt she had
plenty to work on after her performance, in which she gave
up just 2 walks over 6 innings
of work against one of Ireton’s
rivals in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference.
“I didn’t think I did that
great,” Misken said. “I walked
a couple of people, and I
thought I could have done a
way better job with that. And
I got to [a] 3-2 [count] more
times than I needed.”
Ireton scored its runs in the
first and sixth innings, and the
scoring began when Rockwell
was brought home on an illegal pitch from Panthers starter
Carleigh Murphy. Senior Clara
Boggs hit a 2-RBI double to
increase the hosts’ lead to 3-1,
then scored on a fielder’s choice
to leave the margin at 4-1 at the
end of the first inning.
In the sixth, Rockwell hit an
RBI single, and then a sacrifice
fly by Misken completed the
home side’s scoring. The hosts
then had to overcome a shaky
final inning, as Paul VI at one
stage loaded the bases and cut
the deficit to just 2 runs. The
game ended with an Ashley
Bitto lineout to Cardinals third
baseman Eva Gilbert, who then
tagged the lead runner for a
double play.
Having shifted from shortstop
to pitcher with all three outs still
required in the seventh, Rockwell
said she felt no pressure, while
Pearson said it was imperative to
focus on the task at hand.
“When I went out to talk to
them, we changed the pitchers
just to give the batters a different look because the third time
through the order, they’re ready
to hit anybody,” she said. “It’s really hard to go through the batting order three times. We just
wanted to get outs. We were up
by 3 [runs]; we just needed three
outs before they scored 3.”
The 2016 season has been a
notable one for the Cardinals,
who found themselves at No. 3
in the April 12 Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association poll, which will eventually determine seeding for the
state tournament. Pearson said
the revival of a program that
went 4-12 last season is reflective of a broader trend toward
parity in the WCAC.
“I think some of the other
teams are a little surprised,” she
said. “Ireton used to be an easy
win, so it’s surprising. The biggest thing about this season is
the parity in the league, in the
WCAC. There usually has been
a couple of big powerhouses,
but if you look at the scores, St.
Mary’s Ryken lost to St. John’s,
O’Connell lost to St. Mary’s
Ryken and by small margins.
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Nobody’s getting blown out
15-0 anymore.”
With great ambitions ahead
of postseason play, the Cardinals credit their improvement
to strong bonds between the
players that have created a superb team spirit.
“I definitely think the team
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trip to South Carolina, so we’ve
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ALEXANDRIA TIMES
SCENE AROUND TOWN
Hilarious mysteries uncovered at Signature Theatre
Comedy skewers 21stcentury young romance
BY JORDAN WRIGHT
As a former BBC comedy
writer, award-winning playwright
and alumna of Showtime’s TV series “Masters of Sex,” Bathsheba
“Bash” Doran can turn a phrase as
merrily as she can turn the screw.
So it’s no surprise that her tightly
crafted dramedy, “The Mystery of
Love and Sex,” now playing at Signature Theatre, gifts an audience
with two plus hours of solid laughs.
Director Stella Powell-Jones,
a veteran of numerous stellar off-Broadway productions,
knows precisely where and how
to take us on this bumpy ride,
affectionately described in the
playbill as a “love story.”
In the play, Doran offers up
four angst-riddled characters for
comedic dissection. Charlotte and
Jonny are recent college grads on
the cusp of nowhere. That they
are best friends since childhood is
revealed, but what they struggle
with is the question of whether a
lifelong friendship translates to a
happy marriage.
Charlotte’s parents Lucinda
(Emily Townley) and Howard (Jeff
Still) hope so, and though their
own marriage is on the rocks, they
have buckets of encouragement for
the young couple, who share everything but a bed.
Powell-Jones takes us on a journey led by stereotypes: a liberal
New York Jewish intellectual writer father, Howard, and his genteel
southern Christian wife, Lucinda
— fondly called “Lulabelle.” As
mundane as the pairing seems on
the surface, it provides the anchor
to a story that takes us far beneath
what may be superficially assumed.
Jonny (Xavier Scott Evans),
an English literature major, and
Charlotte (Shayna Blass) are not
your average young couple beaming with the promise of the future
and following a predictable path
to parenthood. They have issues.
Tons, as we soon discover.
Those involve, but are not limited to, race, sexuality, religion
and jealousy — all hot topics and
even hotter wellsprings for situational comedy. And in this age
of torturous self-examination and
serial introspection, they are in no
way assured a shared future.
In their exploration of an honest relationship, the pair alternately mock and comfort each other,
seeking a scapegoat for their insecurities. There’s a moment when
Charlotte strips naked and offers
herself up to the virginal Jonny.
“We are in love, Jonny. We should
get married,” she implores.
But Jonny has secrets, and
Charlotte is still trying to puzzle
out her own. Confessing his newly discovered sexuality to Charlotte, Jonny reveals his dilemma.
“It’s like ear wax. It’s in so deep
you don’t know it’s there, but it
makes everything fuzzy.”
It could prove maudlin, but
it assuredly is not, especially
as other people’s neuroses provide a sure passage to the funny
bone, and dysfunctional families
have become comedic fodder for
tweaking millennials.
When Howard tries to keep
the young couple together despite
their differences, he explains to
Jonny, “Life is weird. Look at a
fish.” Lucinda has her own issues.
In trying to combat the stress of
her family and quit smoking at the
same time, she she snaps her fingers and blows into the air — an
oft-repeated response delivered in
delicious deadpan by Townley.
PHOTOS/MARGOT SCHULMAN There are scads of scathing
Shayna Blass and Xavi- one-liners and enough personaler Scott Evans (above,
ity quirks to sentence the lot of
center) star as Charlotte and Jonny in Sig- them to a lifetime on a psychianature Theatre’s hilari- trist’s couch. But those are the
ous production of “The funny bits, skillfully delivered by
Mystery of Love and a fantastically confident, gleefully
Sex,” a look at troubled quirky, utterly lovable cast.
young love. While the
couple grapple with
numerous issues in
their romance, Charlotte’s parents (top)
encourage them endlessly, despite their
own troubles.
Through May 8 at Signature
Theatre, 4200 Campbell Ave.,
Arlington, Va. 22206. For tickets
and information call 703-8209771 or visit www.sigtheatre.org.
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residences in this unique neighborhood.
Admission costs $40 in advance; $45
the day of; $25 for single sites.
Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Old Town
Information: 703-746-3301 or www.
vagardenweek.org
CARLYLE HOUSE GARDEN
DAY HERB & CRAFT SALE
Now through April 23
DUNCAN LIBRARY SPRING
BOOK SALE Thousands of books
for adults, teens and kids of all ages on
sale, most costing between $1 and $3
each. All proceeds benefit the Duncan
Library, especially children’s programs.
Time: Wednesday 7 to 9 p.m., Thursday 10 a.m. to 6:45 p.m., Friday 10 a.m.
to 5:45 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: Duncan Library 2501 Commonwealth Avenue
Information: www.friendsofduncanlibrary.org
Now through April 28
CIVIL WAR BALL DANCE
CLASSES In preparation for the Civil
War Ball on April 30, learn the waltz,
polka, Virginia Reel and more from an
expert dance master. Tickets cost $12
per class, or $30 for the series.
Time: Each Thursday, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Location: Gadsby’s Tavern Museum,
134 N. Royal St.
Information: 703-746-4242, [email protected] or www.
gadsbystavern.us
April 22
FAMILY FUN NIGHT Bring the
whole family to Family Fun Nights for
swimming and fun for all ages. Pool
games include beach ball relays, water
basketball, diving for prizes and fun on
the “Aqua Challenge” floating obstacle
course. Participate in swimming skill assessments for youth, learn pool safety
tips and more.
Time: 6 to 9 p.m.
Location: Chinquapin Park Recreation
Center & Aquatics Facility, 3210 King St.
Information: 703-746-5435 or
[email protected]
April 23
HISTORIC HOMES & GARDEN TOUR Celebrate the 83rd
anniversary of Historic Garden Week in
Virginia with a tour featuring privately
owned Old Town homes and gardens
plus historic properties like the Lee-Fendall House Museum & Garden, Carlyle
House Historic Park and George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Visitors have the
rare opportunity to see behind the brick
walls into some of the most gorgeous
Celebrate spring with the Friends of Carlyle House’s annual garden day herb &
craft sale where culinary and decorative
herbs and plants from Mount Vernon
will be available for purchase. Listen
to performances by area musicians
throughout the day, bring your garden
questions to master gardeners and
shop for items made by local artisans
and crafters.
Time: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Carlyle House, 121 N.
Fairfax St.
Information: 703-549-2997 or www.
carlylehouse.org
CIVIL WAR SURGEON AND
FIELD HOSPITAL PROGRAM
Learn about military medical practices
presented by Von Barron, a Civil War
medical historian and interpreter. Barron will portray U.S. Army Regimental
Surgeon Captain Turner Kitt in a hospital setting that features a variety of
medical tools and equipment of the era.
Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Fort Ward Museum & Historic Site, 4301 W. Braddock Road
Information: www.fortward.org
CONCERT AT ST. LUKE’S
Local string players of the National
Symphony Orchestra Youth Program
including a string quartet, three solos
and a large string ensemble perform
the music of Dvorak, Schubert and the
world premiere of Scott Solak’s Barcarolle with viola and piano. Tickets cost
$20 for adult; $15 for seniors; free for
students 18 and under.
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: St. Luke’s Episcopal
Church, 8009 Fort Hunt Road
Information: 703-765-4342 or www.
saintlukeschurch.net/events
April 24
CARPENTER’S SHELTER
COOK-OFF Indulge in an afternoon
of food and fun while supporting
Carpenter’s Shelter. Enjoy tastings from
over 20 area restaurants, bid on hot
ticket items during the live auction and
listen to live music. Proceeds help support over 750 homeless and formerly
homeless men, women and children in
the community each year.
Time: Noon to 3 p.m.
Location: The Birchmere, 3701
Mount Vernon Ave.
Information: www.carpentersshelter.
org/cook-off
April 25
CITY CONCERT A city sponsored
concert by Jazz Big Band of Thomas S.
Hart Middle School from Pleasanton,
Calif.
Time: Noon to 1 p.m.
Location: Market Square, 301 King St.
Information: 703-746-5592
BALCONY/CONTAINER GARDENING The Virginia Cooperative
Extension and Alexandria Beautification Commission host a program to
explore best management practices and
provide pointers for gardening in high
or low-rise balconies and small ground
spaces. Come and learn what types of
plants to grow, what kind of containers
to use, and how to deal with pests. Free
and open to public.
Time: 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Location: Mount Vernon Recreation
Center, 2701 Commonwealth Ave.
Information: 703-228-6414
April 27
ROBUST WALKATHON A style of
exercise that combines aerobic walking
with calisthenics for strength and flexibility. This event will also raise funds for the
successful aging committee. Participants
will alternate walking with exercise stations on the walking trail around the lake.
Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: Ben Brenman Park, 4800
Brenman Park Drive
Information: 703-746-5429 or [email protected]
To Kill a Mockingbird
4/23 - 5/14
Based on Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize
winning novel set in Alabama during
the Great Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows Jem and Scout Finch,
whose father has been Coming soon
appointed to defend
Tom Robinson, a black
man framed for a crime
he didn’t commit. Will
justice or racism prevail?
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or online!
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April 30-May 1
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
ENCAMPMENT One of the largest
Revolutionary War encampments in the
area. Step back in time and experience more than 500 Continentals, Redcoats, Hessians, cannon and cavalry in
action. Meet hundreds of Revolutionary
War military re-enactors, learn more
about life in the 18th-century, discuss
military techniques, and watch battle
re-enactments.
Time: 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: George Washington’s
Mount Vernon, 3200 Mount Vernon
Memorial Highway
Information: www.mountvernon.org/
encampment
April 30
CIVIL WAR BALL Enjoy an evening
from the 1860s in the historic ballroom
at the Civil War Ball. The ball will include
live music, dance instruction and period
desserts. Period attire, either civilian
or military, is encouraged. Tickets cost
$45 each, reservations required.
Time: 8 to 11 p.m.
Location: Gadsby’s Tavern Museum,
134 N. Royal St.
Information: 703-746-4242 or www.
alexandriava.gov/gadsbystavern
ALEXANDRIA EARTH DAY
Program includes children’s activities;
exhibits by community groups; food
sales; recycling; Arbor Day tree planting;
and a musical performance.
Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: Lenny Harris Memorial
Fields, 1005 Mount Vernon Ave.
Information: www.alexandriava.gov/
earthday
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NATIVE PLANT SALE The largest
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| APRIL 21, 2016
ALEXANDRIA TIMES
At Home
Are roses relevant?
BY MARTY ROSS
Roses no longer receive
a free pass through the garden gate: Instead of accepting lovely roses despite their
many faults, gardeners now
expect them to earn their
place in the garden.
The famous roses of the last
century — Peace, Mr. Lincoln,
Queen Elizabeth and dozens
of others — produced beautiful flowers on gangly plants
that required a strict regimen
of fertilizer, pesticides, pruning
and pampering. “Times have
changed,” says Jeff Epping,
horticulture director at Olbrich
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chemically dependent old-time
roses aren’t really welcome
any more. “It’s bad for the environment, and it’s bad for us,”
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ourselves if it is really worth it,
when there are so many other
great plants out there.”
Fortunately, new pest- and
disease-resistant shrub roses
are stepping up to fill the gap.
Shrub roses are not an official category, but an informal
designation for hardy, healthy
roses that flourish in real-life
garden conditions. These reliable, repeat-blooming roses
aren’t prima donnas, but versatile plants that look their best in
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flowering shrubs and annual
and perennial flowers.
Shrub roses tend to produce clusters of flowers, not
long-stemmed
florist-style
blooms, and they have considerably more impact than a
garden full of roses on sticks.
Knock Out and other roses in
the Knock Out family (Blushing Knock Out, Pink Knock
Out and four others) are the
best known of the bunch, but
hybridizers have introduced
many other lines of shrub roses, including Easy Elegance,
Oso Easy and Drift roses.
“Shrubs play an important
role in gardens,” says Natalia Hamill, brand manager for
Bailey Nurseries in Minnesota, which introduced the Easy
Elegance line of shrub roses.
“They give a garden definition,
structure, height and color, interest and texture -- and they
are easy to grow.” Consumers
who have given up on traditional roses are coming back
around to give shrub roses a try,
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she says. There are 24 shrub
roses in the Easy Elegance series, including roses that sail
through bone-chilling winters,
stand up to summer’s heat and
humidity, do not need spraying,
and can be pruned with confidence even by novices.
“They sell like hotcakes,”
Hamill says.
Gardeners like red roses
best, Hamill says. Pink comes
in second. Bicolor roses — pink
with a touch of salmon, for example — are popular, too. Consumers are attracted to plants
with both buds and blooms,
and shrub roses are such prolific bloomers that they usually
have some of each at all times.
Fragrance is not so important,
Hamill says, which is good because shrub roses have lots of
charm but little scent, at least at
present. “The golden goose is a
fragrant shrub rose,” she says,
“and hybridizers are starting to
make progress on that.”
The rose garden at Olbrich
Gardens sets one of the prettiest
examples of the new style that
you’ll ever see, full of romance.
Along the garden’s paved pathways, visitors make the acquaintance of dozens of roses, planted
right in among ornamental
grasses, hydrangeas and other
flowering shrubs, small trees
and lots of annual and perennial
flowers. The roses are chosen
for a great summer show and for
their hardiness through Madison’s deep-freeze winters. They
include Easy Elegance shrub
roses and roses in the Canadian
Explorer series, hybridized in
Ottawa and Quebec and known
for their extreme hardiness and
disease resistance.
Over the years, Epping
has reinterpreted the use of
roses throughout Olbrich’s 16
acres. Old-fashioned rugosa
roses were once among his
favorites, but they’re plagued
by Japanese beetles in summer, “and they’re just not going to make up the backbone
of a rose garden,” he says.
Rose midges, tiny larvae that
infest rose buds and blight the
blooms, can also be a prob-
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lem, Epping says, particularly
on florist-type roses. Beating
the bugs requires drenching
the soil with parasitic nematodes several times to kill the
larvae, and it doesn’t always
work. “We’re phasing these
roses out,” Epping says. Shrub
roses take their place. They resist pests and bloom strongly,
partly because they produce so
many flowers that you may not
even notice if you lose a few
buds to the bugs.
Spring and summer are the
best time to plant these shrub
roses. Look for roses growing in
containers, not bare-root plants
wrapped up in bundles. Container-grown roses make a quick
transition into your garden. They
need a sunny spot (eight hours of
sun a day) and well-drained soil.
Pay attention to watering while
they are becoming established,
and spread an organic mulch
around them (compost, or mulch
from a garden shop) to help
moderate the soil temperature,
preserve moisture in the soil and
help control weeds. Get these
roses off to a good start, and
they’ll take it from there.
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selling native perennials, shrubs, and
trees for sun or shade. Admission is free.
Time: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: 1701 N. Quaker Lane
parking lot
Information: www.northernalexandrianativeplantsale.org or 571-232-0375
May 3
BUSINESS PHILANTHROPHY
SUMMIT Volunteer Alexandria
celebrates the city’s commitment to
military, volunteer and philanthropic
service. This year’s keynote speaker is
U.S. secretary of veterans affairs Bob
McDonald.
Time: 7:30 to 9:30 a.m.
Location: First Baptist Church,
2932 King St.
Information: www.volunteeralexandria.org
DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE A
civic ceremony observing the Days of
Remembrance of the Victims of the
Holocaust. Program includes announcements and acknowledgements by the
mayor and other dignitaries as well as
honoring citizens.
Time: Noon to 1 p.m.
Location: Market Square, 301 King St.
Information: 703-746-5592
May 5
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An Easy Elegance shrub rose, Coral Cove, shows off its handsome
flowers and beautiful foliage in a pot by a garden gate. Modern shrub
roses are pretty enough to plant where you’ll see them every day, all
season long. Cut off the flowers as they fade to encourage still more
blooms. Even if you forget, they’ll bloom well from spring through frost.
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Northern Virginia’s mission to provide affordable homeownership opportunities – and
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accept and to schedule a free pick up!
Time: 6 to 9 p.m.
Location: Chinquapin Park Recreation
Center & Aquatics Facility, 3210 King St.
Information: 703-746-5435 or
[email protected]
May 7-28
ATTICS AND ALLEYS TOUR
Find out what mysteries lie behind the
closed doors of four of Alexandria’s historic sites in a three-hour walking tour
featuring the rarely seen spaces of four
sites — the Lee-Fendall House, Gadsby’s
Tavern Museum, the Stabler-Leadbeater
Apothecary Museum and Carlyle House
Historic Park. Tickets cost $35 each.
Time: Each Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon
Location: Gadsby’s Tavern Museum,
134 N. Royal St.
Information: http://shop.alexandriava.gov
May 7
CHARLES BARRETT ELEMEN TARY SCHOOL BAZAAR A
school bazaar for students, families and
community. The event features games,
rides, arts and crafts, food, music,
moon bounce, face painting and more.
Time: 3 to 6 p.m.
Location: Charles Barrett Elementary
School, 1115 Martha Custis Drive
Information: 703-403-8753 or
[email protected]
DEL RAY HOUSE AND GARDEN TOUR Tour 11 homes and
FALLEN OFFICER WREATH
LAYING CEREMONY During
gardens in the Del Ray neighborhood
in a biennial event hosted by the Del
Ray Citizens Association. Tickets are
$20 each until May 1, when they will
increase to $25. Proceeds go towards
neighborhood projects and the Alexandria Scholarship Fund.
Time: 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Del Ray
Information: www.delraycitizens.org
ANNUAL POLICE AND SHERIFF MEMORIAL SERVICE Join
MOTHER’S DAY TEA Treat that
National Correctional Officers and Employees Week and in honor of National
Police Week, the Alexandria Retired
Police, Fire and Sheriff Association, the
Alexandria Police Department and the
Alexandria Sheriff’s Office will hold a
wreath-laying ceremony.
Time: 9 to 9:30 a.m.
Location: Waterfront Park, 1 Prince St.
Information: 703-746-6838
current and retired members of the
Alexandria Police Department and sheriff’s office as they honor the memory of
their fallen colleagues.
Time: 11 a.m. to noon
Location: First Baptist Church, 2932
King St.
Information: 703-746-6838
LECTURE: AN EXTRAORDI NARY YOUNG MAN Professor Pe-
ter Henriques will closely examine what
we do know about George Washington’s
first 21 years of life. While no one could
have imagined the unique role that he
was to play in our nation’s founding,
Henriques demonstrates that Washington was no ordinary young man.
Time: 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Location: Gadsby’s Tavern Museum,
134 N. Royal St.
Information: 703-746-4242, [email protected] or www.
gadsbystavern.us
May 6
FAMILY FUN NIGHT Bring the
whole family to Family Fun Nights for
swimming and fun for all ages. Pool
games include beach ball relays, water
basketball, diving for prizes and fun on
the “Aqua Challenge” floating obstacle
course. Participate in swimming skill assessments for youth, learn pool safety
tips and more.
May 8
special woman in your life to an elegant
tea and tour. Relax in the beautiful
garden setting of the Magnolia Terrace
while enjoying the fun and educational
program “First Lady Firsts.” Admission
costs $40 for adults and $20 for children aged 5-17. Reservations required.
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Location: Carlyle House, 121 N.
Fairfax St.
Information: www.carlylehouse.org
MOTHER’S DAY OPEN
HOUSE Mothers and their families
are admitted free at the Friendship
Firehouse Museum. The firehouse
photographer will be taking complimentary portraits. Come pose alongside the
historic equipment that fought fires in
19th-century Alexandria. Learn about
the suction pumper and other artifacts.
Youngsters will receive a fire hat to take
home.
Time: 1 to 4 p.m.
Location: Friendship Firehouse Museum, 107 S. Alfred St.
Information: 703-746-4994
May 13
SPRING FOR ALEXANDRIA
Join hundreds of people across
Alexandria in the city’s annual day of
community service and assist various
agencies.
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Time: 12:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Location: Various
Information: www.volunteeralexandria.org
STETSON UNIVERSITY CHO RAL BENEFIT Stetson University’s
Concert Choir will perform a concert as
part of its spring tour. Under the direction of Dr. Timothy Peter, the choir is a
highly selective principal vocal touring
ensemble made up of more than 50
vocalists. Donations benefiting Hunger
Free Alexandria will be accepted at the
concert or online.
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church, 228 S. Pitt St.
Information: http://bit.ly/HFAChoralBenefit
May 14
LA BELLA STRADA An Italian
street painting festival organized by
parents of students at The Del Ray
Montessori School that brings artists,
volunteers and local businesses together
to enliven the neighborhood with vibrant
colors, crowd-drawing masterpieces and
a one-of-a-kind experience of witnessing
the creation of large-scale chalk paintings directly on the sidewalks.
Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: Mount Vernon Avenue
between Hume and Windsor avenues
Information: 202-320-2044 or [email protected]
BEYOND THE BATTLEFIELD
WALKING TOUR Discover the
real-life stories and locations of soldiers,
citizens and former slaves that inspired the
PBS drama “Mercy Street” in this walking
tour of Old Town. Discover the challenges,
triumphs and controversies of life behind
the front lines in an occupied city during
the Civil War. See the locations of hospitals, hotels, prisons and more that filled
Alexandria during four years of conflict.
Time: 10 a.m.
Location: The Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St.
Information: 703-548-1789,
[email protected] or www.
leefendallhouse.org
IN THEIR SHOES 5K A charity 5K
run/walk and 1K fun run to raise funds
for the Iraqi Children’s Foundation.
Time: 6 to 11 a.m.
Location: U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, 600 Dulany St.
Information: 703-963-3832 or [email protected]
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE PURSUANT
TO THE CODE OF VIRGINIA
AND ARTICLE 9 OF THE UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE
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Secured Creditor/Seller is BOF Earth Water, LLC (“Seller”), and
Debtors are Earthwater Resources, LLC and Earthwater Technologies,
Inc. (“Earthwater”). Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Section
8.9A-610 of the Code of Virginia and Article 9 of the Uniform
Commercial Code, Seller will sell to the highest bidder at a public
sale all of the assets of Earthwater as follows: (i) all Accounts, (ii)
all Chattel Paper; (iii) all Commercial Tort Claims currently held by
Earthwater; (iv) all Commodity Accounts; (v) all Contracts; (vi) all
Deposit Accounts; (vii) all Documents; (viii) all Equipment; (ix) all
General Intangibles; (x) all Incidental Rights; (xi) all Instruments;
(xii) all Intellectual Property and Intellectual Property Licenses; (xiii)
all Inventory; (xiv) all Investment Property; (xv) all Letter-of-Credit
Rights; (xvi) all Payment Intangibles; (xvii) all Securities Accounts,
and all Investment Property held therein or credited thereto; (xviii)
all Goods and other property not otherwise described above that does
not entail an Excluded Asset; (xix) all books and records pertaining to
any and/or all of the Collateral; and (xxi) to the extent not otherwise
included, all Proceeds and products of any and all of the foregoing,
all Supporting Obligations in respect of any of the foregoing, and all
collateral security and guarantees given by any Person with respect to
any of the foregoing (collectively, the “Collateral”),
Any party interested in bidding on the Collateral is entitled
to perform its own inspection of the Earthwater’s records by
contacting the undersigned counsel.
The public sale of these assets will be held as follows:
Date: May 4, 2016
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Location: Anderson Court Reporting
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total purchase price shall be due to the Seller within forty-eight (48)
hours of the public sale. Additionally, Seller, secured by the Collateral,
shall have the right to credit bid at the sale in the full amount of the
indebtedness it is owed by Earthwater.
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about the public sale or the Collateral being sold at the public sale.
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Our View
Centralized preschool is an
intriguing, but unfinished idea
Disadvantaged children should have the same educational
opportunities as their wealthier counterparts. We think virtually everyone in Alexandria supports this egalitarian concept.
And yet, support for universal preschool isn’t universal.
The reason many people equivocate on putting tax dollars into
preschool programs is that a number of studies indicate academic
gains from preschool are short-lived. That may be so, but we support expanding preschool anyway for a variety of reasons.
The first is egalitarian. If the benefits of preschool are unclear, then why, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research, do 84 percent of families with annual incomes
of more than $100,000 send their 4-year-olds to preschool?
The second is common sense: Studies have shown that
wealthier children by age 4 have heard many millions more
words than their less advantaged counterparts. Preschool is an
opportunity to start closing that vocabulary gap.
Finally, it is in our city’s self interest to start closing the language gap at the earliest opportunity, given the more than 100
languages that are spoken among our student population.
Alexandria is part of a nationwide trend toward expanding preschool. The quandary has been how to do it, given that the city’s
schools are already overcrowded. Shoehorning more 4-year-olds
into schools already bursting at the seams isn’t viable.
So officials with Alexandria City Public Schools deserve
credit for coming up with an innovative solution to this dilemma that, at face value, provides the win-win-win outcome of
expanding preschool opportunities while reducing school overcrowding at a much lower cost than building a new school.
We are impressed with the creativity and outside the box
thinking that went into developing the plan to centralize preschool in a facility on the West End. The building would be
renovated to house preschool and wrap-around services for the
city’s 4-year-old children. According to school board chairwoman Karen Graf, this move would also free up 20 classrooms
in city schools that could be used to ease current overcrowding
at other grade levels.
While we applaud the thinking that led to this idea, we encourage city council to avoid fast-tracking it until or unless several important questions can be satisfactorily answered.
The first question is very basic: Is it good for most of Alexandria’s 4-year-olds in a city of 140,000 people to attend preschool in
one location? Has this model been successfully done elsewhere?
The closest analogy we currently have is that all of the city’s
public school ninth graders attend the T.C. Williams Minnie
Howard campus. Reviews on this set-up have been mixed at
best, even though the school is for much older students.
The second main question involves logistics. How will the
city provide busing? Is it feasible to bus 4-year-olds from one
side of the city to the other in terms of both cost and the experience of the students? If busing is not provided, this cross-city
idea seems like a non-starter, as it is likely unrealistic to expect
that many families will be able to get their small children to and
from a far-away destination each day.
In short, we think this is an idea worth fully exploring. But
funds should not be allocated until that exploration takes place.
No one wants their child to be an educational guinea pig.
ALEXANDRIA TIMES
Opinion
“Where the press is free and every man is able to read, all is safe.”
- Thomas Jefferson
Your Views
Officials should focus on infrastructure
needs in budget deliberations
To the editor:
I have been a resident and
homeowner in the city of Alexandria since 1975. I am currently retired and living on a
fixed income with a fairly tight
budget. I am sure that many
other city residents — single
and dual-income families, single-parent families, and retirees
— are also on tight budgets.
I understand the city is considering up to a 3-cent per $100
of assessed value increase in
the real estate tax rate to fund
infrastructure maintenance and
improvements. Infrastructure
neglect always and inevitably
results in crisis. A graphic and
tragic example is Metro.
Therefore, I am in favor of
increasing real estate taxes if
the additional funds are used
specifically for infrastructure.
For me, the increased assessment on my property likely
will mean I will defer or cancel some “nice to have, but not
necessary” purchases.
I believe a critical analysis
should be conducted of all city
budget items to separate them
into two categories: “need to
have” and “nice to have, but
not necessary.”
“Need to have” include important items such as public
safety, education, infrastructure, and public health. “Nice
to have, but not necessary” is
comprised of everything else.
The “nice to have, but not
necessary” items should be
eliminated or curtailed. Such
action will likely engender considerable criticism. As leaders,
I trust you to make reasonable
and responsible decisions, particularly when positive results
from your actions may not be
immediately apparent. The
Washington Metropolitan Area
Transit Authority ignored its
infrastructure, which directly
resulted in deaths and injuries.
Playing infrastructure catchup is always more expensive
than progressive infrastructure
maintenance. Had Metro prudently increased its fare structure periodically to maintain
its infrastructure, there would
have been immediate outcries,
but the long term results would
have been a safer and more reliable system.
I have studied Metro accident
and incident reports, and I doubt
that the agency will achieve an
adequate level of safety and reliability any time soon. Furthermore, primary safety-related
infrastructure repairs now will
be extremely expensive.
I believe the current elected
city officials and much of the
city staff are dedicated and committed to doing what is best for
Alexandria and its residents. I
encourage you all to take the actions needed to fulfill that, even
if it means some immediate
heat. Recall that someone once
said, “If you can’t stand the heat,
stay out of the kitchen.”
- Steven Bezman
Alexandria
WWW.ALEXTIMES.COM My View | by Mayor Allison Silberberg
Decisions on city spending
must be a balancing act
The vote for Alexandria’s budget is city has deferred maintenance, leading to a
around the corner. This is the biggest vote of growing list infrastructure needs. Now is the
the year for city council. Our decision will time to pull it together.
have a sizable impact on the quality of resi- As in recent years, this budget is extremedents’ lives as well as the pocketbook of each ly tight, and all of us are well aware of competing interests. Last fall, we directed City
household in our beloved city.
It is a balance that we must seek — a Manager Mark Jinks to come back with a
balance between what we need and what budget proposal with the option to raise taxes.
we want. We must focus on what is mission After hard work with staff, he proposed
critical, such as education for our children, in February that we could achieve our city’s
repairs for our crumbling roads and support goals by imposing a 1-cent property tax rate
increase. He also provided a list of what we
for our libraries, to name a few priorities.
Our budget is a reflection of our core val- could achieve if we raised the tax rate by 2
ues. I would like us to envision together what cents. In mid-March, in order to have some
an even greater Alexandria would look like leeway, council set a maximum property
and how to get there. Friends from all over tax rate increase of 3 cents.
the country have come to visit me here in To provide perspective, if your home’s
Alexandria, and they always marvel at how value is $521,000, then including the average increase in assessments, a
beautiful and historic our city is.
2-cent increase would mean an ad We have a great deal for
ditional $223, and a three-cent inwhich to be grateful. We have
crease would be an additional $275.
inherited a phenomenal city that
First and foremost, a majority of
requires keeping an eye on both
our citizens have already seen their
short-term and long-term goals.
real estate assessments go up this
City council has been holdyear, which is an effective tax ining work sessions to review all
crease in and of itself. We must be
aspects of the budget since it was
cognizant of this.
introduced in February. In midMayor Allison
Second, given Jinks’ budget exMarch, we held a budget public
Silberberg
pertise I have argued that we ought to
hearing for four hours and heard
take heed of his recommendation of a 1-cent
from around 70 citizens.
On April 16, during council’s public tax increase. Third, it is clear that the city’s
hearing, around 60 residents spoke to us deferred maintenance and crucial infrastrucabout their concerns, including the need ture needs over a number of years have come
for human services, more pre-K programs, home to roost. Jinks has tried to balance all of
library support and bike trails, among oth- these factors in his recommendation.
er issues. Every year, it is a tough set of The 2-cent increase is a good comprochoices. Many of you have taken the time mise between Jinks’ initial recommento write us at City Hall, and we hear you. dation and the maximum of increase of 3
cents, thereby enabling us to focus on our
Your input is important to us.
We must do what we can for our schools, most urgent infrastructure needs. Imagine
which are in serious need of attention after sitting at your kitchen table when you have
years of deferred maintenance, and we are competing priorities, trying to decide what
maxing out in terms of space and class siz- to spend. It is the same at City Hall. One
es at a number of schools. We all want our long-term answer to our revenue struggles
is to increase our commercial tax base.
children to have a great education.
Last year, police pay was brought in line So there is the dilemma. We must do what
with neighboring jurisdictions, but that issue we can and be bold, but we also must be realishad festered for years before we acted. This tic about what our citizenry can handle finanyear, we will tackle the issue of firefighter cially. And we must live within our means.
pay. I hope there will be unanimity among We cannot make up for lost time in one
council to bring back Sunday hours at three fell swoop or in one year. But we must begin.
of our libraries. The fourth library, Charles We must make a commitment to envision
Beatley Central Library, has been the only what can be achieved together. We would not
fix everything in our own homes all at once,
location with Sunday hours for many years.
Further, we can all see the deterioration of but we can begin today to make things better.
our roads. Let’s tackle this together. In large
part because of the economic downturn, the
The writer is the mayor of Alexandria.
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Senior Corner
by Jennifer Sarisky
Make your wishes known
for National Healthcare
Decisions Day
When you’re ill and unable to care power of attorney.
speak for yourself, where would Five Wishes is a similar docuyou like to be and with whom? ment to an advanced directive
What kind of care would you that can serve as a comprehensive
want? Most of us don’t think guide to assist with making end
about these questions or discuss of life care decisions. For more
them with our families. Some information on Five Wishes, go to
of us have difficulty talking www.agingwithdignity.org.
When reflecting on
about end-of-life isyour wishes, it may be
sues, some fear death
helpful to focus on a few
and others believe they
key areas. Think about
are young and healthy,
your physical comfort,
and don’t need to make
such as pain, breathing
these decisions.
and even physical envi For these reasons,
ronment. Consider your
April 16 has been designated as National Jennifer Sarisky mental and emotional
needs. Would you want
Health care Decisions
Day. Health care Decisions Day to talk about fears or concerns
was initiated to raise awareness of with someone or be kept free from
the importance of planning ahead anxiety if possible? Finally, confor health care decisions, particu- sider your spirituality and whethlarly end of life care, when a per- er you would want your religious
son is unable to speak for him- or community involved.
herself. The goal also is to encour- Deciding whom you would
age the specific use of a medical want as your decision maker is
directive to communicate these also important. Select someone
who is a trusted advocate and
important decisions.
According to the National would adhere to your wishes
Health care Decisions Day Orga- and values.
nization, 90 percent of Americans After completing these docuhave heard of a living will, 71 per- ments, discuss your wishes with
cent have thought about their end- your family, friends and physiof-life preferences, but only 29 cian. Your appointed health care
percent actually have a living will. power of attorney and physician
Living wills, health care power of should have copies of these docuattorney and advanced medical ments easily accessible. The comdirectives are tools to assist with monwealth of Virginia has an
Advance Directive Registry that
advanced care planning.
A living will is a written docu- allows you to file your advanced
ment that specifies what medical directive so that your health care
treatments you want to be used to provider and loved ones can find
keep you alive. They often include a copy of your directive if you are
your wishes regarding organ do- unable to provide one. For more
nation or pain management. A information and for free forms go
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lows you to appoint a person to
make medical decisions and act
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ALEXANDRIA TIMES
Alexandria needs a comprehensive
Our schools need us
approach to early childhood education
To the editor:
I want to go on record favoring a property tax increase
to pay for upgrading Alexandria’s public schools in line
with the school board’s 10-year
$291 million request — with
two conditions.
I applaud city council and
the school board’s attention to
the deepening capacity problem in our public schools. It
seems no action gets taken
until there is a crisis, and this
crisis has been long anticipated
and it’s here now.
But crisis is also opportunity. Yes, our public schools need
additional classrooms, and to
do this sensibly, something
has to be done about pre-K.
But before we lease empty office space and bus 4-year-olds
far from their neighborhoods
to makeshift classrooms, we
should use this opportunity
to pause and think carefully
about what young kids and
their working parents need.
So you understand my
perspective — two years
ago, research I was involved
in showed that high-quality
prenatal counseling for atrisk mothers reduces Medicaid costs enough to pay for
the counseling. South Carolina just announced they’re
scaling-up their main prenatal
home visiting program and
they’re paying for it in this
way. Data is being gathered in
Richmond to see if we can do
the same in Virginia.
Four years ago, similar research I was involved
in showed that high-quality
3- and 4-year-old pre-kindergarten reduces public school
special education costs enough
to pay for the pre-K. Last year,
Salt Lake City provided pre-K
to almost 600 at-risk kids and
is paying for it with special
education savings. More than
20 other states are looking into
how they can do the same.
I co-founded ReadyNation 10 years ago. It’s now the
premier business early-childhood advocacy organization
in the U.S.
Here’s the problem. America has organized its workforce
so it is now impossible for lowand moderate-income parents
to maintain an adequate living
standard without both of them
working. It’s no longer possible for one parent to stay at
home and care for and educate
a young child. But we expect
these parents to raise schoolready children who will graduate from high school and be
productive citizens, with virtually no help from the rest of us.
Get to know parents who
are trying to do this. You’ll see
what research shows — they’re
under enormous stress. If we
did this on purpose it would be
cruelty. But we’re not doing it
on purpose. It is just stupidity.
The research on this is absolutely clear. Parent stress
affects their children. Highly
stressed parents are less productive at work and raise less
academically successful children. We pay for our stupidity
in the form of higher taxes for
social services and crime, fewer profitable businesses and
weaker school performance.
Pre-K is important, but
nationally and here in Alexandria, education-enriched child
care is what’s most urgently
needed.
Like pre-K and home visiting, good child care has high
economic returns. A study
conducted by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment
Research, a leading economic
development institute, shows
that there’s no sports stadium,
office park or tax give-away
that’s better for regional economic development than good
childcare. Why? Businesses
find it is easier to attract and
keep good employees. Parents
are less stressed and immediately more productive. Children are more ready for school.
With better prepared kids, the
schools are more productive.
Graduation rates are higher.
And crime, drug use and teen
pregnancy rates are lower.
Earlier I said I support a
property tax increase with two
conditions. Here they are:
First, plan for early learning from infancy through preK. Provide enough educationenriched child care resources
to meet the needs of all working parents. Good child care
has all the lower stress benefits
I mentioned earlier plus one
more. Brain science tells us
the earlier a dollar is invested
in a child’s life, the higher the
return is. If you think pre-K
for 4-year-olds is a good idea,
keep in mind that only 3- and
4-year-old pre-K has been
shown to significantly pay for
itself in lower special education costs. If you want to lock
in a child’s curiosity, trust and
ability to work with others, a
dollar invested at 6 months of
age is more effective than one
invested at age 3.
Second, involve the private
sector. Broaden the discussion
to include all of the city’s nonprofit, for-profit, public and
faith-based childcare providers
and see if these early care and
learning professionals can accommodate with existing capacity, or open new facilities to
handle the 400 kids that concern you today and the roughly 1,500 that are right behind
them. I will be very surprised
if they cannot come up with a
way to meet the needs of our
working parents at lower cost
than now projected.
Use the proposed $3 million capital investment to
structure a financing plan that
expands quality child care in
Alexandria. This is the way to
truly strengthen our economy,
help parents do what we need
them to do and help kids arrive
at school ready to learn.
- J. Glenn Hopkins
President and CEO,
Hopkins House
To the editor:
As part of its proposed remedy to address classroom overcrowding, Alexandria City Public
Schools has requested funding
from city council to create a pre-K
center with the intention of relocating its 4-year-old preschoolers
from neighborhood school buildings into a single facility.
Over the past several weeks
since this proposal was made
public, I and many other members of our community have
engaged in many conversations
with members of the school
board and city council about this
proposal. Based on these conversations, there is one thing about
which we all agree: Our schools
and our students need us to invest in them.
Where we continue to disagree is the plan to use a single,
leased building in the short term
— and two in the long term —
to house classrooms for 360 or
more 4-year-olds.
We appreciate the time that
chairwoman Karen Graf, vice
chairman Chris Lewis and the
other members of the school
board have spent sharing their
vision and the challenges they
face regarding classroom and
school building overcrowding.
There is little doubt that there
is already a classroom capacity
challenge that, without action,
will quickly grow into a crisis.
We clearly need at least one
new elementary school building, especially on the West End.
It is understandable why shortterm leased space is proposed
as a temporary solution to accommodate the 500 additional
students expected to enroll in
ACPS each year, as it will take
time to locate a site and construct a new school building.
But removing preschoolers
to a single building, away from
their neighborhoods, other children and familiar environments,
creates new problems in the
quest to solve the capacity issue.
There is no developmental
evidence that a site this large can
be an effective and appropriate
learning environment for young
children. Ample, authoritative
research, conducted by well-respected educators, indicates that
that inclusion, rather than separation of children of mixed abilities and socio-economic status,
benefits all children.
Additionally, the school district’s plan puts at-risk students
in a separate facility, away
from the diverse student environments present today in our
neighborhood schools. While
the school system already
transports children outside
their neighborhoods, it is not
ideal, and doubling the number
of 4-year-olds crisscrossing the
city on school buses is certainly not an improvement.
It is still not clear what models the school board considered
before proposing this particular plan, or why this particular
model was chosen. What is clear
is that the school board is relying on the ACT/Early Childhood
Education Workgroup to vet
ideas and provide guidance.
We understand this workgroup was created by the school
board and city council to support
the Children Youth and Families Collaborative Commission
in implementing the children
and youth master plan as it applies to young children — not as
a mechanism to vet and endorse
programmatic proposals, to replace the input of other interested members of the community,
or to sidestep the commission.
Our schools and our students
need us to invest in them. They
undoubtedly need at least what
the school board has asked for
and then some. But we should be
planning for the best option for
all our children, not pitting the
needs of older students against
the needs of younger students.
After all, the 4-year-olds are
only that age for a year. Then
they become our 5-year-olds and
ultimately our high schoolers.
Our littlest citizens need the
investment of city council. But
they also need a different plan
than separating these young,
vulnerable children from their
neighborhoods into a large, distant building, away from the
very environments that help
them to grow and excel.
- Julie Jakopic
Chairwoman, board of trustees,
Hopkins House
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A notable waterfront family has an impact on the
Port City
T
hey came from places
afar. According to
them, the O’Leary
family had spent time in Pakistan, Vietnam, Guam, China
and Honolulu. More recently,
the family of 17 had come
from the Washington Marina
in 1973, living on an 85-foot
former workboat, the Chicago, which they had found
partially submerged.
As seen in the accompanying photo, the boat continued to be partially submerged
during its time in Alexandria.
The family at the time included four sets of twins and one
set of triplets — named Tom,
Dick and Harry — and the
children ranged in age from
5 to 32.
The father, James O’Leary,
was born in Hawaii. By the
time he was 2 years old, he
was orphaned. By the time
the family showed up in the
Potomac, he was 58. He grew
up in an orphanage in North
Tonawanda, N.Y. and a series
of foster homes. He told reporters that while at college
in Iowa, he reached to steal
an apple at the state fair and
stole his future wife, Florence, instead.
The family had an adversarial relationship with the
justice systems of multiple
countries. They regaled local
reporters with stories of running oil in Pakistan, arrests
in Vietnam and more than 10
other places, the children using pikes and gaffs to fend off
a police boarding party in Hawaii, as well as seven-month
detentions in Guam and mainland China.
Their time at the Washington Marina followed a familiar pattern for the family that
seems to persist until today.
The O’Learys spent a year
on the Chicago, which had
been listing in the marina for
33 years, antagonizing other
boat owners, bickering with
school and welfare officials,
and as the marina president at
the time put it, “they violated
every law in the book.” They
were finally evicted from the
marina for failure to pay their
$60-a-month slip fees.
The family’s first move
was to tie up at the Naval
Reserve Training Center at
the foot of Franklin Street.
The Chicago had drifted
there without power. But, as
would be expected, naval officials were not keen on using
military space for a private
residence, and they towed the
boat out into the Potomac.
The clan ended up in La
Plata, Md., but the Chicago
sank off the Alexandria waterfront, and they then lived
briefly in the back of a store
and ran a swap shop. They inevitably got into trouble with
their neighbors, and then acquired a dilapidated, World
War II-era minesweeper from
Naval Surplus named the Reli-
ant. They switched residences
between their new boat and a
home that was found for them
on Mount Vernon Avenue.
The Reliant was moored in
front of the city-owned boathouse, near the final resting
place of their previous boat
the Chicago. City councilors,
concerned that the boat endangered high school crew
teams, paid $10,000 to have
the boat dismantled and disposed of. By this time, the
family had purchased a Cadillac limousine and moved on to
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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5 Like haunted house sounds
10Don’t go on
14Low end of the Mohs scale
18e.e. cummings works
2016th-century council site
21Trapper’s trophy
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25Deceptive gridiron run
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28Like a DIYer
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31 Shrinking Asian sea
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46“To ___ it may ...”
50X, to Xenophon
51 Strategy B, maybe
56Horatian work
57 “Zebra,” in sports
58Lenders’ securities
59Holds dear
60De Valera of Ireland
62Flatbreads of sorts
64BART part
65Passover meals
66Poorer, as excuses go
67Quick-cook noodle soup
68Justice Ruth ___ Ginsburg
69Native of northwest France
71 Break off
72 File holders
75Gave a glowing review
76 Didn’t just sit there
77Violinist’s application
78Old hand
79Get mellower
80 Carl Reiner’s directorial debut, 1967
83Have a bug
84Prepares to feather
86 Mae West’s “___ Angel”
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Obituaries
BEVERLY S. BELTZ (87),
formerly of Alexandria,
April 11, 2016
HENRY C. MUSTIN (82),
of Alexandria, April 11, 2016
KAY C.L. NEER (89), of
Alexandria, April 1, 2016
FRIEDERIKE S.
GUESSFORD (94), of
Alexandria, April 15, 2016
ROBERTA P. HENRY (91),
of Alexandria, April 15, 2016
FREDERICK M. PROFFITT
(75), of Alexandria,
April 15, 2016
RENATA A. JURASITS (88),
of Alexandria,
November 14, 2015
ANNE K. ROXBROUGH
(89), of Alexandria,
March 7, 2016
WILTON V. MCMILLAN,
of Alexandria, April 16, 2016
MARK H. YOUNG (60),
of Alexandria, April 11, 2016
MATILDA C.W. MILLARD (93),
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88Chop into cubes
89 Sri Lankan tea
91 Bottomless pit
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95 Mater’s mate
98 Mai ___ cocktail
99 Disorganized pile
100 River to the Congo
102 Cradle’s spot, in song
104 Seaweed-clogged sea
108 Dress shirt style
110 Recording engineer’s place
112 Wight, for one
113 Tourists’ neckwear
114 AKA follower
115 Pianist’s exercise
116 In the neighborhood
117 Piano recital piece
118 Tither’s portion
119 Reach across
DOWN
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2 Get checkmated
3 Radio Cit’s style, for short
4 Issue forth
5 Singer Merman
6 Hurlers' stats
7 Emeritus (Abbr.)
8 Move stealthily
9 Simple hydrocarbon
10 Loses, as pounds
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29 Neither’s partner
34Large in scale
35 Milo of “Ulysses”
36 Auto’s gear selector
37 Hammer ends
38 Drops an easy one
39 Salon offering
40 Like Zorro or Batman
41“___ fair in ...”
42 Three R’s org.
44One in a cattle drive
45Costner of “Bull Durham”
47Activity for the 28-Across
48Dumpster output
49 Department store department
51Pie order
52 Draw a parallel
53 Oakland's county
54 W.C. Fields persona
55 Short of
61 Yemeni port
63Blanchett of “Elizabeth”
64“Bolero” composer
65 Oral vaccine pioneer
67 Like 3-Down
68Place for boats
69 Babysitter’s handful
70Sitar melody
71Public outburst
72Some Pacific salmon
73 Very short time
74 Did some cobbling
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82 One-eighty
85Tracy of “Captains Courageous”
88Shoves off
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91 Junior Olympics org.
92 Tiger or lion
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A public hearing will be held by the
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Review on WEDNESDAY, May 4,
2016 beginning at 7:30 PM in the Chet
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2000, second floor of City Hall, 301
King Street, Alexandria, Virginia on
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Request for alterations at
121 S Union St.
APPLICANT: Union Street Public
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Request to partially demolish at
508 Queen St.
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Venezia
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Request for new garage at
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SUP #2015-0095
1101 North Washington Street Old Colony Inn
Public hearing and consideration
of requests for: (A) a Development
Special Use Permit and Site Plan
with modifications for renovation of
and addition to an existing hotel with
accessory restaurant/meeting room,
and a request for a parking and loading
reduction; (B) a Special Use Permit for
a restaurant use in the CD zone; (C) a
Special Use Permit for a transportation
management plan; zoned CD/
Commercial Downtown.
APPLICANT: CIA Colony Inn LLC,
represented by M. Catharine Puskar,
attorney
THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL
BE HEARD BY THE PLANNING
COMMISSION ONLY, AND BY
THE CITY COUNCIL ONLY UPON
APPEAL.
Development Site Plan #2015-0022
2932 and 2998 King Street - First
Baptist Church of Alexandria
Public hearing and consideration of a
request for a development site plan to
permit three additions to an existing
church building and the renovation of
the church’s interior sanctuary; zoned
R8/Residential Single-Family
APPLICANT: Trustees of First Baptist
Church, represented by Duncan Blair,
attorney
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS
LEGAL NOTICE OF
A PUBLIC HEARING
THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2016 7:30 PM
COUNCIL CHAMBERS, CITY
HALL
301 KING STREET
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA
Information about these items may
be obtained from the Department
of Planning and Zoning, 301 King
Street, Room 2100, Alexandria,
Virginia 22314, telephone: (703) 7464666 or on the City’s website at www.
alexandriava.gov/planning.
The Board of Zoning Appeals will
discuss and adopt proposed changes
to their by-laws regarding time limits
for speakers.
BZA Case #2016-0007
308 Commerce Street
Public hearing and consideration of a
request for a Special Exception to build
a 2-story rear addition; zoned: CD/
Commercial Downtown.
APPLICANT: Windmill Hill, LLC
ALEXANDRIA PLANNING
COMMISSION & CITY
COUNCIL
MAY 2016
The items described below will be
heard by the Planning Commission
and the City Council on the dates and
times listed below. NOTICE: Some of
the items listed below may be placed
Abandoned Vehicle Ad
on a consent calendar. A consent item
will be approved at the beginning of
the meeting without discussion unless
someone asks that it be taken off
the consent calendar and considered
separately. The Planning Commission
reserves the right to recess and continue
the public hearing to a future date. For
further information call the Department
of Planning and Zoning on 703-7464666 or visit www.alexandriava.gov/
planning.
ALEXANDRIA PLANNING
COMMISSION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 2016
7:00 PM, CITY HALL
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
301 KING STREET
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA
ALEXANDRIA CITY COUNCIL
SATURDAY, MAY 14, 2016
9:30 AM, CITY HALL
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
301 KING STREET
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA
Special Use Permit #2016-0009
322 North Alfred Street (parcel
address: 326 North Alfred Street)
Bright Mind Daycare
Public hearing and consideration
of a request to operate a daycare
business; zoned: RB/Residential
MediumTownhouse.
APPLICANT: Bright Mind Daycare
Special Use Permit #2016-0018
2503 Taylor Avenue
Public hearing and consideration of
a request to construct a singlefamily
dwelling on a substandard lot; zoned:
R8/Residential Low Single-Family.
APPLICANT: Matt Heckel
Special Use Permit #2016-0019
Encroachment #2016-0003
606 North Fayette Street (parcel
address: 620 North Fayette Street)
Bastille Restaurant
Public hearing and consideration
of requests: (A) to amend Special
Use Permit #20140003 to allow 12
additional outdoor seats, offpremises
alcohol sales, and a parking reduction;
(B) for an encroachment into the public
rightofway for outdoor dining; zoned:
CRMUH/CommercialResidential
Mixed Use (High).
APPLICANT: Le Coq, LLC,
represented by Duncan Blair, attorney
Special Use Permit #2015-0138
115 South Union Street
Public hearing and consideration of
requests for (A) a special use permit
pursuant to section 11-506(B)(2) to
increase the number of units per acre
allowed for a residential multifamily
building to up to 54.45 units per
acre; (B) a special use permit pursuant
to section 7-700 to increase the density
to 57.88 per acre and increase FAR
from 1.25 to 1.5; and (C) a modification
pursuant to section 11-416 to allow
a reduction in the rear and side yard
setbacks; zoned: CD/Commercial
Downtown.
APPLICANT: 115 Union CMB-GMB,
LLC represented by M. Catharine
Puskar, attorney
The vehicle described below will be
disposed of as an abandoned vehicle
under authority of section 63-23-1
through 63-23-11 Mississippi Code.
Description of vehicle:
Year: 1995
Make: Freightliner
Model: FLD
VIN#: 1FV7DOY93SH726868
Date and Time for Sale:
April 30, 2016 at 12:00 noon
Place of Sale:
Peterbilt of Hattiesburg, LLC
4093 U.S. Hwy. 11, Hattiesburg, MS
The above described vehicle is in the
custody of Peterbilt of Hattiesburg,
LLC at 4093 U. S. Hwy. 11, Hattiesburg, MS.
Vehicle may be claimed at this address by providing proof of ownership
or lien and paying accrued charges.
Peterbilt of Hattiesburg, LLC reserves
the right to bid on this vehicle.
YARD SALE
Ambridge Community
Yard Sale,
Saturday, April 9,
9am-1pm.
908 Berwick Dr.​,
Annapolis, Md 21403
Attention Fox Hunters! Selling many
good hunting jackets, boots and
britches, baby equipment, household items, lawn mower and lots of
clothes from work out to long dresses, and some furniture. Cash only.
No early birds or professionals.
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home caretaker seeking a position
from Spring through the end of the
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shopping, prepare meals, run errands, gardening and other household chores. Spend time enjoying
your time and family. Your comfort
is my main goal! Prefer mature families or senior citizens. I have my own
transportation and health insurance.
Excellent references available upon
request. Contact 785-201-5734 for
more information.
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