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Alexandria’s only independent hometown newspaper
Vol. 10, No. 39
September 25, 2014
The devil’s in the details
Dominion Virginia keeps
mum on preferred
transmission line route
Proposed Dominion Virginia
transmission line routes
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By Erich Wagner
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Members of a new resident-led work group created
to grapple with Dominion
Virginia Power’s plans to run
a transmission line through Alexandria did not mince words
following the utility’s first presentation on the project.
“I’m just looking at statements here with nothing to
back them up.”
“To have a [capacity] shortage of this magnitude and not
know about it until June of this
year seems a little irresponsive.”
“How can we function under the parameters you’ve set
out for us on such a short time
frame?”
Representatives of the utility company caught local authorities by surprise in June,
when they informed City Hall
of plans to potentially run a
230-kilovolt transmission line
from Arlington to a proposed
substation at the site of the
closed GenOn coal-fired power plant in north Old Town.
Dominion officials argue the
line is needed and will improve the region’s power grid.
But City Hall worries the
line will run through Potomac
Yard, an area undergoing rapid
redevelopment after years of
planning. After lodging their
complaints, city councilors
formed the group — comprised of neighbors, communi-
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CSX
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Metro/ GW Parkway
The former home of The Art League (top) soon will make way for
Carr City Centers’ waterfront boutique hotel (bottom) on the 200
block of S. Union St. Company officials plan to discuss construction
logistics with neighbors next week.
GW Parkway
Mt Jefferson Park Trail
Main Line Blvd
Slaters Lane
4 Mile Run/ Potomac River
Possible Tie-In Routes
Jurisdictional Boundaries
POTOMAC RIVER
SUBSTATION
source: Dominion virginia power
Dominion Virginia Power officials unveiled this map of possible
routes for its proposed 230-kilovolt transmission line at a meeting with a new city work group earlier this month. Still, members
remain suspicious because of the few details released by the utility
company.
ty leaders and business owners
from nearby neighborhoods —
to liaise with Dominion.
Officials with the company have been elusive about
the transmission’s route to the
shuttered coal-fired plant along
the Potomac, but revealed nine
possibilities to the work group
during its September 11 meeting. The options included the
bank of the Potomac River,
along the Metro and CSX
tracks, U.S. Route 1, George
Washington Parkway and even
under smaller thoroughfares
like Main Line Boulevard or
Commonwealth Avenue and
East Glebe Road.
But Dominion representatives were unable to go into
more detail, despite mounting
frustration.
“We were under the underSEE dominion | 7
Waterfront developer
reaches out to residents
Carr City Centers to
hold community meeting
ahead of construction
By Derrick Perkins
Work on Carr City Centers’
waterfront hotel, after years of
discussion and in spite of fervent opposition, is poised to
begin along the 200 block of
S. Union St.
Representatives with the
company, better known as
Washington-based Carr Hospitality, will meet with neighbors in the coming weeks to
discuss the logistics associated with the 120-room upscale
hotel’s construction. It is one
of two small hotels called for
in the city’s controversial waterfront redevelopment plan.
In a September 12 letter
sent to residents, officials with
the firm wrote that the meetSEE carr | 8
tennessee williams’ opus still holds relevance - page 12
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THE WEEKLY BRIEFING
Vincent F. Callahan Jr. dead at 82
Former Fairfax County
Delegate Vincent F. Callahan
Jr. died last weekend at the age
of 82.
Callahan, who moved to
Alexandria after retiring from
public office, died at Virginia
Hospital Center in Arlington,
where he was receiving treatment for West Nile virus.
A Republican, Callahan
became a leading advocate
for Northern Virginia over
his more than four decades in
Richmond, overseeing initia-
tives like the development of
the Dulles corridor.
Renowned as a moderate
and pragmatist, Callahan’s
death prompted statements of
condolence from both Republicans and Democrats.
“Vince was a consummate
public servant, serving his
beloved Commonwealth with
passion, creativity, a keen
mind for state finances and a
quick wit,” said U.S. Sen. Tim
Kaine (D). “He was a proud
Republican — serving as my
father-in-law’s running mate
in 1965 — but always knew
that party mattered less than
principle. Virginia is indebted
to him and the loving family
that supported his long service
to the state.”
Callahan is survived by his
second wife, Yvonne Weight
Callahan; his brother, Daniel
Callahan; five children, three
stepchildren, 22 grandchildren
and two great grandchildren.
courtesy photo
Mayor Bill Euille and Matthew
Maury Elementary School Principal Lucretia Jackson kick off the
school’s Blessings in a Backpack donation drive last week.
can’t possibly function if we
are hungry, so how are children
supposed to learn if they have
no food?” Jackson said in a
statement.
In addition to the backpackstuffing event, second grade
parent Katie Stohs and Kristen
Moore, the mother of a former
student, hope to raise $5,000 to
buy gift cards to put in backpacks they distribute during the
holidays.
“I can’t imagine a child not
having access to food ever the
weekends. This is something
we all take for granted,” Stohs
said in a statement.
- Erich Wagner
False alarm at Matthew Maury Elementary
Alexandria police announced last week that reports
of a man wielding a “long gun”
outside of Matthew Maury Elementary School proved false
following an investigation.
Just after noon September
16, children playing on school
grounds reported seeing a man
point a gun at them from behind a fence. The allegation
led to Maury and three other
nearby schools being locked
down, followed by a “lock-in”
for all Alexandria City Public
Schools campuses while officers searched for the suspect.
Police spokeswoman Crystal Nosal said she had no further information about the
alleged incident, but said it
likely was fictitious.
“Given the number of
weapons violations that occur
at schools across the nation,
the police department takes
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Maury officials fight childhood hunger
with food donation drive for students
Teachers and parents at
Matthew Maury Elementary
School kicked off an effort to
end childhood hunger last week
as they packed backpacks full
of food for impoverished children over the weekend.
Mayor Bill Euille and Principal Lucretia Jackson kicked
off the Blessings in a Backpack
program, loading the first two
of 50 backpacks for hungry
students. The program aims
to draw attention to childhood
hunger — National Day of
Hunger was last weekend.
“We know as adults we
We are pleased to announce that
reports of this nature seriously
and responds accordingly,”
authorities said in a statement. “The Alexandria Police
Department, along with Alexandria City Public Schools,
immediately responded to this
incident and both agencies are
pleased with the quick resolution to a potentially dangerous
situation.”
- Erich Wagner
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CRIME
City man admits to engaging in sex trafficking
Open House
Thursday, October 2nd
9:00 AM
Reservations encouraged
Call 703.549.0155 or email
[email protected]
Classical Christian School • Grades JK - 8th
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Authorities credited a
14-year-old girl with leading
them to a now-admitted sex
trafficker who was attempting
to lure her into a life of prostitution.
Tayron Tyree Weeks, 24,
of Alexandria pleaded guilty
in federal district court last
week to engaging in the sex
trafficking of a child after
striking a deal with prosecutors. He faces a maximum
penalty of life in prison.
Weeks met the 14-year-old
at the Braddock Road Metro
station and later convinced
her to join him at a friend’s
Alexandria apartment, according to court documents.
There, after he “engaged in
sexual acts” with her, Weeks
pressured the victim into becoming a prostitute, authorities said.
“You might as well get
paid for something most girls
do for free,” he said, according to court documents.
She later contacted police,
though, and gave investigators access to her Facebook
account. Officers posed as the
victim and contacted Weeks,
telling him about a fictitious
girl who was interested in be-
coming a prostitute.
Masquerading as this fake
girl, an officer spoke with
Weeks several times on the
phone to discuss the job. The
officer mentioned the illegality
of Weeks’ scheme — and the
punishment if arrested — to
which he replied by saying he
did not expect to get caught.
Weeks’ sentencing hearing
is scheduled for December 12.
The investigation was a
joint effort between the FBI
and the Fairfax County and Alexandria police departments.
- Derrick Perkins
Nine arrested in overnight DWI operation
Alexandria police cracked
down on intoxicated motorists
overnight Saturday, launching
a roaming, citywide operation
that involved 11 officers.
Authorities arrested six
motorists on charges of driving while intoxicated. They
also impounded seven vehicles, arrested three others on
criminal charges and issued 28
summonses for various traffic
offenses.
Officials launched the operation at 10:30 p.m. and ended it
at 5:30 a.m. Sunday morning.
The officers involved were directed to pull over drivers seen
committing traffic infractions,
authorities said.
- Derrick Perkins
POLICE BEAT
The following incidents occurred between September 17 and September 24.
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1
2
2
3
2
Thefts
Drug
Crimes
Vehicle
thefts
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Aggravated
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Source: raidsonline.com
Dominion proposes new transmission line
in Alexandria, Arlington
Project to improve local reliability
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several routing options are currently being
analyzed between Dominion’s Glebe
substation, located at the intersection of
s. Glebe road and s. eads street in
Arlington county, and pepco’s potomac
river substation at the intersection of
slaters lane and e. Abingdon Drive in the
city of Alexandria.
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Open house attendees will be able to
view detailed maps, photo simulations of
the proposed project and have subject
matter experts available to answer specific
project questions.
Open HOuse
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In our continued commitment to provide
safe and reliable power to area neighbors,
Dominion is proposing a new 230 kilovolt
(kV) transmission line between Arlington
county and the city of Alexandria by 2018
to support identified energy needs for local
residents and businesses.
Visit our upcoming Open House anytime
between 5:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., or find
project details online at www.dom.com,
keyword: Glebe.
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B. Route 1 / Slater Lane
C. Potomac Avenue
D. CSX
E. Metro / GW Parkway
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G. Mt. Jefferson Park Trail
H. Main Line Boulevard
I.
4 Mile Run / Potomac River
Possible Tie-In Routes
Jurisdictional Boundaries
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RIVER
SUBSTATION
ALEXANDRIA TIMES
Sweetening the deal on housing
City council to apply new
housing contribution rules
to oft-delayed projects
By Erich Wagner
City councilors want to ensure developers working on
long-delayed projects don’t
eventually make contributions
to the affordable housing fund
based on outdated formulas.
At a hearing earlier this
month, city councilors voted to
apply the most recent affordable housing formula to the Stevenson Avenue Condominiums
project, whose representatives
were seeking a second threeyear extension on its permitting.
Local officials last year updated the guidelines for what
developers must contribute toward preserving Alexandria’s
dwindling supply of affordable
housing. City councilors agreed
with developers at the time that
the new rules should not apply
to previously approved projects
needing extensions on rapidly
expiring permits.
But City Councilor Justin
Wilson noted that they overlooked the prospect of a project
needing more than one threeyear extension — a rarity.
“I understand that in extensions, we’re not generally going to modify the contribution
levels, but at what point do we
continue that?” Wilson asked.
“This is the second extension,
but if there’s a third or a fourth or
a fifth, are we in a position where
we have very ancient conditions
that we’re still holding on to because it was originally submitted
under that regime?”
Local land-use attorney
Cathy Puskar — who was in
city council chambers representing the condominium’s
developers — said the project,
originally approved in 2008,
should move forward as redevelopment at nearby Landmark
Mall begins.
On behalf of her clients
— DYN Res, LLC, Steven A.
Hansen, LLC and WWIV Stevenson Avenue, LLC — Puskar agreed to increasing the affordable housing contribution
from $121,000 under the old
formula to $147,000. In exchange, her clients received a
longer, four-year extension on
the project’s permits.
But Puskar pushed city
councilors to codify the rule
change.
“The development community has worked very
closely with the housing department over the years, so ev-
eryone understands what the
rules of the game are,” Puskar
said. “[For] me to be able to
represent [my clients] fairly,
the rules need to be fair and
applied equitably. … If you
make this distinction, you need
to clarify the policy.”
That is what Wilson hopes
to do. He directed city staff to
look into how best to amend
the policy so that the new affordable housing formula applies to repeat permit extension
applicants.
“When you buy a property
to develop it, you’ve already
done this pro forma, ‘This is
how much I’ll have to pay for
affordable housing and for
taxes, and this is how much I’ll
sell the units for,’” he said. “But
once you’re onto that second
extension, that’s six years and
all of that [planning] is probably
out the window.
“[They] shouldn’t be able
to kind of cling to a policy, a
number, that was a decade old.
That would be like letting them
cling to a building code from
the 1970s.”
Although some members of
the development community
may resist the change, Wilson said the new policy could
prove a boon for everyone.
“I’m sure there will be some
pushback, but I’m hopeful we
can come to that agreement,”
he said. “At the very least, it
provides an incentive for folks
to get going. … Usually by the
time a project reaches approval,
the community has bought into
it. We don’t want things to drag
out, particularly in situations
where we have vacant properties or eyesores, so we do want
them to move along.”
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standing that we wouldn’t be
delving into those that much,”
said Deborah Tompkins Johnson, regional manager of state
and local affairs for the utility,
when asked about the routes.
“We didn’t bring our routing
coordinator with us.”
Work group members also
seemed dissatisfied with Dominion’s insistence that running
a transmission line through
Alexandria is necessary without providing any supporting
evidence. The utility plans to
file an application for the project with the State Corporation
Commission in November.
“So we can’t see any information about the cost or ben-
september 25, 2014 | 7
process once that application is
submitted,” said City Councilor
Paul Smedberg. “There is only
a month, a month and a half left
for us to have any true impact
on that application. And at this
point, a decent draft of what
you will propose is something
I assume you would have by
now.”
“I know I haven’t started
my part of the application yet,”
joked Nedwick.
In an interview after the
meeting, Smedberg said most
of Dominion’s proposed routes
will have a devastating effect
not only on neighborhoods as
construction occurs, but on future redevelopment.
“It’s really going to be an issue with what we do for those
areas up for redevelopment and
We know it may seem early in the process
for you guys, but for us it is the end of the
process once that application is submitted. There is
only a month, a month and a half left for us to have
any true impact on that application.”
- Paul Smedberg
City councilor
efit analyses made on all of the
[routes] until after your preferred alternative is chosen and
the application is prepared to be
presented to the SCC?” asked
one member.
“That is correct,” said Peter
Nedwick, a Dominion engineer.
“The analysis on the different alternatives and how we get
to a preferred alternative is very
numbers-driven,” added Tompkins Johnson. “[It] may be hard
to accept but this is when the
process for community input
begins.
“As I say, we’re asking you
to help us with that, and the other alternatives don’t go away
when we file the application.
They will be analyzed [by the
state commission] as well.”
City councilors in attendance also barraged Dominion
officials.
“We know it may seem early in the process for you guys,
but for us it is the end of the
how this impacts the development rights of the current owners,” Smedberg said. “There’s
a whole host of issues related
to that, and a couple people on
the committee have said they’ll
need more detail and more information to make an informed
choice.”
Both officials and work
group members are growing
more suspicious as Dominion’s
application date creeps closer.
“There’s some healthy skepticism,” Smedberg said. “While
Dominion says they don’t know
what a final route would be,
many people in the community
find that a little hard to believe.
They know exactly what they
want to do and have known for
a while.”
The work group will meet
again tonight at 7 p.m. in City
Hall, and Dominion Power will
host an open house October 1
from 5 to 8 p.m. at Mount Vernon Community School.
Woodbridge, Va.
Information: 703-930-2521 or
[email protected]
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September 26
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September 25
SEND A KID TO CAMP GOLF
CLASSIC The Ninth Annual Send a
Kid to Camp Golf Classic is a charity
event established to continue to send
Alexandria youth to the Alexandria
Police Youth Camp, located in Kilmarnock, Va. Entry is $99 for individual
players; $396 for a foursome. Prepayment is required, and the fee includes
unlimited range balls (one hour prior
to start), green fees, card, continental
breakfast, post-play BBQ reception,
beverage cart on the course, gift bag
and raffle prizes.
Time: 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Location: Old Hickory Golf Club,
an outdoor jazz concert, featuring food
from Hard Times Café, Alexandria Cupcakes, Vermilion wine, Port City beer
and others. Admission is $30.
Time: 6 to 9 p.m.
Location: 18060 King St.
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COSTUME SYMPOSIUM:
PETITE Enjoy an immersive day in the
fashions of the 1812 period. Speakers
will explore the influences on fashion
in 1814, the cut and construction of
1812 military uniforms, the creation of
race-based fashions in the new nation,
and a detailed look at one fashionable wardrobe. Sessions are offered
a-la-carte and a special 1814 inspired
menu will be offered by Gadsby’s
Tavern Restaurant.
Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Gadsby’s Tavern Museum,
134 N. Royal St.
Information: www.gadsbystavern.org
HISTORIC ALEXANDRIA
HOMES TOUR Six homes and
gardens in Old Town will be open to the
public for the 73rd Annual Historic Alexandria Homes Tour. Proceeds from the
tour go to Inova Alexandria Hospital.
Tickets are $35.
Location: Various
Information: www.thetwig.org
LIBRARY SURVIVOR As part of
‘Alexandria Banned Books Week’, listen as five banned books represented
by actors defend their importance to
be saved and escape from a burning
library.
Time: 2 to 3.30 p.m.
Location: Athenaeum, 201 Prince St.
Information: 703-548-0035, [email protected] or www.nvfaa.org
2ND ANNUAL GAY NIGHT OUT
A charity bar crawl in aid of Helping Our
Brothers and Sisters, an LBGT veterans
organization. Five bars in Old Town will
host gay parties, with the bar crawl
commencing at Rock It Bar & Grill. A
$10 donation gets a pink wristband
and drink specials at all the bars, while
$20 gets a silver wristband and even
better specials at the bars as well as
access to a VIP only stop.
Time: 7 p.m. to 2 a.m.
Location: Rock It Bar & Grill, 1319
King St. then more locations on King
Street
Information: [email protected]
SEAPORT DAY 2014 Alexandria
Seaport Foundation’s annual Seaport
Day will bring local restaurants for
a chowder cook-off, a recycled boat
competition, educational activities and
boat trips and wooden boat displays for
children and families on the Potomac
River.
Location: Waterfront Park, 1 Prince
St.
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four-course dinner. Seating is limited;
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neighbors on issues like work
hours and traffic control.
“We just want to update
them on the preliminary
schedule, site logistics and
how we will be working at the
property,” said Austin Flajser,
president of Carr City Centers, earlier this week. “We’re
happy to keep [residents] updated and closely coordinate
with people.”
Flajser shied away from
setting firm dates, but said he
expected utility work would
begin this fall, followed by
the demolition of the existing building by the year’s end.
Construction, once it begins,
should last about 15 months,
he said. Signs about the project at the site advertise a 2016
completion date.
He also would not put a
price tag on the project.
Along with the work schedule, representatives should be
prepared for questions regarding the removal of asbestos,
construction debris and potentially contaminated soil, said
Old Town resident Bert Ely.
And those are just a few of the
concerns he expects will arise
during the meeting.
Ely, who jointly heads
Friends of the Alexandria
Waterfront along with fellow resident Mark Mueller,
also worried about potential
for heavy vehicles to damage Old Town’s streets and
whether vibrations from pile
driving would cause problems
in nearby buildings in the historic neighborhood.
In Carr’s letter, officials indicated workers would begin
photographing the exteriors of
adjacent buildings prior to demolition. But they also must
document the interiors, Ely
said.
“A lot of times the potential
damage is on the inside of the
building,” he said. “You have
foundation cracks and so forth
that you can’t see from the
outside. These are all issues
A lot of times
the potential
damage is on the
inside of the building.
You have foundation
cracks and so forth
that you can’t see from
the outside.”
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Alexandria Waterfront
that are going to get raised, I
am sure, at [Carr’s meeting].
It will be interesting to see
how well Carr is prepared.”
Officials originally scheduled the meeting for today,
but shifted it to Wednesday after several residents noted the
gathering would have fallen
on Rosh Hashanah. The 7 p.m.
meeting will be hosted at 220
S. Union St.
The project is the first of
several outlined in City Hall’s
waterfront plan. The polarizing document, which underwent intense public scrutiny
and weathered fierce criticism
before earning approval last
year, targeted the Carr site and
the two Robinson Terminals
for redevelopment.
Work on the hotel predates
the redevelopment roadmap,
though. Carr representatives
met with city officials as early
as 2010 to discuss their designs for the Potomac shoreline, more than a year before
the public learned of the company’s plans.
After working with various boards and commissions
over several years, the project
earned city council’s approval
in January. It cleared its final
hurdle — getting the board of
architectural review’s OK —
in the spring.
The project, slated to become a Hotel Indigo, will
rise up five stories and boast
a 5,000-square-foot courtyard. It also will include underground parking and likely
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Redevelopment mulled for Fitzgerald Warehouse
Project would target
non-historic additions,
officials say
By Derrick Perkins
An iconic Old Town building that remains an enduring
symbol of Alexandria’s period
of maritime primacy may be
in line for a major makeover.
Though Fitzgerald Warehouse dates back to the Port
City’s early decades, it expanded in the modern era.
Two additions sprung up after
several rounds of upgrades in
the 1960s and 90s, according
to city officials.
It’s these portions — one
home to a Thai restaurant, the
other vacant — of the imposing Colonial structure on the
corner of King and Union
streets that the warehouse’s
current owners quietly have
been discussing with city
planners.
“The planning staff has
seen an early concept and a
proposal for the non-historic
portions of that building,” said
Karl Moritz, acting planning
director. “We were approached
with the concept maybe a few
months ago.”
Details remain scarce.
Moritz’s colleagues only have
received a rough proposal
from the owners — Monarch
Row LLC, according to real
estate records — but talks indicate they are considering a
mix of office and retail space.
The ground floor of the updated space seems likley to house
at least one restaurant, Moritz
said.
Calls to Monarch Row and
a message left with the firm’s
attorney went unanswered before the Times’ print deadline.
Though not part of the city’s
controversial waterfront plan,
discussions of redevelopment
at the site come as the Potomac
shoreline is poised to undergo
rapid change. One boutique
hotel just two blocks down
Union Street already is in the
works and another is slated for
Robinson Terminal North. That
warehouse’s counterpart in Old
Town’s southeastern quadrant
will be redeveloped into a mix
of high-end residential and retail space.
Closer to Fitzgerald Warehouse, city officials earlier
this year reached a deal with
the Old Dominion Boat Club
for the group’s waterfront
property at the foot of King
Street. After years of bitter
negotiating, club leadership
agreed to swap the property
for $5 million and the cityowned Beachcomber building
at the foot of Prince Street,
which eventually will serve as
the group’s new headquarters.
The former clubhouse will
make way for what officials
have dubbed the crown jewel
of a revitalized waterfront:
the aptly-named Fitzgerald
Square. Moritz believes a partially redeveloped Fitzgerald
Warehouse will complement
the plaza officials already en-
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This portion of the Fitzgerald
Warehouse dates to about
1795, but more modern additions were later tacked onto the
rear of the historic building.
vision for the area.
“The big thing that is exciting is that if the new building
is approved, it would really go
very nicely with the Fitzgerald
Square that we had planned,”
he said. “It integrates really
nicely.”
Still, a slew of technicalities must be overcome. Al
Cox, the city’s preservationist,
is working to resolve the outstanding zoning and easement
issues. Early plans, though,
call for exposing more of the
original building, which has
him excited.
“Now that the site is being
consolidated ... that has the opportunity to expose more of the
rear of the historic building. It
seems like [a] win-win in concept, but it’s early,” he said.
Though an exact construction date eludes historians,
former reporter Diane Riker
concluded the building likely
went up around 1795 in an
article she wrote for The Alexandria Chronicle in 2007.
Merchant John Fitzgerald — a
friend and comrade of George
Washington — housed three
warehouses under its single
roof, as well as his offices, a
salesroom and sail loft.
Though Fitzgerald later fell
on hard times, the warehouse
enjoyed a storied history and
remains the oldest building on
the east side of Union Street,
according to Cox.
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Fitzgerald Warehouse’s owner, Monarch Row, LLC, is in the early stages of overhauling two rear additions to the building. Though not targeted for redevelopment in the waterfront plan, a redone Fitzgerald
Warehouse has city officials excited.
Light fight
rumbles on
ACPS officials say
upgrades to T.C. could
cost up to $3.5 million
By Erich Wagner
Officials with Alexandria
City Public Schools sought last
week to reassure residents that
lights at T.C. Williams’ football
stadium would not cause yearround nighttime use of the field.
But Seminary Hill residents
continued to question the validity of the district’s report on
the controversial proposal at
the school board’s September
18 meeting, particularly when
it came to light pollution. Bill
Goff said the recently unveiled
feasibility study relies on data
that is 21 years old, and accused district staff of digging
for numbers that supported the
proposal.
Many neighbors have opposed adding lights, which
would let the school host Friday night football games, for
decades. Officials pledged to
eschew athletic lighting at the
high school altogether when it
was built in the 1960s. They
reaffirmed the agreement with
neighbors when the school was
rebuilt in the 2000s.
Recent attempts to drum
up support for lights have met
staunch opposition from the
surrounding
neighborhood.
Though ultimately successful, a proposal to build lighted
tennis courts earlier this year
quickly became bogged down
in a bitter debate.
Following that contentious
discussion, members of the
city’s school board indicated
they planned to study the practicality of erecting lights at the
football stadium. A feasibility study, unveiled earlier this
month, is the first step in that
process.
The entire project, which
includes replacing the athletic
field and other upgrades to the
stadium, could cost upwards of
$3.5 million, warned William
Holley, director of the district’s
educational facilities, at last
week’s meeting. Earlier this
month, officials said the cost
of just installing field lights
would run between $684,000
and $774,000.
Holley also tried to allay
concerns that a lighted ParkerGray Memorial Stadium represents an opportunity for the
city to make money by renting
out the field. Many neighbors
worry about noise — think of
whistles and cheering fans —
as well as light pollution.
“[There would be] 40
nights total for the school,
with up to 12 additional nights
if teams make it to the playoffs,” Holley said. “[The department of] parks and recreation said they anticipate no
additional usage of the track
… and no third-party nighttime usage is anticipated.”
Resident Gary Carver, who
supports lighting the football
field, said neighbors’ intransi-
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Although adding lights to T.C. Williams’ football field may cost less than $1 million, Alexandria City Public
Schools officials said other upgrades needed for the controversial project could increase the price tag to
$3.5 million.
gence has made the proposal,
which he described as focused
on minimizing light reflection
at the expense of other priorities, untenable. It goes too far
in trying to mollify opponents,
he argued, and binds officials’
hands in the future.
“[I] cannot support the [potential] compromise made with
adjoining property owners over
every little detail, that might
some day have to be altered
out of necessity, and then fol-
lowed by outcry again and the
potential for legal action would
be present,” Carver said.
School officials indicated
they would discuss the feasibility report again at their October 2 meeting.
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SCENE AROUND TOWN
‘Streetcar Named Desire’ barrels
into Little Theatre of Alexandria
Williams’ themes
of race, class
and domestic violence
remain relevant today
By Jordan Wright
The South of playwright
Tennessee Williams was a passionate, yet unhurried, hotbed
of emotion.
His characters were real
— too real for some when “A
Streetcar Named Desire” premiered on Broadway in 1947
— but nonetheless part of the
daily fabric of life. With this
work, Williams cracked open
the Pandora’s Box of life’s
countless miseries and shone
a light into the destructive relationships women enter into
and the ways they deal with
the evil things men do.
Though considered radical
in its day, the play’s themes of
homosexuality, immigration,
race, class and domestic violence remain relevant today.
Despite major advances in all
those areas, we are still grappling with these issues.
How these underlying
themes and intense emotions
are explored in the play is riveting in a perverse sort of way.
The Little Theatre of Alexandria’s rendition of the classic
is poignant, tragic, relevant
and grotesquely intimate all at
the same time.
When faded southern belle
Blanche arrives at her sister’s
two-room apartment in New
Orleans with a suitcase full of
feather boas and heartbreaks,
she crosses paths with Stella’s
lowlife of a husband, Stanley
Kowalski, a Polish factory
worker who is light-years removed from the sisters’ high-
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Camden Michael Gonzalez plays the brutish Stanley opposite Jennifer Berry’s Blanche (center) and Anna Fagan’s Stella in The Little Theatre of
Alexandria’s riveting production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Decades after Tennesee Williams first produced it, the drama remains relevant.
born upbringing. Blanche is
shocked to see her sister married to a man as abusive and
uncultivated as Stanley.
“He’s a different species,”
Stella explains.
Blanche tries to win Stanley over with her feminine
wiles and upper class charm,
but he does not buy it, or her
excuses for forfeiting her family’s plantation home. Both
Blanche — who uses fantasy
and seduction to cope with
life’s disappointments — and
Stella, who confuses brutality with love, allow Stanley to
dominate them.
Anna Fagan plays the submissive Stella, approaching
the duality of her character’s
Stockholm
Syndrome-like
condition with a blend of subtle poise and ferocity. Yet it
is Jennifer Berry as Blanche
who has the most quotable
lines. Berry does a fine job
of portraying her character as
flighty and vulnerable, giving a creditable portrait of a
woman clawing her way out
of desperate circumstances.
“I haven’t been so good,
these last few years,” she
admits when accused of debauchery.
Unfortunately,
Camden
Michael Gonzalez seems
miscast as Stanley. In a role
that demands more complex-
ity than a one-dimensional
portrait of a brute, his interpretation of the character
lacks pathos and gravitas.
Surprisingly, the lesser role
of Blanche’s suitor Harold
“Mitch” Mitchell, as played
by Marshall Shirley, shows
greater depth.
Baron Pugh’s clever set
design of the apartment’s
soulless interior is framed by
a two-story muslin scrim that
soft-focuses the outside world,
yet lets in music and the sights
and sounds of the mean streets
(regrettably, the din is often
easier to hear than the actors’
lines). Another wrinkle in this
production is its hurried pac-
ing, which feels more like being in the industrialized North
than the calmer South.
Even so, for those who have
never experienced one of Williams’ plays, the searing action,
plot twists and memorable
lines are eternally delicious.
“A Streetcar Named Desire”
runs through September 28 at
The Little Theatre of Alexandria, 600 Wolfe St. For tickets
and information call the box
office at 703-683-0496 or
visit www.thelittletheatre.com
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Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Bilbo Baggins Global Restaurant, 208 Queen St.
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September 28
YOGA CHALLENGE A family oriented healthy living event sponsored by
the Alexandria Health Department that
includes a yoga challenge, goal setting,
and healthy eating activities.
Time: 2 to 5 p.m.
Location: Mount Vernon Recreation
Center, 2701 Commonwealth Ave.
[email protected]
SIMPSON PARK DEMONSTRATION GARDENS OPEN HOUSE
Hosted by the Virginia Cooperative
Extension Master Gardeners of Northern
Virginia, the demonstration gardens will
be open for tours. Native plants and
plants for pollinators will be featured,
along with light snacks and drinks.
Time: 1 to 4 p.m.
Location: 400 block of East Monroe
Avenue
CRAVE A micro-granting dinner to
connect innovators with enthusiasts and
supporters to fund new creative community projects. There will be four short
presentations on new arts-related projects, then after an interactive communal
dinner, a vote on which will receive an
on-the-spot grant. Tickets are $15.
Time: 7 to 9:30 p.m.
Location: Torpedo Factory Art Center,
105 N. Union St.
Information: www.torpedofactory.org/
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September 30
CHADWICKS BEER DINNER
Celebrate the start of fall with a visit
from Hardywood Park Craft Brewery of
Richmond, who will bring several of their
selections to be paired with food from
the Chadwicks restaurant. Tickets cost
$65 including tax and gratuity.
Time: 7 p.m.
Location: Chadwicks Restaurant, 203
Strand St.
Information: www.chadwicksrestaurant.com
October 1
IMPACT: INNOVATION AND PHILANTHROPY FORUM Hundreds
of local nonprofit, city, board, business
and community leaders will gather for
ACT for Alexandria’s tenth annual forum
for Alexandria nonprofits to share best
practices. The keynote speaker is Patty
Stonesifer, President and CEO of Martha’s Table and former CEO of the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation.
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Location: First Baptist Church, 2932
King St.
Information: 703-739-7778 or brandi.
[email protected]
CIVIL WAR WINE DINNER Start
in the museum for the first course and a
conversation with Gray Ghost Vineyards,
whose wines are created on lands
where “Gray Ghost” Confederate John S.
Mosby and his men operated during the
Civil War. Then, in the restaurant’s main
dining room, experience more wine and
food inspired by the 19th century.
Time: 7 to 10 p.m.
134 N. Royal St.
Information: www.alexandriava.gov/
gadsbystavern
“SOIL TO SOUL” BLOCK PARTY
Jackson 20 and Hotel Monaco host “Soil
to Soul”, a block party fundraiser that
benefits the Old Town Farmers’ Market
SNAP/EBT Double Dollar Program.
The evening will feature food provided
by neighboring restaurants and wine
and beer provided by local companies.
Tickets cost $35 in advance, $40 at
the door.
Time: 6 to 9 p.m.
Location: Jackson 20 courtyard at
Kimpton’s Hotel Monaco, 480 King St.
jackson20.com
ART ON TAP Seven craft beers from
six local breweries have been paired with
a work of art from an Art League instructor. Local restaurants have chosen a
brew/artwork coupling to serve as their
muse to create the perfect complementary appetizer. Guests can sample the
creative combinations in an Art on Tap
beer tasting glass and vote for their
favorite at the end of the event. Tickets
cost $45.
Time: 7 to 10:30 p.m.
Location: The Art League Gallery,
Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 N.
Union St.
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October 4
“SURVIVE THE 5” 5K RACE
A fundraiser for the ART of Driving, an
educational program for teen drivers and
their parents that emphasizes training
and parental involvement.
Time: 6 to 11 a.m.
Location: Cameron Station Great
Room, 200 Cameron Station Blvd.
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CONCERT: JENNIFER SCOTT
Mezzo-soprano and pianist Jennifer
Scott presents vintage songs from
around the world in jazz quartet.
Location: The Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St.
Information: [email protected] or www.jenniferscottpianist.
com
ART ON THE AVENUE Over 300
fine artists, artisans and craftspeople
sell their handmade items, while there
also are four music stages, a children’s
stage, other activities, a pie baking contest and food provided by local vendors.
Location: Mount Vernon Avenue between Bellefonte and Hume streets
Information: www.artontheavenue.org
FLEA MARKET FUNDRAISER
Held by the Salvation Army Alexandria
Women’s Auxiliary, various items will be
on sale with all proceeds benefiting the
Salvation Army’s work in the community.
The event will be held rain or shine.
Time: 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Location: The Salvation Army, 1804
Mount Vernon Ave.
Information: www.salvationarmynca.
org
October 5
FIRST-PERSON WORKSHOP A
four-part workshop on how to research
and develop a character, select appropriate period clothes and practice in
character. There is also the opportunity
to step on stage during Gadsby’s Tavern
Museum’s 2014 Candlelight Tour
Program. Cost is $40 for the series, $12
per class as space allows; advanced
registration is required.
Time: 2 to 4 p.m.
134 N. Royal St.
Information: 703-746-4242
or www.gadsbystavern.org
SAGWA SCHOLARSHIP BENEFIT CONCERT Suzuki Association of
the Greater Washington Area presents a
scholarship benefit concert. All proceeds
will assist students who would otherwise
be unable to afford music lessons.
Information: www.sagwa.org
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runners to more than eight miles of the
scenic George Washington Memorial
Parkway to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge.
This race benefits several nonprofit
organizations and is supported by various local and national running, civic and
business organizations. Registration to
race is $105.
Time: 7 a.m.
Location: Begins at George Washington’s Mount Vernon, 3200 George
Washington Memorial Highway.
Information: www.wilsonbridgehalf.
com
Time: Various.
Location: Beatley Central Library,
5005 Duke St.
dchs
October 6
ADULT MENTAL HEALTH FIRST
AID TRAINING (1 OF 2) The first of
two sessions in which people can learn
how to give initial help to someone showing signs of a mental illness or mental
health crisis. Registration is free with
space limited to 20 per class.
Information: 703-746-3523, donielle.
[email protected] or www.
alexandriava.gov/dchs
October 7
THROUGH THE EYES (AND
PEN) OF JULIA WILBUR As part
of Virginia Archaeology Month, Paula
Whitacre tells the story of abolitionist
Julia Wilbur through her diaries, letters,
and other writings and photos.
Time: 6 to 8 p.m.
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10/3
October 5-31
21ST ANNUAL PUMPKIN SALE
A fundraiser to benefit charities both
in Alexandria and around the world.
Pumpkins are grown on a Navajo Indian
reservation in New Mexico and then
distributed to 1,300 churches across
the country. Food and drink will also be
available for sale.
Time: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily
Location: Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill,
3606 Seminary Road
Information: jamie_conrad11@
comcast.net
October 6-9
MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS
WEEK The second mental health
awareness week to commemorate the
51st anniversary of the Community Mental Health Act. The issues discussed will
include suicide prevention, hoarding, the
causes and treatment of PTSD and how
living with a chronic illness or a physical
disability can affect mental health.
LEONARd,
COLEMAN & BLUNT
Friday at 8pm
Tickets $35
10/5
BRIAN
CHRIsTOPHER
LIVE
Sunday at 3pm
Tickets $25
for tickets
& info visit
thecarlyleclub.com
703-548-8899
411 John Carlyle St.
Alexandria, VA
Location: Morrison House Hotel, 116
S. Alfred St.
[email protected]
October 8
AID TRAINING (2 OF 2) The sec-
ond of two sessions in which people can
learn how to give initial help to someone
showing signs of a mental illness or
mental health crisis. Registration is free
with space limited to 20 per class.
LECTURE: “WHOM CAN WE
TRUST NOW?” Professor Peter Henriques will discuss George Washington’s
relationship with General Benedict Arnold, show how Washington responded
to his treason and its aftermath and
offer insights into his leadership and
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ALEXANDRIA TIMES
Let’s Eat
A special advertising feature
of the Alexandria Times
As fall beckons, Chadwicks
is the perfect place to warm up
Located moments away from
the Potomac River is Chadwicks,
found on 203 The Strand and notable for its cozy, comforting feel
as soon as you walk in. On a crisp
cool day, a roaring fire adds to the
intimate feel of the first floor, while
upstairs guests are treated to spectacular views of the waterfront.
Mondays are especially busy
at Chadwicks as their extensive
array of burgers are all half-price,
including the Black Angus, turkey
and veggie burgers. The Black Angus is a particular delight and is
served with a variety of toppings,
while the veggie burger is moist
and tasty.
The half-price burgers are just
one of the restaurant’s daily spe-
cials throughout the week. For example, lovers of mixed drinks will
find that Wednesdays are dedicated
to the popular “Special Martini
Night.”
Chadwicks also like to deviate
from their traditional burgers, with
the chef offering a different special
mix for guests to enjoy each week.
Recently, the special burger was
“Bleu Bayou,” a beef patty topped
with bleu cheese and shrimp coleslaw. Another instant hit was the
pizza burger, where the meat was
topped with pepperoni, mozzarella
and tomato sauce.
Elsewhere on the menu is a
variety of food to satisfy anyone,
including seafood, chicken dishes
and sandwiches. Their Sunday
brunch also is popular, and includes a fully customizable chef’s
omelette that can be made up of
any number of ingredients. This
fall, visitors should especially look
out for the ribs served in the chef’s
secret barbeque sauce, and the
chicken breasts served with a ham,
crab and sherry cream sauce.
Come to Chadwicks for brunch,
lunch or dinner, and find out for
yourself why it is popular with
both visitors and locals alike.
Chadwicks is open Monday to Friday 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. and
Saturday and Sunday 10:00 a.m.
to 2:00 a.m. For more information, call 703-836-4442 or visit
www.chadwicksrestaurants.com.
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character.
Time: 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
134 N. Royal St.
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UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
BAND CHAMBER SERIES A
weekly free concert by the U.S. Air Force
Band, featuring a variety of ensembles
and pieces every Thursday evening.
Time: 8 to 9.30 p.m. Thursdays
Information: www.usafband.af.mil
October 11
FAMILY DIG DAY Help city archae-
ologists and students from the George
Washington University field school
screen excavate soil from a real dig on
the grounds of the George Washington
Masonic National Memorial. Tickets cost
$5, reservations required.
Time: 1:30 to 3 p.m.
Location: Alexandria Archaeology
Museum, 105 N. Union St.
[email protected].
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APOTHECARY OPEN HOUSE In
recognition of October’s designation as
National Pharmacy Month, the StablerLeadbeater Apothecary Museum will
host an open house, where visitors are
welcome to enjoy free tours.
Location: Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum, 105-107 S. Fairfax St.
Information: www.apothecarymuseum.org
FIREFIGHTING HISTORY WALKING TOUR Explore Alexandria’s
firefighting history on the “Blazing a
Trail: Alexandria’s Firefighting History”
tour. Participants learn about volunteer
firefighting in early Alexandria, three
devastating fires and the five volunteer
fire companies.
Location: Friendship Firehouse Museum, 107 S. Alfred St.
friendshipfirehouse.net
CLASSICAL VOICE MASTER
CLASS The first annual Classical Voice
Master Class, presented by the National
Society of Arts and Letters and led by
teachers Maestro Joseph Walsh and
Tom Colohan.
Time: 2 to 9 p.m.
Information: 703-281-2505, [email protected] or www.nsalwashington.
org/masterclassvoice2014.htm
ROCK & STROLL TO END
HOMELESSNESS A 10k and 5k run
to raise awareness and funds for nonprofits serving the homeless. The race is
followed by community events featuring
musical entertainment, demonstrations,
lessons, food and children’s activities.
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Location: John Carlyle Park, 300 John
Carlyle St.
Information: www.rockandstroll.net
October 12
CONCERT: KASKIV AND
SKIDAN Enjoy a performance by Oleg
Kaskiv on violin and Oksana Skidan on
piano, with a reception to meet the artists immediately following the show.
Information: twgculturalfund@gmail.
com
Let’s Eat
October 14
AID TRAINING (1 OF 2) The first of
two sessions in which people can learn
how to give initial help to someone showing signs of a mental illness or mental
health crisis. Registration is free, with
space limited to 20 per class.
LECTURE: “I AM NOT AFRAID”
Professor Peter Henriques argues that
there is a third and final farewell address given by George Washington. He
will examine what this is and focus on
Washington’s death.
Time: 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
134 N. Royal St.
Information: www.gadsbystavern.org
October 16-19
FALL BOOK SALE Held by the
Friends of the Beatley Central Library,
hardbacks, paperbacks, kids’ books,
and audio-visual items of all genres will
be available for purchase for $3 or less,
unless specifically marked.
Time: Members’ preview 4 to 8:30 p.m.
Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday,
10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, 1 to 4:30
p.m. Sunday.
Location: Charles E. Beatley Central
Library, 5005 Duke St.
alexandria.lib.va.us
October 16
AID TRAINING (2 OF 2) The sec-
ond of two sessions in which people can
learn how to give initial help to someone
showing signs of a mental illness or
mental health crisis. Registration is free,
with space limited to 20 per class.
703-739-0001.
2014 NATIONAL TRADEMARK
EXPO Exhibitors showcase their
federally registered trademarks through
educational exhibits including themed
displays, costumed characters and
booths. There will be children’s activities
and workshops as well.
Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Saturday
Location: U.S. Patent and Trademark
Office, 600 Dulany St.
Information: 703-622-8462 or maria.
[email protected]
October 18
AMERICANS IN PARIS In
Words&Music’s opening concert of the
2014-15 season, follow the group’s
musical visit with Americans studying,
living and composing in France during
the years following World War I.
Time: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Information: www.words-music.org
October 19
ALEXANDRIA FAMILY FALL
FESTIVAL A family event with activities
and entertainment, such as scarecrow making, puppet shows, musical
performances, pony rides, face painting,
exhibitors and food sales. Some activities require tickets.
Location: Armistead L. Boothe Park,
520 Cameron Station Blvd.
Information: 703-746-5592
JAVA JOLT & BOOK SIGNING John Sprinkle, chairman of the
Alexandria Historical Restoration and
Preservation Commission, presents on
the “prehistory” of the National Register
of Historic Places, with a special focus
on the evolution of the concept of
archaeological significance.
Time: 10 a.m. to noon
Location: Alexandria Archaeology
Museum, 105 N. Union St.
F-SQUARED An afternoon of work-
shops on fashion design, photography,
Carryout Items
Sit in or carry out
your wings
restaurant in
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make up, styling, jewelry design, cake
decorating and the art of cooking.
The day will finish with a fashion show
presented by the Alexandria Summer
Power-Up program.
Time: Noon to 4 p.m.
Location: Lee Center, 1108 Jefferson
St.
Information: 703-746-5457 or lindsay.
[email protected]
MAD SCIENCE! Explore where real
science and mad science collide. Tours
start every 30 minutes and feature historic medicines with surprising side effects. Upstairs, the museum’s very own
mad scientist brings to life some crazy
concoctions and the science behind
them. Reservations recommended.
Location: Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum, 105-107 S. Fairfax St.
Information: www.shop.alexandriava.
gov/Events.aspx
CHAMBER ENSEMBLE MASTERCLASS A masterclass led by the
Ensemble da Camera of Washington, as
American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras musicians perform with instruction
by Claire Eichhorn (clarinet), Anna Balakerskaia (piano), and Ricardo Cyncynates
(violin/viola).
Time: 3 to 5 p.m.
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Charles Severance (above)
is accused of murdering
three Alexandria residents
between 2003 and earlier this year. Just weeks
after a grand jury indicted
Severance, the Virginia
Supreme Court has appointed a judge to preside
over the case.
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The Virginia Supreme
Court has appointed a Fairfax
County judge with experience
in high-profile trials to preside
over the case against Charles
Severance.
Severance, 54, is accused of
murder in the brazen killings
of three Alexandrians: Nancy
Dunning in 2003, Ronald Kirby in 2013 and Ruthanne Lodato in February.
All of the judges in Alexandria Circuit Court had recused
themselves because of their relationship with Lodato’s brother, retired Alexandria District
Court Judge Eugene Giammitorio. The state Supreme Court
appointed Fairfax County Circuit Court Judge Jane Marum
Roush to oversee the case.
Roush is no stranger to
high-profile cases. In 2003, she
served as the judge in the trial
against John Lee Malvo, one of
the so-called D.C. snipers who
terrorized the region more than
a decade ago.
And last year, she became
the first Fairfax County judge
in more than 20 years to allow
cameras into her courtroom for
the trial of Julio Blanco Garcia,
who was convicted of murdering 19-year-old college student
Vanessa Pham.
A scheduling hearing in the
case has been delayed to October 23.
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By Richard Roeper
In “A Walk Among the
Tombstones,” Liam Neeson
gets on the telephone and has a
deliberate and quietly intense
conversation with a bad man
who has kidnapped a young
girl, but this is a very different kind of thriller than the
borderline cartoonish “Taken”
movies.
That said, if you’re ever
doing anything illegal and you
make a phone call and find
yourself talking to Liam Neeson, hang up the phone, blow
it to smithereens, change your
name and move far away.
In Scott Frank’s stylish
and smart thriller, which is
set mostly in 1999 (there’s a
lot of concern about the coming Y2K crisis), Neeson plays
Matthew Scudder, an alcoholic former detective for the
NYPD now working as an
unlicensed private investigator. (“Tombstones” is based
on one of more than a dozen
Matthew Scudder novels by
Lawrence Block. In 1986, Jeff
Bridges played Scudder in Hal
Ashby’s uneven “8 Million
Ways to Die.”)
Scudder is haunted by a
1991 shooting, the full circumstances of which we don’t learn
until very late in the film. Living alone in a small apartment
in a rundown building and regularly attending AA meetings,
Scudder is just scraping by,
trying to stay sober and trying
to forget the past.
Writer-director Frank gives
us brief, stunning glimpses of
the bloody deeds committed
by two psychopaths targeting
the loved ones of drug dealers — kidnapping their wives
or girlfriends, knowing these
guys won’t go to the police.
Frank, who directed one of the
best lesser-seen movies of the
2000s in the Joseph GordonLevitt vehicle “The Lookout”
(2007), is masterful at building the tension, letting us get
to know the characters and
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Dan Stevens, also on
screen currently as a mysterious American visitor in “The
Guest,” and once again nearly
unrecognizable from his days
playing Matthew Crawley on
“Downton Abbey,” is a drug
trafficker who hires Scudder
to track down the men who
kidnapped his wife. Scudder
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goes about his investigation
This Pulitzer-Prize winning American masterpiece
the old-fashioned way: returnby Tennessee Williams will transport you to hot,
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steamy New Orleans, just after World War II.
questioning witnesses, inAn electrifying battle of wills ignites between
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Southern belle and fading beauty Blanche DuBois
might have been involved in
and her working class brother-in-law, Stanley
previous kidnappings.
Kowalski. Friction continues to escalate when
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At Home
Tried and true painting
techniques never go out of style
by Mary G. Pepitone
Old World painting techniques can lead to a stroke of
sophistication in modern-day
homes.
Jennifer Bertrand, artist
and winner of season three of
HGTV Design Star is spreading the ancient ways of plastering and painting walls into
21st-century homes.
“When we talk about painting techniques on walls, many
wrongly think of the 1990s,
when people were applying
paints and glazes using sponges, rags and plastic bags,” says
the Olathe, Kan., based designer. “I grew up in Europe,
and fine decorative painting
techniques that never go out
of style can transform twodimensional walls into threedimensional surfaces, which
bring a room to life.”
Gold-leafing and fresco
painting (mixing color pig-
ments into wet plaster) are
techniques Bertrand used in a
new construction home built
to bring the Old World feel of
a Tuscan villa to the Midwest.
The Tuscan-style farmhouse with a richly layered,
casual appeal is especially
prevalent in the kitchen. Fine
painting techniques radiate
from the heart of the home
onto plastered walls in satuSEE painting | 19
Photo/David Bram
A plaster piece de resistance located on the curvilinear wall in the
dining room of a Tuscan-style villa features Jennifer Bertrand’s handpainted map of Italy modeled after painted images in the Gallery of
Maps room in the Vatican Museum. While the sandstone-colored plaster was still wet, Bertrand added green and blue pigments to colorblock the land and sea.
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rated earth tones.
Plaster starts as a dry powder and is a mixture of natural ingredients — most commonly clay, lime or gypsum
— that when mixed with water
becomes a paste, which can be
applied to an existing wall in
layers. Natural pigments can
be added into the plaster mixture, which makes the color
permanent and part of the
wall.
The home’s plaster piece
de resistance is located on the
curvilinear wall in the dining room. Bertrand’s handpainted map of Italy is modeled after painted images in
the Gallery of Maps room in
the Vatican Museum. While
the sandstone-colored plaster
was still wet, Bertrand added
green and blue pigments to
color-block the land and sea.
Personal touches were added
with acrylic paints and dazzling detailed gold-leaf work.
It is befitting that Venetian
plaster covers many of the
walls in this Tuscan-inspired
home, since it was the Italians — most notably those
from Venice — who elevated
plastering techniques to an art
form. Venetian plaster is extremely strong and durable,
with added color pigments
that become part of the wall
as it dries. The wet plaster —
mostly comprised of lime —
reacts with the carbon dioxide
in the air, which turns it back
to stone as it dries.
The home’s music room
really sings with inspiration
from the Palazzo Davanzati in
Florence, Italy, with trompel’oeil depictions of lemon
trees in each corner. French
for “deceive the eye,” trompel’oeil is a painting technique
that seeks to create realistic
imagery.
Without painting herself
into a corner with wall-to-wall
projects, Bertrand and her husband, Chris, also decoratively
distressed and painted cabinets for finer touches. A new
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Design is looking up with the painting and gold-leaf detailing on the
ceiling of a powder bathroom in a Tuscan-style villa.
peal in a Mediterranean tile
motif with a painted patina.
“While there is an artisan
skill set needed to decoratively paint in a home, you don’t
have to necessarily go big and
bold,” Bertrand says. “A limewash or whitewash on walls
can bring a coastal calm into
your home that has an underlying tone of luxe and more
contemporary appeal.”
As a homeowner, one of
the most difficult tasks may
be painting a picture of your
decorative vision to an artist,
says Sheryl Born, spokeswoman for the Society of
Decorative Painters, based in
Wichita, Kansas. Since the society’s inception in the 1970s,
it now has 11,000 decoratively
painting members all over the
world.
Born says one of the first
steps can be to find an artist
with your same sensibilities
at a local chapter of the Society of Decorative Painters.
“Ask for references, see examples of an artist’s work and
— because every artist works
differently — put together a
budget and ask for an estimate
in writing,” Born says. “Nov-
The home’s
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Palazzo Davanzati
in Florence, Italy,
with trompe-l’oeil
depictions of lemon
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ices can even take decorative
painting classes and try their
hand at expressing themselves
in their home.”
Bertrand warns homeowners against painting a rosy picture on how easy decorative
painting can be. “I love when
homeowners are vested and
want to do things themselves,
but — especially if it’s a DIY
project — start small with a
cabinet or piece of furniture,”
she says. “Don’t be afraid to
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Our View
It’s time for resident-only parking
around the Carr hotel
Waterfront redevelopment is about to start, whether Old
Town residents are ready or not. Work on the 120-room Carr
City Centers hotel at the foot of Duke Street will begin this fall,
which means both short- and long-term disruptions are headed
your way.
Representatives of Carr City Centers will meet with residents
next week to discuss potential disruptions and their construction
concerns. Topics that either Carr or those who live in the area
have identified include:
ALEXANDRIA TIMES
Opinion
“Where the press is free and every man is able to read, all is safe.”
- Thomas Jefferson
• The hours during which construction will take place.
• Acceptable noise levels.
•Mitigating potential damage to surrounding buildings and
homes from pile driving.
•The handling of hazardous materials, particularly asbestos
and contaminated soil.
• Traffic disruptions.
• The effect of heavy vehicles on Old Town streets.
We commend Carr for recognizing the need to discuss these
concerns with neighbors. Hopefully, all issues can be resolved
amicably, as a construction project of this size in the middle of a
historic, residential neighborhood is likely to be more disruptive
than most.
The longer-term implications from this project are more troubling, and they are the responsibility of the City of Alexandria,
not Carr. Chief among them are the parking implications for residents closest to the project and traffic management in lower Old
Town.
The size of this project triggered a requirement for a transportation management plan for the surrounding area. Carr complied
and produced a study, which — no one should be surprised to
learn — concluded the project would have a minimal impact on
nearby traffic. Perhaps that’s right, though it certainly seems like
a conflict of interest to have a developer fund surely a study on
its own project.
Adding any more cars to the already busy Duke Street at 5
p.m. is going to make a bad situation worse.
The potential parking impact on surrounding streets is even
more worrisome. The City of Alexandria still refuses to address,
or even acknowledge, the effect that this hotel will have on parking for nearby Old Town residents.
This 120-room hotel, which also has a 24-seat meeting room
and a 120-seat approved indoor/outdoor restaurant, received a
reduction of its on-site parking requirement to only 69 spaces.
The plan is for valet workers to park overflow cars off-street
in other Old Town parking garages. The reality is restaurant patrons in particular will park on nearby residential streets.
Our city depends on Old Town residents to pay steep taxes on
their historic properties — taxes that help fund all of the city’s
employees and services. They also expect these homeowners to
keep their historic properties in good condition, as these very
homes help fuel the city’s vital tourism business.
City officials need to reciprocate by addressing the very real
parking problem in the most viable way: making a several-block
radius around the hotel resident-only parking. To do less would
be to kick the proverbial golden goose after taking its egg.
Your Views
People will stop cruising for parking
when it becomes too expensive
To the editor:
Please accept this footnote
to my previous letter “We can
do a better job of encouraging
walking and cycling in Old
Town” (August 21).
The correlation between
drivers cruising for cheap or
free parking is well established in research. In the book
by Donald Shoup, professor
of urban planning at the University of California, “The
High Cost of Free Parking,”
data presented on page 337
shows that the availability of
cheap or free parking significantly increases the number
of people cruising for cheap
parking, the duration and distance of cruising and parking
duration.
Besides metering all parking near the commercial areas, Old Town also needs
to provide clear, real-time
signage for off-street parking and their vacancy status.
People driving into Old Town
will take advantage of parking garages or lots much more
quickly if on-street parking is
priced higher than off-street
parking.
It is clear that an increased
number of drivers cruising for
free parking raises the risk of
accidents with pedestrians,
bicyclists, joggers and other
vehicles, and that waterfront
redevelopment plus development at National Harbor will
increase the number of visitors
to Old Town. Cyclists who fail
to stop at stop signs when others are present also will exacerbate the safety risks.
It would be prudent for the
city to respond to current research on cheap parking and
problematic cruising.
- Chris Hubbard
Alexandria
Letter decrying ‘cycling anarchy’ only
served to promote harmful stereotypes
To the editor:
I am writing in response to the letter, “We
must stop the ‘cycling
anarchy’” that appeared
in the Alexandria Times
on August 7. The author
decries the “anarchy” of
bicyclists, complaining
about their “level of disregard” for the law while
fretting over pedestrians
that were almost hit by
bicycles. While I agree
that better behavior is
needed on all sides, my
immediate concern is that
the Times is promoting an
offensive stereotype by
publishing this letter.
The idea that cyclists
are somehow less lawabiding than others on
our roads is a stereotype
that has no basis in fact.
Studies show that people
who ride actually react to
the “danger” of cycling
(another myth) by being
The idea that cyclists are
somehow less law-abiding than
others on our roads is a stereotype that
has no basis in fact.”
more cautious rather than
reckless. For example,
a years-long study of
alcohol-related crashes
showed that non-cyclists
were twice as likely to be
drunk as cyclists in carbicycle or cyclist-pedestrian collisions.
Sadly, this stereotype
is so pervasive that even
many cyclists believe it.
Nevertheless, when it is
repeated by the media or
by our elected leaders,
this shameful stereotyping reflects badly on us
all.
My second concern is
that the author seems to
have missed the point of
the letter. Action is needed, but none is suggested.
Universal
bicycling
education is clearly required for both cyclists
and
drivers.
Parents
teaching bicycling to their
children routinely use a
vacant parking lot beneath the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Jones Point
Park. This lot should be
re-painted as a small-scale
streetscape to provide a
fun outdoor traffic classroom for families and for
our elementary schools.
SEE cycling | 22
Withhold taxpayer-funded bicycle
facilities until cyclists obey traffic laws
To the editor:
Why is the city looking at adding bike lanes
to Prince and Cameron
streets? City officials earlier this year announced
that bikes could ride on
the sidewalk. They also
removed on-street parking
spaces along King Street
to create bike lanes against
residents’ wishes.
How about seeking
ways to reduce real estate
taxes?
Given that Alexandria
has been in a tight fiscal environment for the
last six years (not enough
money to buy fire equip-
ment and increase the salaries of public employees,
for example), it is impractical to allocate dollars to
conduct studies and public
hearings about whether or
not we need to add bike
lanes to Prince and Cameron streets. If this initiative
is intended to slow traffic
there, then use our existing
resources — the police —
to organize speed traps.
I can guarantee that,
with or without bike lanes,
cyclists will continue to
plow through stop signs
and traffic lights just as
they now do. Please, ticket
them.
Last weekend, at various times, I drove along
Union Street between
Cameron
and
Prince
streets. Of the 30 or so cyclists I observed at those
three intersections, none
obeyed the stop signs.
Until cyclists, who recently have been rewarded
with a variety of bikefriendly initiatives, show
respect for traffic laws,
I strongly advise that no
further bike-focused policies (or studies about bike
lanes) be pursued.
- Kimberley Moore
Alexandria
The Business Plan
with Bill Reagan
Celebrating Alexandria’s littleknown manufacturing sector
Manufacturing Day (using the tol, legislative office buildings and
hashtag #mfgday on Twitter) will the White House.
be celebrated across the country The M.E. Swing Co. was lonext week. October 3 is a day for cated in the District for almost
highlighting the importance of 100 years and, in 2013, moved its
manufacturing to the economy, roasting operation to Del Ray. The
showcasing the diversity of mod- company focuses on providing
ern manufacturing technology high-quality and ethically sourced
and promoting the rewarding and coffee with a commitment to customer satisfaction.
skilled jobs in the field.
Vie de France, an
Manufacturing
ininternationally known
cludes much more than
bakery and supplier of
the heavy industry that
French and European
immediately might come
pastries, employs 150
to mind when you hear
people in Alexandria
the word. It includes all
and works around the
types of fabricators who
clock baking and ascreate new products, inBill Reagan
sembling
croissants.
dustries like woodworking, doll making, soap and cos- The facility provides all of the
metic manufacturing, as well as croissants sold by the company
from Denver to the East Coast.
jewelry design and production.
We don’t often think of Al- The National Capital Flag Co.,
exandria as a hub for that kind founded in Alexandria in 1962, is
of industry. However, the city one of the largest flag manufacturhas a rich manufacturing history, ers in the country. Customers infrom unglamorous pork render- clude U.S. government agencies,
ing along the waterfront to spark all branches of the U.S. military
plug production along Washington and other commercial entities.
The flags are made, embroidered
Street.
Today, manufacturing in Alex- and appliqued on site.
andria encompasses a broad range Mom Made Foods is headof services, including commer- quartered in Alexandria and
cial printers, bakers, chocolatiers makes low-sodium, preservativeand sign makers. Are you curious free frozen foods, prepared meals
about modern day manufacturing and handheld snacks for children
in Alexandria? Here are a few suc- and families. Mom Made Foods
cess stories that illustrate Alexan- products are carried in the freezer
aisles of more than 3,000 stores,
dria’s industrial diversity:
The Port City Brewing Co. including Giant, Target and Whole
is an award-winning craft brew- Foods.
ery that celebrates Alexandria’s With such a diverse and signiftradition of brewing beer for the icant manufacturing presence in
region. Established in 2011, the Alexandria, it is clear that this incompany distributes its products dustry is a vital piece of our city’s
to Virginia, D.C., Maryland, New economic fabric. Join us as we
celebrate both Alexandria’s manuYork and North Carolina.
House of Doors was founded facturers and other manufacturers
in the early 1970s and now is led across the country on October 3.
by a second-generation owner.
Within their 10,000-square-foot
The writer is the director
manufacturing facility in Alexandria, the company has built cus- of the Alexandria Small Business
Develpment Center.
tomized doors for the U.S. Capi-
22 | september 25, 2014
ALEXANDRIA TIMES
Inequality is not limited to Ferguson
To the editor:
My fellow Alexandrians,
over the last few weeks the
country has had its eye on
Ferguson, Mo., as a result
of the shooting death of Michael Brown. The Alexandria
NAACP offers our sincerest
condolences to Brown’s family and friends. They have
lost a young man to gun violence, and we are praying for
justice to prevail. As protests
continue across the country,
we must remember that everyone deserves to be treated
with dignity and respect.
Brown’s shooting death
adds to a pattern of events in
which law enforcement officers employ deadly force
as a solution when interacting with African-American
males.
African-American
communities have learned
throughout history that the
value on black life in America is miniscule. Take a few
moments to remember how
the lives of Oscar Grant,
Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin and John Crawford III
— amongst others — were
taken.
America’s failure to address racial disparities in
the criminal justice system,
deficits in the educational
system, high unemployment
rates in minority communities, gentrification in cities
across the country and disenfranchisement in the political
arena has created a climate
of poverty, despair, pain, fear
and anger amongst the quickly eroding middle class. This
is especially true for AfricanAmerican men.
We see these national issues play out in our community. In recent years, law
enforcement officers in Alexandria shot two AfricanAmerican males. While
vigils and rallies remained
peaceful, there was fear that
the officers would not be arrested because of the historical mishandling of justice in
regards to African-American
men in Virginia and across
America.
The percentage of incarcerated
African-American
men in Virginia is higher
than the ratio of AfricanAmericans in the state overall. The vast majority of new
criminal and/or minor traffic
offenses filed in the General
District Court of the City of
Alexandria are attributed to
African-Americans. Yet it is
not statistically possible that,
in a city with the racial makeup of Alexandria (which is 22
percent African-American),
the vast majority of those
offenses are committed by
African-Americans.
Alexandria has done a
better job than Ferguson in
hiring minorities in the police department and City Hall
as well as electing them to
political office. Still, that has
not abated the level of mistrust people of color have of
government officials and politicians who have, in some
cases, overtly pushed personal and professional agendas over the dire needs of
certain segments of the community. Many of those African-Americans remaining
here are vulnerable, disenfranchised and disconnected
from the greater community
Alexandria is systematically
building and serving in the
name of higher tax revenue.
Within Alexandria City
Public Schools, although the
facilities themselves are not
separate, the practices of the
schools in educating students
are definitely unequal. All
students should be afforded
the same level of service regardless of their ethnicity,
home dynamics or creed. Yet
we find district officials hiring teachers who are not involved in the community or
are not from Alexandria and
therefore don’t understand
the historical intricacies of
the school system and the
community they serve.
We need look no further
than the achievement gap
between minority students
and whites in the school district. There is a vast disparity between how well minority students perform and the
achievement of their Caucasian counterparts. Additionally, African-American male
students within the district
are suspended at a disproportionate rate to their peers.
While Alexandria is not
Ferguson, the systemic challenges African-Americans
face are parallel. It is imperative that residents of all
racial backgrounds and socioeconomic statuses work
collectively to address overt
disparities. The development
of Alexandria is happening
at an alarming pace, yet the
unemployment rate for African-American males is in the
double digits. As Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat
to justice everywhere.”
We suggest having a town
hall meeting with the youth
of Alexandria regarding the
major issues affecting their
community.
There must be a continuous dialogue with young people in order to consistently
address those issues that confront them. Each of us must
take ownership of communal shortcomings in order to
address the suffering in our
neighborhoods.
The streets of Alexandria
are calm during this national
outrage, but should we turn a
blind eye to the overt issues
affecting the outrage of those
in Missouri, we very well
could find ourselves battling
a crisis right here in Alexandria.
- LaDonna J. Sanders
President, Alexandria
NAACP
Academic success is attainable
at Jefferson-Houston School
To the editor:
To the community’s delight, Alexandria City Public
Schools has announced a new
principal for Jefferson-Houston School. Christopher Phillips comes to Alexandria from
Suffolk Public Schools, and
his credentials and achievements seem impressive.
In response to Jennifer
Topping — whose letter
about the school appeared
in a recent edition of the Alexandria Times (“Let’s keep
our fingers crossed for the
new
Jefferson-Houston,”
August 28) — and in fairness
to the incoming principal,
might I correct the record?
Her letter referred to the
“past 10 to 11 years of failing
to meet testing benchmarks.”
However, that’s not quite accurate.
Based on tests administered in the spring of 2008,
Jefferson-Houston was fully
accredited by the state for
the 2008-09 academic year
with no warnings in any
academic areas. This was no
fluke: data for the years leading up to 2008-09 shows that
the school steadily improved
every year until earning accreditation.
The school’s accreditation status in 2008-09 is
confirmed in state Board
of Education public documents as well as an August
29, 2008 email from former Superintendent Morton
Sherman to the JeffersonHouston community. In that
message, the then freshlyappointed superintendent expressed pleasure not only at
Jefferson-Houston’s recent
accreditation by the state but
also because the school met
benchmarks under the federal No Child Left Behind
Act. The letter can be found
online at http://tinyurl.com/
k32syms.
The record shows that accreditation was achievable at
Jefferson-Houston just a few
short years ago. The community looks forward to Phillips proving that academic
success can be attained there
once again.
cycling
country because leaders in
those communities know
that such facilities attract
workers, improve transit, increase property values, slow
down cars and improve the
quality of life. Bicycle and
pedestrian
improvements
also are extremely cost-effective.
The time has come for
more action and fewer
words, especially when
those words are offensive to
us all.
FROM | 21
Our roads clearly need
to be redesigned to reduce
car-bicycle conflicts. Design
concepts for the Royal Street
Greenway, for example,
should be rendered as soon
as possible to support an informed public discussion of
the options. As it stands, too
much bicycle traffic is routed
onto Union Street, which is
why the waterfront commission recommended the development of alternative routes.
Improved bicycle and
pedestrian networks are being built in cities across the
- Leslie Zupan
Alexandria
- Jonathan Krall
Alexandria
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of salary system,”
September 18:
A tailored piece of property
on South Royal Street
Denise Dunbar
Publisher
[email protected]
A
t the turn of the 19th century the
property at 113 S. Royal St. was
home to John Longden, a tailor who operated his business in the 600
block of King Street, next to the Republican Coffee House.
Longden owned several other houses
along South Royal Street and around
1802 he sold the land and wooden house
to Presley Jacobs, a young tailor who
may have been his apprentice. Soon after,
Jacobs constructed a small brick building
immediately to the rear of the house that
he used as a tailoring studio.
With his popularity growing rapidly
by 1815, Jacobs relocated the business
around the corner to King Street, next to
Dr. Litle’s Apothecary Shop. However,
he continued living at 113 S. Royal St.
until his death in the early 1850s.
Richard Y. Cross acquired the property in 1856, but died four years later.
The advent of the Civil War in May 1861
delayed the settlement of his estate and
Union soldiers used the property as a tenement during the four years of Alexandria’s occupation.
In 1868, a handsome three-story brick
residence, seen in this 1968 photograph,
replaced the wood-frame tenement that
had deteriorated during the war. Local
contractor James Mills built the structure
on the front portion of the property, and
incorporated the small brick building at
the rear as a wing.
The residence — with a shop below
— was built for Gilbert Miner and his
wife, Virginia. It is believed that Miner
Retired and Saddened writes:
The task force City Manager Rashad
Young mentions is the same old stalling tactic the city has used for years.
Nothing ever gets done and they get
the same lip service from whatever
mayor is in office. The … residents
will get what [the city] pays for I’m
afraid.
Steve writes:
The city council will again ask for a
study to be done with a comparison
of starting salaries with neighboring
jurisdictions. City Manager Rashad
Young will again stall while completing the study and again nothing will
get done. However, the problem has
gotten so bad and the police are so
fed up that [residents] will notice a
drastic change in police service and
the crime rate.
Stop throwing millions at free trolleys, waterfront parking lots, bus/bike
lanes and make community safety
a priority. This department and [our
residents] deserve it.
photo/City of Alexandria
was ill at the time of construction and
making plans for his wife’s survivorship.
The real estate transaction was complicated and executed by a legal agent, John
Van Riswick, of Washington, D.C.
Gilbert Miner died in 1870, shortly
after Riswick sorted out the mess. The
carefully worded deed specified that Virginia Miner was to have the same legal
rights to the property, free of the debts
and control of her husband, as a “femme
sole.”
Although Virginia Miner’s new home
was of modest architectural merit, its construction in Alexandria after the devastation of four years of war and a period of
prolonged economic stagnation mirrored
the uncertain times facing residents.
Sadly, the building was yet another
victim of Alexandria’s 1960s downtown
urban renewal project and was demolished 100 years after it was built.
Out of the Attic is provided
by the Office of Historic Alexandria.
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ACROSS
1 Act the poseur
7 Appendix items
14 Talks impudently to
20 Banished people
21 Loop in one’s pocket
22 Straighten, as a hose
23 Asian peninsula
24 It was spoken in Iran
25 The “E” in E = mc2
26 Drama unit
27 Have an evening meal
29 Stack-blowing feeling
30 Concerning base eight
32 Not this
34 Curved paths
36 Aspirin allotments
38 Old exclamation
42 Promissory-note receiver
44 Fruit packaging unit
45 Show remorse
46 Tight-fisted folk
49 Emergency situation
50 Column choice
51 Sold over the counter?
52 Bulgarian, Czech or Serbian
53Industry with projected
revenue?
54 Came down in buckets
55 Prepares for a crash
56 Time for work or school
57Suffix in many internet
addresses
58 Third little pig’s material
59 Music-concert locale
60 Like some old basements
62 Chamomile drink
63 This puzzle’s theme word
65 Gallery showing
66 Mouths, slangily
70 Wee, as hours
72 Stir from sleep
74 Sound from 46-Across
75 Short theatrical offering
78 Lacking fairness
80 Adore
83Decorative flap on a
garment
84 Emulate Amelia Earhart
85 Went very fast (var.)
86 Baseball scoreboard item
87 Rifle part
88 Homes for the homeless
89 Graze cattle for a fee
90 Taken ___ (surprised)
91 Boilermaker part
92 Reuben server
93 Within walking distance
94 1.3-ounce Asian weight
95 Put in long hours
98 Floor layer, at times
100 Start of a Tolstoy title
101 It makes soap strong
103 Wash the floor
105 Skiing type
108 Wiped out
112 Giraffe cousins
114 Wave from the shore
115 Certain prison guard
116 Folded-back garment part
117They have 88 things apt for
this puzzle
118 Pain reliever
119 Shoelace opening
DOWN
1 Speaker’s platform
2 Dead-on
3 Crud
4 Chicken ___ king
5 Clicker’s alternative
6 Biblical birthright seller
7 Alias, briefly
8 Mechanical gizmo
9 Some garment workers
10 Language of Ireland
11 Start for “wit”
12 It could prove paternity
13 Doubter of the divine
14 Cooking fats
15“Black Beauty” author
Sewell
16 It can open many doors
17
18
19
28
31
33
35
36
37
39
40
41
43
44
45
Officer’s honorific
Univ. major of many writers
Wild blue yonder
Handled roughly
Fair grades
Enhance with decorations
High-___ graphics
What drinkers shouldn’t do
Refuge in the desert
Pierced in the bullring
Jungian “self”
Dental woe
Matured, as wine
Jim-dandy
Ta-ta, in France
Last Week’s
Solution:
46 Fish on a menu
47 Bow of old movies
48 King’s time
49 Castanets sound
52 ___ Lanka
53 Lincoln portrait site
55 Donkey noise
56 “As you ___”
58A loser may have to tighten
it
59 Almost infinite
61 Advantageous place
62 Waste allowance of old
64 Adolescent
67 Stay a while
68 Peel-removing gadget
69 Backyard buildings
71 On the lookout
73 Insert in the game
75Appeal
76 Like a philanthropist’s heart
77 Fourth month
78 Colorful parts of the eyes
79Your sister’s daughter,
to you
80 Chimps and such
81It could lead to a reduced
sentence
82 Paris subway system
84 Botanical gardens
85 “We ___ Overcome”
87 Block found on a farm
88 Feminine subject
91 Round the bend too fast
93 C, F and G
94 Tastelessly showy
96 Force into motion
97 France’s longest river
99 Data, briefly
100 Fairy godmother’s gadget
102 “... golden days of ___”
104 “Check this out!”
105 Cleopatra’s cobra
106 Hawaiian gift
107 Pod dweller
109 Partner of “games”
110 To and ___
111 Stuff for 9-Down
113 Blvd. crosser
tombstones
FROM | 17
the New York of “A Walk Among
the Tombstones” is a bleak, gray,
litter-strewn place, where it always seems to be raining or about
to rain. It’s solid noir stuff —
though the references get a little
heavy-handed when a homeless
street kid named T.J. starts talking
about Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe.
About that kid. Brian “Astro”
Bradley plays T.J., who has sickle
cell anemia, likes to draw comic
book characters, hangs out at the
library and becomes a partner of
sorts to Scudder. The T.J. subplot
is the least interesting and least
subtle aspect of “A Walk Among
the Tombstones.” About the third
time T.J. says to Scudder or Scudder says to T.J., “Don’t feel sorry
for me,” and the other one says, “I
don’t,” it feels more like a Lifetime movie about a broken cop
who finds redemption by becoming a father figure for a tough but
tenderhearted kid from the streets,
than the gritty thriller we’d like to
rejoin.
Once the villains played by
David Harbour and Adam David Thompson emerge from
their shadowy early appearances,
they’re sickos, sure enough, but
they’re not any more menacing
than the knife-wielding rapists/
kidnappers/killers of dozens of
other films. What makes the final
act of “A Walk Among the Tombstones” so compelling is Frank’s
bold and effective technique of
placing a very familiar creed in
voice-over as the bullets fly and
the blood spills.
Neeson is in nearly every
scene in the movie, and he carries it well. Yes, he’s played this
nails-tough, world-weary, Scotchloving, ex-law enforcement type
again and again — but he’s as
good as anyone in the world at
playing them, and in this case, he
has some rich material to work
with. Scudder spends a lot more
time puzzling out the investigation and working out his demons
than he does drawing his gun or
clenching his fists.
And that makes him all the
more interesting.
Obituaries
MARJORIE E. BEATLEY,
of Alexandria, September 17,
2014
VINCENT FRANCIS
CALLAHAN JR. (82), of
Alexandria, September 20,
2014
KATHRYN ANNETE CASH
(57), formerly of Alexandria,
September 16, 2014
ROY A. CHANDLER JR., of
Alexandria, September 8, 2014
LEONORA COLASANTO
EBHARDT, of Alexandria,
September 21, 2014
DAVID M. HAMMELL, of
2014
FRANCES MAYS, of
2014
BRENDAN B. MCKAY,
formerly of Alexandria,
September 8, 2014
ERNESTINE B. “TINA”
MILLER-SIMMONS, of
Alexandria, August 14, 2014
Business Directory
Davis Munson Hammell
Davis Munson Hammell died suddenly of natural causes on September 18.
Davis was born in Washington DC and grew up in
Alexandria. He attended
Grace Episcopal School, St
Anselm’s Abbey School, the
Episcopal High School and
Yale University. He played
football and track and field
for Episcopal and played
varsity football for Yale
when they beat Harvard in
2007. Davis was known not
only for being a tough football player, but for his sense
of humor and his remarkable
intelligence, kindness and
love for animals. He loved
science, philosophy and
books. He was a dear friend
to many and a superb Scrabble player.
His father, Robert Palmer
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ALEXANDRIA PLANNING COMMISSION & CITY COUNCIL
OCTOBER - 2014
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 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 703-746-4666 or visit www.alexandriava.gov/planning.
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Mr. and Mrs. Hendrik
Browne of Alexandria,
Virginia, are pleased to
announce the engagement
of their daughter Polly
Bode to Benjamin Charles
Bainbridge, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Peter Bainbridge of
Hampshire County, England. The future bride,
a 7th generation Alexandrian, is a graduate of St.
Stephen’s and St. Agnes
School and the University
of Richmond and currently
works as Manager of Sales
for Google London. The
future groom is a graduate
of Exeter University and
holds an Executive MBA
from the Cass Institute,
University of London. He
currently works as Head
of Planning and Analysis for Pret A Manger. An
early December wedding is
planned at Fulham Palace,
London.
Development Special Use Permit
#2014‑0002
5651 Rayburn Avenue ‑ John Adams
Elementary Parking Lot Expansion
Public hearing and consideration of a
request for a development special use
permit and site plan, with a modification,
to expand an existing parking lot with
parking spaces in excess of the zoning
ordinance requirement for a school; zoned
R‑12/Residential (Alexandria West Small
Area Plan). Applicant: Alexandria City
Public Schools represented by Kevin Van
Hise, attorney
[This item was deferred at the June 3,
2014 and September 4, 2014 Planning
Commission public hearings.]
Special Use Permit #2014‑0033
2216 and 2218 Mount Vernon Avenue ‑
Del Ray Pizzeria
request for an amendment to a previously approved Special Use Permit (SUP
#2011‑0087) to construct a second story
balcony and to allow off‑premises alcohol
sales; zoned CL/Commercial Low and
Mount Vernon Avenue Urban Overlay.
Applicant: Del Ray Pizzeria LLC represented by Duncan Blair, attorney
[This item was deferred at the June 3, 2014
Planning Commission public hearing.]
WHO CARES?
WE DO.
Public Art Policy
Public hearing and recommendation of the
Public Art Policy included as part of the
Public Art Plan.
Staff: City of Alexandria ‑ Department of
Recreation, Parks, and Cultural Activities
Email comments,
rants & raves to
[email protected].
Text Amendment #2014‑0006
Public hearing and consideration of a Text
Amendment to make technical corrections
to the language in various sections of the
Zoning Ordinance. Staff: City of Alexandria ‑ Department of Planning & Zoning
519 and 521 East Howell Avenue
request to operate a restaurant; zoned CSL/
Commercial Service Low. Applicant:
EMS Food Group LLC represented by
Duncan Blair, attorney
442 North Henry Street and 1106 Oronoco
Street – Liberty Gas Station
Public hearing and consideration of an
amendment to an existing Special Use
Permit for an automobile service station
to change the ownership and to extend
the hours of operation; zoned CSL/Commercial Service Low. Applicant: 442
Henry Inc.
410 East Glebe Road and 3006 Jefferson
Davis Highway
(Parcel Address: 408 East Glebe Road)
request to operate a convenience store;
zoned CSL/Commercial Service Low.
Applicant: All In Be One Inc.
207 King Street ‑ Sonoma Cellars
(Parcel Address: 205 King Street)
request to operate a restaurant; zoned KR/
King Street Retail. Applicant: Sonoma
Cellar LLC
2700 Witter Drive ‑ Witter Athletic Field
request to allow athletic safety netting and
associated structures to increase to 30 feet
in height; zoned POS/Public Open Space.
Applicant: City of Alexandria Department of Recreation, Parks, and Cultural
Activities
Master Plan Amendment #2014‑0007
Rezoning #2014‑0005
329 North Washington Street – La
Bergerie
Public hearing and consideration of
requests for: (A) an amendment to the Old
Town Small Area Plan chapter of the Master Plan to amend the land use designation
from RM/Townhouse Zone to CD/Commercial Downtown; (B) an amendment
to the official zoning map to change the
zone from RM/Townhouse Zone to CD/
Commercial Downtown; (C) a special use
permit to operate a hotel and restaurant,
for a parking reduction, and for shared
parking; zoned RM/Townhouse Zone
(Old Town Small Area Plan). Applicant: Janow LLC d/b/a La Bergerie represented
by M. Catharine Puskar, attorney
Rezoning #2014‑0004
Development Special Use Permit
#2014‑0008
Transportation Management Plan Special
Use Permit #2014‑0063
1323 Wilkes Street and 421 South Payne
Street ‑ West‑Parc Townhomes
Public hearing and consideration of
requests for: (A) an amendment to the
official zoning map to change the zone
from RB to CRMU‑L with proffer; (B) a
development special use permit and site
plan, with modifications, to construct
22 townhouse units including a special
use permit for an increase in Floor Area
Ratio (FAR) per section 5‑105(C) of the
Zoning Ordinance; and (C) A special use
permit for a transportation management
plan; zoned RB/Townhouse. (Southwest
Quadrant Small Area Plan) Applicant:
CIA‑Wilkes Street LLC represented by M.
Catharine Puskar, attorney
THE FOLLOWING WILL BE HEARD
BY PLANNING COMMISSION ONLY
(AND BY CITY COUNCIL ONLY UPON
APPEAL).
Subdivision #2014‑0012
1905 Commonwealth Avenue
request to subdivide one lot into two lots;
zoned R2‑5/Residential. Applicant:
SAM 1905 Commonwealth LLC represented by Duncan Blair, attorney
Development Site Plan #2013‑0027
1333 Powhatan Street ‑ Powhatan
Townhouses
request for a development site plan with
modifications to construct residential
buildings; zoned CSL/Commercial Service
Low. Applicant: The Rubin Group
LLC represented by M. Catharine Puskar,
attorney
THE FOLLOWING WILL BE HEARD
BY CITY COUNCIL ONLY
Special Use Permit #2014-0015
517 South Washington Street
request to operate a funeral home and a
request for a parking reduction; zoned CL/
Commercial Low. Applicant: Jefferson
Development LLC represented by Duncan
Blair, attorney
[This case was deferred at the June 14,
2014 City Council public hearing.]
3640 Wheeler Avenue - Wheeler Avenue
Recycling
request to operate a recycling and materials recovery facility; zoned I/Industrial.
Applicant: Wheeler Avenue Recycling,
LLC represented by Robert B. Nealon,
attorney
[This case was deferred at the September
13, 2014 City Council public hearing.]
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LEGAL NOTICE
ALEXANDRIA PLANNING
DEPARTMENT
NOTICE OF
ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW
The following request has been
received for administrative review
and approval.
For information about this application or to comment, visit the City’s
website at alexandriava.gov/planning
or call (703) 746-4666.
210 N Lee Street, Suite 104 – Proposed Business: Your Life Energy
Request for a New Administrative
Special Use Permit to operate a
massage establishment; zoned CD/
Commercial Downtown
APPLICANT: Your Life Energy,
LLC by Maricela Noble
PLANNER: Ann Horowitz –
[email protected]
In accordance with section 11-500 of
the zoning ordinance, the above listed
request may be approved administratively by the Director of Planning and
Zoning. If you have any comments
regarding the proposal above, please
contact Planning and Zoning staff
at 703.746.4666 or email the planner
listed no later than October 16th,
2014.
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The Alexandria City School Board
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determined by the time clock stamp
in the Procurement office. Proposals appropriately received will be
opened and the names of the firms
responding will be read aloud. RFP
documents may be obtained at the
above Procurement Office or by calling 703-619-8043, or by dowloading
the RFP from the ACPS website at
www.acps.k12.va.us, Administration,
Financial Services, Procurement and
General Services — Current Bids and
Request for Proposals.
All questions must be submitted
before 5:00 p.m., Ocotber 13, 2014.
If necessary, an addendum will be issued and posted to the ACPS website.
No RFP may be withdrawn for a
period of ninety (90) days after the
opening of proposals except as may
be set forth in the RFP.
ACPS reserves the right to cancel this
RFP and/or reject any or all proposals
and to waive any informalities in any
proposal.
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LEGAL NOTICE OF
A PUBLIC HEARING
BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS
THURSDAY,
October 9, 2014 - 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)
746-4666 or on the City’s website at
www.alexandriava.gov/planning.
BZA Case #2014-0015
110 Gibbon Street
Request for variance to construct
three story addition in required rear
yard. If the request is granted, the
Board of Zoning Appeals will be
granting a variance from section
12-102(A) of the zoning ordinance –
relating to the physical enlargement
of a non-complying structure; zoned
RM/Townhouse Zone. Applicant:
Kathleen Cummings and Greg Wilson by Scot McBroom, architect
[This case was deferred at the July
10, 2014 and September 11, 2014
Board of Zoning Appeals public
hearings.]
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with experience in publication design to join our team.
Candidate will be responsible for producing our weekly
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BZA Case #2014-0020
2220 King Street
Request for special exception to
construct an open front porch for a
new single-family dwelling facing
King Street; zoned R-5/Residential.
Applicant: Dan and Lillian York by
Kim Beasley, architect
[This case was deferred at the
September 11, 2014 Board of Zoning
Appeals public hearing.]
candidate will be a team player with a positive attitude and
desire to provide an exceptional news source for the city.
BZA Case #2014-0023
8 Potomac Court
Request for variance to construct an
accessory structure in the required
rear yard; zoned RM/Townhouse
Zone. Applicant: Dave Vodvarka
and Eunhee Roth by J.R. Peter,
architect
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