West End station officially opens without firefighters

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Vol. 11, No. 17 Alexandria’s only independent hometown newspaper
April 23, 2015
No verdict in D.C.
corrections official
murder case
Defense attorneys argue
Seyoum was insane
trists’ testimony, Seyoum
fled the scene when Cross’
phone received a text mesBy susan hale thomas
sage from Davis displaying
After two days of delibera- the word “Mom.”
tion, a jury had not yet reached Hours later, Seyoum placed
a verdict Wednesday as to the a 911 call from his own apartfate of Dawit Seyoum, accused ment. He had tried unsuccessof first degree murfully to kill himself,
der in the killing of
cutting open his arms
D.C. Department of
in his bathroom.
Corrections deputy
Written in blood on
director
Carolyn
the shower wall was,
Cross in September
“I was the dirty one.”
2014.
Prosecutors ar Over the course
gued that Seyoum’s
of the trial, the basic
ability to formulate
facts of the case were
and carry out a plan
Dawit Seyoum
not at issue — Seyoum confessed to the crime
He couldn’t
shortly after his arrest. Instead,
focus on
the case has centered around
whether the defendant was in- education or work.
sane at the time of the crime.
Cross and Seyoum were Seyoum knew
strangers but lived in adja- something wasn’t
cent apartment buildings at
right.”
Seminary Towers on Ken– Kale Daniel, cousin
more Avenue.
Cross’ daughter, Clarissa
Davis, found her in Cross’ to kill Cross was a sign of his
apartment after she was unable sanity, but the defense said
to reach her mother by phone he suffered from untreated
— she was scheduled to drive schizophrenia and his actions
her to the airport.
were in response to delusions.
But Seyoum had sneaked Family members and a forinto Cross’ apartment and mer school counselor said Seystruck her 15 times with a large oum was a promising young
wrench. Four blows hit her student, despite enduring
skull. Seyoum put a plastic bag a number of childhood
over Cross’ head and secured it traumas, including
with duct tape. He then stran- seeing the capture
gled her, breaking her larynx.
According to psychia- SEE trial | 6
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City leaders postponed a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the newly opened Fire Station 210 on Eisenhower
Avenue last week after outcry from West End residents over the lack of firefighters at the facility. City
councilors now are contemplating how and when to pay for full staffing at the station.
West End station officially
opens without firefighters
Moves
afoot at City Hall with a paramedic unit, a truck
to staff Station 210 as and a fire engine, but no crew of
firefighters assigned to man the
early as December
engine itself.
By Chris Teale
At 8:30 a.m. last Saturday,
city officials were scheduled to
cut the ribbon to mark the opening of Fire Station 210 on the
West End, near the Van Dorn
Metro station. But City Manager
Mark Jinks abruptly called off
the ceremony after feedback
from citizens and city councilors, with a rescheduled time and
date yet to be determined.
It was another difficult moment for
the fire station,
which officially
opened last week
“Fire protection is not the
only intended purpose of Station 210; the station currently
houses an active medic unit (i.e.
ambulance and crew), EMS supervisor, field training officer,
SCBA service center, the fire
protection systems office and
training and outreach facilities,”
said city spokeswoman Andrea
Blackford in an email explaining the original decision to hold
a ribbon-cutting ceremony. “The
presence of a new medic unit in
the area is particularly important, since there are far more
medic calls than fire calls in any
community. The city is actively
working to staff the fire engine
at [Station] 210.”
Fire Chief Robert Dubé indicated at a fiscal 2016 budget
work session last month that
even if the fire department were
to overhire new recruits — temporarily add employees to fill a
staffing shortfall — and train
them, they would still be unable
to staff the station until December 2016 at the earliest due to a
number of factors, including a
larger number of retirements
than anticipated and an overall
lack of staffing.
Officials currently are examining a number of different
options, most notably the use
of overhire to temporarily swell
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THE WEEKLY BRIEFING
Clarence Tong, Kerry Donley win local
Democratic committee straw poll
Just 51 days before the
Democratic primary elections
for mayor and the 45th District of the Virginia House of
Delegates on June 9, candidates Clarence Tong and Kerry
Donley won in the Alexandria Democratic Committee’s
second annual straw poll last
weekend.
In the three-way Alexandria mayoral race, former mayor Donley took victory with
57 votes over incumbent Bill
Euille, who garnered 46 votes,
and Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg, placed third with 30.
Meanwhile, the five candidates vying to replace retiring
Delegate Rob Krupicka were
involved in a similarly tight
vote at the poll. Tong, who is
currently the chair of the committee but has recused himself from the nominating process, triumphed with 48 votes,
ahead of leadership consultant
Julie Jakopic, who garnered 39
votes. In third place came city
spokesman Craig Fifer, who
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liberal radio host Mark Levine
with 18 and local businessman
Larry Altenburg with seven.
More than 130 Democrats
participated in the straw poll,
which was hosted at the Port
City Brewing Company on
Wheeler Avenue. It was the only
opportunity for local voters registered with the local branch of
the party to express their views
ahead of debates between the
candidates later this spring.
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host debates ahead of primary elections
Local voters will have the
chance to hear from all of the
Democratic candidates for the
upcoming Alexandria mayoral,
city council and Virginia House
of Delegates 45th District primaries as they all square off in
public debates and candidate
forums ahead of the June 9 primary election.
On May 5, the candidates
for city council will come to-
gether for a nominee forum,
joined by the three candidates
for mayor — incumbent Bill
Euille, former mayor Kerry
Donley and Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg — who will
engage in their first debate.
Francis C. Hammond Middle
School at 4646 Seminary Road
will provide the venue, with George
Burke scheduled to be moderator.
June 2 will see the mayoral
candidates once again debate
with each other, just one week
ahead of the primary. In addition, the five candidates for the
45th District of the Virginia
House of Delegates will also be
on hand to discuss the issues,
with Julie Carey of NBC4 acting
as moderator. George Washington Middle School will serve as
the venue for the second debate.
- Chris Teale
Sheriff’s Office welcomes seven new deputies
On April 17, the Alexandria
Sheriff’s Office swore seven
new deputies into its ranks at
the Alexandria Courthouse.
Frederick Amponsem, Jamal Muldrow, Deon Best, Jovanna Purdy, James L. Hensley,
Jr., Shayla Leonard and Anton
Keith all received their badges
and credentials in a ceremony
conducted by Edward Semonian, clerk of the circuit court.
All seven deputies, as well
as the new pre-trial probation
officer Andrew Dziopa, began
training this week.
- Chris Teale
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Police are investigating an
incident where two men cut
each other during a fight Friday night and were sent to a
local hospital.
Late Friday, police responded to the 700 block of
N. Ripley St. for the report
of an assault. Police spokeswoman Crystal Nosal said
that two men who knew each
other were in an argument
that turned physical.
One suspect had a knife,
while the other suspect wielded a machete. Both men cut
each other, and were hospitalized with non-life-threatening
injuries, Nosal said.
Neither man had been
charged in the case as of
Wednesday, because in the case
of a fight, where those involved
are considered “mutual combatants,” police must try to determine who the “predominant
aggressor” is in order to bring a
case successfully to court, Nosal said.
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Alexandria police arrested
a man who barricaded himself in his apartment Sunday
night after officers attempted
to serve him with a warrant.
Police spokeswoman Crystal Nosal said around 7 p.m.,
officers arrived at the 2100
block of Jamieson Avenue to
serve a warrant to Aaron Alan
Jones, 42, for the violation of
a protective order.
As police spoke to Jones
through the door, an officer
heard the sound of a weapon inside the apartment and
called for assistance. Officers
secured the area, initially asking other residents to stay in
their apartments and later allowing them to evacuate the
building.
Around 4 a.m. Monday,
police were able to take Jones
into custody without incident.
Since the incident, he also has
been charged with attempted
burglary, which Nosal said occurred a couple days before
the alleged violation of the
protective order.
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Something fishy about restaurant closing
Employees raise questions
about Flying Fish owner
after abrupt shuttering
By Chris Teale
Old Town residents craving
sushi were left perplexed this
week to be greeted with a sign on
the front of the Flying Fish restaurant, a staple at 815 King St.
since it opened in 2005, that said
it was closing on Sunday, April
19 for “repairs and renovations.”
Even more confusing was the
news Monday that every piece
of restaurant equipment, furniture and decor was up for sale in
an online auction, including the
55-inch flat screen televisions,
the sushi display cases and the
waste bins. Alexandria-based
Rasmus Auctions are leading the
sale, with noon to 4 p.m. Friday
advertised as a time for the public to inspect the merchandise on
offer and an April 27 deadline
for bids.
But the apparent closure was
something that former employee
and manager Jimmy Madden
said he saw coming, and was
part of the reason he left Flying Fish for a position at Two
NineTeen on King Street a few
months ago.
“A couple of weeks ago,
because my wife works for
PetSmart — she’s really big into
animals and stuff like that —
she was helping him keep the
fish tanks he has there clean,”
Madden said. “She was giving
him new ideas for the fish. I ran
into him in the grocery store and
he was like, ‘Listen, can your
wife find a home for these fish? I
can’t take them with me.’
“I’m like, ‘Where are you
going?’ And he wouldn’t answer, so I told the entire staff. I
was like, ‘Listen, he’s trying to
get rid of his pets, I don’t know a
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FROM | 1
and deportation of his father at
the start of a war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, where he
was born.
“He challenged himself with
AP classes and assimilated well
into a foreign environment,”
said Lynette McCracken, a
counselor at Yorktown High
School in Arlington.
With dreams of becoming a
doctor, he enrolled at Old Dominion University, where he
shared a room with his cousin,
Kale Daniel. Daniel said Seyoum seemed to have a successful
freshman year, and loaned his
cousin his car for the summer.
But at the end of summer
break, Seyoum was withdrawn,
unkempt and had no sense of
time, Daniel said. He also had no
idea where his cousin’s car was.
“He couldn’t focus on education or work,” Daniel told the
court. “Seyoum knew something wasn’t right.”
In October 2008, Daniel
sought help for his cousin at
ODU’s student health center. Over
several months, Seyoum was seen
by several doctors, all of whom
described Seyoum as depressed,
anxious, withdrawn, detached and
exhibiting a flat affect — all early
signs of schizophrenia. Seyoum
was referred to Dr. Edwin Gatewood, a psychiatrist in Norfolk in
December of that year.
“He felt a dog was trying to
talk with him,” Gatewood said.
Seyoum was prescribed Prozac, but Daniel said Seyoum
didn’t like the way the medication made him feel so he stopped
taking it. Seyoum dropped out
of school and went back home to
live with his parents. During the trial, Seyoum sat
motionless with his head down
and his eyes closed. His only
movement over the course of the
trial was when his mother testified and began to cry. Seyoum,
with his eyes closed, reached up
to wipe his nose.
Asked if she thought her
son was mentally ill, Seyoum’s
mother said, “In Ethiopia, the
mentally ill are on the streets
and dirty.”
The last time Daniel saw his
cousin, just a month before the
slaying, Seyoum said he wanted
to see a doctor but, with no job or
health insurance, he didn’t have
the means.
The Thursday before Cross’
death, Seyoum had a fight with
his mother. His mother said it
was nothing, but Seyoum told
detectives he felt rejected.
On Friday night, Seyoum
was pacing outside his apartment building when he told
psychiatrists he felt someone
was staring at him and spotted
Cross on her balcony smoking
a cigarette. He saw her flick
her cigarette butt off the bal-
What proves
his guilt,
proves his sanity.
The afternoon
Seyoum was interviewed by the
detectives, he
confessed and
said, ‘I am the
responsible one.
If it’s a lifetime in
prison or the death
penalty, I’ll take it.’”
— Cathryn Evans,
Deputy Commonwealth’s
Attorney
cony and said he felt the ground
move and negative vibrations
run through his body.
He said he believed Cross
was sending him messages and
trying to intimidate him. He
told Dr. Michael Hendricks he
wanted to get back at Cross, so
he committed Saturday to making that happen.
On Saturday, Seyoum took a
bus to Seven Corners and Bailey’s Crossroads where he sold
his father’s guitar for $230 and
bought duct tape, a wrench, pepper spray, a box cutter, white lingerie, a bottle of Johnnie Walker
and a key fob to Cross’ building.
Later in the afternoon, Seyoum
drank the scotch and early Sunday morning made his way into
Cross’ building.
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FROM | 1
the numbers of firefighters
above normal levels, and crosstraining medics so they also can
be qualified to operate fire apparatuses.
“[Overhire] would accelerate the process, but keep in mind
that, as we didn’t have them to
start with a year-and-a-half ago,
we’re going to start the recruitment process now for a school
that we can’t run until February because we’ve already got
a school in the middle of [training] and in the late summer we
want to run another school that
will cross-train medics,” Dubé
said at the session. “Statistically,
we can’t do all that training with
a very small staff, so we can’t
get that school in until February
next year.
“If we got an overhire for
this coming year, which currently is not in there, and we got
the number we needed, and we
didn’t have a significant amount
of retirements that we didn’t plan
for, we could get that engine in
april 23, 2015 | 7
service in December 2016. That
would be the earliest.”
Since then, two budget memos from Morgan Routt, the assistant director of the city’s office
of management and budget, have
indicated that with an accelerated hiring plan, the station could
be staffed between December of
this year and March 2016 if there
are enough qualified applicants
to go through recruit school.
In the second of those
memos, dated April 17, Routt
notes that there were approximately 500 applications for
firefighter/medic positions, and
of those, 29 are already certified as medics and could be expedited through the process. It
means staffing the engine may
be a possibility far sooner than
originally thought, although it
is still a long process to ensure
every recruit is fully prepared
for the demands of the job.
The document notes that
while approximately $900,000
would be required to staff the
engine by December 2016, the
city would need to spend an additional $400,000 to place fire-
This is the
area that really
needs a service, not
only because we
are expanding but
because we already
have a longer
response time.
You can be sure
that the neighbors
that live all around
here are really
very concerned
that this had not
been completed so
that we could have
something here.”
– Dell Pepper, city councilor
fighters at Station 210 by March
of that year.
“Basically, it’s amping up our
hiring process to see if we can
get a recruit class sooner, looking at expanding overhire, which
is where we temporarily expand
the workforce to staff the engine
now and then once the crosstraining model kicks in, we’ll
catch up later,” City Councilor
Justin Wilson said. “There are
a couple of different options
where we’re tweaking how we’re
doing staffing.
“All of them have a number,
it’s expensive, and that’ll be the
council’s decision, how to allocate resources to make that happen and when it happens. There’s
a couple of different timelines.
We could continue to be patient
[and wait] for the cross-training model to get implemented,
that’ll take a while. It could take
years. We could do the overhire
solution. There’s a couple of different ways we could do it and
we’re looking at all those different options.”
As the Times reported last
year, the West End has some of
the slowest fire responses times
in the city of Alexandria, given
that the city’s goal is just fiveand-a-half minutes from the
time a fire is reported. With the
area’s expansion in recent years,
many feel that it is more impor-
tant than ever to ensure it has
more adequate fire suppression
available.
“This is the area that really needs a service, not only
because we are expanding but
because we already have a longer response time,” said City
Councilor Del Pepper, a West
End resident. “You can be sure
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around here are really very concerned that this had not been
completed so that we could
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a feeling that something was
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someone’s leaving.’ They were
like, ‘He said in September, it’s
remodeling.’ All of a sudden it’s
happened.”
Staff reported being told
of the abrupt closure on Saturday evening — the restaurant
was usually open from 5 p.m.
to 2 a.m. on Saturdays — during their shifts. But it was not
owner Larry Vallieres who told
them at the time, but rather the
kitchen manager, who informed
them that the kitchen was being
packed up and that the restaurant
would close.
“We heard rumors through
the kitchen staff,” said former
employee and manager Alex
Anastasia. “Once those rumors
started to fly, they started flying
around the entire restaurant and
then pretty much the entire staff
knew halfway through the shift
on Saturday.”
They had started to notice
things amiss as early as Friday,
when the restaurant began to run
out of basic supplies like food,
alcohol and liquor. It quickly
became apparent that orders to
suppliers had not been placed.
“Pretty much as the shift
progressed, we as the longstanding staff there pretty much
started putting the pieces together,” said Alexis Von Schoe-
ning, a full-time employee and
manager who had worked at the
Flying Fish for a total of five
years between two stints. “We
had not gotten a beer order in,
we had not gotten a liquor order
in, the kitchen started running
out of food, which means the
kitchen didn’t order any food.
“About a couple of hours into
the shift, we were like, ‘That’s it,
the writing is on the wall.’ We
started suspecting things on Friday when we came in and stuff
was already in short supply.”
At the end of the night, Von
Schoening said that Vallieres
called his staff together and
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tional, why a fire truck couldn’t
be there, why the foam equipment to combat an ethanol fire
could not be located there,”
added Arthur Impastato, president of the Cameron Station
Civic Association. “We just
want to see that station there
up and running as an efficient
and fully staffed station sooner
rather than later, particularly in
light of [the planned expansion
of] Norfolk Southern’s ethanol
transloading facility.”
Impastato said residents
have expressed their concerns
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to reach out beyond their active
members to other residents of
Cameron Station to make them
aware of current developments.
The frustrations of residents
in the West End are shared by
other city councilors, with John
Chapman in particular believing the city should have been
better prepared for the neighborhood’s expansion and the
inevitable strain on existing
firefighting resources.
“We looked at it, and staff
looked at it, as a balancing act
where it should have been an ex-
pansion,” he said, referring to a
failed effort by city leaders last
year to move some staff from
North Old Town to staff the new
station. “When you open up a
new fire station, you don’t shut
down one. … We’re in a mode
where we’re going to be expanding, and I think that hesitation
on a number of fronts to fully
have a conversation about what
expansion really means, what
it means in resources, what it
means in logistics, what it means
in staff has really brought issues
like this to bear.
“[I] think staff did lay out
options for that expansion but
I think there’s hesitancy on a
number of fronts to do it and do
it fully because it does require
new resources, and we all know
resources are scarce and folks
don’t like their taxes going up.”
Thanks in part to their shared
frustrations, Impastato gives city
council credit for taking West
End residents’ concerns into account, especially as they search
for a way to fund firefighter
staffing at Station 210.
“I think we’re getting our
point across in terms of very
recent correspondence that I’ve
seen,” he said. “I think that the
mayor and city council are taking our concerns seriously, I
do see some movement, which
we’re very pleased to see, in
terms of moving more rapidly to getting the station fully
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apologized for the restaurant
needing to close. Von Schoening
recalled that he reportedly was
trying to find investors to help finance the business, but they had
not come through in time.
Both employees noted the
issues that Vallieres had with
the lease of his property, owned
by Rob Kaufman of commercial real estate company PMA
Properties. His lease originally
had been scheduled to expire in
February, but he negotiated an
extension.
The two parties ran into
difficulties when it came to negotiating rent, with Kaufman
apparently wanting a higher
monthly rate from Vallieres
than the approximately $16,000
per month he was paying.
“Basically [Vallieres’] lease
ran up and the owner of the
building was asking for an extra $10,000,” Madden said.
“He wanted $26,000 a month
and my boss couldn’t wrap his
head around it. I told him to just
open for lunch and that’ll cover
your bill, you make more than
enough money here. He couldn’t
wrap his head around it, so he
decided to close the building.”
“I did have some meetings
with him in his office, where
he’s trying to show us the lease
and he made the landlord come
into the building at one point and
tell us that we were not closing,”
Von Schoening said. “From
what we put together and what
Larry himself said was that it
was a leasing disagreement. Rob
wanted more rent, and that was
the spur of all the rumors.”
Those rumors swelled for
months, and the uncertainty
was the catalyst for Madden to
resign and move to Two NineTeen. All three former employees noted that it created a tense
atmosphere, with staff feeling
insecure in their futures.
“I tried warning everybody
about the place closing down,
and people were halfway-listening,” Madden said. “They didn’t
discredit me completely but they
just weren’t sure so it caused a lot
of panic amongst staff.
“I didn’t really know what
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Deputy Commonwealth’s
Attorney Cathryn Evans argued
Seyoum’s ability to organize
a plan spoke volumes as to his
sanity.
“What proves his guilt,
proves his sanity,” Evans said.
“The afternoon Seyoum was
interviewed by the detectives,
he confessed and said, ‘I am the
responsible one. If it’s a lifetime
in prison or the death penalty,
I’ll take it.’”
But defense attorney Jasmin
Mize said Seyoum was actively
psychotic at the time of event
and Seyoum told experts he felt
“propelled’ to execute his plan
and “it felt right.” Dr. Michael
Hendricks and Dr. Anita Boss
testified that Seyoum’s plan
was driven by mental illness
and he could not resist the compulsion to carry out the attack.
“This wasn’t a plan, it was
a series of events based on
things that weren’t real,” Mize
told the jury.
If found guilty, Seyoum faces life in prison.
photo/Chris Teale
A sign on the front door of the Flying Fish informs customers that
the restaurant is undergoing renovations. But all the saleable assets of the restaurant have been
put online for auction.
was going on, what was happening, and in the end when it
finally happened they all were
destroyed. Every single one of
them. The way they found out
was halfway through the shift,
the kitchen manager finally
broke and told them it was their
last day and they’re packing up
the kitchen so be ready with everything.”
“The owner tried to tell us
that oh no, he wasn’t shutting
down, it was staying open, it
was staying open later and
renovations were going to happen later in the year,” Anastasia said. “Essentially, he pretty
much lied to everybody.”
Thankfully for the eight
front-of-house staff of the Flying Fish, a resolution has been
found already. After some work
behind the scenes by Madden,
the employees all have been offered positions at Two NineTeen
following a successful joint interview.
“I got the play-by-play all
the way down the street,” Madden said. “That night [Saturday],
I talked to my current owner
Patty and told her, ‘Listen, you
have a group of rockstars down
the street who have just lost their
home. It’s one of the strongest
staffs I’ve ever worked with. I
would hire every single one of
them right now.’”
Neither
Vallieres
nor
Kaufman responded to calls
for comment for this article.
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get out of TOWN
A worthy trek, with wonderful detours
The road to Staunton is
paved with great attractions
By Jordan Wright
My plan to spend a weekend
in Staunton was hatched last year
when I heard about a young chef
who was gathering a national
reputation for imaginative food served up in
a tiny brick building he calls The
Shack. Chef and
restaurateur
Ian
Boden has lit up the
food world, garnering awards and tons of
ink with his use of Virginia
farm products in imaginative
and delicious ways.
But as with all trips, the
more you research your destination, the more you lose track
of your itinerary. The plan was
to head out mid-morning on
a Friday and drive straight to
Staunton, but that idea went out
the window when I realized all
the fun places we would pass
along the way.
From Interstate 66, take
U.S. Route 17 to Delaplane and
Three Fox Vineyards, where
owners Holli and John Todhunter express their love of all things
Italian. In the barn-style
tasting room you’ll
find mostly Italian
varietals from estate-grown grapes.
Relax in a hammock or toss a game
of bocce.
A few miles away sits
the 200-year-old mansion
and gardens of Long Branch
Plantation. Described by
Washington Irving in 1853 as a
“noble mansion crowning a rising ground,” it is worth a tour
for its period architecture and
antique furnishings, as well as
a chance to learn about its horse
retirement facility.
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Although the facade
is unassuming, The
Shack is renowned
for its local ingredients and innovative
take on New Southern cuisine.
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On your way to Staunton, be sure to stop by the Locke Store in Millwood. The traditional general store features craft
beer and wine, local meats and cheeses, as well as phenomenal baked goods by pastry chef Katie Kopsick Shapiro.
Just across U.S. Route 50 and
a short drive along Millwood
Road is the Locke Store in Millwood. The original general store,
founded in 1836, is now a food
emporium chock-a-block with
craft beer, wine, locally raised
meats and cheeses and tempting
baked goods by pastry chef Katie Kopsick Shapiro. Sandwiches
there feature bread made from
flour ground across the street at
the Burwell-Morgan Mill.
Getting on Interstate 81
from there was a cinch and we
soon arrived in Staunton, where
we checked into the Stonewall
Jackson Hotel and Conference
Center, a centrally located Colonial revival hotel built in 1924
and recently remodeled. From
our room we could see the Mill
Street Grill below — a handy
spot for a quick dinner before
the curtain rose at the Blackfriars Playhouse around the corner.
If you’re looking for fancier fare,
try Zynodoa, a local favorite that
features a modern setting with
upscale dining.
The playhouse is part of the
American Shakespeare Theatre,
a year-round performance venue
fashioned after the theaters of
17th-century England. Shakespeare’s plays are offered with
on-stage seats for chosen audience members, and the theater’s
productions are always rousingly entertaining. Be sure to get
there early for the mini-concerts
before the play.
On Saturday, we began
our day at Joel Salatin’s 550acre Polyface Farm in nearby
Swoope. The author, speaker
and farming guru is renowned
for his sustainable farming
practices and was featured in
the documentary “Food, Inc.”
Chefs and eco-friendly farmers
hang on his every word, and the
farm itself is a testament to Salatin’s humane animal husbandry
practices. You can see the pigs,
cows, chicken and sheep in their
grassy habitats or shop for meat
and cider in the farm store.
Before lunch, we meandered
over to a massive building with
plate glass windows and filled
with classic cars that we had
noticed the previous evening.
A cavernous 27,000 square-foot
former Ford dealership on South
New Street, Elder Antique Auto
is owned by Bruce Elder, an avid
collector who sells and restores
antique vehicles. Roaming
through the three-story building, we came across dozens of
beautifully restored cars including a 1924 Model T, a 1925
Rolls Royce Twenty and some
notable racers like a 1953 single
seat vehicle called ‘The Lincoln
Special” — a Dreyer Champ car
that ran on a dirt track.
Lunch at the Pampered Palate Cafe was a lovely respite.
The quaint spot on East Beverley Street specializes in homemade soups and sandwiches
and is surrounded by tons of
interesting stores, art galleries,
breweries, a wine tasting room,
glass-blowing studio and shops
featuring local handicrafts.
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Each Monday
TAVERN TODDLERS Join other
families as you and your toddler (walkers through 36 months) have fun in
Gadsby’s Tavern Museum’s historic
ballroom. Playtime features a craft
table, book corner, toys, as well as
group dancing.
Time: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Location: American Legion, 400
Cameron St., check in at museum first.
www.gadsbystavern.org
Now to April 26
STUDENT ART EXHIBITION Del
Ray Artisans and the T.C. Williams
High School Art Department jointly
present the 18th annual Student Art
Exhibition. The exhibit will feature artwork from T.C. Williams High School
students in grades 9-12.
Time: Thursdays and Sundays noon
to 6 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays noon
to 9 p.m.
Location: Del Ray Artisans, Nicholas
A. Colasanto Center, 2704 Mount
Vernon Ave.
[email protected]
Now to May 8
PRINCESS FOR A NIGHT
COLLECTION The Princess For
a Night (PFAN) project is collecting
dry-cleaned formal dresses, shoes,
handbags, jewelry, unused make-up
and “nice” shopping bags so young
ladies across the region can attend
prom without breaking the bank.
Time: 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday
to Friday
Location: T.C. Williams Main Office,
3330 King St.
Information: eleanor.muse@acps.
k12.va.us
Now to September 26
BASEBALL BOAT TO NATIONALS PARK Avoid the crowds
and take a leisurely cruise from to
Nationals Park along the scenic
Potomac River for a select number of
Washington Nationals home games.
Boats returning to Alexandria depart
20 minutes after final pitch.
Time: Nationals home games
COMING BACK TO THE
HOOP FILM SCREENING
Join the Alexandria Film Festival
at a screening of Coming Back to
the Hoop, winner of the 2014 Audience Award. The film chronicles
a local Alexandria woman as
she returns to play competitive
Basketball after a 40-year hiatus.
A questions and answer session
with film star and director, Jane Pittman, follows after the screening.
Admission is free.
Time: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Location: Beatley Central Library,
5005 Duke St
Information: www.alexandriafilm.
org
ALEXANDRIA SESQUICENTENNIAL LECTURE “Now He
Belongs to the Ages: Lincoln in
Diverse Perspectives” by Stephen
Smith, on how Abraham Lincoln
gained the presidency and how he
dealt with the challenges he faced.
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Lloyd House, 220 N.
Washington St.
www.historicalexandria.org
April 24
MAKE A SPLASH Bring the
whole family to Family Fun Nights
for swimming and fun for all ages
on Friday evenings. Pool games
include beach ball relays, water
basketball, diving for prizes and
fun on the ‘Aqua Challenge’ floating obstacle course. Admission is
$4 per person.
Time: 6 to 9 p.m.
Location: Chinquapin Park Recreation Center & Aquatics Facility,
3210 King St.
Information: www.alexandriava.
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April 25-May 25
MOUNT VERNON’S HISTORIC
PLANT AND GARDEN SALE
Historic trees, shrubs and plants
as well as a wide variety of annuals, perennials, heirloom tomatoes
and herbs, each carefully nurtured
in the Mount Vernon greenhouse,
will be available for purchase.
Spectacular hanging baskets,
grown at Mount Vernon, will be
available in limited numbers. In the
gardening tent, you will find books,
tools, seeds and decorative items.
Time: All day
Location: George Washington’s
Mount Vernon, 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial Highway
www.mountvernon.org
April 25
MSA PERFORMS ‘LA FILLE
MAL GARDEE’ Metropolitan
School of the Arts’ (MSA), preprofessional ballet company of Lorton, Va. will perform the comedic,
family-friendly spring ballet, “La
Fille Mal Gardée”. Tickets are $7
for ages 9 and younger and $10
for ages 10 and older.
Time: 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Location: George Washington
Masonic National Memorial, 101
Callahan Drive
www.metropolitanarts.org
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ALEXANDRIA EARTH DAY
A program that includes children’s
activities, exhibits by community
groups, food and tree sales, recycling, Arbor Day tree planting and a
musical performance.
Time: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Location: Ben Brenman Park,
4800 Brenman Park Drive
Information: 703-746-5418
RAPTOR RAPTURE See
live raptors up close, when the
Friends of Dyke Marsh, the Raptor
Conservancy of Virginia and the
National Park Service will host
“Raptor Rapture” in celebration of
Earth Day. Look for tents near the
restrooms along the Mount Vernon
trail in Belle Haven Park.
Time: 10 a.m. to noon
Location: Mount Vernon trail,
Belle Haven Park
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April 26-29
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Having faced such a sustained level of high competition throughout, the players
also spoke of their pride at
being able to rise to the occasion, even as fatigue began to
set in.
“Mentally, the games are
very close, there’s one or two
goals in it along the whole way
of the games,” captain Olivia
Wimpenny said. “For us to
come up with two wins today
is very positive for us mentally
as well as physically.”
“[The other teams’] stickwork and their level of play
is phenomenal,” said vicecaptain Taya Jackson. “But
we feel like we’ve stepped up
to their level. You’ve got some
great players who can take a
ball and run it down the whole
pitch, but we’ve really stepped
up and I think we’ve matched
their level.”
After returning home, Budd
formally announced her 20-player squad that will face Wales,
Canada, Australia and the U.S.
in pool play before the start of
the knockout stage. Their campaign starts on July 23 against
the Welsh in a tournament that
brings together 15 teams from
around the world, including a
team from the Native American
Iroquois tribes, and Budd feels
her team have taken plenty from
their experience in the United
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England Under-19s midfielder Freya Savage holds off a challenge
from Collegiate midfielder Campbell Brewer during their clash at
the SSSAS Spring Fling.
“Initially, we didn’t do too
well; the score lines were a
couple of goals out of a win,
but I think they realise that actually if we dig deep with the
longer games and keep mentally strong, they can come
out with a win,” she said.
“That’s what’s really important, because ultimately at the
World Cup we’re not going to
be winning easily, we’re going
to have to win by small margins, and I think this exposure
to that type of experience here
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World Cup.
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Alexandria
Alexandria Aces announce 2015 roster
By Chris Teale
Preparations for the 2015
season in the Cal Ripken
Collegiate Baseball League
ramped up for the Alexandria
Aces as they announced their
30-player roster for the upcoming year.
Head coach Dave DeSilva
has assembled a strong squad
for this year’s league, which is
divided into north and south
divisions for the first time, and
the Aces welcome a number
of NCAA Division I players to
their roster this year.
One notable inclusion is
Alexandria native Billy Lescher, who pitches for the
University of Pennsylvania in
the Ivy League, who graduated from West Potomac High
School last year and will join a
16-player pitching staff at the
Aces. Meanwhile, Wilmington
University of Delaware is well
represented with three of their
players making the roster, while
the University of Nebraska-Kearney has two players.
A number of strong baseball schools also send players
to the Aces for the summer, in-
cluding pitcher Matt Doughty
from the University of Virginia
and infielder Jackson Owens
from the top-10 ranked Florida
State Seminoles.
The Aces begin their South
Division campaign on June 2
away to the Herndon Braves,
with their home opener coming two days later against the
Gaithersburg Giants. They
come into this season on the
back of a playoff appearance in
2014, which came to an end at
the hands of the Rockville Express after a 23-17 record overall for the Aces.
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From there, we walked to the
Woodrow Wilson Presidential
Library and Museum. On display are hundreds of Wilson’s
personal effects, including his
roll-top desk and 1919 PierceArrow presidential limousine. A
recent addition is a walk-through
trench that trembles with the
sounds of a World War I battlefield. Next door to the museum
sits the Presbyterian Manse,
Wilson’s birthplace. The
three-story brick home
is filled with Wilson
family heirlooms and
antiques, and a guide
is there to describe
daily life in the mid19th century.
Afterwards, take a relaxing
45-minute guided tour around
the city by trolley. Departing
from the local visitors center,
it’s a terrific opportunity to see
the historic homes and churches
that abound, as well as Mary
Baldwin College, whose campus is smack dab in the middle
of town. The town’s splendid
and varied architecture was one
of its most surprising aspects.
At last it was time for our
long-anticipated dinner and the
spark of this pilgrimage: The
Shack. After a short stroll from
the hotel, we shed any preconceived notions of what a restaurant should look like and trusted
in the chef, even though the
place looks more like a pop-up
or a way station for a collection
of mismatched chairs and tables
that have lost their homes. Still,
it’s cozy, unpretentious and quite
serious about its mission — a
180-degree turn from the greasy,
calorically weighty cooking of
most Southern style restaurants.
Here sauces are lightened and
cooking methods respect the
fresh ingredients. Expect to taste
dishes you thought you knew,
but here are elevated to an appreciative art form.
In a short time, Boden has
ascended the ranks through the
emerging cooking style of New
Southern cuisine, taking familiar Southern dishes and reinventing them to be more interesting and more alluring.
A paper menu with the date
on top lets you know that the
menu is at the whim of the chef,
the season and the farmers he
trusts. Though I can assure you
our meal likely won’t be on the
menu when you visit, the overall quality will remain constant.
You get to have your own experience with whichever ingredients Boden plays around with
that day.
We tried nearly everything
on the menu, and found some
favorites — winter vegetable
salad with farro, bitter
greens and chickweed, dressed in a
barrel aged maple
vinaigrette; escolar lettuce wrap, a
and a madcap fling with a sweet
treat called “Junk Food” which
turned out to be a slice of oatmeal cream pie plus a cruller
and a blondie.
After a good night’s sleep we
returned for brunch. When you
have reveled in the best there is,
why not revel again? I state my
case for the biscuits and rabbit
gravy, the Wagyu oyster steak
with rosemary pistou, and the
creamy heirloom grits served
in a cast-iron pan. There is no
shame, just glory and a sharp
sense of wanting to return.
Before heading home one
last stop beckoned — the Frontier Culture Museum, a place
passed countless times while
driving down I-81 towards the
Blue Ridge Mountains. This
open-air living history museum
reflects the early German, West
African, Irish and British pioneers who bravely brought their
trades, farming methods and
building styles to rural America.
Authentic costumed docents
roam the farm sites and wooded
acres, instructing guests on how
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The Berkshire pork loin at The Shack (top) was particularly delicious,
although be warned: the menu changes by the day. Elsewhere along
the road to Staunton is Three Fox Vineyards, where you can taste a
variety of Italian-style wines, hang out in the tasting room, or even play
some bocce.
raw fish paired with cracklings,
house-made kimchi, miso and
key limes. Entrees that sang
to us were the Berkshire pork
loin with country ham-fried
rice, spinach puree and delicata squash topped with fava
bean shoots; and king salmon
with roasted crosnes, Brussels
sprouts and lady apples in a red
wine butter sauce. Desserts that
made us swoon were sorghum
cake with brown butter apples,
buttermilk whey and bay leaf;
settlers lived and thrived in the
Shenandoah Valley before and
after the Revolutionary War. You
will learn that a number of these
historic homes were brought
over piece-by-piece from the Old
World and reassembled. Plan on
spending at least three hours at
the museum: You wouldn’t want
to miss seeing the heritage-breed
horses or holding a baby lamb. In
good weather a picnic purchased
in town would make for the perfect day.
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ALEXANDRIA TIMES
At Home
A bumper crop of new vegetables
By Marty Ross
This year, there are more reasons than ever to grow your own
tomatoes, peppers, lettuce and
broccoli. It’s a banner year for
the introduction of new varieties
— now is a great time to make
room for vegetables in your garden, or in a couple of big pots on
a patio or balcony.
Vegetable gardeners at every
level of experience are looking
for two things, says Rob Johnston, the founder of Johnny’s Selected Seeds in Albion, Maine.
“They want a combination of
easy-to-grow and real flavorful results,” he says. “They are
going to the trouble of having a
garden, and they want the result
to be something special.”
Johnston is a judge for AllAmerica Selections, which con-
ducts trials of new vegetable and
flower introductions at public,
professional and university gardens across the country to identify breeders’ best work every
year. Last year, 28 trial gardens
across the country participated
in tests of new vegetable varieties. Johnston’s credentials are
solid — he has been growing
and breeding vegetables for 42
years. Johnny’s has introduced
more than 60 different vegetable
varieties, including the colorful and delicious Bright Lights
Swiss chard and, this year, a
sweet little butternut squash
called Butterscotch. They’re
both AAS winners.
This year is a banner year for
AAS: 25 new vegetable, herb
and flower varieties are 2015
award winners, more than any
year since 1939. Most of the in-
PHOTOs/ALL-AMERICA SELECTIONS
Chef’s Choice orange tomato (left), and its sister, Chef’s Choice pink, are big beefsteak tomatoes, great
for slicing or canning. The orange tomato was an AAS winner in 2014, and the pink variety is a winner this
year. Basil Dolce Fresca (right) is a compact and beautiful plant for pots, says Diane Blazek, director of AllAmerica Selections. It’s also drought-tolerant and grows quickly, so no matter how much you harvest, you’ll
always be able to count on more basil through the summer.
troductions are vegetables and
herbs, and some are the very first
winners in their class: This is the
first time Brussels sprouts, bok
choy, garlic chives and oregano
have received AAS recognition.
Gardeners flipping through
the catalogs and websites of seed
specialists aren’t just scouting
around for another delicious tomato or cucumber, says Diane
Blazek, director of All-America
Selections. They want compact
plants and heat and drought
tolerance, and they’re looking
for vegetables pretty enough to
grow in a flower garden. Vegetable gardeners love beautiful
blooms, too, she says, and especially flowers that attract pollinators to their vegetable crops.
The gardeners who plant
SEE vegetables | 19
HOME OF THE WEEK
Gracious center hall in MacArthur
Elementary school district
As Alexandria grew, the
populace moved further west
from the Potomac River. New
neighborhoods were born, but
builders continued to combine
the menagerie of architectural
styles from Colonial and Queen
Anne to Georgian and Modern.
The home at 301 North Quaker Lane adopted many Tudor
characteristics with the central
gable, the use of an oriel and
quoins to soften the severity of
the brick facade.
Wander inside the iron
fence and along brick walkways and enjoy the delights
of this combination of traditional and modern features of
this center hall design. A new
kitchen with cherry cabinetry and state of the art appliances is graced with a large
breakfast nook and entry to a
screened porch, and adjoins
a family room with fireplace.
A first floor library with fireplace is the perfect spot for a
lazy afternoon of reading.
The top level of the residence offers four bedrooms
and three baths. The spacious
master suite has its own twosided fireplace and exquisite
At a Glance:
Address: 301 North Quaker Lane
Alexandria, VA, 22314
Price: $1,199,000
Bedrooms: 5
updated bathroom. A second
bedroom has its own bath, and
the third and fourth bathrooms
share a Jack-and-Jill bath.
The walkout lower level
features a large recreation room
with fireplace and fifth bedroom,
full bath and a wine cellar.
Rounding out this gem is a
side-load two-car garage, first
floor laundry room, loads of
storage and closet space and
a total of five fireplaces. This
lovely home is in a neighborhood with mature trees and has
beautiful professional landscaping.
PHOTO/truplace
This property has a professionally landscaped exterior and a beautifully renovated interior.
Bathrooms: 4.5
Year Built: 1986
Parking: Two-car garage
Contact: Donna Cramer,
McEnearney Associates, Inc.,
703-627-9578, www.donnacramer.com
PHOTO/truplace
Inside is a large and gracious living room with fireplace, perfect for
entertaining.
or low-growing herbs.
Liebenguth
recommends
peppers of various kinds for
first-time gardeners looking for
an easy crop. Cucumbers and
cherry tomatoes are also encouraging crops for novices, she says,
because the harvest is impressive
and the taste can’t be beat.
If you haven’t grown veg-
“The Hermitage is
where I’ve finally
found my family.”
PHOTOs/ALL-AMERICA SELECTIONS
—Helena Scott
Two-tone Bossa Nova zucchini, a 2015 AAS winner, steals the show with
its striking markings (top). Gardeners can count on this disease-resistant variety to produce squash for three weeks longer than most other
summer squash. Patio Baby eggplant looks great in a pot (bottom) and
produces an impressive harvest of 2- to 3-inch eggplants, great for
roasting or for salads. It was a 2014 AAS winner.
vegetables
FROM | 18
40-foot rows of beans or pepper
plants are still out there, Blazek
says, but breeders have developed squash, cucumbers, beans
and many other crops that flourish and produce an impressive
harvest in small spaces — such
as Mascotte beans, which are
just the right size for a window
box, or Patio Baby eggplant, perfect for pots.
“More and more people are
growing in containers,” Blazek
says. “They don’t have huge
gardens, and they’re looking
for vegetables that don’t take up
quite as much room.”
Gardeners are also looking
for novelty, says Jessie Liebenguth, a horticulturist at Reiman
Gardens at Iowa State University and an AAS trial-garden
judge. “People want vegetables
that they may not be super familiar with, but that are new
and fun,” she says.
Liebenguth, who has been
growing vegetables since she
was a child, admits she was surprised when she opened her first
box of seeds for an AAS trial
season, three years ago. “My jaw
dropped, there were so many entries,” she says. “People are working hard to develop new, exciting
things — it’s encouraging.”
The new AAS broccoli
winner, Artwork, is grown for
its prolific production of side
shoots, which increases the yield
to weeks instead of just a onechop harvest. Bopak, the new
AAS award-winning bok choy,
is great for gardeners interested
in a quick crop and in cultivating
in flowerpots. It grows to about
2 feet tall and would look great
as the centerpiece of a big pot,
surrounded by trailing flowers
etables before, start small, she
suggests. “Wade in, try a couple of herbs, make a bruschetta
garden or a salsa garden.” Try
mixing vegetables into a flower
garden, Liebenguth says, “so
it’s not one huge, overwhelming space. You can walk along
and enjoy your flowers, and you
get a snack at the end.”
It takes about 10 years to
bring a new vegetable to market, Johnston says, but waiting
for the next big thing isn’t really
necessary. With so many great
new vegetable varieties already
out there, you can scarcely go
wrong. And, of course, the best
vegetables you’ll ever eat are the
ones you grow yourself.
Enjoy the Carefree
Lifestyle You Deserve
D
iscover why many people like you have come to call
the Hermitage home—the chance to experience a new
lifestyle with an array of services and amenities.
The residents at the Hermitage stay busy. Just ask Helena Scott,
who was confined to wheelchair for 30 years because of Multiple
Sclerosis and with regular physical therapy at the Hermitage, can
now walk a mile a day when the weather permits. In her spare
time, Helena knits scarves for fellow residents, volunteers in the
beauty salon, sits on the Health Center Committee and delivers
mail. Our residents also rave about our superb dining service,
our courteous and helpful staff, and an overall feeling of caring
and security that comes with living at the Hermitage.
You’ll also gain peace of mind knowing that health care
and supportive services are available right here, if you ever
need them.
h
For more information, call 703-797-3814.
Call
703-797-3814
to schedule a tour
of our beautifully
appointed
apartments.
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Alexandria, VA
www.Hermitage-Nova.com
20 | april 23, 2015
ALEXANDRIA TIMES
Garden Club of Virginia arrives
in Alexandria for home tours
Photos by Laura Sikes
Residents and visitors alike took to the streets of Old Town to check out the
meticulously groomed homes and gardens of historic Alexandria homes.
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1. Attendees walk through the back garden
of a home on Prince Street, known as the
“Double Dwelling.”
2. Ashli Douglas, a member of the Hunting
Creek Garden Club, hosted tours of a home
on South Lee Street.
3. Three-year-old Gillian Gochoel of Alexandria
takes her ticket from hostess Christy Bellino
outside of a home on Gibbon Street.
4. Sheila Kolb, center, and her fiance tour the
courtyard garden of a home on Gibbon Street.
5. Visitors tour the dining room of a home on
South Fairfax Street.
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4
WWW.ALEXTIMES.COM Calendar
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April 29
ROBUST WALKATHON An event
to raise funds for the Successful Aging
Committee. Participants will alternate
walking with exercise stations on the
walking trail around the lake.
Time: 10 a.m. to noon
Location: Ben Brenman Park, 4800
Brenman Park Drive
Information: 703-746-5429 or [email protected]
April 30
CIVIL WAR LECTURE “The
Meaning of Freedom in the Aftermath
of Slavery, 1865-1867” by Leslie
Rowland of the University of Maryland.
Drawing from the work of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project
(FSSP) at the university, Dr. Rowland
will discuss the aspirations of former
slaves following the end of the Civil
War and their struggle to make freedom a reality.
Time: 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Location: The Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St.
May 1-2
PRINCESS FOR A NIGHT
DRESS SHOPPING The Princess
april 23, 2015 | 21
May 2-3
REVOLUTIONARY WAR
ENCAMPMENT Step back in time
and walk through a reproduction of
the marquee tent that served as General Washington’s field headquarters
throughout most of the Revolutionary
War. With more than 450 Revolutionary War military re-enactors, learn
more about life in the 18th century,
discuss military techniques, and watch
battle re-enactments.
Location: George Washington’s
Mount Vernon, 3200 Mount Vernon
Memorial Highway
www.mountvernon.org
May 3
TITAN EXPO An annual community
event for people of all ages, featuring
carnival games for children and teens,
a car bash, bake sale, bingo, used
book sale, inflatables and music. All
funds raised benefit the Larry Trice
PTSA/SCA Scholarships for student
graduates from T.C.
Time: 1 to 4 p.m.
Location: T.C. Williams High School,
3330 King St.
Information: [email protected]
VISION WALK Stop by the Lions of
for a Night project’s shopping and
dress selection. All students in Northern Virginia welcome.
Time: Friday 3:30 to 6:30 p.m., Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon.
Location: T.C. Williams High School,
3330 King St.
Information: eleanor.muse@acps.
k12.va.us
Virginia screening unit for sight and
vision screenings, and join the Lions
Club for a walk to raise awareness of
fighting blindness.
Time: Registration begins 9 a.m.,
walk 10 a.m.
Location: Cameron Run Regional
Park, 4001 Eisenhower Ave.
[email protected]
T.C. WILLIAMS DRAMA PRODUCTION The T.C. Williams Drama
SHELTER WALK FOR HOMELESS ANIMALS A 1.5 mile walk for
Department presents their production
of “The 25th Annual Putnam County
Spelling Bee,” a musical, whimsical
take on life, love and vocabulary. Tickets cost $15 for adults; $10 for ACPS
staff, students and senior citizens.
Time: May 1, 7:30 p.m.; May 2, 2 p.m.
and 7:30 p.m.
Location: T.C. Williams High School
Main Auditorium, 3330 King St.
Information: [email protected]
May 2-30
HISTORIC ALEXANDRIA
ATTICS AND ALLEYS TOUR
Visit rarely seen spaces at four of Alexandria’s historic sites on this special
three-hour walking tour of Gadsby’s
Tavern Museum, the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum, Lee-Fendall
House Museum & Garden and Carlyle
House Historic Park. Tickets are $35
each and can be reserved online.
Time: Saturdays 9 a.m. to noon
Location: Departs from Lee-Fendall
House Museum & Garden, 614 Oronoco St., or Gadsby’s Tavern Museum,
134 N. Royal St.
www.alexandriava.gov/gadsbystavern
people and their companion animals
to raise awareness and funds for the
Vola Lawson Animal Shelter and the
activities of the Animal Welfare League
of Alexandria.
Location: Market Square, 301 King St.
[email protected]
STEPALIVE WALKATHON A 5K
or five-mile fun run from First Christian
Church through Old Town and back.
Time: 1:30 to 5:30 p.m.
Location: First Christian Church,
2723 King St.
GEORGE WASHINGTON BIRTHDAY CLASSIC 10K Join the Wash-
ington Nationals’ George Washington
and Woodrow Wilson, as well as 3,000
runners for this flat, USTA certified 10K
race and 2K Fun Run. $35 per runner
for 10K, $10 for 2K Fun Run.
Time: 8 a.m.
Location: U.S. Patent & Trademark
Office, 401 Dulany St.
[email protected]
May 4
Turning Back Time
YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FIRST
AID TRAINING (1 OF 2) The first
of two sessions in which young people
can learn how to give initial help to
someone showing signs of a mental
illness or mental health crisis. Registration is free, but space is limited to
20 per class.
Time: 4 to 8 p.m.
Location: 4480 King St.
Information: 703-746-3523,
[email protected] or
www.alexandriava.gov/dchs
May 5
U.S. PTO COMMUNITY DAY
USPTO hosts its annual community
day celebration to celebrate diversity
and similarities of USPTO employees
at the USPTO Headquarters.
Location: U.S. Patent & Trademark
Office, 401 Dulany St.
May 6
YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH FIRST
AID TRAINING (2 OF 2) The
second of two sessions in which
young people can learn how to give
initial help to someone showing signs
of a mental illness or mental health
crisis. Registration is free, but space is
limited to 20 per class.
Time: 4 to 8 p.m.
Location: 4480 King St.
Information: 703-746-3523,
[email protected] or
www.alexandriava.gov/dchs
May 9
BARRETT BAZAAR A PTA-spon-
sored carnival with children’s games
and activities; food sales; music and
pony rides
Time: 3 to 6 p.m.
Location: Charles Barrett Elementary
School, 1115 Martha Custis Drive
[email protected]
May 10
FREE MOTHERS’ DAY MUSEUM
TOURS In honor of Mothers’ Day,
moms enjoy free admission to two of
Alexandria’s premiere historic sites.
At the Friendship Firehouse Museum,
mothers will receive a complimentary
family photo.
Time: 1 to 5 p.m. at Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum, 1 to 4 p.m. at
Friendship Firehouse Museum
Location: Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum, 105-107 S. Fairfax St.
and Friendship Firehouse Museum,
107 S. Alfred St.
Information: www.visitalexandriava.
com
This week in 2014:
Hunting for quality: Council approves latest
Hunting Terrace redevelopment proposal
“Long-standing plans to redevelop the land west of the Hunting Point apartment complex finally kicked into gear earlier this
month. After residents and city leaders soundly rejected multiple
design proposals over the years, city council voted unanimously
April 12 in favor of a plan to build two five-story apartment complexes at the 1199 S. Washington St. property.”
Caught on candid camera: Reporter reveals
the extent of police surveillance on personal
vehicle
“The police know exactly where my car has been — and when —
during the past few months. They could have the same information — or more — about you. As a part of my series on the use of
automatic license plate readers in Virginia, I wanted to find out
what kind of information local police might have.”
T.C. grads honored for achieving their academic, professional dreams
“A James K. Polk Elementary School teacher will be among those
recognized at the Scholarship Fund of Alexandria’s annual gala and
silent auction Saturday. Vantross Medina-White went onto George
Mason University after graduating from T.C. Williams in 1995,
where she earned degrees in psychology and special education.”
22 | april 23, 2015
Our View
Half a fire station is not enough
A common feature of our culture is to play amateur
psychologist and analyze whether people view the world
with a “glass half full” or “glass half empty” outlook.
If your glass is half full, you’ve got some of what you
want, and that’s better than nothing. We tend to label such
people as optimists. If your glass is half empty, you are
focused more on what you lack than on what you have.
Such people are rarely content.
When it comes to the city budget, most of us fall in the
glass half empty category. We want all of our personal priorities fully funded and are not satisfied with half measures.
The most glaring example of a half measure in this year’s
city budget is Fire Station 210, which was scheduled to officially open with much fanfare last weekend. But the ribboncutting was abruptly postponed when city officials, led by
City Manager Mark Jinks, realized West Enders decidedly
view the new station as a glass half empty situation.
There is near unanimous agreement the station is
needed — the West End is growing rapidly and the new
station is close to the Norfolk Southern ethanol operation near Cameron Station. The problem is that not
enough money was set aside to build the station, buy
both a medic truck and fire truck, and hire enough staff
to operate both vehicles.
As the station was under construction last year, the
city’s first proposed half measure to include staffing in the
budget was to move firefighters from Station 204 in North
Old Town. This would have worsened response times in
the midst of Alexandria’s tourist hub. Nearby residents
raised a ruckus and the idea to move firefighters out of Old
Town was shelved.
But the money wasn’t in the budget to fully staff the
new station this year. So the station opened this month
without fanfare — and without firefighters. Obviously, this
situation is not tenable in the long-term.
The glass half full perspective is that the station is being
brought online in stages, and having an operational medic
unit near the Van Dorn Metro station is decidedly better
than nothing at all. According to city spokeswoman Andrea Blackford, there are more emergency calls for medical assistance than for fire suppression in any community.
The fire equipment is there and firefighters will be added at
some point in the next 18 months or so.
But given the sense of many in the West End that they
are consistently treated as second-class citizens, city officials should have known residents would see this as a glass
half empty. There’s a perception, probably warranted, that
greater priority is given to funding city services in the Old
Town, Rosemont and Del Ray sections of Alexandria.
Someone on the city’s staff or on city council should
have realized that ensuring the new station had firefighters
warranted being a priority. And it should not have taken
an ill-conceived ribbon-cutting ceremony to bring the issue
back to the forefront. That’s just bad governance.
City leaders should prioritize fully staffing Station 210
as soon as possible.
ALEXANDRIA TIMES
Opinion
“Where the press is free and every man is able to read, all is safe.”
- Thomas Jefferson
Your Views
Councilors: City Hall is not for sale
To the editor:
There is no plan to sell, privatize, redevelop or otherwise dispose of Alexandria’s City Hall.
City Manager Mark Jinks
has proposed that city taxpayers spend $56.5 million over
the next eight years on a renovation of City Hall. While long
overdue, this project comes at a
challenging time for major city
infrastructure investment.
With significant education,
sewer, transportation and recreation infrastructure bills coming
due, the voters of our city should
expect their elected officials to
pause and consider all options
when making an investment of
that magnitude. That may mean
reducing the scope of the renovation, different financing models, alternative ways to transition
into the new space or other ideas.
That does not mean city
council wishes to privatize the
seat of our municipal government. It does mean city council
is fulfilling its fiduciary responsibility to the taxpayers who
pay the bills.
- City councilors
John Chapman, Tim Lovain,
Del Pepper, Paul Smedberg and
Justin Wilson
Waterfront lawsuit is about process,
not development
To the editor:
The Alexandria Times, in its
April 9 editorial (“Pave the redevelopment path with common
ground”), completely missed the
point of the Iron Ladies’ appeal
to the Virginia Supreme Court
and the notice of intent they recently filed with that Court.
The notice signaled that
the Iron Ladies reserved their
right to seek a rehearing of the
court’s March 27 decision upholding the Alexandria Circuit
Court’s dismissal of a lawsuit
filed by the Iron Ladies challenging the process by which
the City of Alexandria ignored
its own rules for handling zoning appeals. Unfortunately, the
Supreme Court erred in upholding the Circuit Court dismissal.
A rehearing would give the Supreme Court the opportunity to
correct that error.
The Iron Ladies’ appeal
reaches far beyond waterfront
zoning issues to address an
important zoning process issue affecting all Alexandrians.
In essence, the appeal asks that
SEE lawsuit | 24
Silberberg is the best choice for mayor
To the editor:
On June 9, residents will
have the opportunity to elect
the Democratic Party’s candidate to be the next mayor
of Alexandria. There are
three choices: incumbent
Mayor Bill Euille, former
Mayor Kerry Donley and
Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg.
In my view, Silberberg
stands head and shoulders
above the others for the following reasons:
• She is the only candidate
to make an effort to learn
the concerns of residents
across the city, hosting
Saturday morning coffee hours at a variety of
venues and by attending
meetings of civic organizations throughout the
city.
• She is the only candidate
to earn the endorsement
of former state Sen. Patsy
Ticer, who described Silberberg as “a voice of reason.”
• She is not beholden to
special interest groups.
• She has the courage of her
convictions; all too often,
hers is the sole dissenting
vote on a controversial issue.
• She appears to be the only
one of the three candidates
who truly understands
the value of Alexandria’s
unique perspective on the
history of our nation and
that this is essential to the
attractiveness and quality
of life of our city.
In marked contrast, the
current and former mayors
appear to have pursued a strategy of divisiveness, imposing on different areas of the
city one unwanted and ugly
development after another.
Remember when BRAC was
supposed to be located near a
Metro stop? And what about
the polarization engendered
during heated battles over
the controversial waterfront
development plan, which persists to this day?
Then there were the bullying tactics Mayor Euille
used to force the Old Dominion Boat Club to move
out of its historic location
at the foot of King Street.
And there was the Beauregard Avenue “Corridor C”
redevelopment, the Potomac
Yard Metro station controversy, etc. The most recent
egregious examples are the
embarrassment of constructing a fire station without allocating sufficient funds to
provide staff for it and the
ridiculous idea of selling our
historic City Hall.
If either Mayor Euille
or former Mayor Donley is
elected as the Democratic
candidate for mayor, we can
be absolutely certain that
more of the same will continue. Isn’t it time for the city
to try a fresh approach? In my
opinion, Allison Silberberg is
the only candidate who has
the potential to be a candidate
for all of Alexandria. Let’s
give her the opportunity to
show what she can do.
- Hugh M. Van Horn
Alexandria
Fire Station 210 merely the latest SNAFU
To the editor:
What more proof do you
need? Our city leaders built
a costly firehouse in Station
210 but failed to staff it. No
explanation; no embarrassment; no consequences. If
this mistake occurred in the
private sector, those who
made it would be cashiered
for mismanagement. But in
the Mayor Bill Euille-led,
spend first and think later
city council, the only result
of this gigantic gaffe is the
postponement of a ribboncutting ceremony.
And to rub salt into the
wound, shortly before the
ceremony was shelved,
Euille issued a State of the
City speech in which he extolled progress along the waterfront and in Potomac Yard.
What he failed to mention is
the former is a contentious
project, the cost of which has
not been established beyond
a rough estimate of multimillions and whose benefits
are airy-fairy conjecture.
Absent too was the cost to legally bully the last of its opponents into submission.
Neither did he observe the
cost of the planned Potomac
Yard Metro station. At a sum
sure to approach the half
billion-dollar mark, if not
exceed that, this project will
surpass all other 21st century
major Alexandria taxpayerfunded projects combined.
Keep this in mind when
you vote for a new mayor
and city council: the current
cast of elected officials, and
all their forebears selected by
the Democratic Party primary,
have never delivered any project on time or on budget. Nor
have they balanced the city
budget in the last eight years.
The solution to this
spend-before-thinking sickness: Change the city charter
to require referendums for
large capital projects. A referendum would require our
elected officials to persuade
us to approve their spending
visions by explaining how
they will benefit us, when
and at what cost.
The punch line to all of
this: Without a referendum
for major spending projects,
we are giving carte blanche
to a small group of elected
officials to dip their hands
into our pocketbooks with
minimal explanation, to take
whatever they need for whatever public project they want,
regardless how unnecessary,
wasteful or divisive it may be.
- Jimm Roberts
Alexandria
Helping vulnerable residents,
one block at a time
Every block has a person- ing him to continue to live
ality, drawn together by the independently in warmth and
patchwork of the personali- safety when a kidney illness
ties of those who live there. prevented him from mainNetworks of old, young and taining his home. They also
middle-aged, low and high in- ensured that John could recome, and diverse homeown- main mobile and safe in his
ers form a block-by-block home by providing a variety
quilt that bonds a community. of upgrades to improve ac For Michael, the quiet Al- cess. And Henry’s children
exandria block he knew as a are breathing better after our
young boy in the 1960s has contractors helped with mold
changed, replaced by bus- abatement.
tling hotels and businesses.
It is our commitment to
But two things
our
neighbors
remain the same:
that makes ReMichael still lives
building Together
in the house he
strong and helps
has called home
propel our goal
his whole life and
to revitalize and
the
generosity
stabilize our comof his neighbors,
munity by ensurwho continue to
ing residents can
help each other.
afford to maintain
John, a disand stay in their
abled
Vietnam
homes.
That’s
War veteran, also
why on National
By Katharine Dixon
still lives in the
Rebuilding Day
Alexandria home
on Saturday, more
where he grew up. He fondly than 800 of our volunteers
remembers crawling under- will work throughout the city,
neath the front porch with his making repairs and renovabrother and pretending it was tions for vulnerable Alexanhis fort.
dria homeowners.
Henry, his wife and two In addition, we will have a
young daughters are newer giant team of volunteers from
to the community and to the Booz Allen working on nearly
country. But like other Alex- a whole block of homes to reandrians, he and his family connect neighbors and help
have been welcomed to this a neighborhood feel proud.
city of 151,000 people by House by house and block
their next-door neighbors and by block — our volunteers
are making their own memo- fix fences, do gardening, prories.
vide electrical work, add grab
All of these proud resi- bars, put in flooring and more
dents are tied to the city by — to pull together our tightthe blocks on which they live. knit community and keep it
They also share a relationship moving forward.
with Rebuilding Together Al- If you know of homeownexandria, a nonprofit that pro- ers in need or would like to
vides free home modifications volunteer, contact Rebuildand repairs to homeowners ing Together Alexandria, visit
with limited incomes.
www.rebuildingtogetheralex.
In fact, Rebuilding To- org or call 703-836-1021.
gether Alexandria volunteers
helped Michael restore his
The writer is the president of
two-story row home, allow- Rebuilding Together Alexandria.
My View
24 | april 23, 2015
Chamber Corner
with Susan Carroll
Inova Alexandria and
Alexandria Chamber honor
public safety personnel
A good community hos- build trust and find new ways
pital, especially in a city like to improve care and save lives.
Alexandria, enjoys a natural Several years ago, we became
collaboration with public safe- the first hospital in Northern
ty personnel. Together, these Virginia to collaborate with
entities continue to improve first responders in the field
emergency response skills and to flag incoming heart attack
create an environment in which patients and expedite lifesavbest practices evolve, enhanc- ing care. As a result, outcomes
ing the health and
have improved.
Inova Alexandria
safety of every
resident. This colHospital could not
do what we do withlaboration is a major
out the help and supfactor in making our
port of these dedicatcommunity a safer,
ed first responders. I
healthier place in
which to do busicontinue to be humbled by the bravery,
ness and thrive.
self-sacrifice
and
Inova AlexanSusan Carroll
community
spirit
dria Hospital has a
long, proud tradition of inno- they demonstrate every day.
vation in emergency care. In Their commitment to protect
1961, we were the first hos- and care for all who need it —
pital in the country to staff an sometimes at great personal
emergency department around risk to themselves — is the
the clock with full-time ER truest example of valor.
physicians. And last month, As a partner with the Alwe received the Get With exandria Chamber of ComThe Guidelines Target Stroke merce, Inova Alexandria HosHonor Roll-Elite Plus Qual- pital is once again proud to
ity Achievement Award for honor these men and women
outstanding care of stroke pa- at the chamber’s annual Pubtients. This prestigious award lic Safety Valor Awards. The
demonstrates our commitment event allows us, and the city’s
to ensuring stroke patients entire business community,
admitted to the emergency to convey our gratitude to its
department receive the most public safety departments and
advanced treatments based on honor those individuals who
nationally respected clinical have demonstrated the true
guidelines, and it could not meaning of the word hero.
have been possible without We are privileged to presour close partnership with the ent this year’s program,
city’s police, firefighters and which will be held on Thursday, April 30, at First Baptist
paramedics.
Each day, our physicians, Church of Alexandria. I invite
nurses, clinicians and staff you to join me in saluting our
interact with personnel from heroes. For more information,
the Alexandria Police Depart- please visit the chamber’s web
ment, Alexandria Fire Depart- site at www.alexchamber.com.
ment and the Alexandria Sheriff’s Office. We have worked
The writer is the CEO of
hard to foster communication,
Inova Alexandria Hospital.
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lawsuit
FROM | 22
the city play by its own rules
in handling zoning protests,
protests which the city charter provides are to be decided
by the city’s Board of Zoning
Appeals. The BZA is a seven-member citizen oversight
board charged with providing
a check on the planning director’s interpretation of the city’s
zoning ordinance.
In this case, now-retired
Planning Director Faroll Hamer
refused to accept the Iron Ladies’ appeal to the BZA challenging the manner in which the
city attempted to rezone the waterfront. When they attempted
the next day to file a second appeal to the BZA, Hamer again
rejected the appeal. In effect,
Hamer took the position that
she alone could decide whether
a decision of hers could be appealed to the BZA.
As it now stands, if Alexandria citizens seek to assert their
rights under the city charter to
appeal a decision to the BZA,
they must now first get the approval of the planning director
to file that appeal. In effect, the
planning director has become
a gatekeeper for appeals to the
BZA, a posture not authorized
by the charter.
Additionally, in noting that
city council voted 6 to 1 to
change the waterfront zoning,
the Supreme Court erred in assuming that, had the BZA heard
the Iron Ladies’ appeal, councilors still would have voted by
a supermajority to change the
zoning. In fact, it is quite possible that had the BZA heard the
appeal, the hearing and ruling
might have caused more members of council to vote against
the zoning change, thereby defeating it.
At its core, the Iron Ladies’
lawsuit and their request for
a rehearing is not about redevelopment of the Alexandria
waterfront. Instead, it is about
the process by which zoning
changes are made in the city.
The state Supreme Court was
asked to rule that the city must
play by its own rules, whatever
the outcome might be. All Alexandrians will win if the court
reconsiders its decision and
rules in favor of the Iron Ladies.
A decision in their favor will
create the common ground the
Times seeks.
- Bert Ely and Mark Mueller
Co-chairmen, Friends of the
Alexandria Waterfront
Waterfront must reflect its past,
and do so properly
To the editor:
On Saturday, Mayor Bill
Euille voiced his support for the
plans proposed by EYA along
the waterfront at Robinson
Terminal South. He claimed to
offer a “historical” perspective
of the waterfront based on his
own life in the city — a short 65
years.
Among other things, he recalled playing on the mid-20th
century industrial areas along
the waterfront, and then pointed
to the mural on the south wall of
council chambers, saying that
it may reflect what the waterfront looked like in the 1700s
or 1800s, but that’s not what it
was when he was playing there.
He argued that this 20th century
industrial past was not what he
wanted to see in the design, and
that what was offered is better
than what is there now and also
what was there when he was
a child. He was happy enough
with what he saw from the developer.
In effect, the mayor argued
that those opposed to the submitted designs are saying they
want the waterfront he knew in
the recent past. That’s not the
case, nor is it really the choice
before us. It’s disingenuous to
argue so.
As Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg put it, the waterfront
should reflect its past, but need
not replicate what the mayor
knew. She pointed out that she
certainly was not supporting returning to what the waterfront
looked like when Euille was a
child. Instead, she wants a waterfront that embraces the city’s
and the country’s heritage and
relates to the Old and Historic
District setting. The choice is
not about whether the design is
better than the 1950s; it’s about
what is the best design to embrace Alexandria’s past and that
of the nation.
Mayor Euille added that at
65 he won’t be here to hear the
judgment of the next generations
— “I’ll be gone by then” he says.
He need not wait that long. The
city council made a bad decision and one that will destroy
an opportunity to create a waterfront Alexandrians can point to
as their own — not something
that, as the vice mayor pointed
out, belongs at Landmark or
elsewhere and anywhere. Good
enough isn’t good enough.
In truth, the lithograph the
mayor pointed to and then said
he’d “love to restore all that” if
it was possible, is actually a better example of what we should
aspire to than the 20th century
industrial look he claimed on
Saturday to oppose. The image, printed by Charles Magnus in 1863 in New York, is
recognized as one of the most
accurate non-photographic depictions of an American “city”
during that era, down to the individual structures. It captures
Alexandria’s heritage and offers
design ideas more compelling
than the developer’s.
Even if you look at the portion of the print depicting what
is now the Robinson Terminal
South site, the true “historic”
waterfront (not of the mayor’s
1950s) was far less dense than
what we are now being offered.
If Mayor Euille meant what he
said on Saturday about restoring the 1860s waterfront look
the print reflects, we could do
much worse, and it appears we
probably will.
- Hal Hardaway
Alexandria
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The local origin story of Robert E. Lee
t the start of the Civil
War on April 23, 1861,
just three days after
resigning his post in the U.S.
Army and exactly one month
before Virginia’s vote in favor
of secession, Robert E. Lee accepted command of the Virginia state forces. The handsome
general, who lived nearby at
Arlington House, grew up in
Alexandria and lovingly considered the city his hometown.
Although born at Stratford
Hall, the Lee family plantation
in Westmoreland County,
young Robert was brought
to Alexandria with his siblings at the age of four in
the winter of 1810-11 to
live at 611 Cameron St.
As a member of two of
Virginia’s most illustrious
families, his parents Ann
Hill Carter and Henry Lee
III feigned to have moved
their children north to take
advantage of the fine educational facilities in Alexandria.
However, in reality, Henry
Lee had just emerged from a
debtor’s prison in Montross,
Va., after serving a one-year
sentence. When he emerged
from his jail term, the ninth
Governor of Virginia, former
Revolutionary War commander
nicknamed “Lighthorse Harry
of Lee’s Legion” and the man
who had eulogized George
Washington with the phrase,
“First in war, first in peace, first
in the hearts of his countrymen”
found himself in seriously distressed circumstances.
Stratford Hall had to be
transferred to his son from an
earlier marriage, Henry Lee IV
known as “Black Horse”, who
quickly became ensconced in
debt and was forced to sell the
homestead within a few years
after the older Lees’ move to
Alexandria.
The Federal-style dwelling
at 611 Cameron St., as seen on
the left side in this photo dating
from the 1920s, was actually
built in 1795 by cabinetmaker
John Bogue for his own use,
along with the companion home
next door that was purchased by
rope maker James Irwin. That
same year, Bogue opened a ship
joinery that doubled as a cabinet
and home building workshop
on Princess Street, near Hepburn’s Wharf. A former British
subject, Bogue had earlier been
naturalized as a U.S. citizen.
His business prospered
quickly and in 1796 he opened
a large store near his workshop
that carried an extensive selection of hardware and building
materials. By the early 1800s
he had relocated to a larger
home and offered 611 Cameron
St. for lease, which ultimately
attracted the humbled Lee
family. Although the home is
often referred to as the General
Henry Lee House, the family lived there for only about
Out of the Attic is provided by
the Office of Historic Alexandria.
In response to “Planning
commission OKs Robinson
Terminal South project,”
April 16:
Brent writes:
Robert Atkinson has it exactly
right: Alexandria, and its waterfront, should be allowed to evolve
with the times. It’s refreshing to
see the city planners approve a
modern design that will be a nice
visual counter-balance to colonial
brick and mortar. I wish there
would be more of it.
Chuck writes:
I can’t wait for the next opportunity I have to do something
to the front of my house and the
[board of architectural review]
says it’s not in keeping with the
historical nature of Old Town.
This Robinson South design befits 1974 Warsaw, Poland, not Old
Town.
The BAR and city officials
who approved this lost all credibility and must be replaced at
the next opportunity. This thing
will stick out like a sore thumb.
Contemporary design smack in
the middle of what used to be a
carefully preserved piece of history. [It is] now blighted.
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a year. When the lease ended,
Mrs. Lee moved the children
to a home owned by a relative, William Fitzhugh Lee, at
607 Oronoco St., near to other
members of the family.
Soon after relocating to Alexandria, amid British provocations that would lead to the
declaration of the War of 1812,
Henry Lee was offered a military commission as a Major
General. He readily accepted,
but on the way to receive his
command on July 27, 1812, he
was seriously injured in
Baltimore while trying to
defend his close friend Alexander Hanson, editor of a
local newspaper opposed to
the war, from a mob attack.
Hanson, Lee and others
were severely beaten by the
crowd, and Lee suffered serious internal injuries and
head wounds.
To recuperate, he traveled
around the West Indies and
on his way back to Virginia
stopped at the home of Gen.
Nathanial Greene on Cumberland Island, Ga., where he
died suddenly in 1818. Robert
was then only 11 years old and
had only bare memories of his
father. But years later, during
the War Between the States,
realizing that he would probably never return to Arlington
or Alexandria, he expressed to
his wife a desire to reacquire
Stratford Hall and possibility
rebuild a life for them at the
quiet family homestead. His
dream never came to pass.
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26 | april 23, 2015
VOID YOUR WARRANTY By Jill Pepper
across
1 Buccaneers’ home
6 Sharp mountain ridge
11Grind down
16 U.K. television network
19Certain exams
20Russian country house
21 Gave a great review
22___ de Janeiro
23Barely begin
26Bird-to-be
27 X-shaped cross
28Forebodings
29Con
31 Condo division
32Parenthesis, essentially
34Little toymaker
35Branch
37 Religious image (var.)
38French door part
39Darjeeling or oolong
40Home of the Taj Mahal
42“Let it stand”
43Botch things
46Smallish table adornment
48Picks from a menu
52Eurasian diving duck
54“How distasteful!”
55Adversaries
57 Conventions
58Deep blue gem
60Prior to, old-style
61 Crazy way to run
62Feeling of affection, with a
cutesy spelling
63Big deal
64Rouses from sleep
66Chance occurrence
67PR company’s focus, sometimes
71 When repeated, a dance
72Port of Belgium
74 Common deciduous tree
75Stomach acid, to a chemist
76 Sounds of disapproval
77 Actor Jackie and family
78Gives emphasis to
81 Raymond and Aaron
82Congers
83Make a choice
84Song for you and I
85Period of greatest success
86Religious groups
89 The world’s largest freshwater lake
91 Pain-reliever’s target
93Pro basketball game locale
94.001 of an inch
95Fireplace shelves
99Casual talk
100 ___ Aviv
101 Org. for Venus and
Serena Williams
104 Building add-on
105 Departure
106 Curve enhancer
108 City of Tuscany
110 It’s short on stories
112 .0000001 joule
113 Harsh rebuttal
117 Payable now
118 4:1, e.g.
119 “Same for me”
120 Musical selection
121 Non-P.C. suffix
122 Turn topsy-turvy
123 Worn and shabby, as a motel
124 Bridge positions
DOWN
1 Difficult-to-predict outcome
2 Mysterious stuff
3 “The Old Man and the Sea” fish
4 Missouri feeder
5 ___ Spumante
6Attaches
7 Sewer rodent
8 Audio effect
9 A restaurant may have one
10 Chart holder
11 Blows it
12 Churchill’s “so few” (Abbr.)
13 Eggs, biologically
14 Point in math class?
15 Adam’s home
16 Post a best-ever score
17 Water temperature tester,
sometimes
18 Convincing, as an argument
24 Jalopies
25 Ill-suited
30 Identified wrongly
33 Tapioca plant
35 “Haste makes waste,” e.g.
36 Rolling in dough
41 Brain cell
43 Robinson or Doubtfire
44 Official in a mask, briefly
45 Vigor
47 Butcher’s awful waste?
48 City near Boys Town, Nebraska
49 Type of novel
50 Let someone walk?
51 “Oh no, a mouse!”
53 Eliminated, mob-style
56 Portuguese lady
58 Pump in the basement
59 Altar avowal
60 Missing from the USMC, e.g.
62 Lawrence of Scandinavia
64 More than one 32-Across
65 Fresh-mouthed
67Thickheaded
68 Ill-gains link
69 Ring bearer, often
70 It’s commonly requested
73 Pickpocket targets
76 Pay the price for
78 Salesman’s preparation
79Grinder
80 Caribbean, e.g.
81 ___ canto
83 Beast of fairy tales
85 Attention-getting shout
87 Dirty, run-down digs
88 Horror sequel of 2005
90 Wet blanket
91 Knuckle under
92 Musical refrain
95 Abdominal anomaly
96 Rust causes
97Split
98 Cordwood units
102 Serves brewski after brewski
103 Dickinson of TV and film
107 Hosiery shade
108 Wearing wingtips, e.g.
109 “Laugh-In” comic Johnson
111 Use a sponge
114 One for the off-road
115 Transgression
116 Airport sched. letters
Last Week’s Solution:
Obituaries
NINA BALDUCCI BROWN,
formerly of Alexandria, April 17,
2015
MARY LUCY GIAMMITTORIO,
of Alexandria, April 1, 2015
RITA F. GRAY (93),
CHERLYN ARLAINE SLIGHT
HARRIS,
CECILIA A. KOWALIK (93),
ALAN W. LAW (69),
STEVEN MCLAUGHLIN (67),
formerly of Alexandria, January
6, 2015
DOROTHY G. NUNBERG (94),
formerly of Alexandria, April 14,
2015
HELEN R. RODGERS,
MARY I. SMITH (71),
CHARLES T. STROBEL,
ROBIN L. TAYLOR (65),
ANNA ZIEMBA,
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A public hearing will be held by the Alexandria Board of Architectural Review on
WEDNESDAY, May 6, 2015 beginning at
7:30 PM in Council Chambers, second floor
of City Hall, 301 King Street, Alexandria,
Virginia on the following applications:
ABANDONED WATERCRAFT
Notice is hereby given that the following watercraft has been abandoned
for more than 60 DAYS on the property
of: William Harding, 2823 East Side Dr.
Alexandria, VA 22306.
Description: Bay Liner, 26’, 1996, white,
Hull# USCA08FHH596, Registration#
VA 7235 AZ
Application for Watercraft Title will be
made in accordance with Section 29.1733.25 of the Code of Virginia if this
watercraft is not claimed and removed
within 30 days of first publication of
this notice. Please contact the Virginia
Department of Game and Inland Fisheries with questions.
PUBLIC NOTICE
AT&T proposes a modification to an
existing facility with tip heights of 143
feet, 160 feet, and 161 feet on a building
at 511 Four Mile Road in Alexandria, VA
(Lynhaven). In accordance with federal
regulation 47CFR 1.1307, the NEPA and
the ACHP 36 CFR 800, parties interested
in submitting comments or questions
regarding any potential effects of the
proposed facility on Historic Properties may
do so by contacting Scott Horn (856-8091202, [email protected]) at
ACER Associates, LLC at 1012 Industrial
Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091.
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