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Times Alexandria Vol. 14b, No. 15 Alexandria’s only independent hometown newspaper. APRIL 12, 2018 'Charlottesville: Our Streets' Virginia filmmaker Jackson Landers and co-producer Brian Wimer debut their moving doc- umentary about the Charlottes- ville Neo-Nazi march in 2017. Page 31 Legislative meeting Council approves new funding plan for Potomac Yard Metro, considers outfalls timeline. Page 8 Seniors What to consider when decid- ing on a senior living commu- nity. Page 25 INSIDE ASO board expected to extend offer to new music director in May BY ALEXA EPITROPOULOS As the curtain closes on the Alexan- dria Symphony Orchestra’s 2017-2018 season, the organization is getting close to naming its first new conductor in three decades. The process of searching for a re- placement for longtime Maestro Kim Kluge, the 28-year symphony veteran who set down his baton in May 2016, was extensive. The symphony’s search com- mittee fielded more than 170 applica- tions from around the world and steadily narrowed the list down from 35 to 17 to the final four. Those four – Michael Rossi, James Ross, José-Luis Novo and Nicholas Hersh – auditioned for the role by each conducting a concert. Rossi opened the season with “Wagner, Strauss & Beetho- ven” last September, followed by Ross in October with “Britten & Brahms” and Novo in February with “Debussy & Si- belius.” Hersh concluded the season Sat- urday and Sunday with “Bach, Piazzolla & Brahms.” Each applicant was given a similar experience, according to Melynda Wil- cox, co-vice chair of the symphony’s board of trustees and a member of the search committee. Rossi, Ross, Novo and Hersh were given the same amount Alexandria Symphony approaches new era SEE SYMPHONY | 15 ACPS seeks to abandon decades-old agreement with neighbors BY MISSY SCHROTT Despite attending class- es in a relatively new, mod- ern building, athletes at T.C. Williams High School have long dealt with the sched- uling constraints, amenity deficiencies and embarrass- ing regional reputation that come with an outdated stadi- um. With a design concept in place and budget money set aside, Alexandria City Pub- lic Schools is ready to move forward with modernizing Parker-Gray Stadium. That full-steam-ahead desire to renovate, however, has run into an equally de- termined wall of resistance in the form of a brigade of spirited neighbors and the binds of an old promise. Showdown looms over T.C. lights SEE T.C. LIGHTS | 11 COURTESY PHOTO Nicholas Hersh leads the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra Saturday evening. While rainy and unseasonably cold weather forced opening day festivities indoors, the Alexandria Little League nonetheless launched its 2018 season on Saturday at Hammond Middle School. Team and individual photos were taken. Here, Mayor Allison Silberberg poses with R.J. Davis, who plays for the Del Ray Pizzeria team. Play Ball, Alexandria! COURTESY PHOTO

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TimesAlexandriaVol. 14b, No. 15 Alexandria’s only independent hometown newspaper. APRIL 12, 2018

'Charlottesville: Our Streets'Virginia filmmaker Jackson Landers and co-producer Brian Wimer debut their moving doc-umentary about the Charlottes-ville Neo-Nazi march in 2017. Page 31

Legislative meetingCouncil approves new funding plan for Potomac Yard Metro, considers outfalls timeline. Page 8

SeniorsWhat to consider when decid-ing on a senior living commu-nity. Page 25

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ASO board expected to extend offer to new music director in MayBY ALEXA EPITROPOULOS

As the curtain closes on the Alexan-dria Symphony Orchestra’s 2017-2018 season, the organization is getting close to naming its first new conductor in three decades.

The process of searching for a re-placement for longtime Maestro Kim Kluge, the 28-year symphony veteran who set down his baton in May 2016, was extensive. The symphony’s search com-mittee fielded more than 170 applica-tions from around the world and steadily narrowed the list down from 35 to 17 to the final four.

Those four – Michael Rossi, James Ross, José-Luis Novo and Nicholas Hersh – auditioned for the role by each conducting a concert. Rossi opened the season with “Wagner, Strauss & Beetho-ven” last September, followed by Ross in October with “Britten & Brahms” and Novo in February with “Debussy & Si-belius.” Hersh concluded the season Sat-urday and Sunday with “Bach, Piazzolla & Brahms.”

Each applicant was given a similar experience, according to Melynda Wil-cox, co-vice chair of the symphony’s board of trustees and a member of the search committee. Rossi, Ross, Novo and Hersh were given the same amount

Alexandria Symphony approaches new era

SEE SYMPHONY | 15

ACPS seeks to abandon decades-old agreement with neighborsBY MISSY SCHROTT

Despite attending class-es in a relatively new, mod-ern building, athletes at T.C. Williams High School have long dealt with the sched-uling constraints, amenity deficiencies and embarrass-ing regional reputation that come with an outdated stadi-

um. With a design concept in place and budget money set aside, Alexandria City Pub-lic Schools is ready to move forward with modernizing Parker-Gray Stadium.

That full-steam-ahead desire to renovate, however, has run into an equally de-termined wall of resistance in the form of a brigade of spirited neighbors and the binds of an old promise.

Showdown looms over T.C. lights

SEE T.C. LIGHTS | 11

COURTESY PHOTONicholas Hersh leads the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra Saturday evening.

While rainy and unseasonably cold weather forced opening day festivities indoors, the Alexandria Little League nonetheless launched its 2018 season on Saturday at Hammond Middle School. Team and individual photos were taken. Here, Mayor Allison Silberberg poses with R.J. Davis, who plays for the Del Ray Pizzeria team.

Play Ball, Alexandria!

COURTESY PHOTO

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Alexandria Chamber announces Valor Awards honorees

The Alexandria Chamber of Commerce has announced the honorees of its 2018 Val-or Awards.

The three Alexandria Police Department officers who were among the first on the scene of the June shooting at Eugene Simp-son Stadium Park – Nicole Battaglia, Alexander Jensen and Kevin Jobe – are three of the 62 honorees that will be recognized at the Cham-ber’s April 19 event. Batt-aglia, Jensen and Jobe will receive gold medals. Officer Suzanne Watts will receive the silver medal.Other awardees are listed below:

Bronze medal recipients include: Sergeant Daniel Gordon, Sergeant Gregory Holden, Officer Reid Hud-son, Officer Bryson Norris, Officer Douglass Serven II, Officer Anthony Larusso, Detective Keith Burkholder, Lieutenant Matt Weinert, K9

Officer Carlos Rolon, Officer Richard Sandoval, Officer Michael Izzi, Officer Mi-chael Matteson, Deputy Fire Marshal Joseph Zarkauskas, Fire Captain Anthony Casa-lena, Firefighter Tyler De-genhardt, Firefighter Chris-topher Smith, Firefighter/Medic Richard Krimmer, Firefighter Luis Vasquez, Firefighter Caleb Hann, Firefighter Christopher Yashin, Medic Fiona Apple and Medic Chad Shade.

Life Saving Award recip-ients include: Medic Remi Howell, Medic Brett Buehler, Firefighter Karl Kappelman, Captain Chad Lallier, Fire-fighter Kristina Holt, Fire-fighter Matthew Quante, Firefighter Kenny Salfelder, Lieutenant Donald Scott, Sergeant Jeff Stovall, Officer Joel Hughes, Officer Ray-mond Golden, Officer Robert Honaker, Firefighter Jason Sharpe, Firefighter Arash Hematti, Firefighter Dary-

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Certificate of Valor hon-orees include: Officer Daniel Caniff, Officer Constance Kniesler, Officer Westrick McIlvain, Officer Steven Moffa, Officer John Brattelli, Officer David Daniels, Offi-cer Chuck Young and Lieu-tenant Ed Milner.

The 2018 Public Safety & Valor Awards will be held from 8 to 10 a.m. on April 19 at the Hilton Alexandria Old Town.

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City announces discovery of third ship at Robinson Landing

The City of Alexandria announced in a press release that archaeologists under contract with developer EYA LLC have found the remains of a third historic ship at Rob-inson Landing. They believe all three ships at the site were built in the mid-to-late 1700s and were buried before 1798. A similar ship was discovered nearby at the Hotel Indigo site in 2015. The most recent ship discovery is the largest yet.

The city and EYA will hold a public viewing of the site at the unit block of Wolfe Street

on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. Archaeologists will be on hand to provide informa-tion and answer questions. The active construction site will not be open to the pub-lic during the viewing, but many notable elements of the site will be visible, including the most recent ship discov-ery. The ships will be covered before and after the viewing in order to protect the wood from exposure.

“Working in Alexandria for more than 20 years, we recognize and respect the

rich history of the city and the importance of preserv-ing discoveries of this kind,” Evan Goldman, EYA vice president of acquisition and development, said in a state-ment. “We’re committed to this unprecedented effort to protect the archaeological history of Old Town. The re-sults have gone well beyond what we expected, and we are thrilled by the significance of the findings and their unique ability to preserve the legacy of the city for years to come.”

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An Alexandria resident pleaded guilty April 5 to a four-count indictment, in-cluding murder in the first degree, according to the Al-exandria Commonwealth’s Attorney.

Melvin John Williams, 23, was charged with first-de-gree murder, malicious wounding, impeding a police officer and animal cruelty. He was sentenced to 33 years.

Evidence established that Williams stabbed victim DaSheria Barksdale in a res-idence on the 900 block of North Henry Street on Sept. 14. Williams and Barksdale had dated and lived together for about two years.

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an upstairs bedroom, af-ter which witnesses heard Barksdale screaming.

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Barksdale was found to have suffered multiple stab wounds, which caused her death.

Williams was taken into custody after a brief struggle and transported to a hospital to be treated for his self-in-flicted wounds. Williams has been held at Truesdale Adult Detention Center since being released from the hospital.

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Overturned car at the Basilica of St. Mary

A car crash in Old Town ended with a white sedan in-verted in front of the doors of the Basilica of St. Mary at 310 S. Royal St. on Sunday morning.

The Alexandria Police De-partment reported the Sunday morning crash at 7:13 a.m. via Facebook and Twitter. Police said the driver of the inverted vehicle had been transport-ed to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police didn’t release any

updates about the status of the driver as of press time and it’s unclear what charges he or she may face.

The Basilica of St. Mary described the driver’s condi-tion as fine in a social media post on Monday. The basilica sustained some damage to its railings and the same social media post said repair work would begin soon.

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Alexandria’s Opioid Work Group hosted an “Opioid Community Action Planning Meeting” on Monday to ad-dress the impact of the na-tional opioid crisis at the local level.

About 60 people attended the meeting, representing var-ious organizations throughout the city, including the Depart-ment of Community and Hu-man Services, the Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition of Alexandria (SAPCA), the Al-exandria Health Department, the police department, the sheriff’s department, Inova Alexandria and EMS. In addi-tion to official representatives of organizations and the Opi-oid Work Group, several in-terested community members attended the event.

The action planning meet-

ing was the work group’s next phase after hosting a town hall meeting on Feb. 28 titled “A Community Conversa-tion: Heroin and Other Opi-oids.” While the last meeting sparked a conversation, Mon-day’s meeting was meant to be more proactive.

“Tonight is when we need you to provide information about activities, strategies, things that we should be do-ing in the City of Alexandria in order to address the opioid issue,” Allen Lomax, SAPCA chair and Opioid Work Group member, said at the start of the gathering.

The event was formatted as several roundtable discus-sions. The five focus groups were prevention and educa-tion, treatment, overdose re-sponse and recovery, diversion and supply reduction and law enforcement. Attendees were

able to choose two of the five focus groups to participate in over the course of the hour and half meeting.

“We often find that we have our perspectives, but so many community members have different diverse views

that it helps us make a much richer plan,” Lomax said.

Liz Wixson, director of clinical and emergency ser-vices for DCHS, said the work group would compile the ideas and strategies brainstormed at the meeting and mesh them

with their existing initiatives. “I have a feeling, I hope that

the priorities that come out is that the community wants to be involved,” Wixson said.

Lomax said another goal of the action meeting was to identify and facilitate partner-ships with community organi-zations such as churches and recreation centers that are not yet involved with the Opioid Work Group.

“We’re all working togeth-er, but it’s a small slice of the city, of what needs to get done and is actually in the neigh-borhoods and the offices and the recreation centers,” Lo-max said.

Wixson said the outcome of the roundtable discussions would be available in the com-ing weeks and would help the work group plan its next steps in fighting the opioid crisis.

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PHOTO/MISSY SCHROTTAbout 60 community members and representatives from various or-ganizations around the city attended the "Opioid Community Action Planning Meeting" on Monday, hosted by the Opioid Work Group.

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Campaign tension be-tween Vice Mayor Wil-son, Mayor Silberberg spills into meeting BY ALEXA EPITROPOULOS

City council unanimously approved a revised funding proposal for the Potomac Yard Metro station and received a presentation outlining the road forward regarding sewer outfalls at its Tuesday night legislative meeting.

The meeting also con-tained some late-inning fire-works as Vice Mayor Justin Wilson and Mayor Allison Sil-berberg clashed during coun-cilors’ oral presentations.

Deputy City Manager Emi-ly Baker said WMATA is on the verge of awarding a contract for the construction of the Potomac Yard Metro station. The city has revised its bud-get for the station, however, due to the cost of construction

companies’ project proposals, among other factors.

The revised cost, Baker said, is $320 million, with $30 million set aside for contin-gency costs. That’s $52 million higher than the $268 million proposed in 2010.

The proposal calls for the city to fund $83 million through general obligation bonds, $70 million with a Northern Virginia Transpor-tation Authority grant, $50 million with a state Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank loan, $88 million with a federal Transportation Infra-structure Finance and Innova-tion Act loan and $29 million through other sources.

City Manager Mark Jinks said the city secured a VTIB loan at a locked interest rate of 2.2 percent, but that the federal TIFIA loan hadn’t been secured at this point. The amount of the TIFIA loan

could range from $88 million to $106 million. If the city se-cures a TIFIA loan for more than $88 million, the amount the city would fund in gener-al obligation bonds would de-crease accordingly.

As the city waits for the general obligation bonds and TIFIA confirmation, Jinks is proposing securing a $210 million line of credit from one or two banks as a “short term bridge.” Council would vote on that proposal in a separate docket item.

Jinks also proposed delay-ing the developer contribution for office, retail and hotel in phase one to incentivize de-velopment and eliminating the Tier II special tax district. Po-tential right-of-way fees would be substituted for the revenue the city would forego by drop-ping plans for the special tax district, which has been met with resistance by residents.

City staff estimates the project could be completed by late 2021 or early 2022 and said some geotechnical work could begin as soon as late this year.

Councilor Paul Smedberg asked when the city would be given a definite response about the TIFIA loan. City staff responded that the pro-cess could take between three to six months.

Mayor Allison Silberberg asked if there were any incen-tives on the table to encourage the contractor to complete the project early.

“There’s no contractual incentive or reward for early completion, but for the con-tractor, it’s in their best inter-est to come early,” City Acting Director of Project Implemen-tation Mitch Bernstein said.

Council unanimously vot-ed to send the revised Poto-mac Yard metro budget for-

ward and directed the city manager to introduce a sep-arate ordinance to sunset the special tax district.

Baker also made a presen-tation about the city’s plan to fix its four outfalls by July 1, 2025 – the deadline mandated by legislation signed by former Gov. Terry McAuliffe in 2017.

Baker said staff and the city’s partner in the project, Alex Renew Enterprises, had been working with a 14-mem-ber stakeholder group to get public input on proposals to fix the outfalls. The group was working with three base op-tions:

Option A, which would connect outfalls three and four and, separately, outfalls one and two to the Alex Renew facility and provides for the construction of a wet weather facility;

Council OKs next steps for Potomac Yard Metro, sewer outfalls

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The promise dates back more than 50 years to when T.C. Williams High School was first built, said Lars Lieb-eler, one of the attorneys re-tained by homeowners living next to the school’s property.

T.C. Williams was built in 1965 on the land of one of two black neighborhoods in the city. At the same time, homes were built in the adjacent neighborhood that includes Woods Place, Woods Avenue and Quaker Lane for the dis-placed black homeowners, Li-ebeler said.

In 1965, the school agreed to not light the football field beside these new homes, in recognition of the “undue burden this community has suffered to make way for T.C. Williams High School,” Li-ebeler said in a letter to the school board.

Beyond this initial agree-ment, Liebeler said ACPS re-newed the promise in 2004 when renovation began on the high school and again in 2012 when they built tennis courts with lights on the King Street side of the school prop-erty.

Despite this half-centu-ry-long agreement, which has been recorded both verbally and in writing, ACPS plans to move forward with the mod-ernization project, fostering a debate among the school division, the neighbors, stu-dents, sports organizations and other community stake-holders.

“I think there’s a signifi-cant difference in the places where people build houses or move in at a much later point in time knowing the school is there,” Liebeler said. “There’s a different situation when people were there first, and there was a promise made to them that there wouldn’t be lights.”

ACPS Chief Operating Of-ficer Mignon Anthony and School Board Chair Ramee Gentry said they had heard about the need to upgrade Parker-Gray Stadium for years. They began the com-munity engagement aspect of the project in February 2017 and completed the concept design submission process with the City of Alexandria in late 2017.

Anthony said the project came about in an effort to

modernize the stadium and bring it up to the use and ca-pability standards of other high schools in the region.

“We’re noticeably defi-cient compared to really all of our neighbors in terms of the stadium,” Gentry said.

Amenity wise, the stadi-um has no bathrooms, worn out turf, a condemned press box and a track that falls short of regulation standards, said Don Simpson Jr., a mem-ber of the city’s Youth Sports Advisory Board. In addition, he said various high school teams face the scheduling constraints of holding prac-tices and games during day-light hours.

“We’re the only school that has to play our football games on Saturday instead of Friday nights, and then of course we have to play soc-cer games earlier,” he said. “That’s not a positive when you’re scheduling against all the other Fairfax County schools.”

A member of the family that was honored with the naming of Eugene Simpson Stadium Park, Simpson said

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PHOTO/MISSY SCHROTTParker-Gray Stadium at T.C. Williams High School has no lights, no bathrooms, worn out turf, a track that doesn't meet regulations and an outdated press box, score board and concession stand.

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he’s a longtime advocate for the city’s sports programs and facilities.

“They’ve got to move for-ward with the stadium mod-ernization,” he said. “The only contentious part about it is if they include the lights or not, and I just think if they’re going to spend the time and money and effort, to upgrade it without lights seems silly.”

Despite the necessity of modernizing the field, the project’s opponents think ACPS should keep its obliga-tion to the Woods neighbor-hood. The Seminary Civic Association and several in-dividual homeowners have sought legal representation, adding up to more than 50 neighbors who are opposed to the project, Liebeler said.

When T.C. Williams High School was modernized from 2004 to 2007, a condition was included in the project’s de-velopment special use permit

that reiterates the agreement that was first established in the 60s. Condition 85 in DSUP 2002-0044 reads: “No perma-nent stadium lighting shall be installed at the School stadi-um or on any other athletic fields, including the proposed new practice field.”

The Department of Plan-ning and Zoning notes in its comments on the stadium modernization project’s Con-

cept II plans that the addition of stadium lighting would require an amendment to remove Condition 85 from DSUP 2002-0044.

“The DSUP is simply the zoning process that they need to go through,” Liebeler said, “But what it does is it reflects the agreement between the parties. There’s an indepen-dent legal obligation we be-lieve the school has, but more

than that, they have a moral obligation.”

William Goff, a neighbor whose home on Bishop Lane borders the stadium, said the modernization project’s neg-ative impacts include distur-bance from lights, noise and frequency of use, along with the devaluation of his and his neighbors’ properties.

“They can change the DSUP, but it can’t include in-tensification of what it was used for. It can’t be harmful to the neighborhood. They’re dancing on the rope here,” Goff said. “For example, if you want to build a play-ground, it’s not a big deal, but if you want to have a stadium with lights and games played from 8 in the morning to 10 at night, one would argue that that’s harmful for the neigh-borhood.”

Goff said putting stadium lights in this neighborhood would be especially offensive because it is a noncommer-cial, relatively dark part of the

city.“The problem is that when

you put lights there, any type of lights, and you have a pitch-black background, it’s going to magnify the intensi-ty of the glare,” Goff said. “It’s called a contrast ratio. When you have that particular situ-ation, it just lights up every-thing.”

Because T.C. Williams is located in a residential area, several of the project’s chal-lengers have suggested they move the field to a different location.

“The original stadium where the Titans played was behind GW [Middle School]. Most people don’t know that it sat 15,000 people,” Roy Shannon, another lawyer re-tained by homeowners in the Woods neighborhood, said.

“It was a huge stadium,” he said, “and quite honestly, that’s probably the best place for a stadium today to exist,

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PHOTO/MISSY SCHROTTThe condemned press box at Parker-Gray Stadium is one of the reasons cited for a stadium modernization.

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of time, with rehearsals fol-lowed by Saturday and Sun-day performance dates. Ap-plicants created their own event programs and were giv-en a performance budget for musicians, instrument rent-als and music rentals.

Members of the search committee attended rehears-als and concerts to observe candidates in various aspects of the environment.

“The rehearsal process is almost as important as the actual concert because you get to see how they relate to musicians,” Wilcox said. “You get a sense of how they inter-pret the music and how they communicate their interpre-tation to musicians. You also want to see how the program progresses from first rehears-al to dress rehearsal to the ac-tual performance.”

During each performance, members of the audience were asked to give feed-back through paper surveys, where they could rate each candidate’s conducting skill, presentation and whether or not the candidate made com-ments onstage, according to ASO Co-Executive Director Melinda Kernc.

“We’ve had a really strong attendance throughout the whole season and an extreme-ly high rate of response from surveys,” Kernc said. “Over half [of audience members] responded to the surveys. All have been really positive about the candidates. It will be a very difficult decision, I think.”

Musicians were able to give feedback through Sur-veyMonkey, where they rated how candidates conducted rehearsals, how easy they were to follow, as well as their interpretation of the music, among other things.

Bryan Bourne, ASO prin-cipal trombone, said musician participation was high.

“This is the first [search process] I’ve been involved

in where the board really val-ues the input of musicians,” Bourne said. “I think we’re all hoping that the best man for the position, for every aspect of the job, is also the best mu-sician.”

In addition to the sym-phony surveying audience members and musicians, five musicians were appointed to serve on the search com-mittee, including Amy Horn, ASO principal horn.

“The vetting process was very involved and the board members and the musicians on the search committee worked together,” Horn said. “What we were all looking for, what’s primary for the musi-cians, is we want a good mu-sician, someone who is able to communicate the music, communicate what they want for us, someone who inspires

us and challenges us and brings the music out of us.”

The applicants the board of trustees will choose from have varying backgrounds, experiences and geographic points of origin.

Rossi is the founder and artistic director of the Miami Summer Music Festival and was the youngest member to win a position in the Kennedy Center Opera House Orches-tra. Ross is the music director of the National Youth Orches-tra USA at Carnegie Hall, the music director of the Orques-ta Simfonica del Valles and part of the conducting faculty at the Julliard School at Lin-coln Center and the Univer-sity of Maryland. Novo is the music director and conductor of the Annapolis Symphony

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Michael Rossi is the founder and artistic director of the Miami Summer Music Festival, an annual instrumental summer music event. He became the youngest instrumentalist to ever win a position at the Kennedy Center Opera House when he won the second trumpet chair at age 22. As guest conductor, he has led the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra, the Chinese National Opera Orchestra and Mexico’s Orquesta Sinfonica de Xalapa. He also acts as a frequent conductor for the Washington National Opera. Rossi is a graduate of the Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artists Program.

James E. Ross is orchestra director of the National Youth Orchestra USA at Carnegie Hall, music director of Barcelona’s Orquesta Sinfonica del Valles and a conducting faculty member at the Julliard School at Lincoln Center and at the University of Maryland. Ross has previously served on the faculties of Yale University, the Curtis Institute of Music and Bryn Mawr college. He has also guest conducted the Leipzig Gewandwaus symphony, the Utah Symphony, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia. He has received accolades as a horn soloist and, at one point, earned third prize at the Munich International Horn Competition.

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Orchestra, while Hersh is the associate conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orches-tra and artistic director of the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestra.

All bring different skills to the table, Bourne said, from a musician’s point of view. He described Rossi as having a clear beat and enthusiasm about the music and Ross as having a mature interpreta-tion of the music and clarity as a conductor. He recalled Novo having good energy and a clear sense of the music. He said Hersh, the most recent performer, was a good tech-nician of the music and fully engaged in the performance.

“I think it’s going to be a very challenging decision because you have a pretty strong field of candidates,” Bourne said. “In terms of the regional orchestras that I’ve played with … these candi-

dates are probably stronger than any of those.”

The next stage for the search committee is to pull together the survey data, re-view videos of all four of the concerts and revisit notes about all interactions with candidates, including one-on-one interviews, meet and greets between musicians and audience members and con-versations held with members of the board of trustees.

“All four of the candi-dates have been very well-re-ceived by our audiences and we’ve gotten really tremen-dous feedback from audience members. … We’re estimat-ing that, by the end of the comment period for this last candidate, we will have ac-cumulated 1,500 surveys,” Wilcox said. “Most of those comments at the bottom where people express their viewpoints have had a lot of comments in the vein of ‘We never knew ASO could sound

this good.’” The board of trustees is

expected to make an offer to a candidate in May and an an-nouncement about the new conductor should be made shortly afterward.

Wilcox said, regardless of the board’s choice, there’s one clear hope in the minds of

all parties involved.“I think there’s an excite-

ment, there’s energy around the selection and there’s a sense that the future is going to be bright for ASO, regard-less of which one we choose,” Wilcox said. “There’s a feel-ing that, with a new music director, not only are we go-

ing to be able to continue to offer this really high-quality experience for our audience – we’re going to be able to ex-pand the types of programs and events we have and be a bigger presence in the com-munity.”

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NICHOLAS HERSHNicholas Hersh is the associate conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and artistic director of the Baltimore Symphony Youth Orchestras. He has appeared in concert with the New World Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony, the Auburn Symphony, the National Repertory Orchestra and the Southern Great Lakes Symphony. He studied at the American Academy of Conducting in Aspen. He is also a collaborator and guest faculty member at the Peabody Conservatory and the Baltimore symphony’s OrchKids program.

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José-Luis Novo is the music director and conductor of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra. Novo has held conducting positions at the Binghamton Philharmonic, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. He has guest conducted the Baltimore Symphony, the Fresno Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and the Cleveland Philharmonic. He serves as resident conductor for the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina.

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Alexa Lopez, a fourth-grade student at Lyles-Crouch Elementary School, is a life-long vegetarian, litter fanatic, animal-lover and tree-hugger. She also genuinely believes that her actions can help save the planet. Last week, Lopez was named the winner of the City of Alexandria’s Earth Day artwork contest for her poster, which combined her love of animals with her oth-er love, art, to represent the theme “Local Action, Global Impact.”

“First I thought Virginia and then trees, since that’s a big part of the planet, and then the earth. So, I did Vir-ginia, the tree and then the Earth kind of inside of the tree. I really like drawing and I really like trying to save the Earth,” Lopez said.

“Her artwork demon-strates love for our city,

state and world, and inspires us to take care of our envi-ronment,” said Earth Day Planning Committee Mem-ber and Director of UpCycle Creative Reuse Center Kelley Organek.

The contest is an annual initiative of the City of Alex-andria where all Alexandria

students in grades K-12 are invited to design artwork to help publicize the city’s Earth Day celebration. Lo-pez’s artwork was selected from more than 300 submis-sions. It will be printed on Earth Day t-shirts, reusable shopping bags and posters.

“If you see litter or

something pick it up and throw it away and you yourself shouldn’t litter. And, just keep the Earth clean. It’s not the animals’ fault and they just die be-cause of what humans do to the Earth, because of pollution and littering and things,” Lopez said.

Lopez was invited to at-tend the Proclamation Read-ing on Tuesday at city hall in city council chambers. Her winning artwork, along with the works of the other final-ists, will be displayed at city hall from April 16 to 27 and at the Earth Day event on April 28.

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Mount Everest, the Grand Canyon, Victoria Falls, the Northern Lights, Paricutin, and the Great Barrier Reef: Alexandria Country Day School Lower Schoolers re-cently spent a week explor-ing them all as part of the school’s Festival of Learn-ing. At this annual event,

students in kindergarten through fourth grade sus-pend their regular studies and immerse themselves in a week-long exploration of a particular topic.

This year, the topic was nature with a specific focus on the Seven Natural Won-ders. Fourth grade students

took on a leadership role in the festival, assisting grade level teachers with morn-ing workshops that included creating 3D presentations using Google Expeditions, engaging in hands-on ex-periments, reading literature

and creating artistic repre-sentations of their subjects.

Afternoons were dedicat-ed to subtopics of nature in-cluding biomes and habitats, national parks, gardening and “going green.” At the end of the week, families visited

each classroom to see what their children had learned and created, and participated in interactive exhibits. The evening culminated with sweet treats and the ques-tion, “What natural wonder would you add to the list?”

ACDS Lower School students explore seven natural wonders

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The center of Burgundy Farm Country Day School’s Alexandria campus was undergoing a transformation for most of 2017: the construction of a new arts and community center, officially named The Logan Loft, and renovation of the adjacent outdoor space, the Campus Commons. Classes and events moved into the new build-ing in late February. Burgundy hosted author Kwame Alexander in several sessions for the JK-8th grade student population. Here, with musical accompaniment, Alexander reads to Burgundy’s junior kindergarten and kindergar-ten students and several teachers and parents.

Lower School Saints re-cently created rocks that rep-resent the unique qualities of each student and faculty member, a project that both found meangful.

The entire Lower School created “identity rocks.” Each rock represents the unique qualities of each stu-dent and faculty member. Af-ter a recent chapel, students, teachers and visiting fami-lies gathered near the Identi-ty Rock Garden for a special blessing and song. The gar-den is a visual representation of their interconnectedness and diversity in the school community.

For the third year, Bless-ed Sacrament School was se-lected to host a guest speak-er from the USA Science and Engineering Festival’s Nif-ty-Fifty Program. On March 22, noted physicist and mathematician Dr. Tristan Hübsch of Howard Universi-ty explained to students the topic of “Nature being one, that it does not contradict itself; it just is.” He spoke on the discipline of learn-ing to understand nature and describe the “building blocks” – as we currently understand them – of tangi-ble matter and their interac-tions.

As a member of the X-STEM Ambassador pro-gram of the USA Science and Engineering Festival, BSS has the opportunity to re-quest a Nifty-Fifty Program speaker. This guest speaker

program sends more than 200 top scientists and en-gineers into Washington, D.C.-area schools in advance of the festival to ignite mid-dle and high school students’ passion for science and engi-neering. In past years, BSS

hosted speakers from Na-tional Geographic and the Smithsonian Institution.

BSS eighth graders Tyler Kaczmarek and Ana Roldan served as BSS X-STEM Am-bassador hosts for Hübsch’s visit. The entire BSS X-STEM Ambassador program team enjoyed a working lunch with Hübsch after his pre-sentation to ask follow up questions.

The Blessed Sacrament School X-STEM Ambassa-dor program was created by Technology Coordinator T.J. Chipres with the goal of exposing students to STEM leadership opportunities. Each year, the group cre-ates a mission statement and goals. The Nifty-Fifty Pro-gram opportunity comes on the heels of the second STEM Week of the school year: “All About Electricity.”

Blessed Sacrament School hosts STEM Talk

Out of the classroom Education section

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Building and grow-ing at Burgundy

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SSSAS identity rock project

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SPRING CAMPUS TOURSAPRIL 24 & 2610 a.m.

Come learn more about us—a Catholic high school committed to academic excellence that empowers students to achieve, lead, and become their best selves.

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Since 1947, we have sent more than 20,000 children to our 97 acre camp in Kilmarnock, Virginia, to have the time of their lives! The APYC is a place where kids have fun, and where they learn teamwork, build a strong self-image and develop strong character. Thank You.

Please help us get more kids into camp this summer by making a donation during Spring2Action on April 25, 2018.

Alexandria Police

Youth CampEst 1947

Your gifts go a long way: $25

Archery Set - help our campers hit the bullseye

$50Pack of 4 Life Jackets - keep the campers and staff safe on the

waterfront

$150Camp

Mattress - make a restful

home away from home

$300Program

Equipment - games, sports,

and all things that make camp great

$530: Send a Kid to Camp - The total cost for an entire week of camp

Donate to Alexandria Police Youth Camp on April 25th at www.spring2action.org/organizations/alexandria-police-youth-camp

YMCA/APYC Camp Kekoka 2018 Summer Registrat ion Has Begun!For the last 70 years, the Alexandria Police Youth Camp has been offering children in Alexandria a place to meet friends, try new exciting adventures and participate in character building activities.Skiing, knee boarding, tubing, kayaking, sailing, fishing, you name it and we get crazy with it! Windsurfing? We got it! Swimming pool, recreation hall, archery, campfres? We got it! Character development, team work, better self-esteem, WE LEAD IT! What are you waiting for? Sign up your kid today!

2018 Camp Dates:Session 1: June 24-June 29Session 2: July 1-6 Session 3: July 8-13Session 4: July 15-20 Session 5: July 22-27Session 6: July 29-Aug 3

Visit www.AlexPYC.org or contact Sergeant Marcus Downey at 571-221-4828 for more information.

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Inova Alexandria Hospital has part-nered with Alexandria City Public Schools to help keep schools healthy by providing more than 800 digital thermometers free of charge to school nurses to distribute to families in need.

School nurses send students who are ill with a fever home with instructions to parents not to let the child return to school until they are fever-free for 24 hours. By having free access to a thermometer at home, all families, no matter their back-ground, are able to tell when their child is well enough to return to school.

“It can be a challenge to determine whether a child has a fever for families who do not own a thermometer, may not be able to afford one and may not know how to use one,” said ACPS Health Services Co-ordinator Dr. Barbara Nowak. “Thanks to this generous donation from Inova, school nurses can now give thermometers to families who need them and demonstrate how to use them. This will enable parents to make accurate fever assessments and keep their child at home until they are fe-

ver-free for 24 hours.”The thermometers were presented ear-

lier this month to Lisa Clausen, the school nurse at Mt. Vernon Community School, who was recently recognized with the Flo-ra Krause Casey award for her work in the area of public and community health.

Space is limited! Amy Herrera at 703-425-9702 or email [email protected]

Panelists:

• Panel of local experts (estate planning attorneys, trust and life insurance advisors, retirement specialists, and funeral service personnel)

• Learn the importance and benefits of planning ahead • Learn how to successfully distribute assets to family

and charities • Learn the pros and cons of using a Trust to avoid probate

• Understand the difference between a will and a trust • Be advised of the pitfalls of poorly executed wills• Learn about the benefits of pre-planning your funeral

service and of purchasing your final resting place. • Review ownership options of assets and determine joint

assets versus individual ownership

Deena Imbriglia, Michael H. Doherty, Esq., George Boisse, III, Cary Cucinelli, Esq., Archer Harmon, Peter Hause, Morgan Price, CRPC

This event is for everyone – regardless of your level of wealth or financial expertise.

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Space is limited! Amy Herrera at 703-425-9702 or email [email protected]

Panelists:

• Panel of local experts (estate planning attorneys, trust and life insurance advisors, retirement specialists, and funeral service personnel)

• Learn the importance and benefits of planning ahead • Learn how to successfully distribute assets to family

and charities • Learn the pros and cons of using a Trust to avoid probate

• Understand the difference between a will and a trust • Be advised of the pitfalls of poorly executed wills• Learn about the benefits of pre-planning your funeral

service and of purchasing your final resting place. • Review ownership options of assets and determine joint

assets versus individual ownership

Deena Imbriglia, Michael H. Doherty, Esq., George Boisse, III, Cary Cucinelli, Esq., Archer Harmon, Peter Hause, Morgan Price, CRPC

This event is for everyone – regardless of your level of wealth or financial expertise.

Join us on Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 1:00 to 4:00Program begins at 1:30

Enjoy mingling and Hors'doeuvres from 1:00 to 1:30 PM Panelist will be available for questions before and after the presentation.

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A Free Pre-Planning Event

Out of the classroom Education section

Inova Alexandria Hospital do-nates 800 thermometers to ACPS

COURTESY PHOTOAnn Harbour of Inova and Mt. Vernon School Nurse Lisa Clausen.

Grace Episcopal School had their first ever “Dr. Se-uss - Read Across the World” event in March. The school librarian tracked down stu-dents’ friends and family members from around the globe and scheduled times for them to read a different Dr. Seuss book to each class via Skype. There were read-ers from Ireland, France, Turkey and Hawaii, among others. After reading to the class, each “guest” spent time answering questions about life where they live. It was a fun way to learn about each other and the global world in which we live.

Grace Episcopal holds Read Across the World event

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Immanuel Lutheran School students enjoyed some special substitute teachers on April 5. As a part of their ongoing learn ing and professional devel-opment, ILS faculty traded spaces for the day as each teacher spent the entire day teaching a different grade or class. Following the day, teachers interviewed one another to reflect on their experiences and what they had learned in the course of the swap.

“The teacher swap day was a great pedagogical ex-periment for our faculty,” ILS Assistant Headmaster Katherine Kramer said. “In addition to deepening our faculty understanding of the school in which they

teach, our teachers enjoyed a chance to celebrate and acknowledge the dedication and intensity required of all their colleagues. Having our eighth grade teacher spend a day teaching third grade, while our kindergarten teacher was teaching fifth grade, not only provided a

Immanuel Lutheran School teachers try trading spaces

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April 5

B.I. L 10-0 @ Norfolk Academy

Episcopal W 4-3 @ SSSAS

April 6

Episcopal L 5-0 vs. Collegiate

SSSAS W 10-1 vs. T.C.

April 9

B.I. L 7-6 @ Bishop O’Connell

April 10

B.I. W 6-2 vs. OLGC

SSSAS L 6-2 @ Bullis

T.C. L 16-3 vs. West Potomac

April 5

B.I. W 10-9 @ American Heritage

Episcopal L 17-5 @ Holton-Arms

SSSAS W 15-6 vs. Loyola Academy

T.C. W 17-6 vs. Mount Vernon

April 7

Episcopal L 9-3 vs. Loyola Academy

Episcopal L 12-9 vs. OLGC

SSSAS L 7-6 vs. Academy-Notre Dame De Namur

April 10

B.I. W 12-6 vs. Episcopal Academy (Newtown Square, Pennsylvania)

The Alexandria Times sports roundup includes records and game results for the prior week in two sports per season for Alexandria’s four local high schools: Bishop Ireton, Epis-copal, St. Stephens and St. Agnes and T.C. Williams.

ALEXANDRIA SPORTS ROUNDUP

Scores this week:

Scores this week:

SPORTS

GIRLS' LACROSSE

School RecordBishop Ireton 8-1

Episcopal 4-6SSSAS 8-2

T.C. Williams 3-2

BOYS' BASEBALL

School RecordBishop Ireton 2-10

Episcopal 2-4SSSAS 9-4

T.C. Williams 5-5

Suspect an Overdose? Call 911

Properly dispose of unwanted medications at the following locations:

Go to www.PreventItAlexandria.org to learn more

• Abnormal pupil size• Agitation• Convulsions• Paranoid behavior• Difficulty breathing• Drowsiness• Hallucinations

• Nausea and vomiting• Non-reactive pupils • Staggering or unsteady gait• Sweating or extremely dry, hot

skin• Tremors• Unconsciousness• Violent or aggressive behavior

SYMPTOMS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUG OVERDOSE

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• Combining pain killers or anti-anxiety drugs with alcohol multiplies the effect—your heart or your breathing can stop.

• Drug-induced deaths now exceed deaths from motor vehicle accidents in more than 17 states.

• Most kids who abuse prescription drugs report they get them from their home medicine cabinets or from friends.

• Proper disposal of unwanted medication prevents environmental contamination of our waterways and soils. CAN’T MAKE IT TO

DRUG TAKE BACK DAY?Neighborhood Pharmacy of Del Ray recently launched the first-ever permanent prescription drug drop-off box in the City of Alexandria. The drug drop-off box provides year-round access to safe drug disposal for all Alexandria residents and is located inside the pharmacy at 2204 Mt. Vernon Ave.

unique embodied learning opportunity for our fac-ulty, but it also generated great discussions about the liturgies and routines within our classrooms and the school as a whole, as well as a deepened under-standing of student devel-opment and classical ped-agogy at different levels.”

Professional develop-ment is an intentional component in the life of ILS faculty, and it is some-thing for which the school has been recognized in

its accreditation from the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education. Six ILS faculty have been in-vited to present this sum-mer at the CCLE summer conference in Plano, Tex-as. Presenting on topics including music, physiolo-gy and physical education and student discernment, ILS faculty members will have the opportunity to share their own knowledge and experiences while also learning from other educa-tors from across the coun-try.

“It is such an honor to

have so many members of our faculty invited to present at this year’s CCLE conference,” ILS Head-master Julia Habrecht said. “I am blessed to work with such a talented and dedicated group of col-leagues, and it is humbling to have others recognize the caliber of our faculty. It is inspiring to see how they are individually and collectively engaged in their own learning, both through our school’s own professional development program, as well as out-side of school.”

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HOMESGrow salad in a potLettuce is easy to grow in pots and will provide fresh greens through early summer | Page 32

ARTS‘Charlottesville: Our Streets’Jackson Landers' documentary shows Charlottes-ville during the August 2017 protests | Page 31

FOODIEDine and wine this summerCheesetique's Jill Erber offers tips on how to best serve cheese and wine in the summer | Page 30

TimesLiving

Many factors should be considered when deciding on an assisted living facility for yourself or a loved one. Does it have a mem-ory care unit? What types of amenities and space does it have? Where is it located and what are its medical protocols? What is the cost?

The Times recently spoke with represen-tatives of three new senior communities – Brandywine Senior Living, Silverado Alexan-dria Memory Care Community and Sunrise

Senior Living – that have either just opened or have facilities in the works in Alexandria to identify some of the current trends.

BrandywineBrandywine opened on March 22 at 5550

Cardinal Place in the West End next to Cam-eron Station. Samantha Tricoli, director of community relations, said Brandywine

SENIORS

What to consider when deciding on a senior

living communityBY MISSY SCHROTT

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focuses on luxury assisted living and memory care, top-notch amenities and allowing residents to maintain active lifestyles.

Tricoli said Brandywine was attracted to the location because of its proximity to Old Town and the District of Columbia and the possibil-ities for residents. She also said the organization saw a need for more senior living in Alexandria and wanted to be involved in the revitalization in the city’s West End.

The Alexandria senior living community is Brandy-

wine’s first urban building, with six stories including first floor retail space. In the three weeks since opening, five res-idents have moved in and the community can hold up to 127 more.

Brandywine’s hallmark features include an aquat-ic therapy pool, a theater, restaurant style dining, a bis-tro and an exercise program, along with 24-hour nurses, onsite doctors and a memory care community called Reflec-tion Serenade that can hold to up to 30 residents.

“We really put an emphasis on this being an active aging community, because we want residents to understand that just because you might need some assistance, you can still have a really active social life and do those things that you love to do,” Tricoli said.

Across all assisted living communities, Tricoli said she’s noticed residents seek-ing bigger apartments and living areas. She said the new building in the West End re-sponds to this need with larg-er apartments, two-bedroom options and more amenities.

SilveradoSilverado is a new com-

munity coming to 2807 King St. in late May or early June. It will be able to hold up to 65 residents, and 24 spots have already been reserved.

Silverado Chief Execu-tive Officer Loren Shook said he co-founded Silverado 21 years ago with the intent to be a memory-care-only com-munity in the world of senior communities. Shook said he saw a missed opportunity in memory care to highlight and utilize the strengths that peo-ple retained.

Silverado’s distinguishing feature is a program called Nexus that seeks to improve the functional level and cog-nition of people with memory impairing diseases.

“We’re taking the toughest,

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PHOTO/BRANDYWINEThe Brandywine building in Alexandria.

RENDERING/SILVERADOA rendering of what the Silverado facility in Alexandria will look like.

PHOTO/SUNRISESunrise's first building on Duke Street in Alexandria. SEE SENIORS | 28

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Nearly ten years ago, a small group of Alexandrians took note of a trend taking hold across the country: the “village movement.” Grassroots groups from Boston to San Francisco to Washington DC and points in between were forming local community groups to take care of their aging neighbors. This idea of “neighbors helping neighbors” is centuries-old, of course. But somewhere along the way, as people moved farther away from their hometowns and their families—and front porches began to disappear—some of our close-knit communities became fractured.

What if Alexandria could create a supportive community

that could function in ways that we remember from decades ago? This was the vision of our three founders—Richard, Ernie and Judith—and the dozen or so volunteers they recruited early on. With great excitement, At Home in Alexandria (AHA) officially opened its doors on April 15, 2011.

Today, our founders’ legacy lives on for our vibrant village of 200+ members and 67 volunteers that provides one another with practical, emotional and social support. We’re proud to be one of nearly 40 nonprofit villages in the Washington DC metro area and 327 villages across the country.

WHAT AHA OFFERS ITS MEMBERSWalking club • ”What’s in the News” discussion group • errands • transportation • mystery book club tech support • pet sitting • Blazing Saddles cycling group • educational workshops • balance classes happy hours • light maintenance help • organizing and decluttering • monthly dinners and lunches at

area restaurants • monthly movie groupAHA offers something for everyone!

At Home in Alexandria is taking part in the city-wide Spring2ACTion campaign: www.spring2action.org. The fundraiser culminates on Wednesday, April 25. Stop in and see us anytime that day at the Del Ray Café (205 E. Howell Ave.)—our “campaign headquarters”! To learn more about AHA, visit us online, call or email us: www.athomeinalexandria.org; [email protected]; 703.231.0824. Come along as our guest to an AHA event to meet some members and volunteers. Join your Alexandria neighbors who are busy making their present and their future the best it can be!

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most difficult cases, as well as the easy ones,” Shook said. “We’re the place where other assisted livings will send peo-ple that they can’t handle.”

Silverado’s programming strives to merge the best of a social model with the best of nursing and medical services with a specialty in memory care.

“That’s the vision of our company – to give a quality of life to our residents, to our families and to each other that we haven’t seen in a long time,” Shook said.

SunriseSunrise, which is set to

start construction on an Old Town location in early 2019, is familiar to Alexandrians due to its community on Duke Street that opened in 1997 and houses 91 residents.

Alphonso Westley, director of operations for Sunrise, said the organization was attract-ed to Alexandria because it al-lows residents to age in place in a familiar area close to fam-ilies and activities. Westley said Sunrise’s distinguishing feature is its focus on individ-ualized care and personalized care across the entire resident experience.

He said Sunrise has

evolved over the years to take advantage of new technolo-gy, including a new electron-ic health record system. The program allows Sunrise to look at residents holistically by tracking their programming throughout the day, meal con-sumption and other aspects of mind, body and spiritual well being.

Sunrise also has an inti-mate memory care communi-ty called Reminiscence.

How to find a community

When looking for a com-munity, it is important to find one that fits the client’s sta-tion in life and expectations. Tricoli recommended narrow-ing down to a few choices and returning to the main con-tenders for a second visit.

“I always say that every building has its own person-ality,” Tricoli said, “so you want to narrow down your op-tions and then go back to your top options and join them for lunch, and get a feel for how the staff interacts, how the residents are, what the per-sonalities in the building are and just make sure that the personality of the building is a good fit. … That’s some-thing that you may not get

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FILE PHOTOSamantha Tricoli, director of community relations at Brandywine, recommends narrowing down to few choices for a senior community and then coming back to them to have lunch. "[You can] get a feel for how the staff interacts, how the residents are, what the person-alities in the building are and just make sure that the personality of the building is a good fit," she said.

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Call 703-797-3814

to schedule a tour of our beautifully

appointed apartments.

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since moving to the Hermitage.”

Enjoy the Carefree Lifestyle You Deserve

Discover why many people like you have come

experience a new lifestyle with an array of services and amenities. Just ask resident John Mutchler, who appreciates the freedom from home maintenance and the opportunity to participate in clubs and social activities. Our residents also rave about our superb

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“We’ve made a lot of good friends since moving to Hermitage” Meet Carol and MJ. Carol and MJ are great

buddies. �ey are also next door neighbors. Carol is 88 years old and MJ is 79. Carol

moved to Hermitage Northern Virginia from Arlington about a year before MJ, who came from Montgomery County, Maryland. A�er moving the two friends discovered a shared love of outdoor walks on the grounds of the community and around the quiet neighborhood streets. Carol focuses on her balance with a functional �tness class 4x a week and MJ enjoys reading in the library. Carol likes the many interesting people and MJ enjoys the many excursions and the reading club. It feels like a family here at Hermitage Northern Virginia.

after the first visit.”Westley said he tells fami-

lies to consider the questions: Can this senior community cater to your unique needs? Do residents look happy and en-gaged when you walk through the front doors? Do they of-fer caregiver support groups? How do they personalize the

experience for you and your loved one?

Sunrise also has an online care questionnaire that helps people looking for senior liv-ing distinguish terminology and get recommendations for the type of care they may need.

When determining the right assisted living fit for yourself or a loved one, there

are many factors to consider. Alexandria residents have a wealth of impressive facili-ties to choose from, including long-established communi-ties like Hermitage, Goodwin House East and West and Paul Spring, along with the new-comers. Take the time to re-search them all before making a decision.

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Option B, which would bring all outfalls together in a unified tunnel at Alex Renew;

Option C, which would be similar to option A, but would use tanks within the wet weather facility.

The stakeholder group, Baker said, responded most positively to option B, but pushed for some changes. The result, an improved Option B, calls for a dual use facility at Alex Renew that could be used for overflow during extreme wet weather conditions, which would accomplish the goals of a wet weather facili-ty and could be used, during normal weather conditions, for other purposes.

The stakeholder group was unanimous in their en-dorsement of the improved Option B, according to Baker.

The next step in the pro-cess is getting authorization from council to move forward with that option and, pend-ing the approval, submitting the plan to the Department of Environmental Quality. Baker asked for the council vote on authorizing the plan to wait until the public com-ment period ends on April 23.

If approved, the city’s tentative plan would be to complete preliminary engi-neering throughout 2018 and 2019, start construction on a unified tunnel in 2021 and to start construction on a du-al-use wet weather facility in the third quarter of 2023. The city estimates the proj-ect could be completed by its deadline in the second quar-ter of 2025.

“The schedule shows you that we believe we can deliver this. This program can make a difference. It’s still early, but we’re optimistic about meeting that,” Baker said.

The outfalls plan will be discussed at the public hear-ing on Saturday and will come to council for a final vote at its next legislative meeting on April 24. Bak-

er said council would likely hear an additional request to transfer ownership of the outfalls to Alex Renew next month.

Council also considered the Alexandria Fire Depart-ment’s grant application to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Fed-eral Emergency Management Agency’s Staffing for Ade-quate Fire and Emergency Response grant program.

The federal grant would allow the fire department to increase the men or wom-en on all ladder companies to four. The federal gov-ernment would cover 100 percent of their salaries in the first year. The feder-al funding would decrease to 75 percent in the second year, to 35 percent in the third year and would be fully funded by local government in the fourth year.

The fire department said the amount it would save in overtime would make up for the amount the city would have to pay for the staffing in the second year and, in the third year, the department plans to replace two sin-gle-role medic positions with dual role medic/firefighters.

Council approved the fire department’s request unani-mously.

Tensions between Sil-berberg and Wilson, who is challenging Silberberg in the mayoral contest, flared during oral presentations at the end of the meeting.

Though several topics were heatedly debated, tem-pers boiled over after Wilson, along with Councilor Paul Smedberg, proposed fold-ing the Parker-Gray Board of Architectural Review into that of the Old and Historic District. As Silberberg and Counsilor Del Pepper repeat-edly challenged the proposal, Wilson became visibly frus-trated and increasingly ani-mated.

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Spring has sprung, with breezes a-blowing, pol-len a-floating and bees a-buzzing. Before you know it, summer will be upon us, with grass a-growing, kids a-shouting and backs a-sweating. What’s an en-tertainer to do when every-thing is just … melting? Fret not: the season is ripe with ways to make your sum-mertime spread sensation-al. And of course, it comes down to this host’s best friends: cheese and wine.

Cheese Tip #1: Keep It Simple

Mixing something juicy-sweet with your cheese is sure to please (Feta + Wa-termelon = heaven. Blue cheese + grapes = sublime.) But don’t over-dress or oth-

erwise drown your cheese with “stuff.” Less is more, but make sure it’s great quality – that goes for the cheese and the toppings. Oh, and toss chunky fresh herbs on everything. Noth-ing says “summertime” like torn parsley, mint or basil.

Cheese Tip #2: No One Likes a Sweaty Cheese

Keep your cheeses out of direct sunlight and serve just enough to tempt your guests, refreshing as need-ed. Since a hot cheese is a sweaty cheese, I avoid the super-aged if serving out-side. As the temperature rises, their high ratio of fat starts to liquefy – think butter. The oil droplets that form are harmless, but they can affect the texture and flavor of your cheese. And,

frankly, it looks gross.

Cheese Tip #3: Be Gentle with the Grill

When grilling burgers, add cheese off the heat. Place cooked burgers on a plate, immediately apply cheese and cover for a cou-ple of minutes; an inverted serving bowl works won-ders. The cheese will melt beautifully without sliding off. Plus, your cheeseburger will taste like a cheeseburg-er – with layers of texture and flavor.

Wine Tip #1: Boost Your Bubbly

Sparkling wine is de-lightful year-round, but one of its greatest features is that it’s served cold. With the abundance of fruit juices

Don’t wilt: Dine and wine this summer

FILE PHOTOCheese is ever-changing, ever-the-same, ever-complex, ever-simple. Cheese has no “season.” All it needs is seasonal accessories to make it shine.

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BY JORDAN WRIGHT

Last Sunday at the Beat-ley Library, the Board of the Alexandria Film Festi-val invited filmmaker Jack-son Landers to appear at a screening of his powerful new documentary “Charlot-tesville: Our Streets.” Using never-before-seen footage from citizen journalists, Landers and co-producer and film editor Brian Wimer con-structed the 90-minute mov-ie in timeline fashion.

It begins with the tiki torch-wielding Neo-Nazi march on Aug. 11, 2017 at the University of Virginia and continues through the following days’ activities in Charlottesville where thou-sands of white nationalists converged from around the country to protest the ex-pected removal of a statue to Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Dubbed Charlottesville “Summer of Hatred,” the vi-olent “Unite the Right” rally brought alt-right, neo-Na-zi, neo-Fascist and Ku Klux Klan groups together in numbers unprecedented in a rural university town. They were armed to the teeth with knives, guns, pepper spray, chains, bats, shields and tear gas, and many shouted “Jews will not replace us” and “blood and soil.” The police stood down.

Charlottesville native Landers, who writes for Slate, Smithsonian Magazine, The Daily Beast, Rewire.News and the Washington Post, and who conducts a Mon-day evening round table radio show on WPVC-FM, describes himself as an au-thor and hunter who travels around the country hunting and eating invasive species. He’s even written a book about his adventures enti-tled “Eating Aliens” and ap-peared on the Travel Chan-

nel’s “Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern.” This is his first film – finished in two months to beat the entry deadline for this year’s Vir-ginia Film Festival. He made it as a way of setting down a record of the events.

“This isn’t an activist film,” he explained. “I just wanted to show what hap-pened.”

With no filmmaking ex-perience of his own, Landers admitted his most difficult challenge was finding some-one to put all the pieces to-

gether – he found Wimer – and conducting video in-terviews with counter pro-testors and local residents who had experienced a terri-fying outpouring of anti-Se-mitic and racial hatred in their rural university town.

Having been pepper sprayed five times while in the thick of it, Landers witnessed the two days of events, including the fatal crash on Fourth Street and the fatal crash of a police he-licopter. While he and Wimer are still tweaking the film

based on audience reaction, the filmmakers claim to have verified every statement giv-en by witnesses. Remarks that could not be proven were edited out, though many vid-eo clips of interviews as well as remarks by Cornell West in the leadup to the rally are included. Thirty cameras spread out across the area give the documentary both extensive coverage and an intense immediacy.

Landers also spoke about the aftermath of the bloody events in Charlottesville. He

has continued to seek FOIA documents through the courts regarding police ac-tivity and strategy, but finds himself up against an army of lawyers.

Attendees were afforded a Q & A session with Land-ers after Sunday’s screening. Several who had been at the rally wanted to know why it wasn’t shown that counter protesters were assaulted on side streets on their way to the rally.

Landers responded, “The genesis of the film was to show the perspective of the people of Charlottesville,” and suggested there would be other films that would ap-proach it from different per-spectives.

One attendee, who cit-ed a CIA report calling 9/11 “a failure of imagination” by security forces, saw the hands-off approach by uni-versity and the Virginia State Police as the same problem. It’s been reported that a police captain told his force to prepare for an event similar to the annual UVA block party.

One of the more familiar faces of the white suprem-acist movement who was one of the organizers of the Charlottesville rally, Richard Spencer, lives in the heart of Old Town. At Sunday’s screening, sitting quietly in the audience, was Spencer associate and National Policy Institute Director of Oper-ations Greg Conte, aka Greg Ritter, who has been quoted as saying he plans to start his own white nationalist move-ment.

Stay woke, Alexandria.

Jordan Wright writes about food, spirits, travel,

theatre and culture. Visit her website at www.whiskand-

quill.com or email her at [email protected]

Documenting the streets of Charlottesville

SCREENSHOTS FROM "CHARLOTTESVILLE: OUR STREETS"Jackson Landers attended a screening of the documentary he co-produced with Brian Wimer, "Char-lottesville: Our Streets," at the Beatley Library Sunday. The film uses never-before-seen footage from citizen journalists from the events of August 2017.

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Beautifully positioned on a prominent lot in sought-after Jefferson Park, this architec-tural gem boasts soaring ceil-ings, abundant natural light, generous room sizes, immac-ulate hardwood floors, mature gardens and a spectacular entertaining floor plan. The nearly century-old home is custom built and offers more than 5,500 square feet and six bedrooms.

Set amidst lavish gar-dens and stately trees, this home welcomes visitors into a stunning light-filled sun-room. The gracious living room serves as the “heart” of the home with 12-foot ceil-ings, a prominent fireplace, architectural staircase and a second sunroom/office. With a fantastic circular entertain-ing flow, the main level also

features an elegant dining room, sunny breakfast room, well-appointed kitchen, large family room, two bedrooms, two full bathrooms and a mar-velous treetop screened porch.

Featuring 9-foot ceilings, new hardwood floors and striking architectural angles,

the second level offers four generous bedrooms, three bathrooms, a laundry closet and large landing with read-ing nook. The spacious mas-ter suite inspires awe with a wall of windows overlooking park-like views, ample closets and a gorgeous four-piece dual

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The walkout lower level boasts fantastic garden views from the large recreation room and bonus room. A full bathroom, one-car garage, storage room and shed com-plete the lower level.

This one-of-a-kind prop-erty is conveniently located in close proximity to St. Ste-phen’s & St. Agnes, Alexan-dria Country Day School and George Mason Elementary and offers easy access to I-395 and the shops at Bradlee Cen-ter, Del Ray and Old Town. It is just four miles to Reagan Na-tional Airport and seven miles to Washington D.C.

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These are our salad days. Plant a living salad bowl chock-full of ruffled lettuce, tender arugula and other de-licious greens, and you’ll be able to pick a healthy har-vest for the dinner table for months.

Lettuce is easy to grow in pots, and a bowl full of let-tuce plants is pretty enough for the front porch. Salad greens of all kinds flourish in unpredictable spring and early summer temperatures without special care. Half a dozen plants in a pot – or

more, because they don’t mind being crowded – will produce salad greens all through the spring. If you plant edible flowers, such as violas, pansies or pinks, among the lettuce plants, you’ll enjoy a spot of color both in the container and in the salads you put on the ta-ble.

It’s fun to grow garden crops from seed, but to get your salad pots off to a fast start, plant transplants, which are available in six-packs at garden shops. Look

Grow a salad in a potSeveral kinds of lettuce planted together in a shal-low bowl look great and will provide fresh sal-ad greens for two months or more. To harvest, snip off the outer leaves, and the plants will keep on growing.

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for healthy, bright green plants that stand up strong and tall in their little cells of soil. Some lettuces, such as red leaf and red romaine, are either all red or tipped with red. They add color and contrast to the planting – plant them side by side with green lettuces, and they’ll look appetizing just growing together. The fancy, frilly leaves of arugula, mizu-na, kale or mustard greens will contribute interesting textures to your planting and add spice to your sal-ads.

Any container with drain-age holes will make a fine vessel for your living salad, but a large bowl, wider than tall, is an especially good choice. Lettuce plants will only be growing for a couple of months, until they turn bitter in hot summer tem-peratures, so you don’t need a deep planter. A bowl about 12 inches across, sometimes called a “color bowl” at gar-den shops, is a good size to start with. It will hold about eight small plants. A larger bowl, 18 inches across, will look more impressive; it will hold about 15 plants.

Buy a fresh bag of potting soil and fill the container to the rim. Potting soil is lightweight and drains well. Most potting soils today in-clude a slow-release fertiliz-er, so there’s no need to add more.

Take the plants out of their cell packs and arrange them on top of the potting soil in the bowl. Normally, you would plant the tallest plants in the center or at the back of a flowerpot, but let-tuce plants all grow to about the same height, so arrange the planting however you like to take advantage of their leaf shapes, colors and textures.

A pretty design might have green lettuce plants

around the outside of the container, with a flourish of red-leaf lettuces in the cen-ter and a couple of pansies or violas for color. If you’re growing romaine, set these compact plants in the cen-ter of the dish and arrange ruffled-leaf lettuces around the sides, like a frilly pet-ticoat. You can experiment with the design, trying dif-ferent kinds of lettuces or adding more flowers until you’re happy with the way it looks.

Now loosen the roots of each plant with your fingers and tuck them into the pot-ting soil, with the crown of the plant at soil level. Firm the soil in around each plant as you go. Potting soil tends to settle a bit even as you’re planting, so you may need to add more as you work. Just make sure the plants are not too deep in the pot.

Now water well to moist-en the potting soil and to settle the plants in. Don’t worry if the splashing wa-ter pushes the plants over slightly; they’ll stand up again within a few hours. If some of the leaves are a lit-tle bit floppy, snip them off with scissors for your first salad.

After the pot has drained thoroughly, move it to the porch, a patio, or a bright spot near the kitchen door. Sunshine is the only re-quirement. If you plant sev-eral pots, let them march up the front stairs. Salad pots also look great on a patio table or on a garden wall. They’re particularly nice on a pedestal; try raising them up by putting the pots on upside-down flowerpots, chimney flue tiles or a stack of inexpensive concrete pav-ers.

Within a few days, you’ll be able to pick your first real harvest. Trim the leaves from the outsides of the plants with sharp shears, and the plants will continue to produce new leaves from the center. Trimming actu-ally encourages growth, so picking a few leaves every day or so will make your salad garden even more productive. Water the pot when the soil feels dry (poke a finger a couple of inches into the potting soil). From just one pot, you can count on harvesting fresh-picked salad greens for at least two months. It’s a nice trick, a treat for your table and a feast for your eyes.

PHOTO/MARTY ROSSThe basics: To grow your own salad, you’ll need a shallow planting bowl, some potting soil and a couple of six-packs of lettuce plants. Add a few violas or pansies for color. Even if you’ve never grown a vegetable crop before, you can have great success with a living salad bowl.

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APRIL 12

DAYS OF REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY The City of Alexandria holds its 31st annual commemoration ceremony, a day of remembrance for the victims of the Holocaust. Time: Noon to 1 p.m.Location: Market Square, 301 King St.Information: 703-746-5592

LECTURE: ‘30 YEARS OF SHAPING THE CITY’ CARTOONS In 1984, The Washington Post began publishing a weekly column called “Shaping the City.” Written and illustrated by Roger K. Lewis, FAIA, the column addresses a broad range of topics and issues relevant to the built environment, among them architecture, historic preservation, housing, smart growth, sustainability, transportation and urbanism. This event is sponsored by TTR Sotheby’s International Realty.Time: 6:30 p.m.Location: The Athenaeum, 201 Prince St.Information: www.nvfaa.org

ART & SOCIAL IMPACT: TORPEDO TALK WITH KATE GOODALL Kate Goodall is the co-founder and CEO of Halcyon, a nonprofit dedicated to solving 21st- century problems by providing space and access to emerging leaders in social entrepreneurship and the arts. She will share how the Halcyon Arts Lab has impacted the greater D.C. arts community. Presented in partnership with Halcyon.Time: 8 p.m.Location: Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 N. Union St. Information: 703-746-4570

APRIL 13

GEORGETOWN SAXATONES AT THE LYCEUM Get ready to rock the house with the Georgetown University Saxatones. Their acapella repertoire includes everything from alternative to pop to soul. Proceeds from the event will benefit the Saxatones’ preferred charity: The John McNicholas Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation. The event includes a 6:30 p.m. wine and cheese reception, followed by a 7 p.m. performance.Time: 6:30 p.m.Location: The Lyceum, 201 Prince St.Information: www.nvfaa.org/events

CITY LIMITS: A CITYSCAPE INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION This invitational exhibition will feature a handful of extraordinarily talented artists who have focused on painting urban landscapes. The Principle Gallery hosts an opening reception for the exhibition, which will offer guests the opportunity to meet a few of the participating artists. Time: 6:30 to 9 p.m.Location: Principle Gallery, 208 King St. Information: www.principlegallery.com/alexandria/exhibitions-principle-gallery-alexandria

THE LATE SHIFT: WHAT IS ART? The question of “What is Art?” has been asked for ages. Find answers during the April Late Shift. Meet four of the region’s best up-and-coming artists during the reception for 2018 Emerging Artists in Target Gallery. Visit the new Post-Grad Residency Studio and meet the spring resident, Alexis Gomez. Stop into the New Project Studio and see the fashions emerging designer Shadé Reneé has created during her time at the Torpe-do Factory. Explore all three floors and meet Torpedo Factory artists while they create in their studios. Celebrate National Architecture Week and build a miniature city out of scraps with AIA NOVA. Mix and mingle with the Facto-ry Society young-patrons group.Time: 7 to 11 p.m.Location: Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 N. Union St.Information: 703-746-4570

2018 EMERGING ARTISTS: RECEPTION & ARISTS’ TALKS Target Gallery, the contemporary ex-hibition space of the Torpedo Factory Art Center, introduces a new annual exhibition series featuring the work of emerging artists of the D.C., Maryland and Virginia region. The selected artists for 2018 Emerging Artists are Katie Barrie, Ronald Jackson, Hollis McCracken and Holly Trout. Reception and talks will take place during The Late Shift: What is Art?Time: 7:30 p.m.Location: Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 N. Union St.Information: 703-746-4570

APRIL 14

“WE LOVE OLD TOWN!” CLEAN UP DAY The We Love Old Town resi-dents' group is encouraging residents to come with ideas for identifying and improving areas in the city and a willingness to pick up a provided trash bag or trash grabber (bring your own gloves) and begin that effort. Clean up day activities will focus on identify-ing crumbling, loose or missing bricks, identifying tree wells in need of mulch or sprucing up, picking up trash and other identified tasks. The rain date is Sunday, April 15, at the same time and meeting location. Time: 9 to 11 a.m.Location: Oronoco Bay Park, 100 Madison St.Information: www.weloveoldtown.com

JAVA JOLT LECTURE: RIDING WITH GEORGE Philip Smucker, author of “Riding with George: Sportsmanship & Chivalry in the Making of America’s First President,” delivers a lecture about his new book, which explores Alexandria’s native son, George Washington’s, love for sports and games and how that passion led to success on the battlefield and, later, in national politics. Friends of Alexandria Archaeology host this free “Java Jolt lecture.”Time: 10 a.m. to noonLocation: Alexandria Archaeology Museum, 105 N. Union St.Information: 703-746-4399

THE U.S. AIR FORCE STRINGS Join 16 musicians for a spring afternoon of traditional orchestra and strolling segments that include a wide range of musical styles. A large turnout is expected, so please RSVP to [email protected]. Free admission.Time: 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.Location: Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, 201 Prince St.Information: 703-548-0035

THE PEN IS MIGHTIER: HOW TO WRITE MEMORABLE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Want to spread a message to your community and your representatives? Letters to the editor are a powerful way to bring attention to issues you’re passionate about. Whether you’re writing about your local community, national politics or international issues the world needs to hear your unique voice and perspective. Bring an article on an issue you care about. You will use this article to practice writing a letter. Doors open at 2:15 p.m. Training begins at 2:30 p.m.Time: 2:15 to 4:15 p.m.Location: Ellen Coolidge Burke Branch Library, 4701 Seminary Rd.Information: 703-862-2092

APRIL 15

APOTHECARY GEEK TOUR: PHARMACY NERDS Spend more time touring the Apothecary Museum with museum volunteer, Renan Bonnel, a pharmacovigilance scientist. Renan will focus on the historic medicinal ingredients that are still used today in modern medicine, while also touching upon the Stabler and Leadbeater family and business history. This tour is great for first time and return visitors. The tour costs $15 per person.Time: 11 a.m. to noonLocation: Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum, 105 to 107 S. Fairfax St.Information: 703-746-3852

APRIL 16

ALEXANDRIA DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ENDORSEMENTS The Democrats for a Better Alexandria will be providing its endorsements for the June 12 Democratic primary for mayor and city council. DBA was formed in 2012 as a organization of committed Alexandria Democrats to screen candidates for local offices and make recommendations to voters. Endorsed candidates will be at the restaurant and available for questions. Due to space considerations, please RSVP to [email protected] to attend. Time: 9:30 a.m.Location: Tempo Restaurant, 4321 Duke St.Information: 703-370-3039

APRIL 18

“HERE, NOW” OPENING RECEP-TION Alexandria artist-photographer Nina Tisara will be showing her mosa-ic art at the Mount Vernon Chamber

of Commerce office from April 18 to June 15. The exhibition, “Here, Now” features Tisara’s new nature-themed work. The public is invited to an opening reception on April 18. Please RSVP by April 11 to [email protected]. Time: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.Location: Mount Vernon Chamber of Commerce office, 6821 Richmond HighwayInformation: [email protected]

APRIL 19

2018 PUBLIC SAFETY & VALOR AWARDS The Alexandria Chamber of Commerce honors the brave wom-en and men of the city’s police and fire department and sheriff’s office, who showed exceptional poise and courage in extraordinary circumstanc-es in 2017. Nominated by their peers, the Chamber will recognize selfless acts of many individuals throughout the year, including the shooting at Eugene Simpson Stadium Park in June 2017. This event is presented by Inova Alexandria Hospital. Time: 8 to 10 a.m. Location: Hilton Alexandria Old Town, 1767 King St.Information: www.alexchamber.com

APRIL 21

85TH ANNUAL ALEXANDRIA HISTORIC HOMES & GARDEN TOUR Five of Old Town Alexandria’s finest private homes and gardens will open to the public as part of the 85th Historic Garden Week, the oldest and largest house and garden tour in the nation. The homes will feature beautiful flower arrangements created by the members of the Garden Club of Alexandria and The Hunting Creek Garden Club, which are sponsoring the tour, open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. A marketplace at The Athenaeum, boutique shopping and fine dining are just steps away. In addition, the tour ticket allows access to two Garden Club of Virginia restoration projects, George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens and Green Spring Gardens, in addition to other local properties of historic interest.Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Location: Old TownInformation: 703-838-5005

MARKETPLACE AT THE ATHE-NAEUM The Hunting Creek Garden Club has curated a fabulous selection of vendors to display their wares amongst the art in the Athenaeum’s gallery. Tickets for the Historic Garden Week House and Garden Tour are also available for purchase onsite. Pre-sale of tour tickets start (for NVFAA members) at 8:45 a.m.Time: 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.Location: Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, 201 Prince St.Information: 703-548-0035

FIREFIGHTING HISTORY WALK-ING TOUR Explore Alexandria’s firefighting history on the “Blazing a Trail: Alexandria’s Firefighting History” tour. Participants learn about volun-teer firefighting in early Alexandria,

three devastating fires and the five volunteer fire companies. The tour begins at the historic Friendship Firehouse, proceeds east on Prince Street and returns via King Street. For age 10 and older. $6 for adults, $4 for ages 10-17. Time: 1 to 2:30 p.m.Location: Friendship Firehouse Muse-um, 107 S. Alfred St.Information: 703-746-4994

APRIL 22

34TH ANNUAL GEORGE WASHINGTON PARKWAY CLASSIC The George Washington Parkway Classic is Alexandria’s hometown race and so much more, with the Parkway route connecting two of the area’s most historic spots. The starting gun fires steps from George Washington’s picturesque Mount Vernon estate. From there, you’ll travel down the tree-lined George Washington Memorial Parkway to another area associated with Washington: Charming Old Town Alexandria. In addition to the 10-mile distance, a 5K and kids dash are available. The George Washington Parkway Classic supports the Boys and Girls Club of Alexandria and has been voted a favorite spring race by RunWashington Magazine. Time: 8 a.m. Location: Starts at George Washing-ton’s Mount Vernon Information: www.runpacers.com/race/parkway-classic

CARPENTER’S COOK-OFF 2018 Enjoy an afternoon of food and fun from noon to 3 p.m. at The Birchmere — all in the name of ending homelessness in Alexandria. The afternoon’s events focus on a friendly competition among 20 top-rated local restaurants, each of which provides a tasting-size dish to showcase their culinary skills. Event attendees will sample the dishes and vote for the People’s and Kid’s Choice Awards while a panel of expert judges determines the winners of a Sweet and a Savory Award. Throughout the event, there will be live music performed by the Alpha Dog Blues Band, live and silent auctions, raffle prizes and a special Children’s Corner.Time: Noon to 3 p.m.Location: The Birchmere, 3701 Mt. Vernon Ave.Information: 703-548-7500

A MURDEROUS MATRIMONY: A MURDER MYSTERY DINNER It’s summertime and nature is in full swing. The birds are singing and wedding bells are ringing. They say “opposites attract” but Billy Bob and Marsha take this cliché to the limit. The ceremonial pledge “till death do us part” may seem too close at hand, as you laugh through your tears at this dysfunctional wedding ceremony. Did we mention you are a part of the wedding? This is certainly a Murder-ous Matrimony. Tickets are $25. Time: 6 to 9 p.m.Location: The Carlyle Club, 2050 Ballenger Ave.Information: 703-548-8899

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introduce lesser-known va-rietals to your wine-loving friends. They, and the tiny producers who make these exotic wines, will thank you.

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Now is the time to move on from the cozy comforts of wintertime to lighter, bubbli-er fare. Luckily, cheese is ev-

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because it’s right next to a metro station, and after the games, people could go to the Del Ray restaurants. … That area’s commercial anyways.”

Anthony said at this time ACPS is not considering put-ting the field somewhere else.

“That would be a really difficult thing to think about, separating a major compo-nent of the high school pro-gram and its athletics and the history associated with it,” she said.

Shannon questioned why ACPS would prioritize this modernization when it has a limited budget, a student ca-pacity crisis and facilities in greater need of moderniza-tions.

Gentry said anytime the school board prioritizes a project, it has to balance ne-cessity and available funding.

“Anytime we’re doing pri-oritization, you could have two projects, and one might have in some ways a higher urgency, but if it requires more funding than is available in the current year, well then you can’t do it,” Gentry said.

The modernization is pro-jected to cost just over $5 mil-lion.

While ACPS is set in its intent to prioritize this proj-ect and keep the field where it is located, Gentry and An-thony said the school made compromises while holding six community engagement meetings over the past year to keep stakeholders involved

and informed. “The school division is

trying to be a good neighbor. We’re not trying to circum-vent the neighborhood or the process or anything like that. We recognize we are a school, we have residents that are next to us,” Anthony said. “That’s why we provide their input. We take it into close consideration.”

In addition to the larg-er community engagement meetings, which are held primarily to convey new in-formation, ACPS has met with stakeholders in smaller groups to hear and address concerns.

“I’ve been to numerous meetings, and they’ve lis-tened to the neighborhood,” Simpson said. “They’ve done a lot of design revisions, relo-cating bathrooms, relocating the score board to the other

side of the field, relocating the press box to the oth-er side of the field with the sound system. They brought in lighting consultants and sound consultants.

“I think for a high school field, they’ve done every-thing they can do to make sure it has a minimal impact on the adjacent neighbor-hood,” he said.

Goff argued that school board members had not been responsive enough to ques-tions at meetings.

Following the community engagement portion of the process, ACPS’s next step is to apply for a DSUP. They plan to make their DSUP submission over the summer to get on the September public hearing schedules for the planning commission and city council, according to ACPS Commu-nications Specialist Carolyn

Semedo-Strauss.The outcome of the hear-

ings, as well as comments from the DSUP process, will dictate the remainder of the process. ACPS’s goal is to

commence construction on the stadium in late spring or early summer of 2019, Seme-do-Strauss said.

Despite Shannon and Liebeler’s optimism that a compromise can be reached, ACPS’s projected timeline suggests the issue will most likely boil down to a city coun-cil decision about whether the school system should abide by the agreement it has with the Woods neighborhood.

“We’ve been going over this for some time now,” Goff said. “At some point in time, it’s going to get moving in one way or the other. It’ll be settled, but it sets a bad prec-edent when you have a city government that says yes this is the way the law will be and then just for some reason they decided no let’s change it. You really can’t do that.”

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T.C. LIGHTS FROM | 13PROPOSED SITE PLAN

EXISTING BLEACHERS

TICKET BOOTH

NEW CONCESSIONS

NEW RESTROOMS & STORAGE

EXISTING STORAGE BUILDING & SHED (TO BE REMOVED)

NEW PRESS BOX

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NEW 8TH LANE TRACK SURFACE (FORMER PEDESTRIAN WALKING LANE)

RENDERING/HORD CAPLAN MACHTThe proposed site plan includes new concessions, anew press box and new restrooms and storage, as well as adding an eighth lane to the track.

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Opinion“Where the press is free and every man is able to read, all is safe.” - Thomas Jefferson

To the editor:It’s time for a change. Alexandrians for

Better City Government represents Alexan-drians seeking real choice and change in the upcoming Alexandria Democratic Primary on June 12. It is a non-partisan political action committee formed of Alexandria residents from all political parties and, frankly, apolit-ical beliefs. It is the resounding voice of voters who are alarmed at the direction of this city government and who seek new representation on city council.

Alexandria voters can no longer accept the status quo in council of constant discord and disrespect, on the dais and toward citizens. In this council, process and politics overwhelm and squelch new ideas and constructive de-bate, especially involving citizens, beyond a select few. Proposals are passed that appear orchestrated, pre-decided and beyond discus-sion. Any recourse at the ballot box seems fu-tile. Voters are asked to confirm a slate rather than choose between candidates with creative ideas, diverse experience and demonstrated leadership. Thus, Alexandria elections have little competition or real consequence.

This city council needs a shock to their

collective senses that forces them to under-stand the mounting frustration across the city as citizens clearly see this council’s disdain for resident views and apparent air of entitle-ment. That shock must come at the ballot box in June.

This June 12 primary for Democratic candi-dates is an “open” election, meaning anyone, of any party, can vote that day or by absentee ballot in the days preceding the election. Our PAC will be busy reviewing the statements of all candidates, their platforms and their records. We are asking each to answer some basic defining questions about their views of key problems facing our city and their recom-mended solutions. Individual interviews can follow if clarification is needed.

In May, we will recommend the candidates we feel best offer the talents to lead change and restore true representation of citizen in-terests to city council. We are proud of our campaign, and invite all to learn more about us at www.alex4bcg.org.

-Bob Wood (Republican),Kathy Burns (Democrat),

Hal Hardaway (Independent),Alexandria

New PAC seeks change on council

Something that’s legal can still be unethical. For in-stance, it’s generally wrong to break a promise, even when it’s not against the law to do so.

This distinction often seems lost in our era of societal and political strife. Acting in a technically legal but questionable manner is uncivil behavior. Sadly, in recent years, we have seen several instances of our local government operating in this manner.

Whether because of ideology, as in our city’s ongoing war on cars, or at the altar of development, promises made yes-terday increasingly seem to be subject to being broken in the Alexandria of today.

When residents of King Street above the Masonic Tem-ple bought their homes, it likely never occurred to them to wonder if the city might someday take their on-street park-ing spaces away from them. Yet that’s what happened in 2014 so bike lanes could be built. The resulting lanes appear to be underutilized. So residents lost part of what they contracted for when they bought their homes – and what was gained?

When residents on Watson Street in the Potomac Yard/Potomac Greens neighborhood bought their townhomes, they did so with the understanding that vacant land around them would be developed with similar density. This was clearly spelled out in that neighborhood’s small area plan.

Yet when the developer petitioned to dramatically in-crease the density of an adjacent proposed project, council wielded its magic pencil to rewrite the small area plan – and many Watson Street residents were left feeling that their city had pulled a fast one on them.

Which brings us to the city’s push to install lights on the football field at T.C. Williams High School. At face value, it seems reasonable to want a lighted stadium at the city’s only public high school. Except for this: the promise to never install lights on a stadium behind T.C. Williams dates back more than 50 years – and has twice been reaffirmed, most recently in 2012.

The promise to never install lights was made in 1965 to residents in the surrounding, mostly black neighborhood who had been displaced when the city took their land to build the original T.C. Williams High School. These resi-dents were wary of having a large school erected next to their new homes and the no-lights promise was a conces-sion made by the city.

Alexandria’s city managers, school superintendents, mayors and councils for the past five decades have honored this promise. Perhaps not surprisingly, the present regime appears poised to break this pledge, as money for lights is in the schools’ capital budget and the proposal is making its way through the city’s approval process.

Proponents say the no-lights promise is not legally binding and they can back out by amending the develop-ment special use permit. They say it's okay to move forward

Lights at T.C. would be wrong

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Filling in the Blanks with Ramee Gentry

We are just back from spring break and in many ways it already feels like the end of the school year is fast approach-ing. Though we are still experiencing some cool days in this early spring, June will be here before we know it. Part of our work over the next several months will be to begin in ear-

nest the planning phase of increasing capacity at the high school level.

We are pleased and grateful that the Joint City-Schools Investment Fa-cilities Task Force, the city manager and the city council recognize the ur-gent need to increase capacity for our high school students and have shown their support by allocating funding to cover this crucial planning phase. While it will be several years before

construction will commence, this initial investment of time and resources is essential to ensure that we are creating the best school facilities in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. The planning phase will include analysis and studies by facilities planners as well as robust commu-nity engagement.

First a third-party consultant will be selected to man-age the planning phase. Bringing expertise in school fa-cilities, the consultant will conduct research and analysis, examining how jurisdictions with similar characteristics to Alexandria – single large high school, diverse demograph-ics, increasing population – have addressed their capacity needs. From this research and analysis, potential options will be drafted.

The options will then be presented to the community as part of the community engagement process. The com-munity will have the opportunity to consider all aspects of the high school experience, including the names on the multiple buildings we will need for our growing student population.

While adequate building space is an essential necessity, it is ultimately the most basic component. The true mea-sure of our school division is in the quality of educational programming we provide to our students. All options con-sidered will ensure that every single high school student living in the City of Alexandria, regardless of where in the city they live, will have equitable access to courses and ex-tracurricular activities.

Together, we can ensure that all of our future high school students have the optimal learning environments they need to succeed.

The writer is chair of the Alexandria School Board.

Alexandria’s path to increasing school capacity

RAMEE GENTRY

My View | Jeremy Flachs

On Jan. 20, our city council voted 6-1 to approve the development at Karig Estates without modifica-tion, a vote which denied the appeal of the Beth El Hebrew Congregation and many citizens. The single vote in favor of the appeal was Mayor Allison Silber-berg. Council’s vote allows the developer to clear cut 40 to 50 mature trees on steep slopes. It represents yet an-other vote that trashes the idea that Alexandria is an “Eco City.”

Those appealing were trying to protect a forested ravine on the Karig Estate next to Beth El on Seminary Road. The ravine features unstable soils held togeth-er by a mature forest. The ravine contains a perennial wetland and is coursed by an intermittent stream fed by seeps and springs near Seminary Road.

It bears repeating that the appeal was not an effort to stop all development. In-stead, the appeal requested that the city enforce its own environmental regulations and move the new homes closer to Seminary Road and out of the environmentally sensitive, forested ravines. The most disappointing aspect of this journey was that the property owner, developer and citizens were all agreeable to building the new homes on the level and dry “plateau” portion of the property which over-looks the ravines. To reach a solution, someone on city staff or on council needed to show leadership and medi-ate a compromise. Sadly, no one except Silberberg was up to the task, and she was outvoted.

To understand what hap-pened, some background is necessary. Years ago, the city enacted regulations de-signed to protect the Ches-apeake Bay. Waters flowing directly into tributaries of the Potomac River are giv-en the status of a Resource Protection Area, which pre-vents disturbance of any kind within 100 feet of the water source. This protec-tion from any disturbance or development is granted to perennial water sources, such as springs and streams flowing year-round.

Intermittent streams, which flow above ground only during part of the year and may not connect direct-ly to the Bay, are granted lesser protection consisting of a 50-foot ring of protec-tion. Karig and the sur-rounding properties have been well documented by the city’s own experts as containing waters deserv-ing of both 100 and 50 foot rings of protection. The city’s experts in these mat-ters include Rod Simmons, the natural resource man-ager, and Anthony Fleming, a consulting geologist. Both informed senior staff and council that the city was ap-proving a development that violated its environmental

regulations. On Jan. 20, with coun-

cil assuming the role of enabler, senior staff tested the patience of citizens by holding an Alice in Won-derland-style hearing where black means white and reg-ulations do not mean what they say. With the excep-tion of Silberberg and to a lesser extent Councilor Del Pepper, our council seemed mesmerized by city staff, made few inquiries, dis-missed the citizen testimo-ny and defaulted in its lead-ership role.

The retort will be that Karig is a by-right devel-opment and the owner can do as it wishes. This is not the case for several reasons. Even a by-right development must conform to existing environmental regulations. Instead, we witnessed a near total abdication of en-vironmental protections by the Office of Environmental Quality. And the block face/set back determination by Planning and Zoning was a contorted exercise in how to use discretion to destroy one of the few remaining old age forests in the city.

The above referenced scientists, Simmons and Fleming, advised council that construction would likely unleash numerous problems, potentially cat-astrophic, for both the new homeowners and the ad-jacent neighbors. The city responded that it relies on the developer to provide data, and the data provided looked good enough to ap-prove the development.

Specific requests by cit-izens to both council and

Karig hearing was a visit to Alice’s ‘Wonderland’

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To the editor:For almost two decades,

Alexandria has lost a consid-erable amount of its afford-able housing stock, making it increasingly difficult for av-erage Alexandrians like our seniors, veterans, teachers and others in the public sector workforce to live comfortably. The declining housing stock should not be a surprise to anyone in Alexandria. The time for talk and no action is over and as a city government, we need to put our money where our mouth is and create a dedicated funding stream to sustain affordable housing in our city.

It has become the norm around town that Alexandria is too expensive, but to me that’s just plain unaccept-able. Our police and firefight-ers should be able to call the place they protect and serve home too. Our senior citizens should be able to age in place, comfortably and with respect. And our veterans deserve the right to come back to a home where they were born and raised. Our sense of commu-nity is eroding and more must be done to reverse any further damage.

With development in Al-exandria continuing to grow, the need for subsidies to serve lower and moderate income households increases and we will be at a shortfall. Citizens and advocacy organizations alike have asked once again for a reliable, dedicated source of funding. That’s what I in-tend to do.

As a city and as a broader regional community, I believe that Alexandria can lead the way in thinking outside of the box when it comes to housing affordability. It is true that Al-exandria is not the only locali-ty dealing with this issue. Just last week we saw in the Wash-ington Post that officials in

Miami-Dade County, with the fourth-largest school district in the mainland, are push-ing a plan to build housing for teachers on land right on or next to the schools where they work. The plan is serious and money has already been committed to the project. As a city, we have to take a serious look at how we advocate for and acquire affordable hous-ing because we are heading down a dangerous path.

Lack of available afford-able housing is rearing its head all across our country. But in Alexandria, the time for actionable solutions is now and I know that we can lead the way. Some have argued against dedicated funding streams, but Alexandria al-ready uses multiple dedicated funding streams to address some of our most serious challenges — and securing additional funds for afford-able housing through a small tax is no different.

Michelle Krocker from the Northern Virginia Afford-able Housing Alliance said it best: “As the average rent for a one-bedroom apartment approaches $1,700 a month, working residents with mod-est incomes, new families with young children and seniors on fixed incomes are being priced out of the city’s hous-ing market. Our workforce in the restaurant and hospitality industry, healthcare workers, small business employees and many others struggle to find housing that they can afford.”

I’m open to hearing solu-tions and options from any-one willing to tackle this challenge with me. I strong-ly believe that no solution is perfect, but something needs to be done and it needs to be done now.

-Willie F. Bailey, Sr., member,

Alexandria City Council

It’s time to sustain afford-able housing in AlexandriaTo the editor:

My name is Diana Bar-rett and I’m president of the Alexandria Chapter of the Southern States Police Be-nevolent Association. I am writing not only as one of your police officers but on behalf of the approximately 170 members of my organi-zation.

If anything I include in this letter sounds familiar, it is because I have unfor-tunately had to give similar statements to city council in the four years that I have been President of our SSPBA Chapter. The unfortunate part is that each time I have given these speeches, it is for the same reason: poor pay. And poor pay leads to poor recruitment, which leads to poor retention.

Between the Alexandria Police Department and Al-exandria Fire Department, my family has devoted al-most 120 years of service to this city. Therefore, the only place I applied to and want-ed to work was the Alexan-dria Police Department. One would think that because of the dedication and attach-ment I have to this city, I would be singing its praises and telling anyone I know that has a public service calling to apply to the City of Alexandria.

But I cannot.Between consistently

being at the bottom of the barrel for starting salaries, the constant increase in our heath care costs and the overall feeling that public servants are the least of this city council’s concern – I have no positive encourage-ment for anyone who may want to start a career with the City of Alexandria.

Alexandria City Coun-cil has historically failed to follow its own pay philoso-phy: to be competitive with comparable surrounding ju-

risdictions. They have con-tinued to accept that every year we fall even further be-hind our neighboring police departments. And these are the same jurisdictions that we continually lose officers to. I could go on, but I think you get the point. None of these things should be ac-ceptable.

Years ago, city council created the Public Safety Work Group. Alexandria has spent thousands of dollars on various consulting groups to tell them the same thing the PSWG has been saying for years: our pay is contin-ually the lowest when com-pared to other jurisdictions. This has been an on-going issue for more than 30 years. Your police officers have continually found ways to do more with less. With the continued residential and business growth in our com-munity along with increased tourism, we wonder how city council expects us to car-ry on with the same level of service. Your police offi-cers cannot understand why these compensation issues continue to go uncorrected, and we find it simply outra-geous that we must confront city council and fight this fight every budget cycle.

I am sure council is just as tired of hearing its police officers beat this same drum as we are of beating it.

Yes, we are public ser-vants. No, we did not expect to become wealthy doing this job. Police, fire/EMS and sheriff’s deputies come to work every day knowing that we may not get to go home at the end of our shift. We knew this the day we took an oath to protect this city, to put others’ lives before our own.

But to continue paying us at such a rate that we hemorrhage employees does no one any good, especial-ly the citizens of this city.

The current approach of al-lowing over-hires does not resolve the issue when we cannot hire people because there is nothing attractive about our pay and benefits. Nor can we keep brand new officers because they receive an offer from another juris-diction that doesn’t have to put someone through the academy.

Three years ago, when our compensation package was drastically lower than our neighboring jurisdic-tions, your police officers went to city council and told them that we needed least an across the board 9 per-cent increase just to be in the middle. Council responded with 4.5 percent. The band-aid helped but it was just that: a temporary attempt at helping a long-lasting prob-lem. It is time that a perma-nent solution is made.

Alexandria’s pay philos-ophy states the following: employee compensation “will be competitive at 100 percent of the average pay levels for the relevant labor market, and will be adjust-ed whenever necessary to maintain market competi-tiveness.” The only way to make this happen is to pro-vide an across the board pay increase to Alexandria Po-lice Officers.

City council is scheduled to approve its 2019 budget on May 3. We are asking res-idents to contact city coun-cil and tell them to abide by their own compensation phi-losophy. I work with the very best public safety employees in the region and I want it to remain that way – providing a fair and competitive com-pensation package is the way to make that happen.

-Diana Barrett, president,

Alexandria Chapter,Southern States Police

Benevolent Association

It’s time to give city police fair pay

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Now that March Madness is over, we can fully turn our attention to that which truly matters this time of year – the start of the baseball season. This week’s Out of the Attic was provided by Alexandria Archaeology, where some of the tools in the archaeologi-cal toolkit have been used to look into Alexandria’s early baseball history.

Generally, archaeologists do not dig up much relat-ed to baseball. This should not come as a surprise given that despite requiring a large footprint, no permanent in-frastructure is needed to play the game and the few pieces of material culture required to play leave little trace in the archaeological record. This isn’t to say archaeolo-gists cannot or should not look, though. Elsewhere, archaeologists have docu-mented Mesoamerican ball courts and Greek and Roman sports complexes with great success.

A search through Alex-andria Archaeology’s col-lections, which house fifty years of excavations in the city, allowed us to identify two intriguing artifacts that might be related to baseball. Both are balls comprised of wrapped leather strips, straps or cord of varying thickness-

es, between just one and two inches in diameter and are missing their outer layers (by rule, modern baseballs are to be between 2.86 and 2.94 inches in diameter).

These were recovered from brick shafts, likely wells or privies, on the 300 and 500 blocks of King Street and date to sometime in the mid-19th century. Early baseballs were notoriously unstandardized and were generally made by cobblers, tanners or other craftsmen working with leather, tex-tiles or similar materials that they had on hand. It is impossible to say for certain whether or not these are actually the cores of early

baseballs and not just left-over industrial scraps, but it certainly is tempting.

Baseball was largely con-sidered a northern game until after the Civil War, played outside the facto-ries in places like New York City. However, the detail of a well-known Civil War photograph of the 44th New York Regiment, camped at the head of King Street and at the foot of Shuter’s Hill, documents baseball in the city as early as 1861. The dirt, diamond-shaped base paths seen just above the central camp arch were lo-cated near what is now the King Street Metro Station and reveal what these New

York soldiers did to occupy themselves while stationed here during the war.

This isn’t the only pho-tographic evidence of early baseball in Alexandria. Us-ing a series of aerial photo-graphs from 1927, we have been able to identify at least twenty-nine early 20th cen-tury baseball fields in the city, ranging in scale and splendor from Baggett Sta-dium with a grandstand, bleachers, scoreboard and dugouts, to just four worn-out spots of dirt located 90ish feet apart from each other at vaguely right an-gles. Some have visible pitchers mounds, others do not. Some have dirt base paths, some do not. A few are clearly manicured and maintained, but many ap-pear to be little more than the result of some kids play-ing baseball in the same place over and over again.

By asking the right ques-tions of the archaeological record, a couple of wrapped pieces of leather and some worn out spots in the grass become physical evidence of America’s pastime here in Alexandria.

Out of the Attic is provided by the Office of

Historic Alexandria.

Play ball: Evidence of baseball in 19th-century Alexandria

PHOTO/LIBRARY OF CONGRESSCamp of 44th New York Infantry near Alexandria.

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staff for Simmons or Flem-ing to be called as witnesses were rebuffed on the ground that “the city has to speak with one voice.” Simmons was informed by his super-visors that he could not tes-tify and to butt out. As in a Wonderland, the scientists with the knowledge were muzzled and the all-know-ing engineers with their mathematical models run the show.

It is fact that Strawber-ry Run is a tributary of the Potomac River that flows through the west end of the city. It is fact that much of its headwaters are on Karig and then are underground-ed through the neighbors’ backyards until flowing from a large pipe on Fort Williams Parkway where it “daylights” as the RPA pro-tected Strawberry Run. In the view of senior staff and council, water deserving of RPA status when it flows out of a pipe at Fort Williams Park is not deserving of RPA status when it enters the pipe at Karig. According to the city, the perennial wet-land and seeps which form the headwaters of Straw-berry Run are not part of Strawberry Run. Only in Wonderland can senior staff and city councilors avoid the obvious.

Transportation & En-vironmental Services staff elaborated that because the wetland water entered a pipe, it could not be accord-ed the RPA protection de-serving of waters which flow into the Chesapeake Bay. But on the other hand, they stated, if the water flowed through a partially enclosed trough, rather than a pipe, the city would have granted the waters RPA protection. Only in this Wonderland are such distinctions drawn and of any meaning. According to the Army Corps, the fact the water eventually flow-

ing into the Chesapeake Bay may enter a pipe is of no sig-nificance when determining RPA protection. The city de-termined otherwise, over-ruling the strong opinions from its own scientists.

T&ES staff further tes-tified at the council hear-ing that experts had used the “North Carolina” and “Fairfax County” stream assessment techniques to verify there was no inter-mittent stream and no RPA on Karig. But both assess-ments require a written score sheet and assessments by various experts, includ-ing a botanist. A review of documents produced after the hearing through a FOIA request confirmed there is no scoresheet or other docu-mentation for Karig, leaving the question as to why T&ES staff stated otherwise to council. Only in Wonderland do senior staff and council rely on nonexistent stream assessments while ignoring hard facts produced by Sim-mons and Fleming.

If the city had classified Karig’s perennial wetland as the RPA that it is, and acknowledged the obvious intermittent stream, the re-quired 100 and 50-foot buf-fer zones would have likely eliminated construction of two of the four proposed homes. At a minimum, the homes would all have shift-ed much closer to Seminary Road.

And, while the city and the developer both made noise that it would be un-fair to protect the ravine because the existing maps did not show the RPA and intermittent stream, the pe-rennial spring fed wetland flowing into Strawberry Run did appear on the city’s geo-logic map, a publicly avail-able resource.

The question to be asked is not only what is fair for the developer, who may have taken advantage of poorly documented maps

published by the city, but also what is best for the citi-zens of Alexandria. The fact that the city’s RPA map is incomplete should result in an apology by the city, and then the city should update its maps and remedy its mistake. But in Wonderland, the incomplete becomes the norm and the obvious is ob-fuscated.

The regulations and pro-tections applicable to Karig were so contorted by staff as to be nearly unrecognizable. At one point, staff testified that the Army Corp of En-gineers had determined the wetland was not a RPA. Fif-teen minutes later, with our mayor quoting the appli-cable regulations, the staff walked back and admitted it was the city and not the Army Corps which deter-mined the wetland was not a RPA.

During another ex-change, staff was asked by Silberberg at least three times if Anthony Fleming was hired by the city to au-thor the city’s geologic at-las, “Geologic Atlas of the City of Alexandria, Virginia and Vicinity – By Anthony H. Fleming, Licensed Pro-fessional Geologist, 2015.” Initially, no one on staff professed to know the an-swer. Finally, a staffer ad-mitted that yes, the city had hired Fleming. But Fleming had previously emailed each council member his detailed analysis of why the Karig development was a non-starter, citing his Geologic Atlas and other scientific studies. Other than Silber-berg, no one on council ac-knowledged there even was a person named Fleming who authored the city’s geo-logic study. This is another trait of legislating in Won-derland. Experts disappear when convenience so dic-tates.

All the while the city at-torney sat on his hands pro-claiming impotence. There

was no questioning of the misstatements and obfus-cation. Instead, it fell to Silberberg to research the law during the hearing and correct misstatements. If one had to guess, legal ad-vice to council was driven by a desire to avoid a potential lawsuit by the developer, who was represented by the same attorney who defeated the city in an unrelated case regarding a tussle over an easement affecting an alley in Old Town.

What is even more dis-turbing is city staff and council both were aware that the neighbors and de-veloper were close to a com-promise. And where was the city attorney during this dis-cussion? No, he insisted to Pepper, it would be fruitless to send the site plan back to the planning commission, and in Wonderland, that was all council needed to hear. I respectfully suggest this ad-vice did not serve the larger interests of our city.

I offer this additional ob-servation: Council is seated with intelligent and caring people who have in the past demonstrated the leader-ship lacking with Karig. Look back to how some of our council members fought courageously to shut down the Mirant plant which was polluting Old Town with dangerous coal dust. With Mirant, council exercised real leadership, even to the point of pushing staff to do its bidding for the sake of the city’s environment and health.

Is it possible that some on council have been there too long? Is it possible some have become too close to the staff they direct, to the point they have lost objec-tivity? We elect council to set the agenda and serve the citizens. We do not elect city staff. Council should nev-er abdicate its leadership to staff, even well-meaning staff.

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since a decision to install lights could be defended if challenged in court. Sorry, but that’s the mindset of a bully – and it’s a horrible way to do business.

The city needs to find its way to a lighted stadi-um that doesn’t include breaking its word.

Ultimately, a two high-school solution increas-ingly seems necessary to resolve Alexandria’s sec-ondary school capacity problem. Solve the issue by building one lighted stadi-um elsewhere in the city to serve both schools.

Or, take a field being otherwise used and re-purpose it into a football stadium, whether it’s for one high school or two. Possible sites for a foot-ball stadium include the soccer fields adjacent to Simpson Stadium Park, the large field between George Washington Middle School and the Braddock Road Metro station, Luckett Field off Duke Street or the softball field behind the Land Rover dealership on Duke Street.

With creative thinking, a lighted stadium can be achieved. Siting it some-where other than T.C. Wil-liams would be forward thinking in anticipation of a second Alexandria high school.

City leaders need to re-member that just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

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City leaders need to remember that just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

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DEATH NOTICESGYULA ANTAL (86), of Alexandria, April 4, 2018JULIE A. BELL, of Alexandria, April 5, 2018KEVIN M. BULL (40), of Alexandria, April 3, 2018FRED “COWBELL FRED” CANDELARIA (54), of Alexandria, April 1, 2018JOSEPH A. COVAS (85), of Alexandria, April 4, 2018ANN E. FRUTCHEY (76), of Alexandria, April 6, 2018HOWARD P. HARRISON (88), of Alexandria, April 5, 2018PATRICIA G. HAYNES, of Alexandria, April 5, 2018INGRID “HOLLIE” KNIGHTON (86), of Alexandria, March 30, 2018JOHN H. MEHOVES SR. (94), formerly of Alexandria, Feb. 23, 2018KENNETH W. SHUTE, formerly of Alexandria, April 6, 2018LUCY B. VAUGHAN (87), of Alexandria, March 29, 2018

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TO: Anna Patricia Garcia and Any Unknown Alleged Fathers; NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the above noted parent whose whereabouts are unknown, as well as Any Unknown Alleged Fathers, whose whereabouts are also unknown, that the Indiana Department of Child Services has filed its Verified Petition Alleging the child to be in Need of Services, in accordance with I.C. 31-34-9-3, and that an adjudication hearing has been scheduled with the Court.YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to appear before the Judge of the Marion Superior Court, 2451 N. Keystone Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46218, 317-327-8392 for a Default Hearing on 6/7/2018 at 1:30 PM in JUVENILE COURT ROOM 13, 4th Floor. At said hearing, the Court will consider the Petition and evidence thereon and will render its decision as to whether the above named minor child is a child in need of services and shall enter adjudication accordingly. Your failure to appear after lawful notice will be deemed as your default and waiver to be present at said hearing.UPON ENTRY OF SAID ADJUDICATION, A DISPOSITIONAL HEARING will be held in which the Court will consider (1) Alternatives for the care, treatment, or rehabilitation for the child; (2) The necessity, nature, and extent of your participation in the program of care, treatment, or rehabilitation for the child; and (3) Your financial responsibility for any services provided for the parent, guardian or custodian of the child including child support.YOU MUST RESPOND by appearing in person or by an attorney within thirty (30) days after the last publication of this notice, and in the event you fail to do so, an adjudication on said petition and a dispositional decree may be entered against you without further notice.Dated this 16th day of March, 2018 Ordered, Myla Eldridge Clerk of said Court, this 3/16/18Sharon A Flores, 27106-29Attorney, Indiana Department of Child Services *NOTE TO PUBLISHER Publish in the Alexandria, VA area, once each week for three (3) consecutive weeks, beginning immediately.

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IN THE MATTER OF: CG - DOB 12/13/2001 A CHILD ALLEGED TO BEA CHILD IN NEED OF SERVICESANDANNA PATRICIA GARCIA, MOTHER AND ANY UNKNOWN ALLEGED FATHERS(Parents)

SUMMONS FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION & NOTICE OF CHILD IN NEED OF SERVICES HEARING

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ALEXANDRIA CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NUMBER 180307

The Alexandria City School Board dba Alexandria City Public Schools is seeking responses from qualified Offerors interest-ed in Building Envelope Repair Services for multiple school locations.

There is a MANDATORY pre-proposal conference being held on April 11, 2018 at 1:00 PM, and a second MANDATO-RY pre-proposal being held on April 17, 2018 at 1:00 PM, at the Alexandria City Public Schools Central Office, located at 1340 Braddock Place, in Conference Room 610, Alexandria, Virginia 22314. Offerors are required to attend at least one of the conferences to be considered for award.

Sealed Responses with the notation RFP# 180307 Build-ing Envelope Services, will be uploaded in ACPS’ Vendor Self Service (VSS) system before 3 PM on April 27, 2018. The time is determined by the System clock, please register and upload early.

A USB with one response must be received in the Procurement Office, located at 1340 Braddock

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Place, Suite 620, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, on or before 3:00 pm, April 27, 2018. The time of receipt shall be determined by the time clock stamp in the Procure-ment office for the USB. Docu-ments may be obtained by down-loading the RFP from the ACPS website at https://www.acps.k12.va.us/purchasing. Registration is not required to download the RFP, but registration is required to respond.

All questions must be submitted before 4:30 p.m., on April 19, 2018. If necessary, an addendum will be issued and posted to VSS.

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 applications and to waive any informalities in any response.

Sharon T. Lewis M.A., M.P.S.,CP-PB, VCO

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ALEXANDRIA PLANNING DEPARTMENT

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW

The following request has been received for administrative re-view and approval.For information about this appli-cation or to comment, visit the City’s website at www.alexandri-ava.gov/planning or call (703) 746-4666.

Special Use Permit #2018-0033 5420 Wycklow Ct. – Proposed Business: Child Care Request for a new administrative Special Use Permit to operate a child care; zoned RB/Townhouse ZoneAPPLICANT: Alicia OrlandoPLANNER: 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 Zon-ing. If you have any comments regarding the proposal above,

please contact Planning and Zon-ing staff at 703.746.4666 or email the planner listed no later than May 3, 2018

ALEXANDRIA BOARD OF ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW

PARKER GRAY DISTRICTLEGAL NOTICE OF A PUBLIC

HEARING

A public hearing will be held by the Alexandria Board of Archi-tectural Review on WEDNES-DAY, April 25, 2018 beginning at 7:30 PM in the City Hall Council Chambers, on the second floor of City Hall, 301 King Street, Alex-andria, Virginia on the following applications:

BAR CASE #2018-00140Request for alterations at 1001 Oronoco StreetApplicant: Paul J Loeser

BAR CASE #2018-00148Request for partial demolition/capsulation at 317 North Patrick StreetApplicants: Mimi Konoza & Doris Sokoloff

BAR CASE #2018-00149Request for alterations at 317 North Patrick StreetApplicants: Mimi Konoza & Doris Sokoloff

Information about the above item(s) may be obtained from the Department of Planning and Zoning, City Hall, 301 King Street Room 2100, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, or at www.alex-andriava.gov/dockets.

ALEXANDRIA PLANNING COMMISSION & CITY

COUNCILMAY 2018

The items described below will be heard by the Planning Commis-sion 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 at 703-746-4666 or visit www.alexandriava.gov/planning.

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Special Use Permit #2018-0017421 Clifford Avenue – Mother of Light CenterPublic hearing and consideration of a request for a social service use operating as a respite day center that provides training and counseling services; zoned: CSL/Commercial Service Low.Applicant: Mother of Light Center

Special Use Permit #2018-00204800 Brenman Park Drive – Dog Park LightsPublic hearing and consideration of a request to amend Special Use Permit #2015-0128 to extend the hours of site lighting in the dog park area; zoned: CDD #9/Coor-dinated Development District #9.Applicant: City of Alexandria Department of Recreation, Parks, and Cultural Activities

Text Amendment #2018-0004Residential Open Porches and Porticos(A) Initiation of a Text Amend-ment; and (B) Public hearing and consideration of a Text Amend-ment to the Zoning Ordinance to amend sections 2-145, 2-148.1, 2-183.2, 2-205.1, 2-205.2, 7-202, 7-800, 7-2504, and 11-1302 and to add new section 2-183.15 regard-ing residential open porches and porticos. Staff: City of Alexandria Depart-ment of Planning & ZoningPublic hearing: FY 2019 Long Range Interdepartmental Plan-ning Work Program

THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL BE HEARD BY THE PLANNING COMMISSION

ONLY AND BY CITY COUNCIL ONLY UPON APPEAL:

City Charter Section 9.06 Case #2018-0001Combined Sewer OutfallsPublic hearing and consider-ation of a request for Planning Commission to review whether the proposed change of owner-ship from the City to Alexandria Renew of the City’s four Com-bined Sewer Outfall structures is consistent with the City of Alexandria Master Plan. The structures are located within the City rights-of-way at (1) the intersection of North Union St/Pendleton St, (2) South Royal St at Interstate 95 overpass, (3) from intersection of King St/West St along South Peyton St to the

intersection of Daingerfield St/Duke St, and (4) at the Hooff’s Run channel south of Duke St; zoned: (1) WPR, (2) WPR, (3) OCH, and (4) OCM(100).Staff: City of Alexandria De-partment of Transportation and Environmental Services

Development Site Plan #2017-00141101 North Washington Street - Abingdon PlacePublic hearing and consideration of a request for a Development Site Plan, with modifications, to construct 19 condominium town-house units; zoned: CD/Commer-cial Downtown.Applicant: Toll Brothers, Inc., represented by M. Catharine Puskar, attorney

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Commercial Sales Landlord & Tenant Representation

McEnearneyCommercial.com

Serving the Washington, DC Metro Area since 1980. 703.683.2700 | 510 King Street, Suite 515 | Alexandria, VA 22314

Debra [email protected]

913 King StreetFor LeaseThis 2,273 SF property is the last remaining High Victorian row home on King Street. Now zoned King Street Retail (KR),

the property features 10-ft ceilings, original hardwood floors, marble fireplace, central air, radiant heat, and 2 parking spaces.

123 S Royal StreetFor Sale$1,980,000 4,940-SF, late 19th century CD Zoning/mixed retail and/or office. New roof and sprinkler system. Beautiful

combination of historic and modern architecture.

Diane [email protected]

300 N Washington St, 5th floorFor Lease $25.00/SF Full ServiceSuite 502: 1,799 SF Suite: 504: 1,495 SFViews of the Potomac River & Old Town. Minutes to airport or Downtown DC. Walk to restaurants, shops & hotels in Old Town. Ride-on bus service to Metro, Off-street parking.John Quinn [email protected]

3260 Duke StreetFor LeaseGround floor, 4,000 SF. Space suitable for office or retail. Great visibility, heavy traffic counts, on-site parking.

Bob Swearingen [email protected]

3339-3341 Duke StreetFor Sale $770,000 or Lease $20.00/SF plus electric & cleaning2,520 SF: Ideal Old Town location with abundant parking. Easy Access to GW Parkway, National Airport, Capitol Beltway and Capitol Hill.Ed [email protected]

112 S Royal StreetFor Lease $3,250/mo/Full-ServiceCentral Old Town location a few steps from King St, one block to City Hall & Courthouse. First

floor available. Restored & updated 1760 townhouse. Spacious adjoining offices with built-in bookcases, pine floors & fireplaces.Diane [email protected]

820 Gibbon Road, Suite 201For Lease $22.00/SF655 SF office space. Centrally located with easy access.

Michael [email protected]

919 Prince StreetFor Sale $1,990,000This handsome property, built in the 1800s, is available for the first time in 20 years. Now offices, could be

residential or retail.

Ann Michael or Tom [email protected] [email protected]

923 King StreetFor Sale $6,000,000Storefront Retail/ResidentialApproximately 1,800 SF ResidentialApproximately 6,000 SF Retail

John [email protected]

614 N Washington StreetFor Sale$1,200,000 2,352 SF plus basement. This contemporary 2 story plus basement building

was constructed in 1900. Easy access to National Airport, Capital Beltway and Capitol Hill. Zoning: OC.Deborah [email protected]

115 S St Asaph StreetFor Lease $1,800/moOffice/condo: 575 SF (2 offices & foyer) with courtyard, private entrance, kitchenette, & restroom.

Located 1 block from King St & S Washington St shops & restaurants. Walk to Metro.Nikki Reed or Ed [email protected]@McEnearney.com

1423 Powhatan St, Building 2For Sale $579,0002,643-SF, 2-story, stand-alone office condo in North End Alexandria. 7 reserved, off-

street parking spaces. Quick access to GW Parkway, Reagan National Airport, and Washington, DC.Brison Rohrbach [email protected]