as White House press sec-retary and Trump’s com-

munications director. He first got involved in politics and elec-tion campaigns in college, and said he jumped at the chance to represent the presi-

dent-elect. “If you’re a commu-

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communications,” Spicer said. “From a very young age, I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll get a shot at doing that.’ You always wonder if that will ever happen, so when that opportunity presents itself, you have to grab hold of it.” Spicer has been involved with government public rela-

tions since the 1990s, and he said he moved from D.C. to Alexandria around 1999. He said the city appealed to him having grown up in a small town near the ocean in Rhode Island. “While Alexandria is tech-nically a city, it has the feel of a town,” he said. “You know your neighbors, and I think there’s a sense of community that I don’t necessarily think is entirely the same in Arling-ton or Ballston, not to put them down or anything. I enjoy the waterfront.” Spicer said that the Trump administration will respect the press and its First Amendment

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Republicans to celebrate, Dems plan protestsBY ERICH WAGNER

With Republican Donald Trump set to be installed as the United States’ 45th presi-dent tomorrow, Alexandrians of all stripes are getting ready to mark the occasion, albeit in different ways. While many residents are planning to attend the inau-guration itself on Capitol Hill, one of the many parties and galas this weekend, or the various protest marches and concerts, one Alexandria lo-cal is in the midst of planning Trump’s administration. Sean Spicer, who lives in the Beverley Hills neighbor-hood, has been tapped to serve SEE INAUGURATION | 6

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Michael Brown named new police chiefWelcome reception scheduled for January 24BY CHRIS TEALE

City Manager Mark Jinks announced Monday that he ap-pointed Michael Brown as the new Alexandria Police Chief, effective January 23. Deputy Chief David Huchler had served as acting chief since Police Chief Earl Cook’s retirement on October 1, 2016. Brown has lived in Al-exandria since 2010 with his wife, Kirsten Knapp, who is a city sheriff’s deputy. Brown was selected follow-ing a rigorous nationwide and local search for candidates ,

conducted by the city with as-sistance from the International Association of Chiefs of Po-lice. The public is invited to meet Brown at a welcome re-ception on January 24 from 6 to 7 p.m., in the Vola Lawson Lobby of City Hall. “Chief Brown’s remarkable career has put him at the fore-front of neighborhood protec-tion, community policing, traffic safety, strategic planning, and other areas of concern here and around the country,” said Jinks in a statement. “As an Alexandria resident, Chief Brown is already familiar with local issues and will help the Alexandria Police

Department continue to imple-ment 21st-century national best practices fairly and effectively.” Brown has nearly four de-cades of experience in law en-forcement. He rose through the ranks of the California Highway Patrol, starting as a police offi-cer in Los Angeles in 1977 and culminating in his appointment as state commissioner from 2004 to 2008. As commissioner, he led a law enforcement agency with approximately 7,900 sworn personnel, 3,100 civilian staff, more than 100 field offices and a budget of $1.8 billion.

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opportunities to establish relationships within the community. The other piece of that also is that it helps not only in terms of opening up communication, but also for recruiting.”

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Schools Superintendent Al-vin Crawley unveiled last week his $261.8 million operating budget proposal for Alexandria City Public Schools for fiscal 2018. The 3.3 percent increase over the previous year’s budget factors in the additional fund-ing required to cover a pro-jected 2.8 percent increase in enrollment for the 2017-2018 school year. Officials said that enroll-ment increase requires 22 new positions across ACPS, includ-ing teaching as well as support staff. The budget proposal also factors in a $2.7 million state-mandated increase in Virginia Retirement System payments for staff, a 5 percent increase in health care premiums and a step salary increase in order for

Alexandria to remain competi-tive with other school districts. The budget adds a school cli-mate specialist to focus on posi-tive behavioral interventions and supports and the implemen-tation of restorative practices. If the proposed budget is fully funded, class sizes are projected to remain the same. “This is a lean and fiscally responsible budget to match the city’s funding expectations,” Crawley said in a statement. “It is designed to maintain current initiatives at a time when the city is faced with fiscal challenges. Prior to the release of this bud-get, we have taken a number of steps to close the funding gap, including a 2 percent reduction in central office departments. “Any further cuts in fund-ing will undoubtedly impact

the operational effectiveness of schools and have a direct impact on the delivery of in-struction and student supports. This is something that we must avoid at all costs.” The budget calls for an in-crease in the city’s per pupil spending, which sits at $16,999. ACPS officials said without an increase in per-pupil funding, the system will face a budget shortfall of $9.6 million. Under Crawley’s budget proposal, the per-pupil spending would in-crease to $17,222. The Alexandria City School Board will hold public hear-ings on the budget proposal tonight and again on February 16. City Manager Mark Jinks unveils his city budget propos-al February 21.

- Chris Teale

Lillian Vasilas, the longtime co-owner of The Lamplighter on King Street died Tuesday after a stroke. She was 95. Born in the small town of Corry just outside Erie, Penn. in 1921, Vasilas joined the U.S. Coast Guard upon the coun-try’s entry into World War II, initially as a driver, before be-coming a radio operator. In the coast guard, Vasilas met Emanuel, a radio operator who co-owned a radio store in Alexandria. After the pair was released from active duty

in May 1946, they got married the next day and came to work at the store together. Husband Emanuel, known as Manny, died in 1996. The store’s daily operations are now run by two of their sons, Roger and Simon. But Lillian stayed active until the very end. Roger Vasilas said that most of all, Lillian enjoyed being in-volved in the store and meeting visitors who came in. Custom-ers can buy a variety of light fixtures and lamps, as well as have their products repaired.

“One of the things that she loved doing was coming in and talking to the custom-ers,” Roger Vasilas said. “She loved doing that.” Viewings will take place Sunday at Demaine Funeral Home, 520 S. Washington St., Alexandria, from 2 to 4 p.m. and again from 6 to 8 p.m. The fu-neral service is slated for 11 a.m. Monday at Aldersgate United Methodist Church. After the funeral, she will be interred at Mount Comfort Cemetery.

- Chris Teale

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The Alexandria Police De-partment announced last week it made three arrests in con-nection with several recent cell phone robberies in the city. Police said a 16-year-old male city resident was charged with stealing a phone on the 900 block of Wythe St. on December 8, a robbery set up through the letgo phone appli-cation that allows buyers and

sellers to find each other and set up transactions. A 17-year-old was also charged in connection with the December 8 robbery, as well as for stealing a phone on the 900 block of N. Henry St. on December 27 from someone he knew. Police withheld the two suspects’ names on account of their status as juveniles.

In addition, Keith West, 19, of Alexandria was charged with stealing a phone on the 1200 block of Madison St. on January 1, a robbery he set up using the OfferUp app. Police asked that anyone with information about these incidents or suspects call Ser-geant Dave Cutting at 703-746-6627.

- Chris Teale

Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan Porter announced last week that a city resident plead-ed guilty to voter registration fraud, committed in the run-up to last year’s election. Vafalay Massaquoi, 30, of Alexandria, was convicted January 12 of felony counts related to the intentional fal-sifying of Virginia voter reg-istration applications. He pleaded guilty to two counts of forging a public re-cord and one charge of elec-tion fraud. Massaquoi was sentenced to three concurrent but suspended five-year prison sentences, on the condition he comply with probation and complete 500 hours of commu-nity service. He served approx-imately 90 days in jail between

his arrest and guilty plea. While employed by local advocacy group New Virginia Majority seeking to register new voters, Massaquoi fab-ricated applications for voter registration. He forged a number of voter registration forms by invent-ing applicants, and those false applications were then filed with the Alexandria Office of the General Registrar, who brought the matter to the at-tention of the commonwealth’s attorney as required by law. New Virginia Majority co-executive director Jon Liss said last November that the group had fired Massaquoi after only a few weeks for not living up to the organization’s “standards.”

In a statement, Porter said the risk of fraudulent votes being cast was very low. “These convictions illus-trate my resolve with regards to protecting our society’s democratic freedoms,” he said. “Allegations of electoral fraud will be zealously investigated and, where evidence of wrong-doing is found, prosecuted. “Any use of fraud, forgery or subterfuge with regards to voter registration is a very serious matter that deserves a very serious sentence — such as the one obtained in this case. Offenses related to electoral fraud can degrade the confidence we as citizens justly have in our system of elections.”

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City would face 2020 deadline for upgrades or lose fundingBY CHRIS TEALE

The Virginia General As-sembly kicked off the 2017 legislative session last week, and Alexandria’s sewers are on the agendas of lawmak-ers from inside the city and around the state. Just one day after the legis-lature convened in Richmond January 11, the state Senate Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources Committee advanced a bill that would force the city to take expedited action to stop releasing more than 10 million gallons of raw sewage each year into the Potomac Riv-er by 2020. If the bill becomes law, the city would lose all state fund-ing from 2020 until the issues are resolved. The bill received two of its

required three readings Mon-day and Tuesday on the state Senate floor. Its third reading took place Wednesday, after the Times’ print deadline. The bill, introduced by state Sen. Richard Stuart (R-28), and its ramifications brought swift condemnation from local leaders. “This bill is completely un-reasonable,” said city spokes-man Craig Fifer. “It is not a serious environmental bill, it’s a bill that is designed to get the city’s attention or make some sort of statement to other peo-ple. It is virtually impossible to do the work involved that the bill requires, and the patron knows that. This is not respon-sible legislation, it’s not fair legislation and it’s not helpful legislation when we are already aggressively trying to deal with this problem.” Officials with the Alexandria

Chamber of Commerce raised concerns about the impact Rich-mond cutting state funding to the city would have on the busi-ness community, as well as its impact on capital projects. “It is a draconian measure that unfairly targets all Alexan-dria business owners, citizens, employees, public servants — including public safety officers and teachers — and visitors because of a [combined sewer outfall] operation,” the chamber said in a statement. “The July 1, 2020 timeline identified in the legislation is completely non-sensical, virtually ensuring Al-exandria will lose all state fund-ing in [three and a half] years.” Similar legislation in the House of Delegates, spon-sored by Fairfax County Del-egate David Albo (R-42), is slated for discussion by the House committee on com-merce and labor. Albo’s bill

would look to bring the city into compliance by 2027, but does not currently mention any punitive measures. A bill introduced by state Sen. Adam Ebbin (D-30), who represents part of Alexandria, requiring the city to complete an assessment of discharges into Oronoco Bay by 2029 failed in committee. Fifer pointed to steps the city is already taking to deal with its four sewage outfalls into the Potomac River. In May 2016, the city updated its long-term sewer control plan to regulate sewage outfalls into Hunting Creek and Hoofs Run as part of the Chesapeake Bay cleanup. In November, city staff re-turned with a plan to acceler-ate projects to reduce sewage outfalls into Oronoco Bay. Un-

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out, but we want to promote the good news and promote the suc-cesses we’re going to have.” Spicer said since being cho-sen to serve in the Trump White House, the reaction from fellow Alexandrians has been mostly positive. “You know, Alexandria

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the height of hypocrisy for me to pretend to be part of this in-augural celebration.” Sean Lenehan, chairman of the Alexandria Republican City Committee, blasted Bey-er’s decision in a statement, arguing Beyer should “follow Hillary Clinton’s example” and attend the inauguration. “I might remind Mr. Beyer that such condescending be-havior will marginalize his ef-fectiveness as he represents us on critical issues such as fed-eral employee concerns and

the billion dollar WMATA bailout resulting from decades of neglectful Democratic par-ty mismanagement,” Lenehan said. “At precisely the time when Northern Virginians need a mature and reasoned voice at the negotiating table, Congressman Beyer has elect-ed to give up his seat.” Lenehan said in an interview that his organization is planning events locally for residents who don’t want to trek across the Po-tomac River to attend the inau-guration in person. “We have a big party sched-uled for Friday night, our own inaugural ball if you will, down at the Old Dominion Boat Club,” he said. “And if people don’t want to go down-town but still want to watch with people, we’ll be having a lunch watch party over at Ramparts Tavern.” Lenehan also noted an uptick in resident interest in the local Republican party. “We’ve been seeing some pretty cool people coming through that haven’t been be-fore and who want to get in-volved,” he said.

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From 2008 to 2009, Brown served as the deputy secretary for public safety for the State of California, advising then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) on public safety issues and helping develop the state’s strategic high-way safety plan. Since 2010, Brown has served as director of the office of im-paired driving and occupant pro-tection at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, where he is responsible for the development and implementa-tion of national traffic safety policy and best practices. In an interview Monday, Brown said one of his major priorities is to continue to en-hance community policing, where officers build relation-ships with residents. “The effectiveness of a police department really depends upon the relationships you establish within the community,” he said. “That speaks to the police legiti-macy and everything else, and also provides a vehicle for the community to communicate to us what their needs are. That’s in-credibly important in policing to-day, and I hope to do that with the Alexandria Police Department.” The department continues to emphasize community policing, especially through its Commu-nity Oriented Policing Section, where officers are assigned to specific areas of the city to build those relationships with residents and businesses. Community policing remains a balancing act due to the need to fulfill calls for service, but Brown said it is possible to enhance. “It’s not necessarily assign-ing additional people,” he said. “It’s almost a cultural thing that has to be embraced by the agency as a whole. The officers for example who are on regular patrol assignments can seize opportunities to establish rela-tionships within the communi-ty. The other piece of that also is that it helps not only in terms of opening up communication, but also for recruiting.” Brown said the diverse needs

of the city could present a chal-lenge, but he is hopeful of rising to it. In recent years, the Arlandria neighborhood particularly strug-gled with the influence of gangs, including the notorious Salvador-ian gang MS-13. And last year, the city’s seven homicides were the most in Alexandria since 2007. But with the help of the community, and continued en-gagement from department of-ficials, Brown said progress can continue. “One way, first of all, is to establish expectations for the po-lice department and its personnel in terms of creating those bonds with the community,” he said. “The other piece is to spend a lot of time with the various groups and associations and parts of the community so you can show another face on the law enforce-ment personnel. It’s not just go-ing out and arresting people, it’s going out and trying to help them deal with their everyday lives.” And Brown said he is deter-mined to build a strong team within the police department, both with sworn officers as well as civilian and other sup-port staff. “When I talk about a team, I talk about a whole team,” Brown said. “That includes not only those that wear a badge and enforce the law, but also the support staff, the professional staff that helps get the job done day-in, day-out. I’ve of-ten referred to law enforcement in a way as a family profession, and that everyone has to work together towards a common goal.” Jinks said that Huchler and the rest of the police department’s senior leadership will continue to play a key role. “I want to thank Chief Huchler for his service as acting chief, and for his more than 25 years of outstanding service so far in Al-exandria,” Jinks said. “We look forward to working with him as he continues in the role of deputy chief. I am also grateful for the tireless dedication of the more than 400 men and women who work in sworn and civilian posi-tions in the Alexandria Police De-partment to help keep our com-munity safe every day.”

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After more than 15 years, Del Ray custard shop The Dairy Godmother will not reopen this spring, owner Liz Davis said in a message on Facebook last week. The shop shut down for the winter on January 8, which is now the longtime business’ effective closing date. Davis said she would like to sell the business and its

associated equipment and trademarks, although she is currently out of the country. “While the almost 17 years of owning The Dairy Godmother have brought me great joy, I will not be re-opening in the spring,” she said on Facebook. The Dairy Godmother was known for offering stan-dard flavors like vanilla and

chocolate as well as fresh and more complicated concoc-tions that varied daily. In the meantime, Del Ray resident Chad Breckenridge’s Bagel Uprising, which pre-viously operated at the Four Mile Run Farmers and Arti-sans Market, will make use of the space as part of a six-week pop up beginning Friday.

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A well-designed vegetable garden is a wonderful source of fresh produce for the chef, but it can also be a favorite garden destination, a place to retreat to and relax. If you plan it right, a kitchen garden can be the pretti-est planting on your property. Start by choosing a site that meets the requirements of the plants. Vegetables of all kinds flourish in sun, so find a spot that gets a good eight hours of direct sunlight. Your site should be level, on a part of your property that you walk past every day, and convenient to the kitchen. It’s important to have a near-by source of water so you don’t

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this peaceful outdoor space. This home features three spacious bedrooms and four and a half bathrooms. The lux-urious master suite is accented with crown moldings, a large walk-in closet and a spa-like bathroom with custom vanities. The additional en suite bed-rooms are spacious with custom plantation shutters and large closets. A classic wood-paneled library is a warm retreat with its built-in bookcases, a sound system and gas fireplace. The finished lower level of-fers an exercise room equipped with full bath and walk-in clos-et. An attached two-car garage

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I turned into a gardener,” she says. She balanced her interests by becoming a kitchen-garden designer. Her four-square gar-den in Vermont is as pretty as it is productive, with lettuce and greens growing in sweeping curves, lozenges and circles in-stead of traditional rows. “It’s really a visual thing for me as much as it is a food thing,” she says. Most people start with a space that’s too big. “They have an appetite to grow everything,” Ogden says. Instead, pick and choose your crops just as you would at a market. The selection of fresh produce at local markets ex-pands every year, so maybe you don’t need to grow your own eggplant or zucchini. Instead, you might want to concentrate on salad greens, Ogden says, especially if you’re a new gardener. “They grow fast, there are not many pests and they have really high nutri-tion per square foot,” she says. Instead of growing six to-mato plants, you might decide to make room for just one or two, perhaps a cherry tomato and one other. That leaves room for herbs, such as basil and

oregano, to help those tomatoes taste even better. Color should also play a role in your choices, just as it does in flower beds. Plant a mixture of red and green lettuces, or train golden wax beans up a tepee. Flowers grown right along-side your vegetables not only fill the garden with bright colors, but also attract polli-nators and beneficial insects that help manage pests in your vegetable beds. Ogden loves to plant nas-turtiums in her kitchen gar-den. She likes calendulas and marigolds, especially the little signet marigolds called “Lem-on Gem.” She also relies on the flowers of some vegetable crops to add a flourish. Scarlet runner beans have bright red blooms that attract hummingbirds. Okra flowers look like sunny yellow hibiscus. Texture is a big element in interesting gardens, too. Frilly lettuces look like a luxurious ruffled petticoat around the edge of a vegetable garden. Shiny red and green peppers sparkle among the foliage. The feathery tops of carrots and the spiky foliage of onions and leeks give the eye a lot of contrast to enjoy. Herbs of all kinds add still more texture, as

well as fragrance. To give a vegetable garden even more character, build up-ward. In Ogden’s garden, an arbor lifts pole beans up into the light. Peas, cucumbers and even melons can be grown on a sturdy trellis. Just remember, tall elements should be placed toward the back of the garden (which should be on the north side) so they do not shade out crops in front. Sprawling plants may need a place of their own. Especially if you have a small garden, pots are a great way to grow more crops without giving up much space in the ground. Ogden plants pumpkins in half a whiskey bar-rel near her driveway instead of giving them space in her kitchen garden. Last year, she also grew tomatoes, summer squash and potatoes in pots. Vegetable gardening doesn’t have to be hard or expensive, Ogden says. Start small, with beds no more than 4 feet wide. Sketch out a pretty planting plan on paper, and leave plenty of room for generous paths. Make liberal use of step-pingstones so you don’t com-pact your soil while working in your beds. Sow seeds or plant transplants of a good va-riety of crops you can harvest

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over a long season. Then, look forward to spend-ing some time in your garden every day, inspecting its prog-ress, thinning and weeding if necessary, and harvesting a few leaves of lettuce or fresh toma-toes for your dinner salad. And

don’t forget that garden bench. “Food is important and functional, but it’s important to me to have the garden look nice, too,” Ogden says. In a well-designed kitchen garden, you can count on a bumper crop of satisfaction.

PHOTO/ELLEN ECKER OGDEN, “THE COMPLETE KITCHEN GARDENThere’s almost always something to harvest in a well-organized kitchen garden. Salad greens, herbs and flowers fill every inch of this garden. Although the planting area is wide, steppingstones give the gardener an easy way through the bed so the soil does not become compacted.

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‘Anything Goes’ has stellar director, even better castBY JORDAN WRIGHT

Director Stefan Sittig is no stranger to big song-and-dance productions, and awards committees are no strangers to his consider-able talent. He’s directed or choreographed all the major blockbusters, from “Chicago” to “Evita,” “Showboat” to “Jesus Christ Superstar,” “A Chorus Line” to “West Side Story,” and many more. But a show is only as good as its performers, and thank-fully The Little Theatre of Al-exandria’s production of “Any-thing Goes” has got a super cast of singers and hoofers — the most indelible being Mara Stewart as Reno Sweeney. The young Stewart, a re-cent arrival to our area from

the Chicago drama scene, is a spectacular singer — think Liza Minelli, Ethel Merman and Barbra Streisand rolled into one — and comedian — conjure up Lucille Ball’s antics while delving into the archives of vaudeville. She is utterly captivating and surely destined for a stellar career. Catch her here and you can say, “I knew her when...” Set in 1934, a disparate bunch of passengers and gang-sters sail aboard a luxury liner to England. Wall Street nabob Elisha J. Whitney (Dick Reed) is just one of the dupes being conned by Moonface Martin (Ken Kemp, a wickedly funny scene stealer) and his cohort, Bonnie (Jaqueline Salvador). Billy Crocker (Marshall Cesena) is Whitney’s assis-tant, a starry-eyed boy won-

der hopelessly in love with Hope Harcourt (the beauti-fully voiced Tori Garcia), who is about to give her hand in marriage to the witless Brit-ish lord Sir Evelyn Oakleigh (James Maxted). If that doesn’t keep it lively enough, there’s the splashy ce-lebrity diva and former evan-gelist Reno Sweeney (Stew-art) and her four “Angels” — Chastity (Ashley Kaplan), Purity (Katie Mallory), Vir-tue (Elizabeth Spilsbury) and Charity (Caitlyn Goerner) — her backup chorines. Cole Porter drew inspira-tion from the rarefied circles he traveled in, peppering his tales with the gangsters and crooks who plied their cons on the fringes of high society. With his incomparable talent for witty repartee, “Anything

Goes” is filled with bon mots and zingers on the SS Ameri-can, where crooks are hapless and gold diggers are adorable. In typical Porter fashion, there’s mistaken identity and hilarious disguises, especially when Billy, in hot pursuit of Hope and against her mother’s wishes, becomes a chef, then a sailor and ultimately a noble-man. “Are you French or Span-ish?” Hope’s mother (Allie Cesena) wonders after he changes into a count with a phony beard cut from a swatch of her fur jacket. “Neither,” he quips. “I’m Chinchillian!.” The best of British hu-morists, P.G. Wodehouse and Guy Bolton, wrote the book and it’s popping with wit. Kit Sibley and Jean Schlichting bring massive glamour to the

costumes — from spangles, sequins and feather boas to sassy chorus girl sailor suits and beautiful gowns. Sibley also does double duty on the terrific period hair and wigs. Conductor and keyboard-ist Francine Krasowska leads a nine-piece onstage orches-tra that play a total of four-teen instruments in a glori-ous bonanza of 17 of Porter’s greatest hits. Among them are some of his most memorable – “You’re the Top,” “Let’s Mis-behave,” “It’s De-Lovely” and “I Get a Kick Out of You.” Highly recommended.

Through February 4 at The Little Theatre of Alex-andria, 600 Wolfe St. For

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A phenomenal cast and brilliant direction by Stefan Sittig bring the classic Cole Porter comedic musical “Anything Goes” back to life in terrific fashion at The Little Theatre of Alexandria.

Now through Jan 22INAUGURATION WEEKEND AT MOUNT VERNON Join George Washington at his Mount Vernon estate during Inauguration week-end as they honor the nation’s first president. Guests can go on a presidential-themed scavenger hunt across the estate, view a tableau of Washington’s inaugu-ration and see commemorative copper buttons from Washing-ton’s inauguration on display.Time: Daily, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.Location: George Washington’s Mount Vernon, 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial HighwayInformation: 703-780-2000

Thursday, January 19WRIGHT TO READ OPEN HOUSE An open house hosted by local nonprofit Wright to Read where potential mentors can observe the program, talk to mentors and mentees, and apply with the mentor coordinator.Time: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.Location: Wright to Read, 414 N. Washington St., Suite 101Information: www.alexandriava.gov/mentoring

January 20 through 22INAUGURATION WEEKEND OPEN HOUSE In honor of the presidential inauguration, visit the Alexandria tavern where politics was a top topic of conversation for free tours of the museum.Time: January 20 and 21 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., January 22 1 to 4 p.m.Location: Gadsby’s Tavern, 134 N. Royal St.Information: 703-746-4242

Saturday, January 21CIVIL WAR SOUL SISTERS — CIVIL WAR ERA AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMEN WHO PUBLISHED Join Lavonda Broad-nax, a digital project coordinator with the Library of Congress, as

she speaks on the accomplish-ments of fascinating African-Amer-ican women who were published during an era when it was illegal for the vast majority of African-Americans to learn to read or write.Time: 2 p.m.Location: Burke Branch Library, 4701 Seminary RoadInformation: 703-746-1704PREPARING AND DISPENSING CIVIL WAR PRESCRIPTIONS Dr. Hasegawa, director emeritus of the Society of Civil War Surgeons, will describe how pharmacists of the Civil War era interpreted, com-pounded and dispensed prescrip-tions. The presentation will include a display of antique apothecary implements and a demonstration of how powder papers and pills were prepared.Time: 2 p.m.Location: Beatley Central Library, 5005 Duke St.Information: 703-746-1702

Sunday, January 22WINTER WARMER LADIES’ TEAChoose from a variety of 18th-cen-tury desserts while sipping John Gadsby’s special blend of tea or take a cup of American Heritage Chocolate. Historic guests Martha Washington & Dolley Madison will catch you up on the latest Alexan-dria news during the tea. Seatings are at 3 and 3:15 p.m., with free tours available at 2:15 or 2:45 p.m.Time: 3 to 5 p.m.Location: Gadsby’s Tavern, 134 N. Royal St.Information: shop.alexandriava.gov

Tuesday, January 24HOMESCHOOL PROGRAM: FIREFIGHTING TECHNOLOGY Explore STEM through historic fire-fighting technology. Students will see how technology has evolved and test the scientific concepts behind how the historic equipment worked. Tickets are $8 per child, adults free. Pre-registration is required.

ALEX ANDRIA TIMES JANUARY 19, 2017 13Time: 10 to 11:30 a.m. or 1 to 2:30 p.m.Location: Friendship Firehouse, 107 S. Alfred St.Information: www.historicalexan-dria.org

SPACE OF HIS OWN OPEN HOUSE An open house hosted by local nonprofit Space of His Own where potential mentors can observe the program, talk to mentors and mentees, and apply with the mentor coordinator.Time: 6 to 8 p.m.Location: George Washington Middle School, 1005 Mount Vernon Ave.Information: www.alexandriava.gov/mentoring

Wednesday, Jan. 25SENIOR SERVICES SPEAKER SERIES Explore the importance of technology and how it can enhance seniors’ lives in so many ways. Presenters from AARP, Virginia Hospital Center, North-ern Virginia Community College and the Beatley Central Library discuss topics including how technology can keep you safe in your home; what technology classes are available to seniors; what the library offers in the way of technology including tips and tricks on how to use your devices more effectively.Time: 10 a.m. to noonLocation: Beatley Central Library, 5005 Duke St.Information: www.seniorservice-salex.org or 703-836-4414 ext. 110

Thursday, January 26CIVIL WAR WINE DINNER Start your evening in the museum for the first course and conversation with Gray Ghost Vineyards, whose wines are created on lands “Gray Ghost” Confederate John S. Mosby and his men operated on during the Civil War. Then head down to the restaurant’s main dining room to experience more wine and great food inspired by the 19th century. Registration required. Admission costs $125 per person.Time: 7 to 9 p.m.Location: Gadsby’s Tavern Mu-seum, 134 N. Royal St.Information: shop.alexandriava.govTHE UNTOUCHABLES OPEN HOUSE An open house hosted by local nonprofit The Untouch-ables where potential mentors can observe the program, talk to mentors and mentees, and apply with the mentor coordinator.Time: 4 to 7 p.m.Location: Charles Houston Rec-reation Center, 901 Wythe St.Information: www.alexandriava.gov/mentoring

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Our ViewLet’s get started on a faster Potomac cleanup The 2016 presidential election was the wildest in recent memory, culminating in Donald Trump’s upset victory in November. This week, as Trump is sworn in as the 45th president, right across the Potomac River, Alexandria is dealing with an urgent issue that has turned local and state politics upside down. In a twist that must leave Republicans in Richmond doubly de-lighted this week, two GOP legislators have teamed with the envi-ronmental watchdog group the Potomac River Keepers in an effort to expedite Alexandria’s cleanup of sewage outfalls. Yes, at first blush it appears that state Republicans are to the left of liberal Alexandria on an important environmental issue. Except, of course, it’s not that simple. To recap, Alexandria’s sewer system is about as antiquated as our above ground architecture. While the latter is quaint and appealing, the former has become an environmental catastrophe. Every time it rains, our sewer system is overwhelmed and raw waste pours from four city outfalls into the Potomac River. City officials estimate that more than 10 million gallons flow annually from Alexandria’s outfalls into the Potomac, and that almost half of that comes from the Oronoco Bay site, which is currently last in line for an overhaul. Not surprisingly, the majority of water quality tests conducted by the city between 2007 and 2012 showed an unsafe level of e.coli bacte-ria present, according to a study cited by the Potomac River Keepers. Alexandria’s elected officials, all Democrats at the local and state level, are acutely aware of the problem and agree that it needs to be fixed. The quarrel is over how quickly the outfalls are overhauled and how to pay for it. The Republicans sponsoring bills in the state legislature, state Sen. Richard Stuart (R-28) and Del. David Albo (R-42), both repre-sent districts that border the Potomac River. So, while partisanship may be an element, both Stuart and Albo also have a responsibility to their constituents to push for a quicker cleanup. Stuart’s bill in the state Senate sets a logistically impossible time-frame of three and a half years to shore up water quality, with a total cutoff in state funding to Alexandria as the consequence for noncom-pliance. Albo’s House bill would give Alexandria 10 years to comply with water safety levels and currently lacks a penalty. With Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) wielding his pen to veto bills out-right or alter them by line item, we think the chances of Stuart’s bill becoming law are very slim. Pressuring Alexandria into taking faster action on the sewage out-falls than the city otherwise would is not necessarily a bad thing. But Stuart’s bill in particular is draconian, especially if Richmond isn’t willing to help pay for the upgrades. City leaders have known for years that the sewer system needed to be dealt with, but instead deferred action. Now, it appears that those affected by our inaction have lost patience with us. It is difficult to blame them. Setting aside Stuart’s non-starter proposal, maybe our city government should establish a timeline toward compliance with-in Albo’s 10-year timeframe. While a 10-year wait for a cleaner Potomac is not ideal, Alexandria will be logistically and fiscally hard-pressed to meet even that deadline. With that in mind, if environmentally minded Republicans like Albo and Stuart want the sewage upgrades completed faster, they should meet the city halfway and work to secure additional funding for the project. Fast tracking the sewer overhaul would undoubtedly impact Alex-andria’s ability to rebuild schools, fund a new Metro station and shore up city buildings. But it appears we may be left with little choice. If the end result is a cleaner Potomac River, sooner, then let’s get started.

To the editor: I am writing to encourage Alexandrians to march in the Women’s March on Washing-ton on Saturday. Most U.S. citi-zens support women’s rights, but we won’t get what we want unless we speak up. Simply waking up every four years and voting isn’t enough. Patriotic citizens must get involved. To that end, I have been working with Grassroots Al-exandria, a nonpartisan volun-

teer group that helps individu-als work more effectively on their political issues of choice. In my own advocacy work, persistent, supportive groups of citizens have changed the direction of City Hall. I have watched similar efforts suc-ceed in Richmond and in Washington, D.C. In truth, only cynics be-lieve that political work lives up to its nasty stereotype. In-stead, political work brings

citizens together in very posi-tive ways. This is what my friends at the Women’s March on Washington are working to accomplish. For more on the March, visit www.wmwvirginia.org. To march with fellow Alex-andria residents on January 21, write to grassrootsalex-andria@gmail.com. Men are encouraged to march as well.

- Jonathan KrallAlexandria

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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: My wife and I have re-sided on South Pitt Street in Old Town for almost 20 years. Over the past decade, we have seen the condition of the street in front of our house steadily deteriorate. The city has ad-dressed this with one half-hearted measure after another. One attempted fix was to cover the street with a tar and

gravel mixture, which we were told would pack down to create a hard and durable surface. Of course, this didn’t work. Passing cars disturbed the gravel mixture, both “decorat-ing” the lower sides of vehicles and creating loose gravel de-posits along the curbs. During the winter, the combination of pretreatment and plowing the street created potholes.

City employees installed temporary patches during warmer weather, but of course this didn’t fix the problem ei-ther. The same thing happened the next winter, and the next, and so on. This winter, even though we have not yet had much snow, the potholes have grown

Band-Aid fixes have just made Pitt Street worse

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To the editor: The Chesapeake Bay Foundation recently an-nounced that its biennial State of the Bay report gave the health of the Chesapeake Bay a C-minus grade, an improve-ment from its previous grade of D-plus and the best score since their first report in 1998. The report singles out Pennsylvania particularly for its lagging pollution controls. Since I’ve always been under A-B-C-D-F grad-ing scales, a C-minus is essentially a C, which is

not only passing but also satisfactory. It is, frankly, not reasonable to return the water quality to pre-Columbian levels. The $300 million ex-penditure the city seems anxious to make to ad-dress its combined sewage outflows appears frivolous when the bay’s health is satisfactory and other ju-risdictions are lagging. For almost 200 years, Alexandria’s combined sewers have been flow-ing into the bay, yet for most of those years the bay’s health was better

than now. Alexandria’s combined sewers are not the problem, and a $300 million expenditure for a very marginal gain seems like a poor investment. City Hall is confronted with enormous, unan-ticipated demands to fund the Washington Metro-politan Area Transit Au-thority and other needs and desires, but massive expenditures for sewer upgrades in the current budget cycle should not be among them.

- Dino DrudiAlexandria

To the editor: This letter is not about your approval of the Al-fred Street Baptist Church design, structure or mass. It’s about the reprehensible way you, members of the Board of Architectural Review for the Old and Historic District, treated the residents at the meeting held on November 16, 2016. Yes, under your col-lective breaths and out of the sides of your mouths you made mention of the concerns of residents, but for the most part your acknowledgement of us was nonexistent. It was obvious your minds were made up in advance. We were told when we spoke that our comments were to be limited to the mass, size, and structure of their proposed project — and nothing else. Yet you allowed three or four members of the church to speak about their deeds in the community and who urged you to accept the proposal, with no inter-ruptions by you about their

comments being off topic. If we knew that speak-ing about our contribu-tions to Alexandria were allowed, we would have asked the neighbors to tell you about all the good deeds we do in this com-munity as well. We volunteer, we pro-mote the city to our friends and family and tell potential homeowners, “Yes, buy.” We spend our money here, and, unlike the church, we pay hefty taxes every year that allow the city to carry

out its functions. To begin your com-ments by stating how won-derful it was to see Mary Catherine Gibbs, the at-torney who represented the church, bordered on a conflict of interest. To say how you “loved” the steeple/bell tower because it will stand as a “gateway” into Alexandria was said with a total disregard for those people who live in this area, who are of dif-fering religions that do not regard the structure to be a gateway into Alexandria. It’s obvious none of you live in the area where this three-year construction project will take place. You hover over the smallest of details when it comes to business or home construction and design in the city: archways, paint, types of wood and materi-als used, etc. and yet, when it comes to the building of a structure that will rival the National Cathedral in seating and size, you were

Positive environmental news calls sewer upgrades into question

Don’t disregard residents on Alfred Street Baptist Church

Senior Cornerby Jane King

Jane King

According to a recent survey of Alexandrians completed by AARP, the majority of residents age 50 and above want to stay in the city as they age. But many of us may won-der what we might want or need if we choose to live here for the rest of our lives. What may be surprising is the broad array of community character-istics essential for making a community age friendly — both for older and younger residents. To assure a comprehen-sive planning approach to enhancing age friendliness, the city has joined the Na-tional Age-Friendly Com-munity Network. AARP, working with the World Health Organization, sponsors the net-work, which is a robust program for sup-porting communities to develop a plan for a livable community for all ages. Alexandria is the first community in Virginia to be accepted as a mem-ber. The requirement for joining is the agreement by the elected head of government to submit an age-friend-ly plan to AARP within two years. Mayor Allison Silberberg, with the unanimous consent of city council, submitted a letter pledging to do so. Over the next year, the Alexandria Commission on Aging will develop the plan, in consultation with city council and the support of the staff of the department of community and hu-man services. AARP’s role is strictly advisory. AARP and the WHO designated eight domains as crucial elements of an age-friendly community. They include: • Outdoor spaces and buildings ad-dress the safety and accessibility for all outdoor spaces and buildings; • Transportation encompasses the need for a variety of mobility options for the many who do not drive; • Housing addresses the need for af-fordable, accessible housing that sup-ports aging in place;

• Social participation acknowl-edges the great importance of contin-ued social engagement; • Respect and social inclusion seeks to assure that all are treated with dignity; • Civic participation and em-ployment includes the need to sup-port those seeking work; • Communication and informa-

tion include robust out-reach to inform residents about the health and social services available to them; • Community and health services cover the requirement for affordable, accessible services. As Alexandria resi-dents, we are fortunate that many of our commu-

nity leaders are knowledgeable about the impact of the great growth in the aging population and the enhanced longevity that many of us will enjoy. Our elected leaders and local gov-ernment play a major role in plan-ning for accommodating the needs of older residents. But in fact, planning an age-friendly community takes the broadest possible engagement of the entire community, including faith-based institutions, nonprofit organi-zations, civic associations, business-es — and especially important, older residents themselves. The city commission on aging plans to be as inclusive as possible in its outreach to residents. It will emphasize the importance of com-municating with Alexandria’s many diverse communities. The commission plans to host lis-tening sessions in the near future. It also welcomes the assistance of any residents or stakeholders. Please con-tact Debbie Ludington at the division of aging and adult services at deb-bie.ludington@alexandriava.gov for more information.

The writer is a member of the Alexandria Commission on Aging.

Enhancing Alexandria’s age friendliness

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It’s obvious none of

you live in the area

where this three-year

construction project will take place.”

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hen the American Anti-Slavery Society singled out Alexan-

dria in an infamous 1836 broad-side advertisement that con-demned the practice of slavery, the organization’s finger-point-ing was an understatement. Although the nation’s capital had a strong history of slave trading from its in-ception at the turn of the 19th century, Alexandria’s 50-year head start in what was called “The Slave Market of America” had evolved over the years from independent traders selling the forced la-bor of human beings captured and transported from Africa, spontaneously on street cor-ners or a quick auction in the market, to a well-organized, highly efficient industry that sealed the fate of thousands. By the 1820s, slave op-erations were concentrated along Duke Street, facing the rail lines and just outside the 10-mile square limits of the nation’s capital, where North-ern Virginia farmers could deliver excess slaves for sale and reshipment to the cotton fields of the Deep South. Pictured in this woodcut segment from the broadside is the Franklin and Armfield slave jail at 1315 Duke St. Op-erated by Isaac Franklin and John Armfield, who referred to themselves as “Dealers in Slaves,” the two men formed a partnership and in 1828 leased the three-story home and yard of Brig. Gen. Robert Young of the Second Militia, District of Columbia, built in 1812.

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Before then, Armfield had conducted business at Eli Legg’s Tavern on St. Asaph Street, and Franklin had worked for nearly a decade as a trader in Natchez, Miss. Com-ing to Alexandria in a quest to move slaves more quickly from the exhausted tobacco fields of Virginia to the lucrative cotton fields of further south, Frank-lin foresaw the huge fortunes that could be made by this en-deavor. Immediately upon taking possession of Young’s proper-ty, the home was rehabilitated to house offices and a basement slave jail, and the adjacent gar-den was cleared for construc-tion of two crude buildings to temporarily house male and female occupants owned by the dealers, and those put up for sale by other slave-owners who were charged a rate of 25 cents per day until a final sale was consummated. A treeless yard, walled off to contain its prisoners in the scorching sun, provided only the most basic escape

from the intolerably crowded conditions. The two dealers constantly advertised in lo-cal newspapers, seeking ever larger numbers of “Negroes of both sexes, from 12 to 25 years of age,” and their human cargo was shipped southward by vessels at least twice per month, at other times moving by cart, train or the power of their own feet. One local writer com-plained, “Scarcely a week passes without some of these wretched creatures being driven through our streets. After having been confined, and sometimes manacled in a loathsome prison they are turned out in public view to take their departure for the South. The children and some of the women are generally crowded into a cart or wagon, while others follow on foot, not unfrequently handcuffed and chained together.”

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for the most part complicit in ignoring significant issues that will impact residents and visi-tors for years. It may be time for you all to stop and take a good look at how using compassion and regard for the sensitivity of the residents you supposedly represent on is-sues that are of grave concern to them would go a long way.

- Pamela ZitronAlexandria

deeper again. The latest act in this farce happened on January 10, while the outside tempera-ture was 27 degrees. A city crew with two trucks stopped right in front of our house. One crew shoveled an as-phalt mixture from the back of the first truck into some of the potholes and tamped it down. The crew from the sec-ond truck took some shovelfuls of sand and sprinkled it on the asphalt. In less than 10 minutes they were done, and the trucks moved on down the street. I would not find this misera-ble excuse for street maintenance so irritating if I had not also seen city road crews hard at work this past summer reducing the num-ber of car lanes on upper King Street, installing new median di-viders, and creating new bicycle lanes, with everything smoothly and professionally paved. Is this really the picture we want to present to future home-owners and taxpayers in Alex-andria? In my personal opinion, this is a clear example of wrong-headed priorities in the decision-making going on at City Hall.

- Hugh M. Van HornAlexandria

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der the revised plan, a feasibil-ity study of correcting those outfalls would begin in 2018, and engineering assessments carried out by 2026, six years earlier than planned. Under the plan in its original form, study of the Oronoco Bay outfall was not called for until 2032. But local environmental advocates the Potomac River-keeper Network criticized the plan as inadequate. Last week, the group re-leased an announcement calling on the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality to hold a public hearing on the updated plan, which the group said is sorely lacking. “There’s no plan to fix raw sewage from outfall 001 at all, it’s just to review it 15 years from now,” said Potomac river keeper Dean Naujoks. “The bottom line is, a public hearing is an opportunity for VDEQ to hear from the public…This is a public asset, and the public has a right to weigh in on protecting existing uses, that’s the require-ment under the Clean Water Act, that’s the law.”

VDEQ regional director Thomas Faha said in a Decem-ber 19 letter that public par-ticipation exceeded the require-ments of its combined sewer system permit. The network is appealing the decision. The group pointed to water testing carried out by the city from 2007 to 2012 that found that the level of e.coli in the river violated state water quality standards. PRKN also found in its review of water quality test-ing that 51 percent of the city’s samples showed fecal bacteria at unsafe levels for human contact. Naujoks noted that the En-vironmental Protection Agency

wrote to the city in November requesting more information on various background data and a specific plan for a storage tank to capture stormwater and sew-age before it is discharged. EPA spokesman David Sternberg said in an email that some environmental groups had expressed concerns to the agen-cy, so the letter was sent under section 308 of the Clean Water Act to demand information. Fifer said the city is “put-ting forth considerable effort” on remediating its four sewage outfalls, regardless of the feel-ings of environmental groups or Richmond lawmakers. “We have already commit-ted about $190 million to ad-dress the first three of the four outfalls, and then we have a plan for the fourth one as well,” he said. “There is obviously a per-ception among some people that we’re not moving fast enough, and I think what it boils down to is basically that some people just don’t have the facts about what the city has already been doing, and some people also don’t have a frame of reference for what these massive capital projects involve.”

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Patricia Ann Thomas-Se-monian (76) of Alexandria, passed away on Friday, De-cember 16, 2016 in Thetford House (Assisted Living) with her husband by her side. Be-loved wife of Edward Semo-nian, mother of Pamela Jen-nings, Brett Thomas and the late Rhonda Clark. Grand-mother of Meghan Crum (Jennings), Kenneth, Ka-tie and Andy Thomas, and nephew, Blake Ramsey. The burial will be private. A memorial service will be held in the sanctuary at First Baptist Church of Alex-andria, 2932 King St., Alex-andria, VA 22302 on Friday,

January 27 at 11 a.m. Recep-tion to follow in the Faith Ac-tivities Center at the church.

Patricia Ann Thomas-Semonian

OBITUARYPatricia Ann Thomas-Semonian

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ACROSS1 From whence Eve came4 Skier’s transport8 As American as ___ pie13 Prevent, as danger18 Space chimp of the 1960s20 Targeted thing on a golf course21 More urgent and hazardous22 Certain distance runner23 Decision for duel participants26 Certainly without warmth27 Certain wearer of dreadlocks28 Opposite of an angelic child29 Be a play ham31 Feature of many a prima donna32 Some cockpit instruments34 Yuletide tree choice35 Debate feature37 High school freshman, often38 Doctor of John Wilkes Booth39 “All ___!” (courtroom command)40 Auto safety feature42 Be completely mistaken43 Triangular sail44 Finish behind someone else45 Dirty river part46 Uses one’s ballot48 One who doesn’t believe52 Be oozy53 Affliction of cereal grasses56 Insect in an anxious person’s pants?58 Puppeteer Lewis60 Colorless mineral62 Some Pacific salmon65 Confused68 Stiff drinks70 Kitchen gadget used on potatoes72 Sovereign’s representative74 Green gem76 Barber’s sharpening tool78 Japanese immigrant’s grandchild79 Test for gold content80 With what to “cool it,” and this puzzle’s theme81 Rascal82 Like a long, sweeping story85 Table centerpiece with branching holders89 Duke of TV92 Annoying gossip94 Love deity

95 Some undergrad degs.96 300, to Nero99 Los Angeles suburb101 What one might swim in102 Contractor’s detail, for short104 Artsy Manhattan spot105 Sam of Watergate “fame”106 ___ carte107 Bad thing to draw?109 Meadow110 Those with top ratings112 Genre or type113 “The ___ mightier than the sword”114 Things worn in blustery weather116 “Way to go!” cause119 Sports shocker120 Prefix meaning “extremely”121 Tool building122 Mexican affirmatives123 Scout’s good works124 Impudently bold125 Lots and lots and lots126 Network of several PCs

DOWN1 Package anew, as peaches2 Asthmatic’s item3 Ardent fan4 Word in many titles5 Home entertainment feature, in slang6 Nobel of the Nobel Prizes7 Trophy or blue ribbon8 Dentists’ grp.9 Swimmer with a long, tubular snout10 Pledge recipient11 Poe work12 Once, long ago13 Start of Cain’s query14 Position occupied by a second- in-command15 Like a bachelor16 Move17 Make a federal case of?19 Greensboro protest of 196024 Newton of the NFL25 UFO pilots30 Pilot’s announcement33 Spew, as a volcano36 Human tail?39 Decay

41 Space between two teeth43 Quick note takers?44 Indian police clubs46 Operated by vocal commands47 Cul-de-___49 Capital attachment50 Hood’s knife51 Transports for hire53 Outward flow, as a tide54 Tough to get one’s hands on55 Metric weight unit57 “... rain ___ sleet ...”59 Hires different actors61 Get rid of, as PC files63 Mo. with colorful foliage64 World ___ (baseball championship)66 ___ Major (“The Great Bear” constellation)67 Rhyming work69 Hit with an open hand71 Sinbad’s transportation73 Itty-bitty bark75 Turn red, in a way77 Type of rally82 Peeper83 Cruz of movies84 Go up, as prices86 Puts in office again87 Sha Na Na members, e.g.88 “___ so fast!”90 City in Scotland91 Feature of diplomacy93 “Wheel of Fortune” request, sometimes96 Maize product97 ___ meeting (presides with an agenda)98 One leather source100 Words with “mission” or “hot streak”101 Capital of the Philippines102 Most demure103 Blanket with an opening104 Slumgullion and mulligan107 Biathlete’s runner108 Coppertone tube abbr.111 Unpleasant duty114 Ruminant’s chaw115 Roads that cross aves.117 Foot the bill118 Indulges to the extreme, with drugs

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ALEXANDRIA PLANNING COMMISSION & CITY COUNCIL

FEBRUARY 2017 The items described below will be heard by the Planning Commission and the City Council on the dates and times listed below. NOTICE: Some of the items listed below may be placed on a consent calendar. A consent item will be approved at the beginning of the meeting without discussion unless someone asks that it be taken off the consent calendar and considered separately. The Planning Commission reserves the right to recess and continue the public hearing to a future date. For further information call the Department of Planning and Zoning on 703-746-4666 or visit www.alexandriava.gov/planning.

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Special Use Permit #2016-00985418 Duke Street - Domino’s PizzaPublic hearing and consideration of a request for an amendment to Special Use Permit #1558 to permit indoor seating, to increase the hours of operation, and to request a change of ownership for an existing restaurant; zoned: CG/Commercial General. APPLICANT: Team Washington, Inc.

Special Use Permit #2016-0099111 North Pitt Street (parcel address: 411 King Street) - Burger FiPublic hearing and consideration of a request for an amendment to Special Use Permit #20150067 to permit offpremises alcohol sales; zoned: KR/King Street Retail. APPLICANT: Burger Fi, by David Landry

*THE FOLLOWING WILL BE HEARD BY PLANNING COMMISSION ONLY (AND BY CITY COUNCIL ONLY UPON APPEAL)

Subdivision #2016-00083601 & 3701 Potomac Avenue - Potomac Yard Metrorail Station North PavilionPublic hearing and consideration of a request to subdivide two lots into three lots; zoned: CDD #10/#19 Coordinated Development Districts #10/#19. APPLICANTS: CPYR Theater, LLC and City of Alexandria

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Section 9.06 Case #2017-0001 517 Prince Street Public hearing and consideration of a request for Planning Commission to review whether the proposed purchase of property by the City of Alexandria and the resulting change in use of that property is consistent with the City of Alexandria Master Plan pursuant to Section 9.06 of the City Charter. Staff: Department of Planning and Zoning

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ALEXANDRIA BOARD OF ARCHITECTURAL REVIEWOLD & HISTORIC ALEXANDRIA DISTRICT

LEGAL NOTICE OF A PUBLIC MEETING A public hearing will be held by the Alexandria Board of Architectural Review on WEDNESDAY, February 1, 2017 beginning at 7:30 PM in the City Hall Council Chambers, second floor of City Hall, 301 King Street, Alexandria, Virginia on the following applications:

CASE BAR #2016-00437Request for partial demolition and capsulation at 807 Duke StreetAPPLICANT: Chris and Heather Leins

CASE BAR #2016-00438Request for alterations and an addition at 807 Duke StreetAPPLICANT:Chris and Heather LeinsPresentation and discussion of a Design Guideline for public parks and infrastructure in the public right-of-way. A joint work session with the Parker-Gray and Old & Historic District Board of Architectural Review to discuss legal procedures and processes will be held on February 1, 2017 at 8:00pm immediately following the regular OHAD BAR hearing. The work session will be held in the City Council work room.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, telephone: (703) 746-4666.

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