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City council work session brings sides face-to-faceBY ALEXA EPITROPOULOS AND

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Those battling over a pro-posed Old Town business im-provement district came face-to- face at a city council work session on Tuesday evening, where pro- and anti-BID speak-ers, council and city officials gathered for a panel discussion.

The pro-BID panel – consist-ing of Victoria Vergason, own-er of The Hour on King Street; Deana Rhodeside, the found-er and principal of Rhodeside & Harwell; Tom Osborne, the owner of residential and com-mercial properties in Old Town and Scott Shaw, restaurateur and developer in Old Town – ar-gued that passing a BID is vital to keeping Old Town relevant in a time of growing competi-tion from other areas, including D.C.’s southwest waterfront.

The anti-BID panel – con-sisting of Roger Digilio, the owner of residential and com-mercial properties in Old Town; Bert Ely, vice president of the

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The Scholarship Fund of Alexandria recognized 154 scholarship recipients at T.C. Williams High School at its May 31 annual awards cere-mony. This year, scholarship recipients – nearly half of which are first-generation college students – received $410,000.

“When I look out across this room, what I feel is a true sense of community,” School Board Chair Ramee Gentry said during her re-marks in the T.C. Williams auditorium. Beth Lovain, ex-ecutive director of the schol-arship fund, agreed, saying that “the students, donors and community have been amazing.”

This recipients of this year’s scholarships elected Peter Laboy to speak on their behalf. Laboy stressed the importance of the scholar-ship fund and the resources that T.C. Williams provides to its students. “To our teach-ers, counselors and families: Thank you for supporting us all along the way,” he said.

Laboy also thanked Scholarship Fund of Alex-andria donors. “Every dollar you give, you are helping,” Lahoy said. Lovain con-

curred, saying that she was “humbled by the generosity of our donors.”

“I see how you perse-vere and are determined,” said Lovain to the awardees, “and I know you’re going to be amazing.”

Many of the first-year scholarship recipients were introduced by their respec-tive scholarship donors. T.C. Williams alumni were also present at the event.

Douglas Garcia, a mem-ber of T.C. Williams’ class of 1997 who himself received a scholarship the year he grad-uated, praised the organiza-tion’s work.

“[The scholarships pro-vided by the Scholarship Fund] help make college a reality for hardworking T.C. students,” he said.

The Scholarship Fund of Alexandria, founded in 1986, is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that provides scholarships and financial aid to Alexandria City Pub-lic School students. Since its creation, the organization has provided $13 million in financial support to more than 4,500 T.C. students looking to advance their ed-ucation in college or career

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of Alexandria] is unique and very special,” said Principal Jesse Dingle, who will be leaving T.C. after the 2016-2017 school year, “incredible support [is] provided to our seniors.”

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Scholarship Fund awards more than $400K to T.C. grads

Lucretia Jackson, the long-time principal at Matthew Maury Elementary School who has spent nearly four de-cades with Alexandria City Public Schools, will retire from her post at the end of the school year.

Jackson is well-known for her transformation of Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy, which she joined as principal

in 1996. She turned Lyles-Crouch around over her eight years at the school. During her tenure, the school became fully accredited and the school made adequate yearly prog-ress.

She showed similar lead-ership at Matthew Maury, which she joined as principal in 2004. Within two years of Jackson becoming principal,

the school became fully ac-credited and its standards of learning went from the lowest in the city to among the high-est.

“Ms. Jackson has been a dedicated educator with ACPS for 37 years and has had a sig-nificant impact on our schools. We are grateful for her many years of service and wish her a joyful retirement,” ACPS Su-

perintendent Alvin Crawley said in a statement.

As previously announced, Victor Powell, who is now as-sistant principal at the Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School, will become principal of Mat-thew Maury as of July 1.

Jackson will be recognized for her service at the school board meeting on June 8.

– Alexa Epitropoulos

Lucretia Jackson to retire from Matthew Maury

CORRECTION The June 1 Alexandria Times story, “City holds first public meet-ing after outfalls decision,” stated that Old Town’s sewer system “sends an estimated 70 million gallons of runoff and raw sew-age, waste and rainwater into the Potomac River nearly every time it rains.” Actually, there are 70 million gallons estimated to overflow every year, not every time it rains, and that only accounts for the Oronoco Bay outfall (CSO-001). The annual total for all four outfalls is approximately 122 million gallons. The Times regrets this error.

CLARIFICATIONThe June 1 Alexandria Times story, “BID process draws local leaders’ ire” stated that Ballston BID CEO Tina Leone con-ducted a poll of affected businesses and obtained a majority consent before the BID was established. Actually, the poll for approval was of property owners.

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Each panel member was given five minutes to ex-plain why he or she was for or against, a limit that near-ly every member exceeded. After the initial panel dis-cussion, each side was giv-en five additional minutes to respond to the arguments of the other side. Members of city council then had the opportunity to ask questions of panel members and Steph-anie Landrum, President and CEO of the Alexandria Eco-nomic Development Partner-ship, who heads the BID ex-ploratory committee.

The work session was the first time the issue has come before council since the 13-member BID exploratory committee was formed last year. Two public information

meetings have been held by the exploratory committee to date. It’s all leading up to a vote later this month, on June 24, where city council will pass, reject or defer a BID. If the BID is passed, a board will be formed to de-velop a final work plan that city council will, in turn, vote to accept or reject early next year.

Although the discussion itself remained relatively civil, there was some spar-ring between members of the opposing panels, as well as some interaction from crowd members, particularly from those holding anti-BID signs. Members of the public were not allowed to speak at the work session.

Bidding for changeMembers of the pro-BID

side of the panel came to the table with a number of con-cerns about the future of Old Town, including its sustain-ability, its relevance and how competitive it is against oth-er areas that are becoming trendier and more attractive to millennial customers.

Victoria Vergason, who has lived in Old Town for 20 years and owns the com-mercial property on the 1000 block of King Street that her small business occupies, said Old Town’s commercial dis-trict is struggling to compete with other areas in Northern Virginia and D.C.

“I see too many small businesses closing down and many struggling to sur-vive,” Vergason said. “Our small businesses struggle to compete with other BID dis-tricts.”

She called a BID a “crit-ical tool,” something that fellow panel member, Dea-na Rhodeside, agreed with. Rhodeside said, as an urban planner, she has worked with many areas that have already implemented a BID, in-cluding golden triangle and NoMa in D.C.

“The business envi-

ronment has changed sig-nificantly in the past eight years. Washington, D.C. has evolved into a highly com-petitive business market,” Rhodeside said. “It’s hip, cutting-edge and attractive.”

Scott Shaw, a restaura-teur who owns Vola’s, The Majestic and Virtue Feed & Grain within the proposed BID boundaries, said it’s a solution for Old Town at a time when other areas are

moving forward.“If we don’t help busi-

nesses survive or thrive, this has a very bad ending – high property taxes,” Shaw said.

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Those on the anti-BID panel shared many of the same concerns, but said the process of putting togeth-er a BID has excluded most

stakeholders and that the or-dinance, as it stands, needs to be scrapped altogether.

“I have, after a lot of re-search and looking at doc-uments and talking to a lot of people, come to the con-clusion that I don’t think this BID is ready for prime time,” said Kim Putens, an

Old Town business owner of 15 years.

Roger Digilio said many of the major problems that Old Town’s small business-es face, like parking, will remain unsolved and said that development on Alexan-dria’s waterfront will be un-fairly prioritized by a BID.

“Some businesses will benefit from a better water-front. But when it comes to places like 1101 King St., I don’t see them benefitting one iota from the money they will spend – and it will be a significant amount.”

Dan Hazelwood criticized both how the BID plan was put together and the initial work plan put together by the exploratory committee.

“I’ve walked into 70 busi-nesses and spoken with them about the BID tax. The uni-versal reaction is that they’re being punched in the gut,” Hazelwood said. “These boundaries were drawn for tax purposes. No sane per-son would draw this map.”

Hazelwood called the process secretive, lengthy and undemocratic. He said the BID would end up cre-ating more problems than it would solve.

“This BID was produced by a lack of transparency and we need to end it now,” Hazelwood said.

Opposing viewsAfter the initial panel

discussion concluded, panel members were given the op-portunity to respond.

While the pro-BID pan-el argued that most of the anti-BID’s arguments were unfounded, the anti-BID ar-gued that the other side was short on answers.

The pro-BID panel said it wasn’t the exploratory com-mittee’s job to decide what

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the BID would eventually be.“What we’re talking

about right now is the struc-ture and getting something in place, not talking about what possible solutions will be once it is in place,” Rhodeside said.

Panel members also de-fended the process itself, with Vergason saying that there had been the proper amount of representation in the committee.

“Just because it’s not your voice doesn’t mean there hasn’t been a voice,” she said.

Anti-BID panel members argued that the BID process needs to be discontinued for the time being.

“As a business owner, if I were to go to a bank or an in-vestor, I would need to have a plan. The way it’s spelled out, there isn’t a plan,” Putens said. “It’s troubling that there’s no details on how this money will be spent.”

Hazelwood said there was no amount of tweaking that could make this BID pro-posal palatable to those op-posed.

“This is broken without repair,” Hazelwood said.

City viewCity council members

took time to ask questions of several panelists. Many members expressed con-cerns about the BID process, while others, particularly Paul Smedberg and Del Pep-per, said, while initially in favor of a BID, they now had reservations.

Councilman Tim Lovain said the emails he has been getting have been, for the most part, three “against” for every one “for” the BID. He questioned whether Old Town business owners and residents were being effec-tively informed on the ordi-nance. Lovain also pointed out that the BID exploratory committee was vague in its

outline of the BID’s goals. “I wonder if it would be

helpful to lay out...a list of what other BIDs have done,” Lovain said.

Vice Mayor Justin Wil-son observed that the city council’s June 24 vote on the BID would come down to whether the council be-lieved “there is a design of some BID that [Old Town businesses] can agree on.” Landrum concurred, saying that answers regarding cost of the BID and services pro-vided could not be discerned until after the ordinance was passed.

Pepper also referred to the numerous emails that she and other members of the council had been receiv-ing from citizens concerned about the BID.

“[People] want to know…about what is perceived as a tax, what is seen as an addi-tion to the real estate tax,” she said.

Pepper made the point that she is no longer sure about supporting the ordi-nance.

Smedberg came at the issue from a similar per-spective, saying that he had hoped the proposal would solve a “lack of business unity [in Old Town,” but se-riously questioned how effi-cient a BID board of business owners would be if the coun-cil passed the ordinance.

“Given what I’ve seen so far, how is a 25-member board going to work in reali-ty?” he asked.

Smedberg said there are a number of questions remain-ing for proponents of the BID to answer, including its overarching goals. He said without clarification, it will

be difficult to get everyone on the same page.

“We need to question what Old Town is going to be like for the next 100 years. We need to reinvent,” Smed-berg said. “I just have a lot of questions.”

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Taqueria Poblano, a fan fa-vorite that has participated in Taste of Del Ray eight of the nine years, said seeing the long lines of people waiting to sam-ple their fare is still meaningful to them.

“It’s kind of just confirma-tion that people love it,” Jeff Wallingford, co-owner, said. “Our restaurant is very small, so it’s often packed. But when you see a line at an event like this, you know you’re doing something right.”

It’s this kind of restaurant community that Reuter and Miller, who have both lived in Del Ray since the mid-’80s, were looking to foster, an effort that started with block parties in 1991 and grew into Art on the Avenue in 1994. The Del Ray Farmers Market and First Thursday followed shortly af-ter.

“We wanted to figure out a way to get people to The Ave-nue,” Reuter said. “We came up with a theme and we decided to showcase the restaurants. It’s grown so big since then.”

Mount Vernon Avenue started the 1990s with only a handful of businesses, but during that decade mainstays like St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub, which opened in 1996, began changing the feel of Del Ray. Mom-and-pop restaurants like Taqueria, established in 1999, slowly helped turn the neigh-borhood into a lively destina-tion spot.

Events, Reuter and Miller say, were a major contributor to that growth.

“It’s critical,” Miller said. “It’s what makes a community what it is.”

The duo said the true mark

of success was hearing how many attendees were coming from out of town. Reuter said they had attendees coming from as far away as Richmond.

As it approaches its tenth year in 2018, Miller and Reu-ter said their hope is to get all Del Ray restaurants involved. Taste of Del Ray also plans to continue giving back to part-nering nonprofits, like the Al-exandria Boys and Girls Club, which sold water and soda at the event and raised $1,000 in doing so.

“Right now we have about 90 percent of restaurants in-volved. It would be even more fun to get 100 percent involve-ment,” Miller said. “That would be the goal. You’d like them all to participate.”

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Chef Craig Scheuerman, left, director of the culinary arts program at T.C. Williams High School, and three of his students, Amina Hamlet-Bagetti, Jireh Haynesworth and Leon Coleman, taste the chocolate beignets from Del Ray Café.

PEOPLE’S CHOICE

1st Place: Pork Barrel BBQ, white chicken chili

2nd Place: Taqueria Pablano, shrimp mango chalupa

3rd Place: Stomping Ground, buttermilk biscuit and fried chicken with spicy aioli

JUDGE’S CHOICE

1st Place: Evening Star Café, crawfish boudin

2nd Place: Stomping Ground, buttermilk biscuit and fried chicken with spicy aioli

3rd Place: Pork Barrel BBQ, white chicken chili

Taste of Del Ray Winners



Four Upper School St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School students were recognized at the National Society of Arts and Letters Excellence in the Arts Event held at National Presbyterian Church in D.C. on May 4. NSAL has recog-nized juniors in the Washing-ton metropolitan area pub-lic, charter and private high schools with an Award for Excellence or a Certificate of Merit since 2004. These hon-ors document students’ artis-tic talent and are a point of distinction on college appli-cations. The students are rec-ognized in the disciplines of art, dance, drama, literature, music and musical theatre.

The top juniors for the

2016-17 school year are Chris-tian Corpening, Excellence in Drama; Brian Gilday, Certif-icate of Merit in Instrumental Music; Gwendolyn Rak, Cer-tificate of Merit in Literary Writing; Marta Rich, Certif-icate of Merit in Visual Art.

In addition, Kyla Carney ’17 was selected to be one of the performers in the event since she was named winner

of Excellence in the Arts last year. “Only students named in the category of Excellence, which means they are the top performing arts junior student from their school, may audition for the follow-ing year to be in the event,” shared Upper School Drama Teacher Jim Marvin. “This is the top of the top performers in this region.”

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GRACE EPISCOPAL SCHOOL students celebrated Spirit Day by participating in a Walk for the Homeless to support the ALIVE! House. ALIVE! is the largest private safety net for the needy in the city of Alexandria. In an effort to show awareness of the need to help those less fortunate, students walked three laps around the school. Grace Episcopal School made a donation to help the ALIVE! House serve the community.

Spirit Day and ALIVE! house walk for the Homeless

A team of students from Douglas MacArthur Elemen-tary School has been named World Champions after win-ning first place in the 2017 Odyssey of the Mind World Finals at Michigan State Uni-versity last weekend.

MacArthur 5th graders Henry Anderson, Keira Bo-sland, Tate Fagan, Miriam Gortner, Walker Kopp and Anna Mouthrop took first prize for their problem-solv-ing and creativity skills in a field of teams from 20 countries that included Can-ada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, It-aly, Japan, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Switzerland and across the United States. They were coached by parent Eve Anderson.

The MacArthur team won their spot in the Michi-gan final by placing first in the state. They then went on to compete against 69 oth-er teams for the first place spot. A team from George Washington Middle School also won a place in the World Final, placing ninth in their field of 72 teams in the World

Finals.It was a creative extrava-

ganza where more than 850 teams from all around the world shared their ideas and work with only a few earning a trophy. “It was incredible to see them awarded first place in front of a crowd of 18,000 people,” said MacArthur Tal-ented and Gifted teacher Jen-nifer Street, who organizes the school’s participation in the competition.

Founded in 1978, Odys-sey of the Mind is an inter-national competition that challenges teams to go be-yond conventional thinking and engage in creative prob-lem-solving. Team members spend months working to-gether to apply their creativ-ity, knowledge and talents to solve problems that range from designing and building vehicles, to presenting their own interpretation of classic artwork, to scripting comedic performances that involve complex costume and scene changes. Team members work on their problem with-out outside assistance from parents, teachers, coaches, or other students.

MacArthur wins 2017 Odyssey of the Mind World Finals

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Saints receive awards for excellence in the arts

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Christian Corpening, Gwendolyn Rak, Marta Rich and Brian Gilday.


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center to house arts classrooms and a new theater. Each year of middle school, the entire class comes together for a different production, taking on responsibilities on stage

and behind the scenes.

As they were beginning re-hearsals, the 8th graders got some advice about the show from a spe-cial guest: alumna Ashley Ware Jenkins '98, who has performed on Broadway and in the touring cast of ‘The Lion King.’

Soon they'll take on the role of high school students, but in May the 31 students in Burgundy's Class of 2017 took on the role of beloved characters in a production of ‘The Lion King, Jr’. Each stu-

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On May 23, lower school students from Immanuel Lutheran School shared a performance of “Songs We Love to Learn and Share” at First Baptist Church of Al-exandria.

Accompanied on the pi-ano by ILS parent and First Baptist organist, Sherry Graveson, students per-formed selections including a variety of English, Ger-man, Mexican, Argentinian and Austrian folks songs, Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’ played by the 3rd graders on the recorders and a number of patriotic songs. Students also performed ‘The Musi-cal Timeline’, an original composition by the 2015-2016 7th and 8th graders of ILS along with their music teacher, Emily German.

“Music is such an import-ant part of both our church and our school at Immanu-el,” noted ILS Headmaster, Julia Habrecht. “In addition to our strong music program,

students and teachers are in-corporating song and music into their classroom learn-ing on a regular basis… It is a delight for us to be able to share these songs and more with our own school com-munity, as well as the lovely community at First Baptist Church, and we are so grate-ful to them for providing our students this wonderful op-portunity.”

Immanuel Lutheran lower school students hold performance

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R. Owen Ranger has ac-cepted the position as head coach of the Bishop Ireton varsity volleyball program. Ranger is a graduate of Pepperdine University and earned a Master’s degree from George Washington University. He has been active in volleyball coach-ing at a variety of levels, both club and high school, including four as a varsity head coach.

“I am excited for the op-

portunity to coach in a great school and great league,” said Ranger.

Bishop Ireton’s athletic director Bill Simmons said, “Owen has developed a number of exceptional play-ers wherever he has been, including a D.C. Gatorade Player of the Year. He has a focus on player development and, having coached a num-ber of sports, is an excep-tional technical teacher with a focus on being fundamen-

tally strong.” In addition, Jennifer Les-

lie has accepted the position as head coach of the varsity swimming team. Leslie is a graduate of Bishop Ire-ton, Class of 2000, where she was a varsity swimmer. She went on to earn her un-dergraduate degree from Lynchburg College and a Master’s Degree from Ma-rymount University. Leslie has served as a varsity assis-tant at BI and has coached in

summer leagues through-out Northern Virginia.

“I am excited to coach at my alma mater.” said Leslie. “Swimming was a big part of my high school experience and Bishop Ireton has a rich swim tradition in the area. I want to build on that tradition.”

BI names new volleyball, swimming coaches Aces on the diamondAlexandria gears

up for 2017 season in the Cal Ripken league

BY JACK MACKEY

As June begins and sum-mer weather starts rolling in, the Alexandria Aces step up to bat for their tenth season in the Cal Ripken Collegiate Base-ball League. The Aces are part of the league’s South Region and will play 40 games over the next seven weeks, vying for a chance to compete in the 2017 League Championship Series for the league title.

The Aces finished the 2016 regular season with a 23-17 re-cord, losing their first game in the 2016 championships to the Herndon Braves. Head Coach David DeSilva assessed this year’s squad as his team read-ied for its first regular season game.

“The strength for us [this year] is defensively and on the mound,” said DeSilva. The challenge, according to DeSil-va, is whether the Aces can keep up with other teams of-fensively, as recent injuries to the team’s middle-of-the-order hitters may hinder their ability to score runs.

The Aces lost their first and only 2017 exhibition match against the Herndon Braves 3-0 on Sunday.

“I would’ve managed the game a bit differently if it were a regular season game,” said DeSilva. But the game provid-ed the Aces with an opportuni-ty to field as many players as possible so they could become familiar with their new team-mates.

“From what I could see,

[the players] were all meshing re-ally well together,” said General Manager Kimberly McCarthy. The game against the Braves also allowed Aces hitters to become ac-customed to the wooden bats in the Cal Ripken League, since they play with metal bats in college.

Both DeSilva and McCar-thy hope the Aces will vie for the league’s championship this season. Alongside those ambitions, DeSil-va wants to make the summer baseball experience worthwhile for the players.

“I’m one of the most competi-

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tive guys out there,” said DeSil-va, but he also enjoys “watching players develop in the summer, seeing them go back to school and having better seasons and seeing the guys get drafted.”

Fostering better relation-ships with the players through positive experiences with the Aces also helps DeSilva in the recruiting process.

“Recruiting is a 12-month job,” he said. “Once you build good relationships with college coaches, you can start recruiting more from that school.”

The Aces have complete-ly revamped their roster, only returning one player from the 2016 season: catcher Cody Mill-er (Wofford College). DeSilva attributes the roster turnover to players who might have re-turned but instead chose to play this season in the Cape Cod Baseball League, considered the pinnacle of wooden bat sum-mer leagues. Further, the Aces have lost 12 players from the anticipated 2017 roster who had signed last year to play in Alex-andria this summer.

Nevertheless, DeSilva be-lieves the Aces will field a strong roster this summer. Of the team’s 31 players, 28 come from schools that play NCAA Division I baseball. An ear-ly standout for the Aces is Eli Boggess, a senior at Morehead State University, who has a col-legiate batting average of .425. Boggess’s average ranks him second among all NCAA Divi-sion I players. In 55 games this season at Morehead, Boggess

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Chase Evans (University of West Florida) pitches during the ninth inning of the Aces’ 3-0 loss to the Herndon Braves in exhibition play.

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Dan Auerbach’s latest solo album is light and fun, if somewhat forgettable

BY ANDY DUNBAR

Dan Auerbach, best known as one half of popular alternative rock band The Black Keys, released his second solo album “Waiting on a Song” a fol-low-up to 2009’s “Keep it Hid,” on June 2. This album includes collaborations with Pat McLaughlin, John Prine, Jer-ry Douglas, Duane Eddy, Gene Chris-man and Bobby Wood of the Memphis Boys.

Auerbach, who has also done work with fellow indie darling Cage the Ele-phant, doesn’t lean too heavily on the Keys’ blues-rock influences. This al-bum marks a departure from the band’s signature sound and Auerbach, instead, opts to craft a loftier sound that’s more acoustic and orchestral in nature, with folk roots deeply reminiscent of the city where he’s now based, Nashville.

He makes full use of acoustic rhythm guitar and electric lead, piano, violin and thumping drums paired with lyrics that are easy to sing along. The album is, above all else, effortlessly lis-tenable.

Although the fuzzy electric guitar, a staple of the Black Keys, is most-ly gone, there is enough new material here to enjoy: see the twinkling bells of “Undertow” and “Waiting on a Song.”

There’s also enough familiar territory to leave hardcore Keys fans satisfied. Listen to the last 45 seconds of “Stand By My Girl,” which features a bluesy electric guitar solo, one of the record’s

standouts for your Keys moment. As a whole, Auerbach succeeds in

capturing that 60s and 70s country rock/soul feel that is so likable. Lis-ten to “Cherrybomb,” and then listen to Buffalo Springfield’s iconic “For What It’s Worth,” where even Auer-bach’s inflections are similar. Dedi-cated listeners can hear his inspiration and influences.

Artists like Auerbach deserve radio play in today’s narcissistic pop age and listeners can hear his love for his craft in every track on “Waiting on a Song.” Just listen to Auerbach’s deeply per-sonal lyrics in “Never in my Wildest Dreams.”

Unfortunately, the album falters in the familiarity between the 10 songs. Auerbach worked so hard to craft a similar sound and it seems to have worked a little too well. Each song seems dependent on the next, and few truly stand out on their own.

Although a tad repetitive and a little forgettable, it doesn’t mean this isn’t a good album and it certainly is a fun en-try to Auerbach’s discography.

Black Keys front-man Dan Au-erbach, above, released his sec-ond solo album, “Waiting on a Song,” left, on June 2. Although a bit repetitive, the album is a fun entry into Au-erbach’s oeuvre.

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Wonder Woman comes from a place of peace.

Literally.Gal Gadot is easily the

most inspirational and the most heroic and the most "real" Wonder Woman in movie (and television) history.

It's a fully realized, three-dimensional characteri-zation of an iconic DC Extend-ed Universe character that has never gotten her due – until now.

Gadot's Diana/Wonder Woman is brilliant but unso-phisticated; brave but some-times reckless; compassionate yet stubborn; idealistic yet capable of deadly force when there's no other choice; en-dowed with astounding powers but as yet unsure of how to har-ness and master all her gifts.

Director Patty Jenkins' or-igin story is packed with heart and empathy, and we have Gad-ot's endearing performance to thank for that – but it's also a byproduct of the timeline.

We meet the Amazon prin-cess Diana when she is just a little girl living on the remote (in more ways than one) and beautiful and idyllic island of Themyscira.

Little Diana (and then teen-age Diana, and then the young woman Diana) is obsessed with becoming the greatest warrior on the island, much to the cha-grin of her mother, Queen Hip-polyta (Connie Nielsen).

The queen's sister, Gen. Antiope (the great Robin Wright, looking a bit uncom-fortable in the helmet and the body armor), argues Diana must be prepared for the inev-itable day when their peaceful paradise comes under attack. Queen Hippolyta wants to shelter Diana from the outside world for as long as possible – and she makes it clear that Di-ana mustn't ever learn the true nature of her origins.

This seems a bit ... unre-alistic. After all, there are no men on the island. Also, Diana clearly possesses supernatural skills. (When she crosses those bracelets, THINGS HAPPEN.) Why not just tell Diana what's

what?Little matter. We know the

story isn't going to stay on the island forever. When the Amer-ican pilot Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) crashes in the waters off Themyscira during World War I, Diana saves his life, but then all hell breaks loose as the Ger-mans storm the beach. Blood is shed, lives are lost, and Diana is exposed to a world she never knew existed.

The early scenes between Gadot and Pine are sweet and funny and infused with just the right amount of sexual ten-sion. (When Diana happens upon a naked Steve, takes it all in and asks if this is what the typical man looks like, Steve responds, “Well ... I'm consid-ered above average.”)

Steve tells Diana about the Great War raging out there in the real world. Diana is con-vinced that Ares, the Greek god of war, is responsible for man turning on his fellow man. If she can find him, she can stop him and the war will end.

As one might expect, Steve isn't exactly onboard with

the whole Ares thing, but he IS onboard with returning to London with Diana. Let her look for Ares while he tries to convince his military superiors the Germans are developing a deadly chemical weapon that can penetrate gas masks and may result in the deaths of tens of thousands of Allied forces and innocent civilians.

Like many a superhero ori-gin story, where the main char-acter is from another world and now must try to assimilate, we get many a scene where Diana/Wonder Woman is alternate-ly amazed, amused and taken aback by the strange ways of these humans.

And, of course, she's quite the sight herself. Let's be real, that revealing costume would turn heads in 2017 London, let alone a century prior.

Director Jenkins and the team of writers credited with the screenplay and story take us through the paces of devel-oping the villains, including Elena Anaya's creepy Doctor Poison and Danny Huston's

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ALEX ANDRIA TIMES JUNE 8, 2017 21June 9

SUPERHERO SOIREE The Fund for Alexandria’s Child Annual Fostering the Future Gala is happening on June 9 at the Sheraton Suites Alexandria. This year’s theme is superhero soiree. This fabulous annual event features entertainment, hors d’oeuvres, open bar, dancing, a silent and live auction and more.Time: 7 to 10 p.m.Location: Sheraton Suites Alexan-dria, 801 N. Asaph St.Information: https://www.bidding-forgood.com/auction/auctionhome.action?vhost=fosteringthefuture

FRIDAY EVENING CHAMBER CONCERT The Symphony Orchestra of Northern Virginia in collaboration with the Office of the Arts will finish out this music series with works com-posed for large chamber ensembles and will include a bassoon concerto performed by Whitney Miller, a new composition by the Symphony Orches-tra of Northern Virginia’s Composer in Residence, Michael Ream, and works by Mozart. $15, but all kids under 5 are free. Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: 1605 Cameron St.Information: http://alexandriava.gov/Arts

BACH CONCERT Classical-ly-trained organist David Brock will per-form an all-Bach historical program, as originally presented in 1840 by Felix Mendelssohn in Leipzig, Germany. Time: 7:30 to 9 p.m. Location: St. Paul’s Church, 228 S. Pitt St. Information: 703-549-3312

June 10

ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL The Old Town Arts and Crafts Festival will bring more than 80 arts and crafts vendors to Waterfront Park. Food will be available from Bunny & the Bear Food Festival, Rockland’s BBQ and Grilling, Red Hook Lobster Pound and Talk Of Di Town II. Beer will be avail-able for purchase. This event will also include child-friendly activities, includ-ing a performance from Moran and the Rainbow Rockband at 10:30 a.m. and 12:15 p.m., as well as boat painting and weaving. Time: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.Location: Waterfront Park, 1 Prince St.Information: 703-836-2176

MAYOR ON YOUR CORNER Please join Mayor Allison Silberberg for her next monthly “Mayor on Your Corner” at Union Street Public House. All are welcome. Wear casual at-tire. There’s no need to RSVP and no charge to attend. There is a flat fee of $5 for coffee and Danish.Time: 10 to 11:30 a.m.Location: Union Street Public House, 121 S. Union St. Information: www.allisonsilberberg.com

CIVIL WAR CAMP DAY Union and Confederate re-enactors interpret

soldier and civilian life in camps, pres-ent infantry and artillery drills and firing demonstrations, equipment displays, U.S. Army field hospital, life in the of-ficer’s hut and fort tours. Admission is $2 per person and $5 for families.Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Location: Fort Ward Museum & His-toric Site, 4301 W. Braddock RoadInformation: http://www.fortward.org

June 11

APOTHECARY GEEK TOURS On this one hour specialty tour of the Apothecary Museum, learn about the real world botanical science that in-spired the potions and herbology of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, and make your own magical sleeping po-tion. Adults and children ages 8 and older welcome. Tickets are $15 per person. Time: 12 to 1 p.m. Location: Stabler-Leadbeater Apoth-ecary Museum, 105-107 S. Fairfax St. Information: https://shop.alexandri-ava.gov/

June 13

BOOK READING: THE JOUR-NAL OF ANN READING Marga-ret Irwin had long heard family stories about an ancestor who had learned nursing from Florence Nightingale. In 1955, her mother showed her Anne Reading’s handwritten journal for the first time and, 50 years later, she had it published. “The Journal of Anne Read-ing” documents Reading’s early train-ing and work in the Crimea with Night-ingale, her later service in Alexandria’s Mansion House Hospital during the Civil War and some post-war aspects of her life. A book signing will follow the program. Tickets are $10 and anyone can attend. Time: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Location: Lyceum, 201 S. Washing-ton St.Information: https://shop.alexandri-ava.gov/

T.C. WILLIAMS BAND CON-CERT Mr. Doug Rogers will lead the T.C. Williams High School Jazz Bands in the final band event of the school year, featuring music by Herbie Han-cock, John Scofield and Duke Ellington among others. Free.Time: 7:30 p.m.Location: John C. Albohm Auditori-um, T.C. Williams High School

June 14

CANAL CONCERT SERIES Per-formance by the group Con Candela, featuring salsa music. Come enjoy a lunchtime concert in a beautiful amphitheater setting along the wa-terfront. Offered in partnership with American Real Estate Partners.Time: 12 to 1 p.m.Location: Canal Center Plaza, 44 Ca-nal Center Plaza Information: https://apps.alexan-driava.gov/Calendar/Detail.aspx?-si=16181

June 15

OPEN HOUSE PUBLIC ART PIECE AT LAKE COOK The city has commissioned Baltimore-based artist David Hess to design a unique public art piece at Lake Cook. The ob-jectives of the Lake Cook Stormwater Retrofit project are to increase the lake’s capacity to reduce stormwater pollution and enhance the recreational elements of this facility. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the project and provide feedback on the proposed public art, expected to be finalized by the spring of 2018. Free. Time: 7 to 9 p.m. Location: 3600 Wheeler Ave. Information: https://www.alexandri-ava.gov/PublicArt

BON VOYAGE EVENT Say a (tem-porary) goodbye to Alexandria’s 18th century ship, which is making its final voyage to Texas A&M University’s con-servation research laboratory, where it will undergo a multi-year conservation process before returning to Alexan-dria’s harbor. This event will include family-friendly interactive features and a ceremonial bottle breaking. Free ad-mission, but reservations are required. Time: 3 to 6 p.m.Location: 116 S. Quaker LaneInformation: https://shop.alexandri-ava.gov/Events.aspx

June 17

HEALTHY COOKING DEMON-STRATION The Virginia Cooperative Extension will provide free samples of quick and healthy foods that you can prepare at home from ingredients available right at market. Time: 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Location: Market Square, 301 King St. Information: 703-746-3200

LECTURE: FATHERLESS DAUGHTER RECONCILIATION Join journalist, and author Jonetta Rose Barras and discussion leaders to share their stories about their loss due to father absence or parental aban-donment and its harmful effects on their lives. The speakers will encour-age participants to join the discussion. Adults are encouraged to bring their teenage children to the discussion. $5 per person. Time: 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Location: Alexandria Black History Museum, 902 Wythe St. Information: 703-746-4356

ALEXANDRIA ARCHAEOLOGY DIG DAYS Assist Alexandria Ar-chaeology at a public dig! The dig day includes an introduction to the history and archaeology of the Shuter’s Hill Site, a site tour, and the opportunity to sift through excavated soil and assist with artifact processing. $5 donation and pre-registration is required.Time: 1:30 to 3 p.m. Location: 101 Callahan Dr.Information: https://www.alexandri-ava.gov/Archaeology

June 18

FATHER’S DAY OPEN HOUSE Fathers and their families are admitted free at the Friendship Firehouse Muse-um on Father’s Day. Pose alongside the historic equipment that fought fires in 19th – century Alexandria, and have your portrait taken by the firehouse photographer. Youngsters will receive a fire hat to take home. Time: 1 to 4 p.m. Location: Friendship Firehouse Mu-seum, 107 S. Alfred St.Information: https://shop.alexane-driava.gov

GADSBY’S FATHER’S DAY MU-SEUM OPEN HOUSE Gadsby’s Tavern Museum is pleased to offer free tours on Father’s Day for all visiting fa-thers. Notable visitors (other than your beloved Father) include George Wash-ington, Thomas Jefferson and John Ad-ams. Self-guided tours available any-time 1-5 p.m. Guided tours at 2 and 4 p.m. $5 Adults, $3 children. Time: 1 to 5 p.m.

Location: 134 N. Royal St.Information: www.gadsbystavern-restaurant.com/

APOTHECARY FATHER’S DAY OPEN HOUSE The Stabler-Lead-beater Apothecary Museum is offering free tours on Father’s Day for all visit-ing fathers. Free for fathers, $5 for all other adults, $3 for children ages 5-12. Time: 1 to 5 p.m.Location: Stabler-Leadbeater Apoth-ecary Museum, 105-107 S. Fairfax St. Information: https://www.alexandri-ava.gov/Apothecary

June 24

VINE ON THE WATERFRONT The sixth annual Vine on the Water-front Food & Wine Festival will take place on Alexandria’s waterfront at Oronoco Bay Park. The event will fea-ture local food and wine, as well as arti-

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sans, a children’s corner and live en-tertainment by the Alan Scott Band and Andy Hawk & The Train Wreck Endings.Time: 12 to 6 p.m.Location: Oronoco Bay Park, 100 Madison St. Information: www.vineonthewa-terfront.com

June 30

EXHIBIT OPENING: ALEXAN-DRIANS FIGHT THE GREAT WAR This exhibit explores the expe-riences of local people during World War I, and look at photos of the homes, hospitals, factories and ship-yards of wartime Alexandria during that era. The exhibit includes rare im-ages, archival and modern-day vid-eo clips, quotes from participants, original objects including weapons, period music and scale models. The exhibit is open until November 11. There is a $5 suggested donation.

Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Lyceum, 201 S. Washing-ton St.Information: 703-746-4994

July 14 and 15

ALEXANDRIA COMCAST OUTDOOR FILM FESTIVAL Comcast and the City of Alexandria welcome you back to scenic Water-front Park for the 14th Annual Com-cast Outdoor Film Festival. Located just one block from King Street on the Potomac River, this film festival includes two nights of free outdoor movies on our four-story-high movie screen. Bring your low beach chair, blanket, family and friends to this fun annual event and to watch family favorite Moana and the blockbuster Rogue One: A Star Wars Story with the stars above and the Potomac River as the backdrop.Time: All day event Location: Alexandria Waterfront Park, 1 Prince St.Information: 240-838-9112

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megalomaniacal Gen. Erich Ludendorff, and introducing us to the obligatory ragtag bunch of antiheroes that Steve rounds up for the mission to save the world.

Ewen Bremner (from the "Trainspotting" movies) is Charlie, a sharpshooter bat-tling PTSD; Said Taghmaoui is Sameer, a secret agent and master of disguise; Lucy Davis provides comic relief as Etta Candy, Steve's loyal and true secretary; Eugene Brave Rock is Chief, who takes no sides in the war but clearly is more good guy than mercenary.

Diana is horrified by the re-

alities of war. She's ever more convinced Ares is responsible for all this carnage, leading to some moments of true dra-matic impact, as Steve tells her she needs to wake up and realize not everyone is good and pure of heart, and man is capable of great violence and shocking cruelty. At times "Wonder Woman" plays more like a World War I drama that just happens to include a war-rior for justice with incredible powers instead of a superhero origin story and that's part of what makes the film so com-pelling.

When Diana DOES spring into action, "Wonder Woman" rocks. It's as if we're learning

exactly what she's capable of at the same time Diana is discov-ering the depths of her powers.

Chris Pine is perfectly cast as the cocky, but noble and quite dashing Steve Trevor. The supporting players, in-cluding David Thewlis in a pivotal role best left for you to discover, are all terrific.

Gal Gadot shines in the title role. Diana is sweet and sexy and clever and intense and she moves with the grace and power of a superhero gym-nast (among other skills). Steve and his buddies are suitably amazed at what she can do, but they quickly shift from being shocked to saying without hes-itation: I'm with her.

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had 88 hits, 54 runs 40 runs-batted-in.

McCarthy, who is moving to the general manager posi-tion after being assistant gen-eral manager for the past two years, is looking to improve the game-day experience for staff and spectators.

“I want to make sure game-day staff are learning and hav-ing fun with it,” she said. “I love to see everyone having

fun and all the younger players coming out.”

The Aces started off the

2017 regular season strong, winning their first game against the DC Grays 10-3.

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it's important to decide how you want to use the space — and in a small garden, that's even tru-er because you simply have less space to work with.

You can still have a dining area, a spot to hang a hammock, and a pretty flower garden, but you'll have to be creative to fit them all in. Some areas may have to serve more than one function. Above all, "You want to maximize every bit of space — the walls, the edges and the base material," Woldorsky says.

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Like Woldorsky, she empha-sizes to clients the importance of making every inch count. "It can be fun," she says. Even a garden as long and skinny as a bowling alley can be "purposeful and ar-tistic and striking, with a wave of color," Przygoda-Montgom-ery says.

If you're not sure where to start, take a look at circulation patterns through your garden. The path from the back door should lead gracefully through the garden to flower beds, a patio or a dining area. Whether the walks are straight or curved, the path should feel comfortable and natural. If you have a glo-rious specimen tree — perhaps a crab apple, dogwood or Japa-nese maple — you might think of it as a destination and plan the rest of your garden accordingly, Woldorsky suggests.

Putting plants to work is one of the secrets of success in small gardens. Slender verti-cal plants, such as upright hol-lies, hornbeams or arborvitaes, can frame views or be used as screens. Vertical plants also draw your eye up and keep the space from feeling too confin-ing. If you don't have room for trees, consider building a cozy pergola, which will create shade for a seating area and will never outgrow its space. You can grow vines or roses up the side of it, giving your eye and the whole space a lift.

Shrubs will give the garden plantings interest, substance and depth, but look for small-scale choices, whether you favor ev-ergreens or flowering shrubs. More is not necessarily better — in a limited space, you're bet-ter off with a couple of well-cho-sen specimens, perhaps planted around the perimeter of the gar-den. Even if your garden is in-formal, imposing discipline and maintaining order will make the

space more attractive and more functional.

Make flowers part of your plan, too, Woldorsky says. Flow-ers are bright and ever changing, and they really draw you out-side. They also attract birds and butterflies, which make any gar-den more lively and beautiful.

If you don't have room for a flower bed, you can do a lot with flowerpots. Contain-ers tend to serve as important sculptural elements in small gardens: They make emphatic punctuation marks at the base of the stairs, along the edge of a

patio or at the bottom of a path. Go for big flowerpots, Przygo-da-Montgomery says. One large pot on either side of a path has more impact than half a dozen smaller containers. Plants thrive in bigger pots and are easier to take care of, and you won't be tripping over them.

Successful small gardens depend on thoughtful decisions. In some ways, they're easier to design than larger properties because some possibilities are ruled out, Przygoda-Montgom-ery says. You can't count on sweeping views, but you can create striking vignettes. A pond is probably out of the ques-tion, but you could try a small fountain.

"Less really is more," she says. "If you have a small space and it's done right, it's real-ly strong." Focus your ideas, choose plants that fit the scale of your space and be sure to edit unnecessary clutter. In a small garden, details aren't lost — they sparkle.

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Cluster flowerpots together for more impact. Large pots are a better choice than small containers -- plants have more room to grow, and they need less attention to watering. Large pots are also a more noticeable feature -- you won’t trip over them.


Our ViewTo BID or not to BID is the wrong question

It’s tough to get where you want to go if you choose the wrong departure point.

That’s our primary takeaway from Tuesday night’s city council work session, where pre-selected panels presented the case for and against a Business Improvement District in Old Town.

The proposal on the table lacks specifics on what a BID is sup-posed to accomplish. It became clear during the discussion that this omission is a fatal flaw in the eyes of anti-BID speakers, but was deliberate on the part of the BID exploratory committee.

The proposal shared Tuesday by Stephanie Landrum, president and CEO of the Alexandria Economic Development Partnership, has three parts: First, council would approve formation of a BID; second, an election would be held to establish a BID governing board, which would recommend a BID tax rate and budget and determine what actions it should take; finally, council would set the BID tax rate.

Under this setup, affected business and property owners are being asked to support the establishment of a BID – which would likely end up taking $2 million or more in additional annual taxes from them – without knowing what it will do for them. This is akin to former President Richard Nixon saying during the 1968 election campaign that he had a plan to end the Vietnam War, and we had only to elect him to find out what it was.

Council members asked good questions during the discussion, which was impressively civil for such a controversial topic. Coun-cilman John Chapman, along with councilors Del Pepper and Tim Lovain, asked anti-BID panelists if nailing down specifics would enable them to support a BID. Vice Mayor Justin Wilson then asked whether those who are opposed to the BID proposal – who appear to outnumber those in favor by a roughly three-to-one margin – were against all BIDs or just this proposal.

Those questions are steps in the right direction, but they don’t go far enough. Where we are with this BID proposal seems to us a classic case of having put the cart before the horse and having run off the path entirely as a result.

Most people in the room Tuesday night appeared to be in agree-ment that Old Town is, in the words of one panelist, a bit worn. There was general agreement the Old and Historic District needs enhancements to make it more appealing to regional residents be-yond Alexandria’s borders. We need to draw people to eat and shop here, rather than just tourists who come to see historic sites.

What should have happened first, and what still needs to hap-pen now, is an extended discussion among Old Town stakeholders – business owners, commercial property owners, residents, busi-ness organizations – about what specific improvements they feel are needed.

Should tree wells be maintained uniformly? Should there be lights in trees on all of King Street? What kind of regional market-ing campaign should we have? What is needed along the waterfront and how does that differ from what is needed on upper King Street?

Once there is consensus around what is needed, the next step is to determine how best to achieve the stated, agreed upon ob-

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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:I am writing about the

story in the June 1 Alexan-dria Times, "Racist flyers in Del Ray spark outrage." In your accompanying ed-itorial, you suggested that, other than cooperating with the authorities, the public "carry on as if nothing hap-pened." Perhaps this makes sense to someone with little direct experience of the dai-ly reality of white suprem-acy. However, the many Alexandrians who are working to make progress on civil rights see inaction as a terrible mistake.

As a white man, I can hardly speak for black Al-exandrians. But I can listen when they speak for them-selves. In a Facebook com-ment, NAACP Alexandria past president LaDonna Sanders stated "white su-premacy, oppression and in-

justice occur in Alexandria City every day and people turn a blind eye!" She was not alone.

Taken as a whole, and this includes the NAACP statement printed in your newspaper, the message is that those hateful flyers were not unusually shock-ing. Instead, they were a window into the minority experience. Were you, gen-tle reader, alarmed to feel unsafe in your own commu-nity? The fact is that many Alexandrians feel that way every day.

Instead of inaction, we should look to minority communities for advice and partnership. These commu-nities are already asking us, in small steps, to reform the most well documented driver of racial inequality, the criminal justice system. One small step would be

systematic monitoring of police investigative stops. Another would be to stop imprisoning children.

I recently attended com-munity meetings on each of these topics and was shocked at the strong resis-tance from the Alexandria chief of police, in one case, and the Arlington common-wealth’s attorney, in the other. As with the flyers, I'm guessing that minori-ty residents that were also present were not shocked at all.

Let us all please be aware of the need to resist white supremacy instead of resisting progress. Let our support for an inclusive Al-exandria be support for the idea that we should all feel safe in our community.

– Jonathan KrallCo-founder,

Grassroots Alexandria

We must all resist white supremacists

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To the editor:I happened to read today

an article in the May 25 Alex-andria Times, “Professor con-fronts alt-right leader at local gym,” about a confrontation between C. Christine Fair and Richard Spencer that took place recently a local health club. The story reported that the confrontation resulted in the revocation of Spencer's membership. Based on the details of this incident as re-ported in the Times, the revo-cation of Spencer's member-ship is a grave injustice. I am not a supporter of Spencer or of his political views, but I do support his right as a private citizen to go to the gym and work out and not be provoked by someone with opposing political views.

To an objective outside observer this is how the inci-dent presents itself: a woman

confronts, unprovoked, and verbally attacks a man with whose political views she disagrees. When the woman is approached by the manag-er and asked to leave because she is creating a “hostile en-vironment,” she turns to ver-bally attack him, and is sub-sequently asked to leave the immediate area, and finally she leaves the premises en-tirely. Subsequently, the man, who has done nothing ex-cept hold political views this woman finds abhorrent, has his membership at the gym revoked, while the woman, the instigator of the conflict (who, it is reported, has a his-tory of being “provocative”), retains her membership. It is obvious to the impartial ob-server that justice has gone awry.

What did Spencer do to deserve the revocation of his

membership? Was he harass-ing what Ms. Fair describes as the “non-white, female, non-Christian” employees of the health club? It is not re-ported that he was. Was he publicly promoting his politi-cal views in the health club? I don't see any mention of that either. His only offense was to hold political views with which someone disagreed.

Perhaps there are details to this story of which I am not aware, but from the facts as they are presented, it seems obvious, that if anyone's membership ought to be re-voked, it is Fair's. She was the instigator of the conflict, she was the one violating some-one else's privacy. There is a proper forum and context for political confrontation. It is not the local gym.

– Elizabeth VailAlexandria

Alexandria in Action with John Porter

June is a month of new beginnings. In addition to signaling the start of summer, June is filled with weddings and graduations — new be-ginnings for sure.

While many pri-vate schools have already graduated the class of 2017, local public school systems and several other private schools will be sending their seniors off to the next big opportunity in their lives over the next few weeks. Closest to home, T. C. Williams High School will be graduating more than 700 se-niors on June 17. If this year is like last, approximately 85 percent of these students will be continuing their education in the fall — a remarkable figure.

For many students, the ap-plication and acceptance pro-cess has been relatively easy although the competition for select colleges and universi-ties has become much more intense over years past. At the end of the process, most students find a school that is the right fit for them relative to what they wish to study and do in their lives.

The focus then switches to the much more difficult part of the equation -- how to pay for this extremely important and costly next phase of their lives. For some this is not an issue, but for others it is a ma-jor one. And even if paying for the initial year(s) is figured out, sustaining the amount of money needed to complete a degree can be daunting.

We are extremely bless-ed, in Alexandria, to have a very concerned and caring citizenry which wants to as-

sist others in need, including helping to fund post-second-ary educational opportuni-ties. ACT for Alexandria hosts a couple of scholarship funds established for this spe-

cific purpose, as do several other local organizations and businesses. How-ever, Alexandria City Public School students have some-thing many other students across the country don’t have

— the Scholarship Fund of Alexandria.

In 1985, a small group of like-minded community leaders came together to de-termine what might be done to assist T.C. Williams High School students fund their post-secondary education plans. They understood that for many students attending Alexandria’s only public high school, the cost of college could be a major obstacle.

With a financial commit-ment of $25,000 from city council and additional sup-port from ACPS, the SFA launched in 1986. Slightly less than $10,000 was grant-ed in scholarships that first year but this new and exciting endeavor was envisioned as being able to assist countless students for years to come.

Thirty-one years later, SFA has certainly exceeded the expectations of many who were part of its humble begin-nings. From providing “last dollar” scholarship support in the early years to awarding renewals starting in 1991, the Fund has been an extremely valuable partner for students and families. Since its incep-

New beginnings

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Fair was wrong to confront Spencer during workout

To the Editor:In the May 25 Opinion sec-

tion, Charles Edwin and Jack Sullivan were right to call city council to task for their incred-ibly irresponsible tax increase and budget.

John Lennon's comments were confusing; he supports candidates who spend on chal-lenges of the future yet three of our city councilmen have been at city hall for years (Justin Wil-son, Paul Smedberg and Tim Lovain) while all of these bud-get issues were brewing. They did little then. For Wilson, spe-cifically, to take up the banner of fiscal responsibility is simply disingenuous. For had he been concerned about this all along, and had he considered our av-erage taxpayer, he would have

advocated parsing the increase out over time beginning several years ago. It reminds me of the fire truck crisis here a few years ago when then-Mayor Bill Eu-ille lamented the obsolescence of our fleet — he had been mayor for years by then — and acted as if the trucks had aged overnight. See a trend here?

City council would do well to remember that they are not just a resourcing body, charged with taxing and spending as if our money was their own; they are an accountability body, too. In the former, they tax and spend like pros; in the lat-ter, they are derelict — relying on committees and consultants instead of the city's and the council's robust staffs. An im-portant question is "what exact-

ly did they cut?" The answer is "not much." We should not be surprised, as the prevailing attitude of council seems to be "budgets are limitless and ev-erything is a priority." If only they were.

The thing is none of this will change so long as the city council remains an at-large body. Until we elect members by district, where neighbor-hoods can hold their represen-tatives accountable and where their representatives will see how council's actions impact Alexandrians in very tangible ways, lip service to public con-cern and group-think will con-tinue to reign supreme on the council.

– George DemetriadesAlexandria

Groupthink and selective amnesia abound on council

John Porter


Part TwoBy May 2, 1944, only two

weeks after the pending demoli-tion of the historic William Ram-say homestead was announced, the Alexandria City Council had successfully negotiated, and acquired for restoration as a po-tential tourist center, the site at North Fairfax and King Streets, thereby ending the immediate threat to the building.

But even then, after years of neglect and a major fire in 1942, the vacant building’s preserva-tion strategy was marginal, and the expectation of an immediate public-private partnership some-what premature. Before city ac-quisition, public outrage and de-termination to save the building was immensely strong, but after the immediate crisis passed the sense of urgency declined.

Two weeks after title passed to the city government, an or-ganization called the Ramsay House Restoration Association was loosely formed and pub-lished a brochure, illustrated with the drawing seen here, of what the “restored” Ramsay House would look like. It was projected that the restoration sum of $20,000 would be quickly raised by a contribution from all Alexandria residents within two weeks, and then work would be-

gin.When the expected contri-

butions fell far short of the stat-ed goal, city leaders became concerned at the prospect that unwilling taxpayers would be obliged to further fund the proj-ect. So the local authorities urged the association to incorporate it-self as a non-profit corporation, and further set up its own com-mittee of appointed officials to monitor the group’s progress.

After several months of de-lay the proposal submitted for incorporation, supported by the city committee, was a bit vague on the actual plan for the Ramsay House. It instead espoused the larger vision to create a formal, citywide historical society which would act as an advocate for all aspects of history and historical landmarks in the city.

Still, months passed without basic stabilization and the de-crepit house continued to deterio-

rate. Finally, by the end of 1945, a lease was generated between the city and the restoration group to begin the project, and Alexandria native Milton Grigg, an architect who had worked on the resto-ration of buildings at the John D. Rockefeller-funded project at Colonial Williamsburg, was se-lected to guide the endeavor.

By mid-1946, no actual con-struction work had yet begun on the structure, and city authorities finally lost patience. Almost two years to the day after city coun-cil moved to acquire the Ram-say property for preservation, a further vote authorized that the small building be instead re-paired by the city, and used as an annex for offices at city hall, specifically for the Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court.

Preservationists were livid, vehemently criticizing the city for not allowing enough time for proper fund-raising and the

acquisition of historically accu-rate building materials needed to complete the project. While city councilors expected some op-position to their vote, they were overwhelmed by the public reac-tion. Within two weeks they re-versed their action and extended the restoration time period for an additional two and a half years.

But even by 1949, the revised restoration goal of $25,000 for Ramsay House was far from reached and progress was stag-nant. Even the local newspaper lamented, “Alexandria, unlike Williamsburg, has no Rocke-feller Foundation to restore it to its Colonial grandeur. Time and nature being what they are, the city may soon have no Ramsay House either.” A project that had once had such hope six years earlier now appeared destined to fail.

The reality expressed by the newspaper editorial produced much reflection in Alexandria, and the aspirations for the future of the city. The outcome would ultimately set the stage for how Alexandria would develop in the post-war period.

To be continued...

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jectives. Maybe it’s through a BID, but maybe another type of delivery vehicle would be cheaper and more effective.

Maybe multiple entities are needed to bring to fruition dif-ferent categories of improve-ments or those in different parts of Old Town.

Rather than jumping

straight to a large, unwieldy and expensive BID, and then trying to push it through over strong and growing opposi-tion, city council needs to step back and let this discussion

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The 2017 Scholarship Fund Awards program took place last week with 154 students be-ing awarded $410,000 from the Fund for their first year of col-lege. As with previous years, those attending the program marveled at the diversity of the recipients and the schools they would be attending.

According to SFA exec-utive director, Beth Lovain, “Typically at least 80 percent of the scholarships are for stu-

dents with financial need… with approximately half of this year’s recipients being the first in their family to attend college.” Thus, these awards, coupled with other funds granted through SFA guided support, will allow these stu-dents to attend college in the fall without the worry of not being able to complete the year due to inability to pay.

As a former educator, I can’t stress enough the differ-

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changed35 Loud rackets38 Sinai and Everest (Abbr.)40 Hippy bones41 One’s short life story42 Prefix for one43 Flat-topped plateau44 Old-fashioned sound detector48 Heavy artillery weapon50 Grapefruitlike fruit52 Torches on poles55 Type of pear56 Mil. designation57 Type of blockade at sea60 Chick’s quick sound61 Perforated magazine page63 Type of cold-weather boot64 Friday, for many66 Some police-led groups or posses70 Who to win one for?74 Shed item that breaks ground

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ly35 Old gold coin36 Idiotic and silly37 Warrior in black39 Part of a china set41 Folk singer Ives43 Type of chocolate dessert45 TV brand46 Award given by a cable sports

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WAYNE FREELAND (67), formerly of Alexandria, May 25,

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A public hearing will be held by the Alexandria Board of Architectural Review on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 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 #2017-00165Request for partial demolition/capsulation at 109 Duke Street.Applicant: Martha and Steven Peterson

CASE BAR #2017-00166Request for alterations and an addition at 109 Duke Street.Applicant: Martha and Steven Peterson

CASE BAR #2017-00099Request for new construction at 802 and 808 North Washington

Street.Applicant: Shakti, LLC

CASE BAR #2016-00419Informal concept review work session for proposed development at 1604-1614 King Street and 1604 Dechantal Street. This item is open for public comment. Applicant: Dechantal Limited Partnership

Staff presentation on Buildings of Architectural Merit

Informational work session on Capital Bikeshare Presentation

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.alexandriava.gov/dockets.

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