Falls Church News-Press Memorial day 2015

Memorial Day

Parade Program

2015

Monday, May 25, 2015Falls Church, Virginia

Inside This Program:Page S-2 Memorial Day SchedulePage S-3 Letter from the MayorPage S-5 Parade King & QueenPage S-7 Parade Grand MarshalPage S-8 Memorial Day Vendor ListPage S-9 Parade & Festival MapPage S-10 Veterans Ceremony InformationPage S-15 Official 2015 Parade Lineup

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To all who come to the City of Falls Church to celebrate and commemorate Memorial Day with our most elaborate festival of the year, welcome! This goes for all the locals and especially our visi-tors on this day.

We are immensely proud of our city, and invite you to learn more about it while you are here. You are reading a special supplement to our weekly newspaper that serves Falls Church, with its 11,400 citizens, and its Northern Virginia environs.

Falls Church enjoys an unparalleled quality of life, superb schools, wonderful public services including a magnificent library, friendly merchants, and incredibly active and accessible participatory government and, yes, a terrific newspaper.

It youve ever considered residing, shopping or doing business in Falls Church, let us invite you to linger beyond the end of the Memorial Day parade and mosey around a bit. Were sure youll like what you see.

Falls Church prides itself on its hospitality and affirmation of diversity. It makes a point of wel-coming all who come to visit or live, regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity. We want you in Falls Church!

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Welcome from the Mayor of the City of Falls Church Welcome to the City of Falls Churchs annual Memorial Day festivities. We are delighted that you can join us on this special day. For almost one hundred and fifty years, Memorial Day has been observed as a day of remembrance for those who have fallen in service of our country. It is only because of these men and women that we are able to gather here together today, exercising the privileges of living in a free society, and mindful of the responsibilities that come along with it. Let us never forget their sacrifice.

Please take the opportunity to join me for the Veterans Ceremony at 11 a.m. outside the Community Center to honor our veterans and recognize those who continue to serve in our armed forces. Anthony H. Griffin will serve as keynote speaker. Some of you may remember this Marine Corps veteran as our former Falls Church City Manager from 1983-1989, and as the former Fairfax County Executive from 1999-2011. I look forward to hearing his remarks and those of the other speakers. At 2 p.m., join us for the annual Memorial Day parade. Our Grand Marshal is Sergeant Steve Rau, who served as the beloved School Resource Officer until his promotion last year. Don't forget to read Steve's profile featured in this edition of the News-Press.Finally, please remember to take a moment to thank the servicemen and servicewomen who protect our country.

We are honored that you are spending the day in our Little City.

P. David Tarter, Mayor City of Falls Church, Virginia

Welcome to the City of Falls Churchs Annual Memorial Day Parade and Festival. We are delighted that you can join us on this special day.

Since 1868, communities, towns and villages, throughout America have come together to place flowers and flags on the graves of those who have given their lives for our country. Despite this long tradition, it is easy to forget what Memorial Day is really about. To paraphrase Franklin Roosevelt, after having long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy, we forget in time those who have died to win them.For this reason, I invite you all to pause, remember, and honor these brave heroes, men and women of the Air Force, Navy, Army and Marines, who made the ultimate sacri-fice defending and supporting our great country, its interests and its ideals. Reflect on the proud history of service of our own Little City, as demonstrated by the names of native sons and daughters displayed on the plaque at the Community Center.

Please join us at 11 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial outside the Community Center to honor these brave men and women and to recognize those who continue to serve. Fol-lowing that, the Parade will begin at 2 p.m. with longtime residents Barry and Kathy Buschow serving as Grand Marshals.

Thank you for choosing to spend this special day with us here in the Little City.


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The two Falls Church City natives and soon-to-be George Mason High School grads who were named Mr. and Ms. Mason said they were nominated, as tra-dition goes, by their teachers to compete in the faux beauty pag-eant.

But Constance also said he competed to uphold the tradi-tion of his two older sisters, who competed and won the Mr. and Ms. Mason competition in recent years. And Miller said that she had to overcome some stage fright in order to give her pageant-winning performance this year.

The duo sat down with the News-Press to talk about the Mr. and Ms. Mason competition, their Memorial Day and Mason memo-ries and their plans for the parade and the future.

How did you win the Mr. and Ms. Mason titles?

Sarah Miller: So I did a skit. It was a satire on the big crazy col-lege admissions process. I called it College Applicants Shoot for the Moon, and it was about how applications to the University of the Moon have skyrocketed this year. And it was just kind of silly. I pretended to be an ABC reporter and I wrote this thing to talk about and then I interviewed a bunch of my friends who are seniors about why they did or didnt apply to the

University of the Moon.Gus Constance: I won by col-

laborating with my friend Emma Graig. We did a video together and in the video we performed a skit.

The premise of the skit was that the SCA advisor and an English teacher at George Mason, Mr. Laub, had been framed for embez-zling money from the school, so we wanted to get to the bottom of that. We were trying to be funny and all.

What are your memories from past Memorial Days in the city?

Sarah: I love Memorial Day and chicken on a stick obviously. I love the Fun Run. I take the fun part of Fun Run seriously and I used to run cross country and I love to do it with friends and stuff. I also love just seeing everyone. Its just so special that everyone in Falls Church comes out and I can see like my first grade teacher, or someone from my swim team that I havent seen all year who doesnt necessarily go to City schools. Everyone is out at once, which is fun.

Gus: What I always looked forward to about Memorial Day was the different booths and stands and different food.

Theres this one booth that always had good lemonade. And then the parade is always very fun, with the Shriners going around in their cars and stuff. Its just a good time.

Did you know that, by winning Mr. and Ms. Mason, you became king and queen of the Memorial Day parade?

Sarah: It was in the back of my mind but I had kinda forgotten about it until like after it happened when they were like Oh, by the way, youre the queen now. And I was like Oh my gosh, right. I forgot about that.

Gus: Yeah. Both my older sis-ters were Ms. Mason before I was, so I knew thats what I was in for.

What are your parade plans?

Sarah: Well, since monarchies are kinda dying out, this might be last chance to be a queen, so Im going to go all out. So Im definitely going to wear a crown, do the queen wave and stuff like that.

Gus: I have this really cool Hawaiian shirt that I wanna wear, probably under a blazer I guess because its supposed to be a little bit formal. Im going to try to have a good time with it.

What kind of royal behaviors do you exhibit in your daily life?

Sarah: I guess queens are famous so they need to avoid paparazzi and Im not very photo-genic so if I had paparazzi I would

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Longtime Falls Church residents Barry and Kathleen Buschow are honored to serve as grand marshals for this years Memorial Day parade.

The parade is so all Americana, said Mrs. Buschow. It is what I think Falls Church is all about. It just makes you smile. Its a really great reflection of our community.

The couple has a long history of public service and dedication to uplifting the Falls Church com-munity.

Mrs. Buschow, who served 14 years as Falls Church City Clerk, has strong roots in the Northern Virginia area. I grew up in Alexandria, Arlington, she said. I grew up in Kings Park when it was the end of the Earth, she laughed continuing on about her presence in the area during the opening of the beltway and Dulles Airport.

A graduate of George Mason University, Mrs. Buschow worked for two U.S. senators on Capitol Hill, a small business lob-bying organization and a large Washington, D.C. law firm before becoming City Clerk of Falls Church, which she described as the perfect job for her.

As City Clerk, Mrs. Buschow said she enjoyed working with the residents, especially the senior citizens. My degree is in govern-ment, and Ive worked in politics and in the legal field, so it was a great job for me to have after my other previous jobs.

Prior to her tenure, she said Falls Church had not been rep-resented much in the Virginia Municipal Clerks Association. She made a point to attend every conference and served as presi-dent of the organization from 2010 to 2011. In 2008, the association also named her Clerk of the Year.

Since retiring last year, Mrs. Buschow now enjoys painting but remains involved with the Virginia Municipal Clerks Association. She recently donated one of her paintings for an upcoming silent auction.

When shes not painting, she dedicates her time to the Falls Church Sisters Choice Quilters and the Falls Church chapter of Quilters Unlimited, which she has been active in for more than 25 years. She previously served as board member and treasurer of Falls Church Arts.

Much like his wife, Mr. Buschow has been a very active figure in the Falls Church com-munity. He currently serves on

the board of the Northern Virginia Parks Authority and is presi-dent of the Falls Church Lions Club, corresponding secretary for the Village Preservation and Improvement Society, and sec-retary of the Falls Church Scout House Building Association.

Last year, the Village Preservation and Improvement Society awarded the Spirit of Falls Church award to Mr. Buschow for his dedication to the community. In addition, he has been named the Lions Club Lion of the Year three times and received the 1999 Caroll V. Shreve Award for Meritorious

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The 1967 George Mason High School graduate first moved to Falls Church in 1951 with his parents. After going away to col-lege, Mr. Buschow spent some time away from Falls Church but returned in 1987 with his wife and his son, James, who also graduated from George Mason High School.

In his professional career, Mr. Buschow has served as a gov-ernment contractor for 30 years. He currently works as a con-sultant on the Federal Aviation Administrations NextGen air traf-fic control initiative.

Mr. Buschow said it is an honor to serve as grand marshal with his wife. Ive marched in the parade when I was in high school, in the band, back in the day when we used to march down Broad Street, so Ive known the parade for a long, long time, he said.

For the last 20 or 25 years, he

said hes been volunteering at dif-ferent booths during the parade. Im always working the Lions Club or the Village Preservation and Improvement Society booth, and so I never really get to see the parade, he laughed. So this will be one of the first years I really get to see the whole parade.

MONDAY, MAY 25, 2015 | PAGE S-7FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS | FCNP.COM MEMORIAL DAYBuschows to Serve as Parade Grand Marshalsby Liz LizamaFalls Church News-Press

MEMORIAL DAY GRAND MARSHALS Barry and Kathleen Buschow stand together at Cherry Hill Park in the photo above. Kathleen Buschow, who served for 14 years as Falls Church City Clerk, is a native of Northern Virginia and Barry Buschow, president of the Lions Club of Falls Church, is a 1967 graduate of George Mason High School. In the photo on the right, Barry Buschow stands with George Mason High School students, who volunteered to help the Lions unload citrus during the organi-zations annual citrus sale. (Photos: Liz Lizama/News-Press and courtesy of Barry Buschow)

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Prayer for the Departed VeteransRabbi Jeffrey Saxe,

Temple Rodef Shalom

TapsMaster Gunnery Sgt. John Abbracciamento,

U.S. Marine Corps Band

Retiring of POW/MIA FlagCommander Bob Smith, VFW Post 9274

Retiring of ColorsHonor Guard from the

American Legion Post 130

Memorial Day 2015 Veterans Ceremony

This program was prepared by representatives of American Legion Post 130, American Legion Post 225, American Legion Post 124, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Martin Leppert Sipes Post 9274, Catholic War Veterans Paul and Jacques Martin Post 1652, Falls Church Daughters of the American Revolution, Northern Virginia WWII Veterans, the Veterans Memorial Committee, and dedicated volunteers under the coordination of the City of Falls Church Recreation and Parks Division. Citizen

participation is encouraged. The City of Falls Church is committed to the letter and spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability call 703-248-5077 (TTY 711).

Monday, May 25, at 11 a.m.City of Falls Church Veterans Memorial, 223 Little Falls St., Falls Church, VA 22046

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Jeff Jones was sitting in church one morning during Christmas when it all came together.

Hed been thinking for a while about doing something to honor veterans his father, grandfather, and uncles were all servicemen but the project had not formed. Until then.

Im a Navy brat whos moved around the country, and I came to a point in my life when I could do something, said Jones, the owner of Classic Stonescaping and Gardens in Falls Church.

In the pew that Sunday morn-ing, the idea took shape, and Decorate A Vet was born.

Why not decorate the homes of veterans for the holidays?

Jones, 45, approached his pal, David Tax, 49, who exclaimed

Im in, 100 percent! and off they ran in 2010, starting with five or six homes to decorate.

Right from the get-go, it quick-ly became apparent that more was needed to be done for the veterans homes than simply decorating for the holidays.

The first year blossomed into a lot more, said Tax in an interview with Jones at Taxs res-taurant, Clare and Dons Beach Shack.

They started painting and chop-ping and trimming and cutting and hauling away overgrown bushes and trees and debris from the homes, and installing new fences and gutters and shutters, ramps, and hand rails, and over the years, found hundreds of volunteers and partners to help out.

Like Home Depot at Seven Corners whose manager uses his discretionary fund to supply mate-

rials and send over five or six volunteers, or the FBI which sent 50 volunteers one year, or the five fire departments whose ladders volunteers climb to erect lights up high, or the American Legion.

Said Tax: The kids of my generation have had some kind of disconnect. Theyve not been to combat or defended the U.S., so involving children in the project was a top goal, and they do it, on Decoration Day, the Saturday which follows the work week after Thanksgiving when adult volun-teers, who have numbered in the hundreds over time, beautify the veterans homes.

Its the most fun seeing kids out there, sharing responsibili-ties, Tax said.

The groups biggest problem is identifying veterans who want to sign up for the project since many veterans believe their comrades


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have greater needs, but this is not need based, Jones said.

Nominations for (mostly, out-side) home improvements can be made on the DAV website, www.decorateavet.org, and veterans may submit themselves.

At each of the five to nine homes DAV decorates, volunteers hang a flag and plant a tree.

One year they branched out to the Wounded Warriors Care Center at Fort Belvoir to decorate a floor and serve food to the staff and patients from Taxs restau-rants. (He also owns Mikes Deli at Lazy Sundae.)

For two years going on three, a grant from the Bob Woodruff Foundation has funded the admin-istrative side of DAV which recently received a 501(c) (3) sta-tus from the IRS making dona-tions to DAV tax deductible. (DAVs annual fundraiser will be in October at the Beach Shack.)

Dave and Ada Evans are one Falls Church couple who have benefitted from DAVs gifts.

In 2013 they were mostly con-fined to home. Dave Evans, an Army veteran who served dur-ing the Vietnam War days, was felled by a stroke in 2009 and got around on a scooter. Ada Evans was recovering from eye surgery.

We were not looking forward to Christmas very much that year,

Ada Evans said.One Saturday morning they

looked out their windows to find 100 decorators in their yard.

The volunteers really lifted Daves spirits a great deal, she said, and her husband came out on his scooter to welcome the guests.

The Evans have lived in their Falls Church home since 1972 and had never had a driveway until DAV built one for them.

Dave Evans likes to grill, and Jeff built a very expensive, beau-tiful stone walkway so Evans can get out to the grill on his scooter, and, also, his man cave, made accessible by DAV.

I was just stunned, said Ada Evans.

We really appreciate what they did, and she still calls Jones for referrals on home improvements.

Were just trying to say thank you, said Tax. Its more about what theyve already done.

If more people would do a little bit more, it would go a long way.

Our goal is to help vets within the city, Jones. Stay in your lane.

Neither Jones nor Tax is a veter-an. They estimate theyve worked on 35 to 40 homes since Joness dream took root in a church pew at Christmas.

A CREW OF VETERANS GOES TO WORK on a local veterans home as part of the Decorate a Vet organizations work. (Photo: Courtesy of Jeff Jones of Stonescaping and Gardens)

MEMORIAL DAY FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS | FCNP.COMPAGE S-12 | MONDAY, MAY 25, 2015Parade King & Queen Chat with News-Pressalso want to avoid them. But usu-ally people arent trying to take my photo so thats a good thing.

Gus: Exercising everyday [insert] plug for Title Boxing Club. Its a great place. Awesome train-ers. And just hanging around the many wonderful places that we have here in Falls Church. Cherry Hill Park is a favorite of mine.

What was your Mason experi-ence like?

Sarah: Its been wonderful. Im so glad I was lucky enough to grow up here. Everything about Mason is so special. I love the community because its a smaller school, especially this year, our grade has gotten really close. And the teachers are so supportive and so wonderful. I love how every-one knows each other and the teachers go above and beyond.

And just like no one takes them-selves too seriously which I like.

I remember my eighth grade year was the first year I was there and I was kind of apprehensive about going to high school like Oh my gosh, there are people here who are five years older than me. Thats insane.

But some time during the school year there were people, to this day I dont know why, but there were people dressed as Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man and the ghosts and chasing each other around the school and like no one blinked an eye like it was normal. And I thought okay, I can fit in here. I can do this.

Gus: Id say overall it was enjoyable just because it was an environment where I was able to be friends with pretty much every-one in my grade. And so, as stress-ful as it may be, it was always a friendly place that I didnt mind going back to necessarily.

What is one Mason memory youll never forget?

Sarah: Ive been on swim team and student government and I started the Settlers of Catlan Club and doing the activities with that club has been so fun.

And this year, my brother [David] is a freshman this year so weve been able to overlap and hes been on student council, which has been so much fun.

Weve gotten a lot closer this year and I love him and Im going to miss him so much next year. But its been so fun to be together this year, so Ill never forget that.

Gus: Probably being a part of Les Miserable, the musical, in eighth grade.

That was my first musical and I stayed a part of the theatre pro-gram since then. It was just awe-some being a member of that cast.

I think we got some kind of award for that. But yeah, thatll

stay with me for the rest of my life.

What are your plans after gradu-ation?

Sarah: In the fall Im going to Dartmouth College and I want to study neuroscience and maybe minor in statistics.

Ive done a lot of work with kids neurodevelopmental delays or that are on the autism spectrum and Im also really interested in science, so maybe eventually get my PhD and contribute to the knowledge of neurobiological fac-tors of developmental delays.

Gus: Im attending VCU this fall and majoring in psychology. Im excited to live in Richmond.

What are your career aspirations?

Sarah: As of right now Im definitely open to changing my mind, but I want to get my PhD

and do research in that field and maybe be a professor or some-thing like that, so I can do research or maybe a marine biologist.

Thats always been my child-hood dream like I want to be a marine biologist, but Ive never done anything with marine biol-ogy, so well see. I love manatees, though.

Gus: I hope maybe one day to have my own occupational ther-apy practice and if that doesnt work out I might try to open a record store.

What is your message, as king and queen, to your subjects?

Sarah: I guess my message to my subjects would be if youre a little sweaty thats okay.

I think everyone sweats at Memorial Day, so just embrace that. And youre all wonderful and Falls Church is a great place.

Gus: Stay in school.

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1. American Legion Post 130 Color Guard 1a. Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps2. Falls Church Sheriffs Department3. City of Falls Church Police Honor Guard4. Memorial Day Grand Marshals The Buschows5. Falls Church City Council6. Falls Church City Public Schools7. Memorial Day King & Queen8. Greater Falls Church Veterans Council9. Operation Earth Watch10. Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department11. Mary Riley Styles Public Library12. Falls Church Recreation and Parks Department13. Cub Scout Pack 681 14. Thomas Jefferson Elementary Safety Patrols15. Falls Church Kiwanis Little League16. Cub Scout Pack 657 17. Falls Church Youth Lacrosse 18. Suzanna Muldowney 19. The Washington Scottish Pipe Band 20. South Lakes High School JROTC21. St. Pauls Lutheran Preschool22. NOVA Parks & Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation23. Dunn Loring Volunteer Fire & Rescue Department24. Tinkus Cochabamba VA USA25. TITLE Boxing Club26. Citizens for a Better City 27. Village Preservation and Improvement Society27a. Marshall High School Marching Statesmen28. Girl Scouts 50-14 29.Jhoon Rhee Tae Kwon Do30. Falls Church Chamber of Commerce

31. Virginia International University 32. Embajadores del Folklore33. Fairfax VA Chapter Harley Owners Group34. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church 35. Falun Dafa 36. Hilton Garden Inn37. McLean Volunteer Fire Department 38. Just Clowning Around of Northern Virginia39. Millford Mill Academy Marching Band40. Falls Church Democratic Committee41. Delegate Marcus Simon 42. John F. Nicoll Pipes and Drums43. Always There Pet Care44. Al Manarah Court #50, Ladies Oriental Shrine of NA45. Kena Shriners 46. City of Falls Church Department of Public Works Operations Division47. Centro Cultural Peru48. Cub Scout Pack 86149. Falls Church News-Press50. Falls Church Original 1956 Pontiac Chieftain51. Falls Church Lions Club52. Maha Yoga53. Dave & Melanie Elliott54. Tinkus Tiataco USA55. Old Rugged Cross56. Jim Moyer Circus Club57. Fraternidad Folklorica Bolivia58. Bikenetic Bike Posse59. Blue Nectar Yoga60. Providence Players of Fairfax61. Nickelz Production Dance Company62. Rotary Club of Falls Church 63. Famous Daves

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