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Vol. 14b, No. 5 Alexandria’s only independent hometown newspaper. FEBRUARY 1, 2018 School Flu strikes Alexandria Newcomer board, city Symptom severity and patient during the 2013-2014 season. Aguirre runs numbers on the rise “We tend to see the [strain] that’s circu- council BY MISSY SCHROTT lating this year just tends to make people a for council little bit sicker than other types of flu, and discuss CIP This year’s flu outbreak has impacted it can be particularly hard on the elderly Del Ray resident seeks more people and brought about more se- and the very young. This is not very unex- to represent vulnerable Joint work session ad- vere symptoms than it has in several years. pected,” Chommanard said. populations dresses capacity Christina Chommanard, a senior ep- To gauge the severity of a specific flu BY ALEXA EPITROPOULOS BY MISSY SCHROTT idemiologist with the Alexandria Health season, the Centers for Disease Control Department, said the predominant strain When Canek Aguirre, a Members of Alexandria’s of the flu this year, H3N2, was also severe SEE FLU | 17 first-generation American cit- school board met with their izen and the son of Mexican city council counterparts on immigrants, was growing up Monday evening to explain in California, he often served their 10-year Capital Im- as an interpreter between provement Program budget Treasure Trove Spanish-speaking parents and and encourage council to ap- school faculty. prove it. Later, when Aguirre moved When School Board Chair to Alexandria, he served in Ramee Gentry presented the that role again in a profession- budget for FY 2019-2028 to al capacity at Alexandria City council, she made it clear Public Schools as a liaison be- that growing capacity in Al- tween bilingual parents and exandria City Public Schools George Washington Middle is an urgent problem that School. SEE SCHOOLS | 15 “I was really excited to have the role I had with ACPS. It allowed us to take the bur- INSIDE den off some of the kids. You Bob Luther can have an adult there that can interpret and have con- Collector Bob Luther discusses versations that you wouldn’t secrets of the trade. necessarily have if a child was Page 8 interpreting or if someone was La Cuisine just using Google Translate,” After closure, Nancy Pollard Aguirre said. talks La Cuisine's legacy. Though Aguirre left his job Page 12 at ACPS for a community re- PHOTO/RICK GARCIA lations position at health care City School Task Force The marble, military button and glass shards pictured are among company Anthem four years The joint city-schools task force the artifacts archaeologists continue to find, catalogue, clean ago, he still hopes to represent presents recommendations to marginalized and vulnerable city council. and reassemble at the house Washington built at 123 S. Pitt St. Page 16 Please see pg. 18 for more of the finds. SEE AGUIRRE | 6

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The Northern Virgin- alextimes.com Olympic medalist to offer swim clinics at city facility Olympic swimmer Aman- swim clinics. held Saturday from 8 to 10 da Weir is set to visit Chin- The city invites swimmers a.m., ages 10 to 12, which quapin Park Recreation of all ages to participate in will be held Saturday be- Center & Aquatics Facility the clinics, observe the clin- tween 5:30 and 8 p.m. and this weekend. ics for free and meet Weir ages 13 and over, which will Weir, a three-time Olym- for a question and answer take place Sunday between pian, four-time Olympic session and an autograph 7 and 10 a.m. medalist, world champion session after each clinic. 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AGUIRRE FROM | 1 equity across the various programs and the laws that are communities in the city by enacted across Alexandria,” serving on city council. The Sanders said. “Affordable Del Ray resident announced housing is one of the things his intention to run for council he’s been a big proponent of at an Alexandria Democratic and making sure there are Committee meeting Jan. 12 equal opportunities for peo- and will officially kick off his ple who would like to live in campaign Feb. 10. the city. With his work in the “The big thing is I bring school system, he’ll be an ad- perspectives that, at times, vocate for having additional are lacking. I don’t think it’s infrastructure and making always there,” Aguirre said. sure the needs of the city are “I have firsthand experience being met.” with a population that cross- Sanders said she sees Agu- es a large section of the city irre, if his campaign is suc- … I want to be a welcoming cessful, becoming a leader. face for immigrant families “With the amount of work that don’t necessarily feel wel- he’s done and with the time come.” he’s taken to ensure that he’s Aguirre draws much of his PHOTO/MATTHEW HERMERDING knowledgeable about the var- inspiration for running from Canek Aguirre, who is running for city council, hopes to represent marginalized communities in Alexandria. ious areas that we need im- personal experience. Aguirre provement in or are working said he understands the plight immigrant families face I can Alexandria Campaign on Ad- ful if he were to win a seat on well across the city, I think of young professionals strug- always relate to,” Aguirre said. olescent Pregnancy, met Agu- council. he’ll be able to speak well,” gling to make ends meet be- “I have a strong connection irre four years ago. “There are a lot of people Sanders said. cause he’s been there. and a strong sense of wanting “I think he’s very smart, that don’t come out to pub- Aguirre joins four other “When I first got here, to serve the community, and he’s really well-connected in lic meetings and you have new candidates, including Dak I was a young professional not just the Latino communi- the city and he always has great to go out to where they are,” Hardwick, Mo Seifeldein, Amy struggling to get by. I know ty. That goes for the Ethiopian follow-through and knowledge Morris said. “He’s already got Jackson and Robert Ray, who the difficulty of making the community, Arabic, Asian – to share related to the topics those relationships and so he are vying for the Democratic transition to being a home- anyone who has been an im- we’re working on for young wouldn’t have to build them. nomination for the six seats owner,” Aguirre said. migrant can relate.” people and their families. He’s He would be able to bring on council. Two seats are be- Aguirre said affordable Aguirre said he sees him- very willing to share expertise those relationships to council ing vacated by Councilor Tim housing is the most important self as generally aligned with on behalf of the families we – he already knows what their Lovain, who announced last issue for him as he campaigns, sitting council members work with,” Morris said. needs are.” fall he wouldn’t seek reelec- in addition to education and on most issues. He added, Morris said Aguirre would Morris said, though he’s tion, and Vice Mayor Justin health care. though, that there are some be an advocate for communi- not the loudest person in the Wilson, who announced his “We’ve lost 90 percent of issues that aren’t coming in ties that often aren’t repre- room, he always brings some- candidacy for mayor in No- our affordable housing and front of council. He said, with sented in city meetings. thing to the table. vember. Incumbents Willie this affects everyone. It’s his experience, he will be able “Many of us who are more “He’s a strong, deliberative Bailey, John Chapman and Del a real struggle. When I got to bring more of those discus- politically astute or have voic- voice. He’s always prepared, Pepper have either announced here, I was making less than sions to the forefront. es in Alexandria are those of so when there’s something on or told the Times that they will $25,000 and there was no way Aguirre said he will draw us who have more resources our agenda … he’ll bring back- run for reelection. I could afford to live,” Aguirre from experience he’s gained and more money. It’s a wealthy ground material, he’ll bring Should Aguirre be success- said. serving on city boards and city with a lot of resources, but knowledge to inform the ma- ful this election season, he said It’s not just a concern for commissions, which in addi- Canek knows the other side terial. I imagine he’ll bring his relationships will be central to young people, Aguirre said – tion his position on the board and he knows the side of the knowledge and his data points his approach on the dais. it’s an issue that transcends at Tenants and Workers Unit- city that needs a lot of help. He to conversations,” Morris said. “We need some new ideas. age and background. ed, includes being chair of understands what they need “He’s not a person that backs I’m very open. I’m willing to “When you’re trying to age the Economic Opportunities and he has a deep passion down when he thinks an issue have conversations with ev- in place, it’s a real concern if Commission, vice chairman for finding ways to equal the is important. He doesn’t let eryone. I think that’s part of you’re going to be able to stay of the Health Systems Agency playing field for young people points get lost.” why I’ve been successful in the in the city,” he said. of Northern Virginia board, and for all people, whether it’s LaDonna Sanders, who has different positions I’ve held The issues facing immi- on the Leadership Council for housing or health care or edu- worked with Aguirre through – not only boards and com- grants are also of particular the Alexandria Campaign on cation,” Morris said. “He puts Tenants and Workers United missions, but professionally,” importance to Aguirre, who Adolescent Pregnancy and on his money where his mouth and the Economic Opportuni- Aguirre said. “You have to serves as president of the the steering committee for the is.” ties Commission, said, at the build trust and relationships. board of Alexandria immi- Partnership for a Healthier Al- Morris said Aguirre’s expe- end of the day, Aguirre is an I would like to think I’ve ex- grant advocacy group Tenants exandria. rience building relationships advocate. celled at that.” and Workers United. 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Typewriters. Cars. Apple prototypes. Bob Luther is a collector of many things. Despite his masses of historic, valuable and cultural objects, however, his largest collection is of the countless stories he has acquired along the way. Luther could probably talk for hours about each of his collectables as he walks around his warehouse in Old Town. “I’ve always been kind of a treasure hunter, collector of stuff,” he says. He points out shelves of typewriters he’s purchased over the years, framed old photos and maps, surf- boards, antique clocks and a towering Esso sign that leans dangerously against the wall. Each object comes with PHOTO/MISSY SCHROTT Above: Luther's typewriter collection includes a typewriter with Ara- a story, and each story in- bic keys, the first electric typewriter and several children's typewrit- volves traveling to exciting ers like the one pictured. places, meeting fun char- Left: Bob Luther in his collector's warehouse in Old Town. acters and usually waiting outside in the rain for a sell- turally, historically or oth- thing different.’ He didn’t er to show up. erwise. just buy it thinking, ‘Oh, I Perhaps Luther’s great- “He wasn’t just like a hope I sell this in two weeks est story is his acquisition broker-dealer, you know and make a profit on it.’” of the Apple-1, one of the what I mean?” his broth- Luther’s Apple-1 story first Apple computers. er Mark Luther said. “He follows this collecting pat- Luther came across the wasn’t just buying some- tern. rare find at a storage unit thing like, ‘I think I can Luther said he bought auction he had ironically at- make 500 bucks on this, or I the computer 28 years af- tended to buy the first ever think I can make $1,000 on ter its 1976 release. Steve Segway vehicle, not the first PHOTO/MISSY SCHROTT that.’” Jobs, Steve Wosniak and ever Apple computer. Lu- Mark Luther cited when Ron Wayne had developed ther had seen the ad for the desktop computer. He had dollars.’” his brother bought a Volk- the prototype in a garage Segway in the classifieds of purchased the computer for In the following years, swagen van as an example and only released about a newspaper and traveled to about $8,000. he stored the computer on of how Bob approaches col- 200 copies. By comparison, Chantilly, Virginia, for the “I remember having it top of the dresser in his lecting. millions of the next model, auction. in my hands,” Luther said. son’s room, sometimes un- “He bought it thinking, the Apple-2, have been sold After waiting among “I cradled it over to my car, der piles of folded laundry. you know, this is kind of like over the years. a crowd of Gibson guitar which was in the parking Luther said he collects a culturally significant col- When Luther bought seekers in below freezing lot nearby, opened up the objects because he finds lectible,” he said. “He owned the Apple-1 in 2004, the temperatures at an out- trunk and put it down care- them interesting. When he it for maybe three years and first few generations of iP- door storage center, Lu- fully, and I’m saying to my- does add something to his then at some point decided, ods had been released, but ther walked away with two self, ‘Some day, this thing’s collection, it is often be- ‘I either don’t have enough Segways and the Apple-1 going to be worth a million cause it is significant cul- space [or] I want to by some- SEE LUTHER | 9 WWW.ALEXTIMES.COM FEBRUARY 1, 2018 | 9

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Apple was nowhere close to what it would become. Luther said he was familiar with Steve Jobs, however, and had an inkling of the Apple-1’s future value. “We didn’t know that the iPhone was going to come, but you still have a feeling, this guy has a really bright future,” he said. When Luther decided he was ready to sell the com- PHOTO/MISSY SCHROTT PHOTO/MISSY SCHROTT puter, he marketed it with Far left: Luther's warehouse is filled with culturally and historically a self-published book. He about the computer, it was and all of a sudden Bob and significant objects he's been collecting his whole life. called the book “insurance” almost like a marketing Ron Wayne are like bud- Above: When Esso changed its name to Exxon in 1972, Luther for the computer, meaning thing. Whereas if you’re not dies,” Mark Luther said. tracked down one of the old signs, picked it up at a junkyard in that even if the book was an entrepreneur, you might Wayne is widely known Rockville, Maryland, and drove it home draped over his mother's unsuccessful, it might gar- collect things, but you may for selling his 10 percent station wagon. ner enough interest in the never think about, well, share of Apple back to Jobs Apple-1 so that it would sell how do I make a business and Wosniak for $800. Had high. out of this?” he kept his stake, he would “Maybe one won’t do Luther’s book demon- have become a billionaire. that well, but the other strates his need for knowl- Luther and Wayne attended will,” Luther said. edge and the passion he Christie’s auction in New Mark Luther described puts into his collections. York together in December his brother as a passionate While researching the proj- of 2014, where Wayne sold collector with an entrepre- ect, Luther was able to track documentation he had de- neurial spirit. down and interview Steve signed for Steve Jobs, and “It was like the book Wosniak and befriend the Luther sold his computer for was an idea that supported third founder of Apple, Ron $365,000. the value of the computer,” Wayne. he said. “By writing a book “Bob reached out to him, SEE LUTHER | 10

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Luther LUTHER FROM | 9 12 or 13 cars spilling out says, ‘Yeah, I bought this has been of their driveway onto the car new in 1965, and my collect- “I can tell you this, he’s street and around the cul- children, we enjoyed it, we ing type- a most remarkable man. He de-sac. did this and that.’ Bob en- writers never seemed to do any- “It became a little bit joys that part of the process since he saw an thing halfway,” Wayne said. like a car collector’s house. as much as the actual ob- ad in a “He had been so meticulous People in the neighborhood ject,” he said. news- about every aspect of that knew that this was one of When Wayne reflected paper auction both for his materi- the houses where collectors on the New York trip, he that a al and for mine. It was really live,” he said. talked more about Luther’s typewrit- quite remarkable.” Mark Luther said some of company than the auction er shop Mark Luther said esca- his brother’s most interest- itself. was pades like these never fazed ing car-related collectibles “We had a lot of chat- closing. him, since the men in his include a limousine that ting and fun,” Wayne said. family had been collectors was used in a president’s “[He was] effervescent, I his whole life. Mark, Bob, inaugural parade, six Secret would say. He was a very, their third brother Mike and Service Harley Davidson very pleasant traveling their father enjoyed buying, motorcycles and the Mello companion, and we talked repairing and reselling cars Yello racing suit that Tom about many things, and he together. Cruise wore in the movie was helpful in everything. I “We’ve certainly been to “Days of Thunder.” think he enjoyed my compa- a lot of auctions together. It “He enjoys the history ny. I certainly enjoyed his.” was kind of a family affair – of the items he collects, but “There are people that well, family with my broth- also the people he meets just don’t like other people,” ers and father,” he said. “We through that process,” Mark Mark Luther said. “They would go to Arizona every Luther said. prefer to just not be social, year to an antique car, a big “When Bob goes out to [but Bob] most enjoys the PHOTO/ Barrett-Jackson auction.” look at the car, he probably story and the people behind MISSY At one point growing up, gets as much enjoyment out every object.” SCHROTT Mark Luther said there were of meeting the owner who - [email protected] WWW.ALEXTIMES.COM FEBRUARY 1, 2018 | 11

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800.750.9399 | ScheduleFRED.com Great Reviews Awardee GUILD QUALITY A DIVISION OF 12 |FEBRUARY 1, 2018 ALEXANDRIA TIMES BUSINESS La Cuisine’s founder reflects on almost 50 years Nancy Purves Pollard from them. Even if they had still stresses the value a disaster, they would come of shared meals and talk about it,” Pollard BY ALEXA EPITROPOULOS said. “We’d look up things together and figure things Nancy Purves Pollard out together. Very often, was in Europe when she re- it was their oven tempera- alized the importance of a ture.” good home-cooked meal. Susan Osann, a D.C. Pollard, a foreign ex- resident, was one of those change student in a small long-running customers. German town at the time, She still has a collection of was amazed by the meals the linen towels that La Cui- her host family cooked. sine carried – something, “I think the thing that she said, that still brings her blew me away in Germany, joy. even in this little town, was “Nancy had a quality how good the food was and product. It didn’t matter how thoughtful the meals what she had. It didn’t mat- were,” Pollard said. ter if it was the two-dollar There’s one particular scrubber or the several-hun- meal that sticks in Pollard’s dred-dollar pot and pan, but mind. She, along with oth- she always had a quality Above: La er international students, Cuisine founder product and she knew about had gone to a French wom- Nancy Purves it. It wasn’t just something an’s home for dinner. The Pollard poses that she thought she should woman cooked an incredible in the now have – she researched it. meal using only two burners empty spot on She vetted it,” Osann said. – and a copper pot. Cameron Street Osann, who went into Opening a kitchen store, that her store La Cuisine several times a however, wasn’t Pollard’s occupied for 46 month, said she will miss years. objective when she returned the store and her conversa- Left: The to the United States. By the colorful door of tions with Pollard – not just time she and her husband La Cuisine now about cooking and kitchen moved to Alexandria in the wears a sign equipment, but about their late 60s, however, she want- that announces lives. ed to start a business – and, the store's clo- “We would talk about inspired by her background sure to visitors. our children. She has two in French cooking, as well It closed in daughters who are old- as Julia Child’s breakout mid-January. er than my oldest son. We book “Mastering the Art of PHOTOS/ would talk about the trials French Cooking,” Pollard ALEXA and tribulations,” Osann began to look for inexpen- EPITROPOULOS said. “… We didn’t socialize sive spaces to rent in the outside of that, but we be- D.C. area. Cameron St., where La Cui- mous for carrying Mauviel be so small that they were came very close, sharing life She settled on a sine relocated in 1972. By copper pots – the kind she often overlooked by larger experiences, travel, chil- 200-square-foot storefront that point, La Cuisine was had once seen the woman in chains like Bed, Bath and dren, the love of cooking on North Lee Street that importing French, Swiss, Germany cook with – in ad- Beyond or Williams Sono- and the love of having nice cost $400 per month, where Italian and other interna- dition to specialty products ma. I got to know them. I things around us.” she opened La Cuisine in tional products – a prospect like French essences, carbon became friends with a choc- Osann said the legacy 1970. She and her husband, helped by the fact that there steel and linen towels. olate maker, whose daugh- of La Cuisine is that one who spent his career in was a customs office in Al- Pollard said she greatly ter eventually took over the doesn’t need a collection of commercial real estate, had exandria at the time. The enjoyed the relationships business, in Lyon,” Pollard things to become proficient a deal – if her business could store remained at that lo- she built – both with her said. in the kitchen. survive for two years, they cation for the next 46 years; suppliers and her custom- Pollard also enjoyed the “You buy a high-quality would look for a building in it closed last month after ers. countless conversations she product and you don’t need Old Town to buy. selling out during its retire- “I think I had a lot of fun had with repeat customers. to clutter your life up with a Two years later, the ment sale. searching out small suppli- “Our customers were so young couple bought 323 The store became fa- ers. Their production would much fun and we learned SEE LA CUISINE | 13 WWW.ALEXTIMES.COM FEBRUARY 1, 2018 | 13 BUSINESS

We had a great customer base. We had a lot of people who have really been coming to us for a long time. You sort of forget until they bring it up. You forget that sort of thing in the day-to-day process." – Nancy Purves Pollard, founder, La Cuisine

The La Cuisine staff pose in front of the store. Left to right: Pollard, part-time worker Yonie Mela Dow, marketing manager Natalie Perez and general manager Larissa Avendano. COURTESY PHOTO

LA CUISINE FROM | 12 temple and thinking ‘my God, what a time continu- lot of stuff. I got a good-qual- um,’” Pollard said. “I only ity dutch oven that I got there have a little bit of time to 20 years ago and it’s still see them and be part of their here. You buy a few quality lives and I thought, ‘I want cooking products – sea salt, to be part of their lives.’” good olive oil – and it’s very Pollard said she still satisfactory. You don’t get thinks there’s room for in- cravings for more purchas- dependent retailers, in- ing,” Osann said. cluding kitchen retailers, to Osann said that, though start out – but that it’s more she’s sad about La Cuisine’s difficult than when she be- closing, she thought it was gan. the right decision for Pol- “I think retail down here lard. She said she couldn’t for independents is cer- Enjoy the Carefree have seen anyone but Pol- tainly difficult … It was a lard and her staff running lot cheaper to make exper- the shop. imental, independent retail Lifestyle You Deserve “I’ll miss going out there when I started than I think “We’ve made a lot iscover eetwh yCarol man yand pe oMJ.ple Carollike y oandu h aMJve careom greate because you just never knew it is now,” Pollard said. “You of “goodI’ve mfriaedned sa s lion tc e buddies. ey are also next door neighbors. what was there,” Osann cannot ignore the internet. moving to Hermi tage” Carol is 88 years old and MJ is 79. Carol said. “It’s the end of an era You have to embrace it in D since moving t o exMmovedperienc toe aHermitage new lifest yNorthernle with an Virginia array of fromservic es and that’s sad, but life goes some form or another that on and that’s what it’s all best suits your store. I think the Hermitage.” andArlington ameniti eabouts. Jus ta ask year re sibeforedent JMJ,ohn who Mu tcamechler ,from who about.” you also need to maybe work appMontgomeryreciates the fCounty,reedom Maryland.from hom eAer main movingtenance the The decision to close harder now to differentiate andtwo th friendse oppo rdiscoveredtunity to p ar sharedticipate love in c lofub outdoors and so cwalksial for Pollard was a personal yourself from chains ... I activities. Our residents also rave about our superb one. Her long-running staff still think it’s possible, but on the grounds of the community and around the members, including general I think you have to embrace quiet neighborhood streets. Carol focuses on her manager Larissa Avendano, technology, but find how it ovebalancerall fee withling o af functionalcaring and tnesssecuri tclassy th a4xt c oma weekes w andith who had been at the store best suits you, how you can livMJing enjoys at the Hreadingermita inge .the library. Carol likes the many for more than two decades, take those tools and make it found the ever-intensify- your own.” Yointerestingu’ll also gai peoplen peac e and of mi MJnd enjoys know theing manythat h ealth ing commute from Stafford Pollard isn’t leaving the caexcursionsre and suppo andrt itheve s readingervices aclub.re av aItil afeelsble rlikeigh ta h familyere, if County frustrating. area entirely. She and her here at Hermitage Northern Virginia. Pollard, whose two husband, who retired from you ever need them. daughters and two grand- commercial real estate two For more information, call 703-797-3814. sons live in the U.K. and It- years ago, still live above aly, also found herself want- her old shop. But Pollard Call ing to spend more time with said she will miss the cus- 703-797-3814 family. tomer base that contributed to schedule a tour “I went to Sicily for the to the shop’s lasting almost of our beautifully first time with both fami- 50 years. appointed lies and I was watching my “We had a great cus- apartments. grandsons in this archae- tomer base. We had a lot of ological park. I was seeing people who have really been these two little boys climb www.hermitagenova.org over this 3,000-year-old SEE LA CUISINE | 14 14 |FEBRUARY 1, 2018 ALEXANDRIA TIMES BUSINESS Warehouse Sale returns to LA CUISINE FROM | 13 coming to us for a long time. You sort of forget until they bring it up. You forget that sort of thing Alexandria this weekend in the day-to-day process,” Pol- CCH Collective, Duchess M, Brit creating custom home decor from lard said. Thirty area boutiques to Ryan, Gossypia, Hysteria, J.Mc- AR Workshop Alexandria between 8 Personally, Pollard said she’s participate in annual sale in Laughlin, Kiskadee, Lettie Gooch, and 10 a.m., a Truly Spiked & Spar- looking forward to more time to Carlyle Lululemon, Lynn Louisa, Mission kling Hard Cider tasting bar and do what she loves, including, of BY ALEXA EPITROPOULOS Edit, Pacers, Perwinkle, Sara Camp- a complimentary glitter and mini course, cooking. bell, The Hive, Tsalt, Wrabyn, Coco braid bar from Salon DeZen from 8 She has one final message for The annual Alexandria Ware- Blanca, Eye to Eye, Fornash, Mys- to 9 a.m. the customers who she invited house Sale returns on Super Bowl tique, Queen Bee, She’s Unique, Top Early entry to the warehouse into her kitchen all these years. weekend, featuring nearly 30 bou- It Off, Little Birdies, Bishop Bou- sale was awarded to four shoppers “It’s so important to have tiques from the city and the D.C. tique and The Shoe Hive. The stores through a promotional contest, who a meal with your family and metro area. The event is free to the offer discounts of up to 60 to 80 will be able to shop the sale an hour friends together. That should public. percent during the sale, though the before doors open to the public. not become lost,” Pollard said. The event, now in its thirteenth discounts vary from store to store. Those attending the sale can “There’s a lot that happens in a year, will take place Saturday from This year’s event will include park on the street or at two garag- conversation, whether it’s with 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the ballroom of giveaways and prizes from bou- es surrounding the hotel for $5. In your children or members of your the Westin Hotel in Carlyle at 400 tiques participating in the event addition, the Westin is offering a community, over a good meal. I Courthouse Square. 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SCHOOLS FROM | 1 tomorrow, it would still be a tunities came up. Ronnie Campbell said im- now, then when? It’s time to number of years, so we are “When I presented my mediate solutions to the gap take this seriously. We have to requires immediate atten- going to have to be practical CIP … I looked at the num- were necessary. start looking at repurposing tion. and strategic,” Gentry said. ber of seats we need to cre- “There are a lot of things land and buildings.” Gentry said at the rate The Ad-Hoc Joint City- ate to really make up that that would be wonderful, but Gentry said they deliber- school enrollment was in- Schools Facilities Investment gap, which is roughly three look how long it took to put a ately used the term “proper- creasing, without added Task Force identified that ad- schools in addition to what new school in the West End,” ty acquisition” rather than capacity, there would be a dressing capacity would re- you see in the CIP,” she said. Campbell said. “If we’re not 1,453-seat deficit by FY 2023 quire funding for high school School Board Member talking about land acquisition SEE SCHOOLS | 18 and a 2,010-seat deficit by FY capacity, flexible capacity/ 2028. permanent school space, Capacity issues seemed to land acquisition, elementary have a domino effect, as is- modernizations and interim sues related to space made up solutions. Coming Soon most of the requested funds, During the discussion with only about $93 million period of the meeting, the of the proposed $474,680,533 school board detailed the budget allocated to non-ca- process for addressing high pacity related projects. school capacity, the project “Even if we were to start for which they had allocated every one of these [projects] the most funds at $124 million. Interim Schools Superin- tendant Dr. Lois Berlin said in the next few months, the ROSE HILL SEMINARY RIDGE school board would begin discussing how to address high school capacity, with ideas ranging from a Minnie Howard rebuild to an entirely new school. 4109 Fort Worth Place - Under Contract “Does the city have the capacity for two high schools?” she said. Vice Mayor Justin Wilson said he was hesitant to allo- 4109 Fort Worth Place - Under Contract cate so much money to something uncertain. “We’re going to be asked to approve a budget and later appropriate a CIP,” Wilson SEMINARY ROAD There are a lot of said. “When are we going to 504 Allison Street - Under Contract things that would be at a place where we close on some of those decisions be wonderful, but “ Ana and Melissa have the intellect and dynamic and at least understand what personalities to make your real estate transaction look how long it we’re spending $124 million not only successful but actually enjoyable. ” – D.M. took to put a new on?” 504 Allison Street - Under Contract Berlin said she hoped the school in the West Ana and Melissa have the intellect and dynamic board would have enough “ personalities to make your real estate transaction End. If we’re not information and community not only successful but actually enjoyable. ” – D.M. talking about land input to make a definitive ANA & MELISSA acquisition now, decision on a high school by RIVERWOOD HUNTINGTON then when? It’s the end of this year. Ana Rivas Beck, Esq Another topic of discus- Melissa Schultz time to take this sion was a request to allocate ANA & MELISSA Ana - 703.772.3526 seriously. We have $30 million of the immediate Melissa - 703.407.5847 to start looking at FY 2019 budget to property Ana Rivas Beck, Esq [email protected] [email protected] repurposing land acquisition. Melissa Schultz www.anaandmelissa.com www.anaandmelissa.com Berlin said having the theAna ANAPower - 703.772.3526 & MELISSA of Two and buildings.” funds readily available was MelissaAna RIvas - 703.407.5847 Beck, Esq –Ronnie Campbell, important so that the board Melissa Schultz [email protected] school board member could act as quickly as possi- Ana - 703.772.3526 www.anaandmelissa.com ble when acquisition oppor- Melissa - 703.407.5847 16 |FEBRUARY 1, 2018 ALEXANDRIA TIMES City-schools task force makes recommendations

Greater cooperation down silos between various urged after months-long City council is deprived of the departments and organiza- look at capital budgets tions. BY ALEXA EPITROPOULOS ability to consider truly integrated “We’re a living organ- priorities across all of the capital ism here in Alexandria. Members of the joint Our DNA will always be our city-schools facility invest- needs that need to be met by DNA. With the needs and ment task force presented limited tax dollars. The lack of requirements put before us, their recommendations to the way we express DNA is city council and the school jointness has led to suboptimal going to evolve … As a city, board Tuesday night, one use of resources in the city.” as a whole, the citizens are day after School Board Chair one big family, but we’re a Ramee Gentry had present- – Eric Wagner, family that has competing ed the schools’ current 10- needs,” Denton said. member, joint city-schools year Capital Improvement Fellow co-chair Dave facility task force Program request to council. Millard said staff members The task force was cre- should be empowered to ated early in 2017 after sev- think outside of the box. He eral acrimonious meetings on establishing a capability by creating the afore-men- that the capital budget is suggested creating an award where advocates for Alexan- development model. Branch tioned capability delivery worked on well in advance of for an employee who active- dria City Public Schools be- said that would allow city model and capital allocation the operating budget. Wag- ly works to create alterna- rated members of city coun- planners to consider all op- process. ner said his employer, Med- tive solutions for facility cil for not fully funding the tions, including innovative “The group’s job will be Star, did a similar change in needs. needs of schools, both in the solutions. to evaluate and implement approach. “Risk-taking should be capital and operating bud- “Demand management capabilities … and to reach “This way, the capital rewarded, not stymied,” gets. The standoff occurred asks the question ‘How do consensus about what proj- budget gets taken to its al- Millard said. after then-Superintendent we express that capability?’ ects are going to move for- most complete stage well Denton and Millard also Dr. Alvin Crawley and the Is this something I need to ward, what projects will before the operating bud- said the city and the schools school board increased the build, partner with anoth- be left behind … so that by get is under development. haven’t utilized all the op- schools’ CIP budget request er jurisdiction for, is this the time the capital budget It is sitting on a shelf ready portunities presented by by 40 percent within a few- something I can buy, can I comes in front of the city to merge with an operating the private sector. They rec- month span. partner with a private orga- for approval and subsequent budget for final consider- ommended using the Alex- The task force was nization? How do we fulfill implementation there will ation,” Wagner said. andria Economic Develop- charged with finding ways it?” Branch said at the meet- be achieved a consensus Another suggestion ment Partnership to access to improve processes and ing. across the two branches of brought up by Wagner was more funding streams. The examining ways for great- Eric Wagner, another government,” Wagner said. eliminating the practice of two also said capital proj- er cooperation between the member of the task force, Branch, further, said putting projects firmly in ects need to find “champi- city and schools for on-go- talked about the need to there’s a need for a facilities certain out years. The task ons” that can help get them ing maintenance and CIP create unity between the master plan that would pro- force, instead, recommends through each hurdle. projects. city and ACPS. Wagner said vide a comprehensive view creating a “bucket” for cer- “Come up with champi- At Tuesday’s meeting, the implications of the dis- of the city’s needs and what tain projects that are far ons who don’t do the bare task force members said jointedness in the compet- resources the city has, in- out. minimum, who carry the unifying bodies and plans ing capital budgets were bad cluding, Branch added, the “Within three years of water when things get diffi- were needed between the for the city. scarcest resource of all: real a capital project, there’s a cult or when they run into a city and schools budgets. “City council is deprived estate. fair degree of uncertainty,” brick wall. They’re the Navy The task force members of the ability to consid- “We are a city that’s 15.5 Wagner said. “Three years SEALs,” Denton said. specifically recommended a er truly integrated priori- square miles. We can pretty out from a capital project, Task force member Amy shift in focus from projects ties across all of the capital much tell you what leeway our crystal balls just weren’t Liu, who chaired the com- to necessary capabilities, needs that need to be met by we have to build, what pop- sharp enough to know what mittee on maintenance and the formation of a joint cap- limited tax dollars,” Wagner ulation density we can ab- was going to happen. This operations, emphasized the ital management council, said. “The lack of jointness sorb. There’s no reason we takes away the artificial need for keeping up main- the creation of a long-term has led to suboptimal use of can’t establish a working set specificity.” tenance on fast-aging facil- joint facilities master plan resources in the city.” of assumptions on how the Dwight Denton, who co- ities and also discussed the and the decoupling of the Wagner said the desired city will develop over the chaired the task force’s al- importance of sharing data capital and operating bud- unity could be achieved by next 10 to 15 years,” Branch ternative delivery methods between the city and the gets. creating a joint capital man- said. “It will give us a point subcommittee, recommend- schools when it comes to fa- Task force member El- agement council that con- of departure.” ed leadership challenge the cility maintenance. liot Branch said the school siders how the needs of the Wagner suggested alter- ways things have tradi- and the city should focus city and the school intersect ing the budget calendar so tionally been done and tear SEE TASK FORCE | 29 WWW.ALEXTIMES.COM FEBRUARY 1, 2018 | 17

FLU FROM | 1 in school. prescribed an antiviral to Lloyd said three elemen- help reduce the duration of monitors nationwide Influ- tary schools have had par- illness and severity. enza Like Illness activity. ticularly high absenteeism. Chommanard encour- The national ILI baseline is “We have sent letters aged people who experience 2.2 percent of people seeking out about the flu to Patrick a relapse and people with se- medical treatment. Chom- Henry, [James K.] Polk and vere symptoms to seek med- manard said this percentage George Mason elementary ical attention; however, she increases every flu season, schools saying wash your said most people recover on beginning around October, hands, stay at home if you’re their own between five to 10 peaking around January or sick, don’t come to school,” days. February and lasting as late Lloyd said. People with the flu should as May. Brown said people of stay home for 24 hours after Last week, the CDC re- certain age groups and their fever has gone away ported that nationwide, 6.6 with preexisting conditions without the help of fever re- FILE PHOTO percent of people seeking Chommanard encourages people with severe symptons to seek should take extra precau- ducing medication. medical care had Influen- medical attention; however, she said, most people recover on their tions if they start feeling ill. Brown said people of- za Like Illness. Statewide in own after five to 10 days. “The important things ten ask at what point they Virginia, the proportion is about the flu are that people should seek medical help. 6.1 percent. Despite the influx of pa- throughout the city. That at the extremes of age – the “I think that it is not un- As of last week, the tients, Brown said both the being said, urgent care and very young, the very old and usual for somebody who has Northern Virginia region is hospital and ED have open emergency facilities, includ- pregnant women, all have a fever or [who] feels bad to above the national and state beds available, other than ing CVS Minute Clinic, are different immune systems go to urgent care or to their average at 8 percent, Chom- brief surge times when they still able to vaccinate. and they’re at more risk for primary doctor to check and manard said. She said public hit capacity. He said the only Helen Lloyd, director of more serious disease,” he see if they would benefit health specialists track data visitation restrictions were communications for Alexan- said. “People at the extremes from any additional thera- regionally since residents for the Neonatal Intensive dria City Public Schools, said of age, pregnant women and py,” Brown said. in the area often work, visit Care Unit. there has been high absen- people with lots of co-mor- For more information and seek healthcare in dif- Freddi Brubaker, teeism in the division since bidities, you should be care- about the flu and measures ferent cities and counties MSN, senior director of Jan. 19 that may be due to ful with the flu.” you can take to protect your- throughout the region. emergency services at Ino- the flu. She said it was hard Chommanard said these self and your loved ones, “Because we look at va Alexandria, said hospital to determine how many cas- high-risk groups should go please visit the Virginia De- Northern Virginia as a staff was taking its usual es of the flu there have been, to a doctor right away af- partment of Health’s website whole, we can’t particularly precautions to help prevent since absence reports might ter symptoms start to see (www.vdh.virginia.gov). say that Alexandria’s being the spread of the disease. not specify why a child isn’t whether they needed to be - [email protected] hit harder,” Chommanard “I think everyone’s just said. “Our communities are being more vigilant as far very fluid, so overall, North- as, well we have very good REBUILD. ern Virginia has seen more hand hygiene rates, just REVITALIZE. Influenza Like Illness than reminding people to wash the rest of the state.” their hands, clean areas, According to the CDC, wear a mask if possible, put ILI has been at or above the a mask on the patient, en- national baseline for eight courage the patient to wash weeks so far this season. their hands … We’re doing Give hope to those in need! Join us on National Rebuilding Over the past five flu sea- things like that,” Brubaker Day, April 28th, and make a tremendous difference for our sons, ILI has remained at or said. neighbors. Since 1986, teams from all over the region have above baseline for 16 weeks Chommanard said the come together to help those in need repair and rebuild their on average. public should take precau- homes—all at no cost! Help us “The CDC is predicting tions such as washing hands serve seniors, veterans, those with disabilities, and families Visit or call to join us! that it’s peaking now, but and coughing into a sleeve. RebuildingTogetherAlex.org with children! we haven’t seen a drop off She also said it was not too 703.836.1021 as yet,” said Dr. Martin H. late to get the flu vaccina- Brown, chair of the Depart- tion at a health care provid- Proudly Supported By ment of Emergency Medi- er, urgent care center or lo- cine at Inova Alexandria. cal pharmacy. Brown said in the past In Alexandria, several week, the number of people pharmacies have run out coming to Inova’s Emergen- of the flu vaccine and are cy Department for Influenza unable to restock due to Like Illness has been around shortages. This includes the 703.370.3737 20 to 30 a day, and the num- Walgreens on King Street bers are continuing to rise. and most CVS pharmacies www.RebuildingTogetherAlex.org 703.836.1021 18 |FEBRUARY 1, 2018 ALEXANDRIA TIMES SPORTS Alexandria sports roundup The Alexandria Times sports roundup includes records and game results for the prior week in two sports per season for Alexandria’s four local high schools: Bishop Ireton, Episcopal, St. Stephens and St. Agnes School and T.C. Williams High School. Boys’ basketball School Record Bishop Ireton 7-13 Episcopal 13-5 SSSAS 11-6 T.C. Williams 3-12 Scores this week: Washington Jan. 24 TC L 66-49 @ Mount BI L 66-47 vs. Bishop Vernon excavation Since excavations began, archaeologists have O’Connell Jan. 28 uncovered quite the treasure trove at 123 S. Pitt Jan. 26 BI L 74-62 @ Paul VI St. The find of a Civil War New York Regimen- tal button and three fire pits gives evidence BI L 69-49 vs. Jan. 30 that the portion South Pitt Street between Gonzaga King Street and Prince Street was occupied by SSSAS L 73-69 @ SSSAS W 64-53 vs. Union soldiers early in the Civil War. On Jan. Bullis 25, Mount Vernon's fifer, Don Fransisco, visited Episcopal TC L 71-62 @ Edison the Washington house to play a happy tune and blessing for the excavation of the wells. Girls’ basketball PHOTOS/RICK GARCIA School Record SCHOOLS FROM | 15 we collectively plan how we Death Valley, we have these Bishop Ireton 15-3 acquire land and then obvi- fields here, here and here, “land acquisition” so as not ously what we do with that but what price do we put on Episcopal 9-8 to discount creative repur- land.” them? How sacred are they posing projects like the new Councilor John Chapman to what we have to do? … SSSAS 4-9 West End school. acknowledged the urgency in Instead of waiting two or T.C. Williams 15-4 Wilson suggested that a lot of the budget proposals. three years to work out all instead of approving the “This is no longer some- the kinks when we have land schools’ request of $30 mil- thing we can kick down the right there.” Scores this week: lion, the city and schools road,” he said. “Let’s put some of these Jan. 25 Jan. 30 should work together on ac- Regarding capacity is- aggressive solutions on the BI W 52-31 vs. TAHC BI W 67-53 vs. St. quisitions. sues, Chapman suggested table about what we can han- “I think it would be a bad that the city should look dle, and what we can do,” Episcopal L 52-38 @ Mary’s Ryken thing if we simply take a pot at short-term, temporary, he said. “I don’t see why we CSHC Episcopal L 65-46 @ of money for land acquisi- emergency solutions like re- wouldn’t.” tion, we split it up and say purposing open space and The full budget details Flint Hill Jan. 26 this is the school’s pot of recreational fields. and presentation from the TC L 55-52 @ Edison money for land acquisition, “I think there’s some real meeting are available on the TC W 53-26 vs. this is the city’s pot of money internal-looking conver- ACPS website on the school Mount Vernon for land acquisition,” he said. sations that we can have,” board’s meeting page. “I think the idea is … that Chapman said. “We have - [email protected] WWW.ALEXTIMES.COM FEBRUARY 1, 2018 | 19 Times Living PETS

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When the “Women’s Voic- Run dates: Through Feb. 18 es Theater Festival” opened in Where: Signature Theatre early January, I found myself (Shirlington Village), 4200 explaining its purpose. Some Campbell Ave., Arlington, Virginia 22206. thought the productions focused solely on women’s is- For tickets and information: sues. They don’t. It’s merely a For tickets and information call 703 820-9771 or visit singular opportunity to focus www.sigtheatre.org. on plays written by women. And of the ones I’ve seen and Women’s Voices Theater Festival: www. reviewed, they approach a di- womensvoicestheaterfestival. versity of subjects. So, jump org. right in. The festival continues through March 14 in D.C. Luke Harrison (Rex Metro area theaters. Daugherty, who doubles as In Annalisa Dias’ pow- the Colonel), a young Ameri- erful play “4,380 Nights,” can soldier, guards Malik. He Malik Djamal Ahmad Essaid is captive on the island too (Ahmad Kamal in a riveting and descends into a kind of performance as both Malik sadistic madness. Think Abu and El Hadj El Kaim) is being Ghraib and you have some held in the Guantanamo Bay idea of the barbaric abuse PHOTO/CHRISTOPHER MUELLER Detention Center accused of Malik Djamal Ahmad Essaid, played by Ahmad Kamal, in his Guantanamo Bay Detention Center cell. he metes out to his prisoner. being an Al Qaeda recruiter The play is written by Annalisa Dias as part of an installment of the "Women's Voices Theater Festival," When Abramson, who goes by and radical Islamist. His rights which continues through March 14 in D.C metro area theatres. the book, visits Malik he tells stripped from him without him his detainment is awash charge, he lives in chains and The story is told to The and Berbers. The Man be- end, a centuries-old conflict in “papers, petitions, orders, solitary confinement with Man by a sylph-like narrator, seeches The Woman to tell of “the water, the earth, the reviews and broken interna- visits from Bud Abramson The Woman – played by Ly- him how the story ends, but sand?” Whether tional laws.” (Michael John Casey, who lat- nette Rathnam in a sinuous- she puts him off, insisting he for reasons of trade Dias’ play is er appears as The Man), a de- ly exotic performance. She hear the whole history, start- or expansionism, filled with expert- fense attorney appointed by speaks in lyrical prose echo- ing with Cato’s words from it has long been ly crafted dialogue the U. S. government. Malik ing the history of the Car- ancient times. No matter dominated by rac- that speaks to the languishes in prison for twelve thaginians, the French and which side of the argument ism, ignorance and deeply rooted, years without trial while his much later the Americans in you are on, we are left won- fear. “It’s not the tangled web of An- family awaits him in France. their wars against the Arabs dering the same. Does it ever first time you’ve glo Arab relations kidnapped Afri- and their effect cans and enslaved on global stability. them,” Malik re- ANNALISA DIAS Her indelible char- minds his captors. acters, molded in As the story toggles from the shifting sands of time, af- ancient times to the present, ford clarity and perspective to Fairlington United Methodist ChUrCh we meet El Kaim, a guide and the issues facing our nations 3900 King street, alexandria, Va • www.FairlingtonUMC.org translator for Colonel Aimable today. Pelissier. El Kaim fought on Highly recommended. Invites You to Join Us the French side, betraying his own people in the Algerian Jordan Wright writes about for Reconciling Ministry Sunday! Wars, and Malik feels certain, food, spirits, travel, theatre sUndaY, FeBrUarY 4, 2018 - at 9:30 a.M. and 11:00a.M. if he is ever released to his and culture. Visit her web- Celebrating Five Years as a Reconciling Congregation homeland, he will be impris- site at www.whiskandquill. oned by his own government. com or email her at Jordan@ Welcoming Everyone – No Exceptions! Ah, the sins of the fathers. WhiskandQuill.com WWW.ALEXTIMES.COM FEBRUARY 1, 2018 | 21

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Place arrows indicat- away the clutter before hav- breakage if you pack items ing the top of boxes, writing ing moving companies come yourself,” Michael says. “An “this side up” on parcels with to give bids on a residential easy way to begin the pack- contents you don’t want up- relocation. ing process is to start with ended. “You don’t want to move nonessential items, such as Some of the most import- things that you’re never holiday decorations, unused ant moving parts of a move going to use in your new toys and the linen closet.” have nothing to do with load- house,” he says. “If possi- Keep like items togeth- ing the physical contents of ble, know the layout of the er, and pack books in small- a home. Three weeks before new home and begin to de- er boxes so they are easier the move, arrange to have cide placement of household to lift. Mark the outside of utilities (gas, electric, phone, items you want to bring from every box with its contents cable and water) disconnect- your current residence.” and into which room the box ed in your present home and After purging unwanted needs to be placed inside the connected at your new home. items, it’s then time to pack new home. If possible, have If planning an interstate as you proceed to your new a blueprint of the new home move, have your vehicle home. If you’re going to pack and assign each room a num- serviced, and ready the car yourself, begin the process at ber. Write the correspond- registration and insurance least one month before the ing number of the room on move and have on-hand the the outside of each box, so SEE MOVING | 25 24 |FEBRUARY 1, 2018 ALEXANDRIA TIMES CALENDAR OPEN LIFE DRAWING Committee. Admission is $5 per Location: Los Tios, 2615 Mount rowing as a full discipline within the FEBRUARY 2 SESSIONS Looking for a chance to child, with the maximum of $20 per Vernon Ave. sport of rowing. The championships hone your figure drawing skills? Del family. Information: www.allisonsilberberg. in Alexandria will combine Erg FAMILY SPLASH NIGHT Join Ray Artisans offers a range of open Time: 10:30 to 11:45 p.m. com Sprints and World Rowing Indoor your friends for Family Splash Night life drawing sessions for just this Location: Lloyd House, 220 N. Championship events, which are featuring William Ramsay Elementary purpose. Drop in for the session and Washington St. APOTHECARY GEEK TOUR: A expected to attract more than 2500 School. Enjoy swimming for all bring your supplies to draw or paint Information: https://shop. MAGICAL APOTHECARY Learn competitors. ages, music, beach ball and aqua Del Ray Artisans’ live models. The fee alexandriava.gov about the real world botanical Time: All-day events basketball, as well as a floating for the class ranges from $8 to $12 science that inspired the potions Location: T.C. Williams High School, obstacle course. Pool safety tips and all skill levels are welcome. DIGNITY AND DEFIANCE: and herbology of J.K. Rowling’s Harry 3330 King St. and swimming skill assessments Time: 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. MARY CHURCH TERRELL Potter series, and make your own Information: http://www.ergsprints. are offered for youth and adults. Location: Del Ray Artisans, 2704 Mt. Raised in privilege but degraded magical sleeping potion. This tour is com/ On-site registration is available. Vernon Ave. by persistent racial prejudice, Mary recommended for ages 8 and older. Light refreshments will be served. Information: 703-836-1468 Church Terrell fought for the basic Admission is $15 per person and can Admission is $4 per person. human right to be treated equally. be purchased at www.alexandriava. FEBRUARY 18 Time: 6 to 9 p.m. Born the year of the Emancipation gov/shop Location: Chinquapin Park Recreation FEBRUARY 9 Proclamation, she made it her life’s Time: 11 a.m. to noon; Arrive between REVOLUTIONARY WAR DAY Center & Aquatics Facility, 3210 King mission to fight for justice. She, 10:45 to 11 a.m. Learn about the army life and fighting St. BLESSED SACRAMENT along with her husband, became Location: Stabler-Leadbeater tactics of the Revolutionary War Information: 703-746-5553 FESTIVAL CHOIR champions of this cause. Along the Apothecary Museum, 105 to 107 soldiers in this annual Fort Ward PERFORMANCE The Blessed way, their house became a beacon Fairfax St. Park event, which is presented in FIRST FRIDAY: CHINESE NEW Sacrament Festival Choir and for change. Today, her former home Information: 703-746-3852 conjunction with Alexandria’s George YEAR CELEBRATION This evening Orchestra will perform works by on 326 T Street is a dilapidated Washington Birthday weekend. will include the Fairfax Chinese Dance Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and frame in LeDroit Park. Its current FACETIME WITH HISTORY Dr. The program features a colonial Troupe, who will perform several Johann Sebastian Bach, including state threatens to erase a landmark Samuel Domjen, natural philosopher, encampment and a tactical skirmish that deserves to be preserved for traditional Chinese Folk Dances Bach’s Ascension Oratorio and delivers a science lecture at this between British and Colonial troops a woman whose efforts continue accompanied by Alice Guzheng Mozart’s Dixit et Magnificat, monthly event. This event is held at 2 p.m. to impact this city. Learn more Ensemble, a performance of a KV 193. Featured soloists are Time: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. about this fascinating woman by at Gadsby’s Tavern Museum on the traditional instrument called hulusi Michellle Kunz and Joshua Hong, Location: Fort Ward Museum & screening the new documentary with second Sunday of every month. and a performance from a vocalist. Washington National Opera and Time: 1 to 4 p.m. Historic Site, 4301 W. Braddock Road Robin Hamilton, an Emmy-award Information: 703-746-4848 A Chinese kung fu demonstration Sally Mouzon and Philip Pickens, winning journalist, television host, Location: Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, and interactive art led by the city’s San Francisco Opera. John moderator and writer. This event 134 N. Royal St. Mobile Art Lab will cap off the night. McCrary is the conductor for this Information: https://www. is co-sponsored by Port of Harlem FEBRUARY 19 The “meet and greet” begins at 6 p.m. performance. There’s no admission Magazine. Admission to the event alexandriava.gov/GadsbysTavern and the Office of the Arts will serve for the performance, but a free will is $10. light refreshments. Festivities begin offering will be located at door. A CHOCOLATE AND WINE BAND CONCERT Come enjoy a Time: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. free one-hour concert by the parade at 6:30 p.m. reception will take place during the Location: Alexandria Black History TASTING Join the Italian Place for a Time: 6 to 10 p.m. intermission. complimentary wine and chocolate marching band units in honor of the Museum, 902 Wythe St. General and Lady Washington at Location: Dr. Oswald Durant Time: 7:30 p.m. Information tasting before Valentine’s Day. Sarah : https://shop. Market Square. Memorial Center, 1605 Cameron St. Location: Blessed Sacrament alexandriava.gov Dwyer from Chouquette in Maryland Information: 703-746-5565; www. Church, 1427 West Braddock Road will offer a variety of chocolate Time: 11 a.m. to noon alexandriava.gov/arts Information: 703-998-6100 samples. Taste some Italian prosecco, Location: Market Square, 301 King FEBRUARY 10 & 11 chianti and other Italian varietals from St. FRIDAY EVENING CHAMBER the Italian Place’s wine boutique. Information: www. FEBRUARY 3 CONCERT SERIES The Symphony ALEXANDRIA SYMPHONY Time: 1 to 3 p.m. washingtonbirthday.com Orchestra of Northern Virginia in ORCHESTRA PRESENTS: Location: The Italian Place, 621 LECTURE: HARRIET JACOBS collaboration with the Office of DEBUSSY & SIBELIUS Enjoy Wythe St. GEORGE WASHINGTON DAY AND JULIA WILBUR Local writer, the Arts offers a Friday Evening a world tour exploring themes of Information: 571-777-8981 PARADE The annual George editor and author Paula Whitacre Chamber Concert Series at the nationalism, led by Maestro José-Luis Washington Birthday Parade is held will deliver a lecture on Civil War aid Durant Arts Center. Concerts begin Novo. A delicate collection of French on the third Monday in February, worker Harriet Ann Jacobs. Jacobs, at 7:30 p.m. Treat yourself to some dances originally written for two FEBRUARY 17 winding through a one-mile route who lived in Alexandria during of the best chamber music the pianos, the ASO presents Debussy’s along the historic streets of Old Town the Civil War, wrote about her war region has to offer, at an affordable Petite Suite. Dropping by Italy for a BIRTHNIGHT BANQUET AND on President’s Day. It is the oldest experiences working with Alexandria’s price, in a convenient location. This little opera, Maestro Novo will conduct BALL Set in year 1799, you are and largest, featuring thousands of contraband population. Jacobs was performance will feature violin duets the Overture to Verdi’s epic Nabucco. invited to the recreation of the famous participants. Watch the decades- an African-American writer who was with the Symphony Orchestra of Commissioned by Polish radio and celebration of George Washington’s old tradition, which includes later freed, after which she became Northern Virginia, who will play music complete with a polka movement, the birthday. The evening includes representatives from the American an abolitionist speaker and reformer. from Bach, Handle, Clarke, Mozart, program continues with Lutosławski’s an 18th-century banquet, English Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, She wrote the autobiographical novel and Vivaldi. Admission for this event Mała Suita. Admittedly a “confession country dancing, a dessert collation, the Disabled American Veterans, the “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.” costs $15 and children 5 years or of the soul” and written on the heels character reenactors and General Masonic Fraternity, the Alexandria Time: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. younger are free. of his acclaimed Finlandia, the and Mrs. George Washington. Period Chamber of Commerce, the Location: Alexandria Black History Time: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. concert ends with Sibelius’ Symphony costume is optional, but “after five” Alexandria Jaycees, the Federation of Museum, 902 Wythe St. Location: Oswald Durant Memorial No. 2, proclaiming the grandeur of attire is encouraged. Tickets begin at Civic Association, the Gadsby’s Tavern Information: 703-746-4356 Center, 1605 Cameron St. his homeland and the struggle for $125 and go up to $250, depending Museum Society, the Daughters of Information: http://alexandriava. Finland’s independence. on your desired proximity to the the American Revolution and more. JOHN CARLYLE BIRTHDAY gov/arts Time: 8 p.m. Washingtons. This year, first responders to the June CELEBRATION Celebrate Location: Rachel M. Schlesinger Time: 5:30 to 11 p.m. 2017 shooting at Eugene Simpson Alexandria town founder John Concert Hall and Arts Center, 4915 E. Location: Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, Stadium Park will serve as the Carlyle’s birthday at the Carlyle FEBRUARY 10 Campus Drive 134 N. Royal St. parade’s grand marshals. House. Festivities include 18th- Information: http://www.alexsym.org Information: https://shop. Time: 1 to 3 p.m. century dancing, live music and a INTRODUCTION TO FRENCH alexandriava.gov/events.aspx Location: Old Town birthday treat. This is a free event. CULTURE FOR KIDS Celebrate Information: www. Time: Noon to 4 p.m. the French Winter Holidays avec FEBRUARY 11 washingtonbirthday.net; 703-829- Location: Carlyle House, 121 N. Lloyd House. Children aged 6 to 12 FEBRUARY 17 & 18 6640 Fairfax St. will learn about French customs in REELECTION KICKOFF Join Information: https://www.novaparks. the cold winter months, including Mayor Allison Silberberg and other WORLD ROWING INDOOR GEORGE WASHINGTON com/parks/carlyle-house-historic- Epiphany and La Chandeleur. Alexandrians for the launch of her CHAMPIONSHIPS Erg Sprints is PARADE DAY OPEN HOUSES park/events/happy-birthday-john- Cultural topics will include phrases reelection campaign. All are welcome, staging the first ever World Rowing The day of the George Washington carlyle-a-1760s-celebration in the French language, arts, there's no need to RSVP and there Indoor Championships in Alexandria Birthday Parade in Alexandria, food and sports. Attendees will is no charge to attend. This event in partnership with World Rowing, several historic Alexandria sites will taste traditional food and make is hosted by Friends of Allison USRowing, and Concept2. The be hosting special open houses with FEBRUARY 4 crafts. This event is sponsored Silberberg. partnership is in recognition of the by the Alexandria-Caen Sister City Time: 3 to 5 p.m. growth and development of indoor SEE CALENDAR | 25 WWW.ALEXTIMES.COM FEBRUARY 1, 2018 | 25

MOVING FROM | 23 Donate food to local pan- information on the bill of tries or shelters, since food lading or document evi- records for transfer, notify- items cannot be transported dencing the receipt of goods 703-683-1996 ing the State Motor Vehicle in long-distance moves, due for shipment, as issued by Bureau of your new address. to pests. Defrost and dry out the mover. Carefully read Transfer bank accounts and the refrigerator, especially the document before sign- withdraw valuables from if it will be making the trip ing, making sure to keep Heating & Air Conditioning safe-deposit boxes. with you. a copy of it, along with the “Make sure to go through On moving day, make mover’s inventory list, un- Winter Inspections the list of items that movers special accommodations for til your possessions are de- Special cannot pack and transport children and pets, especial- livered and any claims over $ 95 before moving day,” Michael ly since the activity could be potential breakage are set- 69. per system says. “At the top of that list perceived as confusing and tled. • Alexandria, VA residents only are hazardous items that are upsetting. Above all, flexibility is • Cannot be combined with any other considered explosive, flam- “While a move is dis- the name of the game on offers/coupons. mable or corrosive.” ruptive, it’s important to moving day, Michael says. • Ask one of our service representatives Lock valuable documents be on hand to answer ques- “The best piece of ad- how to apply this to an Assured Service Agreement. or sentimental items in the tions and give directions vice I can give those who Some exclusions may apply. trunk of your vehicle, so you to movers, staying until are moving is to get a good • are responsible for the safe they’re finished,” Michael night’s sleep the night be- www.rbincorporated.com transport of non-replaceable says. “Make sure the driver fore,” he says. “It will just items. Also, for long-dis- has directions to your new help you handle an extreme- tance moves, have at least home, and notify the mov- ly stressful day better, and two weeks’ worth of medi- ing company how you can be help you to have a well-rest- Alexandria Times’ cations packed, along with reached during the move.” ed outlook as you begin a medical records. Before leaving, complete new adventure.” Cause of the Month

CALENDAR FROM | 24 stories through The Office of Historic Information: http://torpedofactory. Alexandria’s homeschool series. All org/event/the-late-shift-uncovering- free admission. That list includes classes are designed to engage the the-waterfront Gadsby’s Tavern Museum at 134 entire family, and it’s recommended N. Royal St., the Stabler Leadbeater for first grade and older. Tickets are Apothecary Museum at 105 to 107 $8 per child 5 and older and free for FEBRUARY 24 S. Fairfax St. and the Friendship adults. Preregistration is required, but Firehouse Museum at 107 S. Alfred tickets can be purchased online. GEORGE WASHINGTON Community Lodgings St. The Lyceum at 201 S. Washington Time: 1 to 2:30 p.m. SYMPOSIUM The theme of St. will also be open from 10 a.m. to Location: Friendship Firehouse the 2018 George Washington 5 p.m. Visitors may tour these historic Museum, 107 S. Alfred St. Symposium is “Envisioning a Great invites you to our Information: https://shop. sites for free on this day. Nation: Where George Washington’s alexandriava.gov Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Journeys Took Him.” The George Location: Old Town Washington Symposium is held annually on Washington’s Birthday to Information: https://apps. FEBRUARY 23 alexandriava.gov/Calendar/Detail. provide the public with enlightening 30 Year Anniversary aspx?si=17306 contemporary research on the life of LECTURE: I CANNOT TELL A George Washington. Mark Tabbert, LIE Abigail Adams said truth was the Memorial’s director of collections, WREATH LAYING AT THE TOMB George Washington’s best eulogy. OF THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER serves as the symposium’s master of Professor Peter Henriques examines ceremonies. Admission is free, and Pearl Gala OF THE REVOLUTION Join the a number of various myths that have free parking is available. Attendees Daughters of the American Revolution developed and which keep us from are asked to pre-register. Saturday, February 17, 2018 and the Sons of the American better understanding the remarkable Time: 1 to 4 p.m. Revolution as they host colonial individual who became the first 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Location: George Washington military and civilians to honor the president. Admission is $12 per Masonic National Memorial, 101 soldiers of the Revolution at the Old person or $10 for Gadsby’s Tavern Belle Haven Country Club Callahan Drive Presbyterian Meeting House. Museum Society members. 6023 Fort Hunt Road, Alexandria, VA 22307 Time: 11 a.m. to noon Time: 7:30 to 9 p.m. Information: bit.ly/101Callahan. Location: Old Presbyterian Meeting Location: Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, House, 321 S. Fairfax St. 134 N. Royal St. ANNUAL WASHINGTON Information: http:// Information: https://shop. BIRTHDAY GALA Reception begins Join us as we celebrate 30 years of lifting families washingtonbirthday.com/ alexandriava.gov/events.aspx at 5:30 p.m and entertainment in from homelessness and instability to independence the Memorial Theater begins at 6:45 and self-sufficiency during an evening of: THE LATE SHIFT: UNCOVERING p.m. A banquet in the Memorial’s FEBRUARY 20 THE WATERFRONT Alexandria’s Grand Masonic Hall at 7:30 p.m. will Dinner and Dancing • Live and Silent Auction past comes to life with help from the follow. The presentation of the George CITIZEN FIREFIGHTERS: Alexandria Archaeology Museum. Washington Memorial Award will take Special Awards Presentation • Open Bar HOMESCHOOL PROGRAM Join Artists and innovators team up for place during the banquet. Tickets are the bucket brigade and learn how a night of unearthed secrets, music $150. Dress code is formal (white tie And featuring live entertainment by community volunteers fought fires and trivia celebrating the region’s optional). Reservations are required. in colonial and early 19th-century rich history. This event is presented Time: 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. The Intruders Alexandria. Not only will students in collaboration with the Office of Location: George Washington learn more about Alexandria and Historic Alexandria. Masonic National Memorial, 101 firefighting, but good citizenship and Time: 7 to 11 p.m. Callahan Drive Register online at geni.us/gala, call (703) 549-4407 volunteerism. Learn more about local Location: Torpedo Factory Art Center, Information: gwmemorial.org or call or email [email protected] history and its connection to national 105 N. Union St. 703-683-2007. 26 |FEBRUARY 1, 2018 ALEXANDRIA TIMES Our View Flu is one thing we Opinion “Where the press is free and every man is able to read, all is safe.” shouldn’t share - Thomas Jefferson While Alexandria is known for being a giving community, there are times when we need to not only keep what we have, but go to great lengths to do so. Flu season is such a time. Per our story on page 1, “Flu strikes Alexandria,” even in this worse-than-usual flu season, Northern Virginia is being particularly hard-hit. While the normal baseline for people presenting with Influenza Like Illness at any given time is 2.2 percent of people seeking medical care, nationwide it’s currently 6.6 percent. Statewide 6.1 percent of those seeking medical care have ILI and in Northern Virginia it stands at 8 percent. It’s not clear that this is even the peak. As sick area residents fly all over the world from our three regional airports, we are exporting the strains circulating here, primarily H3N2, and receiving other variations from travelers to our nation’s capital. While free trade of goods is beneficial, it’s all right to be protectionist when it comes to a potentially deadly virus. In this region full of high-powered overachievers, many of us like to view ourselves as indispensible in our jobs. In reality, we are not. And we help no one by “powering through” instead of staying home when we are sick. The stories this flu season are simply worse than most. There’s the cousin who ran a fever for 13 straight days, the Your Views friend whose case went into pneumonia or, tragically, the little boy who died over the weekend in rural Virginia. Flu facts in a nutshell: Stream on Karig property is an RPA – Three schools in Alexandria City Public Schools have To the editor: window sills and seeping into their homes. been particularly hard hit, according to ACPS spokeswoman I listened to the discussion on the Karig The same director of environmental policy Helen Lloyd: Patrick Henry, James K. Polk and George Mason Estate site at the Jan. 20 city council public who serves today responded to their com- elementary schools. hearing. The basic issue was did the ravine plaints by saying the soot was just common – The flu season typically lasts about 16 weeks, and we are on the site plan, often a wet area with an urban dirt. only in week eight. In the last three weeks reported cases of intermittent stream, denote a Riparian Pro- That inspired Poul Hertel and Elizabeth ILI have spiked. tection Area or RPA? If it did, then the plan Chimento to hire an expert on atmospheric – It’s not too late to get a flu shot – provided you can find to build four houses did not offer enough conditions and prevailing wind directions, someplace that still has it in stock. Unfortunately, the vaccine protection. and to take a lump of coal from the power may not protect you fully or from all strains. I thought the case for the RPA was prov- plant’s coal pile and some collected soot – Prescription Tamiflu, an antiviral medication, can help en by an expert’s scientific report submitted from their homes to a lab for chemical anal- shorten the duration of the flu and can help ease the severity to council and the years of observations of ysis. They were the same. of the symptoms, but there are no guarantees – and the med- neighboring homeowners and members of After that, they presented their writ- ication is expensive. Temple Beth El which is another adjoining ten report dealing with the health effects All of us, young and old, healthy or frail, need to take pre- neighbor. Only Mayor Allison Silberberg of fine particles of coal dust at a citizens’ cautions against the flu. If you haven’t received a flu shot and agreed with that position. meeting. I was serving a term as co-chair of are not allergic to eggs (the vaccine contains traces of egg), All six members of council agreed with the Federation of Civic Associations at that consider taking the time to get one. Wash your hands imme- the city’s director of environmental policy time and was asked to chair the meeting. diately after returning home and before eating. If your im- who maintained on very thin evidence that Eventually, after a lot more citizen or- mune system is compromised or you have symptoms and have no RPA existed. ganizing and help from the city, the plant to travel, wear a mask to protect yourself and others. Cough Listening to him caused me to remember was closed. A few years have passed but it into your sleeve to avoid sending your germs into the air. another environmental case, one in which I is all fresh in my mind. I recount it all now But most importantly, if someone in your family is sick, they was very involved – the closure of the power just to remind everyone, including the six should stay home. Parents, please follow the recommended pro- plant in the Northeast Old Town neighbor- council members, that the determinations tocol and don’t send your sick child back to school until they hood. of the director of environmental policy are have been fever free without fever reducers for at least 24 hours. That all started because residents near not always sound. Alexandria is all about giving, but if you’ve got the flu, the obsolete coal fired power plant observed -Katy Cannady, please keep it. the fine particles of soot collecting on their Alexandria WWW.ALEXTIMES.COM FEBRUARY 1, 2018 | 27 Karig proves it’s time to My View | Robert Ray The approach I would bring to council change our zoning code At its Jan. 20 public hearing, decisions The appointed parking task force had made by our city council demonstrate only a couple of members representing To the editor: the need for attributes and values that I residents. The others were working at Except for Mayor Allison would be able provide. Below are several the direction of council/staff or had a Silberberg, the rest of the city ways that I will approach financial interest in this council displayed its predict- issues differently if I am outcome. The selection of able pro-developer disposi- elected to council. these task force members is tion when they voted to allow ... it’s time to One of the items on the not consistent with ethical the wooded, environmentally assess whether public hearing docket was governance or with func- sensitive area known as Karig the parking task force’s tional governance. With no to become four trophy houses. current zoning findings. These findings consideration of the neg- If this happens, then lost for- is serving the have their beginnings ative outcomes, propos- ever is open land in a city that about a year ago when a als were not developed or is becoming denser by the day city we have consultant made a presen- shaped to best fit our city. in every way. and the one we tation to planning staff. On council, as a matter of Unless I missed something, The consultant argued principle, I would review no one — certainly not any want to bequest that cities should disin- appointments with the goal member of our deaf-to-citi- to the future. centivize car use by mak- of ensuring that all the par- zens city council – proposed ing parking less available. ties affected have a place on buying the developer’s pur- The consultant was hired ROBERT RAY the city’s task forces, com- chase contract. Baffling since occupants, that could be per- for a weekend and was paid more than missions and committees. apparently money is not the mitted under current zoning $7,000. The design of the Church of the Res- issue, since during the same regulations. If I had been on council then, I would urrection affordable housing project was proceeding that our city What this suggests is that like to think I would have advised the also on the Jan. 20 docket. The proposal council elected to pave the it’s time to assess whether staff to buy the man’s book instead. For drew many nearby neighbors who shared Karig property, it found funds current zoning is serving the the last decade, the city has continued their concern for the projected spillover to help a land rich, but fi- city we have and the one we to raise taxes while also going deeper in of parking that would result from the nancially beleaguered church want to bequest to the future. debt. The city spends on some things, project. I found it painful that, at the end monetize its property by City council candidates who like that consultant, as if it were the rich- of the day, the now approved findings of building affordable housing. genuinely care about Alexan- est of times. Alexandria pays more than the task force will do away with any fu- Saving Karig also brought dria should support creating a $1 out of every $10 of our yearly tax reve- ture, and likely much needed, appeals to out the By Right advocates. commission to ascertain what nue to service our debt. Within five years council about parking issues. Now almost They made their point: un- realistic options exist to alter it has been projected that more than $1 every proposal will be granted by Plan- less a property is zoned oth- current zoning to foster land out of every $5 of our yearly taxes will ning without case-by-case consideration. erwise, then its owners have conservation. go to pay interest. On council, I will ar- At the public hearing, I was the only the right to develop it. And If none exist, then at least gue that we should spend our tax money one who spoke in opposition to the park- get this: Most of Alexandria a campaign could be created more carefully. ing task force’s findings. Even though I is currently zoned to accom- to contact the owners of what I might have also suggested last year felt that the fix was in, I still spoke out modate single family dwell- little open land exists to assist that the staff read one of many books because I felt, as I do now, that I have a ings. For example, the vast them to be fairly compensat- opposing the consultant’s position, an duty to inform the public. holdings of the Episcopal ed for placing an easement on example being a book documenting the Karig Estates was also on the Jan. 20 Seminary, mostly open land, their property that will keep successful urban planning of Charleston, agenda. Concerns over the ecological im- has been long zoned for single it undeveloped in perpetuity. South Carolina. My studies at the Univer- pacts of development of the Karig Estate family dwellings; potentially Programs already exist for sity of Virginia’s school of architecture wetlands motivated a crowd of informed hundreds of houses. just this purpose. My point: give me a familiarity with architecture people to speak, especially from the lo- I acquired this revelation Without action, the status and city planning that our city council cal civic association and surrounding when, some years ago, I was quo is evermore development dearly needs. properties. Like so often before, council visiting city hall. The city em- and density, which our histo- The approval of these task force find- ignored logical, convincing and moving ployee with whom I spoke also ry shows are preludes to high- ings will change our building codes, arguments from the public and proceed- opined that if all the By Right er property taxes for all. which should only be changed after a ed unmoved with its predetermined vote. owners build on their proper- And, in the meantime, thorough evaluation of the consequenc- Because of my decades spent on civ- ty, then Alexandria will have it’s not too late for the city es. That is not what the task force did; ic association boards, I am very oriented twice as many dwellings as it manager to reach out to the the potential impacts of spillover park- toward the concerns of civic associations has now. The employee was Karig developer to at least ex- ing on residents and on already existing and locally affected groups. I will cast my quick to point out, however, plore the parameters of a deal small businesses were not examined. In- votes on council accordingly. I promise that no one has ever made an where everyone benefits. stead, the Task Force spent a significant that, if as a matter of conscience, I have accounting of the dwelling -Jimm Roberts, amount of time discussing details of how to vote in opposition, I would attend that density, and their prospective Alexandria to present and sell the proposal to the group’s next meeting and explain my public. reasoning. 28 |FEBRUARY 1, 2018 ALEXANDRIA TIMES OUT OF THE ATTIC

Denise Dunbar The President’s Day storm of 1979 Publisher & Editor [email protected] Today, we’ve become through the snow the re- numbed to hyperbole maining block. The patient Jane Hughes about weather events in arrived at Alexandria Hos- Publisher & Sales Director the mid-Atlantic region. pital in satisfactory condi- [email protected] Names like “bomb cy- tion. clone,” “Snowmageddon” The end of the snowfall Patrice V. Culligan and “Storm of the Centu- didn’t mean that Alexan- Publisher Emerita [email protected] ry” roll off the tongue to drian’s worries were over the modern reader as reg- either. Concerns about roof ular events. However, one collapses due to the weight EDITORIAL of the worst snowstorms of the snow meant that em- Alexa Epitropoulos in Alexandria history had ployees at two Federal Gov- Managing Editor & Reporter the modest title of the ernment buildings at Cam- [email protected] President’s Day snowstorm eron Station were sent home Missy Schrott of 1979. Perhaps the fault early two days after the Reporter lies with the storm itself, storm. In the rush to get out [email protected] which defied forecasts that of the storm’s fury, many assumed it would miss the people abandoned their cars ADVERTISING area. in the middle of the road, Jane Hughes Four inches fell on the making efforts to clear the [email protected] evening of Feb. 18, 1979, streets slow and aggravat- which was significant, ing. The city estimated that Marty DeVine [email protected] but nothing to be alarmed it towed more than 150 cars about. The snow stopped in the two days that fol- Deb Riley around midnight, and fore- lowed the storm. [email protected] casters predicted that only Partly due to the feroc- Patrice V. Culligan an inch or two would fall ity of the storm and its af- [email protected] on the 19th. Instead, up to termath, meteorology is Margaret Stevens twenty inches fell the next very different than it was 39 [email protected] day making it the biggest years ago. Weather track- snowstorm in the area since ing is much more sophisti- Tina Gehring the Knickerbocker Storm of cated, and forecasters err Office Manager 1922. on the side of predicting [email protected] The storm had damaging PHOTO/ANN CAMERON SIEGAL. COURTESY OF THE ALEX- more, rather than less se- ANDRIA LIBRARY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. effects beyond the time and verity in their forecasts. GRAPHIC DESIGN effort needed to dig out from the breathing apparatus the his 80-year old building, Perhaps rather than scoff Aleksandra (Sasha) a storm on people’s holiday. firefighters tried to use to but fire wasn’t his preferred at the hyperbole used in Kochurova For instance, a fire swept navigate the smoky houses. method of doing so. storm-naming today, we [email protected] through six townhouses on The blaze was estimated to Elsewhere in the city, the can recognize the role of South Fairfax Street. The cost $300,000. storm stranded an ambu- the plainly named Presi- CONTRIBUTORS snow and freezing tempera- One owner had only lance carrying a cardiac pa- dent’s Day storm of 1979 in tures hampered the efforts bought his townhouse four tient. A second ambulance how we think of weather. Kim Gilliam of the firefighters, as the weeks earlier, and had not sent to rescue the first also Louise Krafft Jeff McQuilkin snow not only slowed the yet moved in. In an inter- became stranded, and hos- Out of the Attic is Laura Sikes trucks’ attempts to reach view, he noted wryly that pital workers were forced provided by the Office of Dr. Vivek Sinha the blaze, but the cold froze he had planned to renovate to carry the patient by foot Historic Alexandria. Jordan Wright

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Office, 1340 Braddock Place, commercial driving experience; knowledge and experience with The Alexandria City School Suite 620, Alexandria, Virginia rough carpentry, painting, simple plumbing and electrical work, SERVICES Board dba Alexandria City Public 22314, Attn: Meloni Hurley, Pro- and basic equipment and facility repairs; a high school diploma DIVORCE–Uncontested, Schools is seeking proposals for curement Manager. The time of (or equivalent); and familiarity with/willingness to learn facilities $395+$86 court cost. No court simple, intuitive, user-friendly, receipt for the mailed or hand-de- management software/tools. This position, which includes bene- appearance. Estimated com- and web-based K-12 Multimedia livered USB shall be determined fits, is available in February 2018. pletion time twenty-one days. Blended Learning Resources. by the time clock stamp in the Additional information may be found here: www.bishopireton. Telephone inquiries welcome-no ACPS seeks resources to sup- Procurement Office. org/page/about/job-opportunities. plement ACPS’ curriculum that obligation. Hilton Oliver, Attor- RFP documents may be obtained Bishop Ireton High School is a Catholic college preparatory foster student engagement, cre- ney. 757-490-0126. Se Habla at the above Procurement Office school in Alexandria, VA, that provides rigorous academic experi- ativity, collaboration, and critical Español. BBB Member. by downloading the RFP from ence and Christian education. thinking. The resources must be the ACPS website at compatible with Chromebooks, Qualified candidates should submit a cover letter with current WANTED TO BUY https://www.acps.k12.va.us/ iPads, and traditional laptops. salary, a resume, and references by email to cindi@munshine- purchasing. Registration on the OR TRADE The resources must be open-end- group.com. Vendor Self Service system at ed across all content-areas; not FREON R12 WANTED: https://acps.munisselfservice. specific subject, grade, assess- CERTIFIED BUYER will PAY com/ is required to submit a ment, or intervention tools. ABC NOTICE CA$H for R12 cylinders or cases response to this RFP. of cans. (312) 291-9169; www. A non-mandatory pre-proposal Meloni Hurley refrigerantfinders.com conference will be held February Procurement Manager 2, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. at ACPS HELP WANTED Central Office located at 1340 Braddock Place, Alexandria, PUBLIC NOTICE EARN $500 A DAY: Lincoln VA 22314. The pre-proposal con- Heritage Life Insurance Wants AT&T proposes to modify an ference will take place in the 6th Insurance Agents * Leads, No existing facility (new tip heights Floor Conference Room 610-2. Cold Calls * Commissions Paid 142’ & 146’) on the building at Daily * Agency Training * Life All questions must be submitted 2500 N Van Dorn St, Alexan- License Required. Call 1-888- via email, with the notation, dria, VA (20180021). Interested 713-6020. “RFP 180102, BL Resources parties may contact Scott Horn Question” on or before 3:00 (856-809-1202) (1012 Industrial CDL TRAINING FOR LO- p.m. on February 15, 2018. If Dr., West Berlin, NJ 08091) with CAL/OTR DRIVERS! $700- necessary, an addendum will be comments regarding potential $1200 a week! 4-wks or 10 issued and posted to the ACPS effects on historic properties. Weekends for CDL. Veterans in Vendor Self Service System. Demand! Richmond/Fredericks- Sealed electronic proposals shall burg 877-CDS-4CDL; be received in ACPS’ Vendor Lynchburg/Roanoke 855-CDS- 4CDL; Front Royal/Winchester 844-CDS-4CDL Earn more with Quality! LEGAL NOTICES 30 YEARS OF SERVICE Looking for CDL A or B drivers to deliver new trucks all over the US and Canada. The Alexandria City School Experience preferred. Must have DOT physical and be Board will hold a public hear- willing to keep logs. No DUIs in last 10 years, clean MVR. ing on the FY 2019 Combined Funds Budget and the West End Apply Online at Elementary School Name Rec- ommendation during the Special www.qualitydriveaway.com Called School Board Meeting or call 574-642-2023 32 |FEBRUARY 1, 2018 ALEXANDRIA TIMES

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