Moving on 'Move Over'

Mount Vernon’s Hometown Newspaper • A Connection Newspaper June 18, 2015 Page 14 Questioning Family Life Curriculum Photos by Photos Topics of gender identity and sexual orientation added. Tim Peterson Tim By Tim Peterson The Gazette he Fairfax County School /The Connection TBoard’s May 7 meeting drew a passionate and boisterous crowd that filled the Luther Jackson Middle School au- ditorium and spilled out into the main lobby. That night the board voted in favor of adding “gender Master Police Officer Joe Moore asks a driver if they know about the identity” to its nondiscrimination “Move Over” law. policy for students, employees and applicants for employment. On June 25, the board may face Moving on ‘Move Over’ a similar scene. It’s scheduled to vote on proposed updates from the Family Life Education Curriculum Citizen Steven Mosley Police crack down, educate about law protecting Advisory Committee, including speaks at the June 11 adding the topics of gender iden- school board meeting in emergency roadside vehicles and drivers. tity and sexual orientation, begin- opposition to proposed ning in seventh grade Family Life By Tim Peterson changes in the Family Life ing or, if there’s no option to move over, “proceed Education, classes out of which The Gazette with due caution and maintain a safe speed for Education and health parents may opt their students. curriculums. highway conditions.” Other advertised changes in- airfax County Master Police Officer Joe The law first went into effect in 2002 and was clude moving a portion of the cur- as new business at the school Moore’s front and rear-mounted radar amended in 2010 with the addition of highway riculum from Family Life Educa- board’s May 21 meeting. At the machines whistle and beep with varying maintenance and roadside assistance vehicles F tion to students’ health courses. June 11 meeting, eight out of the frequency as cars barrel past on Inter- whose amber flashing lights differ from the blue This would be done to comply the 10 citizen speakers and one addi- state 66 around the Fairfax County Parkway. and red of police cruisers. Virginia Board of Education’s re- tional speaker on a prepared video He’s sitting on the right-hand shoulder, parked, Enforcement of the law hasn’t been “prevalent” cently revised health standards of addressed the recommendations. with his cruiser’s emergency lights on. A dozen however, according to 2nd Lt. Jason Long, traffic learning for kindergarten through Each of those speakers opposed yards ahead of him, a Virginia State Trooper has safety section supervisor with the Fairfax County tenth grade. the proposed changes. a vehicle pulled over. A black sport utility vehicle Police. According to Fairfax County “How one identifies should not blasts by in the closest lane going 64 miles per According to the National Highway Traffic Public Schools, the topics that take the place of science and hour. The additional lanes were all clear. Moore Safety Administration, 138 law enforcement of- would no longer be part of Family truth,” said citizen Steven Mosley, guns the Chevrolet Impala and ficers were struck and or killed Life Education (and therefore no- who introduced himself as a flags the driver down. on highways between 2003 longer opt-out) are: “black, ordained, evangelical rev- During his first chat with the and 2013. ❖ Personal development (emo- erend” who works in higher edu- driver, Moore says she claimed “You would think with 13 tions/feelings, self-image, self- cation. “Here’s the truth we need she didn’t know what she did years of a law being on books, concept, personal characteristics, to hang on to: Man cannot deter- was illegal. On his second visit, people would know about it,” skills to work and play successfully mine his gender just like I can’t after running her driver’s li- Long said. “We don’t want that in a community) determine my race. Both these cense and plates, she changes to be the way people become ❖ Healthy relationships (in- things are gifts from God and af- her tune. “Everyone was doing aware of these laws.” cludes conflict resolution skills) firmed by science.” it,” Moore recapped. “Honesty To coincide with Virginia de- ❖ Respecting individual differ- Citizen Mary Beth Style said, is rare,” he added, as he begins claring June “Move Over ences (disabilities, ethnicities, cul- “Fairfax County Public Schools writing her a ticket. Month,” Fairfax County traffic tures) have no expertise to teach lessons Moore was partnered with police and Virginia State Police ❖ Mental health areas such as on the development of the trooper for a multi-hour collaborated on a education depression and suicide transgender identity. shift of “selective enforcement” and enforcement event Friday, The recommendations came up See Curriculums, Page 4 of the “Move Over” law (look- May 29. Teams of police ing for specific violations “but offivers and troopers leap- not turning a blind eye to other frogged across major roadways 6/19/15 Requested in home in Requested things,” he said). including Routes 28, 50, 286 material. Virginia Code 46.2-921.1 re- Master Police Officer Joe (Fairfax County Parkway), 267 Time-sensitive Postmaster: quires drivers to either change Moore watches his radar (Dulles Toll Road) and Attention lanes when approaching an while parked behind a Interstates 66, 495 and 95 for #482 Permit Alexandria, VA Alexandria, emergency vehicle stopped on Virginia State Trooper that several hours in the late morn PAID See Protecting, Page 19 Postage U.S. the highway with lights flash- has pulled over a driver. STD PRSRT www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Mount Vernon Gazette ❖ June 18-24, 2015 ❖ 1 2 ❖ Mount Vernon Gazette ❖ June 18-24, 2015 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Mount Vernon Gazette Editor Steven Mauren News 703-778-9415 or [email protected] Wegmans vice president of media relations Jo Natale displays a large napkin dispenser in the Wegmans director of restaurant operations Joe McCarthy of Fairfax Station, executive chef Market Café area of the new Hilltop Village Kathy Haines talks about the Spicy Tuna Mar- of The Pub at Wegmans in Alexandria, serves Center Wegmans. The dispenser came from tini (left) and Lemon Blueberry Trifle, on offer up Cucumber Roulades: ribbons of cucumber suggestions by store employees, rather than at The Pub. rolled with roasted tomato and feta cheese. management. New Wegmans Opens in Alexandria Nearly 2,000 in line for June 14 opening morning. By Tim Peterson The Gazette t any other Wegmans grocery store in Virginia, Woodbridge Beer Battered Fish & “Chips” at Slow, slow-cooked caramelized Aresident Braden Cheney’s job The Pub in the new Hilltop Village Blackened, spiced mahi mahi white onions blended with ground wouldn’t exist. A 2000 graduate Center Wegmans is a tempura- lives at the heart of the Wegmans turkey keep the Wegmans Pub Gyro of W.T. Woodson High School, Cheney is battered haddock served with Pub restaurant take on Fish Turkey Burger juicy beneath cu- manager of The Pub, a full-service restau- Tuscan herbed fries. Tacos. cumber, tzatziki and fresh parsley. rant and bar operating within the store. It’s a first for any Wegmans outside of media relations Jo Natale, between 1,800 happened to come through her line and duce counter in the store’s midsection. “Ev- Pennsylvania, also the first with its kitchen and 2,000 people were in line at the open- recruited her to the cheese department be- ery Wegmans starts with fresh produce,” in the back of the house. ing. Some of the first customers arrived at cause of her “bubbly personality.” Twenty said Natale. “It really is our crown jewel. “It’s different from a typical restaurant,” 3 a.m. years later, Henley is still with the company And prepared vegetables are big.” Cheney said. “The values — we listen to “The lines went in both directions from and managing Alexandria’s vast cheese Customers at other locations can purchase our employees and empower them to come the front entrance and wrapped around shop. pre-cut and washed produce, saving them up with new ideas, things I might miss.” both sides of the building,” Natale said. “Cheese is so versatile,” she said. “For from some of the more tedious and time- Cheney, who’s spent seven years with Though she wouldn’t release specific fig- appetizers, entrees, there’s so much. Not consuming aspects of cooking at home. See- Wegmans including a role as manager of ures, Natale it was a banner day: “In terms everyone can be experts, so we try to help.” ing this as a growing market, Alexandria the Café in the Woodbridge location, gave of sales, it was our biggest opening day ever, There’s also executive chef Joe McCarthy, devoted more real estate to this effort. the example of the large napkin dispensers breaking the previous record of a Fairfax Station resident, who serves up The Hilltop Village Center Wegmans is found in the dining area. Employees came Northborough, Ma. in October 2011.” Cucumber Roulades in The Pub — ribbons located at 7905 Hilltop Village Center Drive up with the idea, thinking it would be less Spanning 126,000 square feet, the gro- of cucumber rolled with roasted tomato and in Alexandria. wasteful for people to take what they need. cery store is more than just that. With 550 feta cheese — that can be replicated with Normal operating hours after the June 14 The company went for it. employees, it stands as a career launchpad ingredients found in the grocery store. opening will be Monday to Friday, 6 a.m. This new Wegmans in Alexandria opened opportunity for community members join- With the globe-crossing variety of pre- until midnight.

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