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Turning Point Suffragist Answering the Call: Friends of the Great Falls Freedom Memorial president Andy Wil- son asked for a volunteer to lead the assem- Memorial for Women bly in song. Richard Kuntz stepped up and his voice and spirit added to the spirit of the Who Led Fight for Vote Great Falls commemoration of Sept. 11.

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News, Page 5 STD PRSRT Photo by Andrea Worker/The Connection Worker/The by Andrea Photo September 19-25, 2018 online at www.connectionnewspapers.com 2 ❖ Great Falls Connection ❖ September 19-25, 2018 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Connection Editor Kemal Kurspahic News 703-778-9414 or [email protected] Turning Point Suffragist Memorial To Be Built $2 million project to be dedicated on Aug. 26, 2020 at Occoquan Regional Park.

By Steve Hibbard did not feel equal. That’s why this move- The Connection ment got going,” she said. Wirth mentioned the contributions of $2 million National Turning Point Susan B. Anthony, of New York state, who Suffragist Memorial is slated to dedicated her entire life to suffragists. In Abe built in time for dedication on 1851, she marched into a polling place and Aug. 26, 2020 at Occoquan Re- attempted to vote but she was thrown on gional Park near the Occoquan River, said the sidewalk, manhandled and arrested for Patricia Depew Wirth, who is the Executive the crime of voting. “She had a trial, was Director of the Turning Point Suffragist Me- found guilty of voting but never went to morial Association. The memorial planned jail. She was a wonderful woman to be reck- near the Jean R. Packard Events Center is oned with,” she said. intended to honor the 5 million women who Mary Church Terrell, the founding mem- fought for women’s suffrage. ber of NAACP in 1909, was the first African On Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018, Patricia American woman to go to college, Wirth Depew Wirth told 40 members and guests said. Terrell went to Oberlin, was a teacher, of AAUW Springfield-Annandale branch at principal, and member of the Delta Sigma Kings Park Library in Burke that the memo- Theta sorority. rial will contain various elements that all Patricia Depew Wirth, Executive Director of the Turning Point Suffragist Another woman, Carrie Chapman Catt, have a basis in suffragist history. There will Memorial Association, shows plans for the Memorial. was involved in National American Woman be replicas of the White House gates and a Suffrage Association and founder of the wall to honor the women who were jailed League of Women Voters in 1920. She fo- in Occoquan Prison with plaques for each. cused on getting the vote state by state, by It will also contain 19 information stations establishing offices in every state. She came that will tell 72 years of the history of the out with “The Winning Plan” strategy that Suffrage Movement, from 1848 to 1920. involved getting an Amendment to the Con- The memorial will include a bridge to stitution and turned all those state offices “bridge the two centuries” that it took to into the League of Women Voters. get the women’s right to vote. Rotunda pil- Wirth mentioned Alice Paul, the co- lars will represent Democracy. The memo- founder of the National Woman’s Party, a rial will also contain a meditation garden Quaker from New Jersey, who authored the and interactive kiosks. Equal Rights Amendment in 1923. “She So far, Turning Point has received roughly became aware of the Suffragette movement $1 million in-kind and cash donations; in England overseen by Pankhurst family,” Fairfax County donated $200,000 towards she said. Paul marched with them, went to it, but it is still short on needed funding to jail, went on hunger strikes and met Lucy complete the project. Some of The Turning Burns. Point’s strategic partners include: AAUW, Alice Paul, who co-founded the National League of Women Voters, and NOVA Parks, Women’s Party with Lucy Burns, was a bril- which is donating the land and the per- An artist’s rendering of the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. liant strategist who felt we needed an petual maintenance of the facility. Donate amendment to the constitution. at www.suffragistmemorial.org votes all of her time to building the memo- icons Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia “She felt without it, women in the South In addition to the Memorial, they are de- rial, gave a presentation of the movers and Mott, who met in 1840 in London, England, would never get the vote. She knew what veloping a Constitution Trail starting at the shakers in the Women’s Suffrage Movement. to attend an international abolitionist con- she was talking about,” Wirth said. National Archives, going to Mount Vernon, starting with an audio of the Declaration of vention. In 1913, Alice Paul planned the March Gunston Hall, Montpelier and to the Turn- Sentiments — the document that changed “Many early suffragists were abolitionists. down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, ing Point Suffragist Memorial. course of women’s lives in Seneca Falls, N.Y., In that period of time, if you were married, D.C., where between 5,000 and 9,000 people in 1848. It was signed by 68 women and you belonged to your husband. … Women marched in a parade for women’s rights. WIRTH, who worked in the automotive 32 men at the convention. were limited in their ability to get higher service industry for 30 years, and now de- She talked about the contributions of education and get into the professions. They See Historic Fight, Page 15

shall not be denied or abridged by the two-thirds majority in both the Senate Next Step for Equality United States or by any state on account of and the House of Representatives, fol- After the 19th Amendment affirming limit was extended by Congress to June 30, sex. lowed by ratification by three-quarters women’s right to vote was ratified in 1982, but at that deadline, the ERA had Section 2. The Congress shall have the of the states), and 1920, suffragist leader Alice Paul intro- been ratified by only 35 states, three states power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, ❖ the “three-state strategy” (ratifica- duced the ERA in 1923 as the next step short of the 38 required to put it into the the provisions of this article. tion in three more of the 15 state legis- in bringing “equal justice under law” to Constitution. Section 3. This amendment shall take ef- latures that did not ratify the ERA in all citizens. The proposed Equal Rights Now, Virginia could be the last state fect two years after the date of ratification. 1972-82, based on legal analysis that Amendment (ERA) states that the rights needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amend- when three more states vote yes, this guaranteed by the Constitution apply ment, which would pass on the floor of the The ERA has been introduced into every process could withstand legal challenge equally to all persons regardless of their House and the Senate in the session begin- Congress since the deadline, and beginning and accomplish ratification of the ERA). sex. ning Jan. 9, 2019, if opponents don’t pre- in 1994, ERA advocates have been pursu- Virginia could be the third and final state In 1972, the ERA was finally passed vent the vote by tying it up in committee. ing two different routes to ratification: needed to pursue this strategy were the by Congress and sent to the states for The Equal Rights Amendment Verbatim: ❖ the traditional process described in Equal Rights Amendment to pass in the ratification. The original seven-year time Section 1. Equality of rights under the law Article V of the Constitution (passage by a 2019 General Assembly session. www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Great Falls Connection ❖ September 19-25, 2018 ❖ 3 News Respect and Devotion to 9/11 Heroes James Ye, from Boy Scout Troop 55, says he has never played his Great Falls residents violin in such a public forum. If that’s the case, he must have remember the fallen practiced a lot – his renditions of the National Anthem, “America the neighbors. Beautiful,” “Amazing Grace,” and Photos by Andrea Worker/The Connection “God Bless America” were perfect By Andrea Worker A candle held and a bell rung for each of the six Great Falls residents and brought tears to the eyes of The Connection who died on 9/11. several in attendance.

oble men and women of our land have stepped “N forward and offered their lives to defend this treasure. We now show our respect and de- votion to these heroes.” Those were the words of the late Marine Corps Colonel (Retired) Pete Hilgartner. After attending a candlelight 9/11 remem- brance vigil on the Great Falls Green in 2002, Hilgartner felt compelled to ensure that a more fitting and permanent site be constructed. Well-used to taking command, Hilgartner co-founded the Friends of the Great Falls Freedom Memorial and galva- nized a volunteer army to construct the Memorial, dedicated in 2004, behind the Fairfax County Board of Supervi- Great Falls Public Library. sors Chairman Sharon Bulova read This year’s 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony from her personal journal, written was supposed to be held at the Memorial. on 9/11 and the days immediately Inclement weather moved the gathering to after, as part of her keynote re- a meeting room inside the Library and marks at the Remembrance Cer- forced the scheduled Color Guard Detach- emony. Despite the tragedy, Bulova ment, U.S. Marine Corps, to bow out at the stated that “we are stronger than last minute, but did nothing to dampen the Members of Boy Scout Troop 55 were instrumental in the Great Falls 9/11 ever before.” spirit of the event – coming together to re- Remembrance Ceremony, from Presenting the Colors, leading the Pledge member those lost on that tragic day and of Allegiance, Scout James Ye’s violin music, holding the candles to honor Barbara K. Olson joining together to reaffirm “the values that the six Great Falls residents killed in the attack on 9/11, and finally, even Lisa J. Raines make us Americans,” as host Andy Wilson, cleaning up the room and breaking down the setup. After the event, they Diane M. Simmons president of the organization said to the posed with U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock and other officials. George W. Simmons attendees. Volunteerism continued to be on display, seriously injured. SEVENTEEN YEARS AFTER 9/11, the A ROOMFUL OF GREAT FALLS RESI- as Great Falls resident Richard Kuntz an- The events that transpired that day and pain of their loss still remains, but as pain- DENTS were joined by Chairman Sharon swered Wilson’s call for “someone who can in the days beyond inspired Bulova to record ful as the remembrance can be, “We can’t Bulova of the Fairfax County Board of Su- hold a tune and get us started” singing the those events and her thoughts in a journal, lose this memory,” urged Wilson, saying that pervisors, Dranesville District Supervisor National Anthem, and later “Amazing from which she read at the Great Falls Re- the memory of these lost loved ones helps John Foust, U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock, Grace,” “God Bless America,” and “America membrance Ceremony. keep us true to the values that make us and State Del. Kathleen Murphy. the Beautiful.” “On this spectacularly beautiful Septem- Americans – values like “Selflessness,” “Hu- In addition to remembering the fallen Accompanied by Boy Scout James Ye on ber day, the whole world has come to a stop mility,” “Compassion,” “Respect,” “Duty,” military and civilians lost on 9/11, Wilson the violin for all of the musical offerings, – like a blizzard. … During the hours after and the other powerful words that are also asked the community to remember the Kuntz proved that he could do more than the 9-11 attack, I began to hear about losses etched into the stones that form the Great first responders who “charged into danger “hold a tune.” Despite the somber ambience within Fairfax County. All together 184 Falls Freedom Memorial. Gatherings like without hesitation” and who continue to do of the occasion, the audience was moved people were killed at the Pentagon, includ- these, noted Wilson, are needed to main- so today. His tribute to those heroes lead to to applause for both musician and lead ing my good friend Abe Scott’s wife…Six tain the bonds of humanity that form com- a standing ovation for the members of singer after each selection. residents of Great Falls were among the munity. Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Station 12 Keynote speaker Sharon Bulova said that dead. “ Chairman Bulova agreed. who were present at the ceremony. she played no “heroic role” on Sept. 11, To the haunting strains of “Taps,” played “Looking back, [9/11] forged a culture After his opening remarks, and a moving 2001. The Braddock District Supervisor at by 17 year-old Walt Whitman High School in Fairfax County that defines us today. We invocation by John “Sandy” Pidgeon Jr., the time, Bulova, like many Fairfax County student Ben Wolstein, the names of those are a welcoming community, supportive of retired Navy Seal and VP of the Friends of residents, spent many anxious hours wait- six were read out by Calvin Follin, as Pete each other and accepting of our differences. the Great Falls Memorial, local Boy Scout ing for news of loved ones and friends who Hilgartner’s widow, Sara, rang a bell for If there was a silver lining to the devastat- Troop 55 demonstrated true American worked at the Pentagon or in and around each, and members of Troop 55 held flick- ing terrorist attacks of 9/11, this is it: We adaptability, taking over for the Marine the District. She eventually learned that her ering “candles” to honor them. were – and are – stronger than ever before.” Color Guard Detachment, handling the Pre- husband, working at the Department of Lost from the Great Falls community that To learn more about the Friends of the sentation of the Colors duty with admirable Justice, was safe, as was her daughter-in- day were: Great Falls Freedom Memorial or to sup- precision and gravitas and leading the as- law’s father, who experienced the 1st Lt Richard P. Gabriel, USMC, Ret. port their efforts, visit their website at sembly in the Pledge of Allegiance. Pentagon’s attack, but fortunately was not Ann C. Judge www.gffreedom.org.

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Children take a break from pumpkin paint- ing to dance with the blue- grass music of the Andrew Acosta Band.

Photo contributed St. Francis Episcopal Church to Host Fall Fest, Then Blessing of the Animals Say goodbye to summer and hello to fall at the St. This annual event coincides with the Feast of St. Francis Fall Fest, held from 3-7 p.m. on Saturday, Francis, the church’s patron saint. The Fall Fest will Sept. 29. St. Francis Episcopal Church invites every- be followed on Sunday, Sept. 30 at 10 a.m. with the one to an afternoon of bluegrass music, Mookie’s annual Blessing of the Animals, where creatures great BBQ, Great Falls Creamery treats and wine tasting and small (and their owners) receive blessings for by the Wine Outlet. A silent auction of items for all the year ahead. You do not have to be a member of ages will also be featured, as well as kids’ activities. St. Francis to bring your animals to be blessed. In- Tickets for Mookie’s and wine tasting are avail- formation on the Fall Fest and St. Francis Church able for purchase at the door or on the church’s can be found at: stfrancisgreatfalls.org or by calling website (stfrancisgreatfalls.org). Otherwise, festi- the church office at: 703-759-2082. val admission is free. St. Francis is located at 9220 Georgetown Pike, In addition to fun for all, proceeds from the festi- Great Falls, at the intersection of Georgetown Pike val will support the ministries of St. Francis. and Riverbend near Great Falls Park.

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By Marilyn Campbell but do it in a way that you maintain a warm rela- tionship with your child,” she said. “Research shows ne of the most unsettling times in a that authoritarian, that is strict and punitive, and parent-child relationship can be the permissive, having no rules or boundaries, result in Operiod of adolescence when children the most disrespectful and difficult rebellious behav- are growing into adulthood. During iors.” this period say mental health professionals, teens may When adolescents rebel, the way a parent responds exhibit defiance and disrespect while parent might can set the tone for the eventual outcome. “In my experience hurt and question the quality of their opinion, the parent needs to diffuse that moment parenting abilities. with empathy or at least an expression of understand- This period of time in the lives of both parents and ing how it must be for the teen,” said Gulyn. “[For adolescents can be fraught with confusion, pain and example,] ‘I know it’s frustrating trying to keep all disappointment. Understanding the reasons behind those homework assignments straight ...’” the sudden shift is one of the keys to navigating this “I also believe the teen needs feedback that his life change. “One of the most important developmen- rudeness hurts,” continued Gulyn. “[For example,] tal tasks during adolescence is for the child to dis- ‘Wow, that really made me feel bad when you talked cover who they are apart from their parents in prepa- to me that way.’ You are the parent. You need to help ration for eventually living as an adult,” said Melissa your teen develop empathy and understand the con- K. McCeney, Ph.D., professor sequences of their behaviors.” of psychology at Montgomery Encourage children to think College. “They are working to Addressing Rude Teen about the effect their behavior define their own values and might have on others, suggests goals, and part of that process And Tween Behavior Jerome Short, Ph.D, associate involves questioning author- ❖ Model appropriate behavior. If your child professor of psychology at ity.” yells at you and you respond by raising Marymount University. “Parents your own voice, they will seethe at your “It’s a natural part of sepa- hypocrisy. Don’t allow them to tempt you should ask their children, ‘How ration from parents,” added to stoop to their level. would you feel if someone did ❖ Linda Gulyn, Ph.D., professor Choose your battles. If they actually do their that to you?’ or ‘How do you chores, it won’t hurt “not to notice” that of psychology at Marymount they rolled their eyes and grumbled under think that person feels after you University. “In fact most be- their breath while they did them. did that?’, suggests Short. “These ❖ haviors described as rude or Enforce appropriate boundaries. If your questions increase a focus on child is being rude and disrespectful, refuse disrespectful are the teen’s to engage no matter how hard they push. empathy and compassion. Par- way of expressing her desire Say something like, “I’ll be happy to discuss ents should make it clear that to be her own person; not an this with you when you can speak to me they value kindness and respect respectfully,” and then calmly walk away. extension of the parent.” ❖ Say yes when you can. Grant more and want their children to value Understanding what a child independence as your child demonstrates those principles too.” of this age might be feeling that they can be trusted with it. Help them Reinforcement is more effec- to understand that handling conflict and experiencing can make respectfully is a sign of maturity and that tive than punishment, advises parents more empathetic pre- you’ll respond to it as such. McCeney, but she underscores ❖ pare them to help guide their Show them that you still care. Continue to the reality that actions have con- be affectionate toward them and connect children through this develop- with them however you can despite the fact sequences, and sometimes mental period. “Adolescents that they’re not always behaving in the they’re unpleasant. “When pun- also tend to be very idealistic most lovable ways at this time. Often, teens ishment seems appropriate, try to feel lonely and vulnerable under their and absolute in their thinking, prickly exterior. Be generous with hugs, stick with natural consequences which may lead them to be- and remember that this is only a season. It as much as you can,” she said. come critical of parents who will pass. “For example, a teen who is be- can’t possibly live up to unre- ing hateful at the dinner table alistic standards,” said McCeney. “Brain development might need to eat alone. If your child is insulting to during adolescence can make teens less sensitive to you while you drive him to a party, perhaps you how other people are feeling and more sensitive to should turn around and go back home instead.” their own feelings. Consequently, they may behave McCeney advises against consequences without in self-centered and inconsiderate ways without even warning. “If you go the punishment route, though, realizing it.” it’s important to make sure your teen knows in ad- During this period, some parents may question vance exactly what the consequence will be and how their parenting skills or style. “These things will hap- they need to change their behavior in order to avoid pen regardless of parenting style because they’re a it,” she said. “For example, instead of making an normal part of the developmental process,” said unexpected screeching U-turn, say, ‘What you just McCeney “Parenting style could affect how difficult said to me was really rude, and I don’t see why I this transitional period is, though. Children whose should do you a favor if you’re not going to be nice. parents are overly permissive or demand immediate If you speak disrespectfully to me again, we’ll turn compliance with no discussion under threat of pun- around and go home.’ Then follow through as nec- ishment are more likely to become teens who are essary. If you know your kid is likely to act up in a very rude and disrespectful. Parents who have con- particular situation, lay out the rules ahead of time,” sistently had high expectations for their children continued McCeney. “If they tend to be rude to you within the context of a warm and nurturing rela- to show off to their friends, let them know that if it tionship have already laid the groundwork for more happens at tomorrow’s movie night at your house, constructive conflict resolution.” they won’t be able to have company over next week- Gulyn suggests that parents exhibit authority, but end. Then they can make their own informed avoid extremes. “Always set limits and boundaries, choices.” 8 ❖ Great Falls Connection ❖ September 19-25, 2018 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com News Falling for Fall Arts & Crafts Show

Clayton Pelham, Jr. as Saturday 9/22/18 & Sunday 9/23/18 Brad, and Anne Bowles (10am-5pm) (10am-4pm) as Kara in “Hero’s Wel- come” at 1st Stage in 6SULQJÀHOG7RZQ&HQWHU Tysons Corner. LQWKHSDUNLQJORWE\-&3HQQ\ ZZZ7UR\3URPRWLRQVFRP &XVWRPHU6KRZ%XFN Photos by Teresa Castracane/ 'UDZLQJVHYHU\KRXUWREHXVHG Courtesy 1st Stage WRZDUGVSXUFKDVHVDWZLQQHUV IDYRULWHYHQGRUVERRWKVDWWKHVKRZ Finely-honed Dark Tale “Hero’s Welcome” at 1st Stage in Tysons.

By David Siegel The Connection Route 7 Westbound over Sugarland Run heater audiences hun- Bridge Rehabilitation and Widening gry for a compelling, Tdark comic-tragedy Fairfax County having its DC area pre- Design Public Hearing miere need look no further than 1st Stage in Tysons. With a styl- Tuesday, October 23, 2018 ish, well-performed production of 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. British playwright Alan Presentation starts at 7 p.m. Ayckbourn’s “Hero’s Welcome,” 1st Stage continues to present supe- Dranesville Elementary School rior, newish theatrical creation not 1515 Powells Tavern Place previously seen in the area. Ayckbourn’s “Hero’s Welcome” Herndon, VA 20170 is a prickly tale of simmering dis- cord. Who and what can be trusted Find out about plans to rehabilitate and widen the westbound Route 7 are key themes. There is plenty of (Leesburg Pike) bridge over Sugarland Run in order to improve safety, extend the overall life of the bridge and add capacity. The bridge was built in 1947. smug condescension from those who think themselves superior The planned improvements include a new, wider concrete bridge deck and with snippets of comic undertones. widening and repairing the bridge pier and abutments. The project will also Under Alex Levy’s finely-honed extend the acceleration lane from the Fairfax County Parkway (Route 286) on- direction and his inspired diverse ramp to Dranesville Road (Route 228) to improve operations. Other improve- casting, what could have been a ments include guardrail upgrades and new curb and gutter in the area of the tale of nasty, privileged white Brit- bridge. ish citizens becomes enveloping as it careens about. Pursuant with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and 23 CFR 771, “Hero’s Welcome” starts with the a Programmatic Categorical Exclusion (PCE) was prepared under agreement return of local war hero Murray with the Federal Highway Administration. In compliance with the National His- played by Nick DePinto as a man toric Preservation Act, Section 106 and 36 CFR Part 800, information concern- with plenty of secrets to unravel Angeleaza Anderson and Nick DePinto in “Hero’s Wel- ing the potential effects of the proposed improvements on properties listed in about his life. Seems he left town come” at 1st Stage. The show runs through Oct. 7 in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places will be available nearly two decade before under a Tysons Corner. with the PCE. very dark cloud. Murray returns Stop by between 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. to view displays and learn more home with his young foreign-born tormentor-in-chief full of hostility about the project. A presentation will begin at 7 p.m. Project staff will be avail- wife. She is called Baba for short. and contempt. Where and When able to answer your questions. She is with limited English lan- Another couple is composed of 1st Stage presents “Hero’s Welcome” guage skills providing the oppor- Lisa Hodsoll, persuasively playing at 1524 Spring Hill Road, Tysons. Review project information at the VDOT project website Performances through Oct. 7, 2018. (www.virginiadot.org/projects), at the information meeting, or during busi- tunity for others to think her not- Alice, an agonized, glum town Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Friday at 8 bright; something they do at their Mayor with secrets of her own and p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. QHVVKRXUVDW9'27¶V1RUWKHUQ9LUJLQLD'LVWULFW2I¿FHDW$OOLDQFH'ULYH own peril. Baba is portrayed by a James J. Johnson as her timid hus- and Sunday at 2 p.m. Tickets: $39 in Fairfax. Please call ahead at 703-259-2304 or TTY/TDD 711 to ensure charmingly endearing Angeleaza band Derek with model trains as adults, $36 seniors, $15 students and appropriate personnel are available to answer your questions. military. Visit: www.1stStage.org. Or Anderson. Murray and Baba have his diversion from reality. call 703-854-1856. Give your written comments at the meeting, or submit them by November plans to resuscitate a now seedy Each character is visually dis- Note: wheelchair accessible 2, 2018 to Mr. Shahrad Behboodi, P.E., Virginia Department of Transportation, hotel called the Bird of Prey. tinct in attire designed by Danielle 4975 Alliance Drive, Fairfax, VA 22030 or email meetingcomments@VDOT. War hero Murray is the petrol Preston. Kathryn Kawecki’s set is the proceedings. But, under direc- virginia.gov. Please reference “Route 7 Westbound over Sugarland Run Bridge who lights disruptive fires under a handsome; with detailed, dis- tor Levy’s fine touch and the cast’s Rehabilitation and Widening” in the subject line. the assured public façade of his tinct areas depicting various life- acting talents, the play has a re- home town’s upper crust. One styles. flective air that leaves its mark VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and coiled-up couple is portrayed by Ayckbourn penned a play not for with a fiery conclusion. activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Anna Bowles as Kara, a verbally those with little appetite for ver- 1st Stage presents “Hero’s Wel- If you need more information or special assistance for persons with disabilities abused wife living in a decorated bal or emotional assaults about come” at 1524 Spring Hill Road, RUOLPLWHG(QJOLVKSUR¿FLHQF\FRQWDFW6KDKUDG%HKERRGLDW cell of a prison, as she calls her marriage and wartime. “Hero’s Tysons, through Oct. 7, 2018. home. Her abuser husband Brad Welcome” also has some overlong Visit: www.1stStage.org or call State Project: 0007-029-113, P101, UPC: 104556 is played by Clayton Pelham Jr. as scenes that add little but time to 703-854-1856. Federal: STP-PM09 (324) www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Great Falls Connection ❖ September 19-25, 2018 ❖ 9 News Suicide by Officer Prompts Chief To Combat ‘Silent Epidemic’ In 2016, a Virginia Highway Trooper “Consequences of the Badge” relates firsthand battles to let everyone, learned his wife had failed to show up at work. including public safety officers, know that it’s okay to seek help. She was a Fairfax County firefighter. His entire world stopped. A missing persons By Pete Earley report was issued. He’d seen plenty of them but this one was about his wife. They found t takes courage to a suicide note in her abandoned car. He kept speak out. thinking about the Tuesday night before she I The unborn had disappeared. She’d not said a word. baby was dead af- Nothing. No hints, no clues. A short while ter 12 weeks of preg- later, they found her body. nancy. He refuses to say that she “committed The mother stopped suicide” because that implies it was the sleeping, became de- choice of a rational mind. The illness had pressed. taken control. The frantic call came on a Friday. The day after her funeral, he awoke from She had ended her life in the garage of a drunken stupor in the bathroom of his their home. home with his handgun on the floor next Her husband began drinking whiskey as to him. He had wanted to end his life so he the “battle between demons” waged in his could be with her. He began thinking about head. how devastating her death had been to him. One afternoon, he stopped in a church How it would impact others. The illness parking lot and lifted a handgun to his head. hadn’t captured his mind. He sought help. They had two small daughters. A Fairfax firefighter didn’t think anything He put the gun down. “I don’t know what was wrong with him when he joined the stopped me.” First responders are shown telling their stories in department after doing 20 years in the mili- What makes this suicide story unique is “Consequences of the Badge.” tary. that the husband is a Fairfax Police Officer That was before something triggered and so was his wife — the mother who tragi- flashbacks. A special ops mission. He was cally ended her life. During his career, Chief Roessler one of four Americans sent to find a cache The officer is one of several who tell their of arms. A “soft raid” that turned into an individual stories in an extraordinary video has known of at least 16 active and ambush. He shot an enemy combatant point entitled “Consequences of the Badge” that blank in the face. He saw him die. He was Fairfax Police Chief Colonel Edwin C. retired Fairfax police officers who certain he was going to die that night. Roessler Jr. is currently showing during roll ended their own lives. Somehow, he survived – physically. calls throughout Fairfax County. Chief Roessler His PTSD didn’t surface until much later. (In the video, all of the officers identify His wife, a Fairfax police officer, knew when themselves and explain that they are nei- do not want to appear weak. They keep si- stopped both when he felt better. he switched off his phone one day that he ther ashamed nor embarrassed to share lent because they are afraid disclosure could “I treated depression like a cold rather was suicidal. Eighteen hours later, he turned their emotional stories with their fellow cost them their jobs. Yet what they witness than a long term illness,” he said. it back on and agreed to seek help. officers. I have not interviewed them per- at work takes a toll. How could it not? When the officer became despondent, he No one can see horrific acts day-after-day sonally or asked for permission to write In 2017, 103 firefighters and 140 police locked himself in his home’s bathroom with and not be affected about them so I am not using their names.) officers died of suicide nationally, whereas a pistol. Gazing into the mirror, he imag- Only a few days before I had lunch with After the 2015 suicide of the distraught 93 firefighters and 129 officers died that ined himself raising the gun – an image so Chief Roessler, his officers had been called mother/police officer mentioned above, year in the line of duty, which included ev- real that he believed he could feel the gun’s to investigate a murder-suicide in Herndon. Chief Roessler felt compelled to act. He had erything from being fatally shot, stabbed, barrel pressing against his temple. He saw A mother apparently had killed her two to do something to help his officers deal drowning or dying in a car accident while himself pulling the trigger. Luckily, his wife small children before ending her own life. with this preventable tragedy. During his on the job. broke through the locked door and got his Seeing such carnage takes a toll, the chief career he has known of at least 16 active Still, speaking out is difficult. best friend to go with them to a hospital. said. You can’t just keep stuffing such trau- and retired Fairfax County police officers In Chief Roessler’s video, a veteran Ar- He was reluctant to be admitted until he matic scenes into the back of your mind. who ended their own lives. lington Police officer explains that if he were wasn’t given a choice because of how sick Officers are human. They suffer the same Chief Roessler began by talking openly to sitting in the back of a precinct room watch- he was. Still, he was afraid Arlington offi- as everyone else. his officers about his own struggles dealing ing a teary-eyed patrolman recounting how cials would fire him. Instead, everyone from For several decades the Fairfax Police with the horrors of death of both commu- he had nearly killed himself, he would have the police chief down was supportive. He’s Department helped officers through its peer nity members and police officers during his scoffed. still on the force. support program but on May 8, 2006, the decades of service. Those incidents led him That was before he became that officer. department’s leadership realized more was years ago to seek help from a therapist from “It should be okay to not be okay,” TRAGEDY IN FAIRFAX needed. Two Fairfax County Officers, De- the department’s Incident Support Services Roessler told me, explaining that he wants The Fairfax officer says his wife, who tective Vicky Armel and Officer Mike program – which he helped create in 2006 Fairfax officers to know that they do not ended her life, was strong and determined. “Gabby” Garbarino, were ambushed outside – to treat his own PTSD. need to worry about damaging their careers Those qualities and stigma caused her to the Sully District Station and both died from Over lunch at Bagel Buddies in Fair Lakes or losing their jobs in Fairfax if they need not seek help. The loss of their baby sent their wounds. Shopping Center, Chief Roessler told me counseling, attend therapy and/or take her into a “deep chasm.” She believed the On that day, Roessler was the commander there should be no shame in talking openly medication. This is not true in other police only way out was “to jump through a win- of the Department’s Administrative Support about depression, PTSD and other mental departments, he added. That is why the dow, ignoring the door next to her.” Bureau responsible for all casualty assis- illnesses. It is not a mark of weakness. In- Fairfax video is not the only step in She was his soul mate and he felt half of tance programs, including its peer support stead, admitting you need help requires Roessler’s campaign to keep his officers and him had died. Eight months later, in that unit. He and his team realized they were courage and strength. others safe. He plans to talk at an upcom- church parking lot, he pressed a gun against overwhelmed because of the trauma in- “Suicides in law enforcement are a ‘silent ing national law enforcement meeting his temple. It was a turning point that for- flicted upon officers, the survivor families, epidemic.’” about officer suicides. tunately ended with him lowering his county employees, and the community. Because of fear and stigma, many in pub- Initially, the Arlington officer in the video weapon. Roessler and his team reached out to the lic service, especially in law enforcement, sought help when he became deeply de- Going through fire, he said, either makes Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Behavioral are reluctant to admit they are depressed pressed. you stronger or you melt. He came out or have PTSD. They keep silent because they He saw a therapist and took medicine, but stronger. See ‘Silent Epidemic,’ Page 11

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Science Unit at Quantico and the county’s Risk Manager for advice and quickly formed an Incident Support Services (ISS) unit led by two full-time police psychologists and many support personnel. The ISS unit has been so beneficial that it has become a model for other public safety agencies across the nation and it continues to pursue Roessler’s vision to rid the stigma of mental illness in the public safety profession. The chief didn’t stop there. He recently was appointed to the board of directors of the Badge of Life, a not for profit foundation created to educate and train law enforcement officers about men- tal health and suicide prevention. In his sixth year as chief of police, Roessler said he wants to ensure that all of his employees are not afraid to seek help to maintain their mental wellness at all times. Roessler said he knows firsthand how the cumulative exposure to tragedies coupled with all of life’s challenges require “ensuring you treat your brain as a muscle and work it out often with a therapist.” He added that he and his staff are working to change policies and procedures across the Common- wealth of Virginia to treat PTSD as a presumptive injury in order to treat officers and get them well. “This has become my calling in life and I have assembled a great team of professionals who are committed to create change in mental wellness practices and poli- cies in the public safety profes- sion,” he told me. “The facts are clear that suicide death rates ex- ceed line of duty deaths across the nation.” And those are only the suicides that get reported. Some public safety agencies don’t track suicides out of fear of the stigma, possibly eroding benefits to survivors, and exposing the lack of care given to their employees. “Consequences of the Badge” is difficult to watch, but Roessler has watched it more than a dozen times. The first responders shown telling their stories are heroes, he told me. So is he. Courageous heroes.

This first appeared on Pete Earley’s blog at www.peteearley.com Local resident Pete Earley is author of 17 books including four New York Times bestsellers, including “The Hot House” and the 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist “Crazy: A Father’s Search Through Another Community Partner America’s Mental Health Madness.” www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Great Falls Connection ❖ September 19-25, 2018 ❖ 11 Entertainment

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THURSDAY/SEPT. 20 Adventures in Learning Open House. 10 a.m.-noon at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax, Program Building, 2709 Hunter Mill Road, Oakton. AIL Fall classes begin Thursday Sept. 27 and run through Nov. 15 are held at (UUCF/Oakton). New this year is an eight-week course on Memoir Writing. Golf cart transportation will be provided to assist those in need of help traveling from the parking lot to open house and classes. Light refreshments will be provided at the Open House. For details call the office at 703-281- 0538 or visit http://www.scov.org/ ail-open-house. Edible Flowers Workshop SATURDAY/SEPT. 22 The Ayr Hill Garden Club presents an Edible Flowers Workshop. Author Mary Native Plant Sale. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. in Newman shares the fascinating story of how flowers have been used in cooking from the Vienna Community Center ancient customs with modern kitchens. Learn novel ways to prepare and eat soups, parking lot120 Cherry St. SE, Vienna. The Town of Vienna’s Community salads, desserts, and drinks. Books available for sale and signing. Thursday, Sept. Enhancement Commission will offer 20, 7:30-9 p.m. at Patrick Henry Library, 101 Maple Ave. E., Vienna. The session native plants at its Native Plant Sale, is free and open to the public. Email [email protected]. including aa variety of native plants, including flowering perennials, Department’s Cops and Kids Fun Run TUESDAY-FRIDAY/SEPT. 25-28 shrubs, and small trees, all of which is back. In addition to the annual 1- Teaching Artist Seminar. 8 a.m.- attract beneficial birds, bees, and mile run/walk, yummy food, and fun 3:30 p.m. at Conference Center, Old butterflies to the landscape. Rain or activities, this year’s event will Courthouse Road, Vienna. Teaching shine. Credit cards, cash, and checks feature a water balloon toss. Pre- artists of all disciplines seeking to are all accepted. Visit registration is closed, but the event is develop artist residencies for school www.viennava.gov. still free and open to the public. students are invited to attend. $99- Let’s Move. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Wolf Those interested in participating, $120. Register at artsfairfax.org/ Trap National Park for the who have not registered, are artist-residency-program. Email Performing Arts, 1551 Trap Road, encouraged to sign up to receive [email protected] or visit Vienna. “Let’s Move with Music at information regarding the 2019 Cops artsfairfax.org. Wolf Trap!” Activities and live music and Kids Fun Run at for all ages. Performances by viennapdfunrun.com. Rainbow Rock, Kentlands Acoustic Photographer’s Day at the Mill. 11 THURSDAY/SEPT. 27 Jam, Vienna Jammers, and United a.m.-3 p.m. at Colvin Run Mill, Tysons Tailgate. 5-8 p.m. at VALO States Army Brass Quintet. Free. Call 10017 Colvin Run Road, Great Falls. Park, 7950 Jones Branch Drive, 703-255-1828 or visit go.nps.gov/ Come to the mill and scout out the Tysons. Building Brighter Futures is a letsmove. location as autumn begins. Staff tailgate-themed festival, enjoy live Riverbend Park Barbeque Benefit. members will be available to answer music, beer, wine, tailgate-themed 6-9 p.m. at Riverbend Park Visitors’ questions about Park Authority menu, lawn games, raffle prizes; Center, 8700 Potomac Hills St., Great photography at the site and proceeds will benefit Second Story, Falls. The Friends of Riverbend Park commercial photo permits. Free. No the only youth emergency shelter in (FORB) is sponsoring a fund-raising reservations are required. Call 703- Northern Virginia. Ticket price benefit. Enjoy a glass of wine or a 759-2771 or visit includes two drink tickets. $30 per bottle of beer on the deck, followed www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/colvin- ticket/$35 at the door. Tysons by a barbeque dinner catered by run-mill. Partnership Members receive a Mookie’s of Great Falls. Boat rides on Amadeus Orchestra. 4 p.m. at Saint discount. Call 703-688-2129 or visit the Potomac and s’mores by a Luke Catholic Church, 7001 www.tysonspartnership.org/event/ campfire will also be available. Georgetown Pike, McLean. Festive 2018-tysons-tailgate/. Family-friendly. Admission for adults selections from Handel’s regal “Water Join Scouting Night. 7-8 p.m. at is $50 per person ($20 tax- Music” open the Amadeus Concerts Christ the King Church, 10550 deductible), $25 per person for 2018-2019 season. A pre-concert Georgetown Pike, Great Falls. children under 21 ($10 tax- lecture by Music Director A. Scott Families with children in grades K-4 deductible), and $125 per family of Wood will begin at 3:15 p.m. A who are interested in Cub Scouting three or more persons ($50 tax- reception will follow the concert. are invited to attend Pack 673’s “Join deductible). Register online at Tickets are $40 and may be Scouting Night” to learn about the www.forb.wildapricot.org. purchased at the door or online at program and meet returning scouts. Movie on the Green: Ghostbusters www.amadeusconcerts.com. Although this first meeting will be (1984). 7:30 p.m. on the Great Falls Students 17 and under and active held at CTK Church, pack and den Village Centre Green (behind the Old military are admitted free of charge. meetings are typically held at Great Brogue). Bring your blankets, snacks Countdown Concerts in the Park: Falls Elementary. Free. Call 202-669- and drinks. Popcorn provided. Free. Saved by the ‘90s. 5 p.m. in the 2502 or visit Visit celebrategreatfalls.org. McLean Central Park Gazebo, , 1468 Dolley Madison Blvd., McLean. pack673greatfalls.ScoutLander.com. Concert series tracks the history of Travel Photography Presentation. SUNDAY/SEPT. 23 the McLean Community Center from 7 p.m. at the Great Falls Library, 9830 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls. 15th annual Super H 5K Run, Walk its opening in 1975 — revisit a Great Falls Studios is hosting & Wheel. 7 a.m. at Tysons Sport & decade as the McLean Community National Geographic photographer Health, 8250 Greensboro Drive, Center prepares for the reopening of Jeff Mauritzen for a presentation on McLean. Registration includes a post- the Ingleside Avenue facility. Visit travel photography. Mauritzen’s race party with food and www.mcleancenter.org/alden- assignments and adventures have entertainment. Proceeds from the theatre/. immersed him in vivid landscapes on race will support MedStar NRH’s all seven continents and in more than adaptive sports programs, which TUESDAY/SEPT. 25 60 countries. All are welcome. Visit enable para-athletes – those with www.greatfallsstudios.com. disabilities who stay active by Arts Education Panel. 8-10:30 a.m. competing in various sports – to at Conference Center, 2070 Chain participate in Paralympic sports such Bridge Road, Vienna. Learn the FRIDAY-SUNDAY/SEPT. 28-30 as wheelchair basketball, wheelchair science behind how the arts affect ValeArts “Fall into Color” 2018. tennis, sled hockey, quad rugby, brain activity and how this Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday and Boccia ball, hand cycling, rowing and information can be used in education Sunday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. at Vale more. $35 until online registration and to develop a creative innovative Schoolhouse, 3124 Fox Mill Road, closes on Sept. 21; $40 on race day. workforce for the 21st century. Open Oakton. ValeArts will present an all Visit www.MedStarNRH.org/ to the public, registration required. new “Fall into Color” fine art show SuperH5K. $10-$25. Register at artsfairfax.org/ featuring Lynn Martin and Kathy 2018 Cops and Kids Fun Run. 11 artist-residency-program/. Email Bodycombe in addition to ValeArts a.m.-2 p.m. at Vienna Elementary [email protected] or visit members Linda Lovell, Lorrie School, 128 Center St. S., Vienna. artsfairfax.org. Herman, Meredith Hannon, Kim The Town of Vienna Police Davis, Laura Barringer and Jenna 12 ❖ Great Falls Connection ❖ September 19-25, 2018 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Calendar

Klimchak. All varieties of fine art in a historic setting. Free and family friendly. A reception is planned for Friday, Sept. 28, 7-9 p.m. Call 703- 860-1888 or visit www.valearts.com.

SATURDAY/SEPT. 29 Fall Festival. 8 a.m.-1 p.m. at Great Falls United Methodist Church, 10100 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls. Children’s activities; bake sale; White House ornaments; jewelry and accessories; used books, games and cds; silent auction; apple butter and apple cider; tools; Kitchen Kupboard vendor; and yard sale. Visit www.greatfallsumc.org. Fall Festival. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at The Church of the Good Shepherd (United Methodist), 2351 Hunter Mill Road, Vienna. Where Fun and Kindness Connect, includes “Rise Against Hunger” food packing event (50,000 meals), as well as a blood drive, children’s program, moon bounce and food and refreshments. Visit www.GoodShepherdVA.com. St. Francis Fall Fest. 3-7 p.m. at St. Francis Episcopal Church, 9220 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls. Fall festival and wine tasting with bluegrass music by Andrew Acosta Band and Mookie’s BBQ. Silent auction and fun activities for the children. Free admission. Email [email protected] or call 434-566-8302. Kayak Tour in the Parks. 5:30-6:55 p.m. at Riverbend Park, 8700 Potomac Hills St., Great Falls. “Kayak Tour-Wildlife of the Potomac” is designed for participants age 14 to adult. Watch for deer foraging on the islands and osprey and bald eagles searching for fish. This is not a whitewater tour. No previous experience is required. $39 per person. Kayaks are provided; one person per kayak. This tour will be canceled in the event of inclement weather or hazardous river conditions. Call 703-759-9018 or visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/ riverbend. Movie on the Green: Top Gun. 7:30 p.m. on the Great Falls Village Centre Green (behind the Old Brogue). Bring your blankets, snacks and drinks. Popcorn provided. Free. Visit celebrategreatfalls.org.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY/SEPT. 29-30 Fall Book Sale. Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Patrick Henry Library, 101 Maple Ave. E., Vienna. Featuring thousands of top quality used books, CD’S, DVD’S, books on CD. Special sale Sunday – fill a large shopping bag with books, movies, CDs, DVDs, etc., for $5. Free parking and admission. Email [email protected], call 703-568-0104 or visit www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/ branches/ph.

SUNDAY/SEPT. 30 Countdown Concerts in the Park: So Fetch. 5 p.m. in the McLean Central Park Gazebo, , 1468 Dolley Madison Blvd., McLean. Concert series tracks the history of the McLean Community Center from its opening in 1975 — revisit a decade as the McLean Community Center prepares for the reopening of the Ingleside Avenue facility. Visit www.mcleancenter.org/alden- theatre/.

SEPT. 30-OCT. 26 Art Exhibition: Colors in Memory. Gallery hours at Aryan Gallery, 2236- C Gallows Road, Vienna. Colors in Memory featuring art by Rafat is open to all. Opening reception Sunday, Sept. 30, 5-8 p.m. is limited to adults. Call 202-391-1669 or visit www.rafatart.com. www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Great Falls Connection ❖ September 19-25, 2018 ❖ 13 How To Vote From Page 6 counted. Community, 7410 Spring Village Also by noon on Friday follow- Drive, Springfield, 22150 If you don’t have an ID, go to ing the election, the voter may ❖ Monday, Sept. 24, 10 a.m. - 2 your voter registration office to get appear in-person in the office of p.m.. Goodwin House Bailey’s a free Voter Photo ID, even on the general registrar, in the local- Crossroads, 3440 South Jefferson Election Day. You will be required ity in which the provisional ballot Street, Falls Church, 22041 to complete an photo ID applica- was cast, and apply for a Virginia ❖ Tuesday, Sept. 25, 11 a.m. - 2 tion, have your photo taken and Voter Photo ID Card. At the p.m., Burke Health and Rehab to sign a digital signature pad. completion of the application pro- Center, 9640 Burke Lake Road, cess, the voter may request a Tem- Burke, 22015 Forgot your photo ID on porary Identification Document. ❖ Wednesday, Sept. 26, 10 a.m. Election Day? This document can be provided to - 2 p.m., Herndon Senior Center, If you get to your polling place the electoral board for the identi- 873 Grace St #1, Herndon, 20170 without acceptable photo ID, you fication requirement. ❖ Thursday, Sept. 27, 10 a.m. - can vote a provisional ballot. You 2 p.m., Lewinsville Retirement will be given instructions on what Upcoming Events to Regis- Residence, 1515 Great Falls Street, to do so your vote can count. ter and Get Voter ID McLean 22101 A voter will have until noon on The Office of Elections is open ❖ Thursday, Oct. 4, 10 a.m. - 1 the Friday following the election daily during normal business p.m., Leewood Healthcare Center, to deliver a copy of the identifica- hours to provide residents the op- 7120 Braddock Road, Annandale, tion to the local electoral board or portunity to register to vote or 22003 to appear in person to apply for a obtain a free voter photo ID if ❖ Saturday, Oct. 6, 10 a.m. - 2 Virginia Voter Photo ID Card. Vot- needed. 703-222-0776, 12000 p.m., Sherwood Regional Library, ers may submit a copy of their ID Government Center Parkway Suite 2501 Sherwood Hall Lane via fax, email, in-person, or 323, Fairfax, VA 22035 Alexandria, 22306 through the mail or commercial The following events will also ❖ Tuesday, Oct. 9, 10 a.m. - 2 delivery service. The copy of the provide opportunity to register p.m., Arleigh Burke Pavilion at ID must be delivered to the elec- and/or get a Virginia Voter card: Vinson Hall Retirement Commu- toral board by noon on Friday, or ❖ Wednesday, Sept. 19, 10 a.m. nity, 1739 Kirby Road, McLean, the provisional ballot cannot be - 2 p.m., Greenspring Retirement 22101

League of Women Voters Supports No-Excuse Absentee Voting The League of Women Voters ❖ Voting absentee in-person is Commonwealth and local gov- of the Fairfax Area is submitting as secure as voting on Election ernments. Legislators and this statement of support for No Day. members of local governing Excuse Absentee Voting to the ❖ Local Election Offices have bodies should adequately fund Joint Subcommittee on Election had success in reducing long lines elections. After meeting with Review. The league’s support of on Election Day by encouraging local general registrar, the equal and easy access for vot- absentee voting. league anticipates an increase ing across the Commonwealth ❖ For voting absentee in-person, in both types of absentee vot- includes legislation to allow all eliminating the cumbersome pro- ing if No Excuse Absentee Vot- registered voters to vote absen- cess of completing the absentee ing is enacted, with a gradual tee prior to Election Day with- application would save time as decrease of voters on Election out specifying a reason. This well as the expense of printing the Day at the polls. Given this shift, support covers absentee voting form. it would likely result in an even- either by mail or in person. ❖ Extra personnel are needed to tual “wash” with regard to re- Reasons to Support No explain the form and check it for source needs. Excuse Absentee Voting completion before a voter can pro- The League of Women Voters of ❖ All voters should have ceed to checking in. the Fairfax Area is a nonpartisan equal access to the ballot. ❖ Eliminating the use of the political organization that encour- ❖ ages informed and active No voter should have to application form would speed the participation of citizens in govern- provide personal unrelated in- voting process considerably. ment, works to increase formation to cast a ballot. The league believes that the cost understanding of major public policy ❖ Voters have found it very of providing equal access for vot- issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy. confusing about their eligibility ing throughout Virginia is a re- Learn more at http://www.lwv- to vote before Election Day. sponsibility shared by both the fairfax.org/

Fairfax County Police to Investigate Inmate Death Detectives from the Fairfax County Police Depart- The sheriff’s office released the following on Sept. ment are investigating the in-custody death of 68- 14: year-old inmate Haywood Summers. Summers was On Sept. 6, 2018, a 68-year-old African American taken from the infirmary at the Fairfax County Adult inmate, Haywood Summers, was transported to the Detention Center to the hospital for additional medi- hospital from the Fairfax County Adult Detention cal attention on Thursday, Sept. 6. The medical ex- Center infirmary. He had been in Sheriff’s Office cus- aminer will examine the body, but preliminarily, tody for two days. At approximately 5:25 p.m. on police reported that there were no signs of foul play. Sept. 13, the inmate experienced a medical emer- The inmate had been incarcerated at the ADC since gency at the hospital. Hospital medical staff per- Sept. 4. The Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office and our formed CPR without success. The inmate was pro- department are working collectively to gather all nounced deceased at 6:03 p.m. Fairfax County information and to thoroughly document the situa- Sheriff’s Office policy dictates that an in-custody tion. death must be investigated by the Fairfax County We investigate all Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office Police Department. The investigation is currently un- in-custody deaths. derway.

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THURSDAY/SEPT. 20 By KENNETH B. LOURIE IEP Training: Least Restrictive Environment You know what’s impossible – or next to impossi- and Services. 10 a.m.-noon at Dunn Loring ble? Trying to write a funny non-cancer column while Center for Parent Services, 2334 Gallows Road, on hold with the Oncology Department waiting for Entrance 1 - Room 100, Dunn Loring. Learn calculations to be made by their pharmacist which about new changes to the IEP regarding the will determine if my creatinine levels (kidney func- least restrictive environment for students tion) are low enough to allow me to get my infusion receiving special education services. Staff from today. the FCPS Office of Special Education Procedural Support and the FCPS Office of Special No big deal, really. It’s only a matter of life and Education Instruction will present this workshop hopefully my avoiding death. for parents of students receiving special And to complicate this waiting/holding “intermi- education services. Visit www.fcps.edu/ UHISLULZZ¹VULVMV\YÄ]LJH[Z¸;^PURSL¹PZ^HSRPUN resources/family-engagement/parent-resource- back and forth across my desk, rubbing my writing center to register. hand with her head – while I’m trying to write no less, as she steps repeatedly on my writing pad. Oh. One more thing, she keeps knocking down the wireless land-line phone that I’ve placed on my Historic Fight desk – which I have on speaker, close enough to hear but far enough, I thought, to keep her at bay. It never From Page 3 ceases to amaze me how cats seem to know where you don’t want them go and invariably that’s almost always where they seem to end up. Wirth talked about Inez Milholland Now back to my original situation: Waiting for the Boissevain, a suffragist and well-to-do law- pharmacist to calculate my results. yer, who died from pernicious anemia while After nearly 30 minutes on hold, with “Twinkle” having been occupied elsewhere during the last 10 she was giving a talk out West on women’s minutes or so. (After I implored her to “Give me some voting. “We look at her as the martyr of the space, please?” she jumped off the desk.) Finally, I Suffragist movement,” she said. Her memo- have received word that I’m approved for my infu- rial service was in the U.S. Capitol on Christ- sion. And now that I’m no longer on telephone-hold, I mas Day 1916. doubt I’ll be seeing any more of her. Oh. I was wrong. Here she is again. This time however, she’s brought along “Biscuit,” BEGINNING IN JANUARY 1917, one of the two oldest “buff-colored” brothers we women started picketing Woodrow Wilson’s rescued in September ‘06. But I’m more tolerant of White House. By June 1917, Wilson gave their interference now as I’ve been given the infusion word to start arresting the protestors for ob- OKAY. (Not a thrill really, but, as mentioned in pre- structing the sidewalk. ]PV\ZJVS\TUZ¶HUKJVUÄYTLKI`T`VUJVSVNPZ[PU a reply-email to me, this third dose of chemotherapy Lucy Burns, Co-Founder, National in the last seven weeks might have a bearing on the woman’s Party, was one of the prisoners at results of my upcoming Sept. 26 CT scan. That sound Occoquan Workhouse in Lorton, where the you heard was me exhaling.) conditions were brutal. Women on hunger Another peculiar feline behavior: they seem to strikes were force fed through their noses know when their behavior is not as bothersome/ interfering as it might otherwise be so they refrain a and mouths. “This is what women were bit. (A bit.) willing to do so that we could vote,” she So now I have nothing to wait for except Godot said. (who never shows). My results will show up though, The word leaked out to the national press on or about Sept. 28, more than likely via email from of their horrible treatment, so in Novem- my oncologist. Important to consider that the 28th is a Friday and given that lines of communication don’t ber 1917, the women were transported ÅV^HZVM[LUVU[OL^LLRLUKZ^L»KYLHSS`YH[OLY from Occoquan to D.C. and were released know before the weekend so that we can get on with from jail. In January 1918, the D.C. Court our lives. of Appeals ruled that their arrests were il- And, as I’m sure you can appreciate, this is no legal so they were all freed. laughing matter and receiving results – good or bad Still, women were not included in the – in a timely fashion does enable us to get on with our lives. th Constitution until the 19 Amendment. For the moment, however, it’s still about waiting It was President Wilson who went to Con- and hoping, but no planning – yet. Discussing scenar- gress to say we need a National Amendment ios before the actual facts are known has never been for the women’s right to vote. The House of T`VUJVSVNPZ[»Z^H`>OLU^LRUV^KLÄUP[P]LS`[OLU Representatives voted yea immediately but ^L»SSHJ[KLÄUP[P]LS`>L»]LOHKZVTLWYLSPTPUHY` discussions about alternatives going forward, but until the Senate waited another 18 months to further details are known, it’s all premature. decide. Thus, began the fight for ratifica- For the moment then, my existence is about tion in 36 states. Ratification came down managing expectations, trying to remain positive and to one final state: Tennessee. The vote in letting go. the Tennessee legislature was 48-48. So, as 0TLHU^OLU[OLZJHUPZÄUPZOLK[OLYLZ\S[Z^PSS be what they will be. I don’t imagine there’s much I they were doing the vote count, they got to can do about it now. When those results are known, Rep. Harry Burn, age 26, who had received then we’ll go to plan “B,” or revert to current plan a note from his mother encouraging him to “A.” do the right thing and vote for suffrage. 4`SPMLPZUV[SPRLS`[VJOHUNLZPNUPÄJHU[S`LP[OLY Burn’s vote broke the tie in favor of ratify- way in the short term so all I can do is maintain my ing the amendment. He cast the final vote, status quo. There’s no panic. Anxiety? Of course. Anticipation? Yes, in a weird giving women the right to vote in 1920. way. I would like to know what treatment/potential The ratification of the 19th Amendment side effects and all are in store for me living forward led to the largest single one-day increase of but it’s still “early days.” Maybe the cats do know potential voters in the history of the United something. We’ve heard it rumored that cats have a States. It took 72 years to pass and ratify sixth sense about sickness and death. th Oh, oh. Here’s comes “Biscuit,” he’s been hanging the 19 Amendment, but the Equal Rights around me an awful lot lately, very uncharacteristic. Amendment has yet to be adopted to this Should I be concerned or just appreciative of the day. attention? To donate, or for more information, visit Kenny Lourie is an Advertising Representative for www.suffragistmemorial.org. The Potomac Almanac & The Connection Newspapers. www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Great Falls Connection ❖ September 19-25, 2018 ❖ 15 16 ❖ Great Falls Connection ❖ September 19-25, 2018 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com