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xxxx xx INSIDE: Region ends 2020 on a housing high note • See Page 10 9 18 CONTROLLED LANGLEY BURN KEEPS WRESTLERS RIVERBEND CONTINUE PARK HEALTHY UNBEATEN Sun Gazette GREAT FALLS McLEAN OAKTON TYSONS VIENNA VOLUME 42 NO. 17 FEBRUARY 4-10, 2021 A New Era Is Approaching for Vienna Police Town Leaders Break Ground on Modern Police Headquarters, a Project Likely to Take Two Years BRIAN TROMPETER Sta Writer Vienna ofcials on Jan. 29 pitched cer- emonial shovelfuls of dirt to kick off con- struction of a new police headquarters that they said better will meet the needs of ofcers and the public. The department’s current station al- ready was too small when it was built in 1994 and lacked sufcient storage areas, secured parking and adequate locker- room space for female ofcers. The new two-story station, which was designed by Dewberry and will be built by Hoar Construction at a cost of $13.9 mil- lion, will have about 30,000 square feet of space and be built on the site of the cur- rent station at 215 Center St., S., plus an adjacent property at 114 Locust St., S.W. The project will take up to two years to complete. Town ofcials hope the facility will earn Leadership in Energy and Envi- ronmental Design (LEED) Silver certi- cation. Vienna ocials break ground Jan. 29 for the town’s new police headquarters, which will oer improved amenities and capabilities for ocers A key new feature will be a 1,500- and community spaces, as well. The construction is expected to take two years to complete. PHOTO BY BRIAN TROMPETER square-foot space for community meet- meetings, cable broadcasting and an emer- facilities for male and female ofcers, and friendly, said Mayor Linda Colbert. ings, ofcer training, police-taught cours- gency-operations center, if necessary. will be more environmentally friendly, es, voting, overow seating for public The new station will offer comparable larger, more secure and community- Continued on Page 7 Business Leaders Cautiously Optimistic on N.Va.’s Resilience BRIAN TROMPETER “Northern Virginia has one of the ing of schools, widespread COVID-19 good idea what ‘normal’ looks like” fol- Sta Writer best recipes for success of anybody in the vaccinations, political changes following lowing the crisis, he said. country,” said panelist William Collins, the recent election and the resumption of Some changes during the pandemic, Northern Virginia will face major chal- executive vice chairman of the Cushman mass-transit use, he said. such as enhanced productivity, likely will lenges – housing affordability key among & Wakeeld commercial real-estate rm, But how the post-pandemic economy become permanent, Tilley said. them – once the pandemic abates, but the at the chamber’s all-virtual 29th annual will look remains a mystery, said keynote “If we look at history, recessions tend region still is in a good position to recover, Regional Economic Outlook 2021 event. speaker Luke Tilley, chief economist with to accelerate trends that were already in experts told the Northern Virginia Cham- “It’s a fabulous place to be.” Wilmington Trust. ber of Commerce Jan. 28. 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Despite the artists’ different styles and nal results, the two shows – which will be on display through Feb. 20 – have com- mon elements in how they depict space Works by Joseph Cortina (above) and Shanthi and atmosphere, said Nancy Sausser, Chandrasekar (right) are part of exhibitions MPA exhibitions director. of the artists’ works now on display at the “I, as the curator, generally try to pair McLean Project for the Arts. two exhibitions that have something to say to each other,” she said in introduc- Most of the works feature acrylic paint tory remarks to her video interviews with added atop a thickly textured medium on the artists. “It’s not always obvious. It’s canvas, into which Cortina has carved de- sometimes better when you can feel it.” signs using a palette knife. Both artists have been drawing since Many of the paintings began as black- more luscious than a great curve.” spent the rst 20 years of his career as they were children. Chandrasekar grew and-white sketches, with the artist work- Cortina earned a degree in painting a television director for “NBC Nightly up in a research community in India and ing loosely and unconsciously, and then and printing from Virginia Common- News,” “The Today Show,” “Meet the studied psychology and physics in college. he built up layers of color to give the wealth University, but to earn a living Press” and the 1992 Olympics in Barce- She often drew during classes for the latter paintings emotional oomph. found a part-time job as a lm editor at a lona. Programs on which he has worked to help her understand difcult concepts. “It’s the motion in those shapes that I Richmond television station. Her show’s title, “Beginningless End- keep being drawn to,” he said. “Nothing’s While continuing to produce art, he Continued on Page 14 less,” stems from the fact she considers herself to be on a spectrum. OBITUARY “There is no beginning, there is no CHARLES “CHARLIE” SLADE ANDREWS end,” she told Sausser in a Web interview. Charles “Charlie” Slade Andrews, 81, of Reston, Virginia, passed away on 23 December, 2020 from end stage congestive heart failure due to nonischemic cardiomyopathy. “There’s something in between, oscillat- Charlie was born on July 19, 1939 in Middlebury, Vermont, son of the late John ayer An- ing.” drews and Elizabeth Burditt Parker Andrews. He was born le-handed and was le side dominant for the duration of his natural life. Chandrasekar is a prolic artist who Charlie graduated from Middlebury Union High School in 1957 where he played on the varsity often works on many subject series at boys’ basketball and baseball teams. While playing for the Middlebury Tigers he was deeply inu- enced by his coach Robert “Bob” M. D’Agostino, Sr. who not only mentored once. Her mission is “searching for inn- Charlie in how to play the games of baseball and basketball but also how to teach and coach young people. Aer high school he attended Amherst College to pursue his bachelor’s degree. Aer two ity,” she said. years at college Charlie decided to enlist in the U.S. Army where he served for more than two years “If there’s a concept that interests me, in the Military Intelligence Corps while stationed in West Germany. At the end of his enlistment, he returned to Amherst College to complete his undergraduate education; he always attested that the the way I learn something is by immersing time he spent in the Army had matured him and made him a better myself into it,” she said. “It is through art student. Charlie graduated from Amherst in 1964 though for the rest of his life he would celebrate reunions with the class of 1961 due to the close friendships he had forged with that class. Charlie that I’m able to understand.” completed his law degree in 1969 from the University of Maine Law School. Charlie began his professional career working at Irving Trust Bank in New York City. Aer Cortina’s show, on display in the Em- graduating law school in 1969, he worked for two years at Pine Tree Legal Aid in Skowhegan and Pr- erson Gallery, contains 21 abstract paint- esque Isle, ME. In 1972 Charlie moved his family to Reston, VA where he worked for the American Automobile Association (AAA). Aer retiring from AAA in 1998 he started a second career as a bus ings and two works combining moving driver for Fairfax County Public Schools, serving the Langley High School district.

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