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Walk to Bust Cancer Inside Senior Living Senior FALL 2018 Living Local Med ia Connect ion Mount Vernon’s Hometown Newspaper • A Connection Newspaper October 4, 2018 LLC online at w ww.connect ionnewspapers.com Senate Election Is Blast from the Past Kaine and Stewart both played key roles in 2016, now they’re at Photos by Delia Sulliv Photos the top of the ballot this year. By Michael Lee Pope that includes Democrat Tim Kaine The Gazette and Republican Corey Stewart, it’s likely that voters will view this lections rarely get do-overs. race squarely as a referendum on Winners make victory President Donald Trump. an Photos E speeches, and losers slink “This is a president who’s really away to become consultants. But dominating the narrative every this year’s election for U.S. Sen- news cycle,” said Stephen ate features two key players in the Farnsworth, director of the Center Participants in last year’s Walk to Bust Cancer raised more than $40,000 to help 2016 presidential election that for Leadership and Media Studies uninsured and underinsured women in the fight against breast cancer. This year’s upended American politics. For at the University of Mary Washing- walk will take place Oct. 14 at Fort Hunt Park. both sides, it’s become a proxy of ton. “That creates a very difficult sorts. Democrats are eager to undo environment for candidates to be what they see as the damage that heard in their own voice, be they happened two years ago. And Re- Democrats or Republicans this Walk to Bust Cancer publicans are aiming to improve year.” on their lackluster performance in Kaine, a former governor, Event to raise funds for women in need. Virginia. And yet even though vot- worked his way up in Virginia poli By Jeanne Theismann privileged and uninsured/underinsured women in ers will be confronted by a ballot See Senate Election, Page 4 Gazette Packet the community. This year’s walk will sponsor more than 50 participants from the Old Town-based he third annual Walk to Bust Cancer Nueva Vida, a support network for Latinas with Following Her Calling will return to the region Oct. 14 to cancer and their families. Local pastor Traise funds to help women in need “Nueva Vida has been referring patients to the gain access to screening and treatment Foundation,” said executive director Martha for breast cancer. Carucci. “We are providing complimentary regis- finds welcoming Dr. David Weintritt, founder of the National tration for the Nueva Vida participants, and more Breast Center Foundation in Alexandria, joined than half are breast cancer survivors or patients.” community. with breast cancer survivors to organize the walk Last year’s walk raised more than $40,000 to By Ashley Claire Simpson after the Vola Lawson Walk to Fight Breast Can- provide breast cancer services and support to The Gazette cer was discontinued in women in need. 2014. “Women in our area hat were your biggest “Women and families in have one of the highest preoccupations when our community need our rates of late stage breast W you were in high help,” Weintritt said. “We all cancer,” Weintritt said. school? Perhaps you dwelled on know someone — a family “Something has to happen your grades. Or, maybe you spent member, neighbor, co-worker to address this crisis. If we a considerable amount of time or friend — who has been can provide high quality with your friends, dissecting every touched by breast cancer. screening and treatment move of an attractive boy or girl Rev. Christina This is a global problem and services in order to detect See First Female, Page 3 Hart-Perkins we are committed to make a breast cancer at earlier difference starting right here stages, we will save more lives and, ultimately, re- 10/5/18 in our own community.” home in Requested Weintritt founded the Na- duce healthcare costs.” material. ime-sensitive tional Breast Center Founda- For more information or T A young Walk to Bust Cancer Postmaster: tion to help provide screen- participant adds a name to the to register for the Walk to Attention ing, diagnosis, treatment and Angel Wall at last year’s Walk to Bust Cancer, visit #482 Permit Alexandria, VA Alexandria, supportive services for under- Bust Cancer. www.walktobustcancer.org. PAID U.S. Postage U.S. PRSRT STD PRSRT www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Mount Vernon Gazette ❖ October 4-10, 2018 ❖ 1 2 ❖ Mount Vernon Gazette ❖ October 4-10, 2018 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Mount Vernon Gazette Editor Steven Mauren News 703-778-9415 or [email protected] The Eyes Have It Young artist exhibits “Kiss the Dream and Smile.” By Ashley Claire Simpson The Gazette ight-year-old artist Noura Barka loves to draw people’s faces, and Eshe particularly enjoys drawing eyes. “I like all kinds of art; I don’t really have a favorite medium,” Barka, whose first art exhibit is currently on dis- play at Arlington’s Connection: Crystal City Satellite Library, said. “Right now, I draw a lot of faces, and my goal is to get really good at painting eyes.” All you need is a pair of eyes to enjoy Barka’s ongoing exhibit, which includes 10 pieces of varying mediums, available to the public for free through the end of Novem- ber. All of Barka’s works on display are in keeping with the theme, “Kiss the Dream and Smile.” “That’s what I named the show because I found some beads in a box and rearranged Noura Barka is a third grader at the words to say ‘Kiss the Dream and Noura Barka’s exhibit “Kiss the Dream and Smile” is at the Connection Stratford Landing Elementary Smile,’” the young artist said. “Then I gave Crystal City Satellite Library at 2117 Crystal Plaza Arcade, Arlington. School. each painting a title related to it, like, ‘Fan- tasy,’ ‘Hope,’ ‘Imagination,’ ‘Moonlight,’ and my son, Sami. I would have art exhibits and it came to the displays,” Campos said. “They The exhibit launch was also an event that ‘Rainbow Pollock.’” shows, where I sold a lot of my art. It’s hard said ‘no,’ and Noura was of course inter- Campos will never forget. Although Barka is only in the third grade, to pursue art like that with kids, though.” ested. “It was the first time there had been an she can’t remember life without art. Despite not being able to paint to the de- Throughout the summer, I had her paint opening reception,” Campos said. “Twenty- “I always saw my mom painting when I gree she did in a previous life, Campos was on different canvases. She was so enthusi- five people were there — teachers, family, was little,” Barka said. “Then, when I was determined to introduce creative endeav- astic about doing it — it wasn’t a chore to friends. three, I wanted to start painting, so my mom ors to her children. her. People think it’s this amazing thing Noura talked a lot about her art, and it taught me. “My mom started me with cray- “I always wanted to expose my kids to because of her age, but it was really so may have been more exciting for me and ons, and then I started doing acrylics and art,” Campos said. “As soon as they were simple to put together. She had big ideas my husband than it was for her. We are re- tempera and, then this year I started wa- capable, we started doing little things to- for each of the pieces and the title to give ally proud of her.” tercolors. I kept practicing and practicing. gether: making holiday greeting cards to the collection as a whole.” Already a renaissance woman, Barka is The thing that I used to draw most was ac- send to friends and family, we’d make So, they submitted Barka’s exhibit for also a ballet dancer and a Girl Scout. As life tually my mom, wearing a bun in her hair. shadow boxes, and more. We’ve always consideration, and she soon became the gets busier for her the way it inevitably will, Then, I branched out and I started drawing been an artistically inclined family. My son youngest artist, at least in recent memory, she said she’ll always make time for art. designs like my mom did — patterns and and daughter would both paint with me, to have her work showcased at the Connec- “I take a clipboard with me to recess a lot other more abstract things. I always wanted but, Noura was always the more curious and tion Crystal City Satellite Library. because my friends always want me to paint to paint just like my mom.” enthusiastic one with wanting to do arts and The opening reception for “Kiss the pictures of their faces,” Barka said. “I use The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree crafts.” Dream and Smile,” took place on Sept. 8 my watercolor pencils, and I give them the with Noura Barka and her mother, Sonia One day last summer, Campos saw an and Barka kicked off this exhibit with a few option for having winking eyes, both eyes Campos. amateur artist’s work on display at her lo- words of her own. closed, or both eyes opened in the pictures. “Her work actually does look a lot like cal library, and she immediately thought of “I was a little bit nervous,” Barka said, Once I can paint people’s faces realistically, mine,” Campos said. “I used to paint a lot, her ambitious, artistic daughter. “but it was worth it. I want to do more art I want to publish a book.
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