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INSIDE: Veteran Yorktown coach lauded by legislators • Page 3 Serving Arlington & Beyond for over 25 years A tradition of 7 9 17 exceptional A-SPAN GETS CLARENDON YORKTOWN service FLEXIBLE IN ALLIANCE GIRLS 2ND and success EFFORTS TO ANNOUNCES 703.538.6030 | brockrealty.comIN REGION MEET NEEDS NEW CHIEF SWIMMING Bret Brock • 703.538.6030 • brockrealty.com Sun Gazette ARLINGTON’S SOURCE FOR HOMETOWN NEWS SINCE 1935 VOLUME 86 NO. 10 FEBRUARY 18-24, 2021 Preservation Battle Could Be Moot Point County Board Action in April Might Prove Too Late to Matter SCOTT McCAFFREY out of the Arlington govern- Sta Writer ment and level the property. In late January, the county By the time the Arlington government’s Historical Af- County Board takes a vote fairs and Landmark Review on putting the Rouse estate Board (HALRB) determined on Wilson Boulevard into a the 9-acre property met re- local-historic district, will the quirements for an historic estate still be standing? district, sending the proposal County Board members to the Planning Commission have slated a Feb. 23 public and County Board for a de- hearing not on the historic cision. That vote came over designation itself, but on the strong objections of the placing the matter on the property owner – a trust rep- agenda in the spring and resenting the family of the holding the requisite public late Randy Rouse – which hearing and voting then. wants nothing to do with That could be all the time preservation. the property owners need to wrangle a demolition permit Continued on Page 14 County Home Sales Show No Signs of Slowing Down Home sales and median To address the quirk rst: sales prices were up modestly January 2020 saw a number of in Arlington last month com- very high-ticket home sales in pared to a year before, but Arlington, which skewed av- W-L DIVER WINS STATE DIVING CROWN – because of a quirk – total erage sales prices and boosted Washington-Liberty High School sophomore diver Ellie Joyce performs during the Virginia High School League’s sales volume for the month total sales volume to a huge- Class 6 state championship meet that she won with a personal-best score. 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Capital Caring Health is one of the oldest and largest providers of advanced illness, elder health, home and hospice care in the country, caring for more than 2,000 patients per day in Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D.C. 2 February 18, 2021 sungazette.news Longtime Educator, Coach Lauded by Legislators for His Service to Students at Yorktown High School DAVE FACINOLI Starting in 1987, Stripe began his Stripe said the details of being a li- Sta Writer long run of coaching the girls and boys brarian carried over and helped keep his Yorktown cross country and indoor and coaching duties organized. In honor of his decades of molding outdoor track and eld teams for some 30 “Coach Stripe likely coached close to students and athletes at Yorktown and years each. 1,500 individual students during his ten- Bishop O’Connell high schools, the Vir- All of his teams included dozens of ure at Yorktown,” said Mike Krulfeld, ginia General Assembly has passed a participants, and Stripe tried hard to ac- the school’s director of student activities. resolution saluting Mark Stripe. knowledge each one each day at practice. “Amazingly, he probably still knows all of Stripe retired from Arlington Public He wrote them letters of encouragement their names and best times. His genuine Schools in 2020 after a coaching career during the summer, and the organized concern for each student is highlighted by that approached a half-century in dura- coached used his position of librarian to the inclusiveness he always brought to our tion. The legislative attaboy – patroned recruit athletes. cross country and track teams. He eagerly by Dels. Rip Sullivan and Patrick Hope “I enjoyed it and it was a lot of fun,” welcomed students of all abilities and cel- and passed unanimously by both houses Stripe said. “We never made cuts. Our ebrated their success, whether it was win- – saluted Stripe’s efforts motivating young philosophy was if you improved, that’s ning a race or simply nishing the race.” people “to challenge themselves and suc- why you were there. Not everyone was go- Stripe’s enthusiasm for coaching kept ceed, both in and out of the classroom, ing to win a state title. I had very good him dyeing his hair and beard in school leaving a legacy that will be admired for high school and college coaches. When I Mark Stripe colors for big meets, long after most other years to come.” started coaching, I wanted to do for ath- Virginia began in 1986 as the head girls area coaches had stopped the tradition. Last November, the Sun Gazette wrote letes what my coaches did for me.” cross country coach at private Bishop If he didn’t run with his athletes, he often at length about Stripe’s career. That article Following his graduation from Millers- O’Connell High for one year. He led the joined them on a bike instead. follows: ville University in Pennsylvania in 1974, Knights to a state championship that sea- During indoor track and eld meets at A summertime Amtrak trip years ago where he was a top cross country and son. Thomas Jefferson Community Center in is pretty much the reason Mark Stripe en- track and eld runner, Stripe’s 46-year Then it was on to Yorktown, start- Arlington, Stripe was a meet director and joyed a long career at Arlington’s York- high-school coaching career began later ing with coaching cross country, then the one known for wearing a colorful bal- town High School as a librarian and head that year in the same state at New Oxford eventually taking on the track and eld loon attached to his head so he could be coach of multiple sports. High School, lasting until 1986. programs. Meaning, he coached all three easily found when needed. Stripe, a longtime Vienna resident, re- After meeting his future wife, Eliza- seasons of the school year. When coaching Yorktown, his teams cently marked his retirement from all of beth, on an Amtrak trip, the Pennsyl- “It was a routine, coaching all three won multiple district crowns in all three those positions, but didn’t rule out the vania native moved to join the actress in seasons,” said Stripe, who played multiple sports. At one time, his Yorktown girls possibility of coaching again some day. Northern Virginia, where coincidently she sports at Schuylkill Haven High School in cross country squad owned the longest He still works some cross country and graduated from Yorktown in 1976. Pennsylvania. “If I sat out one season, it continuous streak of 22 seasons of quali- track and eld events as a meet ofcial. Stripe’s coaching career in Northern would be more work to get back in.” fying for the Northern Region meet. Choose Senior Living at Ashby Ponds or Greenspring. Here are 3 reasons why... 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