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Go to connectionnewspapers.com/subscribe NEWS DEPARTMENT: [email protected] Shirley Ruhe Contributing Photographer and Writer Johanna Pichlkostner Isani with adopted canines Lexie and Paxton [email protected] and puppy foster Bri. Joan Brady Contributing Photographer and Writer Cuter by the Dozens [email protected] Eden Brown Contributing Writer 25 Dogs and Counting [email protected] Ken Moore By Joan Brady much-needed way station. Arlington Connection Contributing Writer Johanna grew up with a dog [email protected] and cat, as well as two “boy” ham- couldn’t wait to vault from my sters who had a litter. Then anoth- ADVERTISING: parents’ house into college. Full er. Then another. And over time, For advertising information Idisclosure, my college was less there wasn’t a kid in her neighbor- [email protected] than 75 miles from my childhood hood who didn’t have one of the 703-778-9431 home and about a 12 minute drive Pichlkostner hamsters. Perhaps from two sets of aunts and uncles. Debbie Funk this was early preparation for the Display Advertising/National Sales So first step toward independence, fostering and dog placement that 703-778-9444 sure. But a huge step, not so much. she does so successfully now. [email protected] Never would I have moved to a Over the years, Johanna adopt- foreign country without my fami- ed two dogs from the Lost Dog and David Griffin ly at 18. But that’s exactly what Cat Rescue Foundation (LDCRF) Marketing Assistant Johanna Pichlkostner Isani did, 703-778-9431 and so it made sense for her to [email protected] leaving her small town in Germany look there when she decided she for an adventure as an au pair in wanted to explore opportunities Classified & Employment Northern Virginia. to get involved with animal res- Advertising I can only imagine what it was cue. A volunteer since 2019, Jo- 703-778-9431 like for Johanna (pronounced Yo- hanna could not be happier with hanna) to arrive here amidst the her choice to become part of the Editor & Publisher 1976 bicentennial celebrations. LDCRF family, “By joining LDCRF Mary Kimm Her first day was filled with pa- I found a welcoming organization [email protected] rades. And her first night was with an awesome group of people, @MaryKimm punctuated by loud and colorful all focused on doing good for the fireworks. “What a welcome to the Executive Vice President animals in their care.” Jerry Vernon country,” she told me. Johanna and I have been email- 703-549-0004 Truly settling in meant turning ing back and forth for more than [email protected] the English grammar and spelling a month now. And when I see her she had learned in school, into email address pop up in my inbox, Art/Design: fluid conversation. TV became a Laurence Foong, John Heinly, I fix myself a cup of coffee and Ali Khaligh tool to improve her skills, but she imagine there is no pandemic and Production Manager: says it was definitely not a fast we are sitting across the table at a Geovani Flores process. Johanna quickly came to local coffee shop as I read about appreciate the perfect placement her many fosters. of Northern Virginia with its short As a rescue beagle pet-mom, I CIRCULATION [email protected] distances from the ocean, moun- was especially touched to learn tains, cities and countryside. And Barney’s story, which has been ed- she loved having access to so many ited for length and clarity. wonderful museums. Northern Vir- “I took in Barney the beagle in ginia became home and ultimately June of last year. This scared boy she settled and raised her family in would scamper to the very back Alexandria; three sons, a couple of of his kennel when anyone came cats and a dog. to see him. [After he came home We were introduced by a mutu- with me,] the first few days he al friend who couldn’t say enough kept his distance, giving me a wide about Johanna’s impact on the berth when coming in or going out success of the 25 foster dogs for to the backyard. [He would] give whom Johanna’s home has been a See ArPets, Page 6 2 v Arlington Connection v April 7-13, 2021 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com ArlingtonThe News Connection www.ConnectionNewspapers.com @ArlConnection An independent, locally owned weekly newspaper delivered Yorktown High Holds School-wide to homes and businesses. Published by Local Media Connection LLC Assembly Honoring Black History 1606 King Street Alexandria, Virginia 22314 Free digital edition delivered to Ask yourself how you may have contributed to racism and do better, students say. your email box. Go to By Eden Brown connectionnewspapers.com/subscribe “discriminatory” minority achieve- Arlington Connection ment programs. There were even blatantly racist statements that NEWS DEPARTMENT: arguarite Gooden referenced commonly-used stereo- [email protected] told the group of types about Black people.” Shirley Ruhe over 1200 Yorktown But the comments demonstrat- High School students Contributing Photographer and WriterM ed that a problem remains. “This [email protected] at an assembly Feb. 26 that as is what black and other non-white one of two Black students in her students have been saying for de- Joan Brady class at Yorktown, she was called cades.” Contributing Photographer and Writer a “jungle bunny” — among other Benites added, “This conference [email protected] things — by her classmates. She is absolutely one small piece of our Eden Brown was integrating a school 59 years work. I am so heartened we were Contributing Writer ago in her own neighborhood that able to do this. We have never been [email protected] had not allowed Black students to able to have a school-wide assem- attend. She was so harassed in her bly for [Black History Month]. Ken Moore math class, several boys had to be They have always been offered to Contributing Writer taken out of the classroom to allow [email protected] whichever teachers want to sign her to remain. Tia Alfred and Ben up to bring their classes. I think the Moody Jr. also attended Yorktown assembly would have happened ADVERTISING: as it slowly integrated, and told For advertising information even without the RJ Conference [email protected] similar stories of being Black in a because of Dr. Clark’s leadership. 703-778-9431 mostly white school. Twitter Via This assembly was focused on our Students saw, in a video about local history and the experience Debbie Funk housing segregation in Arlington, of these alumni, but we are doing Display Advertising/National Sales newspaper advertisements from 703-778-9444 other things to address the broad- [email protected] the 1950s designed to lure white er issues. I am also heartened that residents of Washington, D.C. to Yorktown High School. we are finally openly naming rac- David Griffin safe Arlington neighborhoods with ism, anti-blackness, hate, etc. for Marketing Assistant fresh air and “nice white neigh- what it is. In the past I have been 703-778-9431 bors.” Many property deeds ex- [email protected] frustrated by the unwillingness to cluded people of African heritage by Hannah Knittig Photos address these issues head on and Classified & Employment from purchasing homes. honestly, usually because of fear.” Advertising But the biggest emotional im- 703-778-9431 pact for Hannah Knittig, a senior ONE OUTCOME of the conference who had been an organizer of the was a list of the questions posed by assembly, came when recent stu- Editor & Publisher students. “There were some ques- Mary Kimm dents of color at Yorktown said tions about what non-POC [Person [email protected] they could relate to the stories of of Color] folks can do and that will @MaryKimm being Black at Yorktown. It was all be addressed in the Q&A document too real to them in the year 2021, we are preparing,” said Benites. Executive Vice President 50 years later. Jerry Vernon “Our messaging is that white peo- The mandatory school-wide as- 703-549-0004 The panelists were Yorktown alumni from the Donté Allen, a Yorktown senior, introduced the ple need to seek out ways to learn [email protected] sembly on Feb. 26 this year was 70’s onward, and one current senior, Rylei Porter. Housing Alliance video at the school wide assembly. the history, dismantle their biases, partly the result of a Restorative etc. without expecting People of Art/Design: Justice Conference held at YHS students and staff would learn an informative.” In the open-ended in the school population. One stu- Color to do this for them. Having Laurence Foong, John Heinly, last June after the incident of a overview of the history of hous- comment section, the vast majority dent asked, “Why do we even need said that, we will provide contin- Ali Khaligh racially insensitive banner.