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Arlingtonarlinthe Gton Connection in Rehearsal People, Page 5 Home Life Style Creating a Dream ArlingtonArlinThe gton Connection In Rehearsal People, Page 5 Home Life Style Creating a Dream Real Estate, Page 12 Real Estate, ❖ Bathroom Page 13 Tibetan Monks Orange Line Connection, Page 16 Share Culture ❖ News, Page 3 Sports, page 21 Rosemarie O’Connor Liberating ❖ as Dolly Levi and David Gillick as Horace Vandergelder Libraries in Bishop D.J. News, Page 3 O’Connell’s production of “The Matchmaker.” Entertainment, page 17 ❖ Classified, page 18 Classified, O’Connell Baseball Struggles with Fundamentals in Defeat Sports, Page 21 Requested in home 4-12-12 home in Requested Time sensitive material. sensitive Time Attention Postmaster: Attention PERMIT #322 PERMIT Easton, MD Easton, PAID U.S. Postage U.S. PRSRT STD PRSRT Photo by Louise Krafft Photo /The Connection online at www.connectionnewspapers.com www.ConnectionNewspapers.comApril 11-17, 2012 Arlington Connection ❖ April 11-17, 2012 ❖ 1 2 ❖ Arlington Connection ❖ April 11-17, 2012 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Arlington Connection Editor Steven Mauren News 703-778-9415 or [email protected] Liberating Libraries Bucking regional trends, Arlington is poised to increase library hours. By Michael Lee Pope $5 million from the library system. The Connection Outgoing County Executive Tony Griffin’s proposed budget suggests ven as Fairfax County and another $300,000 in cuts, al- EAlexandria consider yet though several members said they another round of budget would like to see some restoration cuts, members of the Arlington in staffing and hours. County Board are poised to restore “Shifting the chairs on the Ti- almost all the hours that were tanic doesn’t really do it,” said eliminated during the recession, Mason District Supervisor Penny restoring $605,000 into the system Gross. “We need to make sure that and adding eight new employees. what we decide is sustainable in The move comes at a time when the long run.” libraries across the region are see- Alexandria is also seeing an in- ing a steady increase in demand, creased number of visitors and a stretching library resources thin at spike in circulation, even as City a time when they are needed the Manager Rashad Young’s proposed most. County Board member Chris budget suggests slashes another Zimmerman says he’s been fight- $156,000 by eliminating three va- ing to make sure Arlington County cant positions. Although Young leads the way in suggests reallo- restoring the cating $110,000 Geshe Dr. Dorji Wangchuk and six monks from the Gaden Jangtse monastery recite a hours and staff- “They’re one of to fund part-time prayer for health at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington on April 9. ing that was lost help across the when Northern the great levelers system, the li- Virginia govern- brary system Sharing Culture, a Plea for Freedom ments began cut- in American would see a net “We lost our country, now we lose our culture,” ting back in reduction of Tibetan monks stop at local said Wangchuk. “Sometimes young Tibetans cross 2008. society that give $46,000. Cur- Buddhist meditation group. mountains to escape, and so many of them have lost “They’re one everybody a fair rently, no effort their lives. The lucky ones make it to India.” of the great lev- has been made to By Montie Martin On March 17, 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama fled Ti- elers in Ameri- shot.” restore any of the The Connection bet in the face of a determined Chinese army. Today can society that reduced hours to there are approximately 100,000 Tibetans who live give everybody a — Arlington County Board the local history he Gaden monks of Tibet ended their tour in Dharamsala, India. The exiled community contin- fair shot,” said member Chris Zimmerman special collec- of Northern Virginia Monday, April 9 at ues to advance peaceful ways to return to their home- Zimmerman. tions, which is Tthe Unitarian Universalist Church of Ar- land. “They are equal and open to all, open only one Saturday a month. lington. The group concluded their visit The Chinese government, however, maintains Ti- and give opportunities for any- “For people who have an every- with a 50-minute prayer for health, and a political betans were faced with a humanitarian crisis under body to, in one way or another, day job, that leaves a very limited message aimed at the plight of Tibetans who live the Buddhist system of governance. As the 50th an- improve themselves.” time to do research,” said Ted under the governance of the People’s Republic of niversary of the flight of the Dalai Lama approached So far, it’s a trend that has not Pulliam, author of “Historic Alex- China. in 2009, Chinese authorities pro- caught on. In Fairfax County, at- andria.” “The books in special col- “We are here to make a case for claimed March 28 to be “Serf tendance is up and demand has lections don’t circulate, so you our independent country, to show “Education is very Emancipation Day,” a holiday that increased over the last five years. have to be there to do the research. our culture, plead to look at us and celebrates the arrival of the And yet since the recession hit, And when it’s only open two nights see what is going on,” said Geshe useful, share your People’s Liberation Army, which is members of the Fairfax County a week and one Saturday a month, Dr. Dorji Wangchuk, the group’s considered to have saved one mil- Board of Supervisors have slashed See Libraries, Page 11 leader. “The situation is changing culture, then lion Tibetans from serfdom and everyday. This is a difficult time, a suddenly there will slavery. scary time.” “They are just talking, it is just Since 2009, 34 Tibetans have be peace.” the opposite,” said Wangchuk. Photo by Photo ended their lives through the prac- — Geshe Dr. Dorji Wangchuk, “China is a large country and Ti- tice of self-immolation in protest bet is small. They invaded because of hardening Chinese rule in Tibet. leader of the Gaden monks Tibet has many precious places, Many of the Tibetans feel the holy places.” Louise Krafft double blow of losing their country as well as their This year China issued a commentary against the culture, and attempt a dangerous crossing of the Dalai Lama. In a March 24 editorial carried by Xinhua Himalayas to escape. News, China’s official media outlet, the Dalai Lama was equated as being on par with the worst of the Nazi offenders. /The Connection “You must deal with that kind of hatred through Buddhist Meditation Groups peace and truth, not fighting,” said Wangchuk. “We Buddhist meditation groups meet every Monday at are here to show you our truth.” the Unitarian Universalist Church of Arlington at 4444 It was with this need for healing, physically, spiri- Arlington Blvd. Regular sessions include a 30-minute guided prayer, followed by a conversation about prac- tually and mentally, that the Gaden monks delivered tice in every day life. For more information visit: their 50-minute recitation prayer. While the length uucava.org. of the prayer may seem long by western standards, Even as demand for libraries grows, most Northern Vir- See Tibetan Monks, Page xx ginia governments have been slashing hours and staffing. www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Arlington Connection ❖ April 11-17, 2012 ❖ 3 News A local connection Titanic Centennial to historic story. Photo by Photo By Michael McMorrow years, Butt became friends with President women and children, and sternly blocking The Connection Theodore Roosevelt and his successor, Wil- men who stepped forward. One survivor liam Howard Taft, serving both as military remembered a group of hysterical women. his month marks the centennial aide in the White House. Stresses of those Butt stepped up, calmed them and gave as- Michael McMorrow of a great sea tragedy. The friendships were factors in Butt’s death. surances they would get through the situa- T“Women’s Titanic Memorial” is Roosevelt had been tion safely. This located in Washington and sits president and was woman ended by re- against the west wall of Fort McNair near irked by the conserva- marking “His was the the water at the end of “P” Street, SW. Its tism of his successor, “The sight of that man, manner we associate inscription is “To the brave men who per- Taft. Failing to win over calm, gentle and yet with the word aristo- ished in the wreck of the Titanic April 15, Republican leaders, crat.” Another woman /The Connection 1912. They gave their lives that women and Roosevelt started a firm as a rock, will confessed that “The children might be saved.” This is the story third party under the sight of that man, of one such man. “Bull Moose” banner. never leave me.” calm, gentle and yet Five passengers in the Titanic were self- With the Republicans — Titanic survivor firm as a rock, will declared residents of Washington, D.C. Two split, Democrat never leave me.” survived to live out their lives elsewhere and Woodrow Wilson With all lifeboats be buried far away. Two who died had little would win the White House. However, launched, Butt repaired to the First Class The Butt Cenotaph, Arlington or no connection with Northern Virginia. through 1911 and into 1912, Butt’s presi- Smoking Room located on the uppermost National Cemetery The remaining individual, with a posthu- dential friends waged a bitter battle. He level of the ship (A Deck) directly in line Porter Drive in Section 3. Today, the site is mous connection to Arlington, is Major stood in the middle torn in both directions. with the fourth smokestack. In a last game about 900 feet due south of the amphithe- Archibald Willingham Butt,U.
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