TheThe Inside Senior Living ArlinArlingtongton APRIL 2014 ConnectionConnection Sara Melendez enjoys a moment in boot camp class, which takes place at the Walter Reed Senior Center, in Arlington. /The Connection The Veronica Bruno Veronica ArlinArlingtongton Connection Photo by Photo www.ConnectionNewspapers.comLocal Media Connection LLC onlineArlington at www.connectionnewspapers.com Connection ❖ Senior Living April 2014 ❖ 1 ArtFest SeniorSenior LivingLiving News, Page 2 Sports page 13 ❖ Classified, page 14 Classified, ❖ Entertainment, page 10 Fifteen Candidates For Congress JeanJean MooreMoore andand MegMeg MackenzieMackenzie withwith News, Page 3 Kristi Provasnik, standing, with art on exhibit as part of the 12th annual ArtFest Week at Fort C.F. Smith Park. Arlington’s Frothy Past News, Page 3 Helping Ex-Offenders Adjust News, Page 3 Photo by Keith Waters/Kx Photography online at www.connectionnewspapers.com www.ConnectionNewspapers.comApril 2-8, 2014 Arlington Connection ❖ April 2-8, 2014 ❖ 1 News ArtFest The 12th annual ArtFest Week is a week-long celebra- tion of visual art through April 4 at Fort C.F. Smith Park. Rusty Lynn (left) and Dennis Crayon, members of the Arlington Artists Alliance, with their art- work. Photos by Keith Waters Kx Photography Some of the artwork on exhibit through April 4. Fire Victims Special Election Identified The victims of a March 15 fire on South Next Tuesday Langley Street have been identified by the A special election to fill the County medical examiner. Firefighters found Board seat vacated by Chris Yvonne Barrie, 73, and Bobbie Nelson Zimmerman — for his unexpired term Goins, 77, dead in a second floor bedroom. to end Dec. 31, 2014 — will be held Bystanders reported that Goins went back Tuesday, April 8. Polling place hours inside the home to help Barrie. The cause are 6 a.m.-7 p.m. of the fire remains under investigation. The following candidates are on the The Arlington County Fire Department ballot: Alan E. Howze – Democrat; asks that anyone with information or pho- Stephen W.C. Holbrook – Indepen- tos of the incident contact the department dent; Janet H. Murphy – Independent at [email protected]. Green Party; and John E. Vihstadt – Eighty firefighters from Arlington, Alex- Independent andria and Fairfax responded to the two- According to the Virginia Public Ac- alarm fire, which was reported at 3:39 p.m. cess Project on Tuesday, Howze has One firefighter was injured during the res- raised $84,984 in campaign funds cue attempt. with $5,170 cash on hand and Damage to the house was initially esti- Vihstadt has raised $84,154 with mated at $550,000. The Red Cross provided $20,379 cash on hand. immediate housing and assistance to seven The dollar amount raised is from people displaced by the fire. Jan. 1 through March 28; cash on The injured firefighter was treated for hand is as of March 28. smoke inhalation and transported to The two other candidates Holbrook Medstar Washington Hospital Center. He Murphy have not raised or spent any was admitted to the ICU overnight for ob- money, according to VPAP. servation and released the following day. 2 ❖ Arlington Connection ❖ April 2-8, 2014 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Arlington Connection Editor Steven Mauren News 703-778-9415 or [email protected] Fifteen Candidates For Congress 12 Democrats and three Republi- cans vie for congressional seat. By Michael Lee Pope Last week was the deadline for The Connection Democrats to submit petitions from registered voters in the 8th he race to replace U.S. congressional district. Two new T Rep. Jim Moran (D-8) is candidates filed paperwork, Satish shaping up to be the most Korpe and Nancy Najarian. And competitive election in living three candidates were still filing memory. An unprecedented 12 additional petitions at the last Arlington Historical Society candidates have filed paperwork minute to make sure they had the to run in the Democratic primary, 1,000 signatures of 8th congres- which is scheduled for June 10. sional district voters required by And three Republicans will be on the law. That meant that leaders the ballot when Republicans of the Eighth Congressional Dis- gather for a convention at Bishop trict Democratic Committee were O’Connell High School in Arling- scrambling this week to verify the ton on April 26. Because President signatures are valid. Barack Obama won the heavily “Everything takes time, and if Democratic district in 2012, most people submit early there’s a lot of the action will be on the Demo- more time to work with it,” said Arlington Brewing Company began operations in the 1890s. During Prohibition, cratic side. Margo Horner, chairwoman of the owners tried to turn a profit making a product known as Cherry Smash but were “I can’t imagine 12 candidates 8th Congressional District Demo- unable to make it work. would be in the race if important cratic Committee. “If things are figures in the Democratic Party in done near the end, it’s a little Virginia were trying to at least harder.” push certain candidates toward Arlington’s Frothy Past the front and encourage some to ALTHOUGH MOST of the atten- get out,” said Geoff Skelly, politi- tion has been focused on the barrels of beer a year, a capacity that became cal analyst with the University of Democrats, Republicans also have Event to trace county’s unwieldy when Prohibition struck in the 1920s. Virginia Center for Politics. “That a contested race to determine their The owners tried to convert the factory into mak- apparently has not happened.” See Fifteen, Page 9 history as a beer capital ing a soft drink known as Cherry Smash, but that effort failed. of the region. “They brewed it until 1930,” said Peck. “I don’t By Michael Lee Pope think it was all that successful or they would have Helping Ex-Offenders The Connection continued making it.” Volunteers support lthough few may realize it today, Ar- THE OWNERS of the brewery considered re- lington has a long and storied history opening it when Prohibition ended, but that never Offender Aid and Restoration. Awith beer. It’s a story that dates back came to pass. Instead the Marriott family pur- By Harry M. Covert Ulrich, a native-born Virginian, to the late 19th century, and one with chased the property, and the location of the old The Connection now in her mid-40s, whose jail life many twists and turns. The county was largely brewery is not the site of the Key Bridge Marriott. began at age 12 when an uncle rural back then, except for an industrial stretch The beer business remained moribund for much onsider the plight of men introduced her to drugs. Further of land along the river. One small brewery was of the 20th century, but now it’s making a come- and women released family abuse from a brother in her back. Craft breweries are popping up all over the C located next to Chain Bridge as early as the 1790s. from Virginia prisons. teenage years led to a horrific But it wasn’t until after the Civil War that the beer region, which will be another feature of the “A They have satisfied their so-called lifestyle of physical and mental really started to flow in the county, when the Ar- Heady History of Brewing.” debt to society. pain, drug abuse and incarcera- lington Brewing Company opened its doors in the “It’s a whole new wave of brewing renaissance A vast majority of them are with- tion. 1890s. in this area,” said Bill Madden, out family, without friends, with- There are hundreds of other “Beer was really what Wash- founder of Mad Fox Brewing. out any money and no chance for similar stories. They aren’t pretty ingtonians were drinking at the Details “People’s tastes are maturing, jobs. either. Fortu- time,” said Garrett Peck, Wash- and we’ve got a whole class of Recently, a nately this is ington historian. “Once prohi- The Arlington Historical Society will twentysomethings that now “We fed them, listened host historian Garrett Peck, author of man finished where Arling- bition hit, they went over to soft “Capital Beer: A Heady History of Brew- are the first generation to have 30 years of in- ton-based Of- drinks and bathtub gin.” ing in Washington, D.C.” at its next grown up having not known a carceration. A and helped them, if fender Aid The story of the Arlington monthly public program on Wednesday, world without craft-brewed bus ticket and Restora- April 16 at Mad Fox Brewing in Falls beer.” we knew how to.” Brewing Company will be at Church. The hour-long program will took him to tion (OAR) the center of “A Heady History begin at 7 p.m. at Mad Fox Brewing, 444 Madden will talk about his Arlington in — Geoffrey Gradler has stepped of Brewing.” Peck will explain W. Broad Street in Falls Church. A ques- history brewing in the region; late after- up and taken how the facility made at least tion-and-answer session will follow. The he started in the 1990s at Capi- noon. Stepping off the vehicle, he the lead. program is free and open to the public. two different kinds of lagers as Beer will be available for purchase, and tal City Brewing Company in was astounded by what he saw. People such as Geoffrey Gradler, well as a number of seasonal growlers can be filled. For additional Shirlington, where he started Three decades of imprisonment his wife Rebecca and their church brews. The massive factory Mad Fox Brewing information, contact his career after graduating left him in awe, panic and genu- assist in the continuing work of could brew as much as 100,000 703-942-6840.