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As the year winds to a close and we prepare to jump into 2016, it’s time to take a look back at what transpired in Alexandria during the past 12 months. In this, our annual year-end review issue, the pages that follow contain summaries of the top news stories as well as photos from 2015. When we review the year in total, three themes emerge: transitions, closure and com-petence. The year’s biggest news story is also the city’s biggest change. Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg will take the reins as Alexandria’s mayor on Jan-uary 4 after defeating four-term incumbent Bill Euille twice in 2015. She first earned a close vic-tory over Euille and former Mayor Kerry Don-ley in the June Democratic primary. Euille then launched a divisive write-in campaign, during which he had to resign from the city’s Democratic Party. The effort fell well short in the November general election, as Silberberg triumphed by 26 percentage points. Another significant transition occurred in April, when City Council removed the “act-ing” moniker from Mark Jinks’ title and made him the permanent city manager. Jinks had an impressive three-month tenure as acting head, including a balanced budget that did not raise the property tax rate. There was closure in November when a Fair-fax County jury found Charles Severance guilty of all 10 charges brought against him for the mur-ders of Nancy Dunning, Ronald Kirby and Ruth-anne Lodato. While the conviction cannot erase the losses suffered by family and friends of the slain Alexandrians, hopefully the knowledge that Severance will spend the rest of his life behind bars offers some measure of consolation. A different kind of closure also took place in 2015, as a number of prominent Alexandrians re-tired or closed their businesses. St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub founder Nora Partlow, one of the leaders of the Del Ray business community, sold her iconic establishment and retired. Suzanne Maxey, be-loved principal of T.C. Williams High School, retired in June at the end of the 2014-2015 school year. And longtime proprietors Joe Johnson, Bar-bara Mancini and Mark and Laura Abraham re-

tired and closed Bradlee Shoe Repair, Mancini’s Cafe and Bakery, and Monroe’s, respectively. In June, officer Peter LaBoy, who made a miracu-lous recovery after being shot in the head in 2013, retired from the Alexandria Police Department. There are numerous kudos to be handed out under the competence banner. Foremost is the city’s police department, along with Common-wealth’s Attorney Bryan Porter, for their work over many long years on the Severance case. They also deserve recognition for their work in the case involving Dawit Seyoum, from whom they accepted a not guilty plea by reason of in-sanity this month in the murder of Carolyn Cross, following two deadlocked juries. We hope city police continue their good work in 2016 and are able to identify the perpetrators of the city’s four homicides from this year, the last two of which have especially unnerved residents because of their brutality and the as-yet uncon-firmed possibility of gang involvement. Also worthy of praise are Alexandria City Public Schools Superintendent Alvin Crawley and the city school board for the tremendous, across-the-board improvements made this year on state standardized tests by city schools. In ad-dition, ACT for Alexandria deserves praise for generating more than $1.25 million in donations during Spring2Action in April. In the not-as-competent category is the deba-cle surrounding the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, where the federal government gaveth in August, when Alexandria was awarded the agency’s headquarters, to considerable fan-fare. Alas, the feds quickly taketh away in No-vember, when a federal judge vacated the award because of a flawed bid. Finally, we said goodbyes to many city resi-dents who passed away in 2015, including civil rights activists Ferdinand Day and Melvin Miller in January and May, respectively; NBA trail-blazer Earl Lloyd in March; preservationist and philanthropist Betty Wright in June; economist Carolyn Mackay in September; pediatrician Rob-ert Wineland in October; and historian William F. Smith in November. May they rest in peace. Yes, it was quite a year. Bring on 2016!

A look back at

2015


POLICE BEATThe following incidents occurred between December 22 and December 29.

*Editor’s note: Police reports are not considered public information in Virginia. The Alexandria Police Department is not required to supply the public at large with detailed information on criminal cases.

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Suspect arrested after Old Town cell phone robbery

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Police investigate robbery near cora Kelly elementary

Alexandria police have a suspect in custody follow-ing what they described as a drunken cell phone robbery in Old Town early Sunday morning. Police spokeswoman Crys-tal Nosal said in the early

hours of December 27, police responded to the 100 block of King St. A victim in his 30s re-ported that a man assaulted him and stole his cell phone. Offi-cers quickly found and appre-hended a 21-year-old suspect. Nosal described the inci-

dent as a “brawl.” She did not have information about the identity of the suspect, but said he has been charged with robbery and being drunk in public.

- Erich Wagner

Alexandria police said they are investigating a car-jacking that took place De-cember 22 in a parking lot along Van Dorn Street. Around 7:15 p.m., police responded to a parking lot at the intersection of Van Dorn Street and Maris Avenue. Po-

lice spokeswoman Crystal No-sal said three suspects, one of whom brandished a gun, had attempted to steal a person’s vehicle, but it did not start. The suspects then ap-proached a woman who had just parked her white sedan and stole it, Nosal said. Nobody was

injured in the incident. Nosal said she had no ad-ditional information about the identity of the suspects, but that police in another ju-risdiction have since recov-ered the stolen vehicle.

- Erich Wagner

City police responded to the report of a robbery near Cora Kelly Elementary School on the night of December 23. Alexandria Police De-partment spokeswoman Crystal Nosal said around 11 p.m., police responded to the unit block of W. Reed Ave.

When they arrived, a victim reported that three suspects displayed one firearm and stole cash before fleeing the area. No one was injured in the incident. Nosal said that al-though some on social me-dia speculated that the trio

of suspects may be the same as in last week’s carjacking along Van Dorn Street, there is no evidence to support such an assertion: they were two different crimes reported in different areas of the city.

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FILE PHOTOMETRO TRAGEDY HITS HOME IN ALEXANDRIA January’s Metro train malfunction between L’Enfant Plaza and the bridge over the Potomac River claimed the life of Alexandria resident Carol Glover, 61, who died from smoke inhalation. A group of local teenagers on their way home from Gonzaga College High School also were on the train, and told of how they had to evacu-ate the train and walk through the tunnel to safety.

POLICE CONVENE MEETING ON COMMUNITY RELATIONS Residents and law enforcement of-ficials sparked renewed conversations in January about how to improve and maintain positive rela-tionships with the community, following announcements last year that grand juries would not indict officers in connection with the deaths of unarmed black suspects in Ferguson, Mo. and New York City. Although some residents and local civil rights leaders spoke of racial and class-based profiling, police officials said they wanted to be proactive in dealing with complaints of misconduct.

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FERDINAND DAY DEAD AT 96 Local civil rights leader Ferdinand Day died January 2 at the age of 96. Day was the first black man appointed to the Alexandria School Board in 1964, 10 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to desegregate public schools in Brown vs. Board of Education. He helped steer the school sys-tem to consolidate its three high schools into the integrated T.C. Williams, and remained involved in local politics and civil rights issues for decades.

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ALEXANDRIANS RESCUE DOGS FROM MEAT FARM Officials at the Animal Welfare League of Alexandria welcomed nearly two dozen dogs to the Vola Lawson animal shelter after they were rescued from a dog meat farm in South Korea. The pups were watched for signs of illness, cleaned and groomed before being put up for adoption.

PHOTO/SUSAN HALE THOMASLOCAL AUTHOR WINS DRUE HEINZ PRIZE Alexandria author Leslie Pietrzyk was awarded the prestigious Drue Heinz Litera-ture prize for her manuscript of short stories “This Angel on My Chest,” which are written from the perspective of young women who suffer the sudden loss of a husband. Despite her acclaim, she remains involved in local writing clubs, where residents help each other keep their minds and pencils sharp.


MIXING STRINGS WITH ROCK ’N’ ROLL Mark Woods, a Juilliard-trained violinist and original member of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, visited Francis Hammond Middle School to lead 370 Alexandria City Public Schools orchestra students in a concert that blended classical and rock compositions and inspire them to think beyond the notes on the page.


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ELECTION RUMORS START EARLY IN PORT CITY Although the June Democratic primary was still months away, the political rumor mill began quickly in 2015. Mayor Bill Euille and former Mayor Kerry Donley both announced their can-didacies along with most sitting city councilors, but Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg held back on a formal announcement about her intentions, leaving many to spec-ulate she was planning a mayoral campaign of her own.

T.C. SOCCER STANDOUTS COMMIT TO MARYLAND Jorge Calix and Eryk Williamson, both T.C. Williams students and players with D.C. United’s youth academy, agreed to play at the college level for the University of Maryland. In their first season with the Terps, Williamson made an immediate impact, tallying 6 goals and 5 assists, while Calix was a strong substitute, scoring 1 goal and assisting in 4 others.

COUNCIL APPROVES CONTROVERSIAL ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY City councilors voted 6-1 to approve a 75,000-square-foot assisted living facility for residents with Alzheimer’s and other memory-related ailments following a contentious public hearing that featured strident supporters and opponents alike. Residents in favor of the project, which was proposed for a residential lot along King Street, argued that such a facility is sorely needed in Alexandria, while opponents called it overly dense and an egregious example of spot zoning.


ASTRONAUT VISITS JEFFERSON-HOUSTON Astronaut Charles Bold-en spoke to more than 400 students at Jefferson-Houston School about his experience working as an astronaut with NASA and encouraging them to pursue learning in science, technology, engineering and mathemat-ics. He also spoke of his struggle as a teenager in the still-segregated South to secure admission to one of the nation’s military academies.

T.C. PRINCIPAL ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT T.C. Williams Principal Suzanne Maxey an-nounced in February that she would retire at the end of the 2014-2015 school year, mark-ing the end of a 40-year ca-reer in education. Maxey was praised for her easy connec-tion with students and ability to inspire them to meet their potential in her five years at the helm of Alexandria’s only public high school.



CITY COUNCIL APPROVES FORT WARD PLAN DESPITE FEARS Alexandria city councilors unanimously approved a plan to preserve Fort Ward Park despite con-cerns from residents that the roadmap did not do enough to ensure ancestors’ un-marked graves are found and preserved. Descendants of the Fort Ward community said the top priority should be to find the graves, while city historic preservation of-ficials said the plan attempts to reach that goal despite limited funding for the effort.


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THOMAS FAMILY OF METRO INCIDENT VICTIM FILE SUIT AGAINST WMATA The sons of Carol Glover, who died from smoke inhalation in Janu-ary’s electrical failure outside of the L’Enfant Plaza Metro station, filed a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority. The family contended that the agency was negligent by failing to inspect and maintain the third rail and ventilation systems, as well as failing to train its employees in the proper activation of the ventila-tion system in the event of a fire or smoke emergency.

RASHAD YOUNG REFLECTS ON TENURE AS CITY MANAGER A month after leaving Alexandria to join D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s ad-ministration, former City Manager Rashad Young said he was proud of his work in the Port City, despite the controversy it often caused, from the waterfront and Beauregard plans to the long-running dispute over the Old Dominion Boat Club property. “I have to remember that people aren’t criticizing me, Rashad Young, the individual. A lot fewer people know me as the individual; they know me as the city manager and they’re criticizing the person occupying that seat,” he said.


ACCOLADES POUR IN FOR ALEXANDRIA BOXING CLUB Athletes who trained at the local box-ing club held at Charles Houston Recreation Center continued to topple the competition in 2015, despite uncertainty about the future of the club amid lease discussions with City Hall. Middleweight fighter Antoine Douglas took down Thomas LaManna in the sixth round of a fight that was featured on Showtime’s “ShoBox: The Next Generation.”

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BUILDING A NEW BOAT CLUB Officials with the city planning commission voted in March to approve plans for a new head-quarters for the Old Dominion Boat Club, ending decades of legal battles over the club’s prop-erty at the foot of King Street. After city leaders threatened to use eminent domain to claim the club’s property in 2014, the club came to an agreement in which they would swap for the city-owned Beachcomber prop-erty and receive $5 million to go toward building a new clubhouse.

ACPS ANNOUNCESREDISTRICTING PLANSSchools Superintendent Alvin Crawley announced in March that he would pursue an ef-fort to redraw public school boundaries at the elemen-tary school level in an effort to ease the strain of increas-ing enrollment. Alexandria’s school boundaries have not been revised since 1999, but school board members were concerned at the time about how the plan would interact with the district’s capital improvement plans, among other issues.

PHOTO/SUSAN HALE THOMASCHINQUAPIN DEAD IN THE WATER? A proposal to build a new Olympic-sized pool at Chinquapin Park Recreation Center was put on hold after cost estimates for the project came in more than 50 percent higher than previous projections, at a total of $30.7 million. Consultants said the uncertainty of the site, including issues like stormwater management, moving utilities and potential soil issues led to the increase in price.

NO NEW TAXES IN BUDGET PROPOSAL Despite be-ing given a go-ahead by

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essary to balance the fiscal 2016 budget, then-Acting City Manager Mark Jinks delivered a budget pro-posal that kept the city’s property tax rate flat in March. But schools officials warned that the proposal did not do enough to cover the cost of educating the city’s public schools students.

NORFOLK SOUTHERNANNOUNCES EXPANSION PLAN Regional railroad giant Norfolk Southern announced plans to expand operations at its ethanol transloading facility on the West End, to the chagrin of local of-ficials and residents. Leaders and officials with the city’s de-partment of transportation and environmental services have long struggled to mitigate the en-vironmental and safety risks as-sociated with the facility, which originally was built without city approval in 2008.


KRUPICKA CALLS IT A DAY After more than a decade in Al-exandria politics, Delegate Rob Krupicka (D-45) announced in March that he would not seek re-election this year, choosing in-stead to focus on his budding doughnut shop business, Sugar Shack. “Between business, family and public service, it is clear that I’m burning more candles at more ends than I can sustain,” Krupicka said at the time. The announcement sparked a flurry of political machinations, as local Democrats lined up to vie to succeed him in Richmond.


NBA TRAILBLAZER DEAD AT 86 Alexandria native Earl Lloyd, who broke the color barrier in professional basketball more than 60 years ago, died in Tennessee at the age of 86. Lloyd was an alumnus of Parker-Gray High School, and became the first black NBA player after being drafted by the Washington Capitals in 1950. And in 2014, he was among the first slate of inductees to the T.C. Williams Athletic Hall of Fame.


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PHOTO/ERICH WAGNERWEST END FIRE STATION OPENS WITHOUT FIREFIGHTERS Residents bemoaned the scheduling of a ribbon-cutting ceremony, later cancelled, at Alexandria’s latest fire station — Station 210 in the Eisenhower Valley — because the department was not able to staff a fire engine there. The outcry led to city councilors pushing to find a way to secure firefighter staffing at the station by the end of 2015.

PHOTO/SUSAN HALE THOMASVIRGINIA APPROVES GENON PLANT CLEAN-UP PLAN The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality gave preliminary ap-proval to energy giant NRG’s plan to clean up the site of the closed GenOn coal-fired power plant in North Old Town. Residents and lo-cal officials worked for years to have the plant shut down, and the property is now eyed for redevelopment.

FIVE DEMOCRATS VIE FOR OPEN SEAT FOLLOWING ROB KRUPICKA RETIREMENTDelegate Rob Krupicka’s surprise announcement that he would not

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COUNCIL DEBATES FUTURE OF CITY HALL Vice Mayor Al-lison Silberberg and Mayor Bill Euille traded barbs during a bud-get work session over whether Euille had proposed selling City Hall in the previous year’s bud-get talks. Silberberg accused Euille of suggesting that the city sell the building to develop-ers, but the mayor countered by saying he meant that there are several ways to finance needed repairs for the building and sug-gested the attack was politically motivated ahead of the June Democratic primary for mayor.

seek re-election may have left only a 10-day window for candidates to build a campaign infrastructure before the filing deadline, but five local Democrats were able to announce their candidacies in time. The contenders included businessman Larry Altenburg, city spokesman Craig Fifer, leadership con-sultant Julie Jakopic, liberal radio host Mark Levine and Alexandria Democratic Committee Chairman Clarence Tong.


MAYORAL CANDIDATES RUN THE DEBATE GAMUT Ahead of June’s Democratic primary, Mayor Bill Euille, former Mayor Kerry Donley and Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg sparred several times in May debates. The mayoral candidates touted their own records, while trading barbs on waterfront development, the stalled Landmark Mall redevelopment, the BRAC building on the West End now known as Mark Center and other issues.PHOTO/ERICH WAGNER

SEVERANCE COMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL A Fairfax County judge ruled in April that Charles Severance was competent to stand trial. Severance was ac-cused in the shooting deaths of three prominent Alexandrians since 2003. Nancy Dunning was killed in 2003, Ronald Kirby was found dead in his home in November 2013 and local piano teacher Ruthanne Lodato was shot and killed in February 2014. Severance had previously refused to be interviewed by a court-appointed psychiatrist and was sent temporarily to a state mental hospital for evaluation.

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LONGTIME AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVOCATE DEAD AT 83 Local civil rights icon and affordable housing advo-cate Melvin Miller May 10 at the age of 83. Miller was in-volved in lunch-counter sit-ins in Arlington in the 1960s and got involved in affordable hous-ing issues after he and his wife first struggled to find a home in the Port City. He served as chairman of the Alexandria Re-development and Housing Au-thority for nearly 20 years.

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LONGTIME LOCAL JUDGE DEAD AT 89 Former Alexandria Judge and longtime local luminary Daniel Fairfax O’Flaherty died in 2015 at the age of 89. O’Flaherty served as a judge in the Alexandria General District Court for more than 40 years, and was heavily involved with the Bal-lyshaners and the creation of the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade.

FILE PHOTOJUDGE DECLARES MISTRIAL IN SEYOUM CASE Alexandria Cir-cuit Court Judge Nolan B. Dawkins declared a mistrial in April in the Dawit Seyoum murder trial after a jury was unable to reach a verdict. Seyoum was accused in the death of D.C. Department of Corrections Deputy Director Carolyn Cross in her apartment on Kenmore Ave-nue. Although Seyoum confessed to the crime, he pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.

JINKS TAKES THE REINS City Council formally appointed Mark Jinks to serve as Alexandria’s permanent city manager in April, following several months on the job in an acting capacity. Jinks dealt with a number of weighty issues ahead of the announce-ment, from proposing the fiscal 2016 budget to looking for ways to oppose Norfolk Southern’s plan to expand its ethanol trans-loading facility on the West End. “On the one hand, it was a chal-lenge, but on the other, we had a lot of help and a lot of ideas, and everyone pulled their weight and contributed ideas that ended up with a responsibly balanced budget with no tax increases and no gimmicks,” he said at the time.

COUNCIL RESTORES FUNDING FOR STATION 210, SCHOOLSCity council voted in May to add funding to Alexan-dria City Public Schools and to provide firefighter staffing at Station 210 by the end of 2015 in its final deliberations on the fiscal 2016 budget. But left on the cutting room floor was $180,000 to provide rent relief for 29 seniors and people with disabilities who were still on the city’s waiting list.

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LOCAL EDUCATOR WINS FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIP Kate Fitzpatrick, an art teacher at the Northern Virginia Juvenile Detention Center in Alexan-dria, was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to travel to India to research ways to incorpo-rate elements of yoga into her curriculum. “You see every kind of kid. You see the kids that did something minor to some-thing like a huge offense,” Fitzpatrick told the Times. “I’m trying to give them skills to manage themselves to be able to go back to the breath. I al-ways tell them: ‘Even if you don’t do the yoga pose you can breathe with us.’” PHOTO/SUSAN HALE THOMAS


Now to January 6CHRISTMAS AT MOUNT VERNON Visit George Washington’s estate and see Aladdin the camel on the grounds, in honor of the camel that Washington paid to visit Mount Vernon in 1787. Stroll through Mount Vernon’s modern buildings and view sparkling holiday decorations, featur-ing 12 dazzling Christmas trees and historical chocolate-making demon-strations. Experience Christmas as the Washingtons would have celebrated it on a tour of the mansion, including the rarely-open third floor.Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.Location: George Washington’s Mount Vernon, 3200 Mount Vernon Memorial HighwayInformation: [email protected] or www.mountvernon.org

December 31FIRST NIGHT ALEXANDRIA A spectacular fireworks display over the Potomac River will ring in the New Year as part of First Night Alexandria, the largest family-friendly New Year's Eve party in the region. All of Old Town will be buzzing with activity throughout the day. Afternoon activities and the an-nual Fun Hunt will be followed at 7 p.m. by live musical performances at more than 20 indoor venues.Time: Thursday 2 p.m. to Fri 12:30 a.m.Location: VariousInformation: 703-746-3299, [email protected] or www.firstnightalexandria.org

January 6EPIPHANY EVENSONG Grant Hellmers, organist-choirmaster, will di-rect the adult choir in a choral evensong on the Feast of the Epiphany. Music by Jacob Handl, Charles Villiers Stanford, Everett Titcomb and William Smith of Durham will be featured. Everyone is welcome at the service and the

reception that follows. Donations and non-perishable foods will be accepted for St. Paul’s Lazarus Ministry.Time: 7:30 p.m.Location: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 228 S. Pitt St.Information: 703-549-3312 or [email protected]

January 7-21CIVIL WAR BALL DANCE CLASSES In preparation for the Civil War Ball on January 23, learn the waltz, polka, Virginia Reel and more from an expert dance master. Admission costs $12 per class or $30 for the series. Reservations are recommended. Tick-ets can be purchased online.Time: Each Tuesday, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.Location: Gadsby's Tavern Museum, 134 N. Royal St.Information: shop.alexandriava.gov

January 8THE CECILIAN PLAYERS A con-cert consisting of violin, cello and piano Trios with works of Debussy, Ravel and Shostakovich. Admission is free but contributions are welcomed.Time: 8 to 10:30 p.m.Location: Blessed Sacrament Catho-lic Church, 1427 W. Braddock RoadInformation: 703-998-6100 or [email protected]

January 10WINTER WARMER LADIES TEA Choose from a variety of 18th-century desserts while you sip John Gadsby's special blend of tea or take a cup of American Heritage Chocolate. Historic guest Dolley Madison will catch you up on the latest Alexandria news during the tea. Admission costs $35 per person.Time: 3 to 5 p.m.Location: Gadsby's Tavern Museum, 134 N. Royal St.Information: shop.alexandriava.gov

January 12ARMCHAIR TRAVEL PRESENTS: AN AFRICAN SAFARI Join South African Mark Ridge on a safari through Tanzania, Botswana and South Africa. Marvel at stunning images while learn-ing about game parks and seasons and his life in the bush.Time: 7 to 8:30 p.m.Location: Beatley Central Library 5005 Duke St.Information: 703-746-1751 or www.alexandria.lib.va.us

January 13SISTERS IN CRIME First time nov-elists talk about how they got published, how the experience differs from what they expected and the most startling or amusing fan letters they have received.Time: 7 to 8:30 p.m.Location: Beatley Central Library, 5005 Duke St.Information: 703-746-1751 or www.alexandria.lib.va.us

FITNESS FOR KIDS An instructor from My Gym will speak on keeping kids fit in the winter at the MOMS Club of Alexandria South monthly meeting. Children are welcome at the meetingTime: 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Location: Mount Vernon Presbyterian Church, 2001 Sherwood Hall LaneInformation: [email protected] or southalexandriamomsclub.webs.com.

January 16FAMILY ART WORKSHOP:

SHAPE TAPE ART Make a work of art on canvas using tape, acrylic paint and your imagination in a fun workshop for children as young as 2. No art experi-ence is necessary.Time: 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.Location: Convergence, 1801 N Quaker LaneInformation: 703-944-4831

January 17CELEBRATE COMMUNITY 5K AND 1K An event to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy, with a food drive to benefit ALIVE!Time: 8 to 11 a.m.Location: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, 600 Dulany St.Information: 703-998-6460 or [email protected]

January 22FAMILY FUN NIGHT Bring the whole family to Family Fun Nights for swimming and fun for all ages. Pool games include beach ball relays, water basketball, diving for prizes and fun on the “Aqua Challenge” floating obstacle course. Participate in swimming skill assessments for youth, learn pool safety tips and more.Time: 6 to 9 p.m.Location: Chinquapin Park Recreation Center & Aquatics Facility, 3210 King St.Information: 703-746-5435 or [email protected]

January 23LADIES NIGHT OUT ART WORKSHOP: VISION BOARD Create a collage expressing who you are as an individual: your passions, interest, goals, hobbies and inner attributes. A professional artist will teach you how to organize and compose your board to tell a story about you.Time: 7 to 9:30 p.m.Location: Convergence, 1801 N Quaker LaneInformation: 703-944-4831

CIVIL WAR BALL Enjoy an evening from the 1860s in the historic Gadsby’s Tavern ballroom at the Civil War Ball. The evening will include live music, dance instruction and period desserts. Period attire, either civilian or military, is encouraged.Time: 8 to 11 p.m.Location: Gadsby's Tavern Museum, 134 N. Royal St.Information: 703-746-4242 or gads-bys.tavern@alexandriava.govmeetingsandeventsofdistinction.com or www.firstnightalexandria.org

January 26HOMESCHOOL DAY: ORVILLE WRIGHT’S FLIGHT IN ALEXAN-DRIA Hear about Orville Wright’s his-toric flight from Fort Myer to Alexandria and test the basic principles of flight.Time: 1 to 2:30 p.m.Location: The Lyceum, 201 S. Wash-ington St.Information: 703-746-4242 or shop.alexandriava.gov

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BIRTHNIGHT BALL DANCE CLASS In preparation for the Birth-night Ball on February 13, learn 18th-century English country dancing from expert dance instructors. Tickets cost $12 per class or $30 for the series.Time: Each Thursday, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.Location: Gadsby’s Tavern, 134 N. Royal St.Information: shop.alexandriava.gov

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ACPS NAMES NEW T.C. WILLIAMS PRINCIPAL Alexandria City Pub-lic Schools officials announced in May that Jesse Dingle would succeed the retiring Suzanne Maxey as principal of T.C. Wil-liams. At an early meeting with parents and teachers, Dingle discussed his own experience as a student with a stutter in North Carolina and his vision for the future of Alexandria’s only public high school. “In my core, I believe that it doesn’t matter where you come from, no matter who you are, or how you started out. It doesn’t matter,” Dingle said in May. “There’s something about you that’s going to make somebody say, ‘You can do this. You can achieve.’”

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BISHOP IRETON TRIUMPHS OVER SAINTS IN VISAA GIRLS LACROSSE FINAL The Bishop Ireton girls lacrosse team was vic-torious in the Virginia Independent Schools Athletic Association final against St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes, winning by a score of 12-10. The championship marked the end of a long coach-player rela-tionship between senior Charlotte Sofield and her father, Rick So-field as she prepared to enroll at the University of North Carolina.

PHOTO/SUSAN HALE THOMASALEXANDRIA VET BURIED ON ANNIVERSARY OF V-E DAY For the family of Alexandria resident and World War II veteran Navy Cmdr. Thomas Richard Downs, his burial was particularly moving: he was buried at Arlington National Cemetery on the 70th anniversary of the end of the conflict in Europe. Family and friends said Downs was always focused on education and was a strong supporter of the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, earning the moniker of “Mr. Symphony” for his enthusiasm for the group.

COUNCIL APPROVES POTOMAC YARD METRO SITE After years of planning and discussion, city councilors voted unani-mously in favor of the so-called Alternative B for the planned Po-tomac Yard Metro station, despite concerns about the project’s financing. The city expected to receive $69.5 million from the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority, although the exact amount of funding had not yet been made official. Other funding streams, including grants, developer contributions and the fate of a previously approved special tax district in the neighborhood also remained uncertain at the time of the site’s approval.

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SILBERBERG WINS DEMOCRATIC MAYORAL PRIMARY Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg shocked the Alexandria political world in June, win-nings the three-way Democratic primary for mayor by a slim margin. She beat incumbent Mayor Bill Euille by 318 votes, while former May-or Kerry Donley finished in third. And in the race to succeed Delegate Rob Krupicka (D-45) in Richmond, liberal talk radio host Mark Levine defeated four other contenders to represent the Democrats on the ballot in November.

PHOTO/CHRIS TEALENEIGHBORS CHALLENGE LA BERGERIE RELOCATION IN COURT Residents who live near the property where La Bergerie own-ers Laurent Janowsky and Margaret Ticer Janowsky plan to move the restaurant and open a small inn sued the Alexandria City Council in June, accusing councilors of “illegal spot zoning,” in addition to fa-voring the project because Ticer Janowsky is the daughter of former Mayor and state Sen. Patsy Ticer.


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10 p.m., the restaurant will offer the regular menu, New Year’s specials and some festive beverage options to help toast farewell to 2015. As always, Bastille and Bis-trot Royal have special evenings planned for diners. Bistrot Royal offers a brilliant four-course prix fixe New Year’s Eve dinner for $65 per person from 4:30 to 10:00 p.m. And at 2 p.m., Bastille will open with a happy hour until 9:00 p.m. in the bar. From 4:30 to 10 p.m., the special holiday menu will be avail-able as prix fixe only in the main dining rooms. The Pines of Florence is open 365 days a year, and this week is no different, although it will offer New Year’s Eve specials to make the evening more festive. All of these restaurants are pleased to offer Alexandrians fabu-lous dining options that are delec-table and enticing, at wide range of prices this New Year’s.

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SCHOOL BOARDAPPROVES PAY RAISE FOR ACPS EMPLOYEES As members of the Alexan-dria City School Board voted unanimously to approve the fiscal 2016 budget for the district, they celebrated the ability to fund the first pay raise for all ACPS employ-ees since 2012. The bud-get also included additional funding to support students with special needs and to expand summer education programs. “I certainly ap-preciate the alignment in re-ally maintaining the priorities the board has set of includ-ing retaining and attracting the best talent,” said board member Marc Williams at the time.

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T.C. CREW CELEBRATES A STELLAR SEASON T.C. Williams’ girls crew teams had a magnificent 2015 season, capped off by two gold medal finishes at the Canadian Secondary Schools Rowing Association Championship Regatta in Ontario. The team also boasted gold and bronze medal finishes at the SRAA Nationals and at the Stotesbury Cup Regatta along with other strong state and regional finishes.

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WMATA ASKS DEVELOPERS FOR BUS BARN REDEVELOP-MENT VISION The long-unused Royal Street bus garage saw signs of progress in its journey to redevelopment in June, as the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority announced it would solicit bids from potential buyers for the two-acre site. Situated just two blocks from the Potomac River in North Old Town, city officials and residents have been keen to see new life breathed into the site, which once housed Metrobuses for stor-age and maintenance, since the garage closed in 2014.

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DEL RAY INSTITUTION ST. ELMO’S CHANGES OWNERSHIP After nearly 20 years at the helm of St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub, owner Nora Part-low decided to sell the local landmark to fellow Del Ray business own-ers Larry and Christine Ponzi. Residents credit Partlow with being a key figure in the revitalization of Del Ray and Mount Vernon Avenue over the last two decades. “Everything has a beginning, everything has an end, and I think it’s the end of my era, and I’m leaving it for Larry to bring it to that next level,” Partlow said. “I know he’ll be very successful with it.”

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L’HERMIONE DOCKS IN THE PORT CITY Local officials and res-idents celebrated the arrival of the French tall ship L’Hermione in June, accompanied by a rare opening of the Woodrow Wilson Bridge to make way for the 217-foot replica of the 18th-century frigate. While floating along Alexandria’s shoreline, residents were able to tour the boat, which helped turn the tide of the American Revolutionary War when the original arrived in 1780.


LOCAL CONFEDERATE REF-ERENCES COME UNDER FIRE AFTER S.C. SHOOTING City officials examined a num-ber of references to the Con-federacy this summer after a man in South Carolina alleg-edly shot nine people to death at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C. Although staff is still studying some propos-als, city leaders ended the practice of flying the Confeder-ate governmental flag at the intersection of Old Town’s Ap-pomattox statue on Robert E. Lee’s birthday and on Confed-erate Memorial Day.

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ALEXANDRIA PHILANTHROPIST DEAD AT 90 Longtime literacy advocate and Alexandria resi-dent Betty Wright died at her home at the age of 90. Wright, with her husband Frank, found-ed Wright to Read, a tutoring and mentoring program for under-achieving and underprivileged children in 1979. The program serves around 100 elementary school students. “One of my fa-vorite thoughts about Betty is that she really valued the time that staff and the volunteers spent one-on-one with the chil-dren,” said executive director Leigh Nida. “I’ve always liked to do some special projects that reach a larger group, and Betty thought it was very important that we spend most of our time really putting significant effort into helping each child.”

COMMUTER FERRY SERVICE DECLARED VIABLE IN ALEX-ANDRIA Alexandria’s burgeoning ferry options could have some new additions in the coming years, as two commuter ferry routes from the Port City were found to be fea-sible in a recent study compiled for the Northern Virginia Regional Commission. Of the 260 routes examined, five were found to be practical, including routes from Al-exandria to Southeast and South-west D.C. and another from the city to Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and the headquarters of the Depart-ment of Homeland Security.

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LYLES BROTHERS COMPETE IN CUBA TRACK MEET Not many high school students get the chance to represent their country in an international tour-nament, let alone one with dip-lomatic implications. But rising T.C. Williams seniors Noah and Josephus Lyles did just that, representing the United States on a team of track standouts in Havana, Cuba for the Caribbean Scholastic Invitational in June.

PHOTO/CHRIS TEALEALEXANDRIA ROCKED BY FIRST HOMICIDE OF 2015 The peace and tranquillity of the Fourth of July holiday in Alexandria was shaken on July 3 as police investigated the city’s first homicide of the year, just blocks from the Braddock Road Metro station. Officers responded to the 700 block of N. Fayette St. after reports of a shooting. When they arrived, police found Shakkan Elliot-Tibbs, 22, of Woodbridge, suffering from a gunshot wound. Elliot-Tibbs was transported to a local hospital, where he later died.


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CITY COUNCIL APPROVES PATRICK HENRY PLANS City councilors and the Alexandria City School Board each ap-proved plans for a new recre-ation center and pre-K through eighth grade school at the site of Patrick Henry Elementary, despite complaints about a dif-ficult process. The school and recreation center projects were developed separately, even though they will occupy the same site on Taney Avenue. The separation led to confusion and the ire of councilors, who felt that it should be treated as a joint facility and a joint construc-tion project rather than two sep-arate proposals.

SHOTS FIRED CALLS IN ALEXANDRIA DOWN FROM LAST YEAR At a community meeting, Alex-andria Deputy Police Chief David Huchler told those present that while so-called “shots fired” calls are being reported to the public more, instances of shots being fired during the commission of a felony are down overall in the city. After a Freedom of Infor-mation Act request by the Times, the police depart-ment’s rhetoric holds true: the number of felony inves-tigations that involve shots being fired were down from the beginning of the year to the end of June 2015, compared to the same time period in 2014.

SOME OLD TOWN PARK-ING METER HOURS EX-TENDED Those looking to drive and park in metered spaces west of Alfred Street in Old Town now have more time to browse the shops and boutiques and digest their meals at restaurants in that area of the city after city council unanimously approved a resolution effective July 1 to extend the time limit for metered parking from two hours to three. Business owners along King Street said previously enacted parking meter enforce-ment efforts hampered customers’ ability to visit their shops.

EUILLE CONSIDERS WRITE-IN CAMPAIGN Following his narrow loss to Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg in the June Democratic primary, Mayor Bill Euille confirmed in July that he was considering a write-in bid to re-tain his seat in November. Euille still had a sizeable war chest follow-ing the primary, and was publicly encouraged by a number of residents. “The rumors have been going on since the day after the election,” Euille said in July. “I’m just listening to folks and taking it all in. But I have not made a decision.”


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GEORGE WASHINGTONNATIONAL MASONICMEMORIAL NAMED NATION-AL HISTORIC LANDMARKIt had been 30 years since Alex-andria last had one of its historic sites designated as a National Historic Landmark by the Nation-al Park Service, and the August 4 designation of the George Wash-ington Masonic National Memori-al came on an auspicious date of its own: the 262nd anniversary of George Washington becoming a Master Mason. The towering 333-foot structure joins the Old and Historic District, Christ Church, Gerald R. Ford House, Freedom House and Gadsby’s Tavern as national historic landmarks.

DERRICK DAVENPORT WINS ACF CHEF OF THE YEAR PRIZE When the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff hosts their for-eign counterparts at their official residence at Fort Myer, executive chef and household manager Derrick Davenport is responsible for planning the menu at official dinners and functions. However, in addition to that and a litany of other duties that come with serving the armed forces’ top-ranked military official, Davenport finds time to compete with other chefs from across the country. In August, the Alexandria resident won the American Culinary Foundation’s top award of Chef of the Year at a gruelling contest in Florida.

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PARKER-GRAY STADIUM PRESS BOX COMES UNDER SCRU-TINY As the players, coaches, parents and boosters of T.C. Williams prepared for another high school football season last summer, there stood a structure at the top of the bleachers at Parker-Gray Stadium deemed unsafe for use by Alexandria City Public Schools and locked: the stadium’s press box. Not just a workspace for reporters covering games at the school, the press box has a number of other functions during football season for teams and coaches, and some of those involved with the Titans program were displeased, erroneously ac-cusing the city of condemning the structure. ACPS has recently an-nounced plans to replace the structure, which was closed by superin-tendent Alvin Crawley, not city officials.

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OFFICIALS EXAMINE THREE-DAY PARKING RULE City Councilor Justin Wilson said he would propose an effective end to the rule that residents parking along city streets must move their car every 72 hours, excluding weekends or holidays. He said the rule is unevenly enforced — only after a resident complains — and has become what he called a “rat out your neighbor” rule. City staff was tasked with crafting a new proposal for the law’s original purpose: avoiding aban-doned cars littering city streets

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It is only one way in which student progress is measured, but the data is indisputable: Alexandria City Public Schools appeared to be headed in the right direction based on the pass rates of the 2014-2015 Standards of Learning tests, released in August by the Virginia Department of Educa-tion. The SOLs show overall improvement across all four core disciplines — English reading, math, history and science — with 14 of 16 schools seeing increased pass rates in reading and math. Nine schools saw increases in history pass rates, while 12 had increases in science.

PATRICK HENRY, T.C. WILLIAMS CELEBRATE REGAINING FULL ACCREDITATION The celebrations continued in Septem-ber for Alexandria City Public Schools officials, as Patrick Henry Elementary and T.C. Williams High schools preliminarily obtained full accreditation from the Virginia Department of Education on the back of their performances in the Standards of Learning tests. Both schools had been accredited with warning during the 2014-2015 academic year — T.C. because of its math results and Patrick Henry due to its English and science scores.

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TSA SET TO MOVE TO ALEXANDRIA City offi-cials and business leaders brimmed with excitement following the announce-ment on August 12 that the U.S. Transportation Secu-rity Administration would relocate to Alexandria. The agency was slated to move its approximately 3,400 em-ployees into 500,000 square feet of existing office space at Victory Center in the Eisen-hower West neighborhood in 2017. The news came at the end of a multi-year bidding process, and more than a de-cade since the Victory Center last had an active tenant. But the plan is now on hold fol-lowing a judge’s intervention after another bidder filed an appeal of the process

EUILLE CONFIRMS WRITE-IN MAYORAL BID Mayor Bill Euille ended months of specu-lation when he announced over the Labor Day weekend that he would wage a write-in cam-paign for mayor after losing the June Democratic primary to Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg by 318 votes. “Yeah, I lost a primary,” Euille said in his announcement. “And I tried to put a new life be-fore me. I got job offers, I trav-elled and I thought a lot about it. But every time, I would come home to Alexandria, and people would run up to me at the gro-cery store or on the Metro and encourage me to run. This city is worth fighting for.”

THE YOGA INSTRUCTOR AT CITY HALL In Al Cox’s line of work as Alexandria’s historic preservation manager, he en-counters a lot of stress, long hours and numerous public meetings. He deals with that by doing yoga, and has be-come a certified instructor in the practice. And now, Cox is in the midst of developing a class for city staff on ways to reduce stress, at the behest of City Manager Mark Jinks. “Before [doing yoga], you would have a Coke, go into a six-hour meeting and obvi-ously you’re going to crash in about an hour and a half,” Cox said. “You sit there tense or angry or whatever; you’re not circulating blood, your shoulders are up around your ears. You’ve got to learn how to breathe. There are very simple breathing exercises you can do while you’re in a council meeting or on the dais at a BAR meeting.”

ACPS SEES BIG GAINS IN STANDARDIZED TEST SCORES

FILE PHOTOYVES’ BISTRO OWNER DIES AT 75 He was a restaurant owner and entrepreneur who owned multiple restau-rants in D.C. and Alexandria, and did not retire despite his advancing years and poor health. Yves Courbois, owner most recently of Yves’ Bistro on Swamp Fox Road, died September 15. He was 75. Courbois died at Fairfax Inova Hospital having under-gone a series of knee opera-tions and two heart surger-ies, in addition to suffering from Parkinson’s disease.


OCTOBERPOLICE INVESTIGATE HOMICIDE IN NORTH OLD TOWN For the second time in the space of three months, North Old Town was the site of a homicide on Oc-tober 7, when a man was shot on Belle Pre Way, a few blocks from the Braddock Road Metro station. Officers responded to the area near the 800 block of N. Henry St. at approximately 11:45 p.m. and found the victim, 37-year-old Leon Williams of Alexandria, suffering from a gunshot wound. He was transported to a local hospital, where he later died.

COUNCIL APPROVES RAMSEY HOMES DEMOLITION After a five-hour public hearing at which the tension was palpable, city council approved the demolition of the 15-unit Ramsey Homes property owned by the Alexandria Redevelopment and Housing Authority in the Parker-Gray neighborhood by a 5-2 margin. Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg and City Councilor Paul Smedberg were the two dissenting votes against ARHA’s appeal, which came af-ter the Parker-Gray Board of Architectural Review unanimously rejected the organization’s application to demolish the homes at 699 N. Patrick St. in April. City council’s decision means ARHA can proceed with its proposal to demolish and replace the units with up to 53 units of affordable housing.

COMMUTER FERRY STUDY COMES UNDER SCRUTINY Despite city council’s relatively sedate first legislative meeting af-ter summer recess on September 8, it did not take long for city councilors Paul Smedberg and Del Pepper to let loose on the pro-posed commuter ferry service from Alexandria and its handling by the Northern Virginia Regional Commission thus far. NVRC re-leased a study late July outlining the viability of two commuter ferry routes from the waterfront, but the proposal drew the ire of city councilors, who unanimously agreed to send a letter signed by Mayor Bill Euille to Penny Gross, chairman of NVRC, express-ing “serious concerns” about the traffic and other infrastructure problems that could be caused by commuter ferry service.

OAKVILLE TRIANGLEREDEVELOPMENT MAKES PROGRESS As Del Ray con-tinues to grow and Potomac Yard prepares to welcome a new Metrorail station, near-by Oakville Triangle’s gath-ered steam in October as city council unanimously ad-opted a plan for the design of the area by U.S. Route 1. The proposal is a mixed-use development including residential town homes and multi-family units, retail and office space, park land and so-called “maker spaces” on the ground floor of some units for some light-industri-al use still in the area. The plan would look to take ad-vantage of the existing Me-troway bus rapid transit sys-tem and future mass transit in the city.

FILE PHOTOSOME MEDICS OPPOSE HYBRID FIRE/EMS MODEL An internal debate over the future of the Alexandria Fire Department bubbled to the surface this fall as a group of paramedics denounced the city’s ongoing transition from utilizing paramedics to using hybrid firefighter/medics. The change, which was proposed last year by Fire Chief Robert Dubé and began implementation this year, would see all future para-medics — those trained in advanced life support — also receive training as firefighters. The idea is to have someone capable of providing ALS on every ambulance and fire apparatus; currently, most fire engines are staffed only by those capable of basic life support. Opponents ar-gued the change makes firefighters and medics’ jobs harder, and that the move could force those who want to remain medics to leave the department if they want promotional opportunities.

COUNCIL CANDIDATES START TO SQUARE OFF Debate season started early this year for candidates in the general election for city council, as the full slate of 11 contenders met September 14 at a debate hosted by the Departmental Progressive Club. Incumbent city councillors and Democratic newcomer Willie Bailey mostly defended the actions of council over the previous three years, while the Repub-lican and Independent challengers railed against recent tax hikes, the increase in municipal debt and the difficulty of being a business owner in Alexandria.

PHOTO/JENNIFER POWELLTHE OTHER ELECTION COMES TO TOWN The numerous road closures, metal detectors to scan attendees and U.S. Secret Service agents posted around Market Square and along surrounding streets October 23 indicated one thing: the 2016 presidential election campaign circus had arrived in Alexandria. With the Port City gearing up for its own state and local elections on November 3, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton joined Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) outside City Hall for an event billed as a Northern Virginia “grassroots organizing meeting.”

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COUNCIL APPROVES ROBINSON TERMINAL NORTH REDEVEL-OPMENT The redevelopment of Robinson Terminal North gained unanimous approval from city council at an October 17 hearing, mark-ing the passage of the last of the main projects in the city’s waterfront plan. The project received unanimous backing from the planning com-mission on October 8, and public testimony before city council echoed much of the divided sentiments expressed to planning commissioners over, including on the issue of parking. In response to those concerns, city councilors chose not to allow new residents of the development to apply for on-street permits, pending final recommendations from the Old Town Area Parking Study work group.


EUILLE PLANS DEBATE CHALLENGE In American electoral politics, few things can portray the acrimony between two candidates quite like a debate. But the debate over whether to have them in the first place certainly came close in October. Mayor Bill Euille, ousted from appear-ing on the ballot for the Democrats in the city’s November 3 general election after losing to Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg in the party’s pri-mary by 318 votes in June, announced he would pursue a write-in cam-paign to retain his seat. Officials with his campaign pushed unsuccess-fully for a debate between the four-term mayor and Silberberg, to the chagrin of the vice mayor and the Alexandria Democratic Committee.

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PORT CITY BREWING COMPANY CELEBRATES NATIONAL SUC-CESS When Bill Butcher founded Port City Brewing Company on Al-exandria’s West End four and a half years ago, he was not in it for the medals or victories at competitions. He said he and his staff simply wanted to produce high quality beer from what looks on the outside to be a relatively unassuming space on Wheeler Avenue. And after garnering plenty of local recognition and expanding distribution from as far north as New York south to as far as North Carolina, the com-pany has gained national honors too, winning three awards at the Great American Beer Festival, including the prestigious Small Brew-ing Company and Small Brewing Company Brewer of the Year award.

CITY ESTABLISHES MGM TASK FORCE Across the Potomac River in Maryland, National Harbor is set to grow even more with the open-ing of the MGM National Harbor casino, and Alexandria officials are looking to take advantage of what they say is a great opportunity for the city. With all this development to come, Visit Alexandria, the city’s tourism organization, is convening a task force to discuss the bene-fits and challenges of the new MGM facility as it relates to Alexandria.

ALLISON SILBERBERG TO LEAD ALL-DEMOCRATIC CITY COUNCIL Vice Mayor Allison Silberberg easily fought off the challenge of incumbent Mayor Bill Euille’s write-in campaign on November 5 to become Alexan-dria’s next mayor and continue a period of Democratic dominance on city council. With all precincts report-ing, Silberberg took 16,554 votes for 63 percent, ahead of all write-ins with 9,702 votes for 37 percent. She will be joined on the dais by all six of her Democratic colleagues, including City Councilor Justin Wilson, who will become the new vice mayor. Fellow incumbents Paul Smedberg, Del Pep-per, John Chapman and Tim Lovain will be joined by Willie Bailey on the dais.

POLICE INVESTIGATE AFTER BODY FOUND IN “THE PIT” A man was discovered dead in Beverley Park in the North Ridge neighborhood on November 9 in what was Alexandria’s third homicide of 2015. The victim was later identified as Jose Luis Ferman Perez, a 24-year-old city resident who police said suf-fered from an “upper body trau-ma.” Police added that Perez did not live in the neighborhood. Of-ficers responded to the park at the intersection of North Over-look and South Overlook drives and found him unresponsive.

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TSA LEASE AT VICTORY CENTER VOIDED BY FED-ERAL JUDGEJust three months after the city’s successful bid to bring the U.S. Transportation Security Administration to the Victory Center at 5001 Eisenhower Ave., a federal judge voided the agency’s lease on November 12. Judge Charles Lettow of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ordered the lease void in a sealed ruling. It came after a lawsuit was filed by Boston Properties Inc., the owner of a property in Springfield, Va. that lost out on the bid.

JOHN LEWIS RECALLS CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE Growing up in rural Alabama, U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) remembers asking his parents and grandparents about the signs designating bathrooms and other public areas for white and black people, and they would tell him that segregation was just the way things were. But Lewis recalled in a talk at T.C. Williams that he could not abide that, especially as he heard of the actions of Rosa Parks and the leader-ship of Martin Luther King Jr. as a 15-year-old in 1955. The civil rights leader ad-dressed an invited group of ninth through 12th grade social studies and history students in the auditorium at T.C. on November 19.

CHARLES SEVERANCE FOUND GUILTY OF THREE HOMICIDESA Fairfax County jury found Charles Severance guilty Novem-ber 2 of all 10 charges in connection with the killings of three prominent Alexandrians and the wounding of a fourth person after around 13 hours of deliberation over three days. He will spend the rest of his life in prison. Severance, 55, was convicted of capital murder in the deaths of Ruthanne Lodato in Febru-ary 2014 and Ronald Kirby in November 2013, and first-degree murder in the slaying of Nancy Dunning in 2003. He also was convicted of non-fatally shooting Janet Franko, a caretaker at the Lodato residence, and six other related charges. He is ex-pected to be sentenced to life in January 2016.


CITY PROPERTY TAXES COULD INCREASE NEXT YEARCity councilors quickly reached consensus and unanimously agreed to allow City Manager Mark Jinks to raise taxes if necessary to balance his fiscal 2017 budget proposal, due out in January. Councilors held their annual budget retreat in No-vember following feedback from residents through several com-munity meetings, and approved its overall procedure and the guidance. Although the timeline for Jinks to propose his budget — and for council to adopt it — was quickly endorsed, officials debated a number of options for new funds if Jinks propos-es a tax rate increase, before eventually leaving new funds as discretionary.

PROPOSAL TO INCREASE COUNCILORS’ PAY WITH-DRAWNAfter city council voted unani-mously to bring a proposal forward to give the mayor and councilors pay raises at its De-cember 8 meeting, sponsor City Councilor Paul Smedberg ta-bled the measure on December 12. Under Smedberg’s propos-al, the mayor would have been paid $50,000 a year, while other city councilors would have made $45,000 per year. But at the start of a public hearing, Smedberg said he had decided to park the planned raise for councilors until the fiscal 2019 budget process so that more ro-bust public discussions can be had. He repeated his request that City Manager Mark Jinks continue to study the salaries of aides as originally proposed.

NOVEMBER DECEMBER

BODY FOUND IN FOUR MILE RUN PARK For the second time in as many months, the Alexandria Police Department investigated a homi-cide in one of the city’s public spaces, as a man was found dead in Four Mile Run Park on December 4. Local officers working in conjunction with the Fairfax County Search and Rescue Urban Team found the body of city resident Eduardo David Chandias Almendarez, 22, in the Arlandria park, suffering from what officers described at the time as “apparent injuries.” He was reported missing on November 28 in the area near Four Mile Run Park, and was described by police as a victim of previ-ous crime and in danger. Police Chief Earl Cook said the incident may be gang related, but that it could not yet be confirmed to be the case.

PHOTO/CHRIS TEALEA PORT CITY PREMIERE Next month, television viewers across the country will be transported to Civil War-era Alexandria in the new se-ries “Mercy Street,” the first original drama to be produced by PBS in more than a decade. But ahead of the show airing on TV, a smorgas-bord of city luminaries got the chance for a sneak peek on Novem-ber 5 as the Alexandria Film Festival hosted the series premiere at the AMC Hoffman Center theater, complete with appearances from historical interpreters, the lead actors and executive producers, all on a red carpet close to what is normally the theater’s ticket booth.

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JUDGE: GSA EXCEEDED SIZE LIMITS IN TSA AWARD The General Services Administration erred in its awarding of the U.S. Transporta-tion Security Administration’s new lease to the Victory Center in Al-exandria because the building exceeded the agency’s limit of square footage as prescribed by its own request for lease proposal, accord-ing to a ruling by Judge Charles Lettow of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims that was unsealed on November 25 and obtained by the Times. Lettow’s ruling was first handed down November 11 under seal, and voided the TSA’s move to the Port City, which had been announced to great fanfare in August.

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INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY AT FRANCIS HAMMOND TAKES ROOT Francis Hammond Middle School’s new international academy, established for the 2015-2016 school year, is the first of its kind in the country and integrates standard subject learn-ing with teaching of English. Teachers say the model help stu-dents for whom English is a second language to get themselves up to speed both on subject matter and English fluency more quickly and in a more encouraging way.

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SAINTS WIN ISL GIRLS SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP When Chris Arnold was appointed head coach of the St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes girls soccer team at the start of last season, his aim was to make them as dominant as the school’s girls lacrosse and field hockey programs, both of which are regional powerhous-es that often are nationally ranked. In November, the program took an enormous step toward that goal, as the team won the Independent Schools League tournament with a 2-1 victory over Holy Child in the final, played on home turf at Kelleher Field. The Saints came into the ISL tournament with the No. 2 seed and had home advantage throughout the competition.

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PHOTO/ERICH WAGNEREND OF AN ERA Mayor Bill Euille said he thought he was immune to surprises from his colleagues in City Hall. But a surprise send-off at the start of a city council meeting in December proved him wrong. After 12 years as mayor and having served on city council since 1994, Euille, the first black mayor in Alexandria’s history, feels his record will speak for itself, choosing to let residents determine his legacy. But he said he does regret the city’s lack of leverage in the construction of the Mark Center on the West End.


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June Louise Chagnon, a resident of Washington County, passed away at the age of 83 on Sunday, December 20, 2015, in Machias, Maine. June was born May 19, 1932, in Billerica, Massachusetts, to Harold D. and Elizabeth Bar-oni. June grew up in the local area and graduated from Bil-lerica High School in 1948. She went on to attend commu-nity college, where she studied bookkeeping and typing. June would later use these talents working for the local Cadillac auto dealership and in the fam-ily business, Baroni & Sons Contracting. On June 7, 1952, she was married, in her home town, to Thomas F. Chagnon at St. Andrews Church. After their marriage, June and her husband raised their family of 5 children in Chelmsford, Massachusetts; They moved to Alexandria, Virginia to follow Thom’s ca-reer with the federal govern-ment; In the late 60’s Thom and June purchased a seasonal home for their family, their love for the ocean brought them to Lubec, Maine where family and friends have summered for over 45 years. June loved sitting on her deck watching the seals swim in the Lubec narrows. Upon Thom’s retirement they built their winter home in Port St. Lucie, Florida; which they enjoyed for a few years before Thom’s passing. June was a devoted faith-ful Catholic communicant, ac-tively serving in the women’s

guilds and religious education programs. She also served as a Cub Scout Den Mother for the Boy Scouts of America. In her free time, June enjoyed garden-ing, sewing, cooking, baking and cake decorating, and floral design. June was an avid walker and for many years was an ac-tive member of the Pathfinder’s walking group of Lubec. June always enjoyed her time with her family most of all. She was unwavering in her love and support as a wife and mother. June was very proud of all her children’s achievements. She was active in her children’s lives and taught them the im-portance of faith in keeping a generous and kind heart. By ex-ample, June showed them how to lift the spirits of family and friends with a warm and cheer-ful smile. She will be remem-bered as a loving and dedicated wife, mother, and friend. June is survived by her sons, Thomas F. Chagnon, Jr., and his wife, Eugenia, of Canton, Massachusetts, John J. Cha-gnon, and his wife, Ana, of Washington, D.C., and Michael P. Chagnon, and his wife, Gail, of Alexandria, Virginia; daugh-ters, Cindy Morrison, and her husband, Joseph, of Whiting, Maine, and Karen Cote, and her husband, Raymond, of Bar-ton, Vermont; brother, William and wife Betty Baroni, sisters, Dorothy Bourassa, Bettyanne Baroni, and Joann and husband Bob DL Dalziel, sister-in-law, Lorraine Baroni; grandchil-

dren, LeAnne Chagnon, and her husband, Mike Lewandro-ski, Michael Chagnon, Chris-topher Cote, and his wife, Kim, Alyson Chagnon, and Cleo Terry and husband Charles her special, loving cousin, Jackie Sampson and lifelong friend, Jean Doherty. She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; and broth-ers, Robert and Buddy Baroni. The family would like to ex-tend a public thank you to June’s special caregivers: Anne, Deb-bie, Glenna, Madisein, Nancy, and Sandy. A memorial mass was held Monday, December 28th at 11:00 a.m., at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Lubec, Maine. Charitable donations in June’s memory may be made to the Lubec Memorial Library, 55 Water Street, Lubec, Maine 04652. Arrangements under the care of Bragdon-Kelley Funeral Homes, Machias.

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