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Five incumbents, 11 newcomers come to-gether at PTA Council eventBY MISSY SCHROTT

Community members got to know school board candi-dates in their districts at a forum organized by the Al-exandria PTA Council at T.C. Williams High School Minnie Howard Campus on Oct. 25.

The two-part forum was structured so that voters could see their candidates first with the entire candi-date pool and later separated by district. In the first hour of the forum, all 16 candi-dates answered a few ques-tions in front of the whole audience, and in the second portion, they split off by

School board race nears finish line

SEE FORUM | 14

Only one incumbent, Board Chair Ramee Gentry, seeks reelec-tionBY MISSY SCHROTT

With the general elec-tion less than a week away, candidates for the Alexan-dria School Board are in the final stretch of campaign-ing.

Five candidates will

compete for three available seats in District C, which encompasses the far West End of Alexandria, includ-ing the Landmark/Van Dorn and Beauregard areas.

School Board Chair Ra-mee Gentry is the only in-cumbent member seeking reelection. The other two District C board members,

Five candidates compete in school board District C

SEE DISTRICT C | 10

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SPOOKY SIGHTSAlexandria got into the Halloween spirit with terrifyingly realistic decorations,

including a giant spider looming over Old Town pedestrians. Meanwhile, Del Ray celebrated the holiday with its annual Halloween parade, filling the streets with dogs – and people – in costumes. Finally, St. Paul's Episcopal Church hosted its yearly parade around the block with tykes in costume, including a life-like shark.

For more photos, see page 12.

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City launches new Landmark planning effort

After years of stop-and-start planning for Landmark Mall’s redevelopment, the city is kicking off a re-plan-ning effort with several com-munity meetings.

The first meeting will take place on Nov. 14 in the Cameron Station Great Room at 200 Cameron Station Blvd. A community open house is planned for Dec. 12 at Bran-dywine Living, followed by

a community workshop on Jan. 26. Another community meeting is set for Feb. 27.

The Landmark Mall re-planning effort is intend-ed to build upon the 2009 Landmark/Van Dorn Corri-dor Plan, which reimagines Landmark Mall as a mixed-use development with tran-sit and community open spaces.

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gagement process aims to gather information about de-sired new uses, flexibility of uses and how to incorporate traffic safety and multimod-al transportation, according to a city news release.

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New wrestling coach at Bishop IretonAfter a number of appoint-

ments in the last few months, Bishop Ireton has promoted its assistant wrestling coach to the top spot.

Kevin Spivey, a long-serv-ing assistant coach with the wrestling team, is the new varsity head wrestling coach, the school announced in a news release on Monday.

Spivey is a B.I. alum who graduated in 1996 and became a wrestling coach at the school the same year.

“Coach Spivey impressed me in our first conversation about the position. When you look at the qualities of a head coach, you want some expe-rience, knowledge of our pro-gram and someone that can

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The renovation will bring a new garden design by Joan Honeyman of Jordan Honey-man Landscape Architecture to the Ramsay House garden, including an accessible gar-den entry and terrace, native and sustainable planting and seating. The new design will include a water fountain and a cell phone charging station.

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Longtime fitness stu-dio relocates to Cam-eron StreetBY ALEXA EPITROPOULOS

FitOne founders Caity Da-vis and Jill Stump often joke that they’re each other’s lon-gest relationship.

The longtime business partners started FitOne af-ter meeting at Gold’s Gym in Fairfax, where they were both trainers.

At the time, local Gold’s locations were looking for a contractor to run their train-ing and nutrition programs. A mutual mentor suggested Davis and Stump pair up and the two decided to take the advice and go into business together. They founded Fi-tOne in 1999.

Twenty years later, the pair owns a growing boutique gym that’s recently reopened at a location in the heart of Old Town at 319 Cameron St.

“We took a gamble on something in our 20s and we’re still doing it 19 years

later. We can’t imagine not doing this,” Stump said. “We have something truly special

and we don’t take that for granted.”

It took Davis and Stump years to take the leap to open their own gym. They started as FitOne inside Gold’s Gym, running the fitness programs for three locations in North-ern Virginia before moving to Jungle Gym, where they man-aged programs at locations in Kingstowne and Old Town. The two opened their first in-dependent location at 814 N. St. Asaph St. in 2007, where they remained until moving to the Cameron Street loca-tion this year.

FitOne’s business model is built around private train-

ing and small classes and the hours depend on when clients want to work out. Certain classes do have set times, however, like a “Women on Weights” group on Monday, a boxing class on Thursday and power circuit classes, which are high-intensity interval training-style classes.

FitOne has about 180 cli-ents and Davis and Stump said, while they’re still look-ing to grow, the smaller roster helps them get to know their clients on a personal level.

“We know all the clients in the classes. We know their joint issues, we can make changes if necessary. You can have someone who has been working out their whole life on a station besides someone who is a beginner and they’re both going to get a great workout,” Stump said.

Having personal relation-ships with clients has also helped the two as they nav-igated moving the business from their location of 10 years on St. Asaph Street to Cam-eron Street. FitOne officially moved on May 1, but just re-cently celebrated its grand re-opening on Oct. 6.

While Davis and Stump said moving was a major un-dertaking, the end result was a location that better matched their needs. They were able to have a hand in the renovation and, ultimately, were only unable to use the new space

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FitOne moves to new location in Old Town

PHOTO/ALEXA EPITROPOULOSCaity Davis and Jill Stump, who started FitOne inside Gold's Gym and later opened a standalone loca-tion on St. Asaph Street, recently celebrated the grand reopening of their new location in the heart of Old Town at 319 Cameron St., directly behind city hall.

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for one week in May, during which group classes and training took place outside.

“When Caity and I were walking around here, before we made the decision to go with this lease, it was a good feeling [with] city hall, the farmer’s market and just the energy here. It felt like with what we do and who our cli-ents are, this was going to mesh and let more people know about us,” Stump said.

While Davis handles cli-ent consultations, which are about getting to know a cli-ent’s needs and goals and then briefing them on pack-ages and options, Stump, who has an MBA, handles the business side. She oversees payroll and accounting. Both of them continue to train.

Davis is the one who matches clients with trainers, based on a number of factors.

“I do that based on medical background, exercise history, joint stuff, training style, per-sonality of the trainer. All of our trainers are qualified, but it comes down to making the right match,” Davis said. “I tell the clients that it can be a love/hate relationship with the trainer. You want to feel like it’s the right connection.”

The majority of FitOne’s

clients come in one to three times a week, and many sup-plement the training they re-ceive there with other types of workouts, whether it’s on their own or in another class setting.

“We tell clients that they can use us in this process however they want, wheth-er they’re coming in and we are teaching them something that they are going to go out and do on their own – a lot of our clients have addition-al gym memberships where they’re doing cardio and get-ting in another session – or they’re doing yoga on their own, classes that would com-pliment ours,” Davis said.

After years in business, Davis and Stump said, though it’s been a challenge, they’re happy to have gotten ahead of the trend of smaller boutique gyms, such as Orangetheory and Pure Barre. They said the basic philosophy of FitOne, from the beginning, has been that a large amount of equip-ment isn’t necessary to get an effective workout.

“Now you look and there are all these gyms, these crossfit gyms. I like that we were kind of ahead of that trend in the industry,” Stump said. “… Now it’s kind of cool to see all these studios pop-ping up. I like to think be-

cause of our commitment to the science, to try to under-stand it, that it led us to that a long time ago.”

“There’s well over 90 ways to do a dumbbell chest press, so it’s how to vary the mechanical pattern, how to apply forces from different angles. If you have a train-er that’s knowledgeable, you don’t need giant hunks of metal,” Davis said. “Being able to create this sort of en-vironment is so exciting.”

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COURTESY PHOTOFitOne Co-Owner Jill Stump trains a client at the new studio. Stump has been a professional trainer since the 1990s and continues to train nearly two decades after opening FitOne with Caity Davis.

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Panelists from the city, private sector consid-er next steps for local P3sBY ALEXA EPITROPOULOS

The Alexandria Cham-ber of Commerce on Tues-day morning hosted a panel discussion at Holiday Inn Carlyle to discuss the impor-tance of public-private part-nerships in the city’s present and future.

The panel, which in-cluded City Manager Mark Jinks, Alexandria City Pub-lic Schools Chief Operating Officer Mignon Anthony and Skanska Investment Di-rector Farhad Soltanieh had a conversation about how public-private partnerships, also called P3s, can work to the benefit of both sectors.

Jinks, who became city manager in April 2015, said

public-private partnerships are a pivotal tool for the city. He said the city is in the process of hiring a P3 man-ager, who would be tasked with shepherding projects through a long and often la-borious zoning and permit-ting process.

Jinks brought up a num-ber of successful partner-ships in the city, including the city’s reimagination of Potomac Yard’s one-story fire station. The city worked with Pulte Corp. to con-vert the fire station into a multi-use – and multi-level – building with a residential component.

“We were looking at this one-level fire station and thinking, ‘That’s a real waste of that airspace in Potomac Yard, where we’re just about to start building a Metro station,’” Jinks re-

called during the discussion. Jinks said, while it’s not

clear which city official first suggested the idea of add-ing affordable housing into the mix, it was an idea that staff immediately began ex-ploring. He said there wasn’t

a model like it anywhere in the country at the time.

“When we did the re-search, we discovered no-body in the U.S. had done this. We thought, ‘Well, can we make this work?’” he said.

The city discussed the potential project with Pulte, which had already agreed to donate the land for the fire station. The city partnered with Pulte and, later, the Alexandria Housing Devel-opment Corp. to build and manage what became The Station at Potomac Yard.

Jinks said combining a fire station with housing and other uses has now been copied in several other juris-dictions nationally, includ-ing in D.C.

“It’s been replicated now in four or five places in the U.S., including in the Dis-trict. There’s a fire station in the west end of the District that has a squash club, li-brary, I think it has residen-tial. … Then the District has a high-end hotel on top of

City leaders discuss public-private partnerships

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PHOTO/ALEXA EPITROPOULOSFormer Mayor Kerry Donley asks panelists Farhad Soltanieh of Skanska, City Manager Mark Jinks and Alexandria City Public Schools Chief Operating Officer Mignon Anthony a question after the panel discussion.


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Ronnie Campbell and Chris-topher Lewis, will step down at the end of this term.

Joining Gentry are new-comers Meagan Alderton, John E. Lennon, Dianara Saget and Heather Thorn-ton.

Meagan AldertonAlderton, a special ed-

ucation teacher, has spent more than 15 years in the education field, including in several roles at Alexan-dria City Public Schools. She’s lived in Alexandria for 13 years and is the mother of two young children.

If elected, Alderton said her top priority would be student achievement, espe-cially for demographics that have struggled on Virginia’s Standards of Learning tests such as black students, Lati-no students, English lan-guage learners and students with disabilities.

Alderton said her exper-tise in special education is the reason she decided to

run for school board. She hopes to provide a niche voice that the school board

doesn’t have at this point. “I think everybody wants

better outcomes for kids,”

she said, “but we need the actual expertise to actually know what to do about out-comes for kids academically. We need people who under-stand not only special edu-cation law, which is really important, but understand the actual practices that go into improving outcomes for kids with disabilities and improving outcomes for at-risk populations.”

John E. LennonLennon, a former jour-

nalist for the Voice of America, has had extensive involvement in ACPS since he moved to Alexandria in 2002. After he retired in 2012, he’s become more ac-tive in the school system through volunteer tutor-ing and sitting on various groups and committees.

If elected, he said he plans to focus on the in-terrelated problems that

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pertain to poverty and the burden it places on fami-lies and children. He said he hopes to work on closing the achievement gap by getting children in certain socio-economic and demographic groups the help they need to be successful.

Lennon said his career experience is what sets him apart from other candi-dates.

“My life and career have taught me that long-range thinking is the only way that you can really succeed in the short term as well as the long term,” Lennon said. “I have a management and executive background in the federal government … that makes it possible for me to have a perspective that will enable me to help others reach broad conclu-sions and set broad policies that will affect the children in the city’s public schools.”

Ramee Gentry Gentry, an exhibitions

content manager for the U.S. Holocaust Museum, has been on the school board for three years, serving as chair for the past two.

She said she decided to run for reelection to build on the progress the board has made during her first term and to carry the work forward with a slate of both experienced and new board members. She said some of the board’s greatest accom-plishments during her first term were hiring Dr. Greg-ory Hutchings, Ed.D., as su-perintendent and opening Ferdinand T. Day Elementa-ry School.

Regarding the issues fac-ing ACPS, Gentry said she would bring institutional knowledge to the ongoing maintenance and capaci-ty challenges, and that she hopes to be around to im-plement the results of eval-uations the school has been

conducting. “We need to take what

we’ve been learning from the audits that we’ve con-ducted and the evaluations we’ve conducted and some of the findings that we’ve done in our strategic plan and figure out ways to ad-dress the achievement gap issues, because that’s what’s really going to make a difference for us in terms of overall success of the school division in terms of academic achievement,” she said.

Dianara SagetSaget, a T.C. Williams

graduate and insurance agent, said she is seeking a spot on the school board because of her children’s experiences within ACPS.

Saget said she started noticing flaws in the sys-tem when her daughter, who is now 20 years old, was an ACPS student. Be-cause of these problems, she switched her daughter’s enrollment from ACPS to private school in 6th grade. She said she is now home-schooling both of her sons because of the high suspen-sion rate at ACPS.

Saget said she decid-ed to run for school board to properly allocate ACPS’ money and resources to cor-rect problems in the system. She said she plans to advo-

cate for restorative justice in schools because of the suspensions and “school to prison pipeline” she sees at ACPS. She also said her Hispanic heritage will allow her to bridge the discon-nect she sees between the schools and Alexandria’s Latino community.

“I feel like the Span-ish community, the Latino community, there’s some kind of disconnect,” Sag-et said. “They don’t un-derstand – ‘they’ meaning

the rest of the community that’s not Latino – under-stand the culture or the challenges that people go through. … It’s just little things that seem like ev-eryone is capable of doing but not everyone will be capable of doing because of their economic status, because of their education. Some things just need to be translated, and I feel like I will be that link.”

Heather ThorntonThornton returned to Al-

exandria a little more than a year ago from working as a Foreign Service officer with the U.S. Department of State. She grew up nearby in Fairfax County, but decided to make Alexandria her per-manent home upon her re-turn.

Thornton said she want-ed to contribute to the com-munity in some way and decided that the skills she’s acquired while in the For-eign Service would trans-late well to a position on the school board.

“I thought that there

were some skillsets that I could help bring to the school board, the main one being my diplomacy skill-set, which includes mostly consensus building, listen-ing and community out-reach,” she said. “In a city as diverse as Alexandria and especially in a school system as diverse, I think that my unique interna-tional background and my position representing … the people that don’t have school-age children here, I thought I could fill in a re-ally unique gap.”

If elected, Thornton said she wants to focus on adding capacity, updating facilities and attracting and retaining high quality teachers.

Voters in District C will be able to select three of the five candidates in the General Election on Nov. 6. To read about candidates in District A and B, who were profiled in the Oct. 18 and Oct. 25 print issues, visit alextimes.com and click on archives.

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We need to take what we’ve been learning from the audits that we’ve conducted and the evaluations we’ve conducted and some of the findings that we’ve done in our strategic plan and figure out ways to address the achievement gap issues, because that’s what’s really going to make a difference for us in terms of overall success of the school division in terms of academic achievement.”

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district to answer questions submitted by attendees.

As candidates discussed the issues facing Alexandria City Public Schools, sever-al said they did sound like broken records when it came to major topics like capacity and facility maintenance.

Another commonality several school board candi-dates expressed was an ea-gerness to continue improv-ing the relationship between ACPS and the city. Over the past year, both school and city leaders have praised the two institutions’ ability to work together.

At the forum, 16 school board candidates weighed in on how they’d contribute to that critical relationship with a question about col-laboration: What makes you uniquely qualified to col-laborate with fellow school board members and city council?

Many candidates relied on their professional expe-rience.

Chris Suarez, District A, an attorney and co-found-er of a nonprofit that raises

awareness about school di-versity issues, said he’s used to playing the mediator.

“I have to listen a lot to a lot of different perspectives and a lot of different folks,” Suarez said. “As one of the folks in my career, I really have to mediate a lot of dis-putes and think outside the box to bring people togeth-er and that’s something I would do if elected.”

John Lennon, District C, a former journalist and executive at the Voice of America, cited his leader-ship experience.

“What made me unique in coming to ACPS was my extensive career as a man-ager in federal government,” he said. “… Those are the kinds of management and executive skills that I can bring to bear in working with the school board in a collaborative sense and in the same way with the city council and our new mayor.”

Jacinta Greene, District A, said her professional bud-geting experience would help her in advocating for ACPS funding.

“I spent 10 years in cor-porate America managing a

multi-million dollar budget for McDonald’s,” she said, “and with that multi-million dollar budget, we worked with over 75 owner oper-ators, and to convince an owner operator that’s owned a restaurant for 50 years to give you money, convincing city council to give you mon-ey would be a piece of cake.”

Jewelyn Cosgrove, Dis-trict B, works in feder-al government affairs for Healthcare Distribution Al-liance. She joked about her multi-faceted collaboration skills.

“My day job is getting members of Congress to agree with each other. My night job is getting my tod-dler to agree to go to bed,” she said. “… But in all se-riousness, what I have to bring to the board is I have an understanding of how to bring stakeholders with var-ied perspectives and varied priorities come together to achieve common goals.”

Meagan Alderton, Dis-trict C, said her experi-ence within ACPS gives her unique insight.

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PHOTO/MISSY SCHROTTThe 16 candidates vying for Alexandria School Board face off at a forum hosted by the Alexandria PTA Council at Minnie Howard on Oct. 25.


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“Currently what I do is work with leadership in the district to determine the quality of the special ed-ucation services that are provided to students with disabilities,” she said. “That is a need that requires spe-cific knowledge and I think it’s really important to have someone bring that to the board.”

Board Vice Chair Cin-dy Anderson, District B, said that in addition to her institutional knowledge of ACPS, her profession-al background has proven helpful on the board.

“One of the surprises, actually, in terms of rele-vant knowledge and expe-rience that I used during this term was my property management and construc-tion knowledge, because of all the building and buying buildings,” she said. “I felt comfortable because I’ve done things like that before and I really felt it was valu-able.”

Some candidates touted their personal backgrounds rather than their profes-sional backgrounds.

Abigail Wacek, District B, said her roots in the city gave her valuable knowl-edge.

“I’ve lived in Alexandria for a very long time,” Wacek said. “I know this city. I plan on spending the rest of my time here in this city and so I’d very much like to see the school board work with the city. … I am open-minded, and I’m willing to listen to what everyone has to say so that we can come up with a strategy that works.”

Another lifelong Alex-andrian, Chris Harris, Dis-trict A, said his experience being involved in different city groups has taught him about negotiating.

“As president of NAACP and vice chair of the Hu-man Rights Commission, I

know how to advocate and I’ve done a lot of commu-nicating and I understand that it’s not always about agreeing,” Harris said. “… I believe that some of the problems we have is that we don’t know how to come up with a shared vision. … If we come up with a shared vision to get things done, we move forward.”

Michelle Rief, District B, said her background in education and, specifically, higher education has pre-pared her well for a seat on the board.

“One thing that sets me apart is that I have a PhD in African American stud-ies,” she said. “I have given talks about children’s racial identity development, and I completed a program with Arlington Public Schools about challenging racism as a way to try to work on clos-ing the achievement gap. … I think that makes me uniquely situated to really address some of these chal-lenges in our school board.”

Dianara Saget, District C, said her heritage would be beneficial in bridg-ing communications with ACPS’ Hispanic population.

“I think being Latina is a plus for the school board,” she said. “… Being a par-ent for ACPS definitely has given me the experience to see things in a different light, to be able to collabo-rate with the people on the board, with my experiences and just being involved in my community.”

Veronica Nolan, District B, said her personal style, her experience and her in-terest would lend well to collaboration.

“I believe in the power of collaboration and I can see that you’re going to get the best outcome through collaboration,” Nolan said. “Through professional ex-perience as a classroom teacher I have created col-laborative class environ-

ments. … I’m just so com-mitted and passionate to ACPS that we’re not going to push forward any of our bulk unless we collaborate as a school board.”

Margaret Lorber, another District B incumbent school board member, said being on the board for the past three years has helped her realize what her greatest contri-butions were: her relation-ships.

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Lorber said. “… I think one of the reasons that the B dis-trict members have bonded so well together is that we each value the experience that each of us brings to the table, and the experience I brought was the experience of being inside the system with the families.”

Some candidates – both newcomers and incumbents - said they already had or were working on establish-ing relationships with city leaders.

Marc Solomon, District A, said recognizing the tal-ent among the school board and council candidates has allowed him to build rela-tionships.

“Frankly, everybody up here would be great on school board,” Solomon said, “and I think coming from that place, knowing that everybody has some-thing to add, I have great relationships as a result with incoming and current city councilmembers and I hope to have great relation-

ships with everybody on A, B and C, and I have a history of doing that.”

Heather Thornton, Dis-trict C, said even though she just recently returned to Alexandria, she’s already meeting with key city play-ers.

“I made it my priority to meet with everyone that I could possibly talk to in the city so I can effectively understand where they’re coming from and how we can best collaborate, be-cause if I’m elected to the school board, I want those relationships to already be established,” she said.

School Board Chair Ra-mee Gentry, District C, said one of her greatest ac-complishments during her time on the board has been strengthening the relation-ship between ACPS and the city.

“I have worked diligent-ly to develop relationships with the city council,” Gen-try said. “… I have particu-larly focused on developing a relationship with Justin Wilson, and I believe that

my word in terms of the joint facilities investment task force and really trying to align our two budgets has been crucial. I really feel that it is important to continue that into the next board.”

Another incumbent, Bill Campbell, District A, said he would use his institu-tional school board knowl-edge to help the newcomers who are elected.

“We’re going to have a new mayor, four new city council members, we’re go-ing to have at least four new school board members, and we have a new city attorney, and we have a new superin-tendent. I’m excited about the youngsters up here and I’m willing to … help them out. I have done this for five and a half years, so I’ve proven my collaborative abilities,” he said.

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the fire station,” Jinks said. “Both of those came from the Alexandria thought that we have to use the verti-cal density and that means bringing in some other use and some other partner to make it all work using very complicated deals.”

Anthony, who was ap-pointed COO of ACPS in late 2017, has years of experience with public-private partner-ships. She previously worked as executive director of Bal-timore City Public Schools’ 21st Century Schools pro-gram, where she was tasked with finding solutions to the city’s aging school facilities, and, before that, played an active role in helping orga-nizations like the National Science Foundation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms find new home facilities.

Anthony said she is working to find solutions for ACPS’ facility quanda-ries, including the school district’s ever-growing en-rollment and aging school buildings. Chief among those projects is expanding T.C. Williams High School or adding a new high school, both of which would require creative thinking and com-promises.

“We are continuing to experience a lot of the ef-fects of deferred mainte-nance that’s going to require us, as a city, to look at how the schools are going to be dealt with over a short pe-riod of time,” Anthony said. “We’re looking for oppor-tunities to use our existing infrastructure here in the city, to examine and explore developments with private partners for potential op-tions for working with the city manager on potential financing.”

Anthony said that, though Baltimore’s 21st Cen-tury Schools program didn’t involve private partners, the

private sector was involved throughout the process. The program, a partnership be-tween the city, the schools, the Maryland Stadium Au-thority and the state, in-volved renovating 28 schools and closing 26 schools over a six-year period.

“[The private sector] was the engine to make sure the rest of the development around the schools was go-ing to actually happen,” An-thony said.

Soltanieh said the key to making public-private partnerships successful was properly allocating risks and rewards. He used Skanska’s major renovation of LaGuar-dia Airport’s B Terminal and a completed tunnel project in Virginia as examples.

“P3s mean different things to different people. When [the] public and pri-vate sectors come together, there are different shades of gray, different ways to allo-cate responsibilities, share risks and rewards in the public and private sector,” Soltanieh said.

Each panelist touched on the difficulties of structur-ing partnerships. Jinks and Anthony said the challenge in the public sector tends to be bureaucracy and having the right leadership in place, as well as getting the public to buy into a vision.

“Really developing trust in the public sector’s ability to move through the process is one of the most difficult things,” Anthony said. “… Because of our bureaucracy

and because of our account-ability and compliance re-quirements, sometimes the private sector is extremely concerned about the com-mitment they’re making and the risk they’re taking.”

From the private sector perspective, Soltanieh said the difficulties are in the de-tails.

“The documentation is crazy with projects because you’re trying to make a long-term project work,” he said. “It took us years to come to an agreement and it was a process with RFPs and bid-ding to come to a deal that worked for us.

Looking ahead, the pan-elists said what the public sector needs most is ideas.

“I think we need the private sector’s ideas – the opportunities that peo-ple see as they’re driving through the city that aren’t articulated, that we haven’t thought about. To call the school division or call the city manager’s office is ab-solutely something we want to engage in,” Anthony said.

Soltanieh said the private sector welcomes ideas from the public as well.

“Any idea that fosters innovation is of value and let’s have a collaborative di-alogue around it. It should start with a dialogue,” he said. “Not every idea may work, or be the right solu-tion for a circumstance, but let’s make sure to take ad-vantage of good ideas.”

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GIRLS' FIELD HOCKEY

School RecordBishop Ireton 9-3

Episcopal 7-11SSSAS 14-5

T.C. Williams 9-3

Oct. 24B.I. W 1-0 @ St. Mary’s Ryken

Oct. 25SSSAS W 2-0 @ Georgetown Visitation

Oct. 26B.I. W 2-0 @ Episcopal

Oct. 30Episcopal W 5-2 vs. Sidwell Friends

Oct. 27B.I. L 50-13 @ Archbishop Carroll

Episcopal L 24-6 @ Georgetown PrepSSSAS L 28-21 @ Landon

T.C. L 32-25 vs. Mount Vernon

The Alexandria Times sports roundup includes records and game results for the prior week in two sports per sea-son for Alexandria’s four local high schools: Bishop Ireton, Episcopal, St. Stephens and St. Agnes and T.C. Williams. Records will be presented alphabetically, while results will be listed by date.

This fall, the sports included are football and field hockey. We will also be running photos with captions from games and encourage readers to send timely photos for submission to [email protected]. We will contin-ue covering games from various sports, as well as running sports features about Alexandria athletes.

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Scores this week:

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BOYS' FOOTBALL

School RecordBishop Ireton 1-8

Episcopal 5-2SSSAS 5-4

T.C. Williams 4-5

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Jonah Hill makes his debut as writer/direc-tor with nostalgic filmBY RICHARD ROEPER

Jonah Hill’s “Mid90s” is a very time-specific period piece about a particular sub-group of teen culture, but like many a successful com-ing-of-age story, it brims with near-universal truths and experiences.

Who can’t relate to the socially awkward 13-year-old who will do just about anything to gain acceptance into the “cool” group? Or the parent doing everything possible to remain connect-ed to the little boys who have transformed into surly teens? Or the moment when you realized some of the slightly older kids you once worshipped are lost and con-fused and heading straight toward a dead-end?

“Mid90s” is set in the summer of 1996 and is told mostly through the eyes of Stevie (Sunny Suljic), an in-troverted kid who looks even younger than his 13 years. (Writer/director Hill was 13 in 1996.)

Stevie looks up to his big brother, Ian (Lucas Hedges in yet another fine perfor-mance), even though Ian al-ternates between ignoring

Stevie and beating the crap out of him. On Ian’s 18th birthday, Stevie hands Ian a hand-wrapped mix tape of carefully selected songs. Ian virtually ignores the gift. Stevie is still too young to realize how sad and lonely Ian’s life is.

Katherine Waterston (de-livering fine work) is their single mom, Dabney, who is fiercely determined to keep the family together, but of-ten feels as if she’s underwa-

ter and taking the boys down with her.

Little wonder Stevie is desperate to become a part of something far outside the house, something bigger, something cooler, some-thing badass – something like the local skateboarding culture.

Stevie keeps hanging around a group of skate-boarders until he’s welcomed into their ranks. The ragtag band includes Ray (Na-kel

Smith), a skilled boarder with dreams of turning pro; Ray’s best friend, affectionate-ly known as F---S--- (Olan Prenatt), a notorious ladies’ man and binge-drinker/smoker/druggie; the aspir-ing filmmaker Fourth Grade (Ryder McLaughlin), so nick-named for his classroom lev-el intelligence, who chroni-cles their adventures on his video camera; and Ruben (Gio Galicia), the low man on the totem pole until Stevie

came along.In rapid fashion, Stevie

tries his first cigarette, chugs his first beer, pops his first pill, smokes his first joint, has an (unsettling) sexual encounter with an older girl, gets into fights and turns into an all-out punk – but, of course, he doesn’t see it that way. For Stevie, this is a glo-rious, magical time.

Hill films these episodes, along with more than a few skateboarding montages, in a deliberately ragged and jagged style that effectively captures Stevie’s exhilara-tion at his newfound “cool-ness” without celebrating the sheer, dumb, self-de-structive nature of this group. As you’d expect, the music and the fashion and the pop culture references (and the politically incorrect language) are spot-on for the period. Hill’s ear for dialogue yields some insightful obser-vations and some wickedly funny one-liners.

The ending feels manu-factured, particularly con-cerning one character’s re-action to a pivotal incident. But for most of the ride, “Mid90s” feels like an accu-rate time capsule, and a re-latable journey even if you’ve never been on a skateboard in your life.

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Heading into the win-ter months, many of us start thinking about how to avoid weight gain, with cold weather threatening to limit outdoor activity and the prospect of holiday food in-dulgences. It’s a good opportuni-ty to remember that dogs are not exempt from the battle of the bulge; they too struggle with weight gain and the health prob-lems that come along with it.

Dogs don’t realize the ramifications of eating to excess or not getting enough exercise. Keeping them healthy is their owner’s re-sponsibility. Sadly, while most of us are very aware of

the health hazards associat-ed with a person being over-weight, we don’t realize this also applies to our pets.

Studies show that as lit-tle as five extra pounds will make a dog susceptible to di-abetes, heart issues, respira-tory disease, hypertension, intra-abdominal cancer and osteoarthritis. Obese dogs

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dog walking at four miles per hour will only burn about 64 calories during a one-hour walk. Even at twice a day it’s only 128 calories. So be very conscious of the calories they are eating – measure their food and count caloric intake in the form of treats, table scraps, etc.

Don’t give in to a dog that looks hungry or begs

If your dog’s nutrient and caloric calories are met, then this is a behavioral is-sue. Dogs are master ma-nipulators; don’t let them convince you that they need more food when they don’t. If needed, you can divide their food into more fre-quent meals, set aside some kibble to be used for reward-ing positive behavior, dis-tract them by playing with a toy or tug/fetch or use low calorie/carb options like carrots or broccoli to satisfy cravings.

Consider alternative methods of exercise

It may be cold and dark outside when you get home from work, but you’re going to have to step up the phys-

ical activity to burn extra calories. There are endless ways to increase activity, even in the house. Get them to run up and down stairs or expend energy by eating meals from a toy – smaller dogs can even swim in the bathtub. You can also sched-ule playdates with neighbor-hood pups or stop by your local dog gym.

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frustration; remember this is important for the health of your dog and weight loss is never an easy task.

Communicate with non-compliant family members

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windows, his and her closets, plus a spa-like bathroom. A large bay window in the sec-ond floor family room allows natural light and provides an inviting window seat. All bed-rooms have en suite baths.

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711 South Union is in mint condition and within walk-

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Luxury Living at Backyard BoatsLocation: 711 S. Union St., Alexandria 22314Neighborhood: Backyard BoatsPrice: $1,495,000Square feet: 2,800 sq. ft. Bedrooms: 3Bathrooms: 4.5Year Built: 2002Contact: Babs Beckwith, 703-627-5421, McEnearney Associates Inc., Old Town, [email protected], www.babsbeckwith.com

PHOTOS/BOB NARODLeft: A stunning brick townhouse with an enormous bay window. Right: A grand living room with gas fire-place and three tall doors opening to a private stone patio surrounded by crepe myrtles and holly trees.

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THE ART OF DANCING WITH FIRE Have you ever been curious about the art of fire dancing? What inspires this peculiar art form? Attend an engaging artist talk with fire performance professional Kyle Rasmussen and her colleagues from Incandescent Entertainment and Peculiarity Productions. Learn about what motivates fire performers from how they practice to how they express themselves through this dynamic medium. They will also discuss their equipment and safety practices. The discussion will be followed by a short performance. The Art of Dancing with Fire is sponsored by TTR Sotheby’s International Realty.Time: 7 to 9 p.m.Location: The Athenaeum, 201 Prince St.Information: www.nvfaa.org

NOVEMBER 2

FIRST FRIDAY: DANCES AROUND THE WORLD Are you looking for a memorable and inspiring evening with your family? Plan to attend the First Friday: Dances Around the World sponsored by the Office of the Arts. During the evening, you will take a spin around the world through dance and music. Bring your dancing shoes, and plan to join in the festivities. A meet and greet begins at 6 p.m. Light refreshments will be on hand, courtesy of the Office of the Arts. Festivities begin at 6:30 p.m. No experience is necessary. Featured heritage dance groups are Boyle School of Irish Dance, Ethio-American Eskista Dance Group, Fairfax Chinese Dance Troupe and Royal Scottish Country Dancers. Dances Around the World is part of the First Fridays Series, a project of the Office of the Arts, a division of the Alexandria Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities. Time: 6 to 10 p.m.Location: Durant Arts Center, 1605 Cameron St.Information: alexandriava.gov/arts

ART ON TAP Enjoy local craft beer, original artwork and amazing food at The Art League’s annual Art on Tap. Craft beers from local breweries have been artfully paired with a work of art from an Art League instructor. Local restaurants have chosen a brew/artwork coupling to serve as their muse to create the perfect complimentary appetizer. Sample the creative combinations while drinking from a take-home Art on Tap beer tasting glass, and then vote for your favorite at the end of the event. You must be 21 or older to attend, and a valid form of identification is required for entry. Participating breweries and restaurants include Port City Brewing Co., Chadwicks, Oskar Blues Brewery, Starr Hill Brewery, Meggrolls, Vola’s Dockside Grill, Brothers Craft Brewing, Pizzeria Paradiso, Forge Brew Works, Mia’s Italian Kitchen, Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, The Wharf and Clyde’s

at Mark Center. Note: In past calen-dars, this event was incorrectly listed to take place on Oct. 29. The Times regrets the error.Time: 7 to 10 p.m.Location: The Art League Gallery, 105 N. Union St. Information: 703-683-1780

FREE MONTHLY MEMORY CAFÉ Senior Helpers of Arlington-Alexan-dria, one of the nation’s premier providers of personalized in-home senior care, introduces its memory café in partnership with Dementia Care Connections. The memory café, a social gathering for individuals living with memory loss and their families, will be held on the first Friday of every month, beginning Friday, Nov. 2. Participants and their families will interact with one another and take part in activities such as painting and games. Time: 1 to 3 p.m.Location: Senior Helpers of Arling-ton-Alexandria, 7910 Andrus RoadInformation: www.seniorhelpers.com/arlington-alexandria-va

NOVEMBER 3

UPTOWN BLOCK PARTY The businesses on King Street from Payne to Patrick streets invite you to join them for a good old-fashioned block party on Saturday. There will be mu-sic, raffles, face painting, Mobile Art Lab, balloon animals, in-store events, discounts and free treats. Participat-ing businesses include Today’s Cargo, Bazzak Salon, fibre space, Meggrolls, Penny Post, Casa Rosada Artisan Gelato, Serafino Leather, Red Barn Mercantile, Bluprint Chocolatiers, Stitch Sew Shop, Imagine Artwear, Acme Midcentury + Modern, Salon deZEN, Killer ESP, The Hour, Lori’s Ta-ble, Hank’s Oyster Bar, Pink & Brown, Cromwell’s Wood Products, Bellacara, Current Boutique, Indus Imports, Lotus Blooms, Vermillion, Lilly Pulitzer and Hank’s Pasta Bar.Time: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.Location: King Street between Payne and Patrick streetsInformation: www.facebook.com/Uptown-Block-Par-ty-288693108315639/

CLASSIC CAR SHOW Head to River Farm on Nov. 3 for cars, food and fun. Registration is $20 per show car. Spectator tickets are $5 for walk-ins or bicycles and $10 per car. Kids under 12 are free. Proceeds benefit the American Horticultural Society and its River Farm headquarters.Time: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.Location: River Farm, 7931 East Boulevard DriveInformation: www.ahsgardening.org ALEXANDRIA COMMUNITY HEALTH MEETING How can all Alexandrians have the healthiest life possible? Help answer that question and develop a complete picture of wellbeing in Alexandria at a commu-nity health meeting. At this meeting, attendees will work together to review the physical, mental and social

issues highlighted in city-wide health surveys and Photovoice submissions. They will then use this information to identify Alexandria’s current strengths and opportunities for improvement. Attendees will also discuss how health issues may differ across neighborhoods and communities in Alexandria. Breakfast will be served. Live translation provided in Spanish, Arabic, and Amharic.Time: 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.Location: George Washington Middle School, 1005 Mt. Vernon Ave.Information: www.eventbrite.com/e/alexandria-community-health-meet-ing-tickets-49398619601

'BOUND TO THE FIRE' LECTURE Join Alexandria Archaeology and Alex-andria Black History Museum for the second annual Anna Lynch Memorial Lecture Series. Historical archaeol-ogist and historian Kelley Deetz will discuss her new book, “Bound to the Fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine.” The book combines the archaeology of kitchens and outbuildings with historical records to examine the lives of enslaved cooks from the late-17th century to the Civil War. Tickets are $12 per person and $10 for FOAA/ ASPBH members.Time: 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.Location: Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, 134 N. Royal St.Information: www.Alexandriava.gov/Shop

MAYOR ON YOUR CORNER Join Mayor Allison Silberberg for her next monthly coffee, “Mayor on Your Cor-ner,” on Nov. 3 at Tempo Restaurant. There is no need to RSVP and no charge to attend, but there is a $5 flat fee for pastries and coffee. Please see www.allisonsilberberg.com for more information.Time: 10 to 11:30 a.m.Location: Tempo Restaurant, 4231 Duke St.Information: www.allisonsilberberg.com

PERFORMANCE BY THE UNIT-ED STATES AIR FORCE BAND The United States Air Force Band will present a chamber music perfor-mance of two masterworks, Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Igor Stravinsky’s L’Histoire du soldat (The Soldier’s Tale), led by associate conductor, Lieutenant Christina Munc-ey. This performance is free and open to the public. Time: 2 to 4 p.m.Location: The Athenaeum, 201 Prince St.Information: www.nvfaa.org

NOVEMBER 3 AND 4

ALEXANDRIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS MEN-DELSSOHN’S SYMPHONY NO. 3 ‘SCOTTISH’ The November program celebrates the past and present of American music. In recognition of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday

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celebration, the orchestra will perform two pieces from his acclaimed musicals, including the Overture to West Side Story and Three Dances Episodes from On the Town. The present comes into focus as the ASO performs the world premiere of Jessi-ca Krash’s cello concerto. Closing the program will be Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 “Scottish,” loosely based on the composer’s travels in Scotland with his longtime friend Karl Klingemann.Time: Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m.Location: Saturday at Schlesinger Concert Hall, Sunday at George Wash-ington Masonic MemorialInformation: www.alexsym.org

NOVEMBER 4

AGUDAS ACHIM PRESCHOOL FALL FESTIVAL FUNDRAISER Attend the Agudas Achim Preschool’s Fall Festival Fundraiser. The festival includes games, prizes, crafts, bounce houses, face painting, a petting zoo and music by Alexandria’s own Rainbow Rock Band starting at 3:30 p.m. Adults and children under one are free. All-access wristbands are available for purchase on eventbrite for children older than one. The event will take place Rain or Shine. Limited festival tickets will be available for purchase on-site. All proceeds from the event benefit the Agudas Achim Preschool.Time: 2 to 5 p.m.Location: Agudas Achim Congrega-tion, 2908 Valley DriveInformation: 908-872-7390

NORDIC FIDDLERS BLOC The Nordic Fiddlers Bloc is a fiddle trio from Norway, Sweden and the Shetland Islands whose clever use of harmony, rhythm, riffs and bass lines creates a sound that leaves the listener enthralled but at the same time dumbfounded that the sound only comes from three fiddles. Join them at the George Washington Ma-sonic Temple on Nov. 4. Tickets are $18 in advance and $20 at the door.Time: 7 p.m.Location: George Washington Masonic National Memorial, 101 Callahan DriveInformation: www.focusmusic.org/buy-tickets

NOVEMBER 5

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ‘FORE THE KIDS’ GOLF TOURNAMENT Attend a golf tournament benefit-ting the Dunbar Alexandria-Olympic Branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington. Originally rescheduled from Sept. 24. due to weather, the event includes regis-tration and lunch on the patio at 11 a.m., a shotgun start at 1 p.m. and a reception and awards ceremony at 6 p.m.Time: 11 a.m.Location: Springfield Country Club, 8301 Old Keene Mill Road

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NOVEMBER 6

GENERAL ELECTION Head to your local polling location to cast your vote for candidates running for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representa-tives and the City of Alexandria mayor, city council and school board. To locate your polling location, visit alexandriava.gov/elections.Time: 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.Location: Various throughout the city.Information: alexandriava.gov/elec-tions

NOVEMBER 9 TO 11

12TH ANNUAL ALEXANDRIA FILM FESTIVAL Attend three days of both ticketed and cost-free screenings of the best in independent filmmak-ing from around the world and our own Alexandria neighborhoods. The 12th Annual Alexandria Film Festival hosts more than 50 screenings at AMC Hoffman Theater and Beatley Library. Join them for post-screening discus-sions with filmmakers, artists, actors and industry experts where you ask the questions. Tickets will be available later in October. Time: VariousLocation: AMC Hoffman Theater, 206 Swamp Fox Road and Beatley Library, 5005 Duke St.Information: www.alexfilmfest.com

NOVEMBER 10

CRAFT FAIR AND PANCAKE BREAKFAST First Christian Church invites you to unwrap an awesome holi-day season by shopping at their annual craft fair and pancake breakfast on Nov. 10. This event features unique and one-of-a kind handcrafted creations from local artisans. Leisurely explore a charming venue brimming with potential holiday gifts and opportunities to treat yourself. Items for sale this year include jewelry, artwork, fabric crafts, greeting cards and much more. Church proceeds from the craft fair will fund a variety of local mission projects and a Puerto Rico mission trip. Proceeds from the pancake breakfast will be donated to Hunger Free Alexandria. Celebrate a crisp fall morning by digging into a plate of pancakes and sausage.Time: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.Location: First Christian Church, 2723 King St. Information: www.fccalexandria.com

PERFORMANCE BY THE UNITED STATES NAVY CONCERT BAND Attend a special Veterans Day Weekend performance by The United States Navy Concert Band from Washington, D.C. The chamber music recital perfor-mance will feature a diverse array of traditional and contemporary music. This performance is free and open to the public. Time: 2 to 4 p.m.Location: The Athenaeum, 201 Prince St.

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TASTE OF THANKSGIVING HIS-TORY The Lee-Fendall House Museum will offer a special presentation on traditional Thanksgiving food-ways on Nov. 10 with food historian Joyce White. This lecture and tasting program explores the political, social, econom-ic and cultural traditions that have made Thanksgiving the truly American holiday that it is. Attendees will learn how Thanksgiving has transformed itself over time from the celebration of Harvest Home as practiced by the Plymouth Plantation settlers in 1621, and discover how the holiday has been influenced by prominent figures such as George Washington, women’s magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The presentation will be followed by samples of Thanksgiving food from four centuries. Tickets are $15 per person for the 90-minute pro-gram and are available for sale through the museum’s website. Time: 2 p.m.Location: Lee-Fendall House Museum, 614 Oronoco St.Information: www.leefendallhouse.org

NOVEMBER 11

CHRIST CHURCH CHRISTMAS MARKET Go to the Christ Church Christmas Market to enjoy a taste of jams, jellies, dips, nuts and soup while you shop for jewelry, scarves, Christmas decorations and much more. All profits go to local and international charities.Time: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.Location: Christ Church, 121 N. Columbus St. Information: www.historicchristchurch.org

NOVEMBER 10 TO 12

MOUNT VERNON COLONIAL MARKET & FAIR Mount Vernon’s Co-lonial Market & Fair is back by popular demand, featuring dozens of America's historic craftspeople and plenty of fami-ly fun. This event, which was resched-uled from its original September date due to inclement weather, will occur on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 10 and 11. This year the Colonial Market & Fair has been extended to a third day on Mon-day, Nov. 12. During Colonial Market & Fair, visitors can jump-start their holiday shopping during this colonial pop-up marketplace. Colonial-attired artisans demonstrate 18th-century crafts and sell traditional wares such as food, woodcarvings, metalwork, furniture and much more. Performers charm audiences with music and entertain-ment, including an 18th-century air balloon, a magician and a puppet show. Mount Vernon’s historic interpreters will demonstrate how to make chocolate using an authentic colonial recipe and traditional methods.Time: Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.Location: Mount Vernon, 3200 Mount Vernon HighwayInformation: mountvernon.org/colo-nialfair

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OpinionAt long last, five months after the

June Democratic primary, Alexan-drians head to the polls on Tuesday to elect a new mayor, six city council members and nine candidates to the school board. Two things are certain: both governing bodies are going to have several new members, and the new city council will be considerably younger than the previous one.

City council will have at least four new members, as Councilor Tim Lovain is retiring, Vice Mayor Jus-tin Wilson is set to wield the mayor’s gavel and Councilors Paul Smedberg and Willie Bailey lost their re-election bids in the primary. Four of the nine incumbent school board members are not seeking re-election, so that body will also have an influx of newcomers.

There is also a generational change afoot, particularly on council. The four outgoing members – Lovain, Smed-berg, Bailey and Mayor Allison Sil-berberg – are all over 50. Three of the Democratic newcomers – Canek Agu-irre, Elizabeth Bennett-Parker and Mo Seifeldein – are under 40, while the fourth, Amy Jackson, is in her 40s. One of the two Republicans running, Kevin Dunne, is in his 20s. So, the new coun-cil is certain to be younger and less ex-perienced than the outgoing one.

Below are the Alexandria Times endorsements for council and school board. Making endorsements is a re-sponsibility that we take very serious-ly. Our endorsements are the product of our three-person editorial board, and reflect the input of our reporter, editor and publisher. They are based on responses to the Times question-naire, the answers to which were in-cluded in last week’s Alexandria Times Voter Guide, on our observations of candidates during debates and candi-date forums, on interviews our staff did with each candidate and on how the candidates conduct themselves in the community.

We hold all candidates running for council and school board in high re-gard, and there are aspects of each per-son’s message that resonated with us.

There are no losers here – only some candidates who stood out a bit more. First are our endorsements, followed by explanations for our selections.

For city council, in alphabetical order, the Times endorses: Canek Aguirre, Elizabeth Bennett-Parker, John Chapman, Kevin Dunne, Amy Jackson and Del Pepper.

For school board, alphabetically by district, the Times endorses:

District A: Bill Campbell, Michelle Rief and Mark Solomon

District B: Cindy Anderson, Jewe-lyn Cosgrove and Margaret Lorber

District C: Meagan Alderton, Ra-mee Gentry and John Lennon

City CouncilCanek Aguirre has an array of

experience that would be helpful on council. He’s worked in Alexandria City Public Schools, in health care and within Alexandria’s underserved com-munities, particularly with our immi-grants. He has experience on several boards and commissions, including in leadership roles. Aguirre is extremely thoughtful and well-spoken on a num-ber of topics.

Elizabeth Bennett-Parker would bring a needed voice to city council as a business and nonprofit leader. Early in the primary campaign, Ben-nett-Parker, at times, seemed nervous on the debate stage. But as the cam-paign wore on, she increasingly found her voice and continues to impress. Bennett-Parker won the most votes of any candidate in the Democratic pri-mary.

John Chapman, a two-term in-cumbent, is in our estimation the most irreplaceable council candidate. One of only two incumbents on the Dem-ocratic slate of six, Chapman is deeply knowledgeable on a wide selection of issues. He’s that rare leader who lis-tens before speaking. The city would be well-served if Chapman were to garner the most votes in the election and become vice mayor.

Kevin Dunne’s name on this list may surprise some people, given his

youth and the fact that he’s running as a Republican in a city dominated by Democrats. But political diversity is as important as any other kind, and Dunne is an extremely talented and insightful candidate who recogniz-es that local issues are not partisan. It was just 11 years ago that another precocious, impressive and ambitious candidate joined council while in his 20s: incoming Mayor Justin Wilson.

Amy Jackson was our seventh choice in the June Democratic prima-ry, meaning the Times did not endorse her then and instead gave our nod to Mo Seifeldein. While we still also like Seifeldein, we have switched them in our rankings for two reasons. First, Jackson, if elected, would be the only councilor with children attending ACPS (along with presumptive mayor Wilson) and is also a former teacher. Given the primacy of school-related issues, her perspective would be valu-able. Second, Jackson’s presence at an almost endless succession of city meetings, where the only reason to at-tend is knowledge rather than to cam-paign, is impressive. She’s equipped to hit the ground running. Conversely, Seifeldein has been the least visible of the Democratic candidates during the general election.

Del Pepper is the city’s institution-al memory. On a dais that’s going to be filled with much younger colleagues with no prior elective experience, we think Pepper’s long-term knowledge of issues, precedents and cycles is vi-tal. During public hearings, she con-tinues to be the one person on council who, it’s evident from her questions, has visited each site beforehand. Such ongoing dedication after 30 years on council is remarkable.

School BoardDistrict A: Bill Campbell is

knowledgeable and engaging, and re-electing him would bring continu-ity to this district’s representatives. The remaining two choices were dif-ficult, as all six candidates were first-rate. However, we think Michelle Rief

stood out for the breadth of her knowl-edge on a range of issues. Her citing of data to support her views on topics like the need for smaller schools, in the context of the high school capaci-ty crunch, impressed. Our final choice for District A is Mark Solomon, based mainly on his background as a security specialist. This is a vantage point that would be helpful on the school board.

District B: This was an extremely difficult choice, as all three incum-bents are seeking re-election, joined by two impressive newcomers. We back two of the three incumbents, Cindy Anderson, who is vice chair of the school board and Margaret Lorb-er. Lorber is one of the most impres-sive incumbents on either council or the school board, and her experience in bilingual and special education – two areas where ACPS most needs improvement – are especially helpful. Our final District B choice is Jewelyn Cosgrove, who we found to be ex-tremely well-spoken, and in fact the most impressive newcomer in any of the districts. Cosgrove is the parent of one small child with another on the way. She would bring a needed per-spective on the long-range implica-tions of the capacity crunch.

District C: We felt three of the candidates in this District were clear standouts. Current Board Chair Ra-mee Gentry is unmatched in her knowledge of where ACPS stands, where it’s trending and where it needs to go. Newcomer Meagan Alderton is a longtime special needs teacher, an area of chronic under performance within ACPS. We think she would be a strong, capable voice on the school board. Finally, John Lennon has fol-lowed a lengthy and successful career as a writer and editor working for the federal government with several years serving as a tutor, PTA officer and member of numerous ACPS commit-tees and task forces. He would be able to make a difference from day one.

These are our choices. Whether you agree or differ, we encourage you to go to the polls and vote on Tuesday.

Alexandria Times endorsements


Your Views The Business Plan with Bill Reagan

Many of us are not fiscally or num-bers oriented, and some business owners struggle when it comes to managing their cash, grasping their financials and particular-ly making borrowing de-cisions. This is a perfect example why someone should contact the Alex-andria Small Business De-velopment Center for help. Financial consultations are among the free ser-vices offered by the center.

Astute business own-ers know that engaging a financial professional to routinely review their cash flow and financial statements makes them better managers. They recognize the importance of an an-nual fiscal check-up. They know that, at the first indication that they need working capital, an expansion loan or even startup funding, the most ef-fective approach is to work through their business plan and loan request with an expert. It’s much like being coached before an interview.

Alexandria Small Business De-velopment Center Business Analyst Jack Parker has worked with Alexan-dria business owners for more than 20 years to help them improve their financial literacy and better manage financial aspects of their business. In that span, he has helped more than 275 business owners and start-up entrepreneurs obtain loans or in-vestments totaling more than $80 million.

As a retired banker, Parker under-stands the expectations of lenders. He knows they want loan applications to clearly show how that loan will be repaid, and they expect the applicant to provide sound financial projec-tions supported by written assump-tions. Some bankers indicate they have greater confidence in the loan requests that come after the business has worked with Parker and the SBDC. Their experience is that center-assist-

ed applicants are typically better pre-pared and organized, and are there-fore much better credit risks.

Thanks to the center’s strong local banking relation-ships, bankers often re-fer prospective borrow-ers to Parker to obtain guidance. Six Alexandria banks are financial spon-sors of the center, and many of their lenders work closely with Parker to connect business own-ers with the appropriate

services and lending programs.Being unprepared for a loan appli-

cation can have far-reaching effects. Prospective borrowers might not re-alize that anytime your loan applica-tion is turned down, it can affect your credit rating. Alexandria business owners have access to a free resource to work with them to fine-tune their loan or line of credit application so that it answers almost every question a loan officer will ask. That way, when they approach a lender, they will have confidence in the plan they’re pre-senting, and have a much greater chance of it being approved.

Whether or not a business owner needs financing, it behooves them to have a strong and confidential rela-tionship with their bank. The center is glad to have a resource in Jack Park-er to help Alexandria business owners develop such banking relationships and better manage the financials of their business.

No one should be ashamed because they are not fiscally inclined. Busi-ness owners have different skillsets, and wisdom comes from knowing when to augment your own strengths with consulting expertise. We wel-come your contacting the center for such guidance.

The writer is the executive director of Alexandria’s Small Business Development Center.

Becoming conversant with your financials

BILL REAGAN

To the editor:I am a proud Alexandrian who

lives on the West End, but I work three jobs to afford to live here – and I am not alone.

There are individuals and fam-ilies struggling to make it in Alex-andria. For those of us who live on the West End, city hall often seems too far away to help solve our prob-lems.

Elizabeth Bennett-Parker, an Alexandria City Council candidate, makes city hall seem closer to Al-exandrians who are looking for solutions. She helps lead Together We Bake, a job-training program for women in need. Like so many others in Alexandria, the women Together We Bake serves need af-fordable housing, stable employ-ment and a high-quality education for their children.

Bennett-Parker is running for

city council to build on her work creating opportunities for wom-en in need to create opportuni-ties for Alexandrians like me. She wants to allow more citizens to be heard, with city council field hear-ings throughout Alexandria and child care services during council meetings. She believes city council should do more to provide afford-able housing for first responders, teachers and low-income families.

Bennett-Parker also wants to spark small business growth and attract new businesses to areas like the West End, which will ensure more revenues for Alexandria’s big-gest needs – from schools to trans-portation. She will be a fresh, in-novative voice on Alexandria City Council who will work to find solu-tions and improve lives.

- Meg Czaikoski,Alexandria

To the editor:I fully support Independent can-

didate Mark Shiffer for city council. Shiffer deserves your vote. Take an extra two seconds to scan to the end of the city council list of candi-dates on your ballot when you vote. Shiffer will be the final printed name. Check that box first before voting for anyone else.

Three years ago, I ran as an In-dependent candidate for city council and I came in last. Many Republi-cans were displeased I didn’t run with them. Many Democrats told me I would have been elected if I had run with them. Party politics defy logic and lead to a government lack-ing in adequate discourse and ideas.

The past three years have made it clear that both the Democratic and Republican parties exist to serve themselves, and not we the people. I hope I was simply ahead of my time

in the abandonment of party ideol-ogy. I hope Alexandria just wasn’t ready for a non-party candidate in 2015. Alexandria needs to be ready now, in 2018. Shiffer is a left-leaning moderate, who has the strong char-acter Alexandrians need and deserve on city council right now. He and I agree on how to address virtually all of the issues facing our city even though I’m a right-leaning moderate.

Democrats started voting for change in their June primary. Their slate of candidates is far from per-fect. The time has come for change. The time has come for Nov. 6, 2018 to be known as Independents Day. The time has come for Mark Shiffer to be elected to Alexandria City Council as a true Independent, serving all of us.

-Phil Cefaratti,Alexandria City Council

Candidate 2009 and 2015

Bennett-Parker for city council

Election Day must be our Independents Day


To the editor:Three years ago, I wrote to this

paper to endorse Margaret Lorber as a first-time candidate for the Alex-andria City School Board in District B. I am pleased now to have the op-portunity to fully endorse Lorber’s reelection to the board. Her service during the past three years has been outstanding and we need her to con-tinue. Lorber has been dedicated to the issues she set forth in her orig-inal platform: expanding capacity and repairing our schools, support-ing families to become effective ad-vocates for their children and sup-porting our teachers.

Lorber’s understanding of our school system’s most pressing is-sues grows out of having served nine years from 2006 to 2015 in-side ACPS as the Division-wide Bi-lingual Parent Liaison. During that time our student population grew from 10,000 to just under 15,000 students, and our schools became over-crowded and worn out.

Lorber also saw firsthand the challenges faced by many families

due to low income and limited En-glish. And she worked closely with teachers and other staff to improve communication with families. As a long-term ACPS employee, I too un-derstand the issues, and know clear-ly that Lorber is unquestionably ca-pable.

I believe Lorber has been an ef-fective member of the school board because she brings this intimate knowledge of the system along with her passion for the job. She understands that student achieve-ment is affected by crowded and worn-down facilities. She under-stands that teachers do not feel re-spected and supported when their classrooms are crowded and poorly maintained.

We are fortunate to have some-one with Lorber’s knowledge, pas-sion and energy serving on the school board. She has my vote and my full support for a second term. If you live in District B, please consid-er giving her your vote too.

-Nancy Runton, PhD, CPNPAlexandria

To the editor:Alexandria City Public Schools are

at a crossroads, and I am looking for a candidate who has demonstrated a commitment to our city and offers a fresh, new perspective on how we can improve our schools. That candidate in District A is Marc Solomon.

I reached out to Solomon early in his campaign because I wanted to lend my support to a candidate that has the vision to make sure every school in Al-exandria is world-class. As an advocate for health and wellness in the city, I was excited that he was not just open to hearing my thoughts, but eager to learn about all the issues that Alexan-dria’s children face.

Solomon and his wife Mackenzie have a young son and another on the way. They live in Parker-Gray and their sons will both be attending Jeffer-son-Houston. Solomon is active in his son’s education, serving as president of the Hopkins House Helen Day parent’s

council. If elected, he would be the first Syrian-American to hold office in Al-exandria.

Solomon grew up in Buffalo, New York and graduated from Cornell Uni-versity and then received a Master’s in National Security from Georgetown University. He spent seven years in security and threat analysis at the De-partment of State before moving to the private sector, where he helps compa-nies defend against gun violence. As a security expert, Solomon knows how to secure our schools without bad ideas like arming our teachers.

We are fortunate to have so many talented education experts on our school board. In today’s environment, I think it’s essential we also have a se-curity expert that has great ideas on how to improve our schools. I’ll be vot-ing for Marc Solomon in District A, and I urge you to as well.

-Diana Karczmarczyk, PhD, MPH, MCHES, Alexandria

To the editor: On Nov. 6, Alexandria voters

will be choosing among candi-dates for important citywide offic-es. Included among these is Chris Suarez, who is running for one of three school board seats in Dis-trict A.

We have been fortunate to get to know Suarez during the past few months, and we heartily en-dorse him for school board.

From his own public school education in the city of Chicago as a child of Hispanic and Native- American heritage, to his career as a sixth-grade teacher, to his Yale Law School years (where he served on the law school’s Education Ad-equacy Project), to his law prac-tice specializing in patents and technology, Suarez is no stranger to the challenges facing school districts such as Alexandria City Public Schools. He understands the value that different cultural perspectives bring to our students

as they prepare to graduate into an increasingly global society.

Because of his passion for eq-uity, Suarez co-founded Learn To-gether, Live Together, a non-prof-it organization that is fostering grassroots dialogue and raising awareness around issues of school diversity, equity, and inclusion. He also provides pro bono counsel to families who cannot afford repre-sentation in special education and school discipline cases.

We believe that Chris Suarez’s background and experiences will be extremely valuable as a School Board member representing Dis-trict A.

-Eric Edgington, Catherine Joyce, Stephanie Kapsis, former ACPS School Board member Michelle

Krocker, Rose and Bob McHenry, Michelle Mellette, Arthur Schmalz,

former ACPS School Board member Marjorie Scott, Carole

Sieling, Sharon and Scott Weiss,Alexandria

To the editor:I write in support of Veronica No-

lan’s candidacy for reelection to a seat on the Alexandria City School Board as a representative from Dis-trict B.

Nolan is a longtime resident of Alexandria, where she lives with her husband and two sons, one who at-tends an Alexandria public elemen-tary school and the other who at-tends T.C. Williams High School. She has already served one term on the School Board with distinction and will, upon her reelection, become a senior member of the board, bringing valuable experience to the table.

Nolan continually demonstrates integrity and honesty, wisdom and forthrightness. She believes in our community and in her ability to help us make it better. She is passionate about all kids and about making their world a better place in which to learn and grow. She understands that in or-der to improve schools for students, we must support their teachers and school staff members. She believes that the school board needs to work

together with city council and com-munity leaders to build a multitude of safety nets for our youngest citizens.

In her last term on the board she has demonstrated that she has the skills and the experience to get the job done well. She is bright, creative and collegial. She brings to the job a rich background in K-12 education, including teaching at Eastern High School in the District of Columbia for five years.

Finally, I believe that voters in Dis-trict B should get out and vote for No-lan because this election matters. All of us – no matter what our political persuasion – have seen very clearly in the last three years that elections have consequences. Even school board elections – or maybe especially school board elections. These are our kids and our grandkids. This is our community.

I believe that Veronica Nolan can help Alexandria and our schools move in the right direction. She de-serves our support.

- Kitty Porterfield,Alexandria

I Support Marc Solomon for School Board

Chris Suarez for school board

Re-elect Nolan to the school board Re-elect Lorber to the school board


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As the City of Alexandria prepares to commemorate Alexandrians who served in World War I, we thought it appropriate to tell the story of one resident who served.

Born in 1890, Joseph Koffler lived in his hometown of Manchester, England until he immigrated to the Unit-ed States in 1907. When he enlisted in the U.S. Army in February 1918, his occupation was listed as a fabric cutter. Other documents list him as a baker. Either way, these occupations don’t capture Koffler’s itinerant life before the First World War.

Orphaned by the time he left England, Koffler, whose sister Sarah had immigrated to Baltimore before him, in-herited enough to allow him to live on his own at a young age. He tried a variety of jobs in New York, Calgary, Canada and Baltimore.

Following his enlistment, he served in France from June 1918 until April 1919. Koffler had bad feet, and a couple of hours on Camp Meade’s drill ground convinced him that he wouldn’t be able to march across France. Assigned to a base hospital in France, Koffler served as a cook, an experience connected to his future career.

Years later, he related one event in particular to his son Samuel, also known as Sonny. It was in the summer of 1918, and Koffler was assigned to hospital duty in a chateau. A small biplane flew close to the grounds, and the pilot dropped a tobacco can knot-ted in a long, grease-stained towel. Inside was a note to one of the nurses confirm-ing a date with Captain Eddie Rickenbacker.

It’s interesting to note that Koffler didn’t become a natu-ralized citizen of our country until he was already serving it in France. Perhaps one of the most interesting objects in his papers that are held in the Special Collections Library is the Jewish Prayerbook issued

to him during his enlistment. Inside, are the prayers written in Hebrew on the right side, and in English on the left.

After his return from the war, Koffler briefly moved to Baltimore, worked in a textile factory and married Mollie Appel, a young, Polish wom-an from a Jewish family. He had met Appel while working in the textile factory before he enlisted. She became an American citizen when she married Koffler.

Starting in 1928, the Kofflers owned and operated the neighborhood Koffler’s Market at 529 Oronoco St., which is now the Olde Towne School for Dogs. The rest of the Appel family moved from Baltimore to Alexan-

dria as well, and her father also opened a grocery store. The Kofflers had two sons, but the older Henry died as a child. The younger son Samu-el joined the Navy and moved to Hawaii. Koffler died in his home on Janney’s Lane in 1965. Mollie Koffler sold the store shortly after his death.

The life of Joseph Koffler reflected many trends of the United States in the ear-ly 20th century. While he didn’t come from southern or eastern Europe, he came from a non-Protestant fam-ily. He became naturalized primarily due to his ser-vice to this country during World War I, and while his early life was dominated by industrial work, he was able to save enough to open his own store, which he operated until his death more than 40 years after he returned from the war.

Koffler’s service to his ad-opted country and his com-mitment to Alexandria for more than 35 years as a small business owner makes him not only part of national and world history, but our city’s as well.

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Historic Alexandria.

The orphaned ‘Doughboy’ who found a home in Alexandria

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