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Defense lawyers say Bouaichi’s innocence, not COVID-19, was basis for bondBY MISSY SCHROTT

On July 29, Ibrahim Bouaichi, who had been in-dicted for rape, allegedly shot and killed his accuser, Karla Dominguez, while out on bond.

Bouaichi, 33, is one of many incarcerated people who have been released from jail since the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in the region in mid-March. Those released have includ-ed prisoners serving time whose sentences were almost complete, those with serious medical conditions and de-fendants awaiting trial.

It is unusual, however, that someone facing such serious charges – rape, sodomy, abduction, stran-gulation and burglary – was allowed to walk free without GPS tracking and seemingly little enforce-ment of the conditions set in his bond order.

The alleged rape for which Bouaichi was indict-ed took place in October 2019 at Dominguez’s resi-dence. Following the inci-dent, Bouaichi was arrested

and detained without bond at the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center in Alexandria. After a prelim-inary hearing on Dec. 11, 2019, during which Domin-guez testified, the grand jury indicted Bouaichi on the five charges, and a trial was set for March 30.

When the pandemic hit, the Alexandria Circuit Court issued an order removing all cases from the docket, and Bouaichi’s trial was rescheduled for May 4. On April 8, Bouaichi’s defense lawyers filed a bond motion requesting that Bouaichi be released from jail.

Judge Nolan Daw-kins released Bouaichi on April 9, despite objections

from an Alexandria pros-ecutor, on $25,000 bond. The bond order required Bouaichi to remain in his parents’ Maryland home, except when meeting with his counsel or pretrial ser-vices, and to have no con-tact with Dominguez. The written bond order did not detail how the conditions would be enforced.

Bouaichi’s trial date continued to be postponed because of the pandem-ic. On July 29, still out on bond, Bouaichi allegedly shot and killed Dominguez outside of her Alexandria apartment.

On Aug. 5, police locat-ed Bouaichi in Maryland and initiated a vehicle pur-suit, which ended when Bouaichi’s car crashed in Prince George’s County. Of-ficers found Bouaichi with a self-inflicted gunshot wound and transported him to a hospital, where he died on Aug. 8.

July 29 was not the first time Bouaichi violated the terms of his bond order. He was arrested on May 8 in Greenbelt, Maryland and charged with several traffic offenses, including reckless

Upcoming outdoor concert commemo-rates the March on WashingtonBY CODY MELLO-KLEIN

Where did all the music go?

When the COVID-19 pan-demic hit Northern Virginia in March, it was followed by a deafening silence. The city’s live music venues and concert

halls were an early casualty of the pandemic, but some local arts organizations adapted quickly to the situation.

Classical Movements, an Alexandria-based choral and orchestral tour organizer, put on an initial set of three out-door performances on June 20 in the garden of its Old Town location, the Rectory, at 711

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Commonwealth’s Attor-ney Bryan Porter said that Maryland authorities did not notify Alexandria authori-ties of the arrest. If they had, the prosecution would have moved to revoke Bouaichi’s bond, Porter said.

Dominguez’s tragic mur-der was apparently at least in part a result of incar-cerated individuals – who were either serving terms or awaiting trial – being released from jail due to COVID-19 concerns. At the beginning of the pandem-ic, there was a public push to reduce the number of in-mates in jails and prisons in order to diminish the risk of outbreaks within those con-fined facilities.

“Pretrial release has be-come more common since March, absolutely,” Mari-na Medvin, a local criminal defense attorney, said in an email. “Defendants who before coronavirus would have sat in jail awaiting trial without bond are now being placed on pretrial release, some without oversight.”

The Sheriff’s Office does not have records of how many people have been released from the Alexandria jail for reasons related to COVID-19. The inmate population was

331 on March 1 and 274 on Aug. 24, according to Amy Bertsch, communications specialist at the Alexandria Sheriff’s Office.

Porter said there is no set criteria for who can be re-leased on bond or whether someone can be released be-cause of COVID-19 concerns.

“It’s a case-by-case ba-sis,” Porter said. “The judge is going to be looking at what’s alleged: Is it a violent [or] non-violent crime? Does the evidence appear to be strong or weak? What is the person’s prior criminal re-cord, if any? When it comes to COVID, do they belong to a particular class of people,

like age or immune-compro-mised people that might be at a higher risk?”

Bouaichi’s defense at-torneys say that Bouaichi was not released because of COVID-19 concerns, but because they had a case for his innocence. The lawyers requested that their names be left out of this article because they’ve received death threats since Domin-guez’s murder.

“The gist of our motion was actual innocence,” one of the attorneys said. “We wait-ed six months before we did a bond motion, and we re-quested a bond motion upon reviewing the prosecutor’s ev-

idence and developing our evi-dence, and we presented some of our findings to the judge, and we believe that’s why the judge decided to release him on bond, not COVID-19.”

The attorneys said that 90% of their oral argument for Bouaichi’s release was based on his innocence, and 10% based on COVID-19.

The written bond motion does not go into detail about their argument for Bouai-chi’s innocence, except to state: “The two individuals involved were boyfriend/girlfriend and there is a sub-stantial defense here.”

“It’s a case-by-case basis. The judge is going to be looking at what’s alleged: Is it a violent [or] non-violent crime?

Does the evidence appear to be strong or weak? What is the person’s prior criminal record, if any? When it comes to COVID, do they belong to a particular class of people, like age or immune-compromised people that might be at a higher risk?”

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Carter Hamilton Hol-land, 24, died on Aug. 15 at his home in Alexandria from cardiac arrest.

With music as his first love, Carter’s talent was only surpassed by his kind-ness, unconditional love for his wide circle of friends, wry wit and calm dignity as the embodiment of a true Southern gentleman.

A graduate of St. Ste-phen’s & St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Carter was a “lifer,” having started his schooling there in kin-dergarten. At SSSAS he ex-celled on the cross country team and in the orchestra. During those years, he achieved the rank of Ea-gle Scout and was honored with the Great Son award from Alpine Camp for Boys in Mentone, Alabama. Car-ter earned a degree in En-glish from the College of Charleston.

Carter shared his mu-sical talents as a composer and multi-instrumentalist in a Charleston band and at garden parties to sup-port Historic Alexandria Foundation. He launched his career at the I’On Club in South Carolina and Po-tomack Company Auctions in Alexandria before be-coming a journalist for Law Street Media in Washington D.C., following in the foot-steps of his father.

Carter and Hamilton are family surnames, and as the only grandchild on one side of his family, he was amused when referred to as “the heir” by his grandpar-ents’ friends. He delighted in the historic atmosphere of his Alexandria home-town and Charleston, and he was a member of The Or-der of the First Families of Virginia and the Huguenot Society of South Carolina.

The sources of Carter’s greatest happiness were

his family and friends and especially the times he spent with his extended relatives at the family’s rural mountain compound on the Little River in Men-tone, Alabama and at Ki-awah, South Carolina. He loved his cat, Tommy.

Carter is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ste-ven Asbury Holland (Lucie Howard Stephens) of Alex-andria; grandmother Mrs. Gerry Underwood Stephens of Chattanooga, Tennessee; grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Donald R. Worley (Mary Frances Beane Holland) of Chattanooga; aunt Allison Ward Stephens and uncles Gerry U. Stephens, Jr. and A.W. Holland, III of Chat-tanooga and numerous be-loved cousins.

A service for the cele-bration and thanksgiving of Carter’s life was held at the Virginia Theological Seminary on Aug. 22, and he will be laid to rest in a private family ceremony in Chattanooga.

Memorial contributions may be made to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Alex-andria, College of Charles-ton departments of Music or English and Mentone Edu-cational Resources Founda-tion (Alabama).

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Princess St. Intended as a one-time event, the success of the concert helped founder Neema Helms realize people were willing to attend live performances if they were ex-ecuted safely.

“I was more nervous about this than some of the big-gest things we’ve ever done in Berlin or London or any-where, and so were [the mu-sicians],” Helms said. “They were more gratified perform-ing for live audiences and to have a chance to play together and seeing some of their col-leagues and just making music together. It was so wonderful.”

The concert series, Sounds of Hope and Harmo-ny, has run every Saturday since July 25 and will contin-ue through October.

Each performance fea-tures different musicians, ranging from bass quartets to jazz duos. Many of the per-formers come from larger en-sembles, such as Alexandria Symphony Orchestra and Na-tional Symphony Orchestra, and have been eager to play in front of a live audience after

months of inactivity. “I said ‘yes’ immediately

without asking about the de-tails actually,” Robert Rearden, a horn player for the National Symphony Orchestra who per-formed in one of the three ini-tial shows in June, said.

The silence imposed by pandemic-era restrictions has taken a toll on musi-cians, many of whom hav-en’t performed in front of an audience since March. The Sounds of Hope and Harmo-ny series has helped musi-cians get back out in front of a crowd – even if it is masked and socially distanced.

“You go through a period of time where you’re thinking, ‘What am I doing?’” Rearden

said. “[You’re] just waiting for the phone to ring or the email that says, ‘OK, come back to work. We have something to do.’ It’s been good to say, ‘OK, yeah I still like playing.’”

Alexandria Crichlow, a so-prano who will be performing in the concert series on Satur-day, has been rehearsing with her fellow musicians using an app called Jaz Kazam. The app allows musicians to re-hearse with one another vir-tually with minimal latency issues, but Crichlow is eager to get in front of an audience again, she said.

“After that final bow, to know you gave it all – you

PHOTO/CLASSICAL MOVEMENTSThe venue for Classical Movements' concert series is the "secret garden" behind the Rectory, the organization's Princess Street location.

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You go through a period of time where you’re thinking, ‘What am I doing?’ [You’re] just waiting

for the phone to ring or the email that says, ‘OK, come back to work. We have something to do.’ It’s been good to say, ‘OK, yeah I still like playing.’”

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gave your heart to the people, you gave your mind to the people, you gave your soul to the people – I think that is the most incredible feeling in the world,” Crichlow said.

While several perform-ers were somewhat hesitant about putting on a show during the pandemic, those concerns were assuaged when they saw the venue. Audience members get their tempera-tures taken, seats are spaced more than six feet apart, mu-sicians are seated at least six feet apart on stage, masks are required and the capacity is limited to 50 people.

Despite the constraints, music fans have flocked to the concerts, and almost ev-ery show has been sold out. At a time when most arts organizations and concert venues are struggling to find a way forward, Classical Movements has seemingly found a short-term solution for fans willing to comply with safety measures.

“It’s totally possible to have concerts even in this cra-zy time just with the right co-ordination and the will to do it, and they have it,” Rearden said. “… The comments from the audience seemed to be the same, like they just needed that sense of, ‘OK, life is go-ing to go back to normal. Not new normal – normal, regular normal.’”

The chance to see talented musicians up close in an in-timate setting is also rare in the realm of classical music, where massive concert halls and pricy tickets are stan-dard. Classical Movements is making music more accessi-ble and, in the process, hopes to remind audiences why live performances are so valuable.

“It’s important to demon-strate that music can bring people together, and so in my little way, in our little way, we’re working very hard [to do that],” Helms said.

This Saturday, Classi-

cal Movements is using its concert series to address the ongoing social movement around racial injustice by commemorating the March on Washington and the fight for civil rights.

Featuring a combination of freedom songs, spirituals, gospel, popular music from the 60s and music from Black composers such as Jasmine Barnes and H. Leslie Adams, the concert is drawing on the deep musical tradition of Black artists. The goal is to paint a sonic picture of the African American experi-ence, Crichlow said.

“We are curating a pro-gram to show the actual chronological order of the ex-perience of the African Amer-ican spirit,” Crichlow said.

Highlighting diverse tal-ent has been at the core of the concert series and Classical Movements as an organiza-tion, but Helms acknowledged there’s always more than can be done. For this perfor-mance, Helms worked with Eric Conway, choir conductor at historic Black universi-ty Morgan State University, and the Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts to put together a slate of top-tier Black artists.

“Sweet Songs of Sorrow and Joy” will feature a trio

of Black musicians: Crichlow, baritone V. Savoy McIlwain and pianist Dr. Lester Brown. Narration from Pamela Si-monson will also be woven into the fabric of the perfor-mance to guide the audience through each piece of history.

The music and its deep-ly rooted place in American culture draw connections be-tween the struggles and per-severance, sorrow and joy, of Black people through the past and present.

“Music, I believe, is a uni-versal language,” Crichlow said. “… When music comes into play, it’s always able to transcend time as well as bring everybody to the forefront to hear a message of love as well as a message of justice.”

Hope is at the core of the concert series, both in name and in conception. The idea for the concert series came from an experience Helms had in the Rectory’s garden, she said.

Early on during the pan-demic, Helms returned to the Rectory, now empty, to do some administrative work. Wandering into the garden, Helms saw a magnolia tree in bloom and a bird’s nest full of chicks, singing their first songs. In the middle of a glob-al nightmare, life – and music – found a way.

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Because the bond motion was filed on April 8 and the hearing took place on April 9, the prosecution did not re-spond in writing.

“We did strenuously object in court,” Porter said, “and the reason for that was ob-viously the violent nature of the charges that had been in-dicted against the defendant and the danger we thought he represented to the victim.”

Judge Dawkins did not respond to requests for com-ment on the reasoning be-hind his decision to release Bouaichi.

Dawkins retired on June 26 after serving as a judge for the Alexandria Circuit Court from 2008 to 2020. He became the city’s first Black judge in 1994 when appointed to Alexandria’s Juvenile and Domestic Rela-tions court, and he is highly regarded by many.

“I’m sure Judge Dawkins is more saddened and more bur-dened with this than anybody else, with the possibleexcep-tion of that poor woman’s family,” John Kiyanaga, a lo-

cal criminal defense attorney, said. “Hindsight is always 20/20, but judges are called upon to make very difficult decisions. In the moment, I’m sure Judge Dawkins did his best to do justice in this case, but very, very sadly, very un-fortunately, it appears he called it wrong. That doesn’t mean that he’s to be blamed for the decision.”

The prosecution could have appealed the bond deter-mination but did not. When asked why, Porter said it’s “al-most unheard of to try and ap-peal a circuit court decision.”

It is unclear who was re-sponsible for enforcing the conditions set in Bouaichi’s bond order. Bouaichi was ordered to remain at his parents’ home in Greenbelt, Maryland. However, Dawkins did not order that Bouaichi be tracked by GPS.

Porter, Bertsch, Chief Judge Lisa Kemler and Chief Magistrate Adam Willard de-clined to say how – or if – the

conditions set in Bouaichi’s bond order were enforced.

In some cases, defen-dants released on bond are supervised by pretrial ser-vices, which is part of the Sheriff’s Office. However, any report on the progress of a defendant under the supervision or custody of a pretrial services agency is confidential information exempt from the Virginia Freedom of Information Act, according to state code.

Porter said the Office of the Commonwealth’s Attor-ney is actively investigating the case to find out what happened and whether it was a result of a systemic flaw.

“We continue to look into exactly what occurred in this case, with an eye for trying to learn some lessons and see if there’s anything that we can do in the future that might decrease the likelihood of another tragedy occurring,” Porter said.

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Scientist, business-woman remembered for her intelligence, leadershipBY OLIVIA TUCKER

Judith Karen Jones, M.D., Ph.D, of Clifton, Virginia died on Aug. 4 after a battle with lung cancer. She was 79.

Jones was one of the three founders of At Home in Alex-andria, a nonprofit that sup-ports older adults. A former Alexandria resident, Jones was beloved by her family and friends and well-respect-ed by her colleagues and stu-dents. A scientist and busi-nesswoman, she served as a mentor to many.

“She had a diligent work ethic and commitment to her employees, companies [and] clients, and a pioneering spirit for furthering medical products safety, drug utiliza-

tion and drug development,” the Pharmaceutical Educa-tion and Research Institute, which she founded in 1995, wrote in its obituary for Jones.

Jones pursued her passion for medicine from an early age, studying first at Baylor College of Medicine before completing her doctorate in developmental pharmacolo-gy at University of California at San Francisco.

She served as the director of the Food and Drug Admin-istration’s Division of Drug Experience – now Epidemi-ology – in Washington D.C. from 1978 through 1984. She also briefly worked as special assistant to the director in Biometrics and Epidemiology at the FDA.

In 1988, Jones founded The Degge Group, Ltd., where

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she served as president and CEO until 2017. The company provides consulting services to the medical products and biopharmaceutical industries regarding pharmacovigi-lance, medical product epi-demiology, risk management and clinical drug safety.

Jones also served as presi-dent of PERI and as executive director and primary editor of DGI, LLC. In the latter role, she spearheaded the initia-tive to create B.R.I.D.G.E. TO DATA, an online refer-ence service for population healthcare databases.

In 2017, the International Society for Pharmacoepidemi-ology recognized Jones with an honorary lifetime fellow-ship – a rare honor awarded only to individuals of excep-tional achievement in phar-macoepidemiology. Jones was just the third recipient of this award in 33 years, according to The Washington Post.

“If she wasn’t a genius, she was damn close to it,” Er-nie Lehmann, co-founder of At Home in Alexandria, said.

Jones partnered with Leh-mann and Richard Moose in 2009 to found At Home in Alexandria, a nonprofit that organizes volunteers to sup-port older adults and empower them to age at home, inde-pendently and safely. AHA formally opened in 2011, be-coming one of the first com-munities in the “village move-ment,” which bases itself on the same premise and now spans more than 200 organi-zations across the country.

As a business partner, Lehmann described Jones as responsible, creative, gen-erous and kind. He said she brought to the team “an enor-mous amount of knowledge and experience” that they

needed to kickstart AHA.Cele Garrett, AHA’s ex-

ecutive director, said Jones devoted significant time to researching nursing homes and other congregate housing communities, equipping AHA with critical insights into so-cial isolation among seniors.

“She had the ability to bring people together,” Gar-rett said. “Her humanity and her compassion … people re-ally highly regarded her.”

She met her husband, William Rogers, at a dinner party with mutual friends, where the hosts seated the pair next to each other in hopes that they would hit it off. They did, marrying and moving to Clifton thereafter.

Jones is survived by her husband, William Rogers, of Clifton, Virginia, and two sis-ters: Patricia Huff of Bruns-wick, Georgia and Tobi Jones of Woodland, California.

A funeral service will be held at a later date. The fami-ly encourages all those wish-ing to honor Jones to make a donation to ISPE in her mem-ory in lieu of flowers.

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This article includes a look at Alexandria’s sev-en-day average positivity rate going back two months, and a comparison of how the city’s COVID-19 positiv-ity rate stacks up with those of neighboring Northern Virginia localities and with cities in other regions of Virginia. The data compar-ison points are exactly two months apart: Aug. 21, July 21 and June 21, and all data

comes from the VDH website.While these data points

show the COVID-19 posi-tivity rate moving directly up or down, in reality the data fluctuated consider-ably during the intervening month, and these arbitrary one-month intervals capture the general trends.

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The seven-day, mov-ing-average positivity rate for COVID-19 has become a relied-on indicator nation-wide for how states, regions and cities are faring in the coronavirus pandemic.

This average forms the basis for determining which states are considered “hot spots.” Travelers from hot spot states often are required to quarantine for up to 14 days upon entering states with much lower COVID-19 positivity rates.

Early on, before test kits for COVID-19 were widely available, positivity rates were extremely high, as only the sickest patients with clear symptoms were being tested. For instance, on April 21, the seven-day average positivity rate statewide in Virginia was 20.6% – but only 2,753 tests were con-ducted that day throughout the commonwealth.

Exactly one month lat-er, on May 21, the statewide positivity rate had fallen to 13.8% and the number of tests administered statewide had risen to 8,385. It wasn’t until early June that Virginia began consistently reaching Gov. Ralph Northam’s goal of more than 10,000 tests per day.

On Aug. 21, the most recent date for which sev-en-day moving average data was available on the Vir-ginia Department of Health website, Virginia’s statewide COVID-19 positivity rate was

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seven-day average COVID-19 positivity rate with cities in four different regions of the state – Norfolk, Pittsylva-nia-Danville, Richmond and Roanoke – reveals some sim-ilar trends and some that are quite different.

As in Northern Virginia, Alexandria’s position two months ago relative to these cities in disparate parts of the state was better than its current standing.

On June 21, Alexan-dria had the lowest average COVID-19 positivity rate of the five cities – though the spread was narrow, ranging from Alexandria’s 5.1% to that of Roanoke and Pittsyl-vania-Danville, which both had rates of 7.2%. But by Aug. 21 Alexandria was only third lowest, having been surpassed by both Richmond and Roanoke.

By July 21, the positivity average had spiked sharp-ly in Norfolk and Pittsylva-nia-Danville, to 13.8% and 14.6% respectively. It had ris-en slightly in Alexandria and Richmond and had declined in Roanoke.

Roanoke had the opposite pattern of Alexandria, expe-riencing slight declines in its seven-day average positivity rate during the two-month period, going from 7.2% on June 21 to 6.4% on July 21 to 5.4% on Aug. 21.

Alexandria is the only one of these five cities around the state to experience an in-crease in its seven-day aver-age COVID-19 positivity rate between July 21 and Aug. 21.

The data overall sug-gest that by June 21, in-side-the-beltway locations such as Alexandria and Ar-lington had rebounded from the initial wave of COVID-19, which struck the Northeast before gaining widespread traction in Southern states.

By July 21, that second wave was peaking in the South, and Virginia’s south-

ton’s 3.7%. The city’s rate on June 21 bested that of Fair-fax County, which was 7%; it was also lower than the rate in Loudon County, 7.9%, and about half of Prince William County’s rate of 10.1%.

One month later, by July 21, the positivity rates of all five jurisdictions had converged, and only 3.3% separated the locality with the lowest positivity rate, Arlington at 4%, from the highest, Prince William with 7.3%.

The positivity rates in Al-exandria and Arlington fol-lowed the same general path of starting lower than their Northern Virginia counter-parts, but increasing slight-ly during each of the two

months. Alexandria’s sev-en-day COVID-19 positivity rate rose from 5.1% on June 21 to 5.4% on July 21 to the current 6.2%. In Arlington, the upward trend has been slightly more pronounced, rising from 3.7% to 4% to 5%.

The data show that COVID-19 positivity has risen across Northern Vir-ginia in the past month, as all five localities had higher seven-day average positivity rates on Aug. 21 than they did on July 21.

While two months ago Alexandria had the second lowest seven-day moving average positivity rate in Northern Virginia, by Aug. 21 it had the second highest – topped only by Prince Wil-liam County’s rate of 8.3%.

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If you’ve been paying any attention to the real estate market during the COVID-19 pandemic, you know one thing: Real estate is sizzling. Median home sale prices continue to rise in Northern Virginia.

It’s been a crazy ride for the past six months in the real estate market, nation-ally and locally. Headlines touting historic sales num-bers are typical. Industry experts are coaching agents on “how to win contracts” in a low inventory market. Many of the claims sound so fantastic, like 24 offers on a property, that you may won-

der if they are really true. If so, does it mean you should put your home on the mar-ket now? How long will this run last? What’s driving it?

There are many factors driving this current boom market, but one thing we can count on is that not all the stars will align again quite as well as they are lin-ing up right now. And since we can’t expect things to be as predictable as we once thought, I look to September to be the best time to put your home on the market in the past 20 years. I have never seen so many stars in a seller’s favor since be-coming a licensed realtor in 2001.

First, there are historical-ly low interest rates. We can expect interest rates to stay in this sweet spot through the November election. These low interest rates allow more buyers to offer higher prices for homes than they will offer if rates hike up, and that puts

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more dollars directly into the seller’s pocket.

The spring market was heavily impacted by the pandemic from March through May, resulting in more robust sales through the typically slower sum-mer months. Low inven-tory is driving prices up in Alexandria and appraisals are keeping pace. This sum-mer is acting like the spring markets of the past. The current booming “spring” sales season means you may be able to spike the asking price just a bit without as much worry about an ap-praisal issue.

Behaviors have changed, for all of us, and our needs have changed. We are all

spending more time in our homes, and we naturally want to adapt our homes to

our new reality. We want more home offices, more outdoor space and the abil-

ity to socially distance at home. For some, it’s a move-up from a condo. For others,

it’s a move from a townhouse to a detached home in Alex-andria or a condo in Florida. The point is, this is a time of transition for everyone.

My crystal ball remains clear through Thanksgiving, when local buyers usually take a break as they focus on the holiday season. But right now, the sellers have the clear advantage.

If you have been think-ing of selling your home, this is the time to take action. When it’s ripe, you get the sweetest fruit.

The writer is the founder of the Shannon Group of McEnearney Associates,

Inc. and a licensed Virginia/D.C. Realtor. Contact

Joan at 703-507-8655 or [email protected].

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A reason to celebrate in a year of pandemic, politics and protest BY GAYLE CONVERSE

AND PAT MILLER

One hundred years ago this month, American wom-en achieved the right to vote. August 2020 marks the ratification anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

August 2020 also marks five months and counting of the COVID-19 pandemic, almost three months of pro-tests following the death of George Floyd and less than three months until the U.S. presidential election.

Upheaval and uncertain-ty are nothing new to our city or our nation. For more than 271 years, Alexan-dria’s female residents have persisted through wars, dis-ease and free elections – in-cluding the 1920 U.S. pres-idential election, the first national political contest in which women could cast their ballots.

Alexandria played its part in the women’s move-ment and eventual suc-cess of the passage of the amendment. Leading social rights activists from our city served in civilian and mili-tary jobs during World War I, nursed victims of the 1918 flu pandemic and helped pave the way for women’s enfranchisement.

First-time female vot-ers in the city turned out in large numbers at the polls Nov. 2, 1920. According to the Nov. 3, 1920 Alexandria Gazette, “The women voted in large numbers and fully three-fourths of the num-

ber qualified took part in the election. … There are 4,250 qualified voters in the city, of which number 1,399 are women.”

The 19th Amendment reads, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” Fol-lowing more than a century of protests and petitions, these words were ratified Aug. 18, 1920 by the state of Tennes-see. Tennessee became the 36th state – the majority needed from what was then the continental 48 – to put

the amendment over the top.A young legislator ended

up playing a major role in the summer heat of the special session. Representatives had adopted the habit of wearing of red roses on their lapels if they were against women’s voting rights and yellow roses if they were pro-ratification.

On the Tennessee House Floor – after several tied-votes to table the legislation – Junior Statesman Harry T. Burn, 24, displayed the red rose on his jacket. Hidden from sight in his jacket pock-et was a letter he had recent-ly received from his mother.

On page two of the sev-en-page note, she had writ-ten, “Hurrah and vote for suffrage.” On page six, she instructed Harry to “Be a good boy” in advocating for women. Young Harry Burn listened to his mother and shouted “aye” to the vote that changed history.

Eight days later, on Aug. 26, the 19th Amendment was cer-tified by U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, making the adoption of the amendment official. Every year on this date, the nation recognizes Women’s Equality Day.

When and how did the

Commonwealth of Virginia vote in the ratification pro-cess? Along with other Amer-ican women, Virginia women

The story of the ratification of the 19th Amendment

Alexandria Celebrates Women

The voter registration deadline for the Nov. 3 General Election is Oct. 13. To check your registration status and find your polling place, visit vote.elections.virginia.gov, email [email protected] or call the Alexandria Voter Registration Office at 703-746-4050. Any eligible U.S. citizen who will be 18 years old by Nov. 3 is eligible to register.

Registration is open online www.alexandriava.gov/Elections for absentee ballots. As of July 1, 2020, “no-excuse” absentee ballots are available. If you would like to receive an absentee ballot by mail, you may apply online at vote.elections.virginia.gov. The deadline to apply for an absentee ballot by mail is Oct. 23 at 5 p.m.

In-person absentee voting for the Nov. 3 General Election begins on Sept. 18 in the Alexandria Voter Registration Office, 132 N. Royal St. Office Hours are Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The deadline to vote in-person absentee is Oct. 31 at 5 p.m.

Military and Overseas Voters may learn more about their voter registration and absentee voting options at www.elections.virginia.gov/registration/military-overseas/index.html.

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PHOTO/WAYMARKING.COMA historic marker in Tennessee commemorating Harry T. Burn, a 24-year-old state legislator who cast a vote in favor of women’s suffrage.

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AUGUST 27

ALEXANDRIA RESTAURANT WEEK TO-GO For 10 days and two weekends, more than 60 restaurants in Alexandria will offer a $49 takeout, delivery or curbside pick-up dinner for two during Alexandria Restau-rant Week To-Go. This year, guests are encouraged to bring Alexandria Restaurant Week home and enjoy special menus from the comfort of their dining room table, porch or couch. Participating restaurants in-clude Cheesetique, Spice Kraft Indian Bistro, Taqueria Picoso and Yunnan By Potomac Noodle House. This event lasts from Aug. 21 to 30. Time: Hours vary Location: Throughout Alexandria Information: www.visitalexandriava.com/restaurants/restaurant-week/

AUGUST 28

“SLATERS LANE” BOOK SIGN-ING Harambee Books & Artworks, Old Town’s only Black-owned and operated book store, will celebrate Independent Bookstore Day by hosting the release of “Slaters Lane,” the third book in the Mo Katz mystery series. Author John Adam Wasowicz will maintain appropriate

social distance and wear a mask and gloves while signing copies of the book at the store’s entrance. A portion of the author’s proceeds will be donated to front-line COVID-19 workers in Alexandria. Mo Katz, the fictional hero of the mystery series set in Old Town, is the child of a racially mixed marriage. In “Slaters Lane,” Katz reestablishes his rela-tionship with his estranged parents upon learning that his African Amer-ican mother has contracted the coronavirus. Time: 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Location: Harambe Books, 1132 Princess St. Information: http://harambebooks.org

AUGUST 29

SOUNDS OF HOPE AND HAR-MONY OUTDOOR CONCERT SERIES On the anniversary week-end of the March on Washington, this program of vibrant, meaningful and historic music pays tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. and one of the most iconic demonstrations in the fight for civil rights in the 1960’s – a struggle which continues to resonate with cur-rent conversations about justice. This performance features prominent and rising opera stars Alexandria Crichlow

and V. Savoy McIlwain performing spirituals, freedom songs and gospel alongside pianist Dr. Lester Green and narration from Pamela Simonson.Time: 6 and 7:30 p.m. Location: Secret Garden at the Rec-tory, 711 Princess St. Information: www.classicalmove-ments.com/secretgardenconcerts/

VELOCITY’S WAREHOUSE AS-IS BICYCLE SALE Velocity Bicycle Co-operative’s Summer Warehouse As-is Bicycle Sale will be different from the co-op’s normal sales as almost all of the bicycles will not be rideable without a professional inspection and at the very least a tune-up. This sale is for those who like working on bikes and always wanted to refurbish a bicycle. Velocity will have hundreds of bicycles to look through from kids’ bicycles, to 90s mountain bikes, to beach cruisers and vintage road bikes. The event will be outside to allow for proper airflow and social dis-tancing. Masks are required. Time: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Location: 1502 Mt. Vernon Ave. Information: www.facebook.com/events/770492990352593/

SEPTEMBER 13

VIRTUAL GEORGE WASHINGTON

PATRIOT RUN Race through history during the area's most unique 10-mil-er/5K! New this year: Mount Vernon will offer a 10-mile race along with its popular 5K! The USATF-certified 10 mile and 5K course takes runners up and down the scenic George Wash-ington Memorial Parkway and traces Washington’s footsteps through the historic area at Mount Vernon. Cross the finish line with the beautiful Man-sion in view and enjoy a beer on the 12-acre field. There will also be con-cessions, music and an awards cere-mony for the races' top finishers. Time: 7:15 a.m. Location: 3200 Mt. Vernon Memori-al Highway Information: https://bit.ly/33SXRPa

SEPTEMBER 19

VIRGINIA SPIRITS ROADSHOW Experience a taste of some of Vir-ginia’s finest distilleries. Tickets will include all samples of artisan spirits as well as craft cocktails from numer-ous Virginia distilleries. Tickets also include beer samples from Caiseal Beer. Purchase any bottles of distilled spirits to take home. Time: Noon to 5 p.m. Location: Building Momentum, 5380 Eisenhower Ave., Suite C Information: https://bit.ly/3aSYpX1

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EDITOR'S NOTE:The Times encourages residents to continue to follow Gov. Ralph Northam’s “Safer at Home” guidance, to maintain physical distance from others and to wear masks in public.

gained the right to vote in August 1920 – but it took 32 years for the Virginia Gen-eral Assembly to ratify the 19th Amendment.

While August 2020 in America will be remem-bered for its pandemic, poli-tics and protests, it will also be measured by the resilien-cy and spirit of its citizens. We have reason to celebrate the national ratification an-niversary. One of the best ways to honor the brave Al-exandrians who fought for voting rights is by register-ing to vote.

The writers are founders of Alexandria Celebrates

Women, a nonprofit that is commemorating the cen-

tennial of women’s suffrage and highlighting inf lu-

ential women throughout the city’s history. Contact

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UPWARDLY MOBILE by Zhouqin Burnikel, edited by David SteinbergACROSS1. Luxury German autos5. Resistance units9. Out of ___ world13. "The Lovebirds" co-star Rae17. Indefinable vibe18. Not worth discussing19. Cello bow application21. Spy's info22. Top that makes a statement?24. Nonsensical25. Gateway Arch material26. Female pheasant27. "O Sole ___"28. Enthusiasm30. "The Good Doctor" network31. Budget alternative32. Non-___ corn34. Barely visible36. Spiny plants38. Escape room item39. Holy ___ Empire41. Straight from the garden42. Gadget44. Stretch out46. Office fill-in49. Loosens, as a knot52. Opera headliner53. Roe source55. Sworn enemy56. View with displeasure

57. Lacking in diversity59. Corner store owners, perhaps62. Get the poker pot going63. Advocacy group for seniors64. Mixed-breed dog65. Gradual increase of gratuities68. Govt. media watchdog71. Cakes often made with ground

nuts73. Voice actor Hank75. ER staffers76. Waters surrounding the Isle

of Man78. Fey of "Sisters"80. Actress Polo82. Volcano output83. "Why not, dude!"85. Like some slippers89. Demonstrates clearly92. Pop singer Rita93. City in southwest Arizona95. Mount Olympus queen96. River mouth features97. Join with a blowtorch99. Levies on booze and smokes101. Sang like Megan Thee Stallion104. Ran at a relaxed gait106. On edge107. Enjoy a bunny slope109. Drew to a close111. Feature of Iceland's coast112. Rx prescribers

113. Bird on many quarters115. Post-op stop116. Alley-___117. Track circuit119. Physique, briefly122. Community spirit123. Voice below alto125. Polite reply in Paris128. What you go to bat for?129. Peninsula bordering Israel130. "Er, I doubt that"131. Self-confident words132. Get-together, informally133. Basis for a lawsuit134. Yard sale labels135. Fashion initials

DOWN1. Big blowout2. Animal that balks3. *Misstep (see letters 7 to 5)4. Old sofa problem5. Upscale hotel chain6. *Brand-new (4 to 1)7. "The Simpsons" bartender8. Wonder of music9. *Cut costs (5 to 3)10. Sweetheart, informally11. Oscar who played Poe Dam-

eron12. Fictional sailor from Baghdad13. Worldwide (Abbr.)

14. *Outback fare (7 to 5)15. Ominous request from a

teacher16. Brass or bronze20. Candy wafer brand21. "Stop asking me!"23. In the midst of29. Research ctr.33. Tomorrow, in Tijuana35. Vicinity37. Guided trip39. Second chance40. Lena of "Hunters"43. Fighting45. Houston team47. State known for its big sky48. ___ XING50. Off one's plate?51. Fitbit units54. "Let's talk privately," on social

media56. *Just so-so (8 to 6)58. Courtroom pledge60. Sternly simple61. Sch. fundraiser sponsor66. It's filled with crust and filling67. Show empathy68. Did some clerical work69. Really want70. *Cause championed by

Coretta Scott King (7 to 5)72. T, in sorority names

74. Off the wall77. He has power over Cupid79. *Enthusiastic words of sup-

port (8 to 5)81. Under control84.Spreadsheet division86. Replies to a message, and a

hint to the starred answers' indicated letters

87. Materials for refinement88. "Child's play!"90. "Understand?"91. "Outside the Lines" channel94. Tech support client98. Place to practice karate100. City WSW of Orlando102. Works on, as a draft103. Trickery105. Emerge abruptly107. Leaks (through)108. WNBA great Smith110. "I'm stumped"114. ___ Ness monster118. Singer Tori120. Country east of Yemen121. Reject as false124. Boathouse implement126. Thurman of "Henry & June"127. Completed

MARCIA A. CARMAN (74), of Alexandria, Aug. 20, 2020

DIANA FOGLEMAN (58), formerly of Alexandria, Aug. 11, 2020

CARTER HOLLAND (24), of Alexandria, Aug. 15, 2020

JUDITH K. JONES (79), formerly of Alexandria, Aug. 4, 2020

MARGARET MOOSE (89), of Alexandria, Aug. 10, 2020

CHARLES D. PICKERING JR. (78), of Alexandria, Aug. 12, 2020

MARY STACY (87), formerly of Alexandria, July 31, 2020

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To the editor: The Alexandria Planning Commis-

sion will consider a proposal on Sept. 1 to fast-track zoning approvals for larg-er new school buildings, while eroding major protections that normally come with such projects. We support the North Ridge Citizens’ Association rec-ommendation to deny these changes.

No one can argue that we don’t need more school capacity in Alexandria. Larger schools stacked higher and wider may be a necessary long-term approach given the lack of surplus ACPS proper-ty and our growing school population, but we should retain our case-by-case review process, which ensures that sig-nificant increases in building size meet the character and needs of the neigh-borhoods they serve.

If approved, the latest proposal would give the city automatic allowance to build new schools with a FAR of .60 “by right,” without a public hearing – even though such buildings could be more than double the size of any sur-rounding structures in low-density res-idential neighborhoods. For example, in an R20 zone that currently limits FAR to .25, this would allow for more than dou-ble the bulk.

A City Council member indicated to us that the proposal would assist new

school building projects in high-density areas, such as Landmark, Eisenhower and Potomac Yard. Yet, as drafted, this change would also impact ACPS sites in single-family housing areas – where low-density zoning restrictions under the city’s own master plan have served to protect and preserve what few open and green space areas remain.

There is simply no justification for doing away with a maximum limit for school building FAR, nor do we under-stand why schools would be altogether exempt from the same zoning rules that apply to other surrounding buildings.

In reviewing city approval applica-tions for recent school building projects, the city has routinely approved school designs that satisfied “by right” zoning requirements. In practical terms, if the city moves ahead with this proposal, cit-izens will have little recourse to prevent the allowable doubling of school size.

There is also no assurance that the city wouldn’t take advantage of its ex-panded authority to seek potentially controversial uses for school buildings that go beyond the core educational mission of ACPS, such as the colocation of housing with schools.

We need to think creatively about

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“Where the press is free and every man is able to read, all is safe.” - Thomas JeffersonArguably the most tragic local event in this sad year is the killing of

Karla Dominguez last month, allegedly by the man she accused of raping her last fall, Ibrahim Bouaichi – who then took his own life.

The snapshot is not pretty: A soon-to-retire Alexandria judge releas-es a man accused of a violent crime because of COVID-19 concerns. This is the gist of media reports to date. But as evidenced by today’s page one Times story, “How an accused rapist was released from jail,” there’s a lot more to this saga than initially meets the eye.

In a nutshell, Bouaichi allegedly raped Dominguez in her Alexandria apartment last October. A grand jury indicted Bouaichi in December, and a jury trial was set for March 30, 2020. Then COVID-19 hit and there was a push nationwide, not just in Alexandria, to free as many people as possible who were either serving terms or awaiting trial.

Bouaichi’s attorneys requested his release on April 8. Prosecutors from the Office of the Commonwealth’s Attorney objected, but Circuit Court Judge Nolan Dawkins ordered Bouaichi released the next day with conditions. Dawkins did not require Bouaichi to wear a tracking ankle bracelet. And a tragedy ensued.

Dominguez’s death hit like a gut punch because she surely would still be alive if the system hadn’t failed her. We are left asking, ‘How could this possibly have happened?’

At least five different entities were participants in this systemic failure:• Bouaichi’s defense attorneys were the ones who filed the motion to

release their client, who was being held on charges of a violent assault. It’s the role of defense attorneys to argue on their clients’ behalf, and Bouaichi’s attorneys appear to genuinely believe that their client was innocent of the rape charge. But Bouaichi would not have been released without their motion.

• Judge Nolan Dawkins made the actual decision to release Bouaichi af-ter hearing evidence from Bouaichi’s lawyers and the prosecution. While possibly not the overriding factor in the judge’s decision – we don’t know since Dawkins understandably declined to comment on the case – surely COVID-19 concerns played a role in Bouaichi’s release given that pandemic anxiety was possibly at its peak in early April. The most inexplicable facet of Bouaichi’s case is that Dawkins declined to order Bouaichi to wear a GPS ankle bracelet upon his release.

• Commonwealth’s Attorney Bryan Porter states that his prosecutors strenuously objected to Bouaichi’s release because of the violent nature of the charges against Bouaichi. But Porter did not file an appeal of the decision. Perhaps such an effort, as Porter posits, would have been fu-tile. But we will never know since he didn’t attempt to have the judge’s decision reviewed.

• The Alexandria Sheriff’s Office appears to bear responsibility for failure to ensure that the conditions Dawkins placed on Bouaichi’s re-lease were enforced – though we’re not sure, as representatives for the Sheriff’s Department, the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office and the court seem to be passing that hot potato of responsibility around. Un-fortunately, state law prevents the public from accessing records of pre-trial services compliance, meaning such records are exempt from scruti-ny under the Freedom of Information Act.

• And Maryland police unaccountably didn’t alert their Alexandria counterparts when Bouaichi was arrested on May 8 in Greenbelt, Mary-land. That arrest violated the terms of Bouaichi’s release and would have been sufficient to reincarcerate him ahead of trial.

And it must be asked, in the same week that we celebrate the 100th an-niversary of women gaining the right to vote, if this case is at least partly

Who’s responsible?

Schools should be zoned case by case

The opinions expressed in letters and columns are those of the writers only and do not reflect the views, nor receive the endorsement, of the Alexandria Times.

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To the editor: The recent letters attacking

Judge Nolan Dawkins at best show a lack of understanding of the justice system and at worst are racist. I don’t recall a local white judge ever be-ing subjected by name to such harsh treatment.

In the nearly 40 years that I have known Dawkins, I have consistently witnessed a smart, caring and competent person. Dawkins was also a smart, car-ing and competent attorney who then became a smart, car-ing and competent judge.

I got to know Nolan Daw-kins because he trained me when I was hired to replace him in the city attorney’s of-fice in 1981. Waiting hours at a City Council meeting or in court give you an opportunity to get to know a colleague.

Although I never heard Dawkins reference it, Alex-andria was not the most open place for a Black attorney even in the ‘80s, as the city strug-gled to shed its racist history. Bar events were held at segre-gated venues and I remember when the N-word came out of a speaker’s mouth at a bar meet-ing. Despite the environment, Dawkins succeeded based on his hard work, competence and sense of fairness to all.

I did not just know Daw-kins as an attorney. He was also our first Black judge in Alexandria. For six years, I had the honor of serving as a substitute judge under Daw-kins. He probably thought he had devoted enough time to training me, and then he had to train me as a judge.

As a sub judge, I observed Dawkins’ dedication and com-mitment to the people who appeared before him. Daw-kins was devoted to treating everyone fairly and to make the best decision based on the evidence and the law. He ruled on thousands of cases,

but I never saw him treat any-one like their case was insig-nificant. If you are not in the legal system you don’t know how unusual his commitment, dedication and treatment of others was.

Judges are charged with making a decision in accor-dance with the law and based on the evidence before them. The evidence is as good as the facts that the attorneys pres-ent. Those facts are then con-sidered under the dictates of the law. If the facts are poorly presented, a judge has no way of knowing that other facts ex-ist that should be considered in a decision.

Furthermore, the law it-self is an ever-changing body and sometimes the impact of the facts on the law is a case of first impression. No one can rely fully on former rulings in our current COVID-19 envi-ronment. So many things have changed.

In the case of Ibrahim Bouaichi, I know, based on his-tory and who he is, that Daw-kins listened carefully to the facts and arguments present-ed at the hearing and did his best to properly apply the law to the evidence in reaching his decision. He attached con-ditions to his order to protect the victim and did not “rubber stamp” anything.

Without doubt, the subse-quent killing of Karla Domin-guez was a tragedy and should not have happened. To be clear, however, it happened because a crazy man killed her, not be-cause a judge was incompetent or didn’t do his job.

Judges are human, but the good ones listen carefully, clar-ify issues, know the law, render timely decisions and treat ev-eryone who comes before them with respect. Judge Nolan Daw-kins was a good judge.

-Barbara P. Beach,Alexandria

In defense and sup-port of Judge Dawkins

Ethical Reflections with Rev. Ian Markham

We all need to become BuddhistsThe first U.S. case of COVID-19 was

diagnosed on Jan. 20, 2020, meaning this pandemic in America is about seven months old.

When the shutdown started in March, we still had hopes for in-person gradua-tions to be held. As graduations dissipat-ed, we reassured each other that things would be back to normal in the fall. As fall plans are more complicated, we are now focusing on our plans for Thanksgiving and for Christmas and for next summer; suddenly even these plans might be difficult.

Not knowing when this will end is driving us all crazy. If we knew that this would be all over by the end of October, then we would grumble but put our heads down and find a way of coping.

But this is not an option. The virus has its own timeline and trajectory, and if humans make themselves available to the virus, then the virus will take full ad-vantage of those humans.

Our attitude to the trajectory of the coronavirus is partly linked to our atti-tude to time, which is shaped by our cul-ture. For those of us in the West, shaped by Christianity, our attitude to time is linear. Just two hundred years ago, the Western assumption was that the world had been created recently – approximate-ly 7,000 years ago – and the world will end soon with the second coming of Jesus.

As Christianity dissipated in Western culture, this attitude to time continued in a secular form. Western culture contin-ues to believe that the imminent demise of humanity is likely. From survivalists to fears of a nuclear catastrophe, Western culture has continued to assume that the future is finite and limited.

Western Christians and secularists both believe there is one, precious life on earth. For Christians, this one earthly life is in preparation for the afterlife; for sec-ularists, it is this one life and then extinc-tion. Put together, these beliefs reflect a distinctive attitude to time. The result is a Western worldview that tends to be characterized with a sense of urgency, the imperative of scheduling and an anxiety about tomorrow.

To simplify a little, in the East, we find

a cyclical attitude to time. For the individ-ual, every human life is endlessly reborn and the cycle of life starts over again. The origins of the world are obscure and definitely a long time ago; Hindus do not think about a start to time. Instead, the seed-plant analogy is popular: A cycle of creation starts with a seed that becomes a plant that flowers and then dies, but the flower generates the next seed which cre-ates the next cycle and so it goes on.

Creation is a constant of being born, dying and being reborn, which on some Hin-du accounts continues into the future. This creates an entirely different set of atti-tudes. Disasters come and go, but the world moves slowly on regardless. This attitude to time and life creates a dis-tinctive disposition. There is less emphasis on scheduling and urgency.

This pandemic needs an Eastern at-titude to time, which will be hard for us. But let me offer some suggestions.

• First, stop all planning. Do not plan for Thanksgiving or Christmas or even next summer. You will expend significant time making arrangements, for example, organizing flights which may be canceled or hotels where you may have to quaran-tine for two weeks. Instead just decide that the future will be written as it occurs.

• Second, be spontaneous. Instead of endless conversations about a possible cocktail hour, outside, with some friends, just send them a text right now and invite them around tonight. Most people have plenty of flexibility in their schedule. Take advantage of it.

• Third, do not postpone. If you are planning to mark your 50th birthday with a big party, then do not postpone until that is possible, but have the big party on Zoom – use the breakout rooms – and then mark your 53rd with a big party. Postponing assumes that normal is com-ing back soon; this may be not be the case.

To get through this pandemic, we all need to be more Buddhist in our attitude to living and life.

The writer is dean and president of Virginia Theological Seminary.

REV. IANMARKHAM


another chapter in a long, sad history of our country’s criminal justice sys-tem failing women, particularly in cas-es that are sexual in nature.

In most instances, even trag-edies, it’s preferable to fix broken processes rather than to point fin-gers. We see three areas that are ripe for systemic change:

• Given that all people make mis-takes, let’s eliminate part of the sub-jectivity from bond requests by for-bidding the release on bond of anyone who has been indicted by a grand jury for a violent crime. If that’s not legally possible, then at least mandate that

every person so released must wear a GPS ankle bracelet.

• Figure out who is responsible for enforcing court bond conditions and hold them accountable. There should be no mystery here. Secondly, change state law to eliminate the protection from FOIA scrutiny that pretrial ser-vices now receives. Why is the sys-tem being protected at the expense of public safety?

• Fix communication systems with surrounding states so that each is au-tomatically notified of arrests so that a lapse like this doesn’t happen again.

When no one takes responsibility for actions or compliance, then ev-eryone involved shares the blame.

To the editor: I would expect that teachers who

value their profession and the good of their students would be pressing schools, both public and private, to fully re-open, but that does not ap-pear to be the case. I would expect them, too, to have at least a modicum of courage, perhaps even as much as the men and women who work among crowds of adult shoppers, or in ex-tended-care facilities, or restaurants, or day-care – the workers thanked for their bravery on all those signs.

Meanwhile, children will be on-line much more than is good for them. There are many reasons why children should be facing a teacher and not a screen, but one that has been quan-tified is that in adolescents, depres-sion increases directly in relation to screen time, something that has caused a serious rise – at least 65% in

teenage girls – in suicides.Now we are keeping children from

friends and healthy activities and sit-ting them in front of a screen. Why are we putting children in this pre-carious situation? What will happen to children whose families are unable to give them the support needed to cope with online “learning?”

Almost every decision is a trade-off. What is the trade-off here? It’s not in favor of children.

In Alexandria 75% of the deaths from COVID-19 occurred in people 70 and older, most of them probably much older, because the median age of death in the United States is around 78.

There are teachers who should stay home and protect themselves. If schools are essential, the rest of them need to go back to school.

-Sandra Levy,Alexandria

Teaching should be in person

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ways to maximize space and ser-vices for our schools. As Alexandria continues to grow within its con-fined boundaries, it is more import-ant than ever to involve residents in school zoning decisions and to main-tain the process protections that ex-ist for neighborhoods.

If the city is truly seeking a zoning change to help build bigger schools in higher-density areas of the city, why not seek a less sweeping modification of the zoning code to apply more nar-

rowly to such projects? We urge other concerned residents

to contact City Council and use Alexan-dria 311 to urge the Planning Commis-sion to reject the proposed text amend-ment for Zoning Code Section 7-2100. Instead, let’s work toward a proposal that includes a more reasonable process for contemplating larger schools, with a clear limit on school density and exist-ing protections for residential zones.

-Kay Stimson, Meghan Rainey, Lyn Gubser,

former presidents, North Ridge Citizens’ Association

My View | Traci Miller

As we celebrate the 100th an-niversary of the constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote, Americans would do well to consider the striking sim-ilarities between the perils and passions of 1920 and our predica-ments today.

Though we are justifiably dis-tracted by the serial calamity of 2020, we should remember the bold and tenacious women of the suffrage movement who persist-ed during a pandemic and in the face of vio-lent counter protests, police brutality and an obdurate presi-dent. We must also recognize the imme-diate threat to de-mocracy we now face when more voters than ever are casting ballots by mail while controversy about the validity of mail-in ballots and the United States Postal Service threaten the suffrage of every American.

As brilliantly recounted by Re-becca Boggs Roberts in her book “Suffragists in Washington, D.C.: The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote,” and in the Alexandria Times by Gayle Converse and Pat Miller, the first Americans to hold a civil rights demonstration and to picket the White House were the women who fought for the right to participate in our democratic system. Following decades of pro-tests, the 19th Amendment, rati-fied on Aug. 18, 1920 and adopted into law eight days later, ensures that citizens of the United States shall not be denied the right to vote on account of sex.

As a white woman living in a comfortable suburban neighbor-hood, I have always expected my vote to count. Until now. From a position of privilege, I have errone-ously assumed that the right that our mothers and grandmothers claimed 100 years ago guaranteed access to reliable means for exercis-

ing that right today. Not so.Legions of people of color and

Ida B. Wells, the Black journalist who was relegated to the back of the suffragist parade but marched in the front instead, remind us that “freedom and justice for all” is not merely a lofty aspiration but an ide-al to be defended.

Wells was prescient. Following the passage of the 19th Amend-ment and long after the adoption of the 14th and 15th Amendments

– which among oth-er things guaranteed equal protection under the law and the right to vote regardless of race, color or previous condition of servitude – disenfranchisement continued in the form of barriers at the lo-cal and state levels, including poll taxes, voter intimidation and

the spread of misinformation about voting requirements.

It would take another 40 years and the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 for the children and grandchildren of the African American, Latina, Asian and Na-tive American suffragists to exer-cise their right to vote.

We find ourselves in the midst of another fraught, extraordinary moment in history, our nation not yet “woke,” but waking up. This month, the commemoration of the monumental achievements of the suffragists is warranted. We should also consider a lesson that history and mothers have shown us to be true: The inalienable rights of de-mocracy will be defended or they will be lost.

We are not a perfect people, but we are tenacious and resilient. We are capable of reinvention. In 2020, let’s finish the fight for the suffrage of every American.

The writer is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former co-

author of the Times advice column “Hobie and Monk.”

Continue fighting for suffrage

TRACI MILLER

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Parker-Gray High School served Alexandria’s African American students – first on Wythe Street and later on Madison Street – during the city’s years of enforced school segregation. With little sup-port from the city, the school’s faculty and coaches created an environment for students where they could excel aca-demically and in athletics.

No funds were provided by the city or the state for athlet-ics at Parker-Gray High School. For the school’s student-ath-letes, “separate but equal” meant a makeshift gymna-sium, no regulation football or baseball field and no track. Despite these challenges, their achievements bear witness to the fact that these student-ath-letes maintained a deep sense of integrity and strength; they excelled far beyond the ex-pectations forced on them by segregation – academically, socially and athletically.

In 1935, Ferris Holland started Parker-Gray's foot-ball team. There were no locker rooms. Instead, the school used the industri-al arts shop as the dressing room for football and bas-ketball games. There was no budget for athletic uniforms, so they were paid for by food concession profits.

In the first year of the football program, games were played on a simulated field off Madison Street, now Memori-al Pool, that had no grass. In-stead, the non-regulation field

was a combination of cinders and plain dirt and was only 75 yards long, whereas a regula-tion football field is 100 yards. When teams reached the goal line, they had to back up an-other 25 yards and traverse those to score a touchdown.

In 1946, the football team had to travel to Roanoke, Pe-tersburg and Charlottesville, Virginia in an open bed truck. The truck had no roof, only a canvas cover on top like a cattle car, and was filled with hay. The team used their football gear as pillows for a minimum of a two- to three-hour trip to each city. The team did not have the luxury of rest stops or places to eat because of segregation and lack of economic resources.

Despite inadequate facil-ities and resources, the 1946 Parker-Gray boys’ basketball

team became known as the “Dream Team” after they de-feated a select All-Star team from Washington, D.C.’s in-ter-high league. The segre-gated inter-high school league was considered one of the hot-beds for boys’ basketball in the nation during that time.

While Parker-Gray’s girls’ basketball team did not have the local reputation that the boy’s team did, they also ex-perienced success that year. One metric of this success was their being invited to play the women’s team at Storer College in Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia. They lost that game by one point.

In 1949, Parker-Gray pro-duced three Black collegiate All-Americans: Earl Frances Lloyd, West Virginia State, basketball; Oliver Ellis, West Virginia State, football; and

William (Red) Jackson, North Carolina A&T, football.

While the original school buildings, gyms and fields are gone, you can view pic-tures and memorabilia from the days of Parker-Gray at the Alexandria African Amer-ican Hall of Fame, located inside the Charles Houston Recreation Center. Out of the unfairness of enforced seg-regation, Parker-Gray stu-dent-athletes forged success and an identity to be proud of.

One hundred years after its doors first opened, we celebrate the success of Park-er-Gray’s alumni.

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of Historic Alexandria. This column is courtesy

of the Alexandria African American Hall of Fame.

OUT OF THE ATTICThe student-athletes of Parker-Gray High School

PHOTO/ ALEXANDRIA AFRICAN AMERICAN HALL OF FAMEA Parker-Gray boys' basketball team from the 1940s.


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Ketchem’s charge is clas-sified as a misdemeanor, ac-cording to D.C. Superior Court records. If convicted, Ketchem faces up to six months in pris-on and a fine of up to $1,000. Assaulting a police officer is considered a felony if the de-fendant causes significant bodily injury to the officer, ac-cording to D.C. code.

The evening of the inci-dent, Metropolitan Police De-partment officers responded to “rioting behaviors” in the Adams Morgan neighbor-hood, according to a news re-lease. Allegedly, the protest-ers set intentional fires and destroyed property, according to an MPD tweet.

Ketchem was arrested around 2 a.m. on Aug. 14, ac-cording to court records. Her attorney, Greg Lipper, told WTOP that Ketchem was taken to the hospital after she was ar-rested and treated for injuries.

When asked about the in-cident, Bennett-Parker sent the following statement:

“Last week, my Legisla-tive Aide, Cassidy Ketchem,

suffered injuries and was arrested along with 40 oth-er people during a protest in Washington, D.C. Ms. Ketchem has been engaged in anti-racist work for as long as I have known her, and for the past few months, I have witnessed her engaging in peaceful protests in support of the Movement for Black Lives. I emphatically sup-port her and everyone’s first amendment right to peace-fully protest and I share her desire to live in a world where Black and brown people are not murdered at the hands of the police. We all must stand up in response to the unjust murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, David McAtee, and so many others before them. These recent events remind us that struc-tural change to our nation’s policing and criminal justice systems is desperately need-ed. Ms. Ketchem is being fully cooperative as part of MPD’s ongoing investigation.”

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