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Alexandria native Teddy Kim works to revitalize his neighborhood BY ALEXA EPITROPOULOS

Teddy Kim saw early po-tential in the Parker-Gray neighborhood.

The Alexandria native had graduated from Vir-ginia Tech University with a degree in urban planning when in 2004 he initiated the process to buy a house in the neighborhood that was for sale by owner.

Kim, who was working in government contract-ing at the time and mak-

ing about $30,000 a year, quickly ran into problems with securing financing. After his initial lender fell through, he turned to local mortgage broker Clay Gre-enway.

The process of buying the house, in the end, took months, but it piqued a lasting interest for Kim in real estate.

“I was able to fix the house up, pull out some equity and buy some new houses. That was the start of everything,” Kim said. “Within 12 months, I was

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Alexandria Pastry Shop celebrates 30 years at Bradlee Shopping CenterBY MISSY SCHROTT

As Joan Leko walked into Alexandria Pas-try Shop on a late Friday morning, she was greeted by familiar faces and the scent of fresh baked goods.

She ordered a coffee and sat down at a table in the middle of the café’s sunlit seating area, where she pulled out a crossword puzzle and got to work.

Shortly after, her friend Helen joined her to chat over a cup of coffee be-fore continuing on with

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A longtime Alexan-dria resident was found deceased in an Old Town business on Friday, and a New Jersey man has been charged with homicide.

Police identified the vic-tim as Bradford Jackson, 65, and the suspect as Pankaj Bhasin, 34, of New Jersey, on Saturday afternoon.

Jackson was found dead in Window Universe, lo-cated on the second floor of 1211 King St., where he worked. His death was caused by multiple blunt and sharp force injuries,

Longtime resident murdered in Old Town

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PHOTO/MISSY SCHROTTAlexandria Pastry Shop owner Tom Lally holds a rainbow-sprinkled 30th anniversary cake. He opened the bakery and café in the Bradlee Shopping Center on July 21, 1988.

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Gordon Sterling and the People per-formed at the Del Ray Music Festival on Saturday, July 14. The festival brought 11 local bands to Mount Vernon Avenue for an evening filled with musical diversity and refreshments at seven beer gardens. Two

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Gordon Sterling and the People per-formed an “eclectic blend of psychdelia and soul with a touch of bluesrock.”

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City wins award for North Old Town arts districtThe city has a new acco-

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the American Planning As-sociation has awarded the city the 2018 Terry Holz-heimer Economic Develop-ment Award for the creation of the Old Town North Arts and Cultural District.

City council established the Arts and Cultural Dis-trict in North Old Town in

April. Portions of North Fairfax, Montgomery, Mad-ison, First, North Saint Asaph, North Pitt, North Royal, Third and North Washington streets and Canal Center were rezoned for the purpose of devel-oping artistic and cultural spaces.

The creation of the dis-trict is a product of the Old Town North Small Area

Plan, adopted by city coun-cil in June 2017 with the goal of spearheading retail, arts and cultural develop-ment, as well as affordable housing options.

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The Alexandria Po-lice Department reported Wednesday morning it was investigating a crash where a pedestrian was struck at Braddock Road and Mar-lee Way. Eastbound lanes of Braddock Road were closed

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A young woman walking her dog was struck in a cross-walk at the intersection of Duke and South Pitt streets near St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, according to the witness. The vehicle stopped after continuing for about 20 to 25 feet, he said.

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A heavy rainstorm flood-ed multiple Alexandria neighborhoods shortly be-fore rush hour on Tuesday afternoon.

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Mayor Allison Silber-berg, who lives in Parkfair-fax, said the neighborhood had never experienced

flooding of that magnitude since she moved there in 1992.

“ I asked City Manager [Mark Jinks] how flooding could happen there and in other parts of our city since it didn’t rain that long. He said that some rain cells were abnormal in volume/intensity, and the normal drainage system could not handle the flow. City staff checks the inlets to prevent them from clogging and will

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George Washington Park-way between Alexandria and Ronald Reagan National Air-port was covered in standing water, Arlington Fire Depart-ment reported on Twitter. The U.S. Park Police were on scene to clear the road, while 25 vehicles were stranded due to the flooding condi-tions, according to Arlington Fire. Both directions of the street were closed during the

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“With the residential stuff, it wasn’t so much a passion then because I wasn’t really transforming anything,” Kim said. “The reason I started with resi-dential was because of the low barrier to entry. You can get a lot more financing on a residential asset than a commercial asset. When I went to buy the warehouse, I designed it [and] I built it.”

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“As you see D.C. really coming into this high val-ue, a lot of people are mov-ing into the city from other states and cities and into this area as a whole,” Kim said. “Alexandria is one of the best cities in the coun-try.”

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andria during a time when the city wasn’t necessarily a hot real estate market.

He grew up with his grandparents near Fort Ward Park in the 1980s and has memories of playing with neighborhood friends until the sun set.

Meanwhile, the area hadn’t hit its stride just yet.

“In the 80s, D.C. was still the murder capital of the world,” Kim said. “There wasn’t a lot going on. It was kind of the wild, wild west in Old Town and in Alexan-dria, in general.”

He attended several lo-cal schools, starting with what’s now the Basilica School of St. Mary’s and then moving to Alexandria City Public Schools, includ-ing Douglas MacArthur El-ementary School, George Washington Middle School, Minnie Howard and, finally, T.C. Williams, from which he graduated.

As a student at T.C., Kim studied computer science and even worked at Electro Steam Generator Corp., the building he would go on to buy, for a time.

Kim initially wanted to be an architect, but an advi-sor at T.C. convinced him to pursue computer science in-stead. He headed to Virginia Tech with the intention of studying that, but didn’t en-gage with the classes or ma-terial. He made the switch to urban planning, which he said married his creative

and analytical side. After graduating from

Virginia Tech, Kim moved back to his hometown during a time when the re-gion was doing well eco-nomically.

“I started to see D.C. picking up. … A lot of the principles I was learning [while studying urban plan-ning] dealt with things like revitalizing the waterfront. I could see stuff like that happening, so it was really exciting. I decided to stay

here,” Kim said. He learned about real es-

tate by researching on the internet and turning to Gre-enway for mentoring and advice.

Since helping him buy his house on Pendleton Street, Greenway has watched Kim grow.

“He was a young kid who had never purchased any-thing. He didn’t really un-derstand the whole process

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PHOTOS/ALEXA EPITROPOULOSTop: James Marlowe, owner of Marlowe Ink, and Doniel Drake stand in the first floor of the studio on North Henry Street. Marlowe also owns a tattoo studio in Fairfax.Above: The second floor of Marlowe Ink is largely open and decorat-ed with artwork, both from tattoo artists and their favorite bands, like Queens of the Stone Age.


of it. Back then … you met face-to-face when you did an application. We hit it off. He was really genuine and really eager to know every-thing on how mortgages worked, what the process was,” Greenway said.

All these years later, Greenway said he isn’t sur-prised that Kim has success-fully built a real estate port-folio of his own.

“There’s so many people I talk to that never get [it] or they get it, but they nev-er act on it,” Greenway said. “That’s one of the things I like about Teddy – he’s so

driven and he goes for it, which is what it takes.”

Sweat equityMany of Kim’s biggest

real estate opportunities have come together as a result of long-running re-lationships and a lot of per-sistence.

Mason Social came about in that way, over frequent conversations with the owner of 728 N. Henry St. Kim had seen the building – which had long hosted fre-quent T.C. haunt Esmeralda – become vacant, and saw potential for a neighbor-hood spot.

Once he got in contact with the building’s colorful proprietor, he would visit him at 700 S. Patrick St. fre-quently – sometimes twice a week – and talk to him about his life, never hesitating to ask about the building at the end of the conversation.

“I ended up hearing about his life over a two-year pe-riod and going to this gas station on a regular basis of about twice a week,” Kim said. “We became friends. I

would always ask him about the restaurant and he would always say ‘Come back when you have time.’”

While conversations with the owner remained ongoing, he reconnected with an old school friend, Chad Sparrow, who had also seen potential in the build-ing. They decided to pur-

sue it together, bringing on Sparrow’s brother, Justin, and Larry Walston.

Once they opened in 2015, the accolades fol-lowed.

“The feedback from the community was great. We had people coming in say-ing that they moved into the Belle Pre because of

Mason Social,” Kim said. “They had come from other markets like Clarendon and they were coming to a place where they appreciated something cozy, something where it’s your neighbor-hood spot.”

Kim exited that partner-ship when he decided to fo-cus on quick service restau-rant models, a category into which the recently opened People’s Drug fits. That project was also done with old friends, Seth McClelland and Ian McGrath.

“We remembered the joys of eating at the counter at [local pharmacy] The Peo-ple’s Drug and places like G.C. Murphy’s at Bradlee,” Kim said. “As a kid, I re-member biking there with the cards in your spokes at about 6 or 7 [p.m.] and it would be a group of five of us from the neighborhood, sitting at the counter and buying these fake candy cig-arettes and a grilled cheese sandwich.”

Kim, McCulland and Mc-Grath brought those memo-ries and the Americana trend to The People’s Drug, which features American-inspired

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Chop Shop Taco, which will open as part of Mad-ison Collective on Henry Street, will fit into the same model as The People’s Drug. It’s being opened in collab-oration with Kim’s college friend, Kris Garcia, and chef Ed McIntosh. The restau-rant’s name pays homage to one of the building’s former occupants, a “chop shop” for stolen cars.

That speaks to Kim’s strategy, which involves preserving and often en-hancing a building’s historic features, while transform-ing it into something new.

“We’re not going to hide much of the original struc-ture – we’re going to honor it,” Kim said.

James Marlowe, owner

of Marlowe Ink at Madison Collective, said that’s some-thing he liked about work-ing with Kim.

“He’s a local and is very interested in the history all over Alexandria. That was really appealing to me, but, at the same time, he wants to move forward and bring a little bit of new life, with-out changing everything. It’s not like he wants to tear everything down, obvious-ly,” Marlowe said. “This is a classic building – it’s keep-ing that element.”

Kim isn’t someone who holds on to a building just to hold on to it – he’s always thinking about profiting from the value he provides.

“I’m always thinking about the value position I’m sitting at. In some instances, the value is capital. I’m try-ing to get to that place, but I’m not there yet. My value is the sweat poured into the

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I’m always thinking about the value position I’m sitting at. In some instances, the value is capital. I’m trying to get to that place, but I’m not there yet. My value is the sweat poured into the transformation”

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transformation,” Kim said. “Typically, what I like to do, until I get to where capital is my value, is getting an asset that needs some type of re-working, whether it’s tenants, construction, re-zoning. I put my value into it that way and then move on to the next project. Once I get the asset where it is something that I think is the peak for the time, I de-cide to move on and exit to the next project.”

Moving forwardKim’s company, Avanti

Holdings, is balancing mul-tiple commercial projects, including the building the company is housed in at 1605 King St.

The company, founded by Kim, Keinan Ashkenazi and Greg Salvaggio, started with a $2 million warehouse on Calvert Avenue that the three decided to go in on to-gether.

They decided to make their partnership official and incorporate the com-pany, named after the main chairlift in Aspen and after the Italian word meaning “to move forward.”

Ashkenazi called Kim the brains behind the real es-tate.

“He has the uncanny abil-ity to kind of weed through a lot of the details and non-sense and other things on a real estate deal that’s pre-sented to us and very quickly analyze whether it’s a good deal or not,” he said. “… He does it with people that have been in the industry 20 years longer than him and he’s a lot sharper than 99 percent of them.”

At the moment, the com-pany’s investments are fo-cused within the city limits.

Ashkenazi said that’s by de-sign.

“Most of what we try to do is really improve the fabric of the city in areas that may-be just are kind of stale and old. We try to bring some vi-brancy and interesting ten-ants,” Ashkenazi said. “We

won’t just let anyone be a tenant. We try to get better, more interesting, more vi-brant [tenants]. Rather than just another nail salon, we try to get something that’s a little more interesting for the growth of Alexandria.”

Kim is motivated to focus

on local investments both because he knows the city well and because he keeps seeing the potential that prompted him to return af-ter college.

“Being born and raised here is really helpful. And living within five blocks of the majority of our projects is very helpful. Hearing and knowing what the commu-nity needs is helpful,” Kim said. “Right now, as we con-tinue to grow, we still see a lot of opportunity here in Alexandria.”

Kim said the city is poised, more now than ever, to grow.

“The fact that Old Town, as a generalization, has been slow to adopt is be-cause these industrial ar-eas weren’t developed until now,” Kim said. “I under-stand not wanting to change much of King Street when you have a building from the 1700s, but, in those areas where you have a warehouse from 1960, that’s a great op-portunity to do something.”

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Almost every day of the week, at any given time, variations of a group of about 10 locals, ranging in age from 60 to 90, can be found frequenting their fa-vorite neighborhood sweet spot, most likely gathered around a table decorated with coffee cups, muffin wrappers and newspapers.

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to help out a busy cashier at the register and sliding wedding cake samples in front of a bride-and-groom-to-be.

While the pastry shop has won numerous awards and accolades over the years from publications like the Washingtonian, Lally said he considered his greatest accomplishments the re-lationships he’s developed with his employees and cus-tomers.

Over the course of 30 years, Lally has kneaded Al-exandria Pastry Shop into more than a place to grab your morning coffee, a light lunch or a sweet treat – he’s made it a community insti-tution.

Lally has always loved pastries and fondly re-counts childhood memories of visiting neighborhood bakeries with his mother.

He graduated from Penn-

sylvania State University with a degree in food ser-vice and housing adminis-tration and worked in sever-al D.C. area restaurants and bakeries before he switched to bakery sales.

He met his wife and set-tled in a house about a mile from the Bradlee Shopping Center, which Lally decided

would be perfect for a bak-ery.

Lally said that his de-cade in bakery sales gave him a foot in the door in the industry and allowed him to open Alexandria Pastry Shop quickly in the former High’s Dairy Store location in 1988.

“We were on a bare bones

budget,” Lally said. “And we begged, borrowed, stealed equipment, and loaned and financed everything we could do to get the place open.”

From the moment the bakery first opened, Lally said it’s been his philos-ophy to make everything from scratch with the best

available ingredients, from imported chocolate to fresh eggs to real vanilla bean.

Adhering to the highest standards of quality has al-lowed Lally to build a rep-utation in the community. Over the years, Alexandria Pastry Shop has made its



PHOTOS/MISSY SCHROTTLeft: Alexandria Pastry Shop's 30th anniversary celebration cake is made with funfetti batter and decorated with cream cheese frosting and rainbow sprinkles. Right: The bakery display at the front of the store shows off specialty cakes, pastries, cookies and more.


mark on Alexandria as a go-to casual lunch spot and bakery, as well as a success-ful catering business and wedding cake designer.

“I hear people say, when they want a special birthday cake, when they want a spe-cial party cake, they come here to get stuff that’s go-ing to taste good,” he said. “During the holidays, we’ll have people come and say, ‘I don’t know what we would do without you. You’re a tradition at my home.’”

The pastry shop’s menu is constantly evolving and expanding, both to keep up with food trends like the cupcake boom-and-bust and to take advantage of seasonal ingredients. This summer, Lally landed a hit with a blueberry lemon cake and, more recently, has been experimenting with fresh peaches.

Lally said he makes it a point to continue learning from fellow bakers, wheth-er it’s through visiting local pastry shops while traveling or by taking advice from his customers in Alexandria.

For example, one Christ-

mas in the shop’s early years, Lally said he had tried and failed to make a German Christmas stollen.

“It was the worst stol-len,” he said. “But this Ger-man lady came in one time, and we talked, and I said, ‘We just have this terrible stollen,’ and she goes, ‘I have a family recipe.’ I said, ‘Will you give it to me?’ And she said, ‘Sure,’ and it’s the best. We’ve been using it for like, 20-some years.”

Lally said it’s the daily interactions like these, with his customers and staff, that make the job worth-while.

Regulars like Leko and her crew said they return to the pastry shop day after day for the atmosphere, the company and the food.

“Everybody knows ev-erybody, plainly,” Leko said. “If you go somewhere and then you don’t want to go home yet, you come here and you have coffee and cake.”

The regulars in Leko’s group all live nearby, but most hadn’t known each other until they started meeting at the pastry shop. The informal gatherings es-

calated from once a week, to a couple times a week, to not being able to walk into the shop without recogniz-ing at least one person.

“It’s like when you’re a kid and you’re growing up and you call somebody, ‘Hey, can Johnny come out and play? Can Suzie come out and play?’” Erickson said. “We’ve kind of got this routine here, where you know you’re going to find your friends here.”

Erickson said he likes that the group can hang out for several hours without feeling rushed to pay the bill and leave as they would at an ordinary sit-down restaurant.

Each day, the group spends time together talking about their families, doing the weekly crossword puzzle, sharing book recom-mendations and, of course, splitting a pastry or two.

“We do not feel old, and I think that’s the import-ant thing,” McKeown said. “We all come from different [backgrounds], yet we’re all able to sit, have a cup of coffee, share something and



PHOTO/MISSY SCHROTTAlexandria Pastry Shop has been a mainstay of Bradlee Shopping Center since 1988.

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feel that this has been an important part of our day.”

“I’ll tell you what I like,” Ella van Bakergem said, pausing to carefully slice her fork into a piece of tri-ple chocolate mousse cake. “Well, first of all, I like the pastries. That’s the number one thing that drew me here in the beginning.”

Besides the desserts, van Bakergem said she liked the ambiance of the pastry shop. Unlike other cafés or restaurants, the floor plan is open, there isn’t loud mu-sic blaring and the seating isn’t taken up by business-people on laptops, she said.

“You could go in the cof-fee shop starting with ‘S’ and ending with ‘K’ next door, and it’s not the same,” McKeown said.

While the regulars are hooked on the café’s char-acter, cakes and compan-ionship, some customers are drawn to the shop by tradition.

“The children coming in who were looking at the cookies in the cookie case, … we’ve done their wedding cakes,” Lally said, “Now they’re coming back with their children, and they’re looking in the cookie case. It’s been a generational thing for people.”

Lally said his key to maintaining such a loyal customer base, beyond pro-ducing quality products, has been ensuring positive customer service.

“When I hire people to work up front, I try to hire attitude, not experience,” he said. “We teach them how to answer the phone, how to address people, and I say to them, ‘You’re going to learn things here, how you want to treat people when you go out to a restaurant, because you’ll see how people treat you here.’”

One of Lally’s col-lege-age employees, Andres Montenegro, said Alexan-dria Pastry Shop gave his father one of his first jobs

when he emigrated from Bolivia.

When asked about the shop’s secret to success, Montenegro said it boiled down to customer service.

“Since it’s a small shop, we don’t have the resources that big companies do, so I think customer service is

the main thing that helps people feel like they have a good connection,” he said.

Lally said, in the end, he attributes the shop’s 30 thriving years to quality and service.

“I have a couple doing a wedding cake tasting over there, and the bride said

she doesn’t eat cake” he said as he helped clean up from a lunch rush, glancing over his shoulder at a cou-ple sitting at a cozy corner table.

“She’s on her second slice,” he said, “so we’re do-ing something right.”

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The children coming in who were looking at the cookies in the cookie case, … we’ve done their wedding cakes. Now they’re coming back with their children, and they’re looking in the cookie case. It’s been a generational thing for people.”

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according to a spokesperson for the Northern District Medical Examiner’s Office in Manassas.

The building’s two land-lords, who declined to be named in the story, said they were alerted to the sit-uation when a neighbor told them someone was trying to steal one of their tenants’ packages.

At that point, the land-lord noticed a man sitting in a car, a silver Mercedes, which didn’t belong to the suspect, parked on the street. The landlords first assumed it was an attempt-ed car robbery, but, shortly after, the same neighbor who had alerted them about the package told them that a body had been found.

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time and it’s not clear how Jackson and Bhasin are con-nected, if at all.

Friends and neighbors are mourning Jackson’s death. The citizens’ asso-ciation at Warwick Village, where he lived, invited those who wished to pay tribute to Jackson to sign a poster created by neighbors in his honor that featured a drawing of him riding his bicycle and the words “You will be missed.” Friends spoke to the media about their memories about the decades-long Alexandria resident.

Boyd Walker, a resident of the 1300 block of King Street, said he’s known Jackson for years.

“He was a really friendly guy who always stopped to say hello, or yell out at me as he was riding his bike,” Walker said. “He [was] a man-about-town, very friendly. I never heard anything ill about him or anything that even gives me any clue as to why someone would want to

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He was a really friendly

guy who always stopped to say hello, or yell out at me as he was riding his bike. He [was] a man-about-town, very friendly. I never heard anything ill about him or anything that even gives me any clue as to why someone would want to murder him.”

– Boyd Walker


murder him.” Walker said Jackson had

worked at Window Universe for a couple of years, and be-fore that, had been a long-time employee of the Nina’s Dandy riverboat, a dinner boat that used to be docked at the Alexandria water-front.

Old Town resident Hal Hardaway said Jackson and he shared a mutual interest in cars. He recalled Jack-son coming by his garage frequently, riding by on his bicycles, which included a vintage Schwinn Stingray.

“We connected on cars, as he loved to go to the rac-

es at Sebring, Florida and camp out. [I] told him one of these times I’d go with him down there, as I’ve never been,” Hardaway said in an email. “…We’re all going to go sometime, but his mur-

der is tragic and a big loss.” Bhasin was charged with

the murder and is being held without bond in the Alexandria Detention Cen-ter. He made his first court appearance on Monday and will go in front of the gen-eral district court at 11 a.m. on Aug. 14, according to a spokesperson for the Alex-andria Sheriff’s Office.

“If there’s any good news in a murder, it’s that they have a suspect,” Walk-er said. “They’ve arraigned him, he’s not free on bail, so he’s not out in the commu-nity at all. Especially since this was a very violent in-cident, [it’s] very unfortu-nate, but I’m glad that the police were able to get there quickly and apprehend the

suspect.” Jackson’s death is the

second homicide in the city this year.

Anyone with informa-tion about the incident is asked to contact Detective Loren King at the Alexan-dria Police Department at 703-746-6689.

Alexa Epitropoulos contributed to this report.

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PHOTO/MAE HUNTTop: Alexandria Police Department officers blocked off the 1200 block of King Street on Friday after Bradford Jackson, 65, was found dead in a second floor business.Above: Bradford Jackson was found on the second floor of 1211 King St.

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importance of outreach to all residents about the services available to them. Affordable housing and assisted living, safe streets and walkways, enhanced opportunities for employment and improved mental health care are just some of the important goals in the plan.

Please contact Debbie Ludington, Division of Aging and Adult Services at [email protected] for more information. The plan is available at www.alex-andriava.gov/Aging.

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Forensic sketch artist gives back by teach-ing Northern Virginia inmates through artBY JORDAN WRIGHT

When forensic sketch artist Kelli Schollard-Sin-cock was thinking about how she could make an im-pact in her community, she recalled a casual comment a friend made during a lec-ture the two women attend-ed.

The talk, held in Lorton, featured prisoners’ art the guards had collected, either through barter or outright payment, and she was im-pressed by the caliber of the work. Her friend said, “You should do that,” referring to teaching art within the pris-ons. The offhand remark didn’t register until she read a report that President Don-ald Trump’s administration planned to cut funding for the arts. She saw it as a call to action.

She started by asking Lieutenant Marybeth Pla-skus at the Alexandria De-tention Center if the center had a need for a prison arts program. Plaskus gave her the nod, and the first class

took place in February 2017. “We started from scratch

with one classroom that was immediately filled with about 25 male students. That was such positive re-inforcement for me. They were always thankful I was there,” she said.

Since its inception, the program has been huge-ly popular and has grown rapidly, expanding to offer classes for women.

After her success work-ing in Alexandria’s prison system, she reached out to Fairfax County Detention Center and started another

arts program there in Au-gust 2017. She now teaches there twice a week, but due to a lack of space is no lon-ger teaching in Alexandria. There is still more demand, though, Schollard-Sincock said. Her goal is to hire more teachers to fill the many requests for addition-al classes.

Initially, the challenge was to find art supplies, which are not funded by state or local counties. She had to get creative. For-tunately, that’s what art-ists do. She discovered the “Buy Nothing Project,” an online sharing organization for free items that operates locally through Facebook. There, she posted a call for art supplies and had such a positive response that she spent four weeks driving all over the county to gather an immense amount of materi-als.

She had local help too. Del Ray Artisans heard about her classes and members thought they could assist. Fundraising Director Joe T. Franklin Jr. and Acting Pres-ident Drew Cariaso wanted to learn about her program and had her give a talk to their members. Member artists were so impressed

with her outreach program that they held a fundraiser, including an in-house drive for materials.

“People have really taken ownership of the program,” she said.

The organization has been instrumental in help-ing her set up nonprofit “In-spiration Matterz,” which will allow her to expand the program and enlist ad-ditional art teachers. She credits William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center Pro-

gram Directors Lenora Mur-phy and Latanya Ervin with keeping her program going, as well as husband Austin and son Gregory for support and encouragement.

Schollard-Sincock choos-es subjects that are executed in a variety of mediums.

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LITTLE LEAGUE OUTDOOR MOVIE NIGHT Help support Alexandria Little League at an outdoor movie night. Bring chairs and blankets and sit back and watch “The Sandlot” under the stars. Funds raised will go toward helping the Alexandria Little League Juniors Division All Star team travel to Florida in August, where they will represent Virginia in the Southeast Regional Tournament. Tickets are $5 per person, and kids six and under are admitted for free.Time: 7:30 p.m.Location: Little Simpson Field, 426 E. Monroe Ave.Information: [email protected]

JULY 21

WALKING WITH WASHINGTON TOUR Explore important sites associated with George Washington in his hometown of Alexandria. This guided walking tour of historic Old Towne covers significant people and events in Washington’s life and in American history. The stops include Ramsay House, Market Square, the Carlyle House, Wise’s Tavern, Duvall House/Tavern, Gadsby’s Tavern, Washington’s townhouse, The Lord Fairfax House, “Light-Horse” Harry Lee’s house and Christ Church. The event is sponsored by the City of Alexandria’s George Washington Birthday Celebration Committee and is free to the public.Time: 10 a.m. to noon

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HALF-DAY COMMUNITY POLICE ACADEMY Get to know the Alexandria Police Department in an abbreviated half-day session. Thanks to the popularity of the 10-week Community Police Academy, APD is offering two half-day classes this summer. The second takes place Aug. 18. This academy allows residents and community members to learn about various aspects of the police department. Topics will include patrol operations, use of force policies, the K9 Unit, Special Operations Team, crime scene investigation and criminal investigations. This free class is limited to 45 participants per session. Participants of this half-day Community Police Academy must be at least 18 years of age and live or work in the City of Alexandria. In addition, criminal history checks will be conducted on all applicants for final approval of acceptance. Time: 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.Location: Alexandria Police Headquarters,

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COOL YOGA – FREE OUTDOOR YOGA Every Wednesday this summer, stop by Cool Yoga – Del Ray’s free summer outdoor yoga series. Chill out after class with the Cool Yoga after party featuring complimentary cool refreshments courtesy of Bon Vivant Cafe + Farm Market. This summer there will be special guests offering mindfulness meditations, aromatherapy relaxations, free samples and more. Cool Yoga is suitable for all levels, so grab your mat and c’mon down for the coolest yoga in town. Cool Yoga is presented by Del Ray Psych & Wellness, taught and powered by Maureen Clyne of @home real estate lounge & design center and sponsored by Bon Vivant Cafe + Farm Market and Just ASK Publications.Time: 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.Location: Del Ray Psych & Wellness, 1900 Mt. Vernon Ave.Information: 703-967-8884

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very first student was an older gentleman. He told me, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing here. The best you’re going to get out of me are stick figures,’” she recalled.

The program, howev-er, clicked for the student, Robert McCrickard, when he started painting. He now creates both paintings and photorealistic drawings. “He is like the case study of why I’m doing what I’m do-ing,” Schollard-Sincock said.

Over the past year, she has seen a huge change in their attitudes.

“It’s empowering to learn that you have developed a skill. The biggest thing in these classes is getting them to trust me and not give up.”

Recently, Leslie Mon-

taigne, director of the Tar-get Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, offered her the gallery for a show. She will host the show this Friday, “Off the Grid,” fea-turing 49 framed drawings from her prison art program.

Del Ray Artisans will host the opening night re-ception for “Off The Grid” in the Torpedo Factory’s Site 2 Community Gallery from 7 to 9 p.m. The show runs through Aug. 31.

Kelli Schollard-Sincock’s work can be found on her website, www.kellisincock.com.

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Millennials bring tech focus to cookware, culinary artsBY ELAINE MARKOUTSAS

Oh, those millennials. While they might not have the deeper pockets of baby boomers, they most certainly are influencing the gizmos, gadgets and small appliances that are winning the hearts and dollars of the housewares industry.

“Influencing” is a key word here. Because so much of what is trending plays out on social media – on Insta-gram, Twitter and Pinterest – more and more manufac-turers are tuning in. In fact, influencers, like Gemma Staf-ford, host of “Gemma’s Bigger Bolder Baking” (with Good Cook), are beginning to snag major partners. This also is happening in home fur-nishings, with product line launches. And now, with mo-bile video potential, just wow.

Spiralizers? Curly ribbons of veggies? Fun. InstaPot? Yes! Love all those functions in one. Craft beer making?

Cheers! Fermenting? Natural probiotic. The best portable clothes washer in the world. Wait, what?

There have always been gadgets designed perhaps to make our lives easier (but also claim lots of space and eventually get lost in our kitchen drawers). With “av-ocado hand” so much in the news (to wit, “The View’s” Joy Behar’s emergency room visit because she stabbed her hand while slicing an avocado), the facilitators are getting tout-ed. Some split, pit and slice. Some professionals may roll their eyes.

But earnest innovators will not shrivel. The corner at the International Housewares Show held each spring in Chi-cago is filled with hopefuls. Some present their inventions in “Shark Tank”-like venues. And when they’ve made it (sometimes even with a real “Shark Tank” backer, such as Lori Greiner), they’re shown off in a special exhibitor sec-tion along with other “as seen on TV” products. Success is spelled HSN and Bed, Bath

and Beyond. One introduc-tion this year was a container with a lock, devised to deter food thieves in the workplace.

Eating healthy and cook-ing with fresh ingredients has triggered a renewed interest in growth herbs and veggies. The Aspara Smart Veggie Grower, from Hong Kong’s Growgreen Ltd., features LED grow lights and 10 smart sen-sors to detect air and water temperature, relative humid-ity, and water and nutrient levels. It will alert you when the reservoir needs filling. At the biannual EuroCucina show in Milan, one strong trend was the integration of plants in the kitchen, often on long shelves with integrat-ed LEDs above islands.

Steaming, air frying and sous vide cooking (cooking in water in a vacuum sealed bag) have been the benefi-ciaries of the healthy trend, which in Milan went beyond countertop to sous vide built-ins. Wolf’s new multifunc-tion cooker has a sous vide

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function. And the crazy suc-cess of InstaPot has led to serious competition with rice makers that dish yogurt, sau-té, bake, roast, stew, steam and slow cook. According to the NPD market research group, in the 12 months pri-or to December 2017’s holiday shopping spree, U.S. shoppers had spent nearly $380 million on multicookers.

Gourmia one-upped its own range of multicookers with a new feature: keeping ingredients cool until you’re ready to cook. The ad’s mes-sage: “It cools. It cooks. So you can chill.” The cooker is IoT-integrated (“internet of things”) with the Gourmia

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comes from a company called Frigondas. It’s a Spanish-de-signed, Korean-made product that combines flash freezing with microwave technolo-gy, previously only available commercially at costs of up to $50,000. The name actu-ally comes from the Spanish “frigorifico” (refrigerator) plus “microondas” (microwave).

The piece looks like a slick microwave, a black-matte box on small, squar-ish feet, with a single dial. When it’s available, it will sell for about $1,000. You can freeze blast raspberries and watermelon, then defrost them, and they reportedly taste as fresh as if they just came from the farmer’s mar-ket. Defrosting minimizes

evaporation while main-taining taste, shape and tex-ture. Want a cold brew from that warm six pack you just brought home? Six minutes.

And a Belgian company called Sanodegusto boasts plates that keep food warm or cool for 30 minutes. Their TempControl does the trick, heating to 131 degrees Fahr-enheit and chilling to 39 de-grees.

Always a hot topic in cook-ware is a practical one: how best to store it. To that end, a number of manufacturers like Farberware have perfected nesting solutions. The Neat Nest rests pans and lids snug-ly using an interlocking han-dle system, creating a small footprint.

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To the editor:The City of Alexandria hosted a

May community meeting on safety improvements for pedestrians, bicy-clists and vehicles to be implemented next year when Seminary Road is re-paved. The city’s representatives cited Seminary as “a corridor with a high number of KSI (killed or seriously in-jured) crashes.” All but one of the city’s multiple options that were presented proposed reducing Seminary from two lanes to one each way, while adding two bicycle corridors as replacements.

The city’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Master Plan has included a form of this proposal since 2008, although a repre-sentative said a study was needed to assess the actual impact on traffic de-lays from a 50 percent road reduction, while another said, “there is no reason it could not be done” like it had been for King Street.

Whatever city leaders decide, it

would be best to base the decision on available facts rather than opin-ion. According to Virginia’s TREDS da-tabase to which police report all traffic incidents, Seminary Road was actually one of the top three safest “corridors” in Alexandria the two years even be-fore its speed limit was reduced to 25 mph in early 2016; since the 25 mph speed restriction, it has been one of the two safest roadways in the city – with only one traffic incident so far this year.

Seminary Road has had no bicy-cle accidents in the two and a half years since the speed was reduced to 25 mph, and only one during the two years before the speed reduction. And there has been a single pedestri-an incident since the speed limit was lowered. That one, as well as the five over the previous three years, were at

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Just when it seemed the news couldn’t get any worse for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, on Sunday it did just that: Metro workers voted to authorize a strike – during the very week when the eyes of the country were focused on the District for the Major League Baseball All-Star game.

While Sunday’s vote authorized a strike, workers didn’t immediately call one, and to their great credit, WMATA workers did not strike this week. But the mere threat of a Metro stoppage, during a week that should have been purely a celebration of baseball in D.C. with no dark clouds lurking, was unfortunate.

It’s difficult to overstate how significant this all-star game was for the Dis-trict, the Washington Nationals and to baseball itself. Being granted an all-star game is a stamp of approval for a team and city. It’s an acknowledgement that Major League Baseball believes your team, and city, is functional enough to pull off the game’s annual self-celebration. The game is a showcase of its biggest stars and the home team serves as host and ambassadors for the sport itself.

The Nationals pulled off the organizational facets with aplomb, and on the field outfielder Bryce Harper won the Home Run Derby – and was named the best dressed all-star – while Nats ace Max Scherzer was the starting pitcher. He whipped the crowd into a frenzy by striking out the game’s first two bat-ters. Even better, the game was a back-and-forth romp. But it should never have been threatened by a Metro strike.

These comments are not an indictment of Metro workers, whose contract reportedly expired two years ago. At some point, when an agreement can’t be reached, workers have to use whatever leverage they have – and there’s no greater leverage than disruption of service. So, thank you to Metro workers for not striking during All-Star Week.

This almost-strike, instead, falls at the feet of WMATA management, and is only the latest in a long line of almost unbelievable mistakes and mismanage-ment dating back almost to the system’s inception. While the troubles go back much further, in the past 3 ½ years alone:

– Alexandria resident Carol Glover, a 61-year-old asthmatic, died in January 2015 when a fire in a tunnel caused riders on her Metro train to become trapped in a smoke-filled car for 45 minutes. Glover’s death was the catalyst for the widespread Metro track repairs that are still ongoing.

– Those extensive repairs led to equally extensive delays, and many riders have just stopped using Metro.

– During the repairs, fares have gone up, while service has been more lim-ited. Making riders pay more and giving them less is not a long-term recipe for building a successful business in any arena. The systemic funding shortages have required localities, Alexandria included, to pony up more money on an annual basis just to fund ongoing WMATA operations.

– Finally, of course, there’s the ongoing debacle surrounding Alexandria’s Potomac Yard Metro station. For the uninitiated, the city announced two months ago that the cost of this station has risen by around $50 million, while the south entrance, the one most accessible to nearby residents, had been elim-inated. City residents were kept in the dark about this elimination for a year. WMATA and Alexandria officials have subsequently pointed fingers without accepting full responsibility.

The issues surrounding WMATA, which seem to be endless, beg the ques-tion as to whether the system’s operations need to go into receivership like the District of Columbia did in the mid-1990s.

Then, Anthony Williams ably led the District of Columbia as chief finan-cial officer and later mayor, after Congress took control of the city’s financ-es. Williams, who, ironically, is probably the one individual most responsible for bringing major league baseball back to D.C., would seem an ideal person to right WMATA’s listing ship.

Williams, who is 66, may not be interested. But something, possibly a drastic measure, is necessary to fix the train wreck that is the region’s Metro system.

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Imagine reading an advertisement for a job that described the require-ments of employment thusly:

“The successful candidate will be given no formal training and little in-struction about how to perform the job. The successful candidate will immediately be asked to make extremely serious decisions and will have to argue her po-sition with 11 strangers in a small, windowless room. The pay is $30 a day.”

Would you willingly apply for the position? Probably not – and for this reason, this po-sition is filled only by issuing a juror summons.

Jury service is an extremely import-ant civic duty but, given how difficult it is to act as a juror many people are averse to serving. The stress level in-volved in reaching a verdict is even higher in serious cases, such as a mur-der. Compounding the problem, our sys-tem has evolved so that the judge and lawyers involved in a case provide only a modicum of information about the case to prospective jurors. While this system exists to avoid unduly influenc-ing the outcome of a trial, there is no doubt that many jurors are stunned to learn that the judge is unable to answer many of the seemingly innocuous ques-tions the complexities of a trial raises in their minds.

What little information people bring with them into the jury room often comes from television and the movies. This necessarily means that prosecu-tors often encounter prospective jurors who have preconceived notions about the conduct of a criminal case. Part of the prosecutor’s job is disabusing the juror of any inaccurate views they may harbor so that the matter is judged only on the evidence presented at trial.

For instance, anyone who has ever watched a police procedural knows the phrase “circumstantial evidence.” Be-cause of cinematic portrayals, most lay people consider that term to be a syn-

onym for “weak case.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Allow me to give “circumstantial evidence” a public rela-tions makeover.

As “Helter Skelter” prosecutor Vic-nent Bugliosi once noted, circumstan-

tial evidence is best thought of not as a chain, where the breaking of one link causes the entire chain to fail. Instead, a better metaphor is a rope. A rope is made of hundreds of threads, and even if one thread fails, the rope itself is still strong because of the hundreds of other threads that comprise

it. Furthermore, DNA is circumstantial

evidence. Fingerprints are circumstan-tial evidence. When I make this point in closing argument, I often see jurors’ jaws drop, but it’s true. The fact that someone’s DNA was left at a crime scene does not mean they committed the of-fense. There are other possible explana-tions about how the DNA got there, but the presence of DNA at a crime scene is a circumstance a jury can consider in making their decision. Depending on the case, DNA may be an extremely powerful circumstance – but it is a cir-cumstance nonetheless. The only truly direct evidence is a video of the crime being committed or an eyewitness iden-tifying the criminal. Depending on the case, these pieces of direct evidence may present their own problems.

Almost every murder case is built on circumstantial evidence. In a murder case, the best witness — the victim — is dead, and therefore obviously cannot testify. Usually, the only other witness is the defendant, and he probably isn’t going to take the stand and testify. So, if there are no other eyewitnesses, the prosecution absolutely must rely on cir-cumstantial evidence. In fact, in almost every murder case, we necessarily have to build the case entirely on circumstan-tial evidence. If we did not, murderers

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two locations: three at the Inova Hospital intersection between 7 and 8 a.m., and three at Library Lane between 6 and 8 p.m.

As one of the safest Alexan-dria streets – even more so after its speed was lowered to 25 mph – does the city need to make Seminary Road “more safe” by replacing two of its vehicular lanes with bicycle lane corri-dors? It is a heavily trafficked vehicle corridor now, particular-ly during rush hour as a connec-tor between Quaker Lane/Duke Street and I-395.

Don’t forget there are 1,750 more parking spaces to be opened at the Mark Center BRAC building after the Defense Department demonstrates “con-gestion hasn’t [yet] reached fail-ing levels of service.” And it is where the emergency response vehicles egress to and from Ino-va Hospital and Fire Station 206 – unlike King Street.

In view of its excellent safety record relative to all other Al-exandria streets – particularly with the lack of bicycle accidents – it seems maintaining all four of Seminary Road’s lanes for ve-hicle use at 25 mph makes factu-al sense, while also preventing any increase in traffic delay. If desired, it would seem reason-able to mark the curb lanes as co-lanes for both bicycles and

vehicles in order to serve as a reminder of the occasional bicy-clist’s equal right of way.

To address the relatively small number of pedestrian inci-dents, city funds could be spent wisely at two intersections. At Inova Hospital, a railing that prevents bus passengers from crossing Seminary other than at the light and cross walk is one option. At Library Lane, putting back the fence that prevented crossings other than at the near-by light and crosswalk is another.

An objective review of traffic incidents in Alexandria during the last four and a half years of traffic incidents reveal that a 25 mph Seminary Road has made it one of the safest city streets – not “a corridor with a high num-ber of KSI (killed or seriously in-jured) crashes.”

But a comprehensive review also shows that there are signifi-cant traffic safety problems else-where that should be addressed with greater urgency. Regretta-bly, a number are in less fortu-nate neighborhoods that might not get as much of a voice in how limited resources are spent, nor be provided a series of public meetings that elicit their safety concerns. However, in govern-ment policy, facts should matter, as should equal accountability to all citizens.

-Joe Sestak,Alexandria

To the editor:In the “Our View” editorial

in the July 5 Alexandria Times, “Pondering patriotism,” you used some of Woody Guthrie’s song “This is your land” as an example of one of our most beautiful songs. When Guthrie first performed this song, many politicians were upset because they claimed it proved that he was a Communist. I agree with you and feel that if we ever de-cide that we need a new Nation-al Anthem that this would be best song to use. Plus it is much easier to sing.

Second, in Lee Ann Gard-

ner’s letter, “Reject hate and incivility toward everyone,” she used the term “illegal im-migrants” to describe the peo-ple who have been treated so barbarically. These people are legally asking for permission to enter our country. They are try-ing to escape the problems that they face in their native coun-tries by presenting themselves to officials at the border. Illegal immigrants are those that try to sneak in under the cover of night and not at a regular bor-der crossing.

-George Bogart, Alexandria

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ecutor telling the mother of a murdered child: “I’m sorry, yes, we have power-ful circumstantial evidence,

but since there is no direct evidence, we are going to have to let the murderer go free?” If this were our prac-tice, we would, in effect, be telling prospective murder-ers “just make sure no one is watching, wear gloves

and get rid of the gun before the police are on to you and you’re home free.”

This is not, and simply cannot be the law without reducing our society to a state of mortal peril. By ne-cessity, prosecutors and de-

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When Michael B. Harlow, known as “MB,” decided to try his hand at real estate de-velopment shortly after the turn of the 20th century, he followed the standard route of the day, buying a tract of land, laying out a grid of streets and dividing the land into rectangular plots. Har-low’s Cottage Park venture in this case was essentially East Nelson Avenue. He rarely put up houses, instead simply selling bare lots to his cus-tomers.

While MB had no inter-est in building up an entire development, he did want to set the tone for an upmarket neighborhood. To that end he immediately put up three substantial houses in the heart of Cottage Park, along Wayne Street.

The first of these houses, now 1405 Wayne, was built in 1907-1908 and its two similar neighbors at 1407 Wayne and 1409 Wayne the next year. All are handsome houses but their most striking features are the gorgeous windows.

Amazingly, even after over a hundred years, all three still have their original units, a testament to the aesthetic understanding and commit-ment of generations of own-ers.

The first of the hous-es to be built was quickly snapped up by Henry and Annie Parrish in July 1908, with financial assistance from Henry’s sister Jeanette, who lived there part-time.

Annie passed away at age 36 from cancer and the house was resold in June 1918 to J. Kent and Ora White, who raised five children in the house. His two sons, John Jr and James, both joined their father in business, J. Kent White Electrical, with the father prominent in Alexan-dria business associations and the Chamber of Com-merce.

Daughter Mary attended

nursing school in D.C., grad-uating in 1934. She special-ized at the Johns Hopkins Department of Surgery. She was blessed with a long life and a front-row seat for a tumultuous period of Amer-ican history, having met and married Louis M. Friday, ad-ministrative assistant to U.S. Vice President John Nance Garner. In 1935 they moved to Uvalde, Texas, actually re-siding in Vice President Gar-ner’s home as secretaries and aides through 1940. She later served as a nurse in San An-tonio before passing away in 2006 at age 94.

John Sr. passed away in 1956, and the house was only intermittently occupied until the heirs finally decided to sell it in October 1969, after fifty years in the family.

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features a little bit of everything. This event is offered in partnership with American Real Estate Partners.Time: Noon to 1 p.m.Location: Canal Center Plaza Amphitheater, 44 Canal Center PlazaInformation: 703-746-5517

JULY 27

18TH-CENTURY GAMING NIGHT Play games 18th-century style: Shut the Box, Fox and Geese, dice, and a special Cards against Humanity: Tavern Edition. To continue celebrating Alexandria’s Hamilton summer, there will also be stories of our young nation and an opportunity to see “the room where it happened.” There will be a cash bar and tickets are $10. Time: 7 to 9 p.m.Location: Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, 134 N. Royal St.Information: shop.alexandriava.gov/events.aspx

VETERANS COMEDY SHOW The Torpedo Factory welcomes back Armed Services Arts Partnership to host a special comedy show featuring veterans, service members and military family members from the D.C. metro area. The event will provide a platform for veteran artists to showcase their talents, express themselves and have their voices heard in front of members of the local community. This is an opportunity for the civilian and military world to connect through comedy, dispel stereotypes and misnomers and engage in an honest dialogue about the veteran, military and human experience. Tickets are $15 online. Time: 7 p.m.Location: The Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 N. Union St.Information: www.classy.org/event/veterans-comedy-show-the-torpedo-factory/e189694/register/new/select-tickets

JULY 28

SHORT AFRICAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL The Alexandria Black History Museum is pleased to bring you a short film festival featuring the work of two award-winning studios in Washington, D.C. and Richmond, Virginia. These directors highlight the stories of notable African American figures, demonstrating that African American history is America’s history. The first two films are presented by Robin Hamilton who wrote and produced “This Little Light of Mine: The Legacy of Fannie Lou Hamer” and “Dignity and Defiance: A Portrait of Mary Church Terrell.” Documentary filmmakers Hannay Ayers and Lance Warren will also present two

films: “An Outrage,” released in 2017, which discusses lynching in the American South, and “The Hail-Storm: John Dabney in Virginia,” which highlights the forgotten story of a celebrated 19th-century African American restaurateur in Richmond. Tickets are $10.Time: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.Location: The Lyceum, 201 S. Washington St.Information: 703-746-4356

JULY 29

“OLD SCHOOL, NEW CONCEPT | THE COMPASS ATELIER” OPENING RECEPTION Head to the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association for the opening reception of “Old School, New Concept | The Compass Atelier.” The exhibition features works by painters who are currently in, or have completed, The Compass Atelier Master Artist Program. It also features paintings by the Compass Atelier’s founder, Glen Kessler. The exhibition is sponsored by TTR Sotheby’s International Realty.Time: All DayLocation: Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, 201 Prince St.Information: www.nvfaa.org

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FIRST THURSDAYS IN DEL RAY First Thursdays is a series of free outdoor street festivals along Mount Vernon Avenue. Every first Thursday this summer, the Del Ray Business Association features businesses along Mount Vernon Avenue and has special events, food and music from 6 to 9 p.m. Each month has a different theme with activities for children, live music and a festive atmosphere. This month’s theme is “Aloha Thursday” and the featured nonprofit is Hunger Free Alexandria.Time: 6 to 9 p.m.Location: Mount Vernon AvenueInformation: www.visitdelray.com

AUGUST 4

FRIENDSHIP FIREHOUSE FESTIVAL The Friendship Veterans Fire Engine Association holds its annual Firehouse Festival on the first Saturday in August. The popular family event features antique fire apparatuses, craft booths, displays by Alexandria merchants and live music. In addition to the day’s outdoor events, festival participants will enjoy visiting the Friendship Firehouse Museum, originally built as a firehouse in 1855. The FVFEA is now a philanthropic organization focusing on fire-fighting history and fire safety. It remains active in community events, including the annual festival, and supports historic preservation of the

building and its collection. Food and beverages will be available. Children will receive free fire helmets and are treated to a supervised visit inside the city’s fire trucks.Time: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.Location: Friendship Firehouse Museum, 107 S. Alfred St.Information: 703-746-3891

TAVERN DAY OPEN HOUSE Want to learn to dance like George Washington? Ever heard of a learned pig? Then come to Gadsby’s Tavern Museum’s free open house – Tavern Day! Experience Alexandria’s five-star hotel of the 18th century, made famous by John Gadsby, whose guests included George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. From 1 to 5 p.m., there will be tours with costumed guides, including the Museum’s Junior Docents, and dancing in the ballroom.Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Location: Gadsby’s Tavern Museum, 134 N. Royal St.Information: 703-746-4242

YOGA AND SOUND AT THE TORPEDO FACTORY Join the community in coming together for an all-levels harmonizing yoga practice with live sound healing. Local sound artist, yogi and meditation guide, Jeneen Piccuirro, will lead her signature one-hour class guiding you through a gentle yoga series with a crystal bowl accompaniment and closing with a gong meditation. Piccuirro’s authentic, integrated, holistic offerings are designed with your comfort, health and ultimate rejuvenation in mind. Start your weekend off with this treat for your mind, body and soul while surrounded by the art and creativity of the Torpedo Factory. Please bring your own yoga mat and a water bottle and arrive 10 to 15 minutes early. A limited number of Yoga Mats will be available for rent by the teacher for $5.Time: 9 to 10 a.m.Location: The Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 N. Union St.Information: 703-746-4570

AUGUST 11

JANE AUSTEN BALL Step back to the time of Jane Austen at this late-1790s era ball. The evening will feature a variety of English country dances in the historic ballroom, live music and period-inspired refreshments. Period costume optional, “after-five” attire encouraged. Reservations are required, and tickets are $45 per person. In preparation for the ball, learn 18th-century English country dancing from expert dance instructors at special Jane Austen dance classes on July 26, Aug. 2 and Aug. 9.Time: 8 to 11 p.m.Location: Gadsby’s Tavern

Museum, 134 N. Royal St.Information: shop.alexandriava.gov/events.aspx

AUGUST 18

WALKING WITH WASHINGTON TOUR Explore important sites associated with George Washington in his hometown of Alexandria. This guided walking tour of historic Old Town covers significant people and events in Washington’s life and in American history. The stops include Ramsay House, Market Square, the Carlyle House, Wise’s Tavern, Duvall House/Tavern, Gadsby’s Tavern, Washington’s townhouse, The Lord Fairfax House, “Light-Horse” Harry Lee’s house and Christ Church. The event is sponsored by the City of Alexandria’s George Washington Birthday Celebration Committee and is free to the public.Time: 10 a.m. to noonLocation: Alexandria Visitors

Center, 221 King St. Information: 703-379-7460 and www.washingtonbirthday.com

AUGUST 25

2018 ALEXANDRIA IRISH FESTIVAL The Ballyshaners, Inc. is pleased to present the 2018 Alexandria Irish Festival. Each year, the festival attracts thousands to the streets of Old Town to enjoy the sights and sounds of the event and celebrate Irish heritage in Alexandria. This year’s festival takes place Saturday, Aug. 25 at Waterfront Park between King and Prince streets. The festivities include local talent and vendors and will take place rain or shine.Time: 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.Location: Waterfront Park, 1 Prince St.Information: www.ballyshaners.org/2018-irish-festival/

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DEATH NOTICESMARY K. FRANK (86), of Alexandria, July 8, 2018

MARTHE A. HAUBERT (74), of Alexandria, July 4, 2018

CHARLES B. HIEP (80), of Alexandria, July 8, 2018

BRADFORD JACKSON (65), of Alexandria, July 13, 2018

KATHLEEN M. KING (67), of Alexandria, June 30, 2018

DONALD L. KRAUSE, of Alexandria, July 8, 2018

WILLIAM L. SCHMITT (83), of Alexandria, July 12, 2018

MARJORIE A. SHEPARD (79), of Alexandria, July 10, 2018

RAYMOND E. “RAY” SMITH III (54), of Alexandria, June 30, 2018

SHIRLEY A. WHITING (83), of Alexandria, June 15, 2018


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ress, a three-block sidewalk graphics exhibit highlight-ing key inventions, inven-tors and patent cover designs from the first 228 years of the American patent system.

The Walk of Progress, which will remain visible through September, consists of 16 large-scale sidewalk de-cal displays stretching along Dulany Street from the pe-destrian tunnel south of the Duke Street pedestrian tun-nel to the front steps of the USPTO’s Alexandria head-quarters.

The new exhibit is part of a multi-faceted campaign, including the ongoing Alex-andria Museum Scavenger Hunt, designed to commem-orate the recent issuance of patent 10 million and demon-strate the ubiquity of patents and the extraordinary histo-ry behind America’s intellec-tual property system.

“The recent issuance of patent 10 million is a time-ly and relevant opportunity to promote the importance of innovation and the rich history of America's patent

system” said USPTO Press Secretary Paul Fucito in a statement. “We would like to thank the City of Alexan-

dria, Carlyle Council, JLL, and LCOR for their continued support on the Walk of Prog-ress exhibit.”

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