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TheArlingtonConnectionPhoto by Delia Sava /The ConnectionNews, Page 3www.ConnectionNewspapers.comApril 27-May 3, 2011insideSports, Page 15insidePRSRT STDU.S. PostagePAIDReturningVictoriousFrom TongaBatdorfDoes It AllFor YorktownEaston, MDNews, Page 3PERMIT #322More NoiseCleared forLandingNews, Page 3Attention Postmaster:Time sensitive material.Requested in home 4-28-11Entertainment, page 13 Sports, page 15 Classified, page 18Savannah Lunger,left, and DakotaBannachparticipate in theClarendon UnitedMethodist Church’sEaster egg hunt onSaturday, April 23.Joys ofEasteronline at www.connectionnewspapers.comArlington Connection April 27 - May 3, 2011 1
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Arlington Connection Editor Steven Mauren703-778-9415 or arlington@connectionnewspapers.comNewsPhotos by Delia Sava/The ConnectionMore NoiseCleared forLandingBeth Grotos withdaughter, LydiaAva (in front) and Chloe Rodriguez with grandmother, Jean Cook.FAA reauthorizationmoves toward addingfive to 16 new longrange flights a day.Charlotte BeardenBy Michael Lee PopeJoys ofEasterThe Connectiont begins with a low hum. Then itbuilds to roar, followed by ascreeching crescendo that canrattle the windows and scramble themind. That’s life near Ronald ReaganWashington National Airport, wheremore than 700daily flights takeoff and land eachday. And it’s aboutto get louder.House and Senate members arecurrently in a conference to workout differences ina reauthorizationof the FederalAviation Authority,which has traditionally been used— Dennisby western lawmakers as an opO’Sullivanportunity to pushfor more long-distance flights departing from National. The airport is currently subject to a limitation preventing flights beyond a 1,250-mile raIThe Clarendon United Methodist Churchheld an Easter egg hunt on Saturday, April23. Cool temperatures and a wet lawnmoved the event inside where children enjoyed games, songs and arts and crafts.Cross made bychildren.Justin Moore with daughter,MaggieHenos Yemanebrahn“It’s a hell ofa lot of noisealready, andthis is justgoing tomake thingsworse.”Griffin CrouchLucy KernsMicah KernsSee More Noise, Page 7Canadian Club’s Hide-A-Case Winner: Kristina BeallArlington triathletecomes home with 100,000.By Senitra McCombsThe Connectionn April 7, Arlington nativeKristina Beall boarded a plane tothe South Pacific Island of Tongato compete in Canadian Club’s Hide-A-Casecontest.A week later she returned the winner.Amid Tonga’s tropical jungles and sunsoaked beaches, Beall along with sevenother finalists spent the week competing ina timed scavenger hunt-style race for thegrand prize of 100,000 and a case of clas-Owww.ConnectionNewspapers.comsic Canadian Club Whiskey.In addition, each contestant received 12,500.Although she didn’t find the case of whiskey because it was buried under a lake, Bealldid walk away with 100,000.“I invited one of my teammates, Rob, togo look for it because I needed his bravery.We did a lot of snorkeling and tried to digunder the sediment to find it,” she said.Beall plans to use her winnings to pay offher student loans from George WashingtonUniversity along with helping her husbandpay off his student loans.“I’m sure we’ll take a little vacation intheir somewhere,” she added.Once they arrived in Tonga, the contestants were divided into two groups: TeamUSA (Beall’s team) and Team Canada. Bothteams trekked throughout Auckland, NewZealand and various islands in Tonga.Kristina Beall arrives in Tonga.While figuring out clues about Tonga culture or Canadian Club, each team completed physical challenges such as bicycling,sailing a yacht, driving go-karts, kayakingand a skywalk where the teams had to walkalong a narrow pathway 629 feet above theground around Auckland’s Sky Tower, NewZealand’s tallest building.Her toughest challenge, Beall said, on thequest was learning how to work togetherand coordinate her movements with herteammates in such a fast-paced environment.However, she believes that her team dida good job of coordinating their movementsand actions throughout all of the challenges.According to Canadian Club representative Emma Murphy, “Kristina’s win is particularly exciting because she was the onlyfemale contestant. But, as a triathlete andgraduate student, she was able to excel atthe physically and mentally demandingchallenges — from sailing a yacht to deciphering clues about Tongan culture — andedge out her seven male competitors.”Out of all the sights Beall saw during herweek in Tonga, one specific event will staySee Returning, Page 4Arlington Connection April 27 - May 3, 2011 3
It costs you no moreto buy theBESTLowest Prices of the YearLast3DaysSpring Sale!ArlingtonDulles4748 Lee Highway23430 Rock Haven Way #130703-524-7275703-661-3999w w w. p a r k c a r p e t . c o mPeopleReturningwith 100,000From Page 3with her. It happened on the lastday when her team was dividedinto teams of two for a kayakingchallenge where they had to kayakfrom one remote island to thenext.“At one point we could look toour left and see the waves crashing against the reefs and on theother side was the Pacific Ocean.We just stopped, looked at eachother and said ‘wow, look wherewe are right now and just take itall in,” she said.The Hide-A-Case contest beganas an off shoot of the CanadianClub’s original Adventure Seriescampaign — ads showcasingpeople in exotic locations enjoying Canadian Club Whiskey.Between 1967 and 1991, Canadian Club hid 25 cases around theglobe. In 2010, they revived thecontest in an effort to find nineremaining cases.Video and photos documentingBeall’s and the other contestants’experiences in Tonga can be foundat www.HideACase.com.Winning PhotoAfter a month of voting by Arlington County residents, Maya Giacobbe’s photo of the historic HumeSchool was chosen as the winning design for the2011-2012 Decal Design Competition. Giacobbe, aWakefield High School junior, was declared winnerof the seventh-annual decal design competition forArlington high school students at a recent CountyBoard meeting. Her design will be displayed on thewindshields of more than 155,000 vehicles registered in Arlington County.TWO POOR TEACHERSKitchen and Bathroom RemodelingBringing the Showroom to YOU!!Select your remodeling products from our mobilekitchen and bathroom showroom and design center!!Spring Season Special! 68504 Arlington Connection April 27 - May 3, 2011Free Estimateswww.twopoorteachers.com703-969-1179Fully Insured & Class A LicensedEST. 1999(5x7) Tub Bathroom Remodel: Granite countertop Porcelain or Ceramic Moen Brushed Nickel Upgraded Vanitywww.ConnectionNewspapers.com
Bulletin BoardKnow of something missing from thecommunity calendar? E-mail it toarlington@connectionnewspapers.com.Deadline is 2 p.m. the Thursday beforepublication. Call Steve Hibbard at 703917-6407 with any questions. Photos arewelcome. For more volunteer opportunities, classes, announcements visitwww.arlingtonconnection.com and clickon Community.2011 GARDEN OF THE YEAR AWARDRock Spring Garden Club islaunching its “2011 Garden of theYear” competition to all homes inArlington County. Last year, morethan 40 homeowners submitted theirgardens for judging by a certifiedpanel of experts from the CapitalArea’s Landscape Design Council.For more information and to downloadthe application, go to the RockSpring Garden Club site:www.rockspringgardenclub.orgApplications must be submitted no laterthan May 31. Judging will take placethe last two weeks of June. Thewinner will be announced at theRock Spring Garden Club’sSeptember meeting. If yourapplication is accepted you willreceive a sign to put in your frontyard that reads: “Nominated Garden,Rock Spring Garden Club, Garden ofthe Year Award.APRIL 30Walk for Hope. 12 p.m. First annualwalk sponsored by the WashingtonMetro Area Chapter of theHuntington Disease Society ofAmerica with U.S. Rep. Jim Moran.At Quincy Park, Arlington. Visitwww.dchdsa.org or comSUNDAY/MAY 1Open House. 12:45 to 1:45 p.m.Temple Rodef Shalom invites anyindividuals or families who areinterested in learning more about thecongregation and Templemembership to join clergy and stafffor a Prospective Member OpenHouse. Pizza and ice cream will beserved. At Temple Rodef Shalom,2100 Westmoreland Street in FallsChurch. Contact Howard Stregack athstregack@templerodefshalom.org or703-532-2217.2144.THURSDAY/MAY 12National Foster Care MonthAppreciation Event. 6:15 to 8p.m. Adolescent and Family GrowthCenter Inc. (AFGC) is honoringNational Foster Care Month with acelebration to pay tribute to its fosterparents and their children. Find outwhy: “Kids Grow Better in a Family.”Call 703-425-9200 or visit the web atwww.afgcinc.com.WEDNESDAY/MAY 4FRIDAY/MAY 13Yes, In Our Backyards. 5 to 6:30p.m. The State of Affordable Housingin Arlington, 2011. AHS, HAND,housing advocates and communitymember will gather for an updatefrom affordable housing providersand County staff and to learn moreabout the “art” of the affordablehousing deal. At the UnitarianUniversalist Church of Arlington,4444 Arlington Blvd., Arlington.The Public-Private Cyber Nexus.11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Lunch at 11:30a.m.; Panel at noon. At the PotomacInstitute for Policy Studies, 901North Stuart Street, Suite 200,Arlington.Career Expo. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free.CivilianJobs.com is hosting a CareerExpo for transitioning military,military veterans, National Guard/Reserve and their family members. AtDoubletree Hotel Crystal City. PreRegister at www.civilianjobs.com orcall 678-819-4132 for moreinformation.FRIDAY/MAY 6Online Privacy and Security. 3 to4:30 p.m. How to Stay Safe Online.Speaker is Ned Moran, a systemengineer and cyber intelligenceanalyst, who directs a cyber-threatanalysis firm and teaches atGeorgetown University. Presented byArlington Learning in RetirementInstitute (ALFI). At the ArlingtonCentral Library, 1015 Quincy St.,Arlington. Call ALRI at 703-228-FRIDAY/MAY 20“Fire & Home Safety.” 11 a.m. tonoon. Learn about the importance ofmaintaining a safe environment, howto recognize hazards in the home.With Greg Karl of the Arlington FireDepartment. At 601 S. Carlin SpringsRoad, Arlington. Call 703-558-6859to RSVP.WEDNESDAY/MAY 25Protecting Federal Employees’and Retirees’ Benefits. 7:15 p.m.Sponsored by the NARFE’S ArlingtonChapter 7. The event is primarily foractive and retired federal employeeswho are not already NARFEmembers. At the Arlington CentralLibrary, 1015 N. Quincy Street,Arlington. Call 703-875-3021.Arlington Connection April 27 - May 3, 2011 5
PeopleFLuisa Banchoff has lived most of her 15years in Arlington, with two years ofresidency in Bonn, Germany interspersedthroughout. Among her favorite activitiesare reading novels and poetry, attemptingto write novels and poetry, and makingmemories with her best friend, Abigail.She is the online editor for her high schoolnewspaper and a poetry editor for theliterary magazine. Most of her poetryevolves from one or two lines that maketheir way through her subconscious andeventually to the page. For the 2011 Scholastic Writing Awards, Luisa won a regional Gold Key and a national Gold Medalfor her poems, “Nine Things She ThoughtAbout Before She Jumped,” and “Coda.”Poetry Collection: “She thought about thehammock, / The one she had heard herninth grade teacher talk about in / Thatheart-spun tale of practice makes perfect.”High School, Sarah Khan and Rachel Kim and Sungjin Kim and Elizabeth King of Thomas Jefferson HighSchool, Hannah Kwon of Herndon High School,Nadia Laher of Lake Braddock Secondary, NayanLamba of Thomas Jefferson High School, AnnaLeValley of H-B Woodlawn, Hall Libby of ThomasJefferson High School, Maggie Lin Of Oakton HighSchool, Lucia Liu and Ronit Malka of ThomasJefferson High School, Marwan Lloyd of NysmithSchool for the Gifted, Audrey Michels of The Madeira School, Andrea Mirviss of Winston ChurchillHigh School, Vy-Anh Nguyen of Fairfax High School,Molly Norrbom of H-B Woodlawn, Macara Oshida ofWoodson High School, Han Raut of Madison HighSchool, Sierra Sanchez of Yorktown High School,Sara Suarez of Thomas Jefferson High School, Melissa Vasquez of H-B Woodlawn, Katherine Werner ofOakton High School, Amanda Whitehurst ofWoodson High School and Amy and Angela Woolseyof Madison High School.— Louise KrafftFrom left, Fabian Silva, Petru Valenski and DaniloMazzo, “The 3 Rascals” actors backstage.ImportingLaughterTeatro de La Luna presented acomedy from Uruguay, A3vidos(Atrevidos) — “The 3 Rascals” —at the Gunston Arts Center onMarch 25. Audience memberswere invited to participate in adiscussion with the actors andartistic director Mario Marcel immediately after the performance.Estela Mari Gauto withhusband, RigobertoGauto, Ambassador,Republic of Paraguay.Agnes and Ruben GrajedaReyna Franco and DavidPitiPhoto by La Shawn Avery-Simons/The Connectionor the first time in 88 years, the Scholastic Art& Writing Awards came to the Washingtonmetropolitan area on Friday, April 15 to acknowledge work by local students. The awards areadministered nationally by the Alliance for YoungArtists & Writers and locally by the new regional affiliate, Writopia Lab, with the help of the DC AreaWriting Project.Works are evaluated according to the followingcriteria: technical skill, and emergence of a personalvoice. This year’s jurors included professional writers and DCPS teachers associated with the DC Writing Area Project. Sponsors for the program include:Eugene Profit, the founder of Profit Investment Management, Busboys and Poets and Charles P. Rogers.Fourteen local students won National WritingAwards, 48-plus regional winners live or attendschool in Alexandria including the two national winners. The regional award winners were chosen fromsubmissions that include the District of Columbia;Montgomery County, Md.; Arlington County; FairfaxCounty, and the City of Alexandria.“We are thrilled to bring the Scholastic WritingAwards to Greater Washington,” said Kathy Crutcher,director of the Writopia Lab, at the ceremony. “Surprisingly, Washington D.C. had not had a local affiliate for this recognition program since 1990, and eventhen only for art. This meant that our creative teenshad limited opportunities to be honored at a highlevel for their artistic topialab.org/parenthetical/Writing students that were regionally honored include: Noir Abdel-Ghani of Marshall High School,Munawwar Abdulla of Fairfax High School, NathanAmmons of Oakton High School, Eli Auerhan of Thomas Jefferson High School, Olivia August of H-BWoodlawn, Luisa Banchoff of Washington-Lee HighSchool, Julie Brooks of Washington-Lee High School,Anne Budway of H-B Woodlawn, Emily Cali ofRobinson Secondary, Mircea Cernev of ThomasJefferson High School, Danna Chavez Calvi of FallsChurch High School, Samantha Clark of Langley HighSchool, Meghan Coyle of Hayfield High School, EmilyCrowe of Thomas Jefferson High School, MichaelCrumplar of Thomas Jefferson High School, JennyDavis of Yorktown High School, Araba Dennis of LakeBraddock Secondary, Samantha DeStefano of Thomas S. Wooton High School, Kateri Gajadhar ofGunston Middle School, Haley Hassell of St.Stephen’s & St. Agnes School, Julie Hirschorn ofEdison High School, Lisa Junta of Thomas JeffersonHigh School, Tiffany Keung of Winston ChurchillPhotos by Delia Sava/The ConnectionPhotos by Louise Krafft/ConnectionThe Gift of WordsKwame Alexander, poet,publisher, producer, formerresident of Four Mile Run inArlington and founder of theBook-in-a- Day program, talksabout writing to the studentsand their families while alsoreading excerpts from a fewof his poems.6 Arlington Connection April 27 - May 3, 2011Contributed photoOlivia August: “My MistressFirst,” ages 14-18, DC, Fiction, National Silver Medal,Regional Gold Key.“Oh God, here she comesagain. She just slides in nextto me with that stupid grinon her face. I can’t standthat grin. It makes me wantto scream because I knowwhat it means ”Red, Red Wine TastingA selection of 20 different red wines were offered duringthe Viva le Rouge! tasting and sale inside EatBar in Arlington in February.www.ConnectionNewspapers.com
NewsMore NoiseFrom Page 3dius, although previous FAA reauthorization efforts have alreadycarved out 12 exemptions.More are on the way.The House version of the currentreauthorization bill allows five additional flights beyond the perimeter, which would mean 17 longdistance flights each day. The Senate version would allow five additional flights plus the ability of airlines to “convert” short-distanceflights to long distance flights, 12immediately with the potential toadd four more after a study by theDepartment of Transportation.That means that the final versionof the FAA reauthorization is expected to add somewhere betweenfive to 21 long-distance flights toNational each day — bringinglarger airplanes to the runway thatwill make more noise.“It’s a hell of a lot of noise already, and this is just going tomake things worse,” said DennisO’Sullivan, who lives less than amile from the runway. “The worstpart about this is that nobodyseems to recognize that noise is aproblem, but let me tell you —noise is a problem.”NOISE HAS BEEN a complaintof neighborhood residents livingnear at National as long as airplanes have been taking off andlanding at the airport, which wascreated in the 1940s to replaceWashington-Hoover airport wherethe Pentagon is now located. Asthe airport grew, the operation gotlouder and louder although somerecent advances have made modern aircraft quieter than a generation ago. Last week, the FAAhosted the first annual meeting ofthe Aviation Noise Roadmap tocoordinate and communicate research activities.“It’s certainly something thatneeds to be investigated,” saidArlington County Board memberMary Hynes, who attended themeeting. “One thing to come outof the meeting is that researchersare now looking at citizen annoyance as a factor in how much noiseis appropriate.”Following the recommendationfrom the FAA’s aircraft noise impacts research workshops, federalagencies are researching a number of topics. These include noiseeffects on health and welfare,noise in national parks and wilderness areas, aircraft noise modeling and the cost of aircraft noiseon society. Hynes said that lowering the threshold for the allowabledecibel levels could make someresidents who live near the airportwww.ConnectionNewspapers.comeligible for window replacements,door replacements and sound insulation.“I think adding citizen annoyance to the conversation aboutwhat kind of noise should be tolerated is a step in the right direction,” said Hynes.Residents of the Aurora Highlands neighborhood, located duewest of the airport, are at the center of the problem. Residents sayelected officials aren’t doingenough to address their concernsabout noise. They say they are dis-appointed in Congress for allowing even more exemptions to theperimeter rule. And they say thatthey’re also disappointed in theArlington County Planning Commission for approving tall buildings on Jefferson Davis Highway.“When the airplanes have toabort landings, they can’t go east,so they come up 23rd Street,” saidO’Sullivan, a former Aurora Highlands Civic Association presidentwho is also a member of the Citizens for the Abatement of AircraftNoise. “If one of those planes hitsone of these new tall buildings, itwill send the wreckage right intomy neighborhood.”NEXT MONTH, members of theHouse and Senate are expected tobegin moving toward a resolutionto three major sticking points forFAA reauthorization — the perimeter rule, a labor issue and funding levels. Airlines such as USAirstand to gain if they are allowedto “convert” existing flights out ofNational to more distant — andmore expensive — destinations.On the other hand, airlines suchas Alaska Air stand to benefit if theperimeter rule is relaxed so it canstart offering more long-distanceflights. Meanwhile, U.S. Rep. JimMoran
hstregack@templerodefshalom.org or 703-532-2217. WEDNESDAY/MAY 4 Yes, In Our Backyards. 5 to 6:30 p.m. The State of Affordable Housing in Arlington, 2011. AHS, HAND, housing advocates and community member will gather for an update from affordable housing providers and County staff and to
