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Celebrating
In the Heat
News, Page 3
Graduates of Yorktown High
School in Arlington tossed their
mortarboards in celebration.
Classifieds, Page 6
Flourishing After 55, Page 2 v
Police Removed from
Photo by Jennifer Knittig
Arlington Schools
News, Page 4
Debate on Streams
News, Page 5
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Friday, July
News
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easy for
Arlington’s Yorktown High Graduates Class of 2021 Outdoors
9, 10 a.m.,
a, 1600
ation #
up with
uly 12, 10 It was hot, but great to be together, said graduates and parents.
on. Registra-
By Eden Brown
perienced The Connection
y 12, 10
Y
s Plaza,
egistration orktown High School Class of
2021 Graduation ceremony
en, sing, was for Friday, June 18, 2021,
Welsh, Tues- outdoors in the school’s foot-
istration #
ball field, Greenbrier stadium.
esday, July It was an accomplishment to hold
# 914400- graduation in person.
“It was definitely hot. I think it was
p to discuss best for Covid safety to do the ceremo-
history,
a.m. Regis- ny outdoors but I would have preferred
having graduation at the Daughters
ented by of the American Revolution (DAR)
Sonya Weis- building if it were a normal year,” said
Photos by Jennifer Knittig
Tuesday,
stration #
Yorktown graduate Hannah Knittig.
“The students were right in the sun
ogram pre- and water didn’t help much. My par-
registered ents, who were in the shade, actually
ital Center, thought graduation on the football field
p.m. Regis-
was better than at DAR. … All in all,
ases, expres- I thought the ceremony was great, the
14, 10:30 student speakers Kevin Ferrell and Rylei
402-17. Porter were fantastic.”
enrollment, Yorktown High School celebrated its graduates in the open-air football field to keep it safe but in person. While it was hot, many
einlage,
ency, Thurs- attendees liked the improved visibility.
gistration #
Graduates of Yorktown High School in Arlington tossed their mor- Yorktown High School’s Carolina Blue diplomas
tarboards in celebration. stacked up for the class of 2021. The choir performed for the graduation crowd.
Arlington Teen Makes Olympic Swim Team
Torri Huske missed graduation - the Olympics were calling.
By Eden Brown Kate Marston, who is a lifeguard
The Connection at the pool this summer, had this
to say about Arlington’s newest
O
ne of Yorktown High Olympic sensation: “Torri and I
School’s graduating were in the same class in Sopho-
class of 2021 couldn’t more year.
Photo by Jennifer Knittig
S
make it. She was busy training he will be going to Stanford
for the Olympics. When Torri University where she was re-
Huske broke her own American cruited for the swim team.
record in the 100m butterfly She is also very smart and could
at the Olympic trials on June have gone anywhere, but Stan-
14th, she clinched a spot on ford’s swim teamis one of the best.
Team USA this summer. Huske, Torri is literally good at everything
whose records line the board she does: sports, academics, art.
at the Yorktown High aquatics Torri is, like, if you are in class with
center, grew up swimming in her, she is just the most genuine The Records board at Arlington’s Yorktown High pool reflect Huske’s record breaking swims over
Arlington pools. Her classmate, and good person.” her four years at Yorktown. She had to miss graduation on June 18th because of Team USA training.
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End of SROs in Schools in Arlington
By Hannah Knittig
The Connection SROs Will No Longer
Be in Arlington Schools
S
chool Resource Officers are
a divisive element in dis- The Arlington School Board approved the Superintendent’s recommenda-
tions at its June 24 meeting. SROs will no longer have a daily presence in
cussions around making schools and Arlington Public Schools will work to redefine its relationship
schools a safer and more with the Arlington County Police Department to ensure continued school
inclusive environment for students safety.
of color. APS will continue its longstanding relationship with ACPD.
“SROs are essentially unneces- APS and ACPD will collaborate to determine the best method of providing
sary considering their impact on law-enforcement services to schools, but officers will not be located in school
buildings.
Photo by Hannah Knittig/The Connection
the Yorktown community,” says In the event of an emergency or for law-enforcement needs, ACPD will
Yasmina Mansour, a junior at York- provide police services as needed.
town High School. The services of SROs will be reimagined to meet the needs of students,
SROs are defined by the U.S. De- staff, and the APS community.
partment of Justice as “sworn law ACPD will continue to provide training to students and staff as needed to
enforcement officers responsible implement the recommendations of the SRO Work Group.
The name of the SRO program will be changed to reflect the new sup-
for safety and crime prevention in
port role they will be providing to students and staff. (e.g. Juvenile Response
schools.” The program began of- Group or Youth Resource Officer).
ficially in Virginia Public Schools APS will explore the creation of a community advisory group to annually
in the mid-1980s, although SROs review and provide input on the relationship and establish a regular, transpar-
were in some Arlington schools as ent mechanism for collecting data regarding law-enforcement engagement in
early as 1969. Supporters of SROs schools and reporting progress toward the agreed upon goals annually.
argue that they are important to The Superintendent’s recommendations that were presented to the School
Board are available online www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Su-
keep students and staff safe and perintendent-SRO-Recommendations-FINAL-for-ACTION.pdf
can introduce a positive example The Superintendent’s full recommendations report is also posted online
of police. Opponents say that SROs www.apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Supt-SRO-Report-Recommen-
reinforce a school to prison pipe- The office of Yorktown’s SRO has been empty throughout the 2020- dations.pdf
line, and their duties could be re- 21 school year while students participated in hybrid in-person
placed by other staff members. learning. Not to mention students of color without specific access or engage-
In July of 2020, the Arlington are exponentially more likely to ment because of a role as an SRO.”
Branch of the NAACP voted “in ter Circle Club at Yorktown High SROs are in school to assist with face consequences at the hands of Their website with more infor-
favor of the removal of removing School, “has led me to believe that lockdown procedures in case of a an SRO versus a white student. In mation is https://www.apsva.us/
School Resource Officers from Ar- their presence in schools helps to school shooting incident. In fact, the coming years, the best course engage/schoolresourceofficer/#S-
lington Public Schools. … We made create a trusting alliance between SROs were in schools more than of action would be the elimination ROCharge. Last week, the school
this decision after nearly a year of the force and youth, a safe learn- a decade before the Columbine of the position altogether.” board voted to accept the Super-
data-driven research ing environment for shooting. While they do assist Athena Perry, a senior at York- intendent’s recommendations to
led by our Education students and staff, with lockdown training, Arlington town said, I don’t believe that move SROs out of schools at least
Committee with in- a strong sense com- Police noted a statistic indicating SROs are necessary. They don’t in part due to these recommenda-
put from our Criminal munity between res- only 12 percent of attacks were benefit the students nor make us tions.
Justice and Political idents and the po- ended by SROs, while 22 percent feel safer. They are there to be used Black Parents of Arlington called
Action Committees. lice assigned to the of attacks were ended by an adult against us.” for the removal of SROs from
The data shows stark neighborhood, and in the school who was not schools, citing the negative
disparities in the per- decreases feelings of a police officer. SROs may effects of racial disparities.
centage of Black and alienation that cer- contribute to a reduction in “They don’t benefit the “The statistics on the det-
Latino juveniles ar- tain students of color weapons being carried into rimental effects of SROs
rested and sentenced may feel when cops school, school fights, gang students nor make us feel on our Black and Brown
to detention relative show up in their com- activity, and hate speech or students are staggering.
to their population in the county.” munity, outside of school. I believe bullying. safer. They are there to be For example, nationally,
Arlington’s Yorktown High the ongoing larger issues of insti- Brenna Hardy, a senior at Black youth are nearly
School has been without an SRO tutional racism with police isn’t so Yorktown said, “I heard the used against us.” three times as likely to be
for the past year while students much stemming from the roles of SRO has a gun on them. I — Athena Perry, arrested in school than
participated in hybrid learning SROs but the police assigned to the
streets.”
think a gun can be intim-
idating and very threaten-
Senior at Yorktown High School white youth, even when
charged with similar of-
during the pandemic. Several stu-
dents and staff from Yorktown re- Lillian Beall, a senior at York- ing to the students.” fenses,” said Black Parents
sponded to questions about SROs. town said: “I think they should be Simi Lawal, a senior at Yorktown This year, the Arlington School of Arlington President Whytni H.
“My experience with working around just in case something bad said, “SROs are not necessary for Board put together a working Kernodle. “Arlington is no excep-
alongside SROs in school districts happens. But I definitely think they ensuring the safety of students group made up of students, staff, tion to these extreme disparities:
over the years,” said Tee Newton, need more training.” and teachers in the school build- and community members to form In Arlington Public Schools, 28%
one of the staff sponsors of the Sis- Like Beall, many parents believe ing. More students of color tend a proposal for recommended of students are Hispanic but make
to have negative connotations changes to the SRO structure. This up 41% of all referrals to law en-
when it comes to SROs meaning month, they presented their con- forcement. Meanwhile, 11% of stu-
Polling taken from Arlington they don’t feel as safe or feel wel-
comed because they know they
clusions to the school board. Their dents are Black but make up 25%
primary recommendations were of all referrals to law enforcement.
County Board SRO Work Group
When Arlington students were asked
run a higher risk of being arrested.
Something I would change with
to: “Revise the roles of ACPD in The presence of police in Arlington
the schools to emphasize functions Public Schools criminalizes stu-
v “How many times have you interacted with your SRO?” SROs in schools is not having pos- that can only be performed by dent behavior and targets our most
51.1% said 0 times, 33.9% said 1-2 times, and the remaining 15% have session of any weapons, especially law enforcement” and to “Ensure marginalized students.
interacted more than 3 times. deadly weapons.” continued participation of ACPD “Systemic racism must be dis-
v “Do you know the name of the SRO at the school you currently go to?” members as coaches, mentors or mantled and destroyed in all of
Yasmina Mansour, a junior at
79.1% no and 20.9% said yes.
Yorktown said, “In the past few in informal roles as appropriate its permutations,” said Kernodle
v “Do you think SRO’s should be armed?” 31.9% said yes, 24.8% said no,
and 43.4% said maybe. years, their role has become redun- for any member of the communi- in a statement. “It’s time for APS
v “Do you think SROs have a role to play in the future?” dant and conflated with that of the ty to participate in the support of
50.5% said yes, 35.4% said maybe, and 15.1% said no. school psychologist to an extent. the development of APS students, See End of SROs, Page 7
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Your Help Needed to Protecting Our Water
Arlington’s streams eroding under pressure of development; to “restore” Tributary B. He connected with
Arlington County staff for the May 14 walk
Potomac Conservancy advocates to save water quality. because Potomac Conservancy wanted to
showcase that tributary’s challenges as an
commenda- example of how stormwater is impacting the
presence in By Eden Brown streams that flow to the Potomac. Donaldson
relationship The Connection Run is not unusual in that regard, but is a
nued school
very visible example with a lot of needs.
Controversial Stream Belin reminded residents we drink the wa-
of providingRestoration Techniques ter in the Potomac and need to help main-
ed in school tain the momentum in cleaning it up. The
Divide Residents recent report card on river cleanliness de-
, ACPD will
D
clined from a “B” to a “B-minus” indicating
id you know Arlington covered
the need for more effort to keep that mo-
of students, over 70 percent of its streams as
mentum up. “And,” said Belin, “that means
it developed from a bucolic refuge
s needed to we have to ask for support, particularly do-
from Washington’s hot summers
nations, which have been down in the pan-
e new sup- to a bedroom community of car dealerships
demic year.” There are other ways to support
le Responseand strip malls? Arlington’s natural stream the Potomac Conservancy too, either with
network served as the stormwater man-
Photo by Eden Brown
advocacy or hands-on volunteering.
to annuallyagement system. But development caused
ar, transpar-stream erosion and gullies; streams and Although Potomac Conservancy has not
gagement infloodplains were filled in or paved over. collaborated with Arlington County on ei-
nually. ther Trib A or Trib B restoration, Belin was
As Hedrick Belin, President of the Potomac
o the School joined on his walk by Aileen Winquist, Out-
021/06/Su- Conservancy walked the banks of Tributary
reach Manager for the County’s Donald-
B on May 14, he was on a mission to involve
son Run Stream Restoration Project, who
osted onlinemore members of the local community in
Recommen-the protection of one of the most important explained what the County is planning for
Tributary B along Donaldson Run shows the effects of erosion as trees fall down on Donaldson Run’s Tributary B to improve its
resources they have: their watershed. either side. ability to handle stormwater. A technique
A few streams remain prominent parts of
or engage-the landscape in Arlington, but are increas- known as “natural channel design” will be
River. Belin led a group of interested Arling- His goal was to educate residents on the used to create a new stream channel that
as an SRO.”ingly at risk for erosion, bringing sediment
ton neighbors up the path along Donaldson need for action to diminish run-off into the the County believes can better manage the
more infor-and unfiltered runoff down to the Potomac
Run’s Tributary B for a “Riverside Chat.” streams and take note of the County’s effort See Your Help, Page 7
w.apsva.us/
officer/#S-
the school
the Super-
dations to
ols at least
commenda-
gton called
SROs from
he negative
disparities.
on the det-
s of SROs
and Brown
staggering.
nationally,
are nearly
ikely to be
hool than
even when
similar of-
ack Parents
Whytni H.
no excep-
disparities:
hools, 28%
c but make
to law en-
11% of stu-
ke up 25%
nforcement.
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alizes stu-
ts our most
ust be dis-
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d Kernodle
me for APS
Os, Page 7
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IST Simply more of the same here, but hardly ho
ble for re- Call 703-549-0004 hum. A status quo with which I am fond of
sician’s re- for advertising information writing: I can live. Promises and guarantees left
records to the building on that fateful day in late February,
erapy treat- 2009 when an oncologist who I had previously
nd prepare never met summarized my condition and iden-
based on ELECTRICAL ELECTRICAL
tified it as stage IV, non small cell lung cancer.
atient data.
A “terminal” disease if there ever was one, and
and other
btain addi- of course there are many. And along with that
, suggests bombshell came the excruciatingly unpopular
grams, and prognosis: “13 months to two years.” I was 54
erapy treat- and a half with no history of cancer in my imme-
Photos by Eden Brown
of patient diate family.
Foght, Di- Much has happened and many medications
alent Man- prescribed since I infused my initial chemother-
mployment apy back in early March, 2009. Most of which
ManorCare, you regular readers know. If you recall anything
oledo, OH LANDSCAPING LANDSCAPING from my 12 years of weekly cancer columns, it
C0264759. is that regular diagnostic scans: CT scans, bone
scans, P.E.T. scans and MRIs have been recurring
nightmares. Every three months, I am scheduled
Aileen Winquist, outreach manager for for some type of scan, sometimes more than one
Hedrick Belin, president of the Potomac Arlington County’s stream restoration (“BOGO, I call it) which based on its findings
ICE Conservancy, talks to a group of resi- project, talks about the Trib B Plan and will determine my subsequent course of treat-
struct an encourages County residents to plant ment. If the results are encouraging, a change in
dents in Arlington about what the Poto-
to collo-
mac Conservancy does and how streams rain gardens and choose pervious surfac- Summer Cleanup... my treatment is unlikely. If however, tumors are
ghts 86’) growing, newly appearing or spreading then it’s
ville Rd, in Arlington are at risk. es when building. “Katy bar the door,” as we say in New England.
666). In- Which means, hang onto your hat, among other
contact
09-1202)
West Ber-
Your Help Needed things, as a new health situation presents, and
one without an automatic solution. After years of
conversations with my oncologist, I’ve learned:
To Protecting Our Water
omments The best one can hope for is a definite maybe.
ffects on It’s this unpredictability which fills my day - and
night.
Nevertheless, my life has gone on way
From Page 5 on is encouraging residents to do whatever longer than my oncologist anticipated. It may be
runoff it receives from the surrounding because I was misdiagnosed (as a Georgetown
our: land. This method steps the water down the
they can to help reduce run-off, from install-
ing rain gardens to planting canopy trees, to
Cancer Center oncologist suggested) and had
Landscape Drainage Landscape Drainage a slow moving form of papillary thyroid cancer
stream on large rocks into pools, and uses not using impervious surfaces for parking rather than an aggressive form of lung cancer
e first floodplain reconnection and “meanders” to lots, driveways, and public spaces. Local which kills more often than it cures. Or, I may
. reduce the energy of the stream flow and its government should be encouraged to take simply be my oncologist’s “third miracle,” as he’s
ability to erode the banks during a storm. more action to limit growth and manage fond of saying. Presumably my positive attitude
LifeStyle Not all stream conservationists believe stormwater in an era of more storms, said and good humor about my circumstances in con-
this technique to be effective, in fact, he Winquist. junction with the many supplements I ingest with
week County’s imminent stream restoration proj- Potomac Conservancy’s mission remains alkaline water exclusively have contributed to
at the ect is viewed as a waste of money by some to identify solutions residents can be a part my unexpected survival. Regardless, as Franken-
glimpse conservationists. Since it will require cutting of at the local level, as individuals and river stein might have said: “I’m alive.”
down about 80 trees along the stream, the As scary as Frankenstein, Dracula or Lon
ng managers.
Chaney ever was, a cancer diagnosis tops them
effort has been called into question by resi- The debate over the Donaldson Run Trib-
l dents, who thanks to recent public meetings, utary B restoration will be the topic of a fu-
all. Being told by a doctor you have never met
that you have two years to live, at best, is as you
home. are more aware of the pitfalls of this resto- ture article. might imagine, nearly impossible to process.
ration technique. To learn more about what you can do to It’s not exactly what you had planned on or
amps, According to Mary Vasse, Senior Director help the Potomac Conservancy see: https:// expected hearing when you sat in the doctor’s
of Development for Potomac Conservancy, potomac.org/donate office. Yet, as Ralph Edwards used to say; “This is
“We have not collaborated on any design To participate in the Potomac Conservan- your life.” And as many others have said: “You’re
nd work for Tributary A or B projects. We are cy’s “Take Me To the River” event, see: https:// stuck with it.” And as grim as you feel about
aware of community concerns about the secure.everyaction.com/GilDTzWReUid5zr- your future, this is no fairy tale. As always, reality
, project and we recognize it is a challenging d826IGQ2?sourceID=1046269 beats make-believe any day, and in this instance,
project.” not in a good way.
week To see this year’s report card on the Po-
But I am in a good way. I am still typing,
One thing Belin and Winquist can agree tomac, see: https://potomacreportcard.org among other activities. And after having just re-
ceived a “looks good” comment from my oncol-
week
End of SROs in Schools in Arlington ogist concerning this week’s CT and bone scan,
my warranty has been extended for another 90
days, when the results of my next quarterly scan
From Page 4 dent on this.” will be emailed. Until then, I am in high cotton.
? to create an environment where all students Members of the Arlington community To say I’m not worried is of course naive, but in
can learn without fear and intimidation. … have their voices heard, and last week the the interim, between scans, I am in “the rocking
nection chair, good buddy,” to invoke a familiar CB-ism.
We know that simply reimagining the role School Board voted to follow the recommen-
m or of SROs will not eliminate the blatant dis- dations of the Superintendent and remove
This is how many cancer patients live: from one
scan to the next. It’s not ideal, but it is a living,
431 crepancies in discipline between Black and police from schools, while retaining a rela- and one for which I’m extremely grateful and for-
Brown children and their white counter- tionship with Arlington County Police. tunate to still have. It may not have been the life I
parts. expected, but I’m glad to live it nonetheless.
We call on every member of the School Hannah Knittg recently graduated from
Kenny Lourie is an Advertising Representative for
Board to be a steward of justice for our chil- Yorktown High School, and completed her se- The Potomac Almanac & The Connection Newspapers.
dren and follow the lead of the Superinten- nior internship at the Arlington Connection.
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