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LYON PARK

CitizenPresident’s Message

A nonpartisan publication serving Lyon Park residents’ common interests www.lyonpark.org • May 2015

The Lyon Park Community has an active listserv.It’s the fastest way to

● Compete in a cupcake design contest (seewinners on page 13)

● Find a temporary rental, or rent yourspare room

● Find a tree removal service● Let someone know about a lost pet● Scoop up somone’s extra Nats tickets

Don’t want to see what’s for sale? No problem!You can tailor your selections to just what youwant or need.

Visit BigTent group Lyon Park to enroll:https://www.bigtent.com/groups/lyonpark

Monthly Meeting, 2ⁿ� Wednesday ofevery month!We allow time for a social at 7:00 PMand the meeting begins at 7:30 PM .Next meetings at Long BranchElementary School:● May 13● June 10

We break for the summer!

Renovation News

1May2015

This year’s Annual Spring Fair will be a challenge and a celebration!We aren’t letting renovation get in our way! Come out on May 16 from 11 AM to 3 PM!!!

Change remains a constant in Lyon Park. New openings, closures, andtransitions underscore the vibrancy of our neighborhood, and also itscontinual reshaping and reinvention.

lt was with a great sense of nostalgia that we all heard about the closing ofTallula and EatBar, as well as the pending closures of Corner Cupboard andJay’s Saloon. These businesses were all part of the fabric of life in Lyon Park,and we wish the owners of all three the best of luck in their next ventures.

We will be welcoming new neighbors soon as well. Westover Market ownerDevin Hicks will be bringing Sehkraft Beer Garden & Haus—a uniqueconcept combining a brewery, restaurant, and butcher shop—to the groundfloor of Garfield Park Apartments soon, and construction is underway at thesite. 10th Street Flats will begin construction soon on a new apartmentbuilding with live/work ground floor units at the Jay’s site on 10th Street,and we have also heard reports of a central Texas barbecue restaurantnamed Texas Jack’s coming to the old Tallula/Whitey’s location.

Finally, we wish a fond, bittersweet farewell to Lyon Park fixture LarryMayer. Larry is a former President of the LPCA, and has been heavilyinvolved in Arlington civic matters for decades, including with the ClarendonAlliance and Civic Federation. No one in Arlington knows as much about thethe inner workings of the County as Larry, and his perspective on andknowledge of history, zoning, and planning is unparalleled. We wish Larry allthe best!

John Goldener, President, LPCA

Please mark your calendars now for our next LPCA generalmeeting, to be held at 7:30 PM on Wednesday, May 13 at LongBranch Elementary. We have several guests planned for the Maymeeting, and are anticipating a lively and engaging meeting. Theschedule includes:● Krysta Jones, Director of Outreach for Congressman Donald

Beyer

● Crystal House, Arlington County Transit CommunicationsAnalyst

● Steve Roberts, Owner of Texas Jacks BBQ restaurant (going into the old Tallula/Whiteys space)

The Lyon Park Citizens AssociationP.O. Box 100191, Arlington, VA 22201

LPCA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEEPresidentJohn Goldener (703) [email protected]/Neighborhood ConservationBess [email protected]/ProgramsNatalie Roy (703) [email protected]/DevelopmentAaron [email protected] Anhut, Jr. (703) [email protected]/HistorianVacantMembership ChairChrista Abbott:[email protected] at LargeLarry Mayer (703) [email protected] Mandel (703) [email protected] PreparednessLaureen [email protected]

COMMUNITY CENTERBOARD OF GOVERNORSJeannette Wick, Chair (703) [email protected]

IMPORTANT CONTACTSPolice LiaisonStephanie & Bob [email protected] Center Rental AgentCindy Stroup (703) [email protected] Alliance RepresentativeDebbie [email protected] [email protected] Federation RepsSteve Geiger (703) 522-0026Erik Gutshall (703) 276-0809Larry Mayer (703) 525-8921Michael O’Connor (703) 525-3469Natalie Roy (703) 819-4915Jim Turpin (703) 248-6988Doorways for Women and Families LiaisonErik Gutshall (703) 276-0809

Newsletter EditorVACANTSubmissionsSend photos and articles [email protected] White (703) [email protected]

www.lyonpark.org • May 2015

Classified AdsGET SOMEONE’S ATTENTION! The Citizen is hand delivered to1,900 households every issue. Use area code 703 below unless otherwise noted.

Alexis Rowland, 15, babysitter and Mothers Helper. Girl Scout certified and American HeartAssn. CPR, First Aid, automated external defibrillator, medicine admin trained. (703) 525-9049

Sirena Pearl, 13, Red Cross certified, Call or e-mail to schedule: 606-3277 [email protected]

Izzy Franklin, 18, Red Cross certified, Babysitting and Mother’s Helper. (571) 236-2008

Sam Yarnell, 14, Red Cross certified, Babysitting and Mother’s Helper, no infants. Call or e-mail to schedule: (571) 451-3076 or [email protected]

Lawn care: Daichi (Jennifer) Monma (15 years old) Phone: (571) 488-8918 E-mail:[email protected]

Lillie Scheer, math tutoring services for kids. Contact [email protected] or(703) 527-3960

B. Brennan, Mandarin Chinese tutoring services for people of allages. Contact [email protected] or (703) 618-8808

Taylor Henninger, piano lessons to students of all ages. [email protected]

Experienced gardener available for part-time or occasional work.Lyon Village reference (703-527-4533). Please call Michael Tanu(240) 426-1778

Hayley’s Soccer Academy: Soccer training by ODP juniorplayer,technical skills, for players 12 and under. $15/hour. Pleasee-mail: [email protected]

Need to restore and/or repair an antique or contemporary piece offurniture? Custom designs and quotes available. Contact JasonBusby at 528-4567


The Lyon Park Citizen is hand delivered to 2,000 homes around the 10th of the monthfrom September through June (10 issues), with artwork and copy due the 20th of theprevious month. These are our advertising rates:

We offer a 5% discount for residents who have paid their LPCA dues, and an additional10% discount for advertisers who commit to three or more months in a row. A designerwill draft artwork for an extra 10% charge.

Ad size Measures (in inches)… Cost

Business card 3.5 by 2.3 $85/month color$59/month B&W

Quarter page 3.5 by 4.5 $130/month color$89/month B&W

Half page 7.5 by 4.5 $210/month color$149/month B&W

Full page 7.5 by 9.5 $350/month color$249/month B&W

Full page free-standing insert 8.5 by 11 $400/month color$350/month B&W

Save the Date & Call for Volunteers!!!

The renovation activity won't stop this fun-filled afternoon of festivities forkids of all ages, but the fair cannot occur without neighbors’ hands-oninvolvement.

So, here's our last call for help - If you haven’t signed up yet, be sure to doit now!!

There’s something for everyone–athletes, gardeners, cooks, andcomplainers (yes, we will give you something to complain about!).

Please contact Polly Hall at [email protected] or (631) 258-3805 to lineup your shift!

Lyon Park Annual

Spring Fair

Saturday, May 16

11 AM to 3 PM

Ticket

s Darts

Ponies

Lolly PopTree

Plant Sale!

Moonbounces

Save the Date:• 2015 Spring Fair, Saturday,May 16

• 2015 Golf Tournament,Sunday, July 19


www.coupardarchitects.com(703) 533‐3210

WORKING WITH YOU TO MAINTAINTHE CHARM AND INT EGRITYOF YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD

Bill Anhut, Lyon Park's Tree StewardArlington County and notably, the Lyon Park neighborhood, are losing overhead tree canopy primarily due to environmental causesand new home development. To help reverse the trend, Arlington offers The Tree Canopy Fund Program, a developer-funded andvolunteer-administered program that plants nursery-grade, native shade trees on private property. To be eligible to receive such atree, (a $250-$300 value), property owners must demonstrate that the intended location is suitable for a large tree and promise tocare for the newly planted tree (i.e. water it weekly during its first year). A grant review panel evaluates each request carefullybased on site suitability and the species of tree requested. In 2014, it approved seven of Lyon Park neighborhood’s 11 applications.

Applications must be submitted by early June. Awards will be announced in September and contracted professionals will plant thetrees in the fall. At the time of planting, trees are typically 2” in diameter and approximately 8-10’ tall, and are expected to grow toheights ranging from 40-100’ at maturity depending on the species. The following species are available in 2015:

American Linden, American Sycamore, Common Hackberry, River Birch, Ginko, Thornless Locust, Pin Oak, Eastern Hophornbeam,Eastern Red Cedar and American Holly

The program, in its 6th year, awards hundreds of trees annually. I will again serve asthe Lyon Park Civic Association coordinator, and have been advised that funding ismore limited in 2015. The review panel usually approves tree applications for open,sunny areas (particularly on the south or westerly quadrants). Special consideration isgiven to locations where a previous canopy tree once stood.

To be included with Lyon Park’s application, contact me, Bill Anhut, by e-mail([email protected]) or phone at (301) 908-8204. We will schedule a time for meto visit your home during the month of May, evaluate the planting location anddetermine a tree species.


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The Gift of Safety Shelya White

We hope many of you will join us for the Essentials of MartialArts class, a class donated to raise funds for the communitycenter (see ad on page 15). The instructor, Mo Shiekhy, isthe Founder of Tae Kwon Do Fellowship, which wasestablished in 1984 in Arlington.

Mr. Shiekhy will discuss important steps one can take tobetter ensure personal safety. For example:

(1) proper breathing techniques, which are essential to thebody’s energy, particularly in times of exertion and stress;

(2) prevention, such as being more aware of one’ssurroundings, and limiting or avoiding situations thatincrease risk of serious crimes;

(3) learning proper hand, foot and body movement, andmind-set essential to keeping panic at bay; and

(4) actual demonstrations of defensive moves to use in caseof physical confrontation, including targeting the mostvulnerable body parts.

While we are fortunate to live in a fairly safe environment,there have been a number of troubling incidences in theneighborhood. This class will help you be aware of yourvulnerabilities, and what you can do to protect yourself.Wear comfortable clothing!


The 5th Annual Lyon Park / Ashton Heights Golf Tourneybenefiting restoration of the historic Lyon Park Community Center

will be played onSunday July 19, 2015, 1:00 PM at South Riding Golf Club.

Last year, 24 participants from Lyon Park and Ashton Heights helped raise $1,700. The tournament format is a“Captain’s Choice” team scramble. Each team member plays a tee shot. For the next shot, the team determinesthe best ball to play, and all team members then play their next shot from that location. Players purchaseMulligan Certificates, to allow “do-overs,” a very stress-free way to play golf! At the conclusion of play, teamsgather for a “Picnic Awards Banquet” and the awarding of team and individual prizes.

This year’s event returns to South Riding Golf Club, a beautiful Dan Maples design, well maintained andconveniently located course just south of Dulles Airport. The 1 PM shotgun start enables all players to tee offand finish play at the same time.

Reserve a place in the 2015 tournament by mailing your payment and application today. Entry fee of $125 perperson pays for golf, golf cart, range balls, picnic dinner after golf, prizes and includes a $35 tax deductibledonation toward renovation of the Lyon Park Community House. Invite friends to play with you or we willplace you in a foursome with your neighbors!

Last Year’s Tournament raised $1,700 and featured prizes generously donated by:Saul Centers/Lyon Place Apartments, Saul Centers/Lyon Place Apartments,

Lyon Hall, Liberty Tavern, Northside Social, Circa, Peete’s Pizza, Ri Ra Irish Pub, Bracket Room, Green Pig Bistro, Hard Times

American Taproom, Mexicali Blues and South Riding Golf Club______________________________________________________________________________

Mail application and check, $125 per player, ($35 of which is a tax deductible donation) payable to “LyonPark Community Center” to:

Lyon Park / Ashton Heights Golf Tourneyc/o Bill Anhut929 N. Cleveland StArlington, VA 22201

Name(s)_______________________________________E-mail(s)______________________________________Cell or Home Phone_____________________________Payment Amount $___________________


Gardening: Getting into High Gear Kit PutnamEvery spring is a time of discovery in the garden. By adding great Internet and in-the-flesh local resources to our experience, ourbackyards can become personal botanical labs and sources of beauty and sustenance. We have many trained, experienced,energetic, generous and Internet-savvy gardeners in our midst to broaden our knowledge and increase our success rate. This becameabundantly clear when I visited the Virginia Extension Service office at the Fairlington Community Center recently. The staff patientlyanswered many questions and also recommended the Northern Virginia Master Gardeners web site (www.mgnv.org). What atreasure trove! I had consulted the web site in past years, but it’s now better looking, better organized, more accessible and moreinformative—and it includes photos. Acquaint yourself with the site and I guarantee you'll return to it and visit associateddemonstration gardens often for information, inspiration and pure pleasure.

Right now the site focuses on salient topics for late winter and spring gardeners. Click throughthe page headings and mentally (or actually) bookmark topics of most interest to you. I gotsucked in by the “Tried and True Plants” section. If you're concerned about planting the rightplants for our area, your specific garden conditions and spending your money wisely at localplant sales (also listed on the web) and nurseries this spring, this section is marvelous.

“Tried and True” links to information about good choices in ferns, grasses and sedges (grasslikeplants growing in wet places with solid stems, narrow leaves and spikes of inconspicuousflowers), ground covers, perennials, shrubs, trees and vines. For each category, it includes aprintable chart of recommended native plants and where you may see them in localdemonstration gardens—giving you a head start in choosing new plants for your own garden. Asection also recommends specific natives for wet or for dry areas, to replace problem plants, orto attract pollinators. If ever being lead down the garden path could be a good thing, this is it!

The web site emphasizes native plants’ value. Probably all of Lyon Park’s gardens contain much-loved non-native plants. However, planting more natives makes gardens more sustainable andbiologically diverse. Once established, native plantings may, if we choose well, require lesswater, less fertilizer and fewer pesticides—in other words, they’re easier on the gardener andthe environment. Native plants may also shelter or support many native insects, birds and othercritters whose existence may have escaped our notice, but are nonetheless desirable as part ofa rich, healthy ecosystem.

So, join me this spring and delve into these resources— sign up for updates and check often fornew events—and discover myriad possibilities for designing gardens for beauty, sustainability and biodiversity.

Native grass: Muhly Grass(Muhlenbergia capillaris)

Native fern: Maidenhair(Adiantum pedatum)


There will be at the

Spring Fair!(Weather Permitting)

YES!

Find these words in the puzzle tothe left:

BalloonsBooksBrowniesCake walkContestCookieCupcakeDartsFace paintFamilyFishpondFriendsGamesHot dogMoon bouncePizzaPoniesPrizeTicketWoo hoo


February 12, 2014

February 12, 2014

On April 4, 2015, Lyon Park Fellowship (N. Barton Street) held itsannual Easter Egg Hunt. According to Pastor Mike Kernodle, about

2,500 eggs -- filled with candy and prizes -- were scattered around theLyon Park grounds. Four eggstra-special eggs also contained "lucky

tickets." All of the eggs were claimed within about two minutes(literally) and many families stayed for the hot dog lunch.

Photos by Jennifer Hart


2015RENOVATION

Quoting Hilary

“When people renovate, they hate spending money on thingsthey can’t see—things under the floors or in the wall.”

The quote above is from Hilary Farr, host of HGTV’s very successfulseries Love It or List it, not the Hillary you’re thinking about! (HillaryClinton may have an opinion about our renovation, but if she does,we don’t know about it.) Ms. Farr is a proponent for renovatingexisting spaces, a task she calls “rekindling the love.”

Her renovation wisdom has been on my mind lately, after hearingseveral neighbors say that it looks like nothing is happening at therenovation site. I agree, that’s what it looks like. However, that isnot the case. Up to now, it’s been infrastructure, infrastructure,infrastructure! As Ms. Farr indicates, scrimping on upgrades tothe infrastructure is a huge, but common, mistake. It takes time topour cement and let it cure, and install the essentials that areneeded for a safe and functional building. That’s the stuffhomeowners hate to fix: plumbing, insulation, electrical and thelike. She puts it this way: “It takes discipline to spend money whereyou will never see it, but that is where the renovation needs tobegin. Do it well, and do it once.” And that’s where we are rightnow. Pictures to the right show the sun porch footing, our buildingteam doing a “meet-on-your-feet,” and a new crawl space.

We’re moving out of the slow stage of building, and neighbors willsee more obvious progress in the next few months. We pasted afew pictures here, but the best visuals are from the sidewalk andpark. Take a few minutes and visit your community center. Rekindlethe love, neighbors! Rekindle the love!

Jeannette WickChair, LPCC Board of Governors Photos by

Michael O’Connor


Matthew Bergstrom, Managing Attorney [email protected] 703.291.8838 Arlington, Fairfax, DC

History, Religion, Politics Entwined Margaret DeanVolume Two of A History of Private Life explores the concept of privacy as it evolved slowly over the Middle Ages and across differ-

ent countries and classes. People of the fifth to the fifteenth centuries were suspicious of solitude and strangers. Feudal dwellingswere promiscuously crowded; even monasteries reflected fear of isolation. Many functions we considerprivate today might regularly have been conducted in public or semi-public places. Yet the idea of priva-cy, linked to an inner life, stubbornly took root. Archeological excavations of daily life showing bedroomdesign, table manners, customs, indicate increases in private space—space open only to families and fa-miliars.

In A History, different authors examine different countries. It is dense, detailed, slow reading. Afterexplaining France’s power structure in the Middle Ages, including the ascendancy of the aristocraticcouple as regional leaders, the writers cite examples of how the court kept knights-in-arms and otheryoung men at hand busy. Often, they used aggressive pursuits, such as hunting or jousting. Women werekept more confined; “women were held to be the principal, and insidious, source of domestic danger…Ifthe lord was found dead in his bed...blame was laid at the door of the women of the house, the mistressfirst of all.”

As in France, kinship was an important system for preserving power and control in Italy. Graduallyhowever “family” extended beyond the bounds of home to include families by marriage, families of godparents, and, slowly, tocorporate alliances such as confraternities and religious groups. In Italy brigate, groups with similar interests formed informal socialnetworks. As people began to feel a need for privacy, the organization and use of space changed, first with bigger, separatebedrooms, and private meeting rooms. Slowly this practice spread to the lower ranks. Society moved toward greater differentiationof space with separate purposes, creating doors and locks. Both Church and civil authority continued to try to regulate privatebehavior with limited success. Many private actions, such as sex during Lent, were sins.

Concern over social media and loss of privacy makes discussion and understanding of privacy relevant today. One writer noted,“silence makes room for the operation of memory; it can shape the structure of thought.” Privacy allows intimate conversation withGod, saint, or self. Contemplation of ideas may be lost with extensive social media use. The privacy we expect appears to beseriously eroding, but social media may increase isolation as it becomes less necessary to interact personally with each other.A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World. Philippe Aries Georges Duby, Editor. Arthur Gold hammer, Translator. Belknap Press of

Harvard University Press. Cambridge, Massachusetts.1988. 630 pages


Saturday, April 4 was a windy, blustery, gusty day. That was a possibilitythe Woman’s Club failed to consider when they decided to hold the SpringCupcake sale outside. It added an element of excitement to the event, butit failed to deter the important customers (the kids) or the payingcustomers (the adults).

Featured at this sale were the March Cupcake Madness Contest’s winningcupcakes. Nine neighbors entered cupcake designs, and dozens voted fortheir favorites. Diane Holmberg’s Amaretto Cupcake (above left) took firstplace, and David Lippert's Happy Easter Cupcake, a chocolate and peanutbutter concoction that has a chocolate Peeps on top, was a very, very closesecond. Both were exceptional in design and flavor.

At opposite corners of the page you’ll find a couple of big cheeses. That’sJim Burke happily waving down cars on Washington Boulevard, and GaryPutnam threatening five pounds of Parmigiano Reggiano with a knife.

Twenty-five pounds of confectioners sugar went into frosting alone, andapproximately 500 cupcakes went home with customers. And we did abrisk business in cheese despite Gary’s knife juggling.

The Woman’s Club thanks you for coming out in thewind and supporting our efforts. It is our sincerehope to purchase exceptional appliances for the

renovated community house kitchen space.

All photos byJennifer Hart


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Volunteering, Voluntolding Annemarie StanzA coworker, Claire, recently told me about a blog post on a meeting industry webforum that focused on the difference between volunteer and voluntold. I hadn’theard “voluntold” before, but apparently it’s been around a while. In case this is anew term to you, the Urban dictionary defines it as, “The act of being asked toperform a task without any real option to decline, generally by a superior who justdidn't feel like doing it themselves.” It defeats the purpose of volunteering.

After reading more, it became clear that getting anything accomplishedorganizations that are primarily volunteer-driven requires a good bit of leadershipskill as well as some general people skills. My colleague Claire did a little researchabout the guiding principles of working effectively with volunteers. She found thepointers in the sidebar enlighting and worth sharing - as many of us will haveoccasion to work with volunteers within the Lyon Park community as well as at ourdaily jobs.

What does this all have to do withLyon Park Community Center(LPCC)? LPCC runs almost entirelyon volunteers (we do hire a rentalagent and a bookkeeper). Wehave no voluntolds at all. We verymuch appreciate people whovolunteer, and we have endlessopportunities to help, especiallywith renovation underway. Pleasecontact me [email protected] if you canhelp. We are especially looking forpeople who can commit todiscrete tasks for 2 hours, and wewelcome high school students andcan document their hours!

Volunteering improves your health and improves emotions like joy and optimism.It saves resources–each hour of volunteer time is currently estimated at a value of$20. It also provides learning, skills and experience for your resume, and helps youmeet your neighbors. It’s a chance to give back and and investment in thecommunity.

A quote by Ashish Patel sums up what it the Lyon Park community is about, “Givetoday to get better tomorrow.”

The Golden Rule● Always treat others how you would like to

be treated● Always look for the good in other people● Don’t expect volunteers to do anything you

would not do yourself

Appreciation● Maintain positive interaction● Avoid ALL CAPS in written communication

– you are yelling at your volunteers!● Acknowledge length of service● Smile, say thank you, then say thank you

again

Care for your volunteers● Encourage, reward and praise● Make volunteers feel special● Work alongside volunteers

Be Inclusive● Involve volunteers in planning and policy

development● Give volunteers a chance to contribute

their views● Welcome others’ ideas and input – don’t

reject ideas simply because they weren’toriginally yours

● Include others to create a sense of owner-ship in future work – it builds enthusiasm


Lyon Park Community Centeris honored to accept the donation of

a class

Donated byMo Shiekhy

Tae Kwon Do Fellowship

To register, please contactShelya White

[email protected] or (703) 243-2742

Open to youths age 13 or olderand all other adults

Tuesday, June 246 PM - 8 PM

Lyon Park Fellowship716 N. Barton Street

$20 Donation Suggested

mailto:[email protected]

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