Send announcements to The Loudoun Connection, 7913 Westpark Drive, McLean, VA 22102, e-mail to loudoun@connectionnewspapers.com or fax to 703-917-0991. Deadline is Friday, two weeks before the event. Photos/artwork encouraged. For more information, call Jennifer Lesinski at 703-917-6454.
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Northern Virginia Writers "Meet and Mingle" open house, July 7, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Leesburg Town Hall, 25 W. Market St., Leesburg. Network with fellow writers, as well as literary agents and staff and board members of the Writer's Center, based in Bethesda, Md. Light refreshments and door prizes, including a free workshop and free one-year memberships in the Writer's Center. Admission is free. Call 301-654-8664 or e-mail nvw@writer.org.
La Leche League of Ashburn will hold its next meeting July 7, at 10:15 a.m., at the Ashburn Library, 43316 Hay Road, Ashburn. The topic is "The Family and the Breastfed Baby." Pregnant and nursing women as well as their children are welcome to attend. Free. Call a La Leche League leader at 703-723-9891.
Ashburn Classics holds its regular monthly meetings on the second Saturday of each month; usually at the Ashburn Library in Hay Road, with registration at 10:30 a.m. and refreshments. Guest speakers, seminars, short local trips and outside events make up the yearly calendar. Call Pamela Halston; chairperson, 703-771-7041. For people 50-plus years young who wish to make new friends and find new interests. The next meetings will be held July 8. There will be no meetings in August. The meetings will commence Sept. 9.
Mothers First-Ashburn is dedicated to supporting women who have chosen to alter their careers to raise their children at home. Activities include parent/child morning meetings and field trips, moms' nights out and lectures. July's meetings are July 11 and July 25, at 10:15 a.m., at the Ashburn Library, 43316 Hay Road, Ashburn. Call 703-827-5922 or visit www.mothersfirst.org.
NOVA TownHall will hold its next meeting Tuesday, July 11, at Leesburg Airport, 7:30 p.m., 1001 Sycolin Road. Speaker, Jim Boulet, executive director, English First, to discuss "Is English Becoming Our Second Language?" Visit www.novatownhall.com.
Loudoun County Master Gardener Volunteers invite the public to attend a free monthly meeting Thursday, July 13, at 7 p.m., at the Master Gardener Volunteer Demonstration Garden at Ida Lee Park, 60 Ida Lee Drive, Leesburg. In case of inclement weather the program will be in the downstairs conference room at the Loudoun Extension Office, 30-B Catoctin Circle, S.E., Wachovia Bank Building, Leesburg.
Tim Hutchinson of Loudoun Composting will discuss "The Joys of Composting." Call the Loudoun Extension Office, 703-777-0373.
Mothers First-Leesburg is dedicated to supporting women who have chosen to alter their careers to raise their children at home. Activities include parent/child morning meetings and field trips, moms' nights out and lectures. July's meeting is July 18, at 10 a.m., at the Rust Library, 380 Old Waterford Road. Call 703-827-5922 or visit www.mothersfirst.org.
NOVA TownHall meeting, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 7 p.m., at Cascades Library, 21060 Whitfield Place, Sterling. Speaker, Virginia Attorney General Robert F. McDonnell, to discuss he Virginia marriage Amendment and Illegal Immigration. Visit www.novatownhall.com.
Help Save Loudoun meets at 7 p.m., the last Wednesday of each month at the Cascades Library, 21060 Whitfield Place, Sterling. Visit www.helpsaveloudoun.com.
Are you a Virginia 4-H All Star? The Loudoun County 4-H program is trying to contact past All Star recipients who now live in Loudoun County. Contact the Loudoun County Extension Office at 703-777-0373 or by e-mail at kred@vt.edu.
At the CountrySide Women's Club's will resume meetings is September. The club is open to all women in CountrySide and the surrounding area; and meets at the Parkway Meeting Room in CountrySide, Algonkian Parkway. Call the president, Teresa Bettac, at 703-444-3035.
S.T.O.P.S (Survivors Together Offering Personal Support) will meet Mondays, at Broadlands Nature Center, 21907 Claiborne Parkway, Ashburn, at 6:30-8 p.m.
ST.O.P.S is a fellowship of young girls and women who may share their experience, strength and hope with each other, so that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from the trauma of being sexually abused. Primary purpose is to heal and help other victims of sexual assault become survivors.
Mothers First-Sterling is dedicated to supporting women who have chosen to alter their careers to raise their children at home. Activities include parent/child morning meetings and field trips, moms' nights out and lectures. Call 703-827-5922 or visit www.mothersfirst.org.
Weekly Master Gardener Volunteer's Lunch and Learn at the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden, Ida Lee Park, Leesburg. Every Tuesday, at noon, beginning in May, Loudoun County Master Gardener Volunteers will make a 20- to 30-minute educational presentation followed by a question-and-answer session and a tour of the Ida Lee Demonstration Garden. The public is invited to attend these programs free, no registration is required. In case of rain, the program will be held, Thursday evening, at 7 p.m.
Call the Loudoun Extension Office at 703-777-0373.
Ashburn Library, 43316 Hay Road, Ashburn, will be holding the Virginia Young Readers Book Club, 7 p.m., each month for elementary-school level, grades third-fifth, children. Includes reading one-two books each month, games and refreshments. Parents encouraged to join children in reading the selections. A limited number of free copies of each selection are available at the library for participants. Register in advance by calling 703-737-8105.