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Multiple Rotary Clubs Collaborate for Rise Against Hunger

Volunteers and sponsors needed.

Volunteers and sponsors are sought for the Rise Against Hunger Food Packaging event at Aldrin Elementary School, 11375 Center Harbor Road, Reston, VA, Saturday, Jan. 20, 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m.; set-up at 8:30 a.m.

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Unsheltered Homeless Persons at Reston Encampment

Addressing future encampment closure.

Camp

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American Legion Post 184 Recognizes Giant Food at Northpoint

20 years of support.

The Wayne M. Kidwell American Legion Post 184 Herndon-Reston recently acknowledged their enduring friendship with its neighboring community establishment, Giant Store # 0747, at Northpoint Shopping Center in Reston.

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Name Change for W. T. Woodson High School

Intentionally uplifting people who were held down.

Woodson name

District Members, Board of Supervisors

Braddock, Franconia, Mount Vernon, Providence & Springfield Districts

The Nov. 7 election includes the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. Nine members are elected by voters in local districts to serve four-year terms. Twenty-one district candidates are in the race, with seven incumbents.

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Supervisors Approve Good Faith Funding for Police & Firefighters

Fiscal Year One Impacts: $33 million for police and $24.7 million for firefighters and paramedics

Funding

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Fairfax County’s First Independent Police Auditor

Use of force policy, recommendations to FCPD, executive director vacancy on the Police Civilian Review Panel

Police Auditor

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Vienna Harper To Compete in Irish World Championships

12-year-old Learned to play by ear.

Veronica Sachse, 12 of Vienna, is heading to the world championships of traditional Irish music in Mullingar, Ireland.

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Justice Sunday

On First Baptist Church of Vienna’s 8th Annual Legislative and Justice Sunday, elected officials update the status of bills and review past actions.

Church

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Herndon Town Council Reverses Historic District Review Board

Code allows for appeal.

725 Elden Street positioned for demolition.

Supervisors Approve Good Faith Funding for Police & Firefighters

Fiscal Year One Impacts: $33 million for police and $24.7 million for firefighters and paramedics

“Many of the commitments that are in this, that we are expecting the county executive to include in his budget proposal to us, are things likely we would have done anyway.” — Chairman Jeff McKay (D)

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2024 Student Peace Awards of Fairfax County

Herndon Friends honor countywide high school juniors and seniors.

Peace

Democratic Primary June 20; Early Voting Starts May 5

Could new faces, new districts alter the political landscape?

Election

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Veterans Day 2023

Observance at the Great Falls Freedom Memorial

“The willingness with which young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive the veterans of earlier wars are treated and appreciated by their nation,” — Bruce Fein, Lieutenant Colonel U.S. Army Reserves

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Wrapping Up Matters in 2023, or Not

Supervisors to take action on two controversial items, a data center in Chantilly and Dark Skies in Great Falls.

Election

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NAACP School Board Forum

Hunter Mill school board candidates Melanie Meren and Paul Thomas answer tough questions.

School Board

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Cornerstones Opens Food Hub

Other nonprofits can supplement their resources.

A challenge existed for Cornerstones: wasted food, tons of it destroyed in the communities the nonprofit organization served, yet people were going home and going to sleep at night hungry.

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State Highways with Confederate Names Officially Renamed

State decision snagged a month ago.

Street names

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Friends of the Reston Regional Library Donate $100K to Fairfax County Public Library

Supervisor Walter Alcorn announces location on the new Reston Regional Library.

Library

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