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Classes & Workshops
Classes & Workshops
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Fairfax County Teen Centers
Fairfax County Teen Centers
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Legal Aid — Helping Those in Need
Legal Aid — Helping Those in Need
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Crime Reports
Crime Reports
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Week in Loudoun
Week in Loudoun
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Learning, Telling Neighborhood’s History
Production describes role of Hunter Mill Road corridor during the Civil War.
Learning, Telling Neighborhood’s History
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Health Notes
Health Notes
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Week in Loudoun
Week in Loudoun
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Learning, Telling Neighborhood’s History
Production describes role of Hunter Mill Road corridor during the Civil War.
Learning, Telling Neighborhood’s History
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Nourishing Body and Soul
Fourth annual fundraiser draws 300 attendees.
Professional and student artists have been busy shaping and decorating nearly 500 bowls for the fourth annual Empty Bowls event, hosted by Our Daily Bread, a nonprofit that works to eliminate hunger, homelessness and poverty in Fairfax County.
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Local Runner Raises Funds for Cancer Research
Abbe Steel to run in Boston Marathon.
Even with the increasingly difficult qualifying standards for the Boston Marathon, lifelong Arlington resident Abbe Burdetsky Steel is preparing to run the race as part of the 23rd annual Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge.
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Museum Tells Story of pre-Reston Simon
Program features early life of founder Robert Simon.
While Robert E. Simon Jr. literally started Reston’s history, his own history goes back five decades. Reston wasn’t founded until Simon was 50, and the Reston Historic Trust attempted to fill in residents on Simon’s early life during their Thursday, April 19 program at the Reston Community Center Lake Anne.
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Family Adventures Before Summer Ends
Planning end-of-summer activities.
It’s less than one month before the onslaught of the new school year. Homework, after-school activities, athletics and schedules will soon begin and continue for the next 10 months. Right now is the time to be thinking about how to best pack in some end-of-the-summer day-trip activities for your family to enjoy. Here are some innovative, action-packed — but close-by ideas — for finishing off this summer with a bang.
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Growing Your Business in Springfield
Community Business Partnership coaches entrepreneurs.
Juli Monroe, author of The Enthusiastic Networker—Growing a Successful Business, told a group of 20 people last Friday, Aug. 2, how to get their books published at the monthly networking breakfast of The Women’s Business Center of Northern Virginia, located in Springfield.
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Creating Attractive Access
Front elevation universal design solution is both functional and architecturally appropriate.
In many respects, well-executed universal design speaks to the hope that a better world is not only possible, but within our grasp. Certainly the intention is to include people with challenged mobility. And it follows that a good universal design solution can be an enhancement not just for one person, but for everyone.
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RA Board to Decide on Lake Anne Land Swap
Swap would assist in redevelopment efforts, vote to be held Nov. 21.
The Reston Association Board of Directors will vote on a land swap involving two parcels of land near Lake Anne at their Thursday, Nov. 21 meeting.
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Reston/Herndon Calendar, Aug. 29-Sept. 9
Send announcements to reston@connectionnewspapers.com. Deadline is Thursday for the following week's paper. Photos/artwork encouraged. For additional listings, visit www.connectionnewspapers.com.
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Destination: Orlando
Members of Potomac River Running training program have been preparing since September.
When contemplating Disney princesses, one immediately thinks of fairy godmothers and pumpkin carriages, flying carpets and pet tigers, flaming red hair and fishtails. Inner strength is a characteristic these women share—one of which we are quick to remind young girls—and so is rescue-ability. But for 16 local female runners who have been training since last fall to complete a half marathon, the Disney Princess is all about being their own hero.
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Six Run for McLean Community Center’s Board
Three adult, two teen positions available.
Six McLean tax district residents have qualified to run for seats on the McLean Community Center’s 2012–2013 Governing Board. The board sets policy and provides general oversight for all the facilities and programs of the Center, including the Robert Ames Alden Theatre and the Old Firehouse Teen Center. The Center is located at 1234 Ingleside Avenue.
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This Week in Potomac
This Week in Potomac