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Nagle, Arya to Address GOP Women Meeting
Chet Nagle, Naval Academy graduate, Cold War pilot, CIA agent and author will speak at the January meeting of the Republican Women of Clifton on the conflict in the Middle East and vulnerability of the US electrical grid to EMP and cyber-attacks. This topic bears on the cyber theme of Nagel’s latest book Lazarus Man, which expounds on these issues using fact-based fiction. Golala Arya, Kurdish Iranian refugee, will contribute her insights on the conflict in Iran.
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Letter: Milestone for Folk Music
Letter to the Editor
Focus Alexandria is one of the many arts providers in Alexandria that fly under the radar screen.
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NVFS To Hold Job Fair in Oakton on May 30
Positions supporting Shelter Operations and Rapid Rehousing available.
Northern Virginia Family Service (NVFS) is expanding its shelter operations in locations throughout Northern Virginia, and will be holding a job fair at the end of May for interested human service professionals. All new positions are scheduled to begin mid-June 2015.
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Alexandria: 2015 Memorial Day in Old Town
Memorial Day ceremonies honor the fallen.
Alexandrians gathered from across the city May 25 to honor the sacrifice of America’s fallen service members in Memorial Day ceremonies held at Alexandria National Cemetery in Old Town.
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Area Scouts Participate in Fall Camporee
The Old Dominion District Fall Camporee was held Oct. 17, 18, and 19 at Sky Meadows State Park. Six hundred seventeen Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venture scouts and Scouters from Old Dominion, Colonial, and Occoquan Districts participated in this Pioneer theme campout.
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Area Scouts Participate in Fall Camporee
The Old Dominion District Fall Camporee was held Oct. 17, 18, and 19 at Sky Meadows State Park. Six hundred and seventeen Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venture scouts and Scouters from Old Dominion, Colonial, and Occoquan Districts participated in this Pioneer theme campout.
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McLean Trees Foundation Honors Joyce Crandall
During a recent volunteer workday, the McLean Trees Foundation (MTF) planted two native Fringetrees and one American Hornbeam tree along Chain Bridge Road in Lewinsville Park in memory of McLean resident Joyce Crandall.
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McLean Church Welcomes New Minister
On June 29, The Hunger Church, Charles Wesley United Methodist, will welcome a new minister, Rev. Livingstone S. Dore.
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Their Last Act
Where can one find Malala Yousafzai, Blanche DuBois, Philip Wang, HUCCI and Dolly Parton on the same stage? They are all characters in Yorktown High School’s One-Person Shows, to be presented at Yorktown High School’s Black Box Theatre, on Thursday, April 24, from 6-9 p.m., Friday, April 25, from 4-9 p.m. and Saturday, April 26, from 1-10 p.m. Admission is free. The One-Person Shows are 30-minute productions written, staged, and acted by the senior Yorktown theatre students. The productions are a culminating project in the Yorktown Theatre Arts Program, requiring self-reflection, research, writing and rehearsal.
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Recycling in Central Arlington
Sunny weather brought community members out to Thomas Jefferson Middle School to kick off the recycling portion of their spring cleaning. The parking lot off Glebe Road had been turned into an efficient slalom course of stations for dropping off of everything from televisions and vacuum cleaners to batteries and motor oil at the semi-annual E-CARE recycling event on Saturday, April 19.
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Comedy Stereotypes ‘70s Catholic Teaching
“Sister Mary Ignatious” at Gunston Theatre II.
With the Catholic Church in the news over issues such as the federal health care law, it seems timely to see The American Century Theater’s performance of “Sister Mary Ignatious Explains It All For You,” Christopher Durang’s comedy.
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Potomac Real Estate: Sales in May 2012, $1.2~$1.49 million
In May 2012, 62 Potomac homes sold between $2,525,000-$254,000.
Potomac Real Estate: Sales in May 2012, $1.2~$1.49 million
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Brief- Summer Campfires at Nature Centers
Families are invited to the Gulf Branch fire ring or Long Branch Amphitheater for old-fashioned fun — including s'mores.
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Obituary: Connie Peters Murphy
Connie Peters Murphy, 58, of Alexandria, died May 14, 2014 at her home surrounded by family.
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Volunteers Prep Townhouse
Long & Foster employees ready townhouse for occupation by family in need.
Members of the Long & Foster Reston office on Wiehle Avenue became handymen for the day, as almost a dozen employees gathered at a Reston townhouse owned by Reston Interfaith to prepare it for a family in need.
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Potomac Real Estate: Top Sales in May 2014
In May 2014, 58 Potomac homes sold between $2,585,000-$515,000.
Potomac Real Estate: Top Sales in May 2014
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Introducing Mixed-Income, Multifamily Union on Queen in Arlington
The Bozzuto Group and non-profit developer Wesley Housing Development Corporation have opened Union on Queen, a mixed-income, multifamily community in Arlington.
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All In for ‘The Gin Game’ at Alexandria's MetroStage
Notes from The Producer
The next production at MetroStage is “The Gin Game,” a Pulitzer Prize winning classic play by D. L. Coburn, opening Feb. 2 and running through March 12.
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A Closer Look at Islam at Burke Presbyterian Church
Burke Presbyterian Church, located at 5690 Oak Leather Drive, Burke, (1/4 mile east of the intersection of Ox Road/Rt. 123 and Burke Centre Parkway) is hosting a special installment of Distinguished Speakers Series on March 3-4, 2017.
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Burke, Fairfax, Springfield: Del. Eileen Filler-Corn (D-41) joins ABLEnow in commemorating the opening of the first ABLEnow account in Virginia.
On Monday, December 19th, the 2nd year anniversary of the federal passage of the ABLE Act, Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn (D-41) joined ABLEnow for a press conference to commemorate the opening of the first ABLEnow account in Virginia. Fittingly, this account was opened for Natalie Beck, whose parents first came up with the idea for ABLE accounts several years ago.