Farmers Markets 2014
Buy fresh fruits and veggies from local vendors this summer.
Your guide to all the farmers markets in the Northern Virginia area.
Summer fun events in Vienna, McLean and Great Falls.
Here’s your top ten list of events to check out this summer.
Something for Everyone This Summer in Vienna
From camps to concerts, festivals to fireworks, there’s something for everyone.
If you live in Vienna, you’ll have fun, fun, fun, long after your daddy takes your T-bird away. From concerts on the Town Green to sprinklers on the Town Green, from festivals and fireworks to book sales and live theatre, day camps to teen excursion camps, there’s something for every age, every interest. The Department of Parks and Recreation even sells theme park tickets to Busch Gardens and King’s Dominion. Go to www.viennava.gov for details of Town of Vienna community events and activities.
Vienna Summer on the Green Concerts Open May 30
Summer on the Green concert series kicks off on Friday, May 30, at 6:30 p.m. with a concert performance by Bill Emerson and the Sweet Dixie Band, a favorite of the late Mayor and the Seeman family.
Classified Advertising May 28, 2014
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Seven in the Eighth: Epic Democratic Primary Heads Toward Final Days
Hotly contested race to replace longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-8)
Ten names will be on the ballot June 10, although only seven candidates are still in the Democratic primary to replace longtime U.S. Rep. Jim Moran (D-8).
ViVa! Vienna! Marks Another Fun-filled Festival
Three-day carnival featured 350 vendors, food, rides and live entertainment.
Vienna Rotary could not have ordered a more ideal setting of blue skies and dry heat for ViVa! Vienna!, the club’s annual three-day festival running along the historic Church Street corridor, Saturday through Monday. ViVa! Vienna! is sponsored by the Rotary Club of Vienna, in partnership with the Town of Vienna. “This is so Vienna,” said D.H. Scarborough, manning the Vienna Business Association booth. “The community is here together. “There’s food, vendors and fun.”
Week in Vienna
News happenings in the Fairfax area.
Packaging Food for Stop Hunger Now
Churches, community unite to feed hungry children.
When members of a community join together for a common purpose, there’s virtually no limit to what they can accomplish. And when residents from throughout Vienna and Oakton gathered to package meals for the world’s hungriest people, they definitely made an impact.
Pausing to Remember America’s Fallen
Memorial Day ceremony at Oakton’s Flint Hill Cemetery.
Residents and dignitaries alike paid their respects to America’s fallen heroes during American Legion Post 180’s annual Memorial Day ceremony.
Attanasi Appointed To Town Council
Vienna also adopts minimum tree-canopy coverage rules.
There’s a new member on the Vienna Town Council, but this one didn’t have to be elected. Instead, Emil Attanasi was appointed to fill new Mayor Laurie DiRocco’s unexpired term on the Council.
Some Good News and a Lot of Uncertainty
Realtors discuss the mortgage market at finance summit.
The Northern Virginia Association of Realtors (NVAR) hosted Finance Summit 2014 at their Fairfax Headquarters on Wednesday, May 21. The event brought together a panel of speakers with an impressive collection of credentials and expertise. Moderator Ken Harney’s “Nation’s Housing” column is nationally syndicated. Harney is also a member of the Federal Reserve Board Consumer Advisory Council, an author and commentator on real estate and mortgage issues, and the host of CNBC’s “Real Estate Magazine” weekly television program.
Visiting ‘New Tysons’
Residents get a peek into the future at Tysons Open House.
As Tysons Corner continues to develop, curious residents are starting to get a feel for its identity. Fairfax County Park Authority hosted an open house at Spring Hill Elementary on May 19 to display what the urban center’s cityscape - complete with green spaces and high rise buildings - could look like in the next five to 25 years.
Column: Team Up
Just as “everyone knows Geico can save you 15 percent in 15 minutes,” that is, if you watch television, listen to radio, access the Internet or even sit on the beach at Ocean City and watch the single-engine planes flying by pulling banners; so too do people know that when your primary care physician tells you that you need to meet with an oncologist to discuss your recent medical results, you should bring along family, friends, advocates, doctors, lawyers, etc. (your presumptive “team”), because, well, you know why: your life may depend on it.
Editorial: New Measure - More Living in Poverty
Inside the Beltway, that is Alexandria, Arlington and parts of Fairfax, 32 percent of children are living in poverty or near poverty. In Fairfax County, 26 percent of children live in or near poverty. This is according to the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia.
Oakton Lefty Lopez Pitches Cougars to Conference 5 Championship
Senior throws three-hitter against Chantilly in conference final.
The Oakton baseball team beats Chantilly for the second year in a row in the conference/district championship game.
Classified Advertising May 21, 2014
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‘You Are Not Your Mistakes’
“She was one of the most disagreeable people I had ever met,” says paws4people Chairman and COO, Terry Henry, remembering his reaction to meeting Rebecca at Lakin Correctional Center, more than three years ago. Seeing her now with her earnest smile and a well-behaved puppy happily nestled in her lap, it’s hard to imagine the Rebecca he describes.
Trained in Prison, Healing in N. Virginia
Healing power of dogs creates ties between prisoners, veterans, children with disabilities.
When I first started going inside prisons for paws4people.org, my job was three-fold: to capture, through photography, the connection between the dogs and their inmate trainers, to provide images that reflected the accomplishments of months of training and to document the moment that veterans, children and young adults were matched with their assistance dogs.