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Hopkins House Junior K-Prep Class

McNeil Preschool Academy in Alexandria, teacher: Agnes Agyemang

Children’s and Teens’ Gazette

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Wreaths Across America

Thousands turn out to honor local veterans.

Wreaths

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Making Spirits Bright in Alexandria

Hundreds of toys given to families in need.

Hundreds of toys given to families in need.

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Curtain Call in Alexandria

ACHS theater teachers Bachman, Jones honored.

Theater

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Home Sales Poised to Grow

Home Sales Poised to Grow

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Paying Forward a Christmas Miracle

Springfield woman uses personal experience to provide support for women in need this holiday season.

Onyx

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Living Legend: Nelson Greene Jr.

A voice against injustice leaves a legacy of service.

Living Legends

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Dementia Care Consortium

37th annual conference supports caregivers.

Caregivers gathering

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The Ultimate Sacrifice in Alexandria

VFW Post 609 kicks off fundraising campaign for War Dead Monument.

VFW

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Let the Games Begin

Caps, Wizards heading to Potomac Yard in monumental move.

Potomac Yards

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Christmas in Camp

Fort Ward program highlights Civil War traditions.

Photos by Janet Barnett/Gazette Packet

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Dementia Care Consortium

37th annual conference supports caregivers.

Hundreds of attendees turned out for the Northern Virginia Dementia Care Consortium’s 37th annual caregivers conference, the largest dementia conference in the region specifically for family members and professional caregivers of those with memory decline.

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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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Human Rights Everywhere Every Day

“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Last Sunday was Human Rights Day and the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights advancing the promise to all of freedom, equality and justice.

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