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Column: Wise Beyond Her Years
Rebuilding Together Alexandria
In addition to dispensing wise advice, Eileen keeps busy by going to the senior center every day.
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Column: Mentor of The Month–Mentoring to Friendship
Wright to Read provides volunteer-based one-on-one sustained literacy tutoring and mentoring relationships to City of Alexandria elementary school children in need, and collaborates with families, schools and community partners to create a comprehensive support network that guides each child to success.
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Column: Importance of Community Engagement
Commentary
Last Friday, ACPS had a community event to launch the 5-year strategic plan called ACPS 2020.
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Adult Continuing Education: It’s Not Just a Class
Commentary
Have you, as an adult, taken a class or workshop since completing your formal education?
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Alexandria/Mount Vernon Snapshot: Time Pressure
Brigid Schulte visited Burgundy Farm Country Day School for the 2015 Lois and Eric Sevareid Forum Nov. 3 to discuss time pressure on parents and the research she did in this area for her bestselling book “Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play when No One has the Time.”
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Alexandria: ‘Mercy Street’
Film Festival debuts PBS series.
Actresses and producers from the Alexandria-based PBS series “Mercy Street” walked the red carpet prior to a screening of the Civil War-era drama to kick off the Alexandria Film Festival Nov. 5 at the AMC Hoffman Theaters.
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Reston Orthodontist Collects 1,110 Pounds of Candy
Dr. Stephan Tisseront, a Reston orthodontist, held his 10th Annual Halloween Candy Buy-Back Event on Monday, Nov. 2, benefiting Children’s National in D.C. and our troops overseas.
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Support WFCM Holiday Food Program
Western Fairfax Christian Ministries’ (WFCM) Holiday Food Program helps those in need in Western Fairfax County with food for the holidays.
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Chantilly: Witty Dialogue, Humor in Classic Whodunit
Comedic mystery, “The 39 Steps,” at Westfield High.
Featuring a cast and crew of 35, Westfield’s High’s upcoming play, “The 39 Steps,” is an adaptation of a classic, Alfred Hitchcock movie. And Director Susie Pike says it’s going to be something special.
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Alliance Theatre Offers Original Play
“Shutter” is written, directed by Leslie Anne Ross.
Tough, gritty, honest and absorbing — that’s The Alliance Theatre’s upcoming production of “Shutter.” An original work written and directed by Leslie Anne Ross, it’ll be performed Nov. 13-22 at Mountain View High.
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Taking a Stand against Hunger
Community helps fill Our Daily Bread’s food pantry.
The power of community was on full display Sunday afternoon as some 1,500 people came together on a Fairfax High athletic field to help Our Daily Bread (ODB) feed local families in need.
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CIT in Herndon Announces New Members to Board
The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) announced the newly appointed members of the CIT Board of Directors and the Board of Directors of its parent authority, the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Investment Authority (IEIA).
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Jennifer Boysko: Her Own Words
Comments from Jennifer Boysko, a few days after she was elected to serve District-86 in Virginia’s House of Delegates:
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Centreville: Vignettes of All Stages of Love
Centreville High presents “Almost, Maine.”
A series of distinct vignettes that together work as a whole — that’s Centreville High’s upcoming play, “Almost, Maine.”
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Potomac: Annual WHC Boutique Returns Sunday
Eighteen years ago, Lisa Sandler Spaeth asked her mom, Froma Sandler, to make a bow for her daughter's hair that would stay there without falling out.
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Letter: Questions on NPS Tree Removal
Letter to the Editor
The C&O Canal NHP contains some County, State and National Champion trees.
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Letter: Schools Project Threatens Brickyard Farmland
Letter to the Editor
We are sending you an important update on the Brickyard Farmland, and a call to action.
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Potomac Brief: Churchill To Present Musical Comedy
"How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," is coming to Winston Churchill High School on Nov. 13, 14, 20, and 21 at 7:30 p.m.
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Potomac: Dismay over Tree Clearing along Canal
More than 40 turn out in the rain at Swain’s Lock meeting on NPS plans to clear trees.
More than 40 people turned out for a community meeting with the National Park Service about planned removal of “defective” trees along the C&O Canal in Potomac.