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Fire Department Auxiliary Hosts Craft Fair, Taste of Vienna
Crafts show launches VVFD’s spring schedule of events.
Vienna Volunteer Fire Department [VVFD] hosts community-wide public events and fundraising events.
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Cappies: The Killing Game
No amount of cleansing and disinfectant will guarantee safety; even the air is hazardous. The symptoms appear only seconds before death, and it spreads without needing physical contact. The Plague is back, and there is no escape. On the New School of Northern Virginia stage, the Killing Game has begun
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Week in McLean
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McLean Artist Wins Mosaic Arts Awards
Ashley Mehra’s mosaic “The Lion and the Flower” earned the regional Gold Key Scholastic Art Award.
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MCC to Hold Public Hearing on Programs on March 20, 2013
he McLean Community Center’s (MCC) 11-member Governing Board will hold its annual Public Hearing on Programs at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 20. The board is asking residents of Dranesville Small District 1A to come to the meeting and share their thoughts on center programs and services.
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Longfellow Model UN Team Wins Secretary General’s Award
The Longfellow Middle Model United Nations (Model UN) team recently won the secretary general’s award for Best Middle School Delegation and three Outstanding Delegation awards at the TechMUN conference held at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST).
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Letter: A Call to Reduce Gun Violence
Following the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a group of Northern Virginia residents, Concerned Citizens Against Gun Violence (CCAGV), has been taking action to reduce gun violence in our nation. In February, CCAGV launched a grassroots effort to gather signatures to show our representatives in Congress that their constituents want action on reasonable measures to reduce gun violence.
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McLean, Fairfax Students Win State Cybersecurity Championship
The future of national security may lie in the hands of a high school student who competed in a cyber championship this weekend at George Mason University.
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Week in Fairfax
A 40-year-old man died at around 12:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, after driving eastbound in the westbound lanes of Little River Turnpike for several miles and striking a Fairfax County Police cruiser head-on. The officer, 28, from the Mason Police District, was en route to assist fellow officers after hearing radio traffic about the speeding vehicle in the wrong lanes. He suffered numerous injuries in the crash, was trapped in his vehicle and had to be cut out of the car before he could be transported for medical attention. He was taken by ambulance to a local hospital where he is in a stable condition.
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Monopoly Players Win for Action Center
Ron & Susan Associates raise more than $5,500 for Lorton Community Action Center.
Although Allen Holder was placing bets with funny money and trading fictional real estate, the stakes were high for the sixth annual tournament at the Lorton Workhouse Arts Center on Feb. 23.
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Empty Bowls Event Raises $18,000
Our Daily Bread’s signature fundraiser benefits Fairfax County residents living below the poverty line.
As the Fairfax Saxophone Quartet played dulcet American swing standards to an audience of 300, the atmosphere inside the Stacy C. Sherwood Community Center last Thursday night struck a balance between light-hearted and serious. While outwardly entertaining, with balloon animals, face-painting, live music and close to 400 colorful handmade bowls available to take home, the fifth annual Empty Bowls fundraiser highlighted a humbling reality: the large population of working poor in the Fairfax County area.
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Fairfax Author Writes Memoir on Caring for Mother
Fairfax author M. Elizabeth Sweeney published a memoir to help caregivers and aging parents. Nineteen million Americans are caring for someone over the age of 75, and Sweeney was one of them—yet she couldn't find a book about the eldercare issues she encountered with her mother. So she decided to write it.
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Fairfax Residents Star in New Production
Clifton Dinner Theater presents “Murder Me Always.”
Mystery, intrigue and laughs are all on the menu when the Clifton Dinner Theater presents its new show, “Murder Me Always.” And two Fairfax residents have starring roles. Performances are slated for March 14-16, at the Clifton Town Meeting Hall, 12641 Chapel Road in the Town of Clifton. Shirley’s Catering of Clifton is providing the dinner, all three nights, and wine and beer will be available.