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Week in McLean
Check out what is going on this week in McLean.
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Brief: BRTRC Moves to Vienna
Brief: A 27-year-old, steadily growing government contractor will move its corporate headquarters to a new home in Vienna next year, in a deal brokered by two executives with The Ezra Company.
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Brief: Bringing Joy to Children of Injured Service Members
In the spirit of the holidays, donors and volunteers affiliated with the nonprofit organization Our Military Kids provided gifts to more than 120 children of severely injured service members across the country, helping to minimize the financial burden of Christmas.
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Brief: New Dominion Women’s Club Helps Instill Love of Reading
Macy’s grants funds, Women’s Club distributes books for children at Falls Church-McLean Children’s Center preschool.
Preschool–age children who attend the Falls Church-McLean Children’s Center chose a book about the family to take home and keep when the New Dominion Women’s Club of McLean distributed books on Friday, Nov. 16, in time for Thanksgiving, a time when families often gather with relatives to celebrate the holiday.
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Brief: Junior League Gets Seal of Approval
Brief: Virginia’s First Lady Maureen McDonnell has named the Junior League of Northern Virginia (JLNV) a recipient of the First Lady’s Opportunity Seal of Approval.
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Brief: Former Astronaut Comes to Churchill Road
Brief: Churchill Road’s GEMS (Girls Excelling in Math and Science) hosted a very special guest speaker at their Dec. 12 meeting.
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Letter: Seeing the Spirit of Giving
Letter: I would like to share with you about the St. Joseph School Onesight eyeglass collection drive.
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Brief: Great Falls Studios Makes Donations to Great Falls Library
Brief: Great Falls Studios, a network of over 100 artists in Great Falls, has donated a new professional wire cable and hook display system to the Great Falls Community Library to be used for hanging art exhibits in the library’s meeting rooms.
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Schools Attract Immigrants to Fairfax
Our community of 200 single family homes in central Fairfax is far more culturally diverse than when Hickory Farms was built while the first wave of refugees from the Vietnam War resettled in the Washington area in the late 1970s. While the Vietnamese led the way, the biggest impact on our community has been the second wave of Indian, Pakistani, and Korean immigrants who have sought out new lives in Fairfax County.
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Letter: Saving the World, or at Least Fairfax County
I’ve lived here my entire life. I’ve ventured through trails all over Northern Virginia, I’ve gazed upon the majestic Blue Ridge Mountains, I’ve sat next to the awesome power that makes up the tidal region of the Potomac River, I’ve stalked trout lying in a stream bed, slowly making their way up to the surface and back down once again.
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Editorial: Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas
Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas
We are a nation of immigrants, to invoke the title of John F. Kennedy’s posthumously published book; undeniably a nation descended from immigrants and a nation greatly augmented by immigration. From this perspective, with the first immigrants motivated by the search for religious freedom, even Christmas is a religious holiday of immigrants.
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Business Matters
Two Alexandria landlords are vying for their properties to become the new home of the National Science Foundation, a prize the Alexandria Economic Development Partnership has identified as valuable goal for the city.
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Council Notebook
They fought like cats and dogs. They pounded their fists of the dais at City Hall. On several occasions, they raised their voices at each other.
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Herdon Teen's Death May Lead to Legislation Targeting Texting While Driving
Bill targets drivers using handheld device for something other than verbal communication.
Kyle Rowley was on his way home on a Sunday night in 2011 when he ran out of gas near the border between Loudoun County and Fairfax County.
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Historic Chapel at Virginia Theological Seminary Rises from the Ashes
Seminary reaches compromise with neighbors to retain ruins of historic chapel.
When God appears to Moses in the Book of Exodus, a bush is described to be on fire yet not consumed by flames. The same could be said for Immanuel Chapel at the Virginia Theological Seminary.
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Upcoming Zoning Decision on Beauregard Pits Tenants Against Council
West End residents are 'frustrated and angry.'
As residents of the West End gathered this week to celebrate Human Rights Day, a spirit of defiance was in the air.