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Tips for Holiday Card Photos

Local photographers offer suggestions for taking great family photos.

Amber Wilson has spent the last week scouring her computer files in search of the perfect pictures for her holiday card. One image missing from her collection is a shot of her entire family.

My father was born in a small town in the Andes mountains region of Venezuela. He was one of 22 brothers and sisters from the same parents. At the age of 19 he came to this country with $280 in his pocket and the dream of a better life. He worked as a bus boy and waiter, learned English, and went to school. He graduated from Northern Virginia Community College when I was 5 years old. He then took one class a semester at George Mason University every year, until he graduated from college one month before I graduated from Robinson High School in Fairfax. As a result of his achieving the American Dream, my father was able to change the lives of my entire family in Latin America.

Alexandria Lawyer Saves Innocent Man from Death Row

“It took a team of people hundreds of hours to save one life. If we hadn’t taken this case, he’d be dead.”

Alfred Dewayne Brown loves the Alexandria Waterfront. He enjoys visiting the shops and restaurants in Old Town and meeting the family of his Alexandrian lawyer, Brian Stolarz. Brown is closer with Stolarz than most clients are with their attorneys. The two are good friends and even have matching tattoos: scales of justice. Brown has the number “154” written above his, because Brown is the 154th inmate on death row to be exonerated. If it weren’t for Stolarz, Brown would be dead.

Bulletin Board: Arlington, 01/23/12

Community meetings and events, worship and volunteer opportunities.E-mail announcements to arlington@connectionnewspapers.com. Deadline is noon the Thursday before publication. Photos are welcome.

Westfield Students Learn TV Production Firsthand

Nardos King Keeps Her Promise

A Fight Against Forgetting

Five years after his son’s death, a teacher goes to Richmond to honor families’ wartime loss.

A Fight Against Forgetting

Mountain View High holds winter graduation.

Mountain View High is a school of second chances, and its students make the most of them.

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Local photographers offer suggestions for taking great family photos.

An immigrant’s son becomes state delegate and introduces the Virginia DREAM Act.

“It took a team of people hundreds of hours to save one life. If we hadn’t taken this case, he’d be dead.”

Five years after his son’s death, a teacher goes to Richmond to honor families’ wartime loss.

Mountain View High holds winter graduation.

Josephine Durkin’s paper chairs demand delight but beg interpretation.

Bulldogs unbeaten through their first six games this spring.