Celebrate Earth Day on the Greenway
The community is invited to celebrate Earth Day on April 23 at an event hosted by the Annandale Greenway Alliance.
The family-friendly celebration will be held at the future Annandale Civic Space, 7200 Columbia Pike, 12-4 p.m.
There will be an opportunity to explore the Annandale Greenway, a four-mile pathway that connects neighborhoods and parks through the center of Annandale.
The Greenway makes use of existing trails in Annandale Community Park, the Hidden Oaks Nature Center, Manassas Gap Railroad Park, the Annandale Civic Space, Mason District Park, the Pinecrest Golf Course, and Green Spring Gardens.
The Earth Day event will have tables featuring public agencies and private organizations, a cleanup project, a food truck, and children’s activities.
Related story: The Annandale Greenway gets a green light
Several local officials will be there, including Rep. Don Beyer, Fairfax County Board of Supervisors chair Jeffrey McKay, supervisors Penny Gross (Mason) and James Walkinshaw (Braddock), and Park Authority Director Jai Cole.
If you would like to volunteer to help out at the Earth Day event, sign up here.
As a major events organizer for almost 30 years, the cleanest events have been conservative. Liberal groups trash the place, almost without exception. Quite a dichotomy.
Really? Didn’t waste much time making a political statement out of a positive story, did you? Please, go away.
BTW, the extreme trashing of the capitol on Jan 6th stands in sharp contrast to your assertion.
I am really sorry that you are having such a bad day that you have to be so divisive. Labels like “liberal” and “conservative” are doing nothing to help our country heal. I sincerely hope that we can at least come together for Earth Day.
Grace Dumont I just googled your name with nothing coming up… so what major events did you plan in the last 30 years? Pretty nasty thing to say on such a positive story for our community.
That WAS an odd way to respond to this post.
Meantime, good going to the Annandale community members who have worked to develop the Greenway. It should prove to be an asset to the community. I am disappointed, however, that it is not easily accessible from my neck of Annandale. I hope that future consideration will be given to linking the Greenway to the Valleycrest Park area.
We are so lucky to have all these park resources in our community, and the fact that they all connect is wonderful. This event sounds like a safe and fun way to come out of hibernation.
On outings in the parks, I pick up debris and my dog is a huge fan of recycling bottles and cans too. There is a clean up this Saturday I saw posted in Holmes Run Stream Valley Park off Valleycrest
The Annandale Greenway is the model all non-motorized transportation projects should follow – making our existing infrastructure safe for people. We have enough pavement in Fairfax County. It is time to make that asphalt and concrete available to all users and leave our dwindling supply of wooded natural areas to provide their services of wildlife habitat, water quality, and climate mitigation.