Tag: holidays
Christmas trees will be picked up through Jan. 15
Fairfax County trash and recycling customers can put out their Christmas trees for curbside pickup during the first two weeks of January (Jan. 4-15). Be sure to remove all lights, decorations, and stands. After Jan. 15, you’ll need to schedule a brush pickup. Most Mason District residents get trash and recycling services from Fairfax County. … Continued
Santa breakfast is annual tradition at Magill’s restaurant in Annandale
Santa (a.k.a. Richard Owen of Annandale) with Kyle, age 2, from Springfield. Santa’s been having breakfast with kids all over town in the past few weeks. On Dec. 19, he showed up for the 14th annual Breakfast with Santa event at Magill’s Famous Pizza & Buffet on Little River Turnpike in Annandale. For many locals, … Continued
Volunteers bring holiday cheer to veterans
The Decorate A Vet house on Wayne Drive in the Broyhill Crest neighborhood in Annandale. Have you seen one of these “Decorate A Vet” signs in your neighborhood and wondered what’s going on? These are the homes of military families or veterans that have been decorated and fixed up for the holidays by a team … Continued
Santa’s Ride will stop at Bailey’s Elementary School
Santa’s Ride will be stopping at Bailey’s Primary Elementary School on Dec. 15. Every year, local law enforcement officers cruise by local elementary schools on motorcycles – some dressed in Santa outfits or as other winter characters – to collect donated toys for children at Fairfax Hospital and the Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center. Local residents … Continued
Help a needy family enjoy the holidays
Boy Scouts collect food for the ACCA food pantry during the Scouting for Food event earlier this month. How about embracing the true meaning of Christmas this year by “adopting” a needy family for the holidays? The Annandale Christian Community for Action (ACCA), a coalition of local churches, is coordinating a program matching donors with … Continued
Rotarians, students provide Thanksgiving meals to the needy
More than 100 needy families will be able to enjoy Thanksgiving, thanks to the generosity of the Bailey’s Crossroads Rotary Club and the JEB Stuart High School Interact Club. Club members distributed 111 boxes of food to lower-income residents in the Culmore area Nov. 21. This was the program’s 37th year. Volunteers gathered at the … Continued
St. Barnabas bazaar features Christmas items, raffle, and food
The Women of St. Barnabas invite the public to a Christmas Bazaar Saturday, Nov. 14, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. It’s at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, 4801 Ravensworth Road, Annandale. If you’re looking for a unique gift, you’ll find handmade Christmas crafts, angels, wreaths, trees, ornaments, knitted items, dolls, gently used costume and estate jewelry, baked goods, … Continued
St. Alban’s Christmas Bazaar this Saturday
There will be a Christmas bazaar this Saturday, Nov. 14, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 6800 Columbia Pike, Annandale. Enjoy Christmas caroling while shopping for baked goods, books, toys, jewelry, homemade crafts, tools, pressed flowers, art, decorations, white elephant items, and new this year, refurbished computers. For children, there will be face … Continued
Day of the Dead celebrated in Culmore
The Culmore community celebrated the Day of the Dead Nov. 1 with an altar, lights, food, and decorations with a skeleton motif. The Day of the Dead is when Mexicans and Latin Americans remember, pray for, and connect with the spirit of loved ones who have died. The celebration, in the parking lot on Glen … Continued
Happy Halloween!
The Holmes Run Acres community in Annandale celebrated Halloween this morning with a parade followed by games in Luria Park. The community has been having an annual Halloween parade for at least 30 years, according to a long-time resident.
Annandale homeowners get creative for Halloween
Thanks, Annandale residents, for bringing the Halloween spirit to the community. We don’t know who lives in these houses, but we like your style. A giant spider attacks 4621 Duncan Drive. [Photo by Michelle Negrelli] The house 4600 Country Lane becomes a scary spectacle at night. A graveyard at 4201 Woodland Road. [Photo by Michelle … Continued
Halloween fun tonight at the Annandale Shopping Center
Are you brave enough to enter the Haunted Village? Visitors to the “Haunted Village of Annandale” will find scary versions of a pizza shop, barber shop, jail, movie theater, witches graveyard, and more – with local residents in costume – in the open area between the two sections of Annandale Shopping Center on Columbia Pike. … Continued
Moon Festival at Eden Center features lion dance, eating contest
A cold, rainy day didn’t stop the Vietnamese community from celebrating the annual Moon Festival at Eden Center in Seven Corners Saturday afternoon. Five women and one man compete to see who can eat two moon cakes, including all the crumbs, the fastest. The eating contest resulted in a tie. Falls Church Mayor David Tarter … Continued
Ghosts, witches invade Annandale shopping center next month
Annandale Shopping Center on Columbia Pike. The Annandale Chamber of Commerce is hosting “a haunted village” in the Annandale Shopping Center on Friday and Saturday evenings beginning Oct. 16 through Halloween. A poster on the front door of the Jukebox Diner says: “The Haunted Village of Annandale silently festers in the underworld, except in October … Continued
Bengalis celebrate New Year’s at Mason District Park
Hundreds of people converged on Mason District Park Saturday for the Bangladesh New Year’s festival known as Boaishakhi Mela. There was music, dancing, and lots of vendors selling clothing, jewelry, and food. There are about 30,000 Bengalis in Northern Virginia, most of them in Arlington, says Shafi Delwar Kajol, editor of News-Bangla. The actual Bangladesh … Continued