January 13, 2025
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Stuart Park clean-up exemplifies power of volunteerism

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Students working in Stuart Park. Stuart Park is looking much nicer after three clean-up activities this fall organized by JEB Stuart High School teacher Lauren Kinne. More than 100 volunteers bagged and removed nearly 200 bags of invasive species, primarily porcelain berry, knotweed, and English ivy. Students from Stuart High School, Bailey’s Elementary School, and … Continued

Volunteers clean up Stuart Park

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More than 50 volunteers collected nearly 100 backs of invasive species debris and a truckload of logs at the first Stuart Park Cleanup event Sept. 29.    J.E.B. Stuart High School students and faculty, Ravenwood Park residents, Bailey’s Crossroads Rotary Club members, and other volunteers participated in the clean-up, which was organized by Stuart biology … Continued

Fall Garden Day at Green Spring Gardens

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Asters, winterberry, lilac, butterfly bushes, and Montauk daisies were among the biggest sellers at Fall Garden Day at Green Spring Gardens Sept. 22. The annual event, featuring 21 plant venders, non-profit organizations, a silent auction, crafts, and musical entertainment, benefits Friends of Green Spring (FROGS). Pitcher plants from the Carnivorous Plant Nursery of Derwood, Md.

Help Friends of Accotink Creek with the International Coastal Cleanup

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Accotink Creek near Wakefield Park By Elizabeth Kirchner Friends of Accotink Creek (FAC), a volunteer waterway protection group, invites you to join 152 countries and millions of people around the world in the 2012 month-long International Coastal Cleanup. Starting at Fullerton Bridge on Sept. 15, cleanup crews will work their way upstream along Accotink Creek, … Continued

Wakefield Skatepark extension officially opened

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Rob Fall, 24, a student at NOVA, at the new section of the Wakefield Skatepark. The new addition to the Wakefield Skatepark in Annandale was completed weeks ago, but the official ribbon-cutting ceremony took place Sept. 8. The 6,000 square foot addition was developed by the California-based Spohn Ranch skate park design and construction company, … Continued

FROGS supports Green Spring Gardens

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Plant sales support FROGS projects. Green Spring Gardens is one of the nicest parks in the Annandale area—if not the entire region—and for that, we can thank the tireless and generous volunteers in Friends of Green Springs Gardens (FROGS).  FROGS raises funds through year-round plant sales, spring and fall garden festivals, dues from its 1,400 … Continued