Tag: parks
Festival shines spotlight on Glasgow Park
A large crowd turned for the Parklawn Community Association’s Music in the Park Festival last Saturday to support improvements in Glasgow Park. The family-friendly event featured music from Glasgow Middle School students and local bands, food, crafts, moon bounces, and a fire truck.
Hidden Oaks Nature Center offers summer camp programs for kids
Still looking for a summer program for your kids? The Hidden Oaks Nature Center (7701 Royce St., in Annandale) still has a few spots left in its nature camps. Earthkeepers Camp, July 7-9, is all about exploring woods and watersheds, learning about the environment, restoring habitats, and making crafts from recyclables. It’s for children ages … Continued
Women’s soccer league concerned about losing Saturday access to Pine Ridge Park
Women who’ve enjoyed playing soccer at Pine Ridge Park for 20 years are worried they might not be able to play there on Saturdays any more. That’s because the soccer fields are scheduled to be refurbished with synthetic turf this summer, and Fairfax County’s Department of Community and Recreation Services, which allocates athletic fields, has … Continued
Explore nature at Hidden Oaks
In the midst of the busy highways, shopping centers, and human activity that surround Annandale, the Hidden Oaks Nature Center offers a peaceful refuge for wildlife and a fun place for children to encounter and learn about nature. You might call Hidden Oaks one of Annandale’s hidden gems. Fairfax County has five nature centers, but Hidden … Continued
Bo White was a tireless advocate for our parks
Annandale has lost a tireless community and parks advocate, with the recent death of Bo White. As a long-time representative of Mason District on the Fairfax County Park Authority Board, White played a lead role in establishing the garden plot program and the farmers’ market at Mason District Park, saving and renovating the historic Clark … Continued
Ossian Park will have artifical turf field
The new field at the renovated Ossian Park will have artificial turf instead of natural turf as originally planned, says Rosemary Ryan, senior legislative aide to Braddock District Supervisor John C. Cooke. The renovation project is expected to cost less than expected, allowing for the turf upgrade and additional landscape plantings. [Click on the map … Continued
Yikes! Watch out for copperheads; increased sightings in Fairfax County
There have been a lot more copperhead sighting this spring than usual, reports Fairfax County wildlife biologist Vicky Monroe. At least three people have been bitten by the highly venomous snakes, including one man in Reston who was hospitalized for four days. Other people have been bitten by copperheads in Clifton and in Riverbend Park … Continued
Music in the Park event June 13 will benefit Glasgow Park
Mason District’s Parklawn neighborhood has to have one of the most active, committed community organizations in Fairfax County. Over the past few months, this group has launched anti-litter campaigns, clean-up days, and projects to improve Glasgow Park and the Parklawn pool, with much of these activities supported by a $5,000 Neighborhood Enhancement grant from Fairfax … Continued
Help keep Annandale parks safe and clean: Sign up for the new volunteer park monitor program
Concerned about having well-maintained, litter-free parks in Annandale? You can volunteer to be a park monitor under a new program launched by the Fairfax County Park Authority’s Park Operations Division. Volunteers will receive training on the park rules and regulations and how to diplomatically interact with the public. Park monitors must be at least 18 … Continued
Annandale volunteers needed for Invasive Plant Removal Day this Saturday
Annandale residents are invited to join the effort to wipe out invasive plants that are taking over our parks and streams. A series of events is planned statewide on May 1, Virginia Invasive Plant Removal Day, including two in Annandale: Annandale Community Park, Lafayette Village Drive, off Hummer Road. Volunteers will focus on removing porcelainberry plants, … Continued
Volunteers needed for stream clean-up
Volunteers will be cleaning up streambeds throughout the D.C. region—including several locations in the Annandale area—this Saturday, April 10, as part of the 22nd annual Potomac River Watershed Cleanup. The regional effort, sponsored by the Alice Ferguson Foundation is aimed at removing trash from parks, parking lots, and fields before it enters creeks and other waterways that drain into … Continued
Litter clean-up ideas offered
Daren Shumate of the Parklawn community is tired of picking up trash from the ball fields his children use and around schoolyards and along roadways. He told a group of community leaders at a meeting in Mason District Supervisor Penny Gross’ office March 27 that he regularly fills up six bags of trash on a … Continued
Parklawn hosts fundraiser at Dogfish Head Ale House Tuesday
On Tuesday, March 23, a percentage of the money spent all day at the Dogfish Head Ale House on Route 7 in the Seven Corners Shopping Center will be donated to the Parklawn Community’s efforts to improve Glasgow Park. The Parklawn community has received a Neighborhood Enhancement grant from Fairfax County to rehabilitate the park, but … Continued
Fairfax County’s proposed budget cuts: The impact on Annandale
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors will be making some difficult decisions as it addresses the county’s $257.2 million budget shortfall. At Supervisor Penny Gross’s Town Hall meeting earlier this week, County Executive Anthony Griffin said, “We just can’t raise the tax rate,” noting that people are not seeing their incomes increase, and many are, … Continued
Grants will support community projects in Parklawn
Congratulations to the Parklawn community for receiving $10,000 in 2010 grant funds from Fairfax County for community improvement projects. The Parklawn Civic Association received a $5,000 Neighborhood Enhancement Grant for fixing up Glasgow Park, and the Parklawn Pool also received $5,000 grant for environmental improvements, reports the association’s president, Mollie Loeffler. The grant for the … Continued