January 11, 2025
Covering Annandale, Bailey's Crossroads, Lincolnia, and Seven Corners in Fairfax County, Virginia
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Tag: volunteers

Champions of Character honored

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Champions of Character Award winners from Mason District with county leaders. [Fairfax County] Athletes, parents, and a coach involved with the Annandale Boys and Girls Club are being honored with Fairfax County Champions of Character Awards for their good sportsmanship, service, teamwork, and leadership. These annual awards are presented by Fairfax County, the Fairfax County … Continued

ACCA celebrates 50 years of good works

#churches, #community events, #social services, #volunteers

Don DiSpirito speaks at ACCA’s 50th anniversary celebration. For the past 50 years, Annandale Christian Community for Action (ACCA) has served our neediest residents, providing assistance with food, furniture, childcare, and emergency funding. The nonprofit organization – a coalition of 26 churches – commemorated its 50th anniversary Oct. 3 at Queen of Apostles Catholic Church … Continued

The Taste of Annandale is one of many community projects supported by the Annandale Rotary Club

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The Annandale Rotary Club surprised children at the ACCA Child Development Center with Santa and gifts last December.  The Annandale Rotary Club is all about being engaged with the community, so it was a natural that the service organization would want to play a key role in the Taste of Annandale. The Rotary Club is … Continued

Bailey’s Crossroads Rotary Club hosts ‘Great Assembly” to package school supplies

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Rotary club members package school supplies. Members of the Bailey’s Crossroads Rotary Club and other volunteers packaged more than 2,300 school supply kits for distribution to students at the Stuart Pyramid Back to School Resource Fair next week. The Resource Fair, Aug. 10, 1-5 p.m., at JEB Stuart High School, is aimed at making sure … Continued

Stuart Pyramid School Resource Fair scheduled for Aug. 10 at Stuart High School

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Crowds gather at Stuart High School at a previous Stuart Pyramid School Resource Fair.  Families served by all the elementary and middle schools that feed into JEB Stuart High School are invited to the third annual Stuart Pyramid School Resource Fair Aug. 10, 1-5 p.m., at Stuart. The fair will have free school supplies, books, … Continued

Just Neighbors moves, on short notice, to Annandale office building

#community organizations, #immigration, #redevelopment, #social services, #volunteers

Just Neighbors new home, in the building at the rear. Just Neighbors, a nonprofit organization that serves low-income immigrants andrefugees throughout Northern Virginia, is moving this weekend from Bailey’s Crossroads to an office building at 7630 Little River Turnpike in Annandale. In March 2016, the organization announced plans to relocate to the Heritage Drive campus … Continued

Donations of school supplies sought for Annandale/Mason District students

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During Britepath’s 2016 Collect for Kids program, Bailey’s Rotary President Pat Borowski (left) joined Britepaths Seasonal Programs Manager Dawn Sykes (second from left) and volunteers at Oak View Elementary School in Fairfax to pack school supplies for students in the Stuart High School pyramid. Britepaths is once again working with Fairfax County’s Collect for Kids … Continued