Tag: youths
Franconia police district sets up youth engagement council
Capt. Fried The Fairfax County Police Department’s Franconia District Station is launching a Youth Engagement Council for high school students and young adults age 18-25 who live in the area served by the station. The Franconia Police District covers a large section of the Annandale area south of Little River Turnpike. The Youth Engagement Council … Continued
Lincolnia teen raises $8,000 for first responders
Mealy Cronin [WUSA9] Local teen Mealy Cronin raised $8,000 on GoFundMe to support first responders and essential workers during the coronavirus pandemic. She is using the funds to provide hundreds of meals to Fairfax County and Arlington police stations and to six Inova hospitals. She organized a delivery from District Taco at the Skyline Center … Continued
Young artist honors Dr. Perez in ‘Portraits of the Brave’ series
Dr. Perez of Annandale, as envisioned by Xinyi Christine Zhang. Xinyi Christine Zhang, a 15-year-old high school student in New Jersey, was so moved by the outpouring of love for the late Dr. Steve Perez that she added him to her Portraits of the Brave project honoring medical personnel. Zhang didn’t know Perez but found … Continued
TaskTeens matches homeowners with teens for yardwork
TaskTeens lets teens sign up for yardwork. [TaskTeens] TaskTeens is a new online service that connects homeowners who need yardwork done with local teens who can do the work. If it sounds similar to TeenServ, reported in the Annandale Blog in February, it is. TeenServ was created by three students at McLean High School. One … Continued
Swim team league cancels summer season
Swim meets, like this one at the Annandale Swim & Tennis Club, won’t be happening this summer. The Northern Virginia Swimming League has canceled the 2020 season, the NVSL Executive Board announced May 7. “Despite our best efforts to gather as much information about the implications of COVID-19 to confidently hold a potential season, we … Continued
NOVA grad donates $1 million to the NOVA Foundation
Howe When Debra Coffman Howe was a nursing student at Northern Virginia Community College and struggling to afford the tuition, she was helped by an anonymous donor. Now she’s a healthcare executive and committed $1 million to the college, the NOVA Foundation announced April 2. Howe’s gift supplements her existing endowed scholarship fund for NOVA … Continued
Girl Scouts help families at Ronald McDonald House
Members of Girl Scout Troop 5655 helped brighten the lives of families undergoing difficult times by cooking dinner for families staying at the Ronald McDonald House at Inova Fairfax Hospital on Presidents’ Day. The girls, Mireille, Sydney, Eleanor, and Eva, are students at Annandale and Justice high schools. They made pasta with goat cheese and … Continued
TeenServ helps homeowners find teens for yard work
The teens who founded TeenServe (from the left): Quin Frew, Jack Lannin, and Ben Jeannot. Homeowners who need someone to mow lawns, rake leaves, shovel snow, or carry out other outdoor or indoor jobs can arrange for a teenager to do the work through an online company created by three high school students. TeenServ LLC was … Continued
Justice student goes to extremes to raise money for leukemia research
Henry Smith Henry Smith, a junior at Justice High School, is going all out to raise money in the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Students of the Year campaign – and he’s inviting the public to contribute, as well. Donations can be made here. Henry appreciates whatever you can do, no matter how much. The Leukemia … Continued
Students organize peace-building conference
Students work on an icebreaker exercise at the Open Peacebuilding and Leadership Conference. [Photos by Peter Huynh] More than 50 students from 14 local high schools – including Annandale, Falls Church, Justice, and Woodson – learned how to become community leaders and peace builders at a student-organized conference Dec. 14 at the James Lee Community … Continued
High school students invited to Peacebuilding Conference
High school students are invited to a conference on Saturday to learn how to create a peacebuilding club at their school. Xuan Huynh, a student at Woodson High School, and a team of her peers developed the event to empower local youths to become community leaders and provide them with leadership and organizing skills so … Continued
Help Boy Scouts collect food for the needy
The boys of Troop and Pack 150. Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts across the area will be collecting food from residents this Saturday to donate to food pantries for families in need. Last week, scouts put sticky notes on front doors advising residents of the Scouting for Food program. Residents are asked to fill a … Continued
High school students can be ‘election pages’
The Fairfax County Office of Elections invites high school students to help out on Election Day as an “election page.” Election pages will serve an eight-hour shift at a polling place on Nov. 5 under the supervision of a chief election officer. To participate, students must be (1) enrolled in a high school government class … Continued
Justice HS grads awarded scholarships
The Justice HS Scholars Class of 2019. Thanks to the generous contributions of the Justice High School community – alumni, staff, parents, and neighbors – the Justice HS Scholarship Fund awarded a record $160,700 to 74 graduating seniors. The JHS Scholarship Fund and its partners – the Rotary Club of Bailey’s Crossroads, the Thurgood Marshall … Continued
Volunteers clean up site of Annandale’s pop-up park
Crosby Lester (with white hat) chose the pop-up park cleanup as an Eagle Scout project. Boy Scouts, Fairfax County employees from the Office of Community Revitalization (OCR) and Park Authority, and other volunteers spent several hours Saturday cleaning up the future site of Annandale’s pop-up park. The park, located between the Annandale Fire Station and … Continued