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Winners of A. Heath Onthank Award
Community News at a GlanceFairfax CountyAward recipient Leila Gordon, executive director of Reston Community Center; John Townes, commissioner of the…
What’s Happening Besides the Reston Farmers Market
It was not easy for me to go to the Reston Farmers Market on opening day April 27 and just shop. I dutifully worked from a shopping list but, after 2…
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SPARC Provides Day Programs for Adults with Disabilities
Ellen Dyke, Dalia Palchik and Debi AlexanderPhoto contributed SPARC, a non-profit that provides day programs in Northern Virginia for adults wit…
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StarKist, Cornerstones and Feed the Children Partner to End Hunger
On June 6, Cornerstones, StarKist, and Feed the Children gathered for the third annual summer food and resource rally at Cornerstones Food Rescue Emp…
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Politics
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Education
- School Board Changes Boundary Policy
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- School Board To Update School Boundary Policy Later This Month
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- StarKist, Cornerstones and Feed the Children Partner to End Hunger
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Winners of A. Heath Onthank Award
Three employees receive the county’s highest government honor award.
The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors recognized Tajweer Beaufort, Leila Gordon, and Kim Young with the A. Heath Onthank Award, the highest government employee honor.
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What’s Happening Besides the Reston Farmers Market
The county is a large, ponderous organization which often struggles to address essential public policy matters efficiently, if at all. Several matters are in need of attention, ones affecting residents’ quality of life and others crippling businesses’ (especially small ones) ability to deliver goods and services or to make a living.
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SPARC Provides Day Programs for Adults with Disabilities
SPARC honors Supervisors Dalia Palchik and John Foust for support of region’s ‘forgotten.’
SPARC, a non-profit that provides day programs in Northern Virginia for adults with disabilities, hosted its 3rd Annual Pancake Breakfast on June 15 at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Vienna with a silent auction, talent show, games, and food.
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StarKist, Cornerstones and Feed the Children Partner to End Hunger
2024 Summer Food and Resource Rally
On June 6, Cornerstones, StarKist, and Feed the Children gathered for the third annual summer food and resource rally at Cornerstones Food Rescue Empowerment Enterprise in Sterling. Three Fairfax County nonprofits — LINK Against Hunger, South Lakes High School PTSA Food Pantry, and Fellowship Square — and two in the Dulles corridor, Dulles South Food Pantry and Community Lodgings, participated.