Treating Arlington
How Virginia’s decision not to expand Medicaid impacts Arlingtonians.
Where do you go when you’re sick?
Resolve to Run and Benefit Arlington Thrive … Together
“Fear not. You are among friends.”
New Year’s resolution already a thing of the past? At the point in January when many Arlingtonians have just given up their new year’s resolve, there is a group just making a resolution.
Arlington Brief: Coffee in the Beer Garden
Every Wednesday in January, Arlington Neighborhood Village (ANV) welcomes residents to “Coffee and Conversation” at the Westover Market Beer Garden & Haus,10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Free.
Arlington: OAR Provides Gifts for Children of Prisoners
Volunteers fill church for annual wrapping event.
Volunteers gathered around tables piled with wrapping paper and looked at their individualized lists of children.
Arlington Snapshot: Christmas Wishes
It is 75 degrees in Arlington on Sunday afternoon but Santa has kept his scheduled stop at Potomac Overlook Regional Park to get Christmas lists from children counting down the days until Christmas.
Arlington: Students Blanket Crisis Center with Love
Madelyn Kellen was hoping the third year would be the charm and that at least 100 volunteers would show up at Bernie’s Café on the Marymount University campus to help make fleece-tie blankets for a local crisis pregnancy center.
Arlington Snapshot: Christmas Carols
Arlington House, the Lee-Custis residence General Robert E. Lee left behind when he agreed to lead the Confederate Army, once again resonated with the sounds of Christmas, with handbell ringing on Saturday, Dec. 12, and Yorktown’s Chamber Choir on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 13, from 2-4 p.m.
Arlington: Foster Families Celebrate Christmas Together
Foster parent describes county’s fostering program as “awesome.”
They came in the door of Carlin Springs Elementary School holding hands.
Arlington Snapshot: ‘Wreaths Across America’
“Wreaths Across America” delivered wreaths for each grave sites at Arlington National Cemetery on Saturday, Dec. 12. See www.wreathsacrossamerica.org.
Arlington: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
Suzanne McGrath pairs with Taste By Katie.
For anyone wondering where The Curious Grape went after closing its Shirlington restaurant this past March, Suzanne McGrath is still very much engaged in the local wine and food community, just without the restaurant.
Arlington: Bill Neikirk Launches Novel, ‘The Copperhead Club’
Spinning a tale of “sex, money, intrigue, and Washington politics.”
William (“Bill”) Neikirk says he has always wanted to write a novel, ever since he was an 8-year-old.
Arlington Snapshot: What Month Is This?
Temperatures seemed more like June on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 13, at Potomac Regional Overlook Park. Parents sat on picnic benches chatting as their children climbed the playground pegs, played hide and seek and ran around the park, some in their summer shorts and T-shirts.
Arlington Snapshot: Lighting of the Menorah
"Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay." Children balanced on their ice skates sing traditional Jewish songs at Chanukah on Ice held at the Pentagon Row Ice Skating rink in Arlington on Dec. 8.
Arlington: Thrive’s 40th Anniversary Gala Raises Over $140,000
Thrive Arlington community depends on its volunteers and neighbors.
At that point in the George Washington Parkway Ten Miler where you aren’t sure you are going to make it to the end, Kim Kenney and Mary Bohan were amazed to see Thrive Executive Director Gerry Shannon cheering them on from the sidelines, shouting out their names with encouragement.
Arlington: Interfaith Community Marches Against Islamophia
“We’re here to share the love with people thousands of miles from us and right next door."
The last month hasn’t been easy for the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church.