August 1, 2002
The McLean Community Center is looking for new and exciting crafts to include in its 2002 McLean Holiday Crafts Show, which will take place Dec. 6-8 at the center. The three-day juried show showcases the work of more than 70 highly-skilled crafters and draws more than 5,000 people shopping for gifts and decorations for all occasions and for the holidays.
Crafters who make original clothing, ornaments, food items, decorative items, holiday wreaths, stained glass, dolls and other toys or who do flower arranging, needlework, weaving, painting, or woodworking are invited to apply. Photographers and other visual artists are also welcome. All products must be 100 percent handmade by the crafter participating. No commercially manufactured items or items purchased from wholesale outlets will be allowed.
Those interested in participating in the show are asked to call the Center at 703-790-0123, or send an e-mail message to samrobertsiii@yahoo.com for an application packet. Call the Center at 703-790-0123.
Registration has begun for membership in the Great Falls Women’s Club for the 2002-03 club year. New members who live in Fairfax or Loudoun counties are welcome. The club’s many fun activities include cultural tours, Bridge groups, a garden group, a book discussion group, a knitting group that makes blankets for hurt and abused children, and dinner groups that dine together in restaurants or in each others’ homes. Tennis and golf groups are available to start. The club awards scholarships to needy college students and is actively involved in improving the Great Falls Firehouse. Yearly dues are $30; dues for renewing members will be $35. Send checks for dues to Karen Magley, membership chairman. Call 703-430-8488.
Lions Clubs help the sight- and hearing-impaired by collecting used eyeglasses and hearing aids. These items are taken to Lions recycling centers, classified, refurbished and given to needy people in this country and around the world. Those with eyeglasses or hearing aids that are no longer needed may drop them off in the collection box at Christ the King Lutheran Church, 10550 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls.
Stalking-safety information is available for Northern Virginia residents from the Fairfax Victim Assistance Network. To order a packet or for victim assistance, call 703-360-7273 (24 hours, Virginia Relay accessible) or TTY 703-799-8253.
Old magazines and paperback books (no hardcovers) are welcomed by detainees at the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center through the Literacy Project sponsored by the Daughters of the American Revolution, Fairfax County Chapter. For those who have donated in the past, please leave publications at the usual location on the third Tuesday of the month from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. only. (Be sure to remove mailing labels from magazines.) First time donors may call project chairman Florence Roseborough at 703-281-2498.
The Northern Vienna (NoVi) Trail Network was recently awarded an $80,000 grant by the Commonwealth Transportation Board. The grant will be used for a feasibility study of Phase I of the NoVi Trail Network. Phase I comprises the backbone of the network and consists of a multipurpose trail along Beulah Road extending from Meadowlark Gardens Botanical Park to the Town of Vienna.
The Virginia Commission for the Arts met recently and approved grant awards totaling more than $4.1 million. A total of 420 arts organizations, schools and school divisions, and units of local government across the state will benefit from funding through several categories. Organizations that received grants included Amadeus Concerts, Great Falls, $7,000 grant for general operating support; Green Hedges School, Vienna, $1,449 grant for residency with opera singer Toni Crowder; McLean Orchestra, McLean, $8,100 grant for general operating support; McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, $3,000 grant for exhibition of a quilt by twelve area quilt artists, $6,400 grant for a juried painting exhibition, and a $20,700 grant for general operating support; McLean symphony, McLean, $700 grant for general operating support; New Dominion Chorale, McLean, $9,300 grant for general operating support; the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Vienna, $10,000 grant as a special recognition award; and Fairfax County, $5,000 local government challenge grant.