Scout Collects Home Welcome Kits for Formerly Homeless
Over the next five months, a nonprofit organization called Pathway Homes will be moving formerly homeless people into new homes. Life Scout Will McLauchlin needs your help rounding up cleaning items for their new homes as part of his Eagle Scout Project. He has put up an Amazon wish-list of all the items he needs for Home Welcome Kits. Here is a link to his list: https://goo.gl/uqk4Gd
How can you help?
Send anything you would like to buy from the Amazon wish-list. Or you can send similar items from any store.
Send items to: Pathway Homes C/O Will McLauchlin 2505 Red Clover Court; Reston, VA 20191.
McLauchlin and his Scout supporters will organize your gifts into Home Welcome Kits for Pathway Homes to give to its clients as they move in. For more details about Pathway Homes see: www.pathwayhomes.org. If you have any questions, you can email McLauchlin at Willmcl@yahoo.com or call him at 571-355-4068.
Purim Celebration at Jewish Community Center
The Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia invites the community to a Purim celebration, It’s a Laugh!, on Sunday, March 6, 3–5 p.m., at 8900 Little River Turnpike in Fairfax. Activities include making your own hamantaschen (triangle cookies) with Lauren Katz, the winner of ABC’s Great Holiday Baking Show; The Great Zucchini; Voted Best Children’s Entertainer by the readers of Arlington Magazine; a children’s costume Purim Parade; making gift bags for the hungry; and crafts for all ages, even newborns. Admission: $5 per person; adults and children 2+ (including snack)/Children under 2 free. Register online at: JCCNV.org, code#7343; or www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2506048. Contact: Samantha.Brown@jccnv.org or 703.537.3019.
Vietnam Combat Art Exhibit Extended Through Feb. 29
The traveling exhibition of “Vietnam Combat Art,” which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, has been extended through Feb. 29 at the Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center, 10209 Main Street.
This traveling exhibition features 39 pieces of art from the collection of the Department of the Army’s Center for Military History.
Admission to the exhibit is free. The Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Information: www.fairfaxva.gov, 703-385-8414.