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Firefighters from Station 201 Read to Lyles-Crouch Elementary Students.
‘So, Who Has Ever Heard of a Turnip?’
The fire engine pulls up in front of Lyles-Crouch Elementary School on Friday morning and four firefighters jump out and head for the front door.
Hands Held High for 44 Years
Cora Reed has been a school crossing guard for the Alexandria Public Schools for nearly 44 years.
Sleep and Be Counted in Arlington
Sixty-five volunteer for Arlington Point in Time homeless count.
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Good to Give and Receive and OAR Winter Cheer Wrapping Party in Arlington
Volunteers wrap presents for 300 children who have parents incarcerated locally.
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Gardens Come in All Kinds in Arlington
Woman’s Club sponsors bike garden
Instead of planting vegetable seeds, The Woman's Club of Arlington is planting good safety seeds on rules of the road.
Preview: Join ‘Shining Light on Hunger’ Fundraiser in Arlington
Support Arlington Food Assistance Center.
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MLK Day of Service Volunteers Brave the Cold in Arlington
Nearly 1,000 sign up to participate in community service.
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Alexandria People at Work: Jones Reinvents Himself at 60
Not a choice: what he was meant to do.
Guy Jones hunches over his clay board panel in Studio 337 working on a pen and ink commission of a guy's dad in Vietnam. "The father is standing there in his uniform but had adorned himself with a beautiful red flower. His son wanted to catch that spin of his father." Jones says he has several pictures of the father as examples and will create a new image. "I sketched the face this morning. By tomorrow I should have it knocked out."Guy Jones hunches over his clay board panel in Studio 337 working on a pen and ink commission of a guy's dad in Vietnam. "The father is standing there in his uniform but had adorned himself with a beautiful red flower. His son wanted to catch that spin of his father." Jones says he has several pictures of the father as examples and will create a new image. "I sketched the face this morning. By tomorrow I should have it knocked out."
Alexandria People at Work: Campolieta Thinks Outside the Piano
Daniel Campolieta remembers when he was about four years old his mother attached numbers with masking tape to the keys on a little plastic keyboard. "She wrote out the accompanying numbers for my favorite songs in a book — like the Ninja Turtles theme song." Campolieta's mother was a piano teacher and noticed he seemed to like it so his piano career started from there.
People At Work: Benner Reaches for Body-Mind Connection in Alexandria
Helping people deal with life’s challenges.
In the Fight Against Arlington Opioid Epidemic
Drug of the moment may change, but underlying problem remains.
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