Princess Clark, the owner of accounting and tax agency Jasmine Rose Financial, is now among 41 Comcast RISE award recipients in Virginia.
The Comcast RISE program was launched in 2020 and is part of a $100 million initiative to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. RISE, which stands for Representation, Investment, Strength, and Empowerment, was developed to support, strengthen and empower black, indigenous, and people of color small businesses.
Area residents will have to find somewhere else to exercise, as the Prince William Medical Center is closing its onsite fitness center.
“It wasn’t a decision we came to easily,” said Dr. Stephen Smith, President of Novant/UVA Health System for Prince William and Haymarket Medical Centers. “We want to be able to provide resources to the community. We’ve been struggling relative to other alternatives people have with other fitness centers. Post COVID-19, we had to re-evaluate whether the resources we were continuing to put into the gym were able to balance out the greater needs of other services we provide at the hospital that you cannot get elsewhere.”
The Unity Church, at 14747 Arizona Avenue in Woodbridge, hosted a surprise ceremony and homecoming parade to honor its high school seniors on Saturday, June 6.
Senior Pastor Dr. Nelson K. Williams and his wife, First Lady Lillian Williams, chose to host this event for their high school seniors because they were not able to have a traditional graduation ceremony due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It’s race week in Manassas Park, and even during the pandemic, runners from all 50 states have pledged to participate.
This week, one of Manassas Park City Schools’ most successful events — its annual Cougar Literacy Run — is being held remotely in this age of social distancing due to the coronavirus.
Every afternoon along Fairview Avenue, past the Manassas Police Department headquarters, and into Downtown, Sandy O’Bannon walks her dog, Indiana while wearing a pink bunny suit.
In the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, O’Bannon said she continued to walk her dog daily. She added the pink bunny suit to bring cheer to passersby.
The owner of the region’s newest The Goddard School, Rebecca Chen, celebrated the opening of her new school in February with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
While she’s now celebrating, the school opened its doors back in December.
Don’t toss it. Fix it. That’s the concept for a new “fix-it fair” that could take place this summer in Prince William County.
The idea: have residents bring their slightly damaged or unworking items to the fair, have them repaired, resulting in fewer items being tossed into the county landfill.
Spotsylvania Town Center announced the winner of its Small Shop Showdown.
Soapmaker, Lilly Bloom, owned by Margo Frazier and her children Sierra and Dakota Frazier will be the recipients of six months free rent from the shopping mall, starting April 1.
Spotsylvania Town Center is hosting its first-ever, “Small Shop Showdown.”
To encourage creativity and entrepreneurialism, the competition invites new or existing small businesses to submit their ideas for a chance to win a free six-month lease for retail space inside the mall. Applicants can enter the competition through January 20 and the winner will be announced February 3.
Allday opened up his tiny house Airbnb in early November and has been nearly booked since his opening.
The cost of tiny homes like Allday’s range from $50,000 and $70,000.
