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During’s body was found by a search and rescue team at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in a wooded area of Rocky Way Drive, near the intersection of Eustace Road and Northhampton Boulevard. Police don’t know how he died but said foul play is not suspected.

During was reported missing just before midnight Wednesday. Police said they were called to his home on Whitson Ridge Drive, off Eustace Road in North Stafford, where family members told them During had been missing since Nov. 18, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.


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During this time of unprecedented need in our community, we are working to increase nutritious meal availability to allow our children every opportunity to be healthy and eager learners. 

Five community partners, including Grace United Methodist Church, Upper Room Christian Cathedral, the Manassas chapters of Beta Sigma Phi Sorority and Wellington Community are working with Manassas City Public Schools to expand the “Backpack Snack Attack” program that will provide 40 weekend meal packs for selected elementary students each week through 2012, for a total of 4,400 weekend meals over 24 weeks. The packs promote healthy eating and provide a much needed source of nutrition for students on weekends when school meals are not available.


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Rev. Stuart E. Schadt of Trinity Episcopal Church in Manassas, Va., is one of 158 pastors in 40 states selected to participate in the 2012 National Clergy Renewal Program, funded by Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment, Inc.

The $17,555 grant, which the Manassas congregation applied for on his behalf, will allow Schadt to take a four-month sabbatical beginning in May 2012. Schadt has served the historic Old Town Manassas parish for 21 years without a substantial break in service.


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The 3-D Program will run during the holiday season starting Thanksgiving and go through the New Year’s weekend. The Sheriff’s Office will be setting up checkpoints on various roads in Stafford County looking for individuals who are driving in an impaired state.

“The Stafford County Sheriff’s Office is committed to helping ensure that citizens have a safe and happy holiday season,” states Sheriff Charles Jett. “Drunk or drugged drivers not only impact their own well being but are also a very real danger to innocent, law abiding citizens. We want to stop these drunk or drugged drivers before they harm themselves or others.”


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North Stafford, Va. – It may be cold outside but it doesn’t mean the fields at Smith Lake Park will be used less.

The park in North Stafford has two popular synthetic turf fields primarily used by the Stafford Area Soccer Association, one with field lights and one without. Recently, the association during winter months used the fields less often, partially because of the season change, but also because they had to pay the same field use fees, Stafford parks officials said.


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Woodbridge, Va. — It’s Thanksgiving morning and 20 volunteers crammed a small kitchen in Woodbridge.

“Hand me a Crock Pot, that one over there,” a woman exclaims.


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After the turkey leftovers are put away for sandwiches and last licks are taken from the dessert bowls, what’s next on this annual day set aside to give thanks? If you’re a retail employee you’re probably headed straight to bed to get a few hours of sleep before your shift begins at midnight.

Stores in the Potomac Communities are opening earlier than ever this Black Friday – the one shopping day each year when retailers slash prices on electronics, home goods and just about everything else — to entice shoppers to rush their stores, open their wallets and take them out of the red and put them back in black.


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Thanksgiving is one of those quintessentially American holidays. It serves to remind us of who we are as a nation.

The Thanksgiving holiday was not always celebrated in the manner that we’ve become accustomed to. And it wasn’t always celebrated in late November, although I would find it hard to celebrate such a day at any other time.


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