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.
At 10:43 a.m. Wedneseday, a Woodbridge man told police two men walked into the Check into Cash location at 12367 Dillingham Square in Lake Ridge where one pulled out a gun and struck the man in the head, said police.
The men took an undisclosed amount of cash and fled through the back door.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
My family has always shared hosting holiday get-togethers. This year I am doing Thanksgiving, again.
There have been some memorable times in the past, like the time I allowed the peelings from a 10 pound bag of potatoes to go down the garbage disposal and clog it one hour before all the guests arrived.
While backing out of my driveway early Friday, I saw this large hawk looking down on me from a tree.
Growing up, if it was a particularly cold morning my Dad would announce “The hawk is out!”
