Stafford County, Va. –– A military hero and his wife were given a new home Saturday, but it was a wedding dress and an unexpected proposal that would help make their new house a home.
Sgt. Jude Recendez and his wife, Kristine, were welcomed by nearly 100 volunteers from the Homes for Our Troops organization, who all worked to build a single-story home in the Queens Guard neighborhood in Hartwood.
But as showers cleared, from a soggy tent Saturday afternoon at the Quantico Corporate Center in North Stafford, that county’s top elected official announced he is seeking a promotion. Mark Dudenhefer wants to be the next member of Virginia’s House of Delegates in the 2nd District, filling a seat that was shifted this spring to the Potomac Communities from Southwest Virginia during the decennial redistricting process.
Serving on Stafford’s Board of Supervisors since 2006 and its chairman since 2010, the Republican noted he helped to pass the county’s first comprehensive development plan in the past 22-years and brought civility back to a Board once rife with arguments between Board members.
It comes as a large area of storms is moving east from the Charlottesville area into the Potomac Communities.
Temperatures have been hovering the in the high 80s and low 90s today, with periods of bright sunshine, making conditions ripe for scattered thunderstorms.
Woodbridge, Va. –– The P-Nats walked off with a 9-8 over the Salem Red Sox on Friday night at Pfitzner Stadium.
Potomac led off the bottom of the ninth inning with back-to-back bunt singles by Eury Perez and Jeff Kobernus, setting the table for Destin Hood. The P-Nats number three hitting saw consecutive curveballs and whiffed on both.
Woodbridge, Va. –– Drivers merging onto Interstate 95 in Woodbridge will have a longer acceleration lane beginning tonight.
Prince William County, Va. –– The unemployment rate for jurisdictions along the Potomac River continues to fall.
U.S. Marines 2nd Lt. Michael Hanlon and 2nd Lt. Chad Ernst “volunteered” to play a role in the mass casualty exercise at Quantico Marine Corps Base on Thursday.
Despite the rising temperatures, and the fact they were to play burn victims in a mid air helicopter collision they seemed to be having a good time.
Dumfries, Va. –– The torch that heralds the beginning of Virginia’s Special Olympics Summer Games passed through the Potomac Communities.
Prince William County, Va. –– In a memo released June 1, Prince William County Public School officials said the implementation of the Standard Technical Diploma for graduating high school seniors would be delayed by one year due to recent legislation. PWCS named Virginia General Assembly House Bill 1554 and Senate Bill 810 as the cause of the delay.
In a Virginia Department of Education report, however, it is noted that neither House Bill 1554 or Senate Bill 810 prohibits a school division from making the standard or advanced technical diplomas available to students who entered high school prior to 2012-2013 –– the year Prince William County Schools plans to begin offering them ––as long as the requirements have been met.
By Will Flemming
For PotomacLocal.com
Woodbridge, Va. –– Ryan Zimmerman was the star in the Potomac Nationals first home win in ten games, driving in the tying run and shining in the field during a 3-1 victory Thursday night in Woodbridge.
