VetPar is pleased to these details for the 7th Annual Greater Manassas Veterans Day Parade. The parade will be held on Saturday, November 7th, 2015 at 11:00am and will honor past and present women veterans.
Our Grand Marshal is Brigadier General Wilma L. Vaught, USAF, Retired.
The Manassas City Public Schools Education Foundation is pleased to announce that they will be holding their annual event on Thursday, November 5, 2015 at Metz Middle School located at 9950 Wellington Road, Manassas, VA 20110 from 5:30- 7:30pm
This event is free and open to the public. The event will feature interactive activities such as 3-D imaging, Robotics, haircuts, and demonstrations by fire and rescue. There will be performances by the Osbourn High School Marching Band, the choirs from Jennie Dean and Round Elementary schools, and other musical performances. Minnieland Academy will be hosting a Children’s Zone which will feature face painting, sensory activities, story time, jewelry making, and writing activities. Health and Wellness Zone will feature local dentists, doctors, and other health and wellness businesses, along with sporting facilities to make staying healthy fun. There will be exhibitors from all of the Manassas City Public Schools, along with other businesses and vendors highlighting a multitude of offerings in and around the city for children and families.
Robotics teams compete at the annual ILITE Robotics Off-Season Challenge (IROC). Twenty-two high school teams from Virginia, Maryland and DC gathered to compete on Saturday, October 24 in Recycle Rush®, the 2015 FIRST® Robotics Competition (FRC) challenge.
In the game of Recycle Rush®, alliances of three robots driven by students work together to lift totes and recycling bins into tall stacks to earn points. FRC combines the excitement of sport with the rigors of science and technology. Each robot and its unique features are designed, built, and programmed by students. “It’s more than the thrill of robot performance.
The best kept secret in local high school athletics just might be unfolding in Brentsville this season, as Coach Amy Beard’s ladies of the Brentsville Volleyball Team are spiking, digging, and blocking their way into postseason play.
The Lady Tigers have quietly put together a 12-6 season so far (10-2 vs Conference Opponents, 12-2 vs division 3A opponents), and hopes of a push well into the postseason are high among players and fans.
Helen Chakurda, formerly Mehalko, of Stafford, VA, died on October 23, 2015, at Stafford Hospital.
Helen was born on March 10, 1925, in Tresckow, PA. She married George Chakurda in 1956, and was a devoted wife and mother. Her loving husband, George, passed away in 2007, and she is survived by her 4 children, 6 grandchildren, and 9 great-grandchildren.
SFC Thomas A. Rhubottom, U.S. Army (Ret.) Thomas Alvin Rhubottom passed away at the age of 82 as a result of complications from Parkinson’s disease on October 8, 2015.
At the end of his life he was surrounded by his loving family.
Although there is much ado about The Event this weekend as we try and bring as many people into Georgetown South as possible so they can donate to “Reyna’s Children,” we may be losing sight of the woman behind the cause.
Her name is Reyna Torres Alatriste who I watched break down in tears as she realized that her idea of sending her children to Mexico ahead of her so she could fight the cancer here was a ridiculous idea because she would not last any time at all without being able to see her kids, Yarizel (11), Rebecca (10), Marking (5) and Esther (3).
Coinciding with the Historic Downtown Manassas Fall Gallery Walk on Friday, November 6th, marketing and creative firm Imagine will be holding their first annual CANNED: A Show of Art & Compassion group art show in their facility at 9415 West Street in Manassas.
The show is open to the public, and doors will open at 6pm. While admission to the show is free, donations of non-perishable food to Northern Virginia Family Service (SERVE) are encouraged.
On Saturday, October 24 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., weather permitting, the Virginia Department of Transportation and Norfolk Southern will be closing Balls Ford Road at the railroad crossing west of Prince William Parkway (Route 234) in order to replace the at-grade crossing.
Traffic will be detoured via Prince William Parkway, Sudley Manor Drive, and Wellington Road back to Balls Ford (see map). Detour signs will be in place to guide motorists.
