Woodbridge, Va. — Another store is entering the growing thrift store market in Woodbridge.
Savers super thrift store appears to be opening a new location on the Potomac Festival shopping plaza, across from Potomac Mills mall.
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A Virginia couple is delivering milk to Woodbridge residents the old fashioned way: right to their doorstep.
Samantha and Tim Stern, along with their children, founded Holy Cow Delivery in 2009. At their 20-acre farm in Strasburg, they raise sheep, goats, and Rhode Island Red Chickens. And at Samantha Stern’s father’s farm, South Mountain Creamery in Middletown, Md., is where fresh, whole, homogenized milk is produced for delivery to the Potomac Communities.
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Woodbridge, Va. — If you’re looking for a tasty snack while shopping at the Potomac Mills mall in Woodbridge then look out for the bright yellow Doc Popcorn shop in the food court.
Applying for a large grant is a two-step process. The first step is to submit a “Letter of Intent,” a brief concept paper which describes the project. Letters of Intent are due on January 31, 2012. The Foundation then invites a limited number of applicants to submit a full proposal, based upon the merits of the project. The Board of Directors will make and announce its large grant awards on June 8, 2012.
Attend the Letter of Intent Workshop on January 9, 2012, to learn more details about the grant application process. The Foundation will explain the types of grants it will offer and the requirements for the Letter of Intent. The training will be held at Sentara Potomac Hospital, Hylton Education Center, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Reservations are requested. Call 703-730-4445.
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Stafford, Va. — On the blue walls over a lunch counter, a sign still hung on Wednesday harkening back to what this restaurant turned made-for-TV diner use to be.
The sign states “County Fare – A Great American Diner,” the restaurant in Stafford that closed in October despite getting national attention from TV’s Food Network’s “Restaurant Impossible” in April. The show helped to remake the diner at the corner of U.S. 1 and Hope Road over 48 hours by giving it a new coat of paint, remaking its lunch and desert counters, and added some new menu items like a Ruben burger.
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If you’re in Dumfries and are looking for a great cup of coffee and a treat, then look no further than Emoni’s Dessert Bar & Café. Emoni’s has been open for just three months, in the previous Dumfries Coffee location, but has already been warmly received by various members of the Dumfries community, due to Emoni’s wide variety of offerings and excellent baked treats. The word “emoni” means faith in Swahili, and Emoni’s CEO Cici Matthews has quite a bit of faith in her business and her product.
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Woodbridge, Va. — After closing its outlet store at Potomac Mills mall earlier this year, JCPenney will reopen in its old location as a full retail store.
Work is underway now to transform the old drab gray 107,000 square-foot interior of the old store to match the brighter look of the company’s’ regular retail stores.
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Woodbridge, Va. — The owners of a Woodbridge jewelry store are now the owners of jewelry worn by Elizabeth Taylor.
Jenny and John Caro recently went to New York City to purchase a necklace and two pairs of earrings from Taylor’s collection, reports Patch.com.
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Terry Quinn of Quinn’s Goldsmith in Occoquan was recently honored by being appointed to a position on the Board of Directors of the Independent Jewelers Organization (IJO), according to an announcement by IJO President and CEO Jeff Roberts.
“Terry was chosen from among 850 retail jeweler members, which really says a lot about his leadership abilities, and the confidence the membership as a whole has in him,” Roberts reported. “I’m excited to be working with Terry, as is the rest of the Board.”
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The Lake Ridge Neighborhood Library will move from the Fairfield Office Park on Harbor Drive where it’s been since 1995 back to nearby Tackett’s Mill Shopping Center. The library recently inked a new lease with the shopping center’s management company, Rappaport Companies, and will move into a 3,500-square foot space on the upper level of the shopping center between a pizzeria and barbershop, near a Safeway grocery store.
“For years we’ve had people come in and say they have a hard time finding us, or call and say they can’t find us at all,” said library supervisor Lynn Casey.