DUMFRIES – (Press Release) The 2019 Polar Plunge Festival will be held on February 23 at Tim’s Rivershore Restaurant & Crabhouse in Dumfries. All proceeds will go to Special Olympics Virginia.
The festival has a $100,000 goal. Interested participants can register right up until start time on event day. For more details and a schedule of events, check out our event website, polarplunge.com/tims-rivershore. Please note all event times are subject to change based on weather and water conditions.
FREDERICKSBURG — Behind the glass windows of Katora Coffee lies much more than a cup of coffee and hot tea. Within its graffitied walls are two co-owners who risen above countless obstacles to create a community-oriented space.
April and Christian Zammas opened Katora Coffee at 615 Caroline St. on Dec. 11, 2017.
MANASSAS — (Press Release) The Manassas Symphony will perform Tesoros hispanos, a concert with music by composers from Spain and Latin America, at the Hylton Performing Arts Center on March 2, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.
Music director James Villani will conduct.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — (Press Release) National Battery Day is February 18. This is a day to recognize the device that energizes the things that make our lives more convenient. But if handled improperly or disposed of improperly, batteries can have a dark side.
Batteries can be harmful to the environment. They are made from a variety of different chemicals and metals including alkaline, silver-oxide, nickel, metal-hydride, lead-acid, nickel-cadmium, lithium-ion, and zinc-carbon. When thrown in the regular trash, batteries decay in landfill sites and could leak into the groundwater, which pollutes soil and water in the community.
QUANTICO – (Press Release) On February 23 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. the National Museum of the Marine Corps hosts the second annual “Heroes Among Us” event for active duty military, veterans and their family members.
Motivational speakers and representatives from service organizations, both private and government, will be on hand to provide information about benefits, military-to-civilian transition programs, warrior care, education assistance, support-through-sports events, and family assistance programs.
WOODBRIDGE — Silver Sparkles, an annual family fun day to raise funds and awareness for Brain Tumor and Brain Cancer research, will be back at Competitive Edge Athletic Performance Center in Woodbridge on March 2.
To date, the event has raised nearly $40,000 for brain cancer research, while having a great time doing it.
STAFFORD — (Press Release) This year, nearly 800 Special Olympics Virginia athletes will run, jump and shoot for gold at the annual Special Olympics Virginia Basketball Championships. And help is needed!
Step off the sidelines and onto the court as a volunteer at Basketball Championships, March 1-2 in Stafford. Competitions will take place at various middle and high schools and include full court games, half court games, individual skill drills and unified games, where players with and without disabilities play on the same team.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — (Press Release) Raising Voices, a new program of opera and musical theater, will premier at the Hylton Performing Arts Center on Sunday, April 7 at 4 p.m.
The performance is a collaboration of George Mason University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts and the Washington National Opera. It features the combined talent of Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist and Mason Opera and Vocal Studies students.
MANASSAS — (Press Release) Prince William Little Theatre presents, “Anne of Green Gables,” a charming play by L.M. Montgomery and Sylvia Ashby, produced by arrangement with Samuel French.
Audiences of all ages will fall in love with Anne in this refreshing, contemporary telling of the classic story. Stern Marilla and her warm-hearted brother Matthew hoped to adopt a boy to work on their farm. But the orphanage sends young, befreckled Anne by mistake and their lives will never be the same. Her warmth and wit affect everyone around her – even, eventually, the cold Marilla. We follow Anne through her rebellious years, her transformation into a young woman, and her romantic pairing with Gilbert.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — (Press Release) On Thursday, February 7, at 9 a.m., the Department of Fire and Rescue will hold its graduation ceremony for Recruit Class 2018-2 at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas. Battalion Chief Chris Granger will preside over the ceremony. Class 2018-2 consists of Fire and Rescue Technicians who successfully completed 29 weeks of rigorous academic and physical training at the Department’s Public Safety Training Center in Nokesville, Virginia. Each student performed in excess of 1,392 hours of training.
The training consisted of 1 week of Orientation/Study Skills/Health, Nutrition and Fitness, eight weeks of Emergency Medical Training, 15 weeks of Fire Training, and five weeks of Specialized Training. The Department will announce the following graduates:
