Hospitals in Fredericksburg and Stafford are telling us about the first new bundles of joy of the New Year. A hospital spokeswoman states:
Mary Washington Hospital [in Fredericksburg] had the first baby born in the Fredericksburg region. Baby girl Winter Wren was born at 4:32 a.m. on January 1 to parents Leah and Marcus of King George, was 7 pounds 5 ounces and 19 inches long.
Those free fares riders on the very first OmniRide bus ever to serve Stafford County came to an end Tuesday.
Those buses are the Stafford-Washington route (Route 543) and the Stafford-Pentagon route (Route 942). Service on the new routes began Oct. 28, 2019, as part of an effort to get more people out of their cars and onto buses along the Interstate 95 and 395 corridor, just as the newly tolled E-ZPass Express Lanes on I-395 were opening.
The Publishers Clearing House Prize Patrol stopped for flowers and to fix the balloons at Dillingham Square on Monday before swooping down on the home of Joan Geringer, a Lake Ridge resident who is now the recipient of $2,500 a week for the rest of her life.
“This is amazing,” said Geringer, after she answered the door. It was a complete surprise. There were contractors at her house redoing her bathroom, so Joan couldn’t hesitate. “I can now pay you,” she said, joking with the construction crew, and they told her now she needs to do the kitchen too.
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Being a military brat she traveled the world with her family living in Missouri, Texas, California Mississippi, Illinois, France and Iran; visiting Turkey, Greece, Germany and Holland. Her parents settled in Woodbridge, Virginia, in 1969.
After graduating from Woodbridge Sr. High in 1973, she moved to the Orlando Florida area. Later, she returned to Woodbridge in 1989.
Richard Louis Looney, Sr. was born on February 28, 1938 in Sylacauga, Alabama to the late Clem and Mary Lee Looney. He went home to Eternal Rest on December 25, 2019 at home, surrounded by his loving family.
