Worldwide, every three minutes a child is diagnosed with cancer. In the U.S., one in five children with cancer will not survive. This is unacceptable to a group of members at the Occoquan-Woodbridge-Lorton Volunteer Fire Department who are prepared to make a bald statement. These fire and rescue workers will be shaving their heads in solidarity with kids fighting cancer while helping to fund life-saving research with the St. Baldrick’s Foundation.
The members will be reaching out to the community to raise donations for the St. Baldrick’s. To pledge, visit https://www.stbaldricks.org/events/mypage/229/2015. From there, one will be to see all of those who have pledged to share their head as well as the team’s main page. Here, those interested may donate.
The Prince William County Board of Supervisors approved the final design for the $20 million dollar Minnieville Road improvement project between Spriggs Road and Route 234 in Woodbridge.
The project will expand the section of road from two lanes to four lanes.
Residents in the immediate vicinity of Marine Corps Base Quantico may experience an increase in noise as an affect from ground/aircraft training or range clearance operations during the week of Feb. 21-27.
Thursday, Feb. 26 – Live Fire Training is scheduled from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Have you tried to log on to Facebook this morning?
The service is down or is experiencing problems across the U.S. east coast and mid west.
Sunday brought high temperatures in the low 50s. That meant some of the snow that had fallen the yesterday when temperatures were well below freezing had a chance to melt.
Cold temperatures are back in the forecast on Monday. The National Weather Service issued a warning noting what melted today is likely to freeze overnight.
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Schools will open 2 hours late tomorrow, Feb. 23, 2015. School offices & central offices will open on time. More at https://t.co/zNBBMjWGwr.
— Fairfax Schools (@fcpsnews) February 23, 2015
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Snow began falling about 8 a.m. Saturday across the region and kept falling until about 5 p.m.
Afterward, we saw the precipitation changeover from snow to sleet, then to rain.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has commended the Virginia Railway Express (VRE) and four other rail and mass transit agencies for earning the “Gold Standard” — the administration’s highest security rating, agency officials announced on February 17.
The ratings are part of TSA’s 2014 Baseline Assessments for Security Enhancement program, which involves a voluntary review of various security measures, ranging from security plans and training to public outreach efforts and background check programs.