President of Potomac State College of West Virginia University, Leonard Colelli, Ph.D. (far left), along with Alumni President Jennings Stickley, (far right) are pictured with Dolly Cox (second from right), Class of 1953, who was presented with the with the Distinguished Service Award during the annual Homecoming Banquet at the College. Cox resides in Dumfries, Va. Pat Hovis, a resident of Keyser, W.Va., introduced Cox to those in attendance.
On October 28, a robbery occurred at a 7-Eleven store located on 10438 Dumfries Road. Police were told that at around 9:30 pm the suspect entered the store and with a handgun, demanded money from an employee at the register, said Manassas police spokeswoman Adrienne Helms.
Using the data collection online tool city-data.com, the House of Mercy has determined that the nonprofit humanitarian organization, located in Manassas, serves about 16 percent of the poor overall in targeted areas of Greater Manassas combined, helping up to 34 percent of impoverished residents in some communities.
Join me during this National Craft Open Studios weekend, a celebration of Amrican craft organized by the American Craft Council (ACC). Come visit my studio July 18-19th, 11am-5pm at 10449 Metropolitan Ave, Kensington, MD. Please drop in, see how my work is created, tour my studio and try your hand at hammering some metal.
Free cab rides offered Halloween — As a means of making the Washington-metropolitan area’s roadways a little less frightening this Halloween, free cab rides will be offered to would-be drunk drivers throughout the Washington-metropolitan area on the evening of Friday, October 31st. [Washington Regional Alcohol Program]
The Woodbridge campus of Stratford University will hold a free job fair from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. today.
The job fair will be held in collaboration with Virginia’s SkillSource center in Woodbridge.
Our cell phone camera didn’t do it justice, but to be fair it wasn’t that bright in the sky.
The Northern Virginia Youth Ballet (NVYB) and its affiliate school, The Academy of Russian Ballet (ARB) are pleased to announce that International Ballet Super Stars Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky will guest in their eight annual production of “The Nutcracker” on Saturday, Nov. 29 at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas, Virginia at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Starting in November, Occoquan’s Secret Garden Cafe is beginning a donation program where 10% of sales on a particular evening go to a deserving nonprofit organization in the community.
On Friday, November 7, the Secret Garden Cafe will donate 10% of the evening’s proceeds to Rolling Thunder’s Wounded Warrior Program. Then, on Friday, January 2 and Friday, February 6, 10% of sales will go to the Occoquan Historical Society.
The Prince William Chamber of Commerce is preparing for one of its most popular events, the Cuisine de Commerce, sponsored by Internet Ad Management, Inc. Taking place at the Continental Event Center, 9705 Liberia Avenue in Manassas, 11:30 a.m. on November 6, this “taste of the town” will feature samples from 15 area restaurants and caterers.
