WOODBRIDGE,Va. – The Stafford Hospital Community Benefit Fund has donated $20,000 to the ACTS charity of Prince William County.
The money will be used to fund suicide prevention.
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· Good morning – in celebration of the Martin Luther King Holiday weekend, please join the wonderful folks at Leesylvania State Park assemble care packages for soldiers. This event is in partnership with Operation Home Front. Donations of phone cards, baby wipes, tooth brushes, cameras and such will be collected and then assembled into individual packages for the troops. This is the perfect way to celebrate their service with a few goodies from you. This all takes place on Saturday January 18th from 11am-3pm at the Visitor Center. Please visit operationhomefront.net for more info.
· The super teen volunteers with the Joe 15 team are having their 7th Annual Blood Drive on Saturday January 25th from 9am-2:30pm. Please give the gift of life and support these great kids by scheduling your appointment at: redcrossblood.org/make-donation and enter sponsor code: 05312539
Go to Call to Action: Care Packages for Soldiers Being Assembled at Leesylvania State Park
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. — More firefighting training could soon take place in Woodbridge.
Officials are working on a $260,000 plan to create a collapse training center behind OWL Volunteer Fire Station 12 on Montgomery Avenue. Firefighters, both volunteer and career members from across Prince William County, would be able learn what to do when a vehicle collides into a building or a house, promoting rescue crews to be called to a “building collapse” situation. During these scenarios, temporary support beams must be put in place to prevent the remainder of the building from collapsing.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — An old Burger King restaurant at 14120 Jefferson Davis Highway that sat empty for years in Woodbridge is getting a new tenant.
Now it will become a TitleMax loans, joining several other TitleMax locations where borrows can get money by borrowing against their car title.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — There’s a new millionaire in Woodbridge.
A $1 million winning ticket was sold at a 7-Eleven on Occoquan Road as part of the Virginia Lottery’s New Year’s Millionaires Raffle. It was one of three million-dollar tickets sold in the raffle – the others were sold at an Exxon near Winchester and another at an Apple Market in South Boston.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A cat found in Woodbridge tested positive for rabies.
The animal was found in the Powell’s Landing Circle area in the Port Potomac neighborhood off U.S. 1.
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — A panel discussion in Woodbridge Thursday will take on the topic of replacing government housing lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae with a privately-funded agency, changing the way home mortgages in the U.S. are guaranteed.
The National Council of La Raza is the group holding the discussion, and it is set to include Michelle Maiwurm, Legislative Office of Senator Mark Warner, James Carr, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress, Father Gerry Creedon, of Catholics for Housing, Mercy Struthers, of Casals Realtors, and Bill Vaughan, Chief Economist, Prince William County Office of Finance, will take up the issue of legislation put forth by Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) that would create the Federal Mortgage Insurance Corporation, shifting more of the risk of default on mortages from the Federal Government to private industry.
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WOODBRIDGE, Va. —It’s time to fix the roof at the Potomac Library in Woodbridge, so that means the building will be closed until Dec. 20.
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11:20 a.m. Friday
Fairfax County police say no charges were filed in this case.
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Two events will be held in our area to mark National Public Lands Day.
A shoreline clean up of Leesylvania State Park and a Tidal Trash Clean Up Day at Crows Nest Natural Area preserve are scheduled this month.