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Alexandria City Public Schools is offering free breakfast and lunch to students. The program started yesterday. Schools Nutrition Director Becky Domokos-Bays says a large number of students are eligible. Alexandria City Public Schools Nutrition Director Becky Domokos-Bays says the meals are available to all students under age 18. Source: Copyright © 2012 Metro Networks Inc
The NAACP DC Branch and Unity Health Care host our Second Annual Health Fair on Saturday, June 30, 2012 at the Unity Health Care Minnesota Avenue Health Center located at 3924 Minnesota Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20019 from 12:00pm – 4:00pm. This event is free and open to the public. One of the strategic priorities […]
It’s Biker Sunday At Word of Life International Church this coming Sunday, June 24, 2012 starting at 10:30am. The church is located at 5225 Backlick Road Springfield, VA 22151. If you ride a motorcycle, this worship service is for you. For more information, call 703.941.2312
On this day in 1865, two years after President Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, word finally reached the people of Galveston, Texas that the Civil War was over. All enslaved men, women and children were now free. Though it would take decades of struggle and collective effort before African Americans were granted equal treatment and […]
June 18, 2012 – Beginning on National HIV Testing Day on June 27 and continuing through June 29, 2012, Whitman-Walker Health will provide FREE rapid HIV testing at one Walgreens store in Washington, DC, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. daily. The rapid HIV test takes approximately 20 to 40 minutes to administer and process. […]
Several Fredericksburg, VA area church leaders have united together to form a new ministry,. The ministry will host its second The U4C (Uniting for Christ) Victory Ministry community youth and young adult revival on Saturday, July 21, 2012 at Mount Olive Baptist Church, 395 Mount Olive Road, Stafford, Virginia. The ministry is currently recruiting […]
Three seniors at Herndon High School are being banned from their graduation ceremony for a prank they thought was funny, but school officials did not. The “Washington Post” reports on June 6th, the seniors slicked the school hallways and stairway landings with baby oil. Six seniors took part in the prank, but not all of […]
A teacher at a Chantilly elementary school is under arrest and facing ten charges of possessing child pornography. Fairfax County Police say 26-year-old Robert Fenn of Herndon was taken into custody at Poplar Tree Elementary, where he has been placed on suspension. WRC-TV reports Fenn was a first-year special education teacher who taught children in […]