Want to hear the keynote speech by civil rights leader Julian Bond? Sign up now.
Update: The event is sold out as of Friday afternoon. There are a limited number of seats available for the Reston Community Center's 28th Annual Martin Luther King Day lunch and keynote speech with former NAACP chair Julian Bond. The lunch is Sunday at 1 p.m. at Reston Community Center Hunters Woods. Admission is free, but advance registration is required. Click here for more information and registration info. The event number is 704717-3A. Bond's speech is part of a lineup of events to honor Dr. King and to ask Reston-area residents "Are We Keeping the Promise?" RCC will team with several community organizations, including Southgate Community Center, Reston Association, Reston Interfaith and The Closet for volunteer service projects . …
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Volunteers will pick up food at Trader Joe's in Reston on Friday or Saturday evenings and bring it to LINK's Herndon food pantry.
LINK, a Christian, all-volunteer organization, is in need of volunteers to pick up food from Trader Joe's grocery store in Reston and deliver it to the organization's Herndon food pantry. Each Friday and Saturday night Trader Joe's bags up food that is being donated to LINK. LINK delivers emergency food to families who need assistance in Herndon, Sterling and Ashburn. Volunteers will pick up the food at Trader Joe's at 9 p.m. and bring it to LINK's pantry. The volunteers would also need to move items that need refrigeration into the refrigerators and freezers in the pantry, and items that don't need refrigeration can be left for volunteers to sort the next morning. The food donated by Trader Joe's provides items for families that are not…
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Goldie Locks is sweet, playful, energetic and eager to please.
Since the loss of power in our region prevented so many from meeting Goldie last week, we are featuring this lovable pup again. We hope your power is back on, or will be very soon. _____ Hey there. My name is Goldie Locks, but my rescue friends all call me Goldie. I’m a Golden Retriever-Chow mix and weigh about 45 pounds, but still have some filling out to do. I’m only a year old and very much a puppy—sweet, playful, energetic and eager to please. I was rescued out of a shelter in Maryland, after being picked up as a stray. It's hard to believe that no one came looking for me, but here I am ready to find my new family and start my new life. Mutts Matter set me up with a seasoned foster mom, who started working with me right away on basic …
Reston group gives out 10 $5,000 grants.
Reston's Giving Circle of HOPE will honor this year's grantees at a community reception Friday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. at Midtown of Reston. The philanthropic group awarded 10 $5,000 grants to local organizations. The Giving Circle of Hope was founded in Reston in 2004 Members donate money, but also make decisions in how it is spent. Members seek to make a difference in the community by contributing their time, talents, and money to projects which encourage self-sufficiency and well-being among people in need in Northern Virginia. Grantees will have more information about their mission at Friday's event. The 2012 grantees are: For additional information, visit www.GivingCircleofHOPE.org or email info@givingcircleofhope.org or call 703.665.…
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Mark Gunderman
11:00 am on Sunday, July 15, 2012
The LINK board thanks all of the churches, businesses and civic organizations who help disseminate our program requirements through their networks and the LINK mini managers who take on the important tasks that keep LINK up and running. The board also thanks the ever vigilant volunteers who come every year to ensure the daily deliveries and annual holiday events are a huge success. They are each … more ›