Tag: Haymarket
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Inspiring Seniors in Northern Virginia Who Won’t Let Old Age Get in Their Way
Over the past six months I have had the good fortune to interview several participants in the Northern Virginia Senior Olympics as a volunteer public relations and advertising coordinator for this event which is kicking off its 35 anniversary season tomorrow morning, Saturday, Sept. 9. I was lucky to meet these seniors and I am…
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Sunflowers in Suburbia
Fifty-five years ago the Washington D.C. suburb of Fairfax County as well as neighboring Prince William County were mostly farmland. According to Wikipedia, even as recently as the 1950s, Tysons Corner Area of Fairax was “a quiet rural intersection flanked by a few small stores.” Nowadays in Northern Virginia, where cows are outnumbered exponentially by…