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Community This & That This weekend c’mon out with your family and/or friends for a day of fun, good food, live music, crafters & vendors and more. The Fair at KGHS is free admission, and there is something for everyone. REMINDER: Route 3 will be closed east & west bound at 10:30 a.m. No through traffic permitted from Ridge Road to Dahlgren Road. The road will open when the last parade entry heads out. Bus rides available along Route 3. Keep an eye out for a school bus to take you to and from the fair grounds. Very limited parking at the high school. Park at the middle school, off road, or school board office. Don’t block drive ways, and don’t impede traffic. Look both ways, live more days. Rain or shine, the KG Fall Festival will be held. Parade starts at 11. Fairgrounds open at 10. Fair runs to 4 p.m. Stick around for the KG Idol at 5. YMCA FF run Sunday, 8 a.m. and the Queens’ contest Sunday at 2. A great weekend of new traditions and old. Come celebrate the 55 years of the KG FF.
Love Thy Neighbor A simple command but one full of confusion as to how one can help. The Love Thy Neighbor ministry in King George has come a long way in defining how we can “Love Thy Neighbor.” A non-profit community Food Pantry and Soup Kitchen, they are not affiliated with any government run food banks. They are not a food bank at all. All donations are given out at each monthly event. The web site has updated lists of items needed to be donated, and a list of where the donations can be dropped off. Monetary donations can be sent to Love Thy Neighbor, PO Box 39, Sealston, VA 22547. The web site is www.lovethyneighbor-kg.org. The ministry is also collecting for the holiday meals. Gift certificates for turkey or ham; cranberry sauce, green beans, gravy, instant mashed potatoes, stuffing, etc. can all be dropped off at one of the collection sites. The group serves lunch and hands out food stuffs the 2nd Sunday of each month. KG Citizens’ Center. 2-5 p.m. Doors are open to everyone. No special requirements to fill. Subscribe to The Journal $24 per year Call 540-775-2024
Spaces filling fast for guided tour of the Dahlgren base Dahlgren Heritage Museum will host history tours of Naval Support Facility Dahlgren in honor of the base’s 95th anniversary on Saturday, Oct. 19. All tours will originate at the Dahlgren Museum at the old Gateway Welcome Center on Rt. 301 near the Nice Bridge. Every 1/2 hour from 1- 3:30 p.m. Come enjoy the museum’s new exhibits and take an hour tour of the history of the Navy at Dahlgren. There is a charge of $10 per person with all proceeds benefiting the museum. To register, visit www.dahlgrenmuseum.org, or https://www.eventbrite.com/ event/7532557081.
Dahlgren School Reunion All current and former students of Dahlgren School are invited to a reunion at the school on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013. The reunion will begin at 11 a.m. and will include a history tour of the base and a visit to the new Dahlgren Museum. Tours of the school, activities and a program by current students will also be a part of the day’s events. Attendees will then have a nohost dinner at Gray’s Landing at Naval Support Facility Dahlgren at 3:30 p.m. Attendees must pre-register to attend. To register, contact Margie Stevens at dahlgrenfriends@gmail. com.
SPIRIT NIGHT! Come out in support of the KG Gymnsastics Patriot’s Saturday, Oct. 12, from 4:30-8 p.m. Visit the SWEET FROG store in Dahlgren, 16428 Consumer Row, King George, VA 22485 and when you check out, please tell your cashier that you support: the King George Gymnastics Patriot’s Parent Association. Donations from part of the sales for the time frame will be given to the Patriot’s Parent Assn. for expenses of the group. Satisfy your sweet tooth, and help out the Patriot’s at the same time. KG P&R Halloween Funfest KGP&R Halloween Funfest will be held on Wednesday, October 30, 6-8 p.m.For children ages 12 and under, the event will feature games and prizes; flashlight egg hunt; costume judging and awards; a donut eating game and more fun. Sponsored by the KG Optimist Club and KGP&R, this annual event is fun for everyone. Cost is $4 per child. Call (540)775-4386 for more details.
Save the Date 1st German Christmas Market hosted by the Dahlgren Heritage Foundation. Dec. 7. 4-8 p.m. at the Museum bldg. on 301. dahlgrenmuseum.org
Last chance to sign up for P&R trip(s) Trip to New York City: Dec. 11 & 12. $339pp (double occupancy) Singles add $99 extra to the cost. Includes performance of Radio City Music Hall and the Rockettes; tour of lower Manhattan; Rockefeller Center tour; Fifth Avenue shopping & holiday windows; Macy’s at Herald Square. Trip to Wheeling, WV’s Festival of Lights: Dec. 3-5. $474 pp (double occupancy) Singles add $99 extra to the cost. Includes a Greenbrier Hotel lunch and Bunker tour; Holiday Dinner Show; Oglebay Park Festival of Lights Tour; Colonel Oglebay Mansion Museum; Echart House Victorian Tour & Tea; The Glass Museum & Artisan Center and the Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum. Call Parks & Rec today to reserve your spot on the trip. (540) 7754386.
Wine tasting and ghost tours On Oct. 12, join in an afternoon of wine tasting and ghost tours to celebrate the founding of Virginia’s first plantation in 1613. From 2:30 – 5:30 p.m., taste for the first time the newly released Shirley Plantation Chardonnay as well as a variety of wines from the Philip Carter Winery. Shirley Plantation is proud to partner with the Philip Carter Winery. The Carter family is considered the First Family of America Wines due to the efforts of Charles Carter of Cleve Plantation, brother of John Carter of Shirley Plantation. Charles Carter advocated commercial winemaking and was the first to successfully produce grapes in Virginia with European vines and the first to win a gold medal for American wine production from the Royal Society of Arts in London in 1762. Today, Philip Carter Strother, a direct descendant of Robert “King” family, owns and operates the Philip Carter Winery and was instrumental in the passage of The Virginia Farm Winery Zoning Act which promotes the economic vitality of the Virginia wine industry. As a way of honoring his family legacy, Philip Carter Strother labels the wines from his vineyard according to Carter family estates. Tour the Great House and learn about the bewitching spirit of “Aunt Pratt,” the legendary ghost of Shirley Plantation, and the spirits of eleven generations to live at Shirley. $10 per person for the general public in addition to regular admission to Shirley. Reservations are required by Oct. 11. For more information, visit our website at www.shirleyplantation.com or call 1-800-232-1613.
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KG Candidates Forum The KG Branch NAACP and Ralph Bunche Alumni Assn. are hosting a Candidates’ Forum for the James Monroe and Shiloh District Board of Supervisors’ candidates. The Forum is Thursday, Oct. 17 at 6:30 p.m. at the L. E. Smoot Memorial Library Meeting Rooms A and B, located at 9533 Kings Highway, King George. All are invited to attend for an opportunity to meet, ask questions, and become familiar with each of the candidates to be better informed when voting on Election Day. Any questions, call (540) 226-0991 or (540) 226-9754. Disclaimer: “Use of library meeting space does not constitute endorsement of this organization, this program or its content by the L. E. Smoot Memorial Library.
Great Pumpkin Race KG P&R invites you to comeout on October 25 for the annual “Great Pumpkin Race” and Flashlight Scramble to be held at Barnesfield Park. Bring your flashlight to the Park at 6 p.m. The Great Race starts at 7 p.m. Dinner special BBQ or Hot Dogs for sale.Pre register by Thursday, October 24th. FREE!Have fun looking for the “Great Pumpkin” and numerous pumpkins and eggs for prizes. At least 25 prizes in the $15-$25 value. Call (540) 7754386.
Scouting for Food Combined units of Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venture Crews, and Girls Scouts will be distributing “Scouting for Food” bags throughout Colonial Beach, VA, on October 26, 2013. On November 2, 2013, the Scouts will return to the neighborhoods to collect the donation bags, return them to the Church, sort them, and store them in the Church’s Food Panty. PLEASE NOTE: All food collected remains in Colonial Beach, in the Colonial Beach Baptist Church’s Food Pantry to help those who need assistance locally. • The Colonial Beach Baptist Church has been helping 30 to 35 families a week with food donations (sometimes more). That does not sound like too many, right? However, each week it is a different 30 to 35 families or approximately 130+ families per month the church is assisting. • When the food runs out and the shelves are devoid of food products the Church reaches into their Congregational Funds and spends around $300.00 a week at the grocery store to restock the shelves. • So this October/November help us to help the community food pantry at the Colonial Beach Baptist Church. • The combined units of Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venture Crew, and Girls Scouts will be distributing “Scouting for Food” bags throughout the community on Saturday the 26 starting at 9:30 – 10:00 AM from the Colonial Beach Baptist Church on Garfield Avenue.
Wednesday, Oct. 9
NN of VA Historical Society is holding its Fall membership meeting and luncheon at Indian Creek Yacht & Country Club in Kilmarnock. Meeting opens at 10 a.m. followed by special guest speaker, Kat Imhoff, Pres. & CEO, the Montpelier Fdn. Lunch follows at noon. Reservations required for lunch. $ Contact Kathy Schuder at(804)580-8327.
Saturday, Oct. 12
KG Physical Therapy Fall Festival Open House. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Join in for a Nutrition Clinic, Injury Prevention Clinics, VA Runner Shoe Clinics, Blue & Gray Brewery Beer Tasting and more. 9305 Kings Hwy, KG. (540) 775-2250 kgfcandpt@verizon. net.
Wednesday, Oct. 16
Girl’s Night Out at the Riverside Center. Sponsored by Mary Washington Healthcare, this is an evening of food, wine, screenings, entertainment and shopping. 5:30-8:30 p.m. at $15 pp. Register at GirlsNight.mwhc. com
Thursday, Oct. 17
KG County Historical Society. will meet at 6:30 p.m. in the Revercomb Bldg. The October program will feature Dr. John Sellers, Specialist on Abraham Lincoln. Public invited. Light refreshments.
Saturday, Oct. 19
St. Margaret’s School 15th Annual Rappahannock River Run/Walk 5K through the streets of historic downtown Tappahannock. The cost to participate is $25 and includes a race packet with an event t-shirt. Discounts are available for running groups of five or more people. Onsite registration and packet pick-up will begin on race day at 7:30am in front of St. Margaret’s Hall at 444 Water Lane, Tappahannock. The race will begin promptly at 8 a.m. with an awards ceremony to follow. To register online, visit www.sms. org/run or contact Lindsay Harmon in the Office of Alumnae Relations at lharmon@sms.org or (804)4433357.
“Stargaze” at your leisure at the VA Quilt Museum The Stargazing exhibit at the Virginia Quilt Museum brings visitors closer to understanding why quilts have been accepted as fine art. Running through Dec. 14, star motif quilts will be displayed. The galleries of the museum’s antebellum house located in downtown Harrisonburg, VA will be filled with quilts made by members of the American Quilt Study (www.amerianquiltstudygroup.org). Also included are quilts from the museum’s permanent collection, and modern quilts created by Roanoke’s
Star Quilters and Fredericksburg’s Virginia Star Quiliters guilds. Publications featuring full color photos of many of the quilts are sold in the museum’s gift shop. A Blue Star Museum, the VGM web site lists events related to exhibits throughout the year. www.vaquiltmuseum.org or follow the museum on Facebook and Twitter for updates. The museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Group tour rates are available.
Minority Political Leadership Institute Now Accepting Applications! The Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute is now accepting applications for its Minority Political Leadership Institute (MPLI). The application deadline for the 2014 MPLI Class is Nov. 1. The MPLI is a collaborative initiative of the VA Legislative Black Caucus Fdn. and The Grace E. Harris Leadership Inst. at VCU. MPLI is an intensive seven-month experience designed to promote leadership development for all individuals interested in issues important to minority communities including: community economics, political climate, civic engagement, and racial equity. MPLI offers insights regarding leadership legacy and culture, personal leadership, policy and legislative processes, responsible stewardship, public service, and integrity for future leaders. Each program year participants engage and interact with communities across VA and learn about unique strengths and issues facing different regions of the Commonwealth. To submit an application please visit our website: www.vcu. edu/gehli, or contact the Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute at 804-8271169 or gehli@vcu.edu if you have any questions.
Area Death Clara Ruth Johnson Clara Ruth Johnson, 103, of King George, died on October 5, 2013 at Heritage Hall Nursing Home in King George. Mrs. Johnson was the oldest member of Little Ark Baptist Church, King George when she died. She resided in the Shiloh District of the county for the past six years and formerly f r o m Dahlgren. Mrs. Johnson was recently recognized as the oldest resident of King George county. She is survived by her children, Ruth Lucas (Morris) of Washington, DC, Hazel Bushrod (James) of Capital Heights, MD, Helen Ashton (Ralph) of Upper Marlboro, MD, Ralph Johnson (Arlene) of Capital Heights, MD, Carolyn Pollard (Thomas) of King George; Esther Green (Harold)
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of Upper Marlboro, MD; Ellen Johnson (Kenneth) of Mitchellville, MD; Stanley Johnson (Gladys) of King George; one sister, Thelma Sanford of King George; 26 grandchildren, 28 great grandchildren and 15 great great grandchildren. The remains can be viewed from 12-5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 11, 2013 at Cedell Brooks Funeral Home, in Port Royal, VA. There will also be a viewing at Little Ark Baptist Church on Saturday, Oct. 12 from 9:30 a.m. until the funeral service at 11 a.m. The service will be officiated by the Rev. Joseph Lyles and with the Rev. Larry Robinson as Pastor Eulogist. Cedell Brooks Funeral Home of Port Royal is handling the arrangements for the family. Online guestbook can be found at brooksfuneralhome.com. “As you comprehend this profound loss, let yourself cry knowing each tear is a note of love rising to the heavens.” ~Author Unknown
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