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The Mosaic District is Offering Mosaic Skateland
The Mosaic District is offering Mosaic Skateland, a 70s era roller rink, through Sunday, September 12 on Strawberry Lane between Strawberry Park and District Avenue. The outdoor rink with music is for four wheeled skaters of all ages and experience. Skates are available to rent as are skate aids. Tickets are required. The Mosaic District is an upscale shopping & dining complex with free wi-fi, a weekly farmers market, and an art house theater located at 2910 District Avenue in Fairfax. Visit www.mosaicdistrict.com.
The Casual Pint in Falls Church is hosting Tails & Ales Dog Adoption Event with Lost Dog & Cat Recue Foundation on Sunday, September 12 from noon – 4 p.m. Located at 6410 Arlington Boulevard in Falls Church, The Casual Pint is a franchised gastropub with 35 beers on draft and hundreds more available in its marketplace. For more information, visit either The Casual Pint – Falls Church or Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation’s Facebook pages.
Lost Dog & Cat Recue Foundation is celebrating its twentieth anniversary with its Pave the Way campaign to raise funds and awareness for the next twenty years of pet rescue. The nonprofit organization has saved more than 40,000 lives since its founding in 2001. Funds raised in the campaign will benefit the Falls Church Rescue Care Center located at 6801 Wilson Boulevard in Falls Church. As part of the campaign, Lost Dog is selling commemorative engraved bricks that will be showcased along the shelter’s entrance and capstones that will be placed along a new “RCC Walk Path.” Donations can also be made directly to support the life-saving mission of rescuing homeless dogs and cats through rescue and adoption. To learn more, order a brick or capstone, or make a donation, visit www.LostDogRecue.org/PaveTheWay.
Coleman PowerSports Hosting Annual Auction Saturday, September 18
Coleman PowerSports in Falls Church is hosting its annual auction on Saturday, September 18. The auction provides the opportunity to buy and sell motorcycles, dirt bikes, ATVs, scooters, watrcraft, boats, trailers, mowers, and more. The event includes a professional auctioneer, lunch, and savings up from 10 percent to 75 percent off on parts and accessories. Coleman PowerSports, the DC area’s oldest and largest power sports dealership, offers items by Honda, Yamaha, Kawasaki, Ducati, Suzuki, Can-Am, Sea-Doo, Polaris, Slingshot, Vanderhall, Kymco, Triton, and Kendon. The dealership is located at 435 S. Washington Street. For more information, visit www.wherethepoweris.com.
Foundation Insurance Group Awarded Professional Agent of the Year Award
Foundation Insurance Group was awarded the 2021 National Professional Agent of the Year Award by the Professional Insurance Agents Association. The award recognizes the agency’s commitment to serving clients and helping them to protect what is most important to them through business, personal, and life insurance. John Potthast started his Falls Church-based agency in 1994 as a ‘scratch agent’ for Erie Insurance. The company now has a staff of 50 and is currently The largest Erie agent in Virginia, and the fifth largest in the entire company. This award is presented annually based on professional accomplishment, dedication towards professional development designations, involvement in the industry and contributions to the community. Foundation Insurance Group has also been named the three-time winner of Erie’s Quality Agent of the Year Award, representing Foundation’s exemplary sales performance, profitability and commitment to customer service. To be recognized more than once, let alone three times, is exceptionally rare. The agency was also named to the Insurance Business America magazine’s Hot 100. For more information, visit www.FoundationInsuranceGroup.com.
Business News & Notes is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@fallschurchchamber.org.
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Mary Riley Styles Library Now Open to Public
While an official ribbon cutting is set for this Friday, Sept. 10, the newly renovated and expanded Mary Riley Styles Public Library is now open to the public at its 120 N. Virginia Ave. location.
The “soft opening” began this Tuesday prior to the official grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony that is slated to be held at the main entrance to the library Friday at 10 a.m.
As with all city buildings, masks are required for entry.
Northam Hails Removal Of Lee Monument
Yesterday, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam issued the following statement after the formal removal of the Robert E. Lee monument in Richmond:
“After 133 years, the statue of Robert E. Lee has finally come down—the last Confederate statue on Monument Avenue, and the largest in the South. The public monuments reflect the story we choose to tell about who we are as a people. It is time to display history as history, and use the public memorials to honor the full and inclusive truth of who we are today and in the future.”
The Lee statue was erected in 1890, a generation after the Civil War, during a time in which southern states were working to reinforce white supremacist systems and structures across their governments, services, and societies.
More than a year ago, the Northam Administration proposed removing the Lee Monument in Richmond. Court challenges prevented that action until last week, when the Virginia Supreme Court unanimously agreed that the removal could move forward. The 12-ton statue was removed Wednesday in a process that took approximately one hour. The statue will be placed in secure storage at a state facility until a permanent, appropriate location is chosen for its display. The 40-foot granite pedestal will remain for the time being. The pedestal’s final disposition will be determined following a community-driven effort to reimagine Monument Avenue, including the state-owned property surrounding the monument and the pedestal. The City of Richmond and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts are spearheading the effort on behalf of the Commonwealth.
F.C. School Board Reps Announce ‘Office Hours’
`Falls Church City Public Schools’ Board Chair Shannon Litton and Vice-Chair Laura Downs will be holding “office hours” at the Liberty Barbecue restaurant, 370 W. Broad, on Wednesday, Sept.15, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., they’ve announced.
Residents are invited to drop by (no registration required) to ask questions and offer feedback in a casual environment. As this will not be a private setting, community members who prefer to have a private exchange with the School Board can email them.
‘Welcoming Week’ Boosts Afghan Refugees Sunday
Welcoming Week Falls Church will welcome representatives of organizations supporting the settlement of Afghan refugees at Mr. Brown’s Park this Sunday, Sept. 12 (free ice cream while it lasts), and at a Sunset Cinema event in Cherry Hill Park on Sunday, Sept. 17.
“We hope to inspire the community to think globally, serve locally, and get engaged,” organizers said.
Virginia Tech to Break Ground on New Campus
Virginia Tech is set to break ground Sept. 14 on the first building for its $1 billion Innovation Campus in Alexandria. National Geographic Society Chairman Jean Case, wife of AOL co-founder Steve Case, will be the keynote speaker at the groundbreaking ceremony.
A graduate school for computer science and computer engineering students, the Innovation Campus is a major component in the state’s Tech Talent Investment Program, which aims to produce 31,000 in-demand computer science graduates during the next two decades.
Scheduled for an August 2024 opening, the campus’s $302 million Academic Building 1 was designed by SmithGroup and is being developed by Bethesda, Marylandbased JBG Smith Properties. (The state is funding $168 million of the building’s construction, with the remainder coming from Virginia Tech and private donors.)
“It’s a place in which the future of technology will be invented,” Lance Collins, vice president and executive director of the Innovation Campus, says of the 11-story, 300,000-square-foot building. SEPTEMBER 9 - 15, 2021 | PAGE 19
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