Lost Dog & Cat Rescue Foundation (LDCRF) has welcomed 56 beagles to its Rescue Care Center in Falls Church, Va., from a mass-breeding facility riddled with animal welfare concerns.
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Beyer Announces $600,000 In DOJ Funding for Body Worn Cameras in the Alexandria Police Department
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today announced the Alexandria Police Department has been awarded $600,000 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs’ (OJB) Byrne Discretionary Community Project Grant to support the broad-scale implementation of a Body-worn Camera (BWC) program. Beyer secured this funding as a Community Project Funding request that was included in the Omnibus spending bill which passed on a broad bipartisan vote in the House and Senate earlier this year.
Local Non-Profit Organizations Making a Difference in Falls Church
In Northern Virginia this summer, two local nonprofit organizations, Food Justice DMV and Nurturing Families, are doing their part in helping support school staff and immigrant families.
Falls Church News Briefs
Virginia’s three-day Sales Tax Holiday starts this Friday, August 5, at 12:01 a.m. and ends Sunday, August 7, at 11:59 p.m. Consumers can take advantage of the holiday for both in-store and online purchases, and can buy select items — school supplies, clothes and shoes, emergency and hurricane preparedness — without paying sales tax. With hurricane season often peaking in August, officials say it is a prime time to take advantage of the tax holiday by purchasing qualifying items that can help households in case a hurricane, or any other disaster, strikes.
Warner Hails 95-1 Senate Vote To Add Finland, Sweden to NATO
August 2 — Virginia’s U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, issued the following statement after the Senate voted 95-1 to approve adding Finland and Sweden to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): “The NATO alliance has formed the foundation of the peace in Europe since the end of […]
Who is: ‘Chap’ Petersen? F.C.’s New Senator
In the often confusing wake of the redistricting of state and federal election boundaries every decade, many folks lose track of who their representatives are. The situation is like that for the City of Falls Church and environs, where the state senator now representing the City is a new person, relatively unknown to City residents. That would be incumbent State Sen. Chap Petersen.
Park Ave. ‘Great Street’ Plans Shared In Tour
Somebody was counting noses Monday when 83 citizens (count ‘em) assembled in front of the newly expanded and renovated Mary Riley Styles Public Library to partake in a walking tour hosted by City Hall of the plans to convert Park Avenue between the library (at N. Virginia Ave.) and three blocks away to N. Washington St. at the State Theatre into a “Great Street.”
600+ Students Raise Alarm Over Potential Virginia Department of Education “Don’t Say Gay” Policies
On Wednesday, the Pride Liberation Project released a letter with 600+ signatures from students across Virginia calling for the Virginia Department of Education (DOE) to clarify regulations that may label all references to LGBTQIA+ people and events as “sexually explicit content.”
West Falls Developer Hoffman Announces New Investment Vehicle
Wednesday, August 2 — Hoffman and Associates, a leading developer of innovative mixed-use and residential communities across the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast and key developer of the 10-acre West Falls mixed use project in Falls Church, announced that it has closed on its first real estate private equity fund. The Hoffman […]
Beyer Statement on Senate Passage of the Public Safety Officer Support Act to Recognize Suicide as a Line-of-Duty Death
U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA), co-sponsor of the House companion bill introduced by Rep. David Trone (D-MD) and Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA), issued the following statement after the Public Safety Officer Support Act passed by unanimous vote in the Senate. The bill, which previously passed in the House with 402-17 votes, would amend the federal Public Safety Officers’ Benefits Program (PSOB) to add coverage for first responders who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder or acute stress disorder following a stressful situation while on duty or to survivors of those who die by suicide as a result of service-related traumatic events and now heads to the President’s desk for signature.
