🌱 How a Fort Belvoir service project led to a tearful Fairfax reunion

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• How a Fort Belvoir service project led to a tearful Fairfax reunion

Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Partly sunny and not as cold, with a high of 39 and low of 26 degrees.
• Wednesday: Times of sun and clouds, temps: high: 53, low: 29.
• Thursday: An afternoon shower, with a high of 52 and low of 45 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Army soldier home for the holidays in emotional Fairfax family reunion (wusa9.com) — Volunteers in Fairfax are assembling stockings and handwritten cards for patients at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital and Walter Reed, highlighting local support for service members. During the event, a Fairfax family received a surprise reunion with their son, an Army private first class stationed in Korea, who returned home for the holidays after 19 months away and amid his mother’s recent cancer diagnosis.
   

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Tuesday December 16

• Play and Learn
  Potomac Library - Potomac Community Room
  10:00 am
• Ready for a Yeti Story Time
  Montclair Library , Montclair Community Room , Occoquan
  10:30 am
• Burke Centre Book Club
  Burke Centre Library , 5935 Freds Oak Rd , Burke Centre
  1:00 pm
• Tuesday We Play (ages 5-12)
  Charles E. Beatley Jr. Central Library - Story Room
  4:30 pm
• Banned Book Club
  Charles E. Beatley Jr. Central Library - Small Conference Room
  6:00 pm

Wednesday December 17

• Gingerbread House Paper Bag Gift Wrap
  Dumfries Library -
• PWC Tech Help
  Potomac Library -
  10:30 am
• Baby Story Time
  Potomac Library - Potomac Community Room
  10:30 am
• Santa Visits Dale City Library!
  Dale City Library -
  10:30 am
• American Culture at Herndon Library
  Herndon Fortnightly Library , 768 Center St , Herndon
  10:30 am
• Family Storytime at Courthouse
  Courthouse Library , Children's Area , Arlington
  10:30 am
• Family Storytime at Shirlington
  Shirlington Library , Campbell Room , Arlington
  10:30 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• A crash has been cleared on the eastbound I-66 at mile marker 65.8 in Fairfax County.
  11:55AM on Dec 14: All eastbound travel lanes on I-66 at mile marker 65.8 in Fairfax County are closed due to a crash. (Nextdoor )
• Police activity on highway in Fair Oaks, Virginia.
  7:51AM on Dec 14: Massive emergency response has lanes locked down on US-50 East in Fair Oaks, VA, with wet and slushy roads. (Nextdoor )

• Sunrise Senior Living posted a job opening for Activities Assistant in Fort Belvoir. Apply here.
• Clearance Jobs posted a job opening for Senior Red Cyber Operator in Fort Belvoir. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Fort Belvoir here.

🗞 Nearby News

Lorton

• Monday Morning Update 12/15/25 (histalk2.com)

Springfield

• Springfield Teen Arrested After Overnight Get-Together Ends In Bloody Stabbing, Police Say (dailyvoice.com)
• Fairfax County solidifies new rules for electrical substations as energy demand grows (ffxnow.com)

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