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This year Clarendon Day will be combined with Virginia Hospital Center Foundation Family Fun Day. There will be a 10k/5k/Kids Dash, live music, dancing, fitness classes, health screenings over 50 vendors, and food from over many local restaurants. The event will be held rain or shine on Saturday, Sept 25th from 11 am to 5 pm in the area around Clarendon Metro station. For more information, visit the Clarendon Day website here.
National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists are the highest scoring entrants in each state and represent less than one percent of the nation’s seniors. For 2010, ten Yorktown High School students, four Washington-Lee High School students, two HB Woodlawn secondary program students and one student from Wakefield High School were among the 16,000 students named nationally. In addition, four students from Arlington County attending Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (in Fairfax), have been named National Merit semifinalists. These students will have the opportunity to compete for approximately 8,200 Merit Scholarship awards totaling $36 million.
The Crystal City Business Improvement District will be hosting their fourth annual Vintage Crystal on Sunday, September 19th, 2010 from 2-6PM. There will be wines, food, music and dancing with a Latin twist.
With more than 30 different wines from Spain and South America, visitors will be able to taste complimentary dishes from local favorites including Café Pizzaiolo, Domaso, Jaleo, King Street Blues, Kora, Lebanese Taverna, Morton’s, Portofino Restaurant, Restaurant Mez, Ruth’s Chris Steak House, and Zpizza among others.
Jazz music and local Latin American dance groups will take the stage. There will also be Salsa, Rumba, Samba and Cha-Cha-Cha lessons from the Salsa Room.
The miniature golf course at Upton Hill Regional Park features cascading waterfalls and aquatic features. The course is open from mid-March through October.
How about skateboarding at Powhatan Springs skate park? The nearly 15,000-square-feet skatepark has a combination of street-style elements and old-school elements such as bowls and half-pipes.
Most Saturday nights from mid-October through late March, the Thomas Jefferson Community Center offers roller skating for families from 6:00-9:00 PM and teens only from 9:00 PM to 11:00 PM.
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Tickets go on sale three weeks before the event and close at 5PM Friday. Sign up in advance here.
photo credit: Steve Weaver
