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Whole Foods Market in Arlington is offering a variety of free cooking classes including “Curried Lamb with Pan Roasted Chick Peas” on Tuesday, January 19th at 7 PM, “I Can Cook Vegetarian” on Tuesday, January 25th at 7 and “Cooking Classes for Kids” on Saturday, January 29th at 10:30 and 11:30 depending on age group.
UPDATE: This was a date specific event, but search the Arlington County website for MLK Tributes and Days of Service for the current year.
The third Monday of January is a Federal holiday to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Birthday and residents of Arlington can pay tribute in several ways. On the Saturday prior to the holiday, Volunteer Arlington has a variety of ways to participate in MLK Day of Service. On the Sunday prior, Arlington typically holds a tribute. For 2025, the MLK Tribute will be held at Wakefield High School from 5-6:30 with a production of Dreams, Faith, and Justice in Action.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?'” Each year, Americans across the country come together on the King Holiday to serve their neighbors and communities in what has been proclaimed a national “Day of Service”.
Each of us can contribute to strengthening our own communities by serving in Dr. King’s honor on the King Holiday and throughout the year. The King Center website says that “King Day is a time for realizing that each of us has the power to help alleviate poverty, build community and foster peace through nonviolence, if only we have the courage and commitment to work for it.”
If you’re interested in finding other service project in this area or registering one of your own, visit http://mlkday.gov/.
NOTE: This event was in the past and does not appear to be re-occurring.
Join Arlingtonians Meeting Emergency Needs for a 3 Month Training Program and get ready to run in the GWParkway Classic Ten Miler and 5K on April 10th. Info session will be January 12th at 7pm at First Presbyterian Church in Arlington. Training Runs will be held on Saturdays at 9 a.m. from January 22- April 2, 2011. Experienced and beginning runners are welcome.
The Washington-Lee High School choral department will be hosting a Pyramid Concert for students in grades 4-8 at elementary and middle schools that feed into W-L performing along with the W-L students. The concert will be held on Thursday, January 13th, 2011 at 7 PM in the W-L auditorium. Yorktown High School will be performing a similar concert in May 2011.
Planning a weekend getaway to one of the ski slopes nearby? Or a Spring Break trip to Colorado? The Ski Chalet on Columbia Pike has been open since 1969 and sells ski and snowboard equipment and apparel year round. According to their website, Ski Chalet was awarded Gold Medal Ski Shop by Ski Magazine seven years in a row and it has been honored as ‘Retailer of the Year’ three times by Snow Sports Industries of America (SIA).
Author’s Note: The Ski Chalet location on Columbia Pike is now closed but the store has re-opened in a new location as Sun & Ski Sports just outside of Arlington at Seven Corners Shopping Center.
