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Winter Wonderland at Burke Lake Park More Holiday Fun in the Park Next Weekend Wellbeing Page 9 Classifieds, Page 10 Classifieds, Twitter: @BurkeConnection on Follow v Entertainment, Page 8 Nicholas Tun, 8 of Burke, v plays with the Kiss the Cook inflatable at the Winter Won- derland at Burke Lake Park. Opinion, Page 4 Cherished Holiday Tradition: Winter ‘The Nutcracker’ News, Page 6 Wonderland Mackey, At Burke Lake Park West Po Best James, News, Page 3 Lake Braddock In Shootout Holiday Entertainment Sports, Page 10 Page 8 Photo by Steve Hibbard/The Connection by Steve Photo December 6-12, 2018 online at www.connectionnewspapers.com Ballet Arts Ensemble of Fairfax Presents COMMUNITIES OF WORSHIP Nutcracker In A Nutshell Saturday, Dec. 1th at 3:00 pm & 7:30 pm “loving people to life” b •Christmas Eve Service at 7:30 PM Sunday, Dec. 1th •New Year’s Eve Gathering at 6 PM b at 3:00 pm Worship Gathering – Sunday 8:45 & 11 AM Sunday School 10:10 AM Rachel Schlesinger Sun. Evening – Realtime Worship & Youth 6 PM Family Night – Wednesday 7:15 PM To AdvertiseYour Concert Hall and Arts Center Home Life Groups, College/Young Adult at NOVA Alexandria Campus Ministries, and Living Free Support Groups Community of Worship Visit our Website: www.jccag.org Tickets $POMJOF BUEPPS 4650 Shirley Gate Road, Fairfax Call 703-778-9418 Bill Frasnelli, PASTOR 703-383-1170 Call for More Info: 703-273-5344 www.thecenterforballetarts.com Share the Joy this Holiday Season Celebrating 39 Years 6\Y/VSPKH` of being Your *LU[LYWPLJL Personal Florist! Filling 2018 with Memories of Holiday Sights & Scents (Z`V\YWYVMLZZPVUHSÅVYPZ[-SV^LYZ»U»-LYUZJHUOLSW`V\ÄUK[OLWLYMLJ[NPM[MVYHU` I\KNL[*OVVZLMYVTVULVM[OL/VSPKH`:WLJPHSZ69SL[\ZJ\Z[VTPaL[OLWLYMLJ[ HYYHUNLTLU[MVY[OH[ZWLJPHSZVTLVUL:[VWI`VYJHSS¸@V\Y7LYZVUHS-SVYPZ[¹[VKH` 9562 Old Keene Mill Rd. Burke Town Plaza flowers ‘n’ ferns 703-455-3100 www.flowersnferns.com 2 ❖ Burke Connection ❖ December 6-12, 2018 www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Connection Editor Kemal Kurspahic News 703-778-9414 or [email protected] Photos by Steve Hibbard/The Connection by Steve Photos Zhengia and Winston Meng and Xiao Lan Cheng of Vienna visit Santa Visitors roast marshmallows at the Winter Wonderland at Burke Lake and Mrs. Claus, a.k.a. Rodney and Janet Smith. Park. Winter Wonderland at Burke Lake Park More holiday fun in the park next weekend. everal hundred people passes are $15 in advance and attended the fourth- $20 on event day. Sannual Winter Wonder The park is also hosting a land held at Burke Lake Celebration Station on Dec. 7-8, Park last Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018. which includes a train ride Activities included the Holiday through a forest decorated with Express train ride, a Carolers holiday-themed lights and a spin Carousel ride, Gingerbread Man on the Carolers Carousel from Mini-Golf, visits and photos with 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tickets are Santa and Mrs. Clause, s’mores $10 each, and rides take place around a campfire, candle- every 20 minutes. Celebration making crafts and hot drinks. Station tickets provide visitors The event provides community with one train ride, one carousel outreach and a fun holiday event ride and one cocoa or cider for the entire family at the park, drink. according to Chris D’Anna, Parks Burke Lake Park is located at Assistant Manager at Burke Lake 7315 Ox Road, Fairfax Station. Park. Call 703-323-6600 or visit The Winter Wonderland will www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/ Jonah Dennis, 6, and brother Sawyer, 3, Conductor Stuart Copan drives the be held again next weekend, burke-lake. visit with Santa during the Winter “Holiday Express” train around Burke Dec. 8-9. Activities run from Wonderland at Burke Lake Park last Lake Park during the Winter Wonderland 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Six-hour — Steve Hibbard Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018. last Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018. Ellie Zerr, 3, of Springfield and her brother Jack, 1, and Lily Buckner, 3, Norah Lottich, 5, of Burke, and Leah Jacobson, 3, and sister Emma, 5, of of Alexandria, play with an inflatable Santa. Burke eat S’mores at the Winter Wonderland at Burke Lake Park. www.ConnectionNewspapers.com Burke Connection ❖ December 6-12, 2018 ❖ 3 Opinion Burke www.ConnectionNewspapers.com @BurkeConnection Give Locally An independent, locally owned weekly newspaper delivered to homes and businesses. For tens of thousands of poor children and families in our area, Published by Local Media Connection LLC uncertainty and need are distant from the celebrations and 1606 King Street plenty that so many of us associate with this holiday period. Alexandria, Virginia 22314 Free digital edition delivered to your email box. Go to he holidays are about giving, and In Fairfax County Public Schools, more than and the holiday season. connectionnewspapers.com/subscribe giving thanks. The holidays are 54,000 students (29 percent) are poor enough Hundreds of homeless students attend the Tabout children and family. The holi- to receive subsidized meals. public schools, and their needs are greater. NEWS DEPARTMENT: days are about sharing, about joy. Many are children living in families who may Many nonprofits in the region need your help [email protected] The holidays are about being thankful and be on the brink of homelessness, families who to provide holiday meals around Christmas, to Kemal Kurspahic about faith and appreciation. The holi- must choose between medical bills, car provide children with gifts. Editor ❖ 703-778-9414 days are about alleviating suffering for Editorial repair, heat and food. Some of these There are literally hundreds, probably thou- [email protected] others. are children who may not be sure that sands, of ways to give locally this season, for Northern Virginia is among the they will have a meal between the humans in need, for animals in need, for an Andrea Worker Contributing Writer wealthiest areas in the country. Many if not meals they get in school. environment in need. Here are a few ideas. [email protected] most of us go through our daily and seasonal School holidays can bring uncertainty and Please let us know what we have missed. routines without encountering evidence of the hunger, a far cry from the celebrations, gifts — Mary Kimm Jean Card needy families among us. and plenty that we associate with Christmas [email protected] Production Editor [email protected] Where to Give Locally ADVERTISING: ❖ Cornerstones, 11150 Sunset Hills works to respond to critical need and ❖ Shepherd’s Center of Oakton greater Fairfax City area of Fairfax For advertising information Road, Suite 210, Reston, serving seed innovation in our region. Your Vienna providing services, personal County. FISH responds to requests e-mail: Reston and Herndon. 571-323-9555, gift helps us make grants in our focus enrichment, volunteer opportunities for life’s necessities: food, clothing, [email protected] www.cornerstonesva.org. areas of interest while also bringing a for adults 50 and over. Currently financial assistance for delinquent 703-778-9431 Nonprofit providing support and spotlight on the benefits of serving 3,000-plus mature adults in rent, mortgage, utility bills, gasoline, advocacy for those in need of food, community philanthropists the region. 703-281-0538, and prescriptions. 703-222-0880 Steve Hogan shelter, affordable housing, quality www.cfnova.org/for-donors/donate- www.scov.org fairfaxfish.org/ Display Advertising, 703-778-9418 childcare, and other human services. now [email protected] Programs and services include the ❖ Touching Heart in Herndon is a ❖ Lamb Center, Embry Rucker Community Shelter, ❖ LINK, serving Herndon, Chantilly, nonprofit organization whose mission www.thelambcenter.org, day center Debbie Funk Emergency Food Pantry, Loudoun and more. Every year the is to educate children to have giving for homeless, Fairfax 703-691-3178. National Sales Hypothermia Prevention Program, goal is to provide each family with a hearts. www.touchingheart.com, 703-778-9444 ❖ Gifts for Kids and annual Coat Drive. week’s worth of non-perishable food 703-901-7355. Food for Others Located at 2938 [email protected] For families in need, often there isn’t in November and again in December. Prosperity Ave., Fairfax, VA 22031, enough money to spend on gifts. To When funds allow, grocery gift cards ❖ Western Fairfax Christian 703-207-9173. 2938 Prosperity Ave. David Griffin register for the Gifts for Kids drive, are also included. In November, Ministries — 4511 Daly Drive, [email protected]. Most needed Marketing Assistant visit https:// clients also receive a voucher for Suite J, Chantilly, VA 20151 in items include: Fresh fruits, fresh www.cornerstonesva.org/gifts-for- coats and warm clothing. In Chantilly. For more information or to vegetables, canned chili, canned 703-778-9431 kids-donation-form/. Personalized December, children 16 and under sponsor a family, call Jennie Bush, tomato products , canned meat, rice, [email protected] wish lists will be distributed within receive gifts. Community Outreach Manager at 16 oz packages, spaghetti sauce, 14 two business days of your [email protected]. 703- 703-988-9656, ext. 107. To mail gift oz – 1lb (ideally in cans instead of Classified & Employment submission. 437-1776 cards or send donations by check, glass), canned fruit (packed in fruit Advertising Gifts will be collected at Cornerstones’ www.linkagainsthunger.org. send them to: WFCM, P.O. Box juice instead of syrup) 11oz – 20oz, 703-778-9431 main office, 11150 Sunset Hills Road, 220802, Chantilly, VA 20153. beans, dried or canned, canned pasta. Suite 210, Reston, VA 20190, during ❖ Committee for Helping Others @WFCM_VA www.foodforothers.org the following times: (CHO), Vienna, organized in 1969 by Editor & Publisher Thursday, Dec. 6 and Friday, Dec. 7: 9 a group of churches and individuals ❖ FACETS helps parents, their children ❖ Ecumenical Community Helping Mary Kimm a.m.
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