Virginia Hospital Center Chair of Emergency Medicine Selected as Medical Director of the Year by Alteon Health
Virginia Hospital Center (VHC), a community-based hospital providing medical services to the Washington, DC metropolitan area for 75 years, is pleased to announce Michael Silverman, MD, FACEP, chair of emergency medicine, was recently selected as one of five 2020 Facility Medical Directors of the Year by Alteon Health, the industry-leading national medical group that has managed VHC’s emergency medicine program since 2001.
The Arlington Rotary Club has honored school counselor Laurie Dodson as Arlington Key Elementary School’s “Educator of the Year” and presented two Arlington high school students scholarships totaling $18,000 at the club’s annual education awards event.
“The awards reflect Arlington Rotary’s ongoing commitment to education,” said the club’s interim Education Fund President Steve Klemp. “We are proud to honor a leader of the present and two leaders of the future. They are assets for our community.”
Arlington parents frustrated by Arlington Public Schools’ unwillingness to add more in-person instructional days this school year will rally ahead of the next school board meeting to let their voices be heard.
More than a year later, Arlington Public School students are without full-time in-person instruction. Arlington is in the clear minority: more than 2/3 of Virginia districts have returned a substantial portion of their students to full-time in-person instruction; more than 60% of students nationwide are in classrooms five days a week. And this week Fairfax County, the state’s largest and Loudoun, its third largest, returned students to more days of in-person instruction.
Today, we waited with bated breath for confirmation of what we all witnessed–that Derek Chauvin, after the 9 minutes that we were forced to watch ad nauseum, murdered George Floyd. Over the past 330 days, the US’s “justice” system has gaslit an entire nation into thinking that there was even a fraction of a doubt that Floyd was murdered in cold blood. This “justice” system, while today handed down a verdict that provides accountability, cannot, and will not, ever restore justice.
Justice is when a Black photographer can visit a client without being harassed by both neighbors and law enforcement.
Cerdafied Dance Studios is ready to get the DMV moving at the Takeoff to Takeover pop-up workshop on Saturday, April 25 at Clarendon Pop-Up Bar (3185 Wilson Blvd). D.C.-area native and Billboard-charting recording artist Jason Cerda and co-founder Rahna Faddoul are bringing together an exclusive lineup of nationally recognized and local dancers to lead a day of intensive classes in street jazz, hip-hop, heels, contemporary and more with music spun by DJ Reckless.
Cerdafied Dance Studios is a training facility for dancers skilled in myriad styles looking to learn from industry veterans. Before the studio takes its Takeover dance convention to major dance cities across the nation, Takeoff to Takeover will offer DMV dancers an exclusive preview of what’s ahead.
Arlington, VA – Washington Workplace, an award-winning commercial office furniture dealer in Arlington, teamed up with Business Furniture Installations (BFI) and a nonprofit alumni association to donate unused office furniture to Pioneer Middle School in Senegal, in West Africa.
Washington Workplace Design Team Lead Ashley Prout coordinated the company’s donation. Prout’s husband, Lamine Ly, is a Senegal native who attended the school. Senegal’s literacy rate is one of the lowest in the world, and Ly’s alumni group started the nonprofit last year with a mission to renovate their school. Their initiatives include updating restrooms, creating a library with books and upgrading each classroom.
Longtime CEO of the Arlington Partnership for Affordable Housing Nina Janopaul will retire June 30, 2021, after a remarkable 14-year career at the helm of the organization, leading APAH through a period of transition and rapid expansion. The APAH Board has appointed Executive Vice President Carmen Romero to lead APAH into its ambitious next phase of growth and service. Ms. Romero takes over leadership of APAH as its new President and CEO on July 1, 2021.
During her tenure, Ms. Janopaul led APAH from the Great Recession of 2008 through a period of exponential growth. Ms. Janopaul joined APAH in 2007, rounding out a full-time staff of three. Since then, APAH has grown to an organization of 38 full-time professionals. Ms. Janopaul also oversaw a rapid increase in its affordable housing facilities, from 534 units to 1,800–and there are an additional 1,000 units in active development.
Arlington’s pandemic-stressed safety net organizations received an infusion of funds from the Kiwanis Foundation of Arlington this month. The Foundation, the charitable arm of the Kiwanis Club of Arlington, distributed more than $50,000 to the Arlington Food Assistance Center, Arlington THRIVE, The Salvation Army, ASPIRE, Bridges to Independence, PRS Crisis Link, Doorways, Capital Caring, YMCA, Arlington 4-H, National Capital Treatment & Recovery, VHC Pediatrics and other non-profits serving children in the community.
“Kiwanis, according to its mission statement, is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time,” says Jason Harrington, president of the Kiwanis Club of Arlington. “Our Club has a 90-year history of supporting the youngest and the neediest among us.”
The annual Easter Sunrise Service, hosted by Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, will be live-streamed via JBM-HH Facebook beginning at 6:30 a.m. Sunday, April 4, from Arlington National Cemetery.
This year, the Easter Sunrise Service will be held at the event’s traditional location – Arlington National Cemetery’s Memorial Amphitheater. Due to COVID-19 mitigation protocols and limitations on large group gatherings, this year’s service will be virtual – live-streamed for public viewing.
Introduced by House Majority Whip Alfonso Lopez (D-Arlington), HB 2128 was one of the first pieces of legislation signed into law by Virginia Governor Ralph Northam before the end of the session. The bill expands the amount of time state police and agencies have to conduct a background check on a ‘default proceed’ gun sale, from 3 days to 5 days.
Individuals who buy a gun from a licensed dealer must undergo a background check. Prior to this year, Virginia law enforcement officials only had three business days to complete this check and if the background check wasn’t completed within that time, dealers were allowed to sell the firearm anyway. This is known as a “default proceed” sale.
Our hearts are breaking. We are angry. We are grieving. We are committed.
The Arlington Interfaith Network stands with the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community of Atlanta after the heinous murder of eight people on March 16, six of whom were Asian American.
