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Two-term Alexandria School Board Member Jacinta Greene vies for City Council

Published June 11, 2024 at 3:45PM | Updated June 11, 2024 at 4:14PM

Alexandria City Council candidate and School Board Member Jacinta Greene and her supporters marching in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Old Town, March 2, 2024 (staff photo by James Cullum)

Jacinta Greene says that her two three-year terms on the Alexandria School Board have prepared her for City Council.

Greene faces 10 opponents for the six City Council spots in contention for the June 18 primary. She’s running against four incumbent City Council Members, against a fellow School Board Member, two candidates who are running for their second chance at the nomination after losing in 2021, and some newcomers. She’s raised about $50,000 for her campaign, and as of June 5 has about $31,000 in the bank, according to recently released quarterly finance reports.

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Fundraiser launched for Alexandria Police officer after tragedy

By James Cullum

Published June 7, 2024 at 1:30PM

A fundraiser was launched to help APD officer Douglass Servern II and his family recover from a recent tragedy (via Police Benevolent Foundation)

A fundraiser has been launched to help an Alexandria Police Department officer and his family recover from a recent tragedy.

Officer Douglass Servern and his fiancée, Felicia, were expecting twins, but she was involved in a serious vehicle crash and both children were born prematurely and died shortly thereafter.

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Spring2ACTion eclipses goal and raises $2.9 million for Alexandria nonprofits

By James Cullum

Published April 25, 2024 at 11:00AM | Updated April 25, 2024 at 12:51PM

(Photo via Runningbrooke/Facebook)

Alexandria’s biggest giving day has done it again. On Wednesday, ACT for Alexandria raised $2.9 million for 188 nonprofits.

The final tally will keep changing as donations will continue on the Spring2ACTion website until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, April 28.

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With $2.5 million goal, early giving for Alexandria’s Spring2ACTion fundraiser is about to start

By James Cullum

Published April 5, 2024 at 2:45PM | Updated April 6, 2024 at 3:22AM

(Photo via Runningbrooke/Facebook)

Spring2ACTion, the biggest single-day fundraiser for the city’s nonprofits, is just around the corner, and so is early giving.

After raising a record-setting $2.9 million for 186 local nonprofits from 8,331 donors last year, ACT For Alexandria has, for the second-straight year, set the upcoming fundraising goal at $2.5 million. ACT also wants 10,000 donors for what will be their 14th annual fundraising bonanza.

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Irish folk music group playing at fundraiser in Old Town this weekend

By Vernon Miles

Published March 4, 2024 at 2:50PM

The Irish Breakfast Band (image via Art on the Avenue/Facebook)

Didn’t get enough Irish cultural celebration at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade this weekend? A group of musicians are celebrating Irish folk music at a concert in Alexandria this weekend.

The Irish Breakfast Band — a group consisting of around 15 musicians with a variety of fiddles, flutes, hammered dulcimers and more — is playing at the Lyceum (201 S. Washington Street) this Saturday (March 9) from 7-8:30 p.m.

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Alexandria small businesses and organizations partnering for Ukraine fundraiser

By Vernon Miles

Published February 14, 2024 at 2:00PM

Pysanky for sale at Made in ALX (image courtesy Made in ALX)

Buying a traditional decorated egg, called pysanky, in Alexandria will help support families affected by the war in Ukraine.

Creator collective Made in ALX is collaborating with local management consultant business The Critical Mass and a group of Ukranian-American artists led by Pysanky Steph to sell the decorated eggs and raise funds for Razom for Ukraine, a nonprofit that donates food and other kinds of support to Ukrainian families.

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Alexandria’s Pat Malone is standing up to cancer again for 24 hours straight

By James Cullum

Published January 11, 2024 at 2:30PM | Updated January 11, 2024 at 10:41PM

Alexandria's Pat Malone will stand up for 24 hours straight on Feb. 10 -11 for his 10th annual Stand Up To Cancer fundraising event (via Elza Daniel/Facebook)

For the 10th straight year, Alexandria resident Pat Malone will stand up to cancer for 24 hours straight starting Saturday, Feb. 10, at Fire Works Pizza in Arlington.

The event starts at 4:26 p.m. Saturday and ends the same time on Sunday. That’s the time that Malone remembers waking up from surgery to remove a hockey puck-sized cancerous malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor from his shoulder at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

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Dinner party fundraisers planned next month to support scholarships honoring Alexandria lynching victims

By Vernon Miles

Published October 11, 2023 at 9:45AM

Sign marking the lynching of Benjamin Thomas (image via City of Alexandria)

A set of dinners next month will help raise funding for local scholarships named after the victims of lynching in Alexandria.

The Alexandria Community Remembrance Project runs the scholarships in the names of Joseph McCoy and Benjamin Thomas, Black Alexandrians who were lynched in 1897 and 1899.

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Little Theatre of Alexandria hosting ‘The Laramie Project’ fundraiser this month

By Vernon Miles

Published October 2, 2023 at 2:45PM

Flyer by The Little Theatre of Alexandria

The Little Theatre of Alexandria (600 Wolfe Street) is hosting a pair of staged reading events over the next two weeks to commemorate the murder of Matthew Shepard and raise funding for The Matthew Shepard Foundation.

Shepard, a young gay man in Laramie, Wyoming, was beaten, tortured and killed in a hate crime. Shepard’s murder sparked awareness of and advocacy for hate crime legislation, including the launch of the LGBT nonprofit Matthew Shepard Foundation by his parents.

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Matt and Tony’s manager Mya Hall killed in Baltimore crash

By Vernon Miles

Published August 21, 2023 at 10:45AM

GoFundMe for Mya Hall, third from left (image via GoFundMe)

Mya Hall, a manager at Matt & Tony’s All Day Kitchen + Bar in Del Ray (1501 Mt Vernon Avenue) was killed Saturday morning in a single-vehicle crash on I-70 in Baltimore.

Hall, 28, leaves behind one son. Matt Sloan, owner of Matt & Tony’s, launched a GoFundMe to support Hall’s family. Sloan described Hall as a beloved friend who brightened everyone’s day with her smile and humor:

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Alexandria firefighters take to the streets next week for fundraiser campaign

By Vernon Miles

Published August 17, 2023 at 11:00AM

The Alexandria Fire Department is running its annual fundraiser for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) starting next week.

The Fill the Boot campaign is an annual drive run by the International Association of Fire Fighters Local 2141. This year, it kicks off on Wednesday, Aug. 23 and will run through Thursday, Aug. 31. Drivers around Alexandria can expect to see local firefighters along the side of the road looking for donations.