“Reston A to Z,” a book by author Watt Hamlett and illustrator Jill Olinger Vinson, hits select stores today.
The book takes young readers on a tour of the community and teaches them the story of how it came to be, led by none other than its famous founder — who takes the form of an animal named Robert E. Squirrel.
Annual Thanksgiving Food Drive Begins – Reston Town Center and Reston Community Centers are kicking off their annual Thanksgiving Food Drive today. Nonperishable items can be dropped off at a number of locations including the Hunters Woods and Lake Anne facilities and Reston Town Center building lobbies. Donations will distributed to underprivileged families and individuals throughout the area. [Reston Community Center]
Lions, Tigers and Candidates, Oh My – Halloween enthusiasts from all over came out to Reston Town Center this past weekend to show off their costumes, compete in the many contests and more. Spotted among the crowd were Elsas and Olafs, superheroes, Scooby Doos and even Hillary Clinton getting a piggy-back ride from Donald Trump. See a photo gallery on Modern Reston. [Modern Reston]
The proposed Lincoln apartment complex at Commerce Park Drive and the Lofts townhomes at Reston Station are on the agenda for about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Wiehle Station Ventures LLC is seeking to redevelop a surface level parking lot across the street from the Sunrise Valley convenience center and, beyond that, Reston National Golf Course, into a 260-unit Lincoln apartment building at Commerce Park, Association and Sunrise Valley drives. The property is also close to Soapstone Drive, where a future toll road crossing is planned.
Friday, Oct. 28
South Lakes High School’s Homecoming Parade – The annual Homecoming Parade marches from Hunters Woods Village Center to South Lakes High School, beginning at 5 p.m.
Officers from Fairfax County’s Reston District responded to the home, located in the 11000 block of Georgetown Pike, just before 10:30 p.m. on Oct. 25 after receiving a report of a man in the home. Police located the man inside the home and confronted him. The man then fled the home.
The suspect was described as a black man, around 45 years old, with an athletic build.
WebTrac, RA’s new online registration system, is expected to fully launch in January, but board members are encouraging residents to create their online accounts now and familiarize themselves with the new site, ahead of the launch.
WebTrac is separate from the association’s main website, www.reston.org, where many residents like to pay assessment fees and access disclosure documents. Residents will need to create a separate account to utilize WebTrac.
Started by Fairfax County, the Opportunity Neighborhood movement aims to identify areas of need, and provide resources that will allow all children to gain a strong academic foundation, family resilience, and “a culture of engagement and success,” representatives said.
The first neighborhood to join Opportunity Neighborhood was Mount Vernon in the Alexandria area. Reston will be the second neighborhood to become part of the program.
Officials hope the project will reduce traffic congestion, improve safety and enhance access to and from the busy Fairfax County Parkway.
Planned improvements include widening East Elden Street (Route 606) from four lanes to six between Herndon Parkway and Fairfax County Parkway, as well as improving access management from Van Buren Street to Herndon Parkway.
Langston Hughes Middle and South Lakes High schools were swarming with families on Sunday as the second annual NoVa Mini Maker Faire returned to Reston.
Part of the popular Maker Faire nationwide network of events, the NoVa Mini Maker Faire is geared toward school-age kids, celebrating innovation, imagination and the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and math) and showing kids that science can be fun.
Kristi Guidry, founder of Buy Nothing Reston, says nothing is for sale. The idea is “gifting” to your neighbors out of the kindness of your heart, and knowing that the kindness could come back to you if you’re ever in need of something as well.
Buy Nothing also promotes the idea of community, and of helping and getting to know your neighbors. When they say neighbors, they mean it, because everyone has to live within the Reston limits in order to join the group.
It’s not hard to find a Reston family with ties to Lake Anne Nursery Kindergarten. LANK, as the school is called, has been around nearly as long as Reston itself, and is celebrating its 50th anniversary in a big way in 2015.
And if you have ties to the school, they want you to be a part of it.
