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More... Categories: Neighborhoods Tags: Alexandria, arlandia, virginia Add new comment 03/21/2013 Kevin Beekman The Arlandrian @Arlandrian How to fix everything. Except streetlights.                   The City of Alexandria has been quietly rolling out a new issue reporting system on their website: alexandriava.gov over the last few years. Back in March of 2011, we reported about a nifty new GIS-based system that not only allows you to help locate the problem on a map, it also offers you the ability to upload supporting documents or pictures and retains the request for you under your account so you can check back later to see the results. More... Categories: Neighborhoods Tags: Alexandria, call.click.connect, city of alexandria, street lights Add new comment 03/14/2013 Kevin Beekman The Arlandrian @Arlandrian The Economic Case for Bike, Walk, & Transit Former Alexandria Small Business Facilitator Tom Fairchild makes the case for positive economic impacts of bike, pedestrian and transit facilities in a post at More... Categories: Neighborhoods Tags: Alexandria, Bicycle, bike, budget, city, lanes, Pedestrian, Transit, transportation, virginia Add new comment 11/09/2012 Kevin Beekman The Arlandrian @Arlandrian 4MR Market Report: 10% of Produce Sales go to Red Cross Relief!! With regular season ended, this Sunday, 4MRMarket morphs into the Four Mile Run Holiday Market. THIS JUST IN: C&T Produce has offered to donate 10% of sales to the Red Cross to aid Hurricane Sandy storm relief!! Come look for us inside the Four Mile Run Park building. While smaller than the regular season, there will be plenty of produce and specialty items available to help you prepare for Thanksgiving in a couple weeks. More... Categories: Arts & Culture, Food & Shelter Tags: Alexandria, farmers market, four mile run market report, holiday market Add new comment 11/02/2012 Kevin Beekman The Arlandrian @Arlandrian Harvest Festival This Sunday, Nov. 4th! This Sunday, 4MRMarket will host our annual Harvest Festival. More... Categories: Food & Shelter, Neighborhoods Tags: Alexandria, alexandria farmer's markets, Four Mile Run, four mile run farmer's market, harvest festival Add new comment 1 2 3 4 5 next › last » Share: Share Featured Idea Caring for Kids Grant Challenge 6 solutions so far... Featured User Posts Alexandrians Respond to Boston Tragedy on Spring2ACTion – Alexandria’s Giving Day 04/16/2013 Tracy Viselli ACTion Alexandria @actionalexva    Alexandrians Respond to Boston Tragedy on Spring2ACTion – Alexandria’s Giving Day 24 hours of giving to bring thousands of dollars to support Alexandria charities and the Boston community More... Categories: Arts & Culture, Education, Environment, Food & Shelter, Health, Neighborhoods Tags: Alexandria, boston, boston foundation, charities, charity, community, donate, donations, event, spring to action, spring2action, tragedy, virginia Add new comment Get Ready for Spring2ACTion on April 17! 04/05/2013 Tracy Viselli ACTion Alexandria @actionalexva   What if we all gave one one day? On Wednesday, April 17, our community will come together for 24 hours of unprecedented giving. More... Categories: Arts & Culture, Education, Environment, Food & Shelter, Health, Neighborhoods Tags: 2013, Alexandria, charity, crowdunding, donation, fundraise, nonprofit, online, spring2action, virginia Add new comment ACTion Alexandria Celebrates 2 Years of Community Action, Ideas and Impact 02/11/2013 Tracy Viselli ACTion Alexandria @actionalexva Happy Second Anniversary to You! We're celebrating our second anniversary this month and it's More... Categories: Arts & Culture, Education, Environment, Food & Shelter, Health, Neighborhoods Tags: act for alexandria, action alexandria, ACTion Heroes, anniversary, civic, community, engagement, impact, second Add new comment Get Email Updates Email Address: * First Name: * Last Name: * Featured Org Posts National Day of Service in Alexandria Posted on: 01/16/2013 by Volunteer Alexandria Come help kick off inauguration weekend with a celebration to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and volunteer! On Saturday, January 19th, hundreds of volunteers will assist nonprofit agencies providing services to people in need as well as provide educational activities to children and youth. In Alexandria, volunteers are needed to assist children and teenagers creating a story book. Volunteers are needed for set up, registration, implementing arts and crafts projects, clean up, and much more. Adult volunteers are needed to facilitate discussion groups with a smaller group of children. Interested adults should contact Jason Ellis at jellis@arha.us. Teenagers are needed to create activities prior to event day. Interested youth should contact Shawn Thorpe at shawn.thorpe@acps.k12.va.us.   More... Tags: Martin Luther King Jr Day, national day of service, volunteer Add new comment Join Project Play for Play Dates in Alexandria Posted on: 09/07/2012 by ACTion Alexandria Come play with us at playgrounds across Alexandria! Community at Play is a series of play dates to get parents and children to experience local playgrounds you haven't heard about yet or that have been recently improved thanks to the Project Play Spruce Up Grants. Each event will have different activities like bubble blowing, sprinklers and more. More... Categories: Neighborhoods Tags: ACOAN, alexandria play dates, Alexandria playgrounds, alexandria project play, childhood obesity, project play Add new comment There's No Place Like Home: Community Lodgings Begins Long Awaited Renovations Posted on: 09/04/2012 by Community Lodgings  On Tuesday September 4th, the transformation of one of Community Lodgings’ five apartment buildings will begin – a full-fledged renovation! When I took over as Executive Director seven years ago, I set a long-term goal to ensure all our families lived in safe, comfortable homes. Over the years, out of sheer financial necessity, I was forced to take a “band-aid” approach to building repairs. Seven years later, with help from HomeAid Northern Virginia, Pulte Homes and the City of Alexandria, our long-term goal becomes reality. More... Categories: Food & Shelter Tags: Alexandria, community lodgings, families, homeless, independence, renovation, transistion, virginia Add new comment Subscribe to Our Blog Get our blog feed Home Login Signup Privacy Policy Become a Sponsor Contact Us TOS & Community Guidelines © 2013 ACTion Alexandria | Hosting generously provided by Forum One