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The City of Alexandria Announces Fall 2015 Tree & Shrub Sale and Community Planting Event: Be Cool – Plant a tree!
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Partnership for a Healthier Alexandria - Community Meeting
Please join Partnership members, community leaders and community mem
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Celebrate the beginning of construction on Four Mile Run Park with the community groundbreaking ceremony held at The Conservatory Center at Four Mile Run Park, 4109 Mount Vernon Ave. For more information, please visit: http://www.alexandriava.gov/recreation/info/default.aspx?id=84684.
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ANNOUNCING THE WINNERS OF THE GREEN IDEAS CHALLENGE:
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This Community Shredding Event is hosted by the YMCA, Patriot Shredding and Halt, Buzas & Powell on Saturday, May 17 from 9am-12pm at 420 E. Monroe St.

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On Friday May 16, 2014 Commuter Connections and the Washington Area Bicyclist Association invite you to j
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Registration is required. At this workshop you will learn how to build, install and maintain a rain barrel, and take one home! Cost for a build your own barrel is $55 for each barrel with PayPal/credit card payment or by check. Limit 2 rain barrels per household at each workshop.
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What better place for learning through the arts than outdoors? Exuberant and boisterous or contemplative and inspired, in all its forms-dance, music, storytelling, drama, poetry, drawing, painting, sculpture and weaving-there are many great reasons to experience the arts outdoors.
This year's conference will feature:
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Daniel Waller and his students at Lyles Crouch Elementary are on their way to making their brilliant Green Idea happen!
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Virginia, Maryland and D.C. are filled with beautiful and bountiful trees, flowers, gardens and wilderness. Why not help preserve some of the beauty by volunteering for National Public Lands Day this Saturday, September 29th.
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How would you make Alexandria a greener, more sustainable community?
Eco-City Alexandria, Alexandria Environmental Policy Commission, and ACTion Alexandria have teamed up to launch the Alexandria Green Ideas Challenge. We asked Alexandria citizens to share their ideas for creating a greener, more sustainable community.
All the ideas have been submitted and now it's time to vote for the winners!
Prizes

The best three citizen ideas will win a total of $500 in cash prizes and a chance at $2,000 in mini grants to turn their Green Idea into a reality.
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Come one, come all! It's time to get dirty. On November 12th, we'll be cleaning up the Holmes Run Parkway area with a rain date set for November 19th. It is a great way to give back to the community and to teach our kids about littering. We'll be meeting at the Beatley Bridge. Garbage bags will be available for you to use, but you'll want to bring your own gloves to the site.
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Check out one of these events this weekend!
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Each month, Northern Virginia Conservation Trust (NVCT) holds an invasive plant removal event at Dora Kelley Park. This month will be a little different. The park greatly needs help repairing some of the trails. After Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Nate rolled through our area, the park received a great deal of water and flooding. Many of the trails were damaged as a result, and the staff has had to spend a lot of time returning them to a user-friendly state.
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The Bike Repair Fair will be a free event held Sunday, October 23rd starting at 12:00PM in the Arlandria Community on Elbert Avenue. This event will provide the tools and volunteer support to locals who need their bike fixed or have questions about their bikes.
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This event will provide free bike maintenance and support to local Arlandrians. This event is sponsored by Velocity Bike Cooperative, which will provide the tools necessary for this repair fair.
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The Department of Recreation, Parks and Cultural Activities conducted a Parks and Recreation Needs Assessment Survey during May and June of 2011. The purpose of the survey was to establish priorities for the future development of parks, recreation, cultural facilities, programs and services within your community.
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With all this rain and flooding, I'm not too crazy about being outside right now. Though the rain may let up a bit for the weekend, it's still pretty soggy, muddy and flooded around town. What to do?
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Starting Monday, August 8th, you will see an exciting new addition under construction at City Hall. The City is installing vegetative “green” roofing on the East and West courtyard structures of City Hall, funded by a grant received through the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s, Department of Energy’s, Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program.
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Applications now being accepted for volunteer training for the Fall 2011 Class of Arlington Regional Master Naturalists!
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George Washington Middle School sponsored science and service work day project at Four Mile Run Park in the City of Alexandria, with Earth Force and the City of Alexandria Dept. RPCA, Horticulture and Natural Resources Section. On June 13, GW Middle School students, instructors, and site leaders gathered along the tidal shore and mudflats of Four Mile Run to remove the invasive exotic Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), collect water quality data, study macroinvertebrates, and clean-up litter.
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Go Green! Alexandria is starting their summer film series with "Gasland: There's Something In the Water."
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Friday, May 6th
NVCT Invasive Plant Pull
12pm
Chinquapin Park Rec Center, Alexandria
Join TC Williams students for an invasive plant removal
Spring for Alexandria!
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The Clean City and Environment Quality of Life Indicators help us measure the extent to which we live in an Alexandria where our houses, streets, neighborhoods and parks are clean and well-kept, free of garbage, environmental hazards and pests so that everyone can fully enjoy our beautiful city.
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