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Regulating Home Based Childcare Providers in Virginia (2014)

 (Dec 15, 2014) Joining me on Inside Scoop Virginia were Mary Braxton of Prince William County and Kandy Hilliard of Stafford County. Our discussion is about the lack of regulation in daycare homes, where many of Virginia’s 394,000 children are cared for each day. Mary Braxton is a home based daycare provider in Prince…

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Cameron’s Coffee & Chocolates Celebrates their 1st Year

(October 1, 2014) Cameron’s Coffee & Chocolates celebrated their first year in business! A non-profit enterprise that was created to employ intellectually and developmentally disabled young adults, they now have 4 full-time and 6 part-time IDD employees on staff. It’s been a great year of many “firsts” and the community of Fairfax City has embraced…

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Our Daily Bread – Empty Bowls Event

(February 2014) Our Daily Bread, Inc. (ODB) in Fairfax, VA is a local non-profit that has been providing emergency assistance to residents of Fairfax City and County for 30 years. Each February we host a community event called “Empty Bowls” to raise money and awareness of food insecurity that exists among our neighbors. I’ve been…

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Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys

(November 2013) The Bishop Walker School for Boys (BWS) is located in SE Washington, DC. It’s a tuition free school affiliated with the Episcopal Diocese of Washington serving low-income families in the area. The school’s mission is to nurture the spiritual, intellectual, social, physical and artistic development of these children in a Christian community that…

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We Care to Share – Medical Mission to Haiti

(January 2013) We Care to Share (WCTS) is a non sectarian, 100% volunteer, mission of doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists and lay people serving the needs of remote villages in Southwestern Haiti. Led by Father Yves Francois under the 501c(3) of his church, WCTS formed following the disastrous 2010 earthquake. Since then we have provided 10…

Paris in October

(October 2012) My husband Tom and I traveled to Paris in October for a week’s stay at the Hotel Observatoire Luxembourg, located on the left bank in the heart of the Latin Quarter near the Luxembourg Garden. We connected with friends from the states, Len and Betsy Homer, who have a flat nearby off the…

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