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Cameron’s Coffee & Chocolates Celebrates their 1st Year

ByCatherine Read October 1, 2014August 25, 2022

(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…

Entrepreneurship | Good Books | Virginia

Factory Man – Beth Macy

ByCatherine Read September 3, 2014October 8, 2014

“He may be an asshole, but when he’s your asshole, that’s a very good thing.” Garet Bosiger. A wonderful book that is about the past, the present and the possibilities of the future. It’s a reality check for the global economic theories of the 21st century that look good on paper, and even make sense…

Good Books | Political | Virginia

Deer Hunting with Jesus

ByCatherine Read August 11, 2014October 24, 2022

Subtitled: Dispatches from America’s Class War. This book is still relevant and important despite it’s publication date of 2007. Joe Bageant wrote this before Obama was elected, but the vast majority of what he has to say is still very true. Some of it has been true for hundreds of years. I saw myself in his…

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The State of Women in Virginia Politics

ByCatherine Read July 31, 2014March 19, 2016

(July 28, 2014) As a sometimes guest host on the cable show Inside Scoop Virginia, I am given free rein to choose both my guests and the topic of the show. This is the second show I have done in the past year on the subject of women in Virginia politics. My guest for this…

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Remembering Teddy Goodson

ByCatherine Read July 29, 2014March 19, 2016

(August 2014) Theodora “Teddy” Goodson was iconic in Northern Virginia for both her success and longevity as a local Realtor, and also for her passion for politics. She was the listing agent on a home I purchased in Fairfax City in 2000 and the buyer’s agent for the condo we purchased at Providence Square in…

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Our Daily Bread – Empty Bowls Event

ByCatherine Read February 1, 2014March 19, 2016

(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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Cameron’s Coffee & Chocolates

ByCatherine Read January 30, 2014March 19, 2016

(January 2014) Cameron’s Coffee & Chocolates opened on October 1, 2013 in Fairfax, VA. This is the first business enterprise of the non-profit Every 1 Can Work founded by Jim and Ellen Graham of McLean, VA. The goal of Every 1 Can Work is to create jobs for intellectually disabled young people like their daughter…

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Marriage Equality – Standing on the Side of Love

ByCatherine Read February 14, 2012March 19, 2016

(Feb. 14, 2012) Fairfax, VA. Valentine’s Day 2012 was a special one for Kären Rasmussen and Barb Brehm. They went to the Fairfax County Courthouse seeking a marriage license knowing full well they would be turned away. It was an opportunity to raise awareness about the fight for marriage equality in the Commonwealth of Virginia….

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Two Cups of Tea at the Dry Cleaners

ByCatherine Read January 22, 2012August 26, 2022

(Jan. 22, 2012) – One of my new favorite books is Tom Peter’s “The Little Big Things.” I heard Tom speak about the book a couple of years ago at Debbie Weil’s “Sweets & Tweets” event at Baked & Wired in Georgetown. Tom was everything I imagined he would be in person – and so…

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The Future of Housing

ByCatherine Read January 19, 2012August 4, 2014

(Jan. 19, 2012) Cardinal Bank and George Mason University hosted their 20th Annual Economic Conference at the Ritz Carlton in Tyson’s Corner on Jan. 13, 2012. It was a capacity crowd of 600 that required additional chairs in the ballroom. The speakers included the Washington Post‘s Neil Irvin, Dr. Stephen Fuller PhD of GMU, several…