Congratulations Neighbors! We’re proud of you

By Bobbi Bowman, The McLean Ear

Congratulations neighbors  on a job well done. We turned out in record numbers Saturday to elect six members of the McLean Community Center Board.

We cast 780 adult ballots, nearly double the 470 cast last year.

We have three major citizen boards in McLean but the Community Center board is the only one that’s elected and that spends millions of our  tax dollars.

Virginia’s First Lady Reminisces about Living in McLean

By Bobbi Bowman, The McLean Ear

Virginia First Lady Maureen McDonnell chats with Jack Beers.

MCLEAN, VA –Virginia’s First Lady Maureen McDonnell lived in McLean for four years and remembers riding her bicycle from her family’s home near Langley High School to Great Falls and seeing not one house.

“McLean is a wonderful place to live if you work in the city. . . It’s still quaint and has that charm of a rural area.” Mrs. McDonnell reminisced about McLean Tuesday night when she and her husband Gov. Robert McDonnell attended the annual spring benefit for the McLean Project for the Arts (MPA).

About 250 people jammed the McLean home of  Georgia and John Nassikas and the tents setup on the lawn for the annual benefit. This is usually a garden party, but in last night’s chilly temperatures folks bundled up in coats, jackets and shawls.

McLean Board Meets Behind Closed Doors

By Bobbi Bowman, The McLean Ear

MCLEAN, VA –  A committee of the McLean Community Center board met behind closed doors Tuesday night to discuss their decades-long partnership with the McLean Project for the Arts whose gallery and studio are located in the Community Center.

MPA runs the Center’s Visual Arts program and pays a yearly fee of about $20,000  for 2000 square feet of space, under their 21-year-old agreement.

McLean Day This Week in McLean

Tuesday May 11, Noon, McLean Rotary, Jan Scruggs, father of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Lutheran Church of the Redeemer
1545 Chain Bridge Road Fellowship Hall.

7 pm. McLean Project for the Arts, Spring  fundraiser . Gov. Robert McDonnell, guest of honor. Contact: streanor@mpaart.org or call 703-790-1953.

7 pm. Kent Gardens PTA Meeting, Media Center.

7 pm. McLean Community Players Auditions for Little Women, The Musical, McLean Committee Center, 1234 Ingleside Ave.

7:30pm. Chesterbrook Elementary School PTA Meeting.

Wednesday May 12, 7:30 am. Greater McLean Chamber of Commerce, Breakfast Series, Converting to a green business.

7:30 pm. McLean Community Center Program Committee, McLean Committee Center, 1234 Ingleside Ave.

7 p.m. Old Firehouse Teen Center, Open House for Rising 7th-Graders

Thursday, May 13, Churchill Rd. Elementary PTA, Exploratory Arts Room.

Friday, May 14, 7:30 pm, Spring Hill Elementary, Family Astronomy Night, Turner Farm.

Saturday, May 15, McLean Day, Lewinsville Park, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Residents will elect four adults and two students members to the McLean Community Center board that oversees the center’s $17.4 million in funds and its operations.  Lewinsville Park, 1659 Chain Bridge Rd.

Youth candidates, one from the McLean High School boundary area and one from the Langley High School boundary area. Youth candidates do not have to attend these schools to serve on the board. Absentee ballots  through Wednesday, May 12. Residents may pick up an absentee ballot package at the Center’s reception desk, or may call the Center at 703-790-0123, TTY: 711, or send a request by E-mail, to have the package mailed to their homes. Completed ballots must be received by the Center by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, May 12.

11 am. Claude Moore Colonial Farm, Market Fair. Continues thru Sunday.

Sunday May 16, 3 pm. Doug Berky presents Gems: The World’s Wisdom Stories, McLean Committee Center, 1234 Ingleside Ave.

Monday, May 17, 7:30 pm. McLean High PTSA.

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Put a Smile on Someone’s Face – Maybe Even Your Own

Help make Vinson Hall Retirement Community’s “Fun Fest 2010” a success by volunteering your time.
The Fun Fest is June 5th from 10am to 4pm at Vinson Hall, which is located at 6251 Old Dominion Dr.
Vinson Hall is looking for people willing to work two-hour shifts running a game booth, selling tickets, or staffing one of the stands selling tasty treats.
In addition to games and food, there will be plenty of entertainment including the Fairfax Youth Symphonic Orchestra, Bach to Rock, the McLean Presbyterian Choir, and the Vinson Hall Vixens Dance Ensemble.
The rain date is June 12. To volunteer, contact Phil DuBois at (703) 538-2994 or philipd@vinsonhall.org.

Virginia Gov. McDonnell headlines McLean Project for the Arts Benefit Tuesday

If you have $225 to spend and an empty spot on your social calendar Tuesday night, you might want to attend the Spring Benefit of the McLean Project for the Arts.

Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, a Republican is the guest of honor for the cocktail/garden party along with an estimated 300 – 400 other folks supporting the arts. Gov. Thomas Kaine, a Democrat,  was the guest of honor last year.