Don’t forget to honor mom this weekend. Here’s a list of some fun activities happening in our area.
Prince William County
5/8 & 5/9 – Mother’s Day Tours at all Prince William County Historic Sites – (County Wide) – 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.; Free for Mothers and children under 6. Does your Mom enjoy history, visiting beautiful historic houses, picturesque gardens, and hearing juicy, dramatic stories of the past? Then treat her to a tour of one of Prince William County’s historic sites for Mother’s Day!
5/8 Flower Workshop for Mother’s Day – (Haymarket) This free workshop is an hour and a half exercise for Mother’s Day.
5/8 Mother’s Day Event at Ornery Beer Company (Manassas) Come treat yourself or that special lady in your life, while shopping with the Ornery Beer Co. team! Vendors will be selling some amazing items and they will have candle making available on site that afternoon too (addition fee does apply for this activity.)
5/8 & 5/9 Mother’s Day Weekend at Out of the Blue Seafood (Gainesville) It’s Blue Crab Season! Call ahead to dine in OR enjoy the family tradition of Blue Crabs at home with one of their carry-out bundle deals!
5/9 Mother’s Day Brunch at Bristow Manor Golf Club – (Bristow) Join the Bristow Manor team for a special server-attended brunch buffet to celebrate Mom this year.
5/9 Mother’s Day Flights & Cupcakes at Water’s End Brewery (Lake Ridge & Potomac Mills Locations) Enjoy this Mother’s Day special – Flight & Cupcakes from Confections Cupcakery at both Lake Ridge and Potomac Mills locations
Fredericksburg
5/8 Walking tour through Mother Mary’s ‘hood: Join a guide from Hallowed Ground Tours, in cooperation with the Washington Heritage Museums, for an approximately 8-block, 1-1/2 hour walk around the neighborhood and through the streets that Mary Washington, herself, would have walked in the 18th Century.
5/8 Day Tea in the garden at Historic Kenmore: Guests will meet “Mary Washington” and her daughter “Betty Washington Lewis” as they discuss some of the parallels of their lives, walk in their footsteps on a tour of Betty’s home, and finally join them for tea in the beautiful Historic Kenmore garden.
Stafford County
5/9 Mothers Day Brunch at 6 Bears and a Goat Brewery: Treat your Mother to a delicious brunch buffet and cold beer (or wine)!
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To celebrate Air Quality Awareness Week (May 6-10, 2024), Clean Air Partners is working with A Few Cool Hardware Stores to exchange DC, Maryland and Virginia residents’ gas-powered lawnmowers, trimmers, and leaf blowers at select Ace Hardware locations in the region. DMV residents who turn in their gas-powered lawn tools will receive a FREE Ego Power+ replacement including batteries and chargers, while supplies last.
Compared to gas, electric lawn equipment can reduce emissions, noise pollution, health risks and maintenance costs and time. The program aims to remove about a hundred gas-powered polluting tools from yards in the greater Baltimore-Washington region.
The exchanges will take place the weekends of May 17-19, 2024, and May 31-June 2, 2024, at A Few Cool Hardware Stores network of employee-owned Ace Hardware stores in the DC and Baltimore metro areas. To participate and get your free Ego Power+ lawn tool, sign up at https://qrco.de/CAPExchange to reserve your tool and select your trade-in date and location.
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Free Irish Music Concert
Welcoming Spring with music from the Emerald Isle, the New Dominion Choraliers offer a FREE concert on Saturday, April 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the First United Presbyterian Church of Dale City.
Joined by Legacy Brass and members of Old
Spring Ceili: An Irish Music Festival
The New Dominion Choraliers of Prince William County and McGrath Morgan Academy of Irish Dance invite you to join them at our Ceili, a grand celebration of Irish music and dance.
A gathering of performance groups throughout Prince William County
