Jewell Technical Consulting is the tech company of the year in Prince William, Manassas, and Manassas Park.
It took home the top honor from the Prince William Chamber of Commerce at the organization’s 2020 Business Awards, an annual event held at the Hylton Performing Arts Center on February 25.
JTC is an information technology cloud-based service company in Manassas. They are well known for designing and providing IT network server support to medium-sized businesses. JTC’s Vice President Kristen West says that they help customers who have little to no internal IT support.
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Updated March 4, 2020 | Due to the anticipated spread of the Coronavirus, Westminster at Lake Ridge has temporarily canceled all outside activities at their facilities, meaning the Lake Ridge Chorale performance of “Then and Now,” scheduled for Tuesday, March 10, in the Potomac Room of Westminster, has been canceled.
Original story | Singers who belong to the non-profit Lake Ridge Chorale have been belting out notes for a decade.
The choir plans to celebrate its 10th Anniversary by presenting its concert “Then and Now.”
The concert will be on March 13, at St. Mathew’s Lutheran Church between 9-9:30 p.m. They will be performing old and new favorites as well as their world premiere of Out of the Silence by composer Greg Gilpin.
The concert is free of charge, but financial donations and non-perishable food items will be collected to support three local charities ACTS, HUGS, and Kara Foundation. Over the past 10 years, they have distributed over $20,000 worth of food.Â
“We provide exposure to beautiful music and bring our community together in the enjoyment that pulls them out of their routines and into something a bit more uplifting,” said Lake Ridge Chorale Board President Liz Holmes.
Lake Ridge Chorale has grown in the last 10 years, and it is not without its struggles and highlights.Â
Lynn Godino, the chorale’s general manager, says that members have relocated because of work or illness. We started with twenty-five singers and now we have forty.Â
“In the past two years, we have grown 25% and our goal has always been fifty singers. Our stumbling block showed that all we really needed to do was tap into the individual strengths of our membership,” Godino.
Creative Director Terry Stackley adds that from the outset, forming this group was a challenge for her. “
I had not anticipated the amount of work it would take to establish the Lake Ridge Chorale,” she said. “I come from a sacred music background, so exploring secular works was new to me. There was also having to establish the governing by-laws and board structure.”
“[Another challenge] was to select music as I hope to give both the singers and the potential audiences a variety of choral music in all genres which challenge and broadens the community’s awareness of choral music,” adds Stackley.
Singers in the group pride themselves in its highlights of their performances, such as the group’s major first piece and milestone performance, John Rutter’s Requiem in 2013. It incorporated an instrumental ensemble for the first time.Â
Other pieces included 2015, Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria, 2017, Franz Schubert’s Mass in G, and most recently, Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem just last year 2019.
“As I look to the future,” said Terry, “we have the challenge of growing both the chorale and its audience such as providing the singers with challenging music that expands their knowledge and increases their excellence.”
The building that houses a popular used book store is one step closer to becoming a historic landmark.
The Manassas City Planning Commission on Feb. 5 voted unanimously to make the Hibbs and Giddings Building in Downtown Manassas on the city’s list of historic landmarks.
The building located at 2129 Center Street is 4,148 square feet in size and was built in 1923. It’s the home to Prospero’s Used Book Store.
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The Freedom Museum has been housed inside the Manassas Regional Airport for the past 20 years.
This year, it’ll be looking for a new home.
Jim Porter, a spokesman for the museum, said the arrangement was always supposed to be temporary. “Every year we were there, we’d ask the airport for another extension for our lease,” he said.
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The Manassas Regional Airport is the largest of its kind in the state. But does the majority of the flying public know its there?
Airport officials will spend $35,000 on an advertising and marketing plan this year to increase name awareness. About 40% of the people they intend to reach are locals who need a place to base their aircraft, with 60% of the remainder being transients (people who fly in their planes from out of town.) Commercial flights aren't offered at the airport.
Much of the marketing effort will focus on the benefits of using the airport, such as its close proximity to Washington, D.C.
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Tony’s New York Pizza has moved and held a reopening ribbon-cutting ceremony at its new location 8891 Centreville Road in Manassas.Â
- Owners Giuseppe "Joe" D'Agostino, and his father Antonio "Tony" D'Agostino, and city mayor Hall Parrish II held the scissors to cut the red ribbon on Thursday, November 21.Â
Customers, family members, and city officials who have been with Tony’s family for almost 30 years enjoyed the restaurant’s new interior improvement.
-  “Thanks for many many years of patronage; and I hope they like the new store we have opened up with,” said D’Angelo.
Customers gawked when they walked into the new restaurant. Located nearby the eatery’s old location on Mathis Avenue, the new restaurant moves from its old location in the Manassas Shopping Center, is larger, and has more seating.Â
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The Prince William County Adult Detention Center held its biannual community resource fair on October 29.Â
- Usually held in April and September, the fair provides inmates with the opportunity to attend programs during their pre-release in incarceration.Â
- This was the jail’s biggest fair to date, and the jail will continue to address and grow reentry transition services here at the ADC along with community partners, according to a jail spokeswoman.Â
The ADC provides anger management classes, AA groups, substance abuse support groups, religious services, and life skills presentations.Â
Inmate Deramus Joseph who attended the fair and told Potomac Local about how the resources helped him. He says that he wants to move out of Virginia and work as a physical therapist.
Vendors who attended included:Â
- Breaking the Cycle of Crime
- League of Women Voters
- Northern Virginia Community College
- Virginia Families and Fatherhood Initiative
The fair helps 150-200 inmates and they can continue to use services after they get out of jail.
*This story has been corrected.Â
The library has waived half of its patron-owed late fines for October.
- So, for example, if you owe the library $10 in late fees, now you only owe $5.
Prince William County Public Libraries spokeswoman Rachel Johnson said that the library started the late-fee forgiveness program last year.
- It wanted to remove barriers that may stop patrons from coming into the library, she said.
- Patrons can pay off their outstanding fines for less so that returned items will go back into the library’s collection and other patrons may enjoy them.
Last year, the forgiveness program saw the waiver of $33,000 overdue fines compared to 2017.
- Many patrons took advantage of the program and zeroed out their overdue balances.
To take advantage of this benefit, go to any branch checkout desk and ask about the program.
- The library accepts all late materials that have not been damaged, lost, or have interlibrary loan fees.
- “We hope patrons that have overdue fines will consider taking advantage of the Fine Forgiveness Program. More than anything, this program is about getting patrons back to the library, even if they have fines that may have discouraged them from coming in,” said Johnson.
BonChon will open its new Korean and American style restaurant in Gainesville.
- Company officials had originally planned to open this month, but now tell Potomac Local the opening won’t happen until the end of 2019.
- No specific date was given.
When the restaurant does open, manager Peter An said customers will want to try the dish most customers like the most.
“People fall in love with our double-fried Korean BBQ chicken,” said Ann. It also features Bibimbap, which is a combination of quinoa, white rice, veggies, and fried eggs.
- BonChon’s also offers boneless chicken for $8.95. There’s also BonChon fried rice which comes with plain chicken, Bulgogi, seafood, and Kimchi bacon for $8.95.
A little bit of history: The founder of BonChon, Jinduk Seh, opened his first BonChon restaurant in Busan, a coastal city of South Korea in 2002.
- He named BonChon “my hometown” to honor the family and foods of this culture.
- The restaurant gained popularity and migrated to the U.S.
- The first restaurant opened was in Fort Lee, N.J. in 2006.
- BonChon has 94 locations across the U.S.
BonChon’s Gainesville location will be new location is located at 7344 Atlas Walk Way, at the Virginia Gateway Plaza.
The restaurant also has locations in Fredericksburg, Manassas, and Woodbridge.
