There has never been a better time to start a new career, and Job Zone Online is here to help you get started.
Job Zone will hold two upcoming in-person job fairs -- Thursday, February 24, in Springfield in Fairfax County, and at the University of Mary Washington-Dahlgren Campus in King George County on Thursday, March 24.
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Join us on Thursday, December 2, for our next Springfield, Virginia Job Fair at the American Legion Post 176, located at 6520 Amherst Avenue, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Visit our website JobZoneOnline.com to register and to view company updates.
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It is with heavy hearts that we announce that Joseph Paul Todaro II “shuffled off this mortal coil” on October 18th, 2021, after an epic battle with cancer.
He will be remembered by his loving wife Marion, his twins Michael Todaro and Julie Todaro-Lawser and their long suffering spouses, Erin Schwab and Matthew Lawser, his adoring grandchildren Brian, Sophia, Jack and Christopher, his (always humming) loving sister Jetta, his other sister Julie , and best friends Jimmy Forsythe, Vince Sabia, and Paige Pinkett, as well as a host of nieces and nephews who loved and adored him.
He was born on March 8, 1945, in San Francisco, California, to Samuel P. Todaro and Phyllis Tinsley Todaro. He was raised in Austin, Texas, and graduated from St. Edward’s University with a degree in English.
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In 2015, after years of discussion and debate by the Stafford County Board of Supervisors, the Board amended the county's comprehensive plan to implement a transfer-of-development-rights (TDR) program.
By a 4-to-3 vote, a divided Board of Supervisors approved a Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) program for Aquia District-only pilot, the home of Crow's Nest Natural Area Preserve.
Despite being restricted to a fraction of the county, the TDR program shows impressive results six years after its approval.
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Sentara has launched a new public dashboard that tracks the number of confirmed COVID-19 patients by hospital location.
This tool is to help the public understand trends of COVID-19 hospitalizations in your community. The data is updated daily, Monday – Friday. Data from these dashboards can help showcase current hospitalization trends among COVID-19 patients, and the percent of COVID-19 patients out of the total number of hospitalized inpatients.
You can access the COVID -19 hospitalized patient dashboard here.
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Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center is pleased to announce Alice Tang, DO, MPH, MBA as its new Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Tang joined Sentara Healthcare in 2017.
She was previously the Medical Director at Sentara Lake Ridge and co-director of the Stroke Program at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center before accepting this position.
“I am honored for this opportunity to serve Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center and the community in which it serves,” says Dr. Tang. “I am excited about promoting Sentara’s mission to improve health every day by enhancing the environment in which patients receive their care, but also by how physicians and Advanced Practice Providers provide patient care. I want to use my experience and skills to truly foster partnerships between patient and provider.”
Dr. Tang is a Maryland native. She completed an Master of Public Health & MA in Medical Sciences at Boston University before completing medical school at Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine.
She trained in Emergency Medicine at University of Maryland Medical System and is a Board Certified Emergency Medicine physician. She earned her MBA in Healthcare at George Washington University.
Kathie Johnson, President, Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center shared, “Many of us have worked with Dr. Tang. We know she is a strong leader with a vision for quality and a caring approach to patients and co-workers.
We look forward to her bringing her expertise and experience to the Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center Leadership team.”
Cemeteries are important links with Stafford’s history, but they are often targets for vandals.
For over three centuries, Stafford was a rural area, its landscape dominated by quiet fields of cattle and sheep and forested hills.
Dotted over the whole were modest farmhouses, outbuildings, ponds, and fences. Most farms included a family cemetery just a short distance from the house.
Inscribed headstones were a luxury few could afford and in Stafford’s 400 or so known family cemeteries. Most graves were marked simply with pieces of rock.
“Aunt Sue” or “Granny” kept up with who was buried beneath which rock. Many of these cemeteries were forgotten as families died off, moved away, and farms were sold. Rampant development has resulted in the loss of countless small family plots.
The Stafford County Historical Society is currently working with the Stafford Cemetery Committee to repair and re-install one such marker. This is for Lucy (Latham) Ennever (1777-1852).
Lucy’s beautifully carved marble stone was removed from its cemetery years ago and taken to a house in Richmond. Thanks to John Shuck of the Henrico County Historical Society, Lucy’s marker has come back to Stafford. It will be returned to the family cemetery, where her footstone still stands next to the grave of her husband, Joseph Ennever (1770-1848).
This marker requires professional repair before it can be reinstalled in its proper place. It will cost $3,900 to repair, clean, and reset the stones, including removing two trees from the gravesite.
The Stafford County Historical Society is accepting donations for this and future gravestone repairs. You may donate online, or you can mail a check to:
Treasurer
SCHS
P. O. Box 1664
Stafford, VA 22555
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Local Artist and Teacher Deb Balestreri is thinking bigger!
Balestreri has been teaching for the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg since 2009, at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton since 2008, and in her home studio since 2020, but she is ready to make a more permanent, community, location happen, right here in Stafford.
On August 1 Balestreri launched a Kickstarter to help raise funds to begin the build-out of a new Community Arts Center in Stafford and it’s well on its way to seeing success.
Balestreri wants the community of Stafford to know, this would be a center for them and their families and she’s offering some sweet campaign benefits when you pledge support.
Time is of the essence though and the pressure is on because she has only 35 days to meet her goal of $40,000 to make this dream center happen.
Visit her campaign, pledge your support, share with your neighbors and help spread the word! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/corgiclay/corgi-clay-arts-center
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With new equipment comes new beers.
The Water’s End Brewery in Woodbridge upgraded some of its brewing equipment this month. The brewery took to  Facebook to announce it had received new fermenters at its Potomac Mills location, which can ferment 20 bbls or barrels.
So what does this mean?
U.S. breweries measure beer volume in barrels. The conversion from one U.S. barrel is 31 gallons, allowing the brewery to create 620 gallons per batch.
Now, Water’s End can offer more and different beers to their customers than they have in the past. The first brews to come out of the new fermenters will be big batches of popular summertime beers ‘Trip to Tahiti’ and ‘HopDrop’. Both beers will be offered on tap and in six-packs of 12-once cans.
The brewery also announced the return of two of their classic brews, The Greatest Beer in the World (A Tribute), named after the song The Greatest Song in the World (A Tribute) folk-metal band “Tenacious D.”
Water’s End Brewery Potomac Mills location just across from the shopping mall, at 14397 Potomac Mills Road in Woodbridge. The brewery also has another nearby location at 12425 Dillingham Square in Lake Ridge.
