The Old Town Boutique District Warehouse Sale is Sat. February 1st

Join us on February 1, 2014 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. to receive up to 70 and 80% off merchandise from Alexandria’s finest boutiques! Be sure to get there early to shop the best selection!
 

• Discounted Parking: Pay only $5 for the whole day at the Colonial Parking garage located at 1800 Diagonal Street (across from the King Street Metro). Opens at 7AM. Important: To get the reduced parking rate, bring your parking ticket and get it validated at the front desk of the Warehouse Sale.
• Shuttle Bus: Park or ride the Metro and take the free shuttle right across the street from the King Street Metro station at the bottom of the hill to the front door of the sale. Starts at 8:30AM and drives this loop until 3PM.
• Giveaways: Make your waiting time productive and win gifts and gift certificates from area boutiques, including including a $100 gift card from Hysteria, jewelry from Toka and Chris, and a personal training session at Fitness on the Run.

List of participating boutiques:

Andrea D’Ambrosia
Apple Seed Maternity
Bishop Boutique
Britt Ryan
Coco Blanca
Dolce Collection
Fornash
Gossypia
Hipp Gyps
Hysteria
J McLaughlin
Kiskadee
Mystique
Olio Tasting Room
The Pink Palm
Queen Bee Designs
Red Barn Mercantile
Sherman Pickey
Stuart Nordin
The Little Monogram Shop
The Shoe Hive
Toka + Chris
Top It Off
Zoe Boutique

ACPS Partners with Fairlington Preschool to Open Two Inclusion Classes

ACPS Partners with Fairlington Preschool to Open Two Inclusion Classes

Alexandria, Va. - An open house on Thursday, Jan. 16, will celebrate a unique collaboration between Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) and Fairlington Preschool, where ACPS opened two community partnership inclusion classrooms in September 2013. Each class includes 12 students: six with disabilities and six who are typically developing children.

 

“The ACPS Early Childhood Special Education team is very excited about the partnership we have established with Fairlington Preschool,” said Early Childhood Special Education Coordinator Jane Richardson. “This community partnership has provided ACPS students with disabilities the opportunity to participate in an inclusive community preschool environment. We believe that all children learn better together, and the program helps in fostering positive relationships between children with and without disabilities, as well as their families.”

 

Inclusion classes offer a variety of benefits to all children as they learn together. Children with disabilities experience stimulating, positive peer modeling from their typically developing peers. Equally important, typically developing children gain, through their interactions with children with disabilities, an understanding and acceptance of differences among people.

 

The classes feature mixed age groupings for 3 1/2- and 4-year-olds. Licensed ACPS Early Childhood Special Education teachers and paraprofessionals teach the community partnership classes. Including these classes, Fairlington Preschool has seven classrooms, which serve children ages 2 through 5.

 

ACPS offers special education preschool services at John Adams and Charles Barrett elementary schools, Jefferson-Houston School and Cora Kelly School for Math, Science and Technology.

 

The public is invited to attend the open house, which will take place from 10-11:30 a.m. on Jan. 16 at Fairlington Preschool, 3900 King St. For more information, contact Richardson at 703-578-8217 or Fairlington Preschool Director Carol Keller at 703-671-3939.

Police Investigate Robbery at the Del Ray Post Office

Police Investigate Robbery at U.S. Post Office

Alexandria Police and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service are conducting a joint investigation into a robbery that occurred at a U.S. Post Office in the 1900 block of Mount Vernon Avenue. 

Around 4:15 P.M. on Friday, January 10, a man entered the post office and implied that he had a weapon.  He demanded money and fled after receiving currency. No one was injured.

The suspect is described as a black male, approximately 5’8” to 5’10” with a thin build.  The suspect was wearing a black mask, green military style jacket, and red or brown utility pants.

Anyone with additional information about the robbery is asked to call the Criminal Investigations Section of the Alexandria Police Department at 703.746.6711.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect who robbed this post office. Call the U.S. Postal Inspection Service at 1.877.876.2455 (select Option 2). All information will be kept confidential.