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JANUARY 20 - 26, 2022 | PAGE 19

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Free At Home Covid Tests Now Available

Residential households in the U.S. can order one set of four free at-home tests from USPS.com. Limit of one order per residential address. One order includes 4 individual rapid antigen Covid-19 tests. Orders will ship free starting in late January.

To order your free test kits, visit covidtests.gov or special.usps.com/ testkits and fill out your contact information and home address.

Black History Month Essay Contest Underway

To celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the Washington Wizards have launched an essay contest for DMV area high school and middle school students. The contest will honor Dr. Edwin Bancroft (E.B.) Henderson, a sports historian, educator, administrator, coach, athlete, and civil rights activist known as the “Grandfather of Black Basketball” here in Washington, D.C. Dr. Henderson, a great activist, wrote over 3,000 letters to the editor for the Washington Post and other newspapers on civil rights and race relations.

Like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Henderson was a leader who inspired many, and now is your opportunity to write about a leader twho has inspired you.

Submit a 250-word essay about a community leader who has had a positive impact in your life. One submission from a high school student and one submission from a middle school student will be selected to receive a scholarship contribution and additional recognition from the Washington Wizards.

The deadline to submit your essay is March 17. For more information please visit nba.com/wizards/blackhistory.

“Girls of Madison Street” Opens Next Month

Creative Cauldron’s next play opens on February 10. This play follows a tight-knit family of African American sisters as they confront hidden truths and well kept secrets while they come together for their mother’s funeral. Conflicts emerge, tensions flare, but they soon learn that the bonds of sisterhood know no bounds. A “Bold New Works for Intimate Stages” premiere from Helen Hayes Award Winner Iyona Blake.

Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Sundays from February 10 through March 6. Tickets are $35 and can be purchased online at creativecauldron. org/girls-of-madison-street.html.

Boy Scout Troop 895 Scouts Achieve Eagle Scout Rank

Scouts BSA Troop 895 would like to congratulate Gaarison Holran, Oliver Stufft, and Michael Nelson on achieving scouting’s highest rank, Eagle Scout, in 2021. They exemplified scouting’s traits of leadership and citizenship by organizing projects that supported communities both locally and globally, and serving as role models for the troop’s younger scouts.

Troop 895, chartered by the Falls Church Presbyterian Church, has helped more than 160 scouts earn the rank of Eagle over its 65 years of existence.

FALLS CHURCH’S U.S. Congressman Don Beyer (center) appeared at a fundraiser at Clare and Don’s Beach Shack for gun sanity on a frigid day last weekend, organized and addressed by the parents of a young victim of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in 2018. Manuel and Patricia Oliver dedicate their tireless efforts to the memory of their son Joaquin who the day before he was killed along with 16 other classmates quipped during a basketball game to his father that they should “Change the Ref” to get a fairer outcome. (News-Press photo) (P����:

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Transportation Authority Reappoints Chairs

During the first Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) business meeting of the year on Thursday, January 13th , Authority Members reappointed both Phyllis J. Randall, Chair, Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, to serve her third term as Authority Chair and David Snyder, Council Member, City of Falls Church, and longestserving member on the Authority, to serve his second consecutive term as Vice Chair, for calendar year 2022. Additionally, Derrick Wood, Mayor, Town of Dumfries, who previously served on the Authority in 2019 and 2020, was renamed as Town Representative on the Authority.

Chair Randall, Vice Chair Snyder and Mayor Wood are humbled by the unanimous appointments and are ready to continue working across jurisdictional lines to get Northern Virginians home to their families and other destinations faster, while keeping NVTA’s core values of equity, sustainability, and safety top of mind.

The Authority thanks outgoing Town Representative, Kelly Burk, Mayor, Town of Leesburg, for her service in her respective role. The Authority continues to lead the way for long-range transportation planning in the region, shaping Northern Virginia’s infrastructure and helping mitigate traffic congestion throughout NoVA and beyond. In fact, this year, the Authority will adopt both the FY2022-2027 Six Year Program and the update to TransAction, the region’s long-range transportation plan. Both updates are underway, with public comment opportunities forthcoming.

Implementation of the Transportation Technology Strategic Plan and Action Plan will also continue in 2022, as well as ongoing development of the Regional MultiModal Mobility Program (RM3P), in partnership with Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) and the Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation (DRPT).

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