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Springfield, Va. (Sept. 6, 2023) – Whole Foods Market will open a new 49,499-square-foot store located at 6426 Springfield Plaza, Springfield, Va., on Oct. 4 at 8 a.m. EST. The store will be a relocation of the existing Springfield store (8402 Old Keene Mill Rd), which has been serving the community for more than 25 years.

Designed with cool tones and an open, relaxed atmosphere, the new location nearly doubles the size of the original store, allowing Whole Foods Market to offer Springfield customers more amenities, such as a full-service meat department, additional prepared foods bars and an expanded product assortment which includes more than 600 local items sourced with the help of Daniela D’Ambrosio, a Local Forager for Whole Foods Market.

Whole Foods Market will present a refrigerated van to the Northern Virginia Food Rescue, donated through Whole Foods Market’s Nourishing Our Neighborhoods program, which was created to expand the capacity and capability for community-based food rescue organizations to move food from where it’s available to where it’s needed most.

Features of the Springfield Plaza store include:

Whole Foods Market in Springfield Plaza will be open from 8 a.m. – 9 p.m. EST daily. Opening morning, customers will enjoy complimentary coffee and breakfast bites. The first 300 customers in line will receive a limited-edition tote bag and a Secret Saver coupon featuring offers up to $100 off.

All food at Whole Foods Market must meet the company’s rigorous Quality Standards, which prohibit hydrogenated fats, high-fructose corn syrup and more than 260 flavors, colors, sweeteners and other ingredients commonly found in food. In addition, all beauty and body care products must meet the company’s body care standards, which ban more than 180 commonly used ingredients, including phthalates, parabens and microbeads.

Amazon Prime members who shop at Whole Foods Market have access to a number of benefits year-round, including deep discounts on select popular products each week and an additional 10% off hundreds of in-store sale items. Grocery pickup will be available at Whole Foods Market Springfield. For more information and hours of operation, please visit: www.wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/springfieldplaza.

About Whole Foods Market

For more than 40 years, Whole Foods Market has been the world’s leading natural and organic foods retailer. As the first certified organic national grocer, Whole Foods Market has more than 500 stores in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. To learn more about Whole Foods Market, please visit https://media.wholefoodsmarket.com/.

The Premier Lacrosse League announced Thursday morning that the 2024 PLL Championship Series — an Olympic style, four-team tournament played in a modified version of the Sixes discipline — will take place February 14-19, 2024, at The St. James in Springfield, Va.

The round-robin tournament features the top four teams from the 2023 PLL season — the Archers, Cannons, Redwoods and Waterdogs.

Last season’s Championship Series winner, Chrome LC, finished last in the regular season and did not earn a bid to The St. James.

“Our second annual Championship Series will host our top four PLL teams in a tournament played within the new Olympic format rules,” said Paul Rabil, PLL co-founder and president. “With the best players in the world and a fast-paced, high-octane format, we’re even more excited about these games. With renewed Olympic inspiration, this February’s games will be sure to provide motivation for the next generation player hoping to compete for a roster spot in LA28.”

Played in the Sixes discipline, the Championship Series differs from the format that will appear in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics because of the inclusion of a two-point arc. It was that two-point arc that fueled former Atlas midfielder Romar Dennis’ run to the Golden Stick Award for the most goals scored in the tournament last year.

The Archers, this year’s PLL champion, fell in the semifinals of the Championship Series a year ago despite entering as a perceived favorite due to the team’s high-flying offense.

The St. James, a 450,000-square-foot multi-purpose sports complex, drew rave reviews from players, coaches and fans after last year’s Championship Series and last year’s Athletes Unlimited Lacrosse exhibition game were played there.

“The Championship Series represents the PLL’s continued investment into the players, fans, and our partners, as we add to our linear and streaming inventory on the ESPN and Disney family of networks, provide additional compensation pathways for players, and showcase Olympic style lacrosse to fans,” said Mike Rabil, PLL co-founder and CEO. “Great venue partners also help our on-field product shine. We’re thrilled to return to The St. James and to bring the world’s best lacrosse players to DMV-area sports fans.”

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks is hosting a PACT Act event at the VA Clinic in Springfield Saturday.

The event goes from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the clinic on West Republic Street. It’s open to veterans and their families with no appointment necessary.

The point of the event is to educate and screen veterans to make sure they’re aware of their benefits under the PACT Act as the August 10 deadline quickly approaches according to Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks Public Affair Officer, April Eilers.

“We are asking everyone to come to learn about the PACT Act to sign up for the PACT Act and also to get exposure screening for the PACT Act,” said Eilers.

The PACT Act expands VA benefits for veterans who fought in Vietnam, the Gulf War, or post-9/11 conflicts, and covers disabilities that stemmed from toxic chemicals such as burn pits or Agent Orange.

For veterans that apply before August 10, they can get retroactive benefits as well for the past year.

“Up from now until August 10, they will get retroactive benefits and pay for for their services,” said Eilers. “Then after August 10, they obviously still need to get the care, the care that they deserve, but they won’t get the retroactive benefits.

Anyone is welcome at the event without an appointment. Eilers says an event like this is so important to get the word out about benefits veterans can get.

“We have to get the word out. So people, so veterans are aware of the benefits that they have earned. And we’re really pushing and doing outreach events now,” said Eilers.

If you can’t make this event, the Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks hosts more events around the area. You can find a list of those here.

Those who can’t make an event can still get those benefits as well. You can call 1-800-698-2411 or the local VHSO team at 479-443-4301- ext. 63603.

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Sandy Anderson, a Northern Virginia native, is on the Nov. 7 ballot for the Springfield District seat on the Fairfax County School Board.

|Updated Tue, Oct 3, 2023 at 9:04 am ET

FAIRFAX COUNTY — Sandy Anderson, a native of the Springfield District and a former college English teacher, is running to serve as the Springfield District member on the Fairfax County School Board.

Endorsed by the Fairfax County Democratic Committee, Anderson is running to replace Laura Jane Cohen, who is the Democratic nominee in the election to the Virginia House of Delegates to represent District 15.

"My experience as an FCPS student, FCPS mom, PTO leader, military spouse, and higher-ed educator," Anderson says on her campaign website.

The general election ballot in Fairfax County will also include countywide races for the at-large seats on the School Board, Board of Supervisors chairman, Fairfax County Commonwealth's Attorney, Fairfax County Sheriff, and Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation District.

Early voting for the general election began on Friday, Sept. 22. More information on how to vote is available from the Fairfax County Office of Elections.

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Patch asked candidates running for the Springfield District on the Fairfax County School Board to fill out a candidate questionnaire with the same questions. Here are Anderson's responses:

Name

Sandy Anderson

Age

46

Family

Husband, Joe Anderson, and two sons that are FCPS students in middle and elementary school.

Education

Occupation

For the last 12 years, I have been working with two DoD youth programs related to STEM education and at-risk youth. With some overlap, I previously taught at the college level for 14 years.

Campaign Website

www.anderson4schools.com

The single most pressing issue facing Fairfax County Public Schools is _______, and this is what I intend to do about it.

The single most pressing issue facing Fairfax County Public Schools is teacher and staff retention. While our children are the reason that we work so hard to create a world-class education system, we couldn’t do it without the amazing educators we have in our buildings every day. They are leaving Fairfax County, and we need to figure out why and fix it. We could start by taking the model from the Fairfax County Health Department and conduct stay interviews with our employees. We must listen to the feedback we receive and discover creative solutions that go beyond just the pay increases they deserve.

What are the critical differences between you and the other candidates seeking this post?

I have a unique mix of experience that allows me to look at problems through a variety of lenses. This experience will allow me to be immediately effective in critical areas. I am also particularly excited about the opportunity to learn more about the aspects of our county essential to ensuring success for our students and staff.

Describe the other issues that define your campaign platform.

As I mentioned, I have several lenses that will guide my decisions, including things like increasing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) opportunities and being cautious about impacts for military-connected families. However, we also must fight to preserve and increase public school funding. We all know that there isn’t an infinite number of resources available. To be successful, we must step away from operating in a business as usual model to create creative solutions to the complex issues we face. I am also extremely focused on ensuring our board works together as a team.

What accomplishments in your past would you cite as evidence you can handle this job?

I am proud of the experience I bring with me. I have worked for kids or the people who support them in almost every job I have ever had, starting as a camp counselor with the Fairfax County Park Authority to teaching hundreds of college students how to write and now supporting the staff of two amazing federal youth programs. These professional experiences gave me hands-on opportunities to know more about how our county works, what our young people need after graduation, and more about the intricate relationship between programs and the state government. The combination of this experience makes me uniquely qualified for the types of work that will be essential to my success on the board.

I also spent the last seven years on the Parent Teacher Organization Board at my sons’ elementary school, with five years as the president. That experience of being in and around all aspects of the school day helped me see just how hard our teachers and staff are working to support our students and families. I have done everything from helping to raise money to expand our playground during a renovation, supporting the new principal as she got acclimated to our school community, and bringing exciting events and programming to our school community. I also worked hard to try to build partnership amongst the parent groups in our pyramid.

Why should voters trust you?

I love our schools. I truly believe in FCPS, as a former student and as an FCPS mom. I want to get involved because I see the way I can help us improve by working from our strengths, not by tearing our school system apart. We cannot move forward by burning what we have to the ground, and anyone suggesting otherwise has ulterior motives that are dangerous for our kids. Beyond that, I am working hard to earn the trust of voters throughout our district…one door at a time!

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Moving to Springfield VA

Springfield, Virginia is a gem of a place in the DC Area and the lifestyle provides awesome opportunities for food, fun and families. We’re going to cover the Springfield lifestyle in this video. If you want to know more about real estate, check out our other video on Springfield as well!

Springfield comprises three different parts. West Springfield is west of I-95, and south of the beltway. The north end extends a bit north of Braddock Road and the south end goes just past the Fairfax County Parkway. Springfield straddles 95 and is both inside and outside the beltway. And then North Springfield fits right in between the two. There is no East or South Springfield.

The closest metro stop is Franconia-Springfield Metro.

Food

Springfield does not lack in the food department and has some of the best restaurants and bakeries. Swiss Bakery & Pastry shop off of Braddock Rd has great deli sandwiches and fresh homemade bread. The bakery sweets are sinful, and the grocery area offers so many hard to get Swiss and German treats. Also we highly recommend Yindee Thai off of Old Keene Mill Rd. They have been open for a long time and their food is some of the best in the area.

Bob & Edith’s Diner is an institution – the best diner in the area. It is always busy but it’s worth the wait. It is a true diner down to the Mid-Century decor and you know the food is going to be great when they bring out a white coffee mug with the blue ring. They know how to cook eggs perfectly.

Springfield Town Center has a lot of great chain restaurants. Yardhouse has great beers and the food is great.

The grocery store options are fantastic as well. You are close to an H Mart, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe’s but you also have the option of going to the more traditional stores like Giant, Safeway, etc. Springfield has a lot of international grocery stores that include Afghani stores, African stores, mercados, and Indian, just to name a few. These markets are awesome for locating ingredients for recipes.

Orkney Springs Distillery is awesome and worth a visit. If you are wine drinker, you are not a far drive from Paradise Springs Winery in Clifton. It’s a really beautiful drive down Burke Lake Rd or the Parkway.

Fun

Summer is coming, let’s talk summer fun first. Some communities have their own pools in Springfield which are part of their Homeowner’s Association. Daventry, Danbury Forest, Shannon Station Pool at Keene Mill Village, and the Timbers are some of those communities.

If your community doesn’t have a pool, then there are membership based pools and they are all over Springfield. I mean, all over – there are about a dozen pools in such a relatively small geographic area.

Places like Springboard Pool is not only a pool, but they have movie nights, volleyball, ping pong, shuffleboard and social events. Family membership is $595 and there is currently a waitlist, but no indication of timing.

Springfield Swim and Raquet Club is $535 for a family membership.

North Springfield Swim Club is for those living in, North Springfield. They do check your address. It’s $550 for a family membership.

Village West Pool has a variety of membership options but for families the cost is $545 for up to 4 family members or $610 if you have 5 or more.

Canterbury Woods Swim Club is just north of Braddock Road. Their membership fee is $625, but requires you to buy a pool bond for $300. You can try the pool for one year without purchasing the bond, but then you must purchase if you plan to remain a member.

Rolling Forest Recreation Association is a non-profit serving residents of West Springfield. Residents of the Winter Forest HOA and Rolling Forest subdivisions are called Charter Members and automatically allowed to join. Winter Forest is required to join, Rolling Forest is optional but you would lose your right to membership. You can regain the right but you wouldn’t ever be able to vote. The cost for those communities is $520. Other residents in the area may join but the cost is $600 and there are no voting rights.

Parliament Pool Association doesn’t have restrictions on where you live. Memberships are $300 initiation and run from $250 for an individual membership to $500 for a family.

Walden Glen Swim & Racquet also requires membership. The cost is $495 for an individual membership, $730 for a family membership and $200 for tennis only.

There are several others including Orange Hunt Swim & Tennis Club, Rolling Valley Swim and Tennis, Fox Hunt Swim and Tennis, and Saratoga Recreation Group.

For more year round type of fun, there’s Lake Accotink Park. There’s a 3.8 mile trail that goes around the lake, and the park hosts a variety of outdoor, nature-themed programs in the form of classes and camps. Birdwatching, Kayaking, Mountain Biking, mini-golf, hiking, and there’s a carousel here making this a place of fun for kids and adults too.

We’ll talk about the St James here and in the next section for kiddos, because it’s so great we need to cover it twice. Walking into the St James is like walking onto a college campus in heaven. There are tons of sports fields inside for everything you can think of, there are pools and a water park, football, lacrosse and soccer are in the field house. Baseball and softball are in the Hitting House. There’s a Court house for basketball and Volleyball, an ice house for skating and hockey, and then there’s cheer, dance, gymnastics, climbing, and golf.

Another place for family fun is the Go Ape Zipline and Adventure Park. It’s located at the South Run Recreation Center. There are several different options for various levels and abilities. And speaking of South Run Recreation Center, there’s a lot there as well. Group fitness classes, swimming, plus a field house with synthetic turf for most sports. Then outside there are trails, basketball courts, baseball/softball diamonds, soccer fields, tennis and trails.

The Sydenstricker Schoolhouse was built in 1928 and what’s amazing about this schoolhouse is that it is still a bustling community center. It stands as a piece of history that remains nearly unchanged over the past 90 years. It was among the last operating one-room schoolhouses in Fairfax County.

Kids

People move here because it’s an affordable suburb in DC with really great schools. Some areas have better rankings than others, but in general the scores are 7 & 8’s on Great Schools, and a few with mid level scores peppered throughout.

West Springfield, Saratoga, Cardinal Forest, Ravensworth, Crestwood, Forestdale, Garfield, Springfield Estates and Lynbrook Elementary Schools serve preschool through 6th grade.

Rolling Valley, Keene Mill, Hunt Valley, Orange Hunt, Sangster Elementary serve Kindergarten through 6th grade.

Then there’s Kings Park which is Kindergarten through 3rd grade, and Kings Glen which is 4th to 6th.

North Springfield Elementary School is Pre-K through 5th and actually in a different region and feeds to Annandale schools.

The middle schools are either Irving Middle or Key Middle which serve only grades 7 & 8. and for high school it’s either Lewis, West Springfield or Annandale High School. That’s because of the five regions in which Fairfax County divides the areas, three of them meet in a juncture in Springfield. There used to be eight regions, but they reorganized it into five to spread out the socioeconomic disparities.

You will find lots of excellent school scores here. The Great Schools Scores are in the 7-10 range, and the other reviews you find online on places like Google are all really good. Families like these schools, with one exception. On the east side of Springfield, the high school there, Lewis, doesn’t score as well.

There are other great things for kids in Springfield. So many of the parks have playgrounds. Kings Park Community has 4 playgrounds alone to serve the 1100 homes in the community and the Timbers has Brookfield Park, which has a great playground.

Sky Zone Trampoline Park is here. The St. James is unbelievable. They have a kids playground inside called Super Awesome and Amazing. The kids can test their skills at indoor rock climbing, traversing the overhead obstacle course, visit the Virtual Reality Games or go to the indoor waterpark. They offer camps and leagues where you can learn to play sports. This is literally worth moving to Springfield for, no joke.

Hidden Pond Nature Center has a playground, trails and the Nature Center is the Visitor Center where you can check out any programs, see live animals or peruse books and items about nature.

There’s the Studio for Piano if your little one is interested in learning to play, as well as the Perfect Pitch Music Studio where you can learn piano or take voice lessons.

Conclusion

We hope this gave you a great idea of what it would be like to live in Springfield! There’s a lot to know about the lifestyle, if you have any questions please reach out to us!