Loudoun County

The clinic will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.—or until the vaccinations run out—at Smart’s Middle School, 850 N. King St.

Vaccinations will only be given to individuals in high-risk groups, including pregnant women, people who have regular contact with babies under 6 months, healthcare and emergency personnel, all people 6 months to 24 years, and people 25 to 64 years who have health conditions that could be complicated by the flu.

Approximately 1,500 vaccinations will be available for free on a walk-in basis.

To learn more, see www.loudoun.gov/flu.

Officials at the Loudoun County Community Holiday Coalition "Neighbors Helping Neighbors" program said they have seen the number of families in need of food or gift cards for Thanksgiving jump from about 1,200 in 2008 to more than 1,700 this year, a 30 percent increase. At the same time, the program has seen its food donations drop by at least 25 percent from 12 months ago.

"We simply won't have enough food for the 1,723 families who are without the means to feed themselves,” said Kara Earl, a member of Loudoun’s Department of Family Services and the coordinator of the Holiday Coalition.

During fiscal year 2009, which ended on Sept. 30, recruitment increased 31 percent from 2008 at the Army’s recruiting office in the Cascades area of Sterling, and by a staggering 53 percent from 2007, when the country started to descend into a recession.

The numbers were similar at the nearby Fairfax County office, where recruitment held steady in 2007 and 2008 but jumped by 67 percent in FY 2009. Because the offices are relatively close, they pull recruits from both jurisdictions, the Army said.

That’s because Loudoun County officials plan to use money earmarked for the massive Dulles Rail project to launch a new express bus service between Loudoun and Fairfax County’s busiest job center.

“We had been asked to provide this before, but the money was not available until now,” said Nancy Gourley, transit chief in the county’s Office of Transportation Services.

Following are instructions for those interested in providing filled Christmas stockings for deserving children this year:

The Colchester Road – which ran between the old tobacco port town of Colchester on the Potomac River through Loudoun County to Williams’ Gap (later called Snickers’ Gap) in the Blue Ridge – disappeared about a century ago, when it was renamed “Braddock Road.”

“There is a stark difference in the view when coming into Loudoun from Fairfax,” acknowledged Tim Buchholz, chairman of the Loudoun County Democratic Committee.

Originally launched as a pilot program, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors decided this summer to make the program a permanent fixture in Loudoun. Several dozen volunteers take part by ridding Loudoun of any signs illegally posted along state-owned roadways.

Broad Run-Freedom: The Freedom HS-Broad Run HS varsity football game scheduled for Friday, Oct. 16 at Freedom High School has been rescheduled to 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 19.

1649 – King Charles II gives a grant totaling five million acres in the Northern Neck Proprietary to seven English noblemen.

1692 – David Strahan and his “Rangers of the Pottomack” explore what was to become Sugarland Run in Eastern Loudoun.

Early Native Americans