VA, DC Good News: Best Wine, KidsFest, Top Pizza, Dog Finds A Job

Lots of good things happened in the past week and Patch compiled them, including the best restaurants with wine pairings, this weekend's Fairfax KidsFest, how you can get paid to leave your car at home, top pizza place in the metro and NoVA fall wine festival. Other good news headlines include a "throw away dog" finds a home and purpose, tacos for charity, Hurricane Florence pets fundraiser, Coffee With A Cop events, sites on a modern home tour, and more stories from Virginia and DC Patch sites this week.

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Here are this week's good news headlines:

• VA, DC Venues Among Best Wine Restaurants In US
• Mount Vernon Fall Wine Festival: Sample Wines, Tour Wine Cellar
• Free Fall For Fairfax KidsFest Is Coming Up
• 'Throw Away Dog' Dallas Gets Drug-Sniffing Gig In Virginia
• Marco's Pizza Opens In Fredericksburg
• Lyft To Pay 50 DC-Area People To Go 1 Month Without A Car
• 1 DC Pizzeria Among 101 Best Pizza Joints In US In 2018
• McLean Featured On DC-Metro Modern Home Tour
• Falls Church Taco Bamba Competes To Sell Most Tacos For Charity
• Hurricane Florence Pet Fundraiser Set For Woofie's In Ashburn
• Visitor Spending Reaches Record $826M In Alexandria
• Full List Of Pumpkin Spice Drinks, Food, Products In VA Stores
• Watch Marines Rush Toward Burning Navy Yard Building (Video)
• Pokeworks To Open At Tysons Corner Center
• Coffee With A Cop Day Planned For Franconia District
• Coffee With A Cop Day Planned For Alexandria
• DC, NoVA Weekend: Pride Festival, Fiesta DC Parade, Oktoberfest
• Adoptable Alexandria Pet: Deaf Dog Is Truly 'Lucky'
• River Bend Bistro Marks Fifth Anniversary In October
• MPAartfest 2018 Returns To McLean In October

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