🌱 Alexandria Fall-O-Ween and 12 more events

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Coming up on the calendar:

• ARCS Foundation® Metropolitan Washington Chapter 2026 Scholar Awards Reception at National Academy of Sciences
• Girls JV Volleyball @ Lake Braddock Secondary School at Lake Braddock Secondary
• Girls Freshman Volleyball @ Lake Braddock Secondary School at Lake Braddock Secondary

... and check out 9 more events on the calendar!

Today's riddle: What has hands but isn’t able to clap? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Plenty of sun, with a high of 68 and low of 40 degrees.
• Thursday: Sunny and beautiful, temps: high: 70, low: 46.
• Friday: Partly sunny, with a high of 62 and low of 34 degrees.

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Laurel Hill

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★ Featured events ★

Thursday November 5

• ARCS Foundation® Metropolitan Washington Chapter 2026 Scholar Awards Reception →
  National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington
  6:30 pm

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Other local events

Thursday October 22

• Girls JV Volleyball @ Lake Braddock Secondary School
  Lake Braddock Secondary
  5:00 pm
• Girls Freshman Volleyball @ Lake Braddock Secondary School
  Lake Braddock Secondary
  5:00 pm
• Boys Freshman Football @ Lake Braddock Secondary School
  Lake Braddock Secondary > Stadium Field/Track
  5:30 pm
• Masquerade Concert
  South County Middle
  6:00 pm
• Girls Varsity Volleyball @ Lake Braddock Secondary School
  Lake Braddock Secondary
  6:30 pm
• Boys Varsity Volleyball vs Lake Braddock Secondary School
  South County High > Gym (Main)
  6:30 pm
• Boys JV Football @ Lake Braddock Secondary School
  Lake Braddock Secondary > Stadium Field/Track
  7:00 pm

Wednesday October 28

• Lights On After School
  South County Middle
  5:00 pm

Thursday October 29

• Boys Freshman Football @ South County Secondary
  South County High
  5:30 pm
• Boys JV Football @ South County Secondary
  South County High
  7:00 pm

Saturday October 31

• Alexandria Fall-O-Ween →
  John Carlyle Square, 300 John Carlyle St, Alexandria
  11:00 am

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🗞 Nearby News

Lorton

• New Workhouse Arts exhibit revisits complex past of the Lorton Reformatory (ffxnow.com)
• 2001 Ford E-450 w/ Braun Ambulance Camper :: Classified (expeditionportal.com)
• She Vanished From A Christmas Party After Asking Her Mom To Get A Bag Of Chips, Uncovering A Maintenance Worker's Dark Secret (chipchick.com)

Woodbridge

• Prince William County Elementary School Ranked Among State's Best In New List (patch.com)

Fort Belvoir

• How Army Special Forces raiders rehearsed about 170 times on a canvas-and-wood mock-up before raiding the Son Tay prison camp on Nov. 21, 1970, and found no POWs there (newsbreak.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has hands but isn’t able to clap?" — A clock! (Thank you Lois R. for sending it in!)
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