Crystal City 5k Fridays
2017-04-07 18:15 - 20:15, 2017-04-14 18:15 - 20:15, 2017-04-21 18:15 - 20:15, 2017-04-28 18:15 - 20:15 (America/New_York) | Crystal City Courtyard Green, 2121 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
Every Friday in April…
Who wants to spend extra time in your stiff work clothes, fatigued at a Friday happy hour? That’s why you gotta love your favorite spring evening race series, the Crystal City 5k Fridays. Select any one event or join us every Friday in April at 6:30 pm for one of the most popular and fun 5k races in the metro area.
AND, you can have your happy hour and drink it too. Runners will receive post-race drink tickets that can be used at select Crystal City watering holes.

STARTS APR 7, 2017
CRYSTAL CITY | ARLINGTON, VA
5K I 6:30P | $25-$75*
SHARE: #5KFRIDAYS

AHCA APRIL MEETING
2017-04-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Aurora Hills Community Center, 735 18th Street South, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
Join us for our next monthly meeting, Wednesday, April 12 at 7 p.m, Aurora Hills Library, Back Room.
Refreshments provided by Nando’s PERi-PERi at 6:45!
Come early for refreshments and socializing! Doors open at 6:30.
Meeting Agenda

Sin & Saint. This new neighborhood establishment, in the former Grill Kabob location at 23rd and Eads, has applied for a use permit for a Deejay and dancing on Fridays and Saturdays. The applicant and County staff will be at the meeting to discuss the application and answer questions.
Virginia Highlands Park Renovation. Arlington’s Capital Improvement Plan included funding to begin public outreach in anticipation of west-side park renovations (everything west of the soccer fields). Parks & Rec staff will be at our meeting to talk about the best way to engage the community in the redesign process (funding is not yet available for the design). It was only a year ago that the newly renovated east side reopened after a frustrating public engagement process that left many feeling that community input had been disregarded. Please come and let DPR know how you feel about the park and how you want them to get public input.
Christian Dorsey. One of the two newest members of the County Board, Mr. Dorsey will be at the meeting to talk about his priorities, hear about yours, and listen to the DPR’s presentation on Virginia Highland Park. Come with your questions.

Street sweeping
2017-04-17 07:30 - 15:00, 2017-05-15 07:30 - 15:00, 2017-06-12 07:30 - 15:00
Street sweeping will occur from approximately 7:30 a.m.- 3 p.m. You can help this effort by making your street accessible:

Move your car to a driveway, garage or non-sweeping street during this time.
Remove any low hanging limbs from the curb so the street sweepers can access and clean them.

Arlington’s street sweeping service will occur from April to October. Street sweeping removes accumulated debris and pollutants such as sand, salt, metals, petroleum products and bacteria before they wash into streams, the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay.
Aurora Highlands and Arlington Ridge are in Zone 6, scheduled for sweeping on:

Monday, April 17
Monday, May 15
Monday, June 12

For more information, visit the street sweeping webpage. When not performing residential sweeping, street sweepers will be focused on sweeping commercial areas and bike lanes throughout the County.

Yoga at Aurora Hills Library
2017-04-18 06:30 - 07:30 | Aurora Hills Community Center, 735 18th Street South, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
Meets the third Tuesday of every month.
Continue your yoga practice with the licensed teachers from Crystal City’s Mind Your Body Oasis.
This class is for all levels, and beginners are always welcome. Participants should bring their own yoga mats.
Registration is required: Read more
For more information, call 703-228-5715.

AHCA April Social
2017-04-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Crystal City Sports Pub, 529 23rd St S, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
AHCA Social, Tuesday, April 18, 6:30 p.m. – We hope to see you there!

Join old friends and meet new ones at the Crystal City Sports Pub, second floor, 529 23rd St.

Open Door Monday
2017-04-24 19:00 - 21:00 | Aurora Hills Community Center, 735 18th Street South, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
Come chat with a county board member about a topic of your choice. Your chance to provide direct feedback to your elected county representative.

TWEEN NIGHT
2017-05-05 18:00 - 21:00 | Gunston Community Center, 2700 S. Lang Street, Arlington, VA, 22206, United States
TWEEN NIGHT Ages 10 and up. This Friday, May 5, Gunston Recreation Center, 6-9pm

Come spend the evening with your middle school neighborhood friends.
We’ll have:

Wi-fi
Sofas
Music
Foosball
Ping Pong
Frisbee
Arts and crafts room (masks, feathers, and a new 3rd generation 3Doodler)
Auxiliary gym for gaga ball/frisbee/soccer

Pizza, Drinks, Chips (modest donation)

Pizza delivered at 6:30 and 7:30.

AHCA is hosting this program with support from Arlington Teen Programs

Note: we have a bigger space now. If you are a parent and would like to help out for an hour or so, please contact below.

Questions or suggestions: Mike Dowell, mdowell9 at gmail.

AHCA MAY MEETING
2017-05-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Aurora Hills Community Center, 735 18th Street South, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
All Aurora Highlands residents are invited and encouraged to come to our monthly meetings where we meet neighbors, discuss topics of interest, and share information.
Come Join Us In Our Newly Renovated Space!

Meeting Agenda
Update on Nelly Custis Planning. David Litman, AHCA’s rep for Neighborhood Conservation, will give us an update. If you are interested in participating in the design working group and haven’t already volunteered, please come to the meeting.
South Park Planning. Department of Parks & Rec staff will give a short overview of the planning for South Park, a property adjacent to Four Mile Run, between Route 1 and Potomac Avenue. We will hear about opportunities for the public to weigh in on a final concept plan.
Alfonso Lopez, three-term Delegate to the Virginia House of Representatives for the 49th District, will come talk about his legislative priorities and answer your questions. Possible topics: airport noise, name changes for Jefferson Davis Highway, the defunct Dominion site at 18th and Ives, transportation and Metro, plans for encouraging business growth, impact of I-395 express lanes.
Traffic study of S. Eads and S. Fern. Transportation engineer Dan Nabors will come talk about the County’s traffic study of these streets, preliminary results, and possible mitigation measures.

Aurora Hills Community & Senior Center Open House
2017-05-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Aurora Hills Community Center, 735 18th Street South, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
Join us for tea and cookies and tour the beautifully renovated Aurora Hills Community & Senior Center.
Programs in the Center resume on May 15.

Oakridge Spring Fling
2017-05-21 14:00 - 18:00 | Oakridge Elementary School, 1414 24th St S, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
May 21. Oakridge Elementary School is holding its annual Spring Fling carnival and silent auction fundraiser, 2–6 p.m. Come for the cool all-ages rides, a traditional cake walk and book sale, food from Hard Times Cafe; a silent auction featuring a custom chef’s table dinner for 4 at Occidental worth $1000, a garden package with a new lawnmower, a night at the Ritz-Carlton, and a raffle for an Instamatic camera. Your dues have helped support this great event for years.

AHCA May Social
2017-05-23 18:30 - 20:30 | Crystal City Sports Pub, 529 23rd St S, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
AHCA Social, Tuesday, May 23, 6:30 p.m. – We hope to see you there!

Join neighbors for a pint or a bite to eat at the Crystal City Sports Pub on 23rd street. Second floor, 529 23rd St.

TWEEN NIGHT
2017-06-02 18:00 - 21:00 | Gunston Community Center, 2700 S. Lang Street, Arlington, VA, 22206, United States
Come spend the evening with your middle school neighborhood friends. This is the last Tween Night of the school year!
We’ll have:
Wi-fi
Sofas
Music >>> new this month music in the auxiliary Gym
Foosball
Ping Pong
Frisbee
Arts and crafts room
Auxiliary gym for gaga ball/frisbee/soccer
Pizza, Drinks, Chips (modest donation)
Pizza delivered at 6:30 and 7:30.
AHCA is hosting this program with support from Arlington Teen Programs
Note: we have a bigger space now. If you are a parent and would like to help out for an hour or so, please contact below.
Questions or suggestions: Mike Dowell, mdowell9 at gmail.com

Cub Scouts: Join Scouting Night
2017-06-07 19:00 - 20:00 | Calvary United Methodist Church, 2315 S Grant St, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
Cub Scout Pack 164, the neighborhood pack for the Aurora Highlands, Arlington Ridge, Pentagon City, Crystal City, and Long Branch Creek neighborhoods, as well as the Pentagon/Joint Base Myer – Henderson Hall Military Community, is having our Spring Join Scouting Night on Wednesday, June 7th at 7:00pm at the Calvary United Methodist Church, on the corner of 23rd Street South and South Grant Street. Come by for information if your sons were ever interested in joining scouts. All boys currently in grades K-4 are welcome to join!
We currently have about 50 scouts in our pack. We also enjoy the support of 13 adult scout leaders, many with over 7 years of scouting experience, and supportive families. We have an active, year round pack (which means we do activities over the summer (but no den meetings)) and strive to challenge your boys to grow physically, mentally, emotionally and in character while having a lot of fun.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact committeechairpack164@gmail.com.

AHCA JUNE MEETING
2017-06-14 19:00 - 21:00 | Aurora Hills Community Center, 735 18th Street South, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
Come early for refreshments and socializing! Doors open at 6:30.
Agenda:

Nelly Custis Park Planning. The Nelly Custis Design Working Group begins its efforts on June 7. A design should be completed late summer or early fall with the hope to bring it to the Civic Association for approval later this fall. The timeline will be posted on the project’s web site in the near future. Visit https://projects.arlingtonva.us/projects/nelly-custis-park/for updates.
Water Pollution Control Plant. A consultant for the Water Pollution Control Plant will talk about the master plan for dealing with solids at the plant. County staff have identified four options, from simply upgrading the current process to building a digester to generate biogas to power the plant or perhaps as fuel for buses. Although staff believe emissions from biogas combustion would be minimal, burning of biogas at the plant would represent a continuous point source of emissions affecting air quality in the immediate area. However, the results of an air quality modeling study will not be known until after the master plan is finalized.A “regional solution” involves trucking biosolids to the nearby Blue Plains plant in DC. This could reduce initial capital investment and point sources of emissions. Staff is investigating this solution, but it is currently not being considered as an option in the master plan.In all, there appears to be a desire to work collaboratively with the community, but the neighborhood will have to stay engaged and push for the final master plan to include responses to the air quality study and regional solution.
Planning for the Boo-Ha-Ha Festival. Planning is well underway for the fall festival held in October each year. Jenny Sullivan will update us on plans to increase sponsorship, provide a mechanism for neighbors to donate, recruit volunteers and performers, etc.

AHCA Community Social
2017-06-20 18:30 - 20:30 | Crystal City Sports Pub, 529 23rd St S, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
Join other Aurora Highlands neighbors at the civic association’s social gathering, third Tuesday of every month.
Crystal City Sports Pub has generously offered us space on the second floor to gather, so come grab something to eat or drink and meet some of your neighbors.

AHCA JULY MEETING
2017-07-12 19:00 - 21:00 | Aurora Hills Community Center, 735 18th Street South, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
7 p.m. Aurora Hills Library
1. Proposal for Childcare Facility at 820 18th St. S
2. Boo Ha Ha presentation and request for funding
3. Ready for 100 renewable energy initiative
4. Solar co-op presentation–info for homeowners on going solar
Come early for refreshments and socializing! Doors open at 6:30.

Street Sweeping
2017-08-14 07:30 - 15:00, 2017-09-18 07:30 - 15:00
Street sweeping will occur from approximately 7:30 a.m.- 3 p.m. You can help this effort by making your street accessible:

Move your car to a driveway, garage or non-sweeping street during this time.
Remove any low hanging limbs from the curb so the street sweepers can access and clean them.

Arlington’s street sweeping service will occur from April to October. Street sweeping removes accumulated debris and pollutants such as sand, salt, metals, petroleum products and bacteria before they wash into streams, the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay.
Aurora Highlands and Arlington Ridge are in Zone 6, scheduled for sweeping on:

Monday, July 17
Monday, August 14
Monday, September 18

For more information, visit the street sweeping webpage. When not performing residential sweeping, street sweepers will be focused on sweeping commercial areas and bike lanes throughout the County.

AHCA August Social
2017-08-15 18:30 - 20:30 | Crystal City Sports Pub, 529 23rd St S, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
The AHCA Social is happening this month!
Beat the heat and quench your thirst. Join neighbors at the Crystal City Sports Pub, 2nd Floor, on Aug. 15, 6:30 to 8:30.

September 2017 AHCA Meeting
2017-09-13 19:00 - 21:00 | Aurora Hills Community Center, 735 18th Street South, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
Placeholder for AHCA monthly meeting.
See the current AHCA newsletter for the agenda.
Come early for refreshments and socializing! Doors open at 6:30.

AHCA September Social
2017-09-19 18:30 - 20:30 | Crystal City Sports Pub, 529 23rd St S, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
Come meet your neighbors and enjoy a bite to eat or something to quench your thirst.
Crystal City Sports Pub, 2nd Floor

October 2017 AHCA Meeting
2017-10-11 19:00 - 21:00 | Aurora Hills Community Center, 735 18th Street South, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States

Boo Ha Ha
2017-10-14
The 10th annual Boo Ha Ha will be held on Saturday October 14, 2017. This free, inclusive, family-friendly event brings together residents from Aurora Highlands and surrounding neighborhoods for an afternoon of Halloween fun featuring a hayride, face painting, a local banjo band, moonbounces, pumpkin decorating and more. Last year’s Boo Ha Ha was the largest to date, with over 600 attendees.
Stay tuned for additional details.

AHCA October Social
2017-10-17 18:30 - 20:30 | Crystal City Sports Pub, 529 23rd St S, Arlington, VA, 22202, United States
Come grab something to eat and drink and meet your neighbors.
Sports Pub, 2nd floor

14th Annual Aurora Hills Halloween Parade
2017-10-28 15:00 - 17:00 | 26th Road and Ft. Scott Dr, 26th Road and Ft. Scott Dr, 22202
14TH ANNUAL AURORA HILLS
HALLOWEEN PARADE!

Bring your kids in costumes – two & forlegged variety welcome

Saturday, October 28, 3 – 5pm
Parade begins at 4pm
Meet at 26th Road, off Fort Scott Drive.

This beloved annual event is a great opportunity to meet your neighbors and either dress up yourself or come check out the costumes of the people that do.
As an all volunteer effort, your involvement is always welcome.
To volunteer, or to contribute snacks/drinks or to make a donation please contact
Nick Freshman
ArcaHaloweenParade@gmail.com
or call (703) 470-4101.
