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It is farmers market season, and Fairfax County has a plethora of options for anyone looking to pick up some fresh fruit and vegetables.
The county operates 10 markets under the Fairfax County Park Authority, but there are also many privately-owned markets, many of which are open year-round.
The county-run markets, however, are strictly seasonal. While they closed for a period of time last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, four of them eventually re-opened.
This weekend, the first of those markets will put out its produce for the 2021 season:
Burke: VRE parking lot (5671 Roberts Parkway), Saturdays 8 a.m. to noon, starting April 1
Local pastors reflect on two Holy Weeks spent in a pandemic
Churches have seen their fair share of change from 2020 to 2021. Pastors are convinced that one thing that has stayed the same faith. Author: Katie Inman Updated: 7:48 PM EDT April 1, 2021
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. With Easter on the way, some places of worship are reflecting on what this past year has meant for their faith, after overcoming new challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Plenty has changed, but other aspects have stayed the same.
In 2020, three local pastors gave insight into how things were going during Holy Week within their own congregations. In 2021, each spoke again to compare the two Easters spent in a pandemic.
Virginia Rolston, beloved sister, wife, mother, and grandmother passed away on February 9, 2021 at the age of 95. Born in Adkins, TX on December 9, 1925, she was the
Holy Trinity Catholic High School in Temple, after a semester and a half of competing in speech tournaments all around the country via the internet, qualified three students for the Speech and Debate Association National Tournament, a news release said.
Seniors Cate Barkis and Faithann Go qualified for nationals in Duo Interpretation. Freshman Therese Mosmeyer qualified for the National Tournament in Original Oratory.
The students qualified by placing in the top three at the district tournament held online Feb. 25-27. The national tournament, which was to have been in Des Moines, Iowa, will be held online in June.
Coach Chris Mosmeyer said, âThis was a really strange year with almost all of our competitions being online, but Iâm really happy that we were able to get our competition in. We, of course, wish we were going to Iowa, but at least we were able to compete. Iâm very proud of them and of the work theyâve done.
This is such a difficult time to lose someone: grieving and social distancing just do not work together, wrote the daughters of one victim who died in April.
According to the county s coroner, as of March 26, 2021, some 974 people had died of COVID-19 here since the pandemic took its first local life a year ago, on March 26, 2020.
Many have had their lives recounted on the obituary pages of LNP | LancasterOnline, but only a small number of those tributes have publicly confirmed that their deaths were related to COVID-19.
Here are 85 coronavirus victims whose LNP | LancasterOnline obituaries or other reports publicly cited the disease s role in their deaths. They are but a fraction of the ongoing pandemic s local toll so far.