🌱 Patch AM: Hooked on Craft Kits and 11 more events

Good morning Mount Vernon! Your connection to what's happening around town is here. Take a sip of coffee and read on. ☕️️

Coming up on the calendar:

• Transformations Center For Weight Loss at Kingstowne

Today's riddle: Playing golf is bad for your brain. 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Breezy; a flurry this morning, with a high of 36 and low of 23 degrees.
• Friday: Mostly cloudy, temps: high: 41, low: 26.
• Saturday: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 39 and low of 24 degrees.

📸 Around Mount Vernon

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Mount Vernon

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★ Featured events ★

Friday January 2

• Transformations Center For Weight Loss
  Kingstowne, 5860 King Centre Dr, Alexandria
  10:34 pm

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Other local events

📣 Mount Vernon Shout Outs!

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday January 2

• Hooked on Craft Kits
  Bull Run Library -
• History Hunters
  Manassas City Library -
• Bull Run Ukulele Players
  Bull Run Library , Bull Run Community Room A and B , Occoquan
  1:00 pm

Saturday January 3

• Falls Church Farmers Market
  City Hall Parking Lot , 300 Park Ave. , Falls Church
  8:00 am
• Winter Wonder Wanders
  Independent Hill Library -
  10:25 am
• Build a Winter Friend
  Independent Hill Library -
  10:30 am
• Reading to Dogs
  Nokesville Library -
  10:30 am
• Puzzling with a Purpose
  Potomac Library - Potomac Community Room
  12:30 pm
• English Conversation Club
  Kate Waller Barrett Branch Library , Second Floor , Huntington
  1:30 pm
• Spanish Conversation Club
  Kate Waller Barrett Branch Library , Second Floor , Huntington
  3:00 pm

Monday January 5

• Winter Craft Take and Make
  Independent Hill Library -
• Talking to the Author Bookmark Contest
  Chinn Park Library -

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Thank you 👏👏👏 to the local businesses for making Mount Vernon PatchAM possible:

• The Hurricane Foundation, Inc — (913) 680-7968
  Homeless Female Veterans and their Children Services
• Mindsee.it — (646) 663-8317
  Teach your kids they can achieve the impossible!

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• J&J Maintenance, Inc. posted a job opening for Material Coordinator in Fort Belvoir. Apply here.
• Earl Enterprises posted a job opening for Bertucci's-Janitorial Bertucci's Springfield in Springfield. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Mount Vernon here.

🗞 Nearby News

Springfield

• Morning Notes for December 30, 2025 (ffxnow.com)
• Candidates selected for special election for House of Delegates District 17 (annandaletoday.com)

Alexandria

• Sneak Peek: Mudhouse Coffee Interior in Alexandria (alexandrialivingmagazine.com)
• Alexandria's Christ House Meets Increasing Demand For Meals Through Volunteers (patch.com)
• DEXA Body Composition Testing to Alexandria (alxnow.com)

Woodbridge

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I just heard a golfer say he had four strokes on the first hole!
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