About 250 attend session about emergency preparedness.

More than 400 volunteers came out to read to students on National Young Readers Day.

The Automotive Recyclers Association at new headquarters in Old Town.

Sabato will speak at Chamber function

Bill Moss, executive director, Potomac Hospital Foundation, received the 2009 Distinguished Service Award from the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association recently.

An art exhibit featuring the local landscape is on display in Old Town Manassas.

The Merry Old Town Chocolate Bar is now on sale at participating merchants in Old Town. One of these milk chocolate bars contains the Golden Ticket.

Independence Empowerment Center in Manassas will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a Broadway Dinner Gala on Nov. 14.

Sixty-eight of the area’s most unique custom homes, remodeling projects, single-family homes, townhomes and condominiums will open their doors for the 12th Annual Parade of Homes next Saturday and Sunday.

Nineteen Prince William County and Manassas elementary, middle and high schools have signed up to participate in the 2009-10 Pennies for Patients Program.

Six local non-profit arts organizations have been awarded a total of $77,200 to carry out their programs.

For the past three out of four years, Synergy One Federal Credit Union and Heltzel-Synergy One Mortgage All Stars were the top fundraising team for Prince William County in the American Diabetes Association Step Out: Walk to Fight Diabetes.

To observe the 19th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a local center for independent living, Independence Empowerment Center, is hosting its annual ADA Fair.

The Center for the Arts, Manassas, has announced the SummerSounds Concerts 2009 schedule.

A memorial service for Wilfred B. Howsmon Jr. will be conducted on Saturday at 3 p.m. in the cafeteria at the Manassas Campus of Northern Virginia Community College.