Don't forget, the Dumfries Farmers Market is Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., 3890 Cameron St. in Dumfries (off U.S. 1 at the corner of Washington and Cameron streets). Fresh produce is always available and your children can enjoy a pony ride or a craft, and you can shop at the various booths. For more information, please call 703-221-7440 or 2880.
Dumfries library
Have a tweet time when the Red Robin of Red Robin Restaurants flies into the Dumfries Neighborhood Library on August 5 at 10:30 a.m. The robin will be rocking with stories, coloring sheets and free coupons in a program with lots of audience participation and interaction! This is a free, drop-in program for all ages. However, space is limited.
For more information about this or any other "Be Creative @ Your Library" Summer Quest program, please visit the Dumfries Neighborhood Library, 18007 Dumfries Shopping Plaza, or call the library at 703-792-5678.
PW Forest Park
Come on out tomorrow for the Forest Film Festival featuring "Over the Hedge" (PG) at the Oak Ridge Campground Amphitheater at 8 p.m.
Then on Saturday they will have the following activities: Children's Craft Cabin, Craft Lodge at Cabin Camp 3 A-Unit at 10 a.m.; Rock'n the Forest at the Visitor Center at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.; the Cabin Branch Pyrite Mine Hike at Parking Lot D at 10:30 a.m.; and the Campfire Talk: Scary Spiders at the Oak Ridge Campground Amphitheater at 8 p.m.
On Sunday they will again have the Rock'n the Forest at the Visitor Center at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Don't forget about their ongoing programs: Cabin Branch Mine hikes every Wednesday; Historic Cabin Camp Tours every Thursday; Piedmont Forest Hikes every Friday; and Rock'n the Forest talks daily at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Visit their Web site www.nps.gov/prwi for more information.
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