Neighborhood news: Yard sale for Hylton crew

Find that one-of-a-kind item you have always been looking for at the second Annual Hylton High School Crew multi-family yard sale on Oct. 3 at First Baptist Church, 13600 Minnieville Road in Woodbridge, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. All proceeds go to support the crew team replace equipment and help pay for out-of-town competi-tions.

Central library

Percussionist Luis Garay will perform at the Library on Sept. 27 at 2 p.m. as part of the ongoing series, "Jazz, The Music of America." He was born in Cordoba, Argentina, and is director of Luis Garay Percussion World Ensemble. He is also adjunct percussion faculty at Catholic University and director and founder of the Lion Drum-mers World Percussion Seminar. He is on the faculty of St. Albans School and National Cathedral School in Wash-ington. During his 30-year career as a classical, jazz and Afro-Latin muti-percussionist, he has performed through-out the Americas and Europe. Light refreshments will be available after the concert. To register for this free program or for more information, please visit Central Community Library at 8601 Mathis Ave. in Manassas or call 703-361-8211.

Chinn Park Regional Library

n Children and their families can create a special fall craft -- a Happy Fall Y'All Banner -- at the library Saturday at 2 p.m. This is a wonderful opportunity for quality family time and sharing and is a free drop-in program for the first 50 children. No registration is required and each child may create one craft.

n Bill Jenkins will lead a 100 percent audience participation event with percussion for everyone to play along. Enjoy Hispanic American Month with this talented musician and his many instruments as you try playing maracas, scrap-ers, bongo and conga drums and many more percussion instruments in this fast-paced, hands-on program on Sept. 27 at 2 p.m. at the library. This is a free, drop-in program and no tickets or registration is required.

n The NOVA Novel Book Club will discuss Brunonia Barry's debut novel, The Lace Reader on Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Library. Tower Whitney, the narrator of The Lace Reader, hails from a family of Salem women who can read the future in the patterns of lace.

n For more information on any of the above programs, please visit the Library at 13065 Chinn Park Drive in Wood-bridge or call 703-792-4800 (voice) or 703-792-4876 (TTY).

Until next week.

Fay Wallace reports your neighborhood news from the mid-county area every Friday in the News & Messenger. If you have news about birthdays, your family, your club or your HOA activities, please send it to Fay at fay-mary@aol.com.