MNCA Hot Topics: Wine Tasting 09/30 and Have You "Adopted" a Child for B2S?

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BACK2SCHOOL IS AROUND THE CORNER!

Over 80 children are still available to for "adoption" on List #1 for our Back2School outreach and we anticipate that another 200 will be registered by next week. LCAC's B2S outreach is designed to help low-income children and teens start off the school year on the same footing as their peers at area schools, with new backpacks and supplies for the year.

You can help a local family by "adopting" a child for our school supply program. Our current list of children available for "adoption" can be found here. For more information about the outreach, supply lists and donation instructions, please click here.

School supplies may be dropped off from Monday, August 6 to Friday, August 17 at the INOVA Healthplex Lorton. The Healthplex is located at 9321 Sanger Street, across Lorton Road from the Comfort Inn. Enter through the Emergency Room doors, 24/7.

On Saturday, August 18, donations can be dropped off at the Moose Family Center (9612 Fernedge Lane, Lorton) from 10 AM to noon.

Volunteer opportunities are now LIVE! There are a number of shifts available from Monday, August 13 to Wednesday, August 22. Click here to find out how you can help.

Don't have time to shop for school supplies? You can still participate in our outreach by making a donation today!

Questions about how you can be involved? Reach out to Linda Patterson for more info via email or at 703.339.5161, ext. 140.

2018 WINE TASTING REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

LCAC's Annual Wine Tasting event is back again this year! The Wine Tasting will be held on Sunday, September 30 from 4 pm to 7 pm at the waterfront home of LCAC Board Member Bruce Scott. This event offers great views, great wine and great food! Registration is now open; please click here to purchase tickets.

Thank you to our Cabernet Sponsor Barbara and Tim Rizer! Interested in sponsoring the event? Please click here to download our sponsorship form.

Questions about the Wine Tasting? Contact Brandy William, LCAC's Director of Development, for more information.

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2018 FALL FOR LCAC EVENT.

Save the date for a brand new LCAC fall event, Fall for LCAC! The Fall for LCAC event will be an opportunity for you to help stock the LCAC Food Pantry and to have a wonderful afternoon of fun with your fellow neighbors and your family. This new event will be held on Sunday, September 16 from 1 to 4 PM at the LCAC Food Pantry.

Whether you want to stay 10 minutes for a quick drop or 3 hours, there's something for everybody! Food will provided by the Mason Neck Lions Cluband live music will be performed by the Magnetic Toxins. There will be pumpkin painting, kids' games and more!

Interested in sponsoring the event? Click here to download a sponsorship form.

Questions about the event? Contact Brandy William, LCAC's Director of Development, for more information.

DID YOU KNOW?

In Fiscal Year 2018, the LCAC Food Pantry distributed 429,766 pounds of food.

2018 NATIONAL NIGHT OUT.

We hope that you'll join us for National Night Out, an annual community building

campaign that promotes partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer, better places to live. LCAC will be partnering with the Lorton Community Library, South County Cares, the Lorton Fire Department, Fairfax County Police and the Junior League of Northern Virginia for the National Night Out event at Lorton Park (behind the library) on Tuesday, August 7 from 6 PM to 7:30 PM. There will be food, snow cones, inflatables, volleyball, music, crafts and more!

THANK YOU TO LCAC VOLUNTEER KEVIN STRICKLAND!

Thank you, thank you, thank you to LCAC volunteer Kevin Strickland for raising an amazing $600+ from his bake sale at the Huntsman Giant!! The bake sale had a neat format where the customer could choose the price of the desserts. Kevin's bake sale featured a number of his specialties that included: chocolate spice cupcakes with spice chocolate buttercream and shark tooth garnish, cinnamon toffee bourbon biscuit cookies, mid-western dug up spiced brownies with ganache, currant orange and ginger snow drop cookies and much more! YUM!

In addition to holding a bake sale for LCAC, Kevin recently held a summer lunch pro

gram where the kids got to decorate and eat cupcakes.

He's been such an asset to the Lorton's Attic team! Melissa Deutsch, LCAC's Thrift Store Manager, said, "It has been a sincere pleasure getting to know Kevin this summer! He has been such an asset to the Lorton's Attic's team! He immediately found the media center in the store and used his encyclopedic knowledge of movies and music to organize them."

Thank you for being such a wonderful volunteer, Kevin!

CHANGE IN LORTON'S ATTIC HOURS.

Lorton's Attic, LCAC's Thrift Store, will no longer be open on Sundays starting Sunday, August 5. The store will be open from noon to 4 PM this Sunday, July 29. Be sure to come by to shop or donate any of the six days each week that we are open!