Sunday, October 21, 2012
Vale Schoolhouse hosts annual family-friendly fair
Vale Club hosted its 74th annual Vale Fall Fair on Saturday, gathering neighbors of the Oakton area and beyond on the schoolyard for fun, food and fright. On the lawn of the Vale Schoolhouse, families enjoyed a costume parade, face-painting, a haunted forest and a farmer's market. Organizations and businesses — such as Hunter Mill Defense League, Toy Corner, Music for the Arts and more — manned booths for attendees to learn more about them. Flip through the gallery above to get a glimpse of Saturday's fun. Do you have photos from this year's Vale Fall Fair? Click "Upload photos and videos" to add them to the gallery. Get daily and breaking news email updates from Oakton Patch by signing up for newsletters here. Or follow Oakton Patch on …
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
Women's clubs join together to unveil sign recognizing local activist
When Trish Strat set out to prove the historical significance of the Vale Schoolhouse, she accidentally proved the historical significance of the woman who kept the building open long after its days as a schoolhouse ended: Florence Jodzies. After learning about Jodzies through the application for a highway marker for the schoolhouse, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources nudged her to also submit one in honor of Jodzies. On Tuesday, Vale Club and Oakton Women's Club hosted a celebration of libraries, women's clubs and Jodzies at the Vale Schoolhouse as part of an unveiling ceremony for a historical marker in Jodzies' honor. The marker is located near the intersection of Fox Mill Road and Helmont Drive, near Jodzies' home at Harmony…
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Monday, October 17, 2011
Ceremony honors listings on National Register of Historic Places, Virginia Landmarks Register
Oakton residents celebrated the historic Vale Schoolhouse with a mini farmers market and dozens of other local crafters and organizations filling schoolhouse's grounds. Vale Club, the social club based out of the schoolhouse, honors the building's tie to the community with a fall festival every year, but Saturday's festivities marked another important moment in Vale Schoolhouse's history. Earlier this year, the building was listed on both the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places, which will be marked with a plaque on the schoolhouse. A replica of that plaque was unveiled Saturday. The ceremony — opened and closed by fifth- and sixth-grade chorus members from Waples Mill Elementary School — included …
Monday, October 10, 2011
Members donate, put together supplies for soldiers
When Anne McVey begins to plan a soldier care package day at Vale Schoolhouse, she begins combing through the thousands of requests posted to Any Soldier's website. The site is filled with thousands of requests from squadron representatives for materials the soldiers in their camp need. Among the requests was a medic who wrote how he sees the soldiers saddened by their inability to send gifts to their kids for Christmas or their birthdays, so he requested the care packages include gifts the soldiers could send back home. Then there are the soldiers who live in rougher conditions than most and ask for basic supplies such as underwear, deodorant and food. And the wife who wrote in to ask for help in buying her husband new boots. "Each one …
Monday, June 27, 2011
Vale Club to host celebration in October
Within three months of earning a spot on the Virginia Landmarks Register, Vale Schoolhouse has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register, administered by the National Park Services, lists national landmarks deemed worthy of preservation. Constructed around 1884 as a one-room schoolhouse, Vale Schoolhouse — at the corner of Vale and Fox Mill roads — expanded to two rooms in 1912 and was closed in 1931. Four years later, the Fairfax County School Board allowed the schoolhouse to reopen as a community building for the Vale Home Demonstration Club, founded by Florence Jodzies, who had just recently moved to the area. Vale Club, which exists today, is a direct descendant of the home demonstration club. …
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Application also submitted for national consideration
When the application for Vale Schoolhouse was to be considered for a spot on the Virginia Landmarks Register, members of the Vale Club and Friends of Vale Schoolhouse wanted the reviewers to know just how much it meant to them. So they loaded up the caravan with about a dozen people to sit in on the March 17 presentation. "Because it's a community landmark, it's really nice that so many ladies wanted to come down and share that event with us. It's not what typically happens, and it shows how much they cared," said David Edwards, director of the Northern Regional Preservation Office in the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. And the review board did not disappoint. Vale Schoolhouse is now on the Virginia Landmarks Register and has …
Trish Strat
1:21 pm on Monday, October 22, 2012
Great pictures, Nicole! more ›