Manassas Councilman Ian Lovejoy, organizer/sponsor, asks everyone to spread the word about the free Greater Manassas Community Job Fair, to be held on Tuesday, Oct.13 between 1 and 6 p.m. in the gym at Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church, 8712 Plantation Ln, Manassas, VA 20110, just off Sudley Road.

Prince William County Public Schools has received notification from the International Baccalaureate Organization Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, that Gar-Field Senior High School has been fully authorized to offer the International Baccalaureate Career-Related Programme.

Governor Terry McAuliffe announced Sept. 8 that Ventech Solutions, a SEI CMMI Level 3 software company that specializes in managing full life cycle deployment of software systems and solutions, will invest $1.5 million to establish an Innovation, Operations and Engineering (IOE) center in Prince William County.

Nokesville Business Association meeting will be on September 23rd instead of the 16th due to a scheduling problem. The meeting will be at 8:30 at the Chuckwagon Restaurant. Guest speaker will be Hal Parrish. If there are any questions you may have for him, write them down and take them with you, says Barbara Bowling, NBA president.

Experts in small business development will share best practices, and provide participants with key resources to move forward with their vision at an all-day workshop on Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Woodbridge Campus of Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA). The annual event is sponsored by a local service sorority and its foundation.

Haymarket fashion designer Kelsy Dominick, a Battlefield High School graduate, will debut her latest collection from DiDomenico Designs during the prestigious Couture Fashion Week event in New York.

Armed with nearly 1,700 signatures on a petition to “Bring Trader Joe’s to Woodbridge,” demographic data and several confidential lease proposals from Woodbridge shopping centers, Woodbridge District Supervisor Frank J. Principi visited Trader Joe’s headquarters in Monrovia, Ca. last week.

Governor Terry McAuliffe Aug. 24 signed Executive Order 47 establishing the Governor’s Council on Youth Entrepreneurship. The council will be responsible for coordinating and implementing youth entrepreneurship initiatives and fostering the growth of the entrepreneurial ecosystem for young people in Virginia.