The PWC Bar Association is celebrating its 75th anniversary. The Association was founded on July 25, 1941 by seven attorneys who comprised the entire legal community at the time, all having offices in Old Towne Manassas.

Brig. Gen. Clara Leach Adams-Ender (U.S. Army, Retired) of Lake Ridge, a “Living Legend” of American nursing and a pioneer of military equality, “Let Freedom Ring” March 4, when she visited Williamsburg’s historic First Baptist Church and rang its restored Freedom Bell, silent from the period of segregation until this year.

Tickets to ride the Dec. 12 Virginia Railway Express (VRE) Santa trains go on sale at 9 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 23 at http://www.vrespecialevents.org and select vendor locations. In 2014 all tickets sold out online in eight minutes and within 1 ½ hours at vendor locations even though VRE added one more train to the Manassas line and placed restrictions on ticket sales.

Six George Mason University students are bringing the Manassas Museum to the world in a new virtual tour now available on the museum’s website.

Southern Fauquier Historical Society will meet tonight, Tuesday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. for Out of the Attic "show and tell" and a round table discussion at the Cedar Run Building - Catlett Fire & Rescue, 3576 Catlett Road ( on VA 28).

People in the western end of Prince William County now have a convenient, respectable and patriotic way to retire their worn American flags. Boy Scout troops in the Bull Run District constructed a special bin for the collection of the flags at the Balls Ford Rd. compost facility.

Usan Kurata and Yukari Akatsuka are members of Kuentai, a Japanese non-governmental group formed in 2006 whose mission is recovering remains of World War II soldiers killed in the Pacific Theater. In 2014, Kuentai-USA was officially formed after American servicemen’s remains were found in 2013. Kurata and Akatsuka live in Japan and recently came to Manassas to meet with local veterans groups to share their mission.

On Sunday September 27, 2015 Antioch Baptist Church in Haymarket will celebrate its 178th anniversary. The celebration will include guest speakers and musicians in the 11 a.m. service followed by a picnic on the church grounds.