Broadlands 4th Annual Green Halloween Costume Swap, Sat, Oct 4

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Broadlands Fourth Annual Green Halloween Costume Swap
Date: Saturday, October 4, 2014
Costume drop off: 9:00 – 10:00am
Costume swap: 11:00am – noon
Location: Broadlands Community Center

NEW PROCEDURE THIS YEARAll costume drop-offs will be at the Community Center! Please drop off one or more clean, gently-used child’s costume from 9:00am – 10:00am at the Broadlands Community Center on swap day then bring your swap ticket(s) back from 11:00am to Noon to swap for “like-new” costumes! Don’t have a ticket? Costumes may be purchased for $5.00 each from 11:30 am to Noon. All proceeds will benefit the Girl Scout SHARE program.

Broadlands Community Fall Yard Sale, Saturday, Sep 27, 8:00am-2:00pm, Rain or Shine

Fall-Sept 2014 Yardsale FlyerCheck out our Yard Sale Flyer: Fall Yard Sale Flyer

Buy or sell at private residences throughout the Broadlands community, The Arbors and The Van Metre Broadlands Apartments. 

To be included in the on-line listing of addresses, visit broadlandshoa.org/yardsale-form/ . Residents do not have to be on the list of participants to be part of the yard sale. To see a list of participants and find out what’s for sale, and to view community map, please visit www.broadlandshoa.org/yardsale. The HOA will publicize the yard sale in Ashburn Today, Leesburg Today, Loudoun Times-Mirror and The Washington Post newspapers.

 

Right Sizing Silver Seminar By Van Metre! Thursday, September 25, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

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The Seminar will be held at the Broadlands Community Center at 43004 Waxpool Road and will start promptly at 6:00 pm.

Seminar Information to Include:
• Staging a Home For Sale • Advice from a Local Realtor • Home Remodeling and Organizing • Furniture Moving & Storage • Handy Man Services • Financing a New Home • County Professionals to Speak about The Future Silver Line & Much More!

Free Electronic Recycling Rally, Wed, Sept 18, at Verizon’s Ashburn Campus

The Verizon Campus is located at 22001 Loudoun County Pkwy, Ashburn, VA near the intersection of Waxpool Road and Loudoun County Parkway.

This event is free and open to the public.  We will be accepting electronics for recycling from 7:30 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. in the visitor parking lot on the right.

Acceptable recycled items: Laptop and desktop computers; CRT (cathode ray tube) and LCD (liquid crystal display) monitors and televisions; computer cables, mice and keyboards; gaming consoles; telephones and answering machines; stereo and audio equipment; paper shredders; alarm clocks; printers; cameras; conferencing equipment; remote controls; earphones; small electronic appliances (such as coffee makers, toasters, toaster ovens and can openers); microwave ovens; vacuum cleaners; and electronic toys without batteries. Hard drives will not be wiped, and all batteries should be removed prior to turning in any items.

Items not accepted: Hazardous waste (such as batteries, inks/toners, mercury bulbs); units containing fluid (such as motors and pumps containing fluid); refrigerators and freezers; medical waste, and radioactive material such as X-ray equipment.

If you have any questions, you may Catherine Hogan at 703-886-3033. Also, please visit the following website which includes more information on what we will be taking:  http://www.verizon.com/about/news/annual-ashburn-effort-aims-recycle-communitys-old-electronics/

Ziggy the Snake Shows Off by Shedding His Skin!

Ziggy is a red corn snake that was adopted by the Audubon Naturalist Society from a family who could no longer care from him. Ziggy is an environmental education animal who meets hundreds of children each year when they visit the Rust Nature Sanctuary in Leesburg for Reptile birthday parties or for school or scout field trips. For the last two summers, we have been able to host Ziggy here at the Broadlands Nature Center while the Rust staff is off for the summer. This summer, Ziggy shed his skin two times while he was visiting the nature center. You can stop by to see the skin he shed when this video was taken on August 6th, 2014 and to see his neighbor, Sunny, our albino corn snake, who also meets many children each year. Corn snakes shed about once a month, more frequently when they are younger, and less frequently as they age. Snakes prefer not to be handled much around the time they are shedding. During the days before shedding corn snakes may have trouble digesting food, may be irritable, and you may notice that their eyes look bluer and their colors duller 3-4 days before shedding. You may also see them soak in their water bowls or rub their faces on the sides of their habitats in an effort to kick start the shedding process.  As of today our resident snake, Sunny, is in the bluish stage. This explains why he refused food last Saturday and means we should see a shed in the coming days.

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