Young Republicans of Arlington and Falls Church, Virginia

The Park Project
POSTED SATURDAY JUNE 20, 2009

Continually, Republicans are branded as insensitive to the environmental concerns of local communities and the world. In an effort to highlight how this generalization is inaccurate and to relieve the local community’s budgetary constraints by providing labor to a County program which is currently not fully funded, the Arlington Falls Church Young Republicans (AFCYR) will participate in the Arlington County Adopt-A-Park program.

The AFCYR’s have adopted the Lubber Run Park located N. Columbus St & 2nd St N. At least four times per year we will perform general maintenance to include mulching, brush trimming, stream pick-up, litter pick-up, etc. The first clean-up will occur on Saturday, July 18th from 10 am to 2 pm. Candidates for State Delegate Eric Brescia (47th) and Aaron Ringel (48th) will be there to welcome the volunteers. An outdoors, summer lunch of burgers, sides, and beverages will be provided for volunteers.

AFCYR needs volunteers to assist and in-kind donations of food and drinks for a picnic that day. Volunteers can help all day or for part of the day. To volunteer or donate food, drinks, or money to help off-set the cost, please contact Mitchell Bemos via email at mbemos81@hotmail.com or call 202-344-0240.

YR Next Level Rooftop Fundraiser
POSTED TUESDAY JUNE 9, 2009

YR Next Level DC/MD/VA Host Committee invites you to the Rooftop Fundraiser on the top floor of Crystal House II located at 2000 South Eads Street, Arlington, VA 22202 on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 from 7:00pm - 9:30pm. Our featured guest will be Mary Katherine Ham. Tickets are $20 and can be paid at the door or online at http://yrnextlevel.com/your-contribution

June Meeting
POSTED MONDAY JUNE 8, 2009

Join us at our next meeting at RiRa Irish Pub in Clarendon on June 22 at 7:00pm. Social period is from 7:00pm-7:30pm and the formal meeting runs from 7:30pm-8:30pm.

Grace-Marie Turner is our featured guest and will speak about current health care issues. Turner is the President of the Galen Institute, a public policy research organization that she founded in 1995 to promote an informed debate over free-market ideas for health care reform. She has been instrumental in developing and promoting ideas for reform that transfer power over health care decisions to doctors and patients. She speaks and writes extensively about incentives to promote a more competitive, patient-centered marketplace in the health sector.

Aaron Ringel Fundraiser
POSTED TUESDAY MAY 26, 2009

Aaron Ringel is running for the Virginia House of Delegates to represent the people of Arlington County in the 48th District. He is a former Marine, Iraq War veteran, and Capital Hill staffer. Please join us for his fundraiser on the second floor of Dutko Patio at 412 First Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003 from 6:00pm-8:00pm on Thursday, June 11, 2009.

AFCYR Book Club
POSTED TUESDAY MAY 26, 2009

Please join us for our first AFCYR Book Club meeting on Wednesday, June 17 from 7:00pm-8:00pm. We are meeting at Java Shack which is located at 2507 N. Franklin Road, Arlington, VA 22201 in the Courthouse/Clarendon area. Please email Christina Kordiolis at kordiolis@gmail.com if you're interested in joining.

For our June meeting, we are reading "The Forgotten Man" by Amity Shales. In this thoroughly researched book, Shales explores the ways in which the policies of the New Deal "overestimated the value of government planning" and intensified and prolonged the economic misery of the Great Depression. Sound familiar? Republican Senators and Congressman have been feverishly reading this book because it is very relevant to what is happening now in Washington.