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Come Taste the Difference<br />
Two Convenient Alexandria Locations<br />
Open 7 days a week<br />
Bradlee<br />
Belle View<br />
3690J King Street 1600A Belle View Blvd.<br />
703.820.8600 571.384.6880<br />
www.unwinedva.com<br />
Put Us to<br />
The Test<br />
❦ Selection<br />
❦ Service<br />
❦ Price<br />
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Trade Roots<br />
From Page 4<br />
and stayed home. When my kids<br />
started to get older,” it was time<br />
to revisit those international aspirations<br />
she’d picked up at Tufts<br />
University in Massachusetts.<br />
It wasn’t enough to continue giving<br />
donations to various charitable<br />
efforts, Ostroff found. It was time<br />
to give a hand up.<br />
The store’s found a home in<br />
Westover, across the street from<br />
Ayers Hardware and near a string<br />
of restaurants, including Stray Cat<br />
and Lost Dog Cafe and Lebanese<br />
Taverna. And there’s a fond connection<br />
between Ostroff’s family<br />
and some of her small-business<br />
neighbors: Her family’s dog, Riley,<br />
is a Lost Dog rescue.<br />
Ostroff is unable to pick out the<br />
most unusual item in her store, or<br />
anything she can definitively call<br />
her favorite.<br />
“There are so many different<br />
things with so many different personalities,”<br />
she said.<br />
“Flourishing After 55”<br />
“Flourishing After 55” from Arlington’s<br />
Office of Senior Adult Programs for Oct.<br />
28 - Nov. 1.<br />
Arlington senior centers: Aurora<br />
Hills, 735 S. 18th St.; Walter Reed, 2909<br />
S. 16th St.; Culpepper Garden, 4435 N.<br />
Pershing Dr.; Langston-Brown, 2121 N.<br />
Culpeper St.; Lee, 5722 Lee Hwy.; Arlington<br />
Mill, 909 S. Dinwiddie St., also<br />
Madison Community Center, 3829 N.<br />
Stafford St.; TJ Comm. Center, 3501 S.<br />
2nd St.<br />
Senior trips: Thursday, Oct. 31,<br />
Long Branch Estate, Boyce, Va., $15;<br />
Friday, Nov. 1, Washington Craft Show,<br />
D.C., $25. Call Arlington County 55+<br />
Travel, 703-228-4748. Registration required.<br />
Matisse and the Rhythm of Life,<br />
Monday, Oct. 28, 1 p.m., Aurora Hills.<br />
Free. Register, 703-228-5722.<br />
Living on a fixed income, Monday,<br />
Oct. 28, 11 a.m., Culpepper<br />
Garden. Free. Register, 703-228-4403.<br />
Madison Chess Club meets Mondays,<br />
9:30 a.m., Madison Community<br />
Center, Free. Details, 703-534-6232.<br />
Ice skating, Mondays, 8 a.m. – 9:10<br />
a.m., Kettler Capitals Iceplex, Ballston<br />
Mall. Cost $1 (include skate rental).<br />
Register, 703-228-4745.<br />
Normal memory loss discussion,<br />
Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1 p.m.,<br />
Langston-Brown. Free. Register, 703-<br />
228-6300.<br />
Cell phone workshop, Tuesday,<br />
Oct. 29, 6 p.m., Walter Reed. Free. Call<br />
for appointment, 703-228-0955.<br />
Pickleball played Tuesday-Thursday-Friday,<br />
11 a.m. -3 p.m., Walter<br />
Reed. Details, 703-228-0955.<br />
Volleyball, Tuesdays, 1:30 p.m.,<br />
Langston-Brown. Free. Register, 703-<br />
228-6300.<br />
Neutralizing stress, Wednesday,<br />
Oct. 30, 1 p.m., Culpeper Garden. Free.<br />
Register, 703-228-4403.<br />
Origins of Jewish foods, Wednesday,<br />
Oct. 30, 2 p.m., Aurora Hills. Free.<br />
Register, 703-228-5722.<br />
Duplicate bridge, Wednesdays, 10<br />
a.m., Aurora Hills; Fridays, 10 a.m.,<br />
Madison. $5. Register, 703-228-5722<br />
(AH), 703-228-5310 (Mad.).<br />
6 ❖ Arlington Connection ❖ October 16-22, 2013 www.Connection<strong>News</strong>papers.com
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