Local Resources

Enjoy this delightful video of the Abrams Creek Wetlands, just around the corner from Willow Lawn!

https://youtu.be/AC1pj1MI-Z8

The 25-acre Abrams Creek Wetlands Preserve is a calcareous muck fen and home to over 300 plant species and 180 kinds of birds. Twenty of the Preserve’s plant species appear on Virginia’s Rare Plants List, including two species found nowhere else in the Commonwealth. In addition, no other limestone-floored wetland in Virginia has as many rare plants as Winchester’s wetlands.
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https://seniorsfirstdotinfo.wordpress.com/

Seniors First, The Shenandoah Area Agency on Aging is a non-profit organization providing high-quality services and opportunities to enhance the dignity and independence of seniors and promote their contributions to the community.

Our services enable older adults to remain living in their own home for as long as safely possible, rather than go into a nursing facility. Seniors First serves the Counties of Clarke, Frederick, Page, Shenandoah, Warren, and the City of Winchester.

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“Winchester Alerts” is available here, see the bottom of the page for initial sign-up. The system allows for either phone messages, text messages, or both.

There’s also Winchester CitE-News, which can be received by email or viewed online here.
And the info on refuse and recycling lists all changes for the year, as well as next year, here.

Thank you, Tom Albert (Melvor Ln) for this contribution...
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Dedicated to serving older adults of the community...

Check out the Godfrey Miller Center in the historical Godfrey Sperry Miller house
located on the Winchester Loudoun Street pedestrian mall.

Classes in exercise, painting, crafts, knitting, computers, Spanish . . . Lectures on history, music, finance, gardening . . . Social events, brunches and dinners, performances . . .

https://godfreymillercenter.org/
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Handley Regional Library -- https://www.handleyregional.org/
Digital Library
Programs for Adults
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The Museum of the Shenandoah Valley -- https://www.themsv.org/

Admission includes the galleries, gardens, and Glen Burnie House. Admission is not required to visit the first floor of the Museum where you can enjoy Art in the Halls and shop in the Museum Store.

Free Wednesdays

On Wednesdays, individual and family admission fees to the gardens and galleries are waived thanks to the generosity of corporate sponsor Howard Shockey & Sons, Inc.

Admission Tuesday, Thursday - Sunday (closed Monday)
Adult: $15
Seniors: $10
Youth (13–18): $10
Ages 12 & under: free admission
MSV members: free admission
Trails: free to all

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BLANDY EXPERIMENTAL FARM - STATE ARBORETUM OF VIRGINIA

https://blandy.virginia.edu/

They have a very active calendar of programs and events.

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