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From YouTube: Around Arlington: January 27, 2014

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Arlington's 45th annual Martin Luther King event held this year at Washington-Lee High School is one of the longest running tributes to Dr. King in the country.

Hi, we'll tell you more about how Arlington commemorates Martin Luther King Day later in our program, but first, we want to bring you up to date on the weather.

We've had a Polar Vortex and an Alberta Clipper. Whether the Groundhog sees his shadow or not, there's clearly more winter weather to come. The Arlington website provides information and resources you can use during a storm. It includes a list of contacts for reporting downed trees and wires, and streets that need plowing. Arlington's Emergency Winter Shelter is open during the winter months to supplement services to homeless people during cold weather events.

The Sun Gazette reports that the jobless rate in Arlington remains the lowest of Virginia's 134 counties and cities. Arlington's jobless rate is 3.2 percent, according to recent figures from the Virginia Employment Commission. The unemployment rate in the County follows a general downward trend in the region.

Arlington's recent celebration of Dr. King's life, featured music from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Show Choir, dance from Lesole's Dance Project and a presentation by Arlington's own Joan Mulholland. A civil rights activist and freedom rider, Joan Mulholland was the keynote speaker at this year's annual Martin Luther King Day celebration at Washington-Lee High School. She was part of the infamous Woolworth's sit-in, in Mississippi, in 1963.

To hear more from Joan Mulholland's extraordinary life, tune in to the next episode of Here/Now, running on Arlington TV starting in February.

Volunteering on Martin Luther King's birthday as part of a National Day of Service has become a tradition. An important, and popular, volunteer activity is helping to clean up our favorite Arlington parks. Volunteers worked along a section of the Four Mile Run, pulling trash out of Arlington County's largest stream watershed.

There are two special, region-wide awards we want to tell you about. County Board Member Mary Hynes was honored with the Elizabeth and David Scull Metropolitan Service Award, by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. The Scull award recognizes local, state and federal elected officials for outstanding contributions to the Washington area. Receiving the Scull award symbolizes excellence in regional service while in public office.

And secondly, the founders of Arlington's Synetic Theater were named Washingtonians of the Year by Washingtonian Magazine. The award recognizes people who make the Washington region a great place to live. Synetic's creative dramatization of Shakespeare and other stories through pantomime and dance is a boundary-pushing theater experience popular with all ages. Congratulations Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili.

Well, that's it for another week. Thanks for watching! And we'll see you Around Arlington.

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Arlington's 45th annual Martin Luther King event held this year at Washington Lee High School, is one of the longest-running tributes to dr. King in the country. Hi will tell you more about how Arlington commemorates martin luther king day later in our program, but first we want to bring you up-to-date on the weather. We've had a polar vortex and an Alberta clipper. Now whether the groundhog sees his shadow or not, there's clearly more winter to come.

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The arlington website provides information and resources you can use during a storm and includes a list of contacts from reporting down, trees and wires and streets that need plowing. Arlington's emergency winter shelter is open during the winter months to supplement services to homeless people during cold weather events. The Sun Gazette reports that the jobless rate in Arlington remains the lowest of Virginia's 134 counties and cities. Arlington's jobless rate is three-point-two percent. According to recent figures from the Virginia Employment Commission, the unemployment rate in the county follows a general downward trend in the region.

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Hear more from Joan mahala's extraordinary life tune in to the next episode of here now running on Arlington TV, starting in February volunteering on Martin, Luther King's birthday as part of a national day of service has become a tradition. An important and popular volunteer activity is helping to clean up our favorite Arlington parks. Volunteers worked along section. A four mile run, pulling trash out of arlington county's largest stream watershed. There are two special region-wide awards. We want to tell you about county board.

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Member Mary Hines was honored with the Elizabeth and David skull metropolitan service award by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. The skull award recognizes local state and federal elected officials for outstanding contributions to the Washington area, receiving the skull award, symbolizes excellence in regional service, while in public office and secondly, the founder of Arlington's cinetic theatre were named washingtonians of the Year by washingtonian magazine. The award recognizes people who make the Washington region a great place to live.

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