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0 Business The latest restaurant inspections included numerous restaurants with no violations and some with violations, including dead roaches. Emily Leayman , Patch Staff Posted Reply HYBLA VALLEY, VA — With Fairfax County Health Department's restaurant inspection reports back online, we continue to look at reports in the Route 1 corridor. The health department's environmental health staff inspect over 5,200 restaurants and other retail food service establishments in Fairfax County and cities of Falls Church and Fairfax to ensure safe food handling practices are followed. This includes proper sanitation, food storage and preparation, and adequate kitchen facilities. Aside from restaurants, staff inspect child care centers, hospitals, school cafeterias, and temporary food service vendors at festivals. online database . The health department cautions residents that a single inspection should not be used to evaluate a … [Read more...] about Route 1 Restaurant Inspections: Dead Roaches Found

The 61-year-old woman lifted the laundry basket, then grimly eyed the steps up from the basement. The climb seemed to get tougher every day. Before she was even halfway up, she could feel her racing heart and hear her ragged, rapid breathing. She gripped the wooden handrail in case she started to feel lightheaded again. Once she made it up to the main floor of her home, she dropped her burden and practically fell into the soft embrace of her living-room sofa. The woman first noticed that she often felt out of breath a few months earlier. She wondered if it was her weight. She liked the way she looked, but suspected that her usual care provider, a much-trusted nurse practitioner with a medical group at Yale School of Medicine, would be happy if she lost a few pounds. Her daughter worried that her shortness of breath could be a result of the Covid infection she had a couple of years earlier. She finally called her P.C.P.’s office when her right leg started to hurt. The combination of … [Read more...] about Her Symptoms Suggested Long Covid. But Was That Too Obvious?

The air was redolent with the scent of death. “Don’t run!” our guide commanded. We were walking through the Zambian bush, the mopane trees alive with vultures waiting for a crack at the carrion — a massive Cape buffalo killed by lions who were feasting on their hapless prey in a nearby thicket. My husband, Roger, and son, Gabe, and I were heading single file toward the big cats. Leading the way was a‌ National Parks scout armed with a rifle who was forging a roundabout trail across a gully. My anxiety mounted with every crunching leaf underfoot. We heard a slight “grrrr” and soon spied a lion’s silhouette flickering through the bushes. I thought grimly about being dead meat. Then the wind shifted and the mighty beasts, picking up the scent of the ultimate predator — humans — fled into the brush. We had landed several days earlier on a dirt airstrip in one of the most remote and least-touristed parks in Africa — North Luangwa National Park in Zambia — the tiny Cessna … [Read more...] about On Safari, on Foot

0 Real Estate With sweeping turrets, soaring ceilings and oversized dining rooms for lavish banquets may make you feel like royalty. Beth Dalbey , Patch Staff Posted Reply ACROSS AMERICA — All things royal in the past several months — Queen Elizabeth II’s death, King Charles’ coronation and all the associated drama — may leave you wondering what it would be like to live in a castle. While the three castle-like homes in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Georgia featured this week in How Much House may not be as imposing as Buckingham Palace, Windsor or Balmoral or any of the other castles owned by the Royal Family, they’re not shacks, either. Peek inside at the photos and you’ll see what we mean. Virginia | $2,900,000 13608 Fifth Corps Lane, Fredericksburg Suzanne Brady | Next Home Blue Heron Realty Group Square feet: 19,452 Acreage: 6.5 acres Bedrooms: 6 Bathrooms: 11 (7 full) Year built: 2009 This … [Read more...] about 3 Castle-Like Homes In GA, PA, VA; One Even Has Moats: How Much House