Broadlands 2nd Annual Halloween Decorating Contest

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Dust off your decorations, it’s time to start planning for Broadlands 2nd Annual Halloween Decorating Contest! Last fall we had 22 entries with 13 prize winners in categories such as Spookiest, Most Creative, Best Pumpkins, Zombies, and Inflatables. We hope to make this year even bigger and better. You could win a cash prize as well as bragging rights for your ghosts, ghouls, and zombies! To enter your spooktacular home online and review contest rules, please click on this link: https://www.broadlandshoa.org/halloween-decorating-contest-entry/  OR please select this Contest Form to print, complete and return to the HOA office at the Nature Center.

Details:

  • Entry deadline: Fri, Oct 10

  • Judging dates: Evenings of Oct 14 – Oct 17

  • Winners announced: Mon, Oct 20

Broadlands 4th Annual Green Halloween Costume Swap, Sat, Oct 4

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Broadlands Fourth Annual Green Halloween Costume Swap
Date: Saturday, October 4, 2014
Costume drop off: 9:00 – 10:00am
Costume swap: 11:00am – noon
Location: Broadlands Community Center

NEW PROCEDURE THIS YEARAll costume drop-offs will be at the Community Center! Please drop off one or more clean, gently-used child’s costume from 9:00am – 10:00am at the Broadlands Community Center on swap day then bring your swap ticket(s) back from 11:00am to Noon to swap for “like-new” costumes! Don’t have a ticket? Costumes may be purchased for $5.00 each from 11:30 am to Noon. All proceeds will benefit the Girl Scout SHARE program.

Broadlands Community Fall Yard Sale, Saturday, Sep 27, 8:00am-2:00pm, Rain or Shine

Fall-Sept 2014 Yardsale FlyerCheck out our Yard Sale Flyer: Fall Yard Sale Flyer

Buy or sell at private residences throughout the Broadlands community, The Arbors and The Van Metre Broadlands Apartments. 

To be included in the on-line listing of addresses, visit broadlandshoa.org/yardsale-form/ . Residents do not have to be on the list of participants to be part of the yard sale. To see a list of participants and find out what’s for sale, and to view community map, please visit www.broadlandshoa.org/yardsale. The HOA will publicize the yard sale in Ashburn Today, Leesburg Today, Loudoun Times-Mirror and The Washington Post newspapers.

 

Right Sizing Silver Seminar By Van Metre! Thursday, September 25, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

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The Seminar will be held at the Broadlands Community Center at 43004 Waxpool Road and will start promptly at 6:00 pm.

Seminar Information to Include:
• Staging a Home For Sale • Advice from a Local Realtor • Home Remodeling and Organizing • Furniture Moving & Storage • Handy Man Services • Financing a New Home • County Professionals to Speak about The Future Silver Line & Much More!

Free Electronic Recycling Rally, Wed, Sept 18, at Verizon’s Ashburn Campus

The Verizon Campus is located at 22001 Loudoun County Pkwy, Ashburn, VA near the intersection of Waxpool Road and Loudoun County Parkway.

This event is free and open to the public.  We will be accepting electronics for recycling from 7:30 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. in the visitor parking lot on the right.

Acceptable recycled items: Laptop and desktop computers; CRT (cathode ray tube) and LCD (liquid crystal display) monitors and televisions; computer cables, mice and keyboards; gaming consoles; telephones and answering machines; stereo and audio equipment; paper shredders; alarm clocks; printers; cameras; conferencing equipment; remote controls; earphones; small electronic appliances (such as coffee makers, toasters, toaster ovens and can openers); microwave ovens; vacuum cleaners; and electronic toys without batteries. Hard drives will not be wiped, and all batteries should be removed prior to turning in any items.

Items not accepted: Hazardous waste (such as batteries, inks/toners, mercury bulbs); units containing fluid (such as motors and pumps containing fluid); refrigerators and freezers; medical waste, and radioactive material such as X-ray equipment.

If you have any questions, you may Catherine Hogan at 703-886-3033. Also, please visit the following website which includes more information on what we will be taking:  http://www.verizon.com/about/news/annual-ashburn-effort-aims-recycle-communitys-old-electronics/