GOOD News: Shelter Dog Joins the Force, Summer Restaurant Week, Best Small Town + ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

Read some of the positive and heartwarming stories that were recently published on Patch’s sites in Northern Virginia and DC:

• Nest Program Helps Eaglets Become Lifelong Learners
• Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of ‘The Wizard of Oz’
• Former Shelter Dog Joins Alexandria Police Department
• Mason Alumna and News4 Go Live with Green Machine, Greek Life and Fairfax
• Alexandria’s Summer Restaurant Week 2014 Starts
• Study: Virginia Has Fastest Internet
• Brother’s Brother Foundation Celebrates 1-Year Anniversary in Fairfax
• The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Comes to McLean
• Richmond Zoo Welcomes Endangered Baby Tapir
• Will Kenny Loggins Play a Concert in This Guy’s Living Room?
• Vienna Ranked #1 Best Small Town by Real Estate Blog
• Photography Exhibit at NOVA-Woodbridge Explores Identity
• Ribbon Cutting for Jeff Todd Way Set for Aug. 25
• NOVA Manassas Hosts Movies Under the Stars
• 22nd Annual Plane Pull to Benefit Special Olympics
• DC Movie Theater to Show Robin Williams Films
• Backpack Coalition Program Raises $30,000+ for Sterling, Luckett’s Elementary
• Six DC Restaurants Make Southern Living’s ‘Best’ List
• Commuter Lot Ready for Traffic on Telegraph Road
• Virginia Counts Six Restaurants on Southern Living’s ‘Best’ List
• Ready for Sprelly? Where You Can Get It Now
• Reston Town Center Sponsoring Back to School Sweepstakes
• Improvements Coming to McLean Playground
• Fairlington Getting Closer to Getting Farmers Market

PHOTO: Zara the shelter dog recently graduated to become a member of the Alexandria Police Force’s K-9 Unit. Photo courtesy of Animal Welfare League of Alexandria