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Blog Roundup: Be Careful With Extravagance, Why Reading is Fundamental, and More

Each week, Patch brings you new and noteworthy blog posts from Northern Virginia Patch sites.

Patch blogger Chuck Rifae explores the circumstances of the police-involved shooting at a Loudoun County Costco in May. 

Wil Extravagance Define Us?

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Fairfax blogger Mark Gibson cautions about spending too much in areas like energy, healthcare, and government services, when you never know when the next economic "bust" could be headed for us.

NVFS to Host Job Fair for Health Navigators

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Northern Virginia Family Service (NVFS) will host a job fair Saturday at its administrative office in Oakton to fill five full-time Health Navigator positions. Learn more about these new positions in their blog on Patch. 

Start blogging today! Visit your Patch homepage and click Start a Blog to begin. E-mail Community Editor Jessie Biele at jessie.biele@patch.com for more info. 

Pace

Teen blogger Zane Homsi writes about learning to pace himself while enduring a busy summer. Read his musings on Oakton Patch. 

Apples of My Eye

Blogger Colleen Walsh Fong celebrates National Apple Week with a story about what apples mean to her. Fong also shares her favorite recipe for baked apple slices - 

Read Because You Can, Not Because You Have To

Blogger Connie Casserly discusses why reading is the Number 1 essential for living in her latest post on Herndon Patch. 

Read any other good NoVA-based blogs lately? Tell us about them in the comments.

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