Restaurants

We first let you know that Two Hands Seoul Fresh Corn Dogs would be coming to Westfield Wheaton Mall all the way back in November, 2020. We have now been told by representatives of the restaurant that they will finally be opening this Friday, April 1.

The Korean Corn Dog restaurant is located in the former Teavana space in the mall’s upper level. Two Hands currently has locations in Arizona, California, Nevada, New York, Texas, and Virginia (Centreville).


MCFRS

Reecey, the dog that was rescued from a burning, smoke-filled condo on March 30th by MCFRS, only to go missing after bolting from firefighters, has been reunited with her owner.

Her owner provided an update on Saturday via twitter, “Thank you everybody there’s so many people to think my girl is back home and doing great.”


Event

Beautiful venue; great art, gifts and hand-crafted items; refreshments; and meet the award-winning painters, photographers, mixed media artists, ceramicists, fiber artists, and more – some 40 artists in all. It’s an extraordinary array of framed wall works, 3-d media including sculpture, ceramics, jewelry, and fiber pieces, and unframed prints.

Among them, you’ll see:


Rockville

April is World Autism Awareness Month and Saturday; April 2, 2022, is World Autism Awareness Day. Each year, the Rockville city council and mayor recognize World Autism Awareness Day and World Autism Awareness Month with a proclamation.

Per the City of Rockville:


Bethesda

Back in August of 2020 we let you know that HalfSmoke would be opening a Rockville location in Rockville Town Square. We have been unable to get any updates on that location, but the upcoming Montgomery Mall location has a hearing with Montgomery County’s ABS for a beer, wine, and liquor license on Thursday, April 14 at 1pm.

The upcoming Montgomery Mall location will be located in in a kiosk in the food terrace, in the location that was the former home of Coldstone Creamery and more recently Gelato Galaxy.


Education

Per Montgomery County Public Schools:

The Maryland State Board of Education recently changed its graduation requirement for health education. Students must now earn one full credit for graduation; previously, they earned one half-credit. This requirement begins with the Class of 2025. The health education curriculum team in the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Schools is developing a new Health Education B class that all students will take following Health Education A.


MCFRS

Montgomery County Fire and Rescue units responded to a call for a fire on Wednesday evening at approximately 6pm on Walkers Choice Road in Montgomery Village.

Upon arriving, firefighters helped evacuate the three story apartment building and began fighting the fire on the first floor/terrace level of the apartment.


Olney

The owner/operator of Olney’s Chick-Fil-A restaurant has announced that he will be relocating to Georgia to open a new Chick-Fil-A in Savannah. In his letter to the community he wrote that a new owner would be in place by July and that the Chick-Fil-A corporate offices would be running the restaurant from April until then, asking for grace during the transition period. The full message can be seen below:

“Dear Chick-fil-A Olney Community,