Herndon Fortnightly Club

Herndon Fortnightly Club Founded in 1889, The Herndon Fortnightly Club made its first project founding the Herndon Library.

🌟Town of Herndon Juneteenth Event🌟Friday June 19, 2026🌟10:30AM Town Hall Green 🌟We hope you will take some time to atten...
06/08/2026

🌟Town of Herndon Juneteenth Event🌟Friday June 19, 2026🌟10:30AM Town Hall Green 🌟
We hope you will take some time to attend the Town of Herndon’s Juneteenth Observance. Come hear about the meaning of the Juneteenth holiday as well about the beginnings of Herndon’s free African American Community. The event will be on Herndon’s Town Hall Green (by the old Town Hall and the Herndon Depot), located between Lynn and Elden Streets, at 10:30 AM, on Friday, June 19th. And a Fortnightly Club member will be one of the guest speakers!
https://www.herndon-va.gov/departments/recreation/special-events/juneteenth

We hope to see you at Herndon’s Memorial Day Ceremony at the Chestnut Grove Cemetery (831 Dranesville Road) on Monday, M...
05/18/2026

We hope to see you at Herndon’s Memorial Day Ceremony at the Chestnut Grove Cemetery (831 Dranesville Road) on Monday, May 25, at 10:00 AM. This brief ceremony is sponsored by Herndon’s Wayne M. Kidwell American Legion Post #184, website: https://www.wmkal184.org/
The guest speaker this year will be Captain Barbara Glakas, a former Army Reservist, the historian of the Herndon Historical Society, and our own Fortnightly Club member! She will highlight Revolutionary War veterans who either lived in Herndon and/or are buried in the Chestnut Grove Cemetery.

05/14/2026

Sharing a Reel and spreading the word from Mayor Keven about Polar Heat.

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05/14/2026

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Come join us at the Polar Heat on Lynn Street festival this Saturday, May 16. There will be plenty of food, music, and other interesting vendors and forms of entertainment. The Herndon Fortnightly Club will have a table on Lynn Street near the Herndon Town Council Chamber. Come say hi to us and fill out a ticket for a free raffle!
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Town of Herndon website information on this event: https://www.herndon-va.gov/departments/recreation/polar-heat-on-lynn-street

🌟 Fairfax ReLeaf 🌟 is coming to Herndon this Wednesday to speak to our club!We are excited to welcome Fairfax ReLeaf as ...
05/04/2026

🌟 Fairfax ReLeaf 🌟 is coming to Herndon this Wednesday to speak to our club!
We are excited to welcome Fairfax ReLeaf as the guest speaker at our May meeting THIS WEDNESDAY!
Local Herndon women and friends are welcome!
*** SHORT NOTICE, and hope you can join us WEDNESDAY May 6, 2026 from 1:30 to 2pm.
Please arrive early ~1:20 to 1:25 pm, for this half-hour presentation, which will begin promptly at 1:30pm
Meeting is at Herndon Fortnightly Library, in the MEETING ROOM, first floor.
Library address: 768 Center Street Herndon
(MEETING ROOM is the large room on the first floor, to the left as you enter the library’s first floor from the street).

Fairfax ReLeaf is a nonprofit with the mission to plant and preserve native trees in and around Fairfax County.
Fairfax ReLeaf teams with local groups to plant trees and to help improve habitats by removing invasive species.
Pictured below a couple of recent examples of Fairfax ReLeaf participating with communities to plant trees and remove invasives.

Fairfax ReLeaf Email Address: [email protected]
Website: https://www.fairfaxreleaf.com
Facebook: Releaf (over 1K followers!) https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064866482951 #
USPS Address: 12055 Government Center Pkwy, Ste 1034, Fairfax, VA, United States, 22035

Our March meeting brought a breath of spring and a boost of positivity as we welcomed Penny Halpern as our guest speaker...
04/26/2026

Our March meeting brought a breath of spring and a boost of positivity as we welcomed Penny Halpern as our guest speaker. Below is a photo of Penny at the podium, along with key details about her topic: the Herndon Village Network (HVN).
Penny’s warm and engaging style made her story especially enjoyable. She spoke about her life as a long time Herndon resident and her many years of community service. Today, she serves as President of the HVN Board, guiding a team of more than a dozen who help keep the organization running smoothly. (The team is composed of board members, media volunteers, and rides coordinators.) Some of our own club members have served as HVN drivers.
HVN is a membership based service with a simple, one time registration fee. Herndon residents 55 and older who live in 20170 or select areas of 20171 can join and receive free rides to places like medical appointments, grocery stores, restaurants, and more.
If you’d like to learn more about HVN, take a look at the links below.
https://herndonvillagenetwork.org/ (You can use the menus in this main page to get to the following two links.)
https://herndonvillagenetwork.org/join/ (Direct link to join to be a ride-recipient.)
https://herndonvillagenetwork.org/volunteer/ (Direct link to volunteer as a Driver.)

A big THANKS to Penny for a wonderful presentation and for serving our community.

Happy Women’s History Month! Today we remember two former Herndon Fortnightly Club Members. First is Virginia Castleman,...
03/29/2026

Happy Women’s History Month!
Today we remember two former Herndon Fortnightly Club Members.
First is Virginia Castleman, who was a founding Club member and became the initial librarian of the club’s library, the first lending library in Fairfax County.
Next is Elisabeth Leonhardt who was part of the “Sacred Twenty,” the Navy’s first group of nurses. She ultimately became the Chief Nurse of the United States Navy. After retiring in the late 1920s, she returned to Herndon, joined the Herndon Fortnightly Club, serving as a club officer and donating many books to the library.

To learn more about Herndon’s History, our local Herndon Historical Society’s facebook is a great place to start https://www.facebook.com/HerndonHistory/

❤️ 💻⚙️ A big THANK YOU to Elysa B., owner of the Tech Support company Herndon Tech. Our THANKS are for her outstanding s...
03/02/2026

❤️ 💻⚙️ A big THANK YOU to Elysa B., owner of the Tech Support company Herndon Tech. Our THANKS are for her outstanding support of our Herndon Fortnightly Club by serving as our Web Developer and Hosting Webmaster. Herndon Tech ensures our site runs beautifully: https://herndonfortnightlyclub.org/
We are grateful for Elysa’s expertise, professionalism, and dedication.
We highly recommend Elysa’s company: https://herndontech.com/

Valentine’s Day wishes to our community … 💖💞💗We Love our Town 💗💞💖We want to send our heartfelt 💜🫶💗 sentiments to our com...
02/12/2026

Valentine’s Day wishes to our community …
💖💞💗We Love our Town 💗💞💖
We want to send our heartfelt 💜🫶💗 sentiments to our community for Happy Valentine’s Day this Saturday!
Going into this Valentine’s weekend, we celebrate the kindness, connection, and compassion that make our town such a special place to call home. For this Valentine’s post, we connect community love with community volunteerism by highlighting an “early Valentine” from us in December 2025. On Saturday Dec 6, 2025, our club participated in the Holiday Homes Tour of Herndon (website: https://www.holidayhomestourofherndon.org/).
Our club member Mary B., for MANY years, has been a key committee member in the Town’s homes tour organization. On the day of the homes tour, our club formed two groups of volunteers with Mary B. and Yvonne J. leading the effort within our club. The two groups are pictured below. We are thankful for the warmth and generosity of Bernadette and Al, on Van Buren St, who shared their historic home with us for the tour.

May this Valentine’s Day remind us all that love isn’t only found in grand gestures, but in the warmth of a smile, a helping hand, and the friendships that brighten our days. We wish each of you moments of joy, gratitude, and connection as you celebrate in your own meaningful way. With heartfelt appreciation, The Herndon Fortnightly Club

We are happy to announce that in our first meeting for New Year 2026, we had an installation of the newly elected Board ...
01/17/2026

We are happy to announce that in our first meeting for New Year 2026, we had an installation of the newly elected Board members for our club. Pictured below, on the left, is Yvonne S. the President of the Northern District GFWC (website: www.ndgfwcva.org), who presided over our installation. Thanks Yvonne! The new Board for our club is the group picture, from left-to-right are Cathy F. (Recording Secretary), Vicki H. (President), Juliette M. (Treasurer), and Robin W. (Vice President).

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