UPCOMING EVENTS

Alexandria Scottish Christmas Walk with AHA

Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/07/2024
9:30 am - 12:15 pm

We’re excited to participate again this year in the Alexandria Scottish Christmas Walk! Join AHA members, volunteers, friends and supporters to walk or ride in this popular Old Town parade.

This year, we are really leaning in to our collective Scottish heritage. We are asking you to send us your Scottish family name so it can be represented in the parade. If you happen to know which clan it’s associated with, all the better! This year, we will have our longtime friend Mitch Opalski serve as M.C. for the “call and response” as we walk. Mitch is the owner of Synergy Home Care and, if you know Mitch, you know he always brings the fun!

AHA has walked in the parade since 2011, so the Scottish Walk is an AHA tradition too. The parade provides great visibility to AHA but, more important, it illustrates that older adults are still fun and active—and enjoy being a vital part of this Alexandria community we love. Once again, AHA member Ann Liddle is graciously opening her home to AHA members and volunteers for some warm refreshment and snacks prior to the parade lineup. (Her home is less than one block from AHA’s lineup spot so, yes, we’re a little spoiled!) We’ll be walking AND riding in some convertible cars. We’ll supply the banners, signs and AHA red scarves for those who don’t have their own family tartan.

Please sign up on AHA Hub or to the office at aha@athomeinalexandria.org or 703-231-0824. Please let the office know if you plan to walk or ride. Can’t wait to see you there! Lang may yer lum reek! (Long may your chimney smoke!)