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Mount Vernon’ s 18 holes feature commemorative America250 flagsticks.
By proximity and synergy, the country club and the Mount Vernon estate will collaborate this year on a series of activities for America250, ranging from lectures and tours to culinary events. The club’ s whiskey tasting will include some of Washington’ s spirits. And there will be a rare book tour for members at the George Washington Presidential Library at the Mount Vernon estate, typically open only by appointment.
As a special touch, the usual silhouette of Washington’ s profile as MVCC’ s club logo has been co-branded with the America250 logo on the course’ s flagsticks. The 129-acre course meanders through the original Mount Vernon estate with Dogue Creek, a Potomac tributary, trickling into play on 14 of 18 holes.
Of course, there will be golf at MVCC on July 4th, kicked off by a members’ golf-cart parade. Committee event planners are hoping the Washington Nationals’“ Racing Presidents,” oversized costume mascots of U. S. Presidents, also will make a guest appearance for the celebration.
Then at 2:50 p. m. on July 4th, Condon and her national America250 team will orchestrate an“ America Waves” event, encouraging residents of every U. S. state and territory to wave small American flags acknowledging America’ s 250th birthday.
“ We did a big America Waves event at The Players Championship, and you could see everyone, from all walks of life, waving their flags and really representing what America looks like,” she recounted.
“ That’ s what this is all about, just finding those moments of unity and creating memories for families,” added Condon, whose America250 travel schedule is taking her coast to coast all year.
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America250 is a non-partisan initiative established by Congress and, according to Condon, its mission is to engage 350 million Americans— ideally, even offering a common ground.
One of the efforts will be to focus on service through the America Gives program, encouraging groups and individuals to volunteer time during this year’ s celebration. In that spirit, MVCC is participating in the PGA of America’ s Helping Our Patriots Everywhere( HOPE) program. Military veterans in northern Virginia of all ability levels come to MVCC to learn how to play golf with the club’ s teaching professionals.
“ We’ re running adaptive golf programs designed around the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of veterans,” said Smith.
“ I think there’ s a real strong sense of community service and patriotism in our club,” added Bradburn.“ Many of our members work in government and trade associations and there are a lot of veterans in this area.”
And while Condon acknowledged that“ some Americans are not ready to fly a flag or go to a parade,” she hopes that the chance to volunteer at home will be the way many Americans choose to celebrate this year. The initiative’ s goal is to record the largest year of service in national history.
“ This is an opportunity to come together as a country and we hope that many Americans will say they commemorated our Semiquincentennial by giving back in their communities,” Condon added.
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