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SPRINGFIELD, Va., Sept. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pure Hockey, the largest hockey equipment retailer in the United States, announced today the opening of its second Virginia location; it will be located in Springfield.

With over 70 retail locations across the country, Pure Hockey continues to strengthen its commitment to serving the hockey community with the largest selection of the highest quality hockey equipment, exceptional customer service, and unwavering support for the growth of the sport.

Pure Hockey has earned its reputation as the go-to destination for hockey players, coaches, and fans, offering the largest and most comprehensive selection of hockey equipment, including the biggest brands in the industry. From skates and sticks to protective gear, training, and apparel, Pure Hockey has everything players of all ages and skill levels need to perform their best on and off the ice.

"We are excited to bring the Pure Hockey experience to Springfield, Virginia," said David Nectow, CEO of Pure Hockey. "Our goal has always been to provide the best shopping experience, equipment, and resources and support the development of all hockey players. With the opening of our Springfield store, we are expanding our reach to serve even more members of the hockey community in this region."

Pure Hockey takes pride in its comprehensive team sales offering, providing teams and organizations with everything they need to succeed, from bulk equipment to learn-to-play packages to customized team jerseys, apparel, and gear. This service ensures that teams can look their best while playing their best and fostering team spirit on and off the ice.

In addition to providing top-notch products, Pure Hockey is committed to supporting the sport's growth at the grassroots level. As the official Learn to Play partner of the NHL, Pure Hockey actively contributes to introducing new players to the game and developing their passion for hockey. This partnership exemplifies Pure Hockey's dedication to the game and fostering a love for hockey among individuals of all ages.

The new , store is located at 6751-A Frontier Dr, 22150, and the grand opening is scheduled for . For more information about Pure Hockey and its new , location, please visit .

Pure Hockey is headquartered outside of The company was founded in 1994 and was acquired by and in 2008. Nectow and Tiano started their hockey business in 2002 with the purchase of one hockey retail store in Massachusetts. Pure Hockey has since expanded organically and through strategic acquisitions and now operates two ecommerce sites and over 70 stores in 26 states across the U.S. under the Pure Hockey and Pure Goalie brands. Pure Hockey is the Official Hockey Equipment Retailer of Hockey and the Retail Partner of the NHL/NHLPA's Learn to Play Program.

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Moving to Springfield VA

Springfield, Virginia is a gem of a place in the DC Area and the lifestyle provides awesome opportunities for food, fun and families. We’re going to cover the Springfield lifestyle in this video. If you want to know more about real estate, check out our other video on Springfield as well!

Springfield comprises three different parts. West Springfield is west of I-95, and south of the beltway. The north end extends a bit north of Braddock Road and the south end goes just past the Fairfax County Parkway. Springfield straddles 95 and is both inside and outside the beltway. And then North Springfield fits right in between the two. There is no East or South Springfield.

The closest metro stop is Franconia-Springfield Metro.

Food

Springfield does not lack in the food department and has some of the best restaurants and bakeries. Swiss Bakery & Pastry shop off of Braddock Rd has great deli sandwiches and fresh homemade bread. The bakery sweets are sinful, and the grocery area offers so many hard to get Swiss and German treats. Also we highly recommend Yindee Thai off of Old Keene Mill Rd. They have been open for a long time and their food is some of the best in the area.

Bob & Edith’s Diner is an institution – the best diner in the area. It is always busy but it’s worth the wait. It is a true diner down to the Mid-Century decor and you know the food is going to be great when they bring out a white coffee mug with the blue ring. They know how to cook eggs perfectly.

Springfield Town Center has a lot of great chain restaurants. Yardhouse has great beers and the food is great.

The grocery store options are fantastic as well. You are close to an H Mart, Whole Foods, and Trader Joe’s but you also have the option of going to the more traditional stores like Giant, Safeway, etc. Springfield has a lot of international grocery stores that include Afghani stores, African stores, mercados, and Indian, just to name a few. These markets are awesome for locating ingredients for recipes.

Orkney Springs Distillery is awesome and worth a visit. If you are wine drinker, you are not a far drive from Paradise Springs Winery in Clifton. It’s a really beautiful drive down Burke Lake Rd or the Parkway.

Fun

Summer is coming, let’s talk summer fun first. Some communities have their own pools in Springfield which are part of their Homeowner’s Association. Daventry, Danbury Forest, Shannon Station Pool at Keene Mill Village, and the Timbers are some of those communities.

If your community doesn’t have a pool, then there are membership based pools and they are all over Springfield. I mean, all over – there are about a dozen pools in such a relatively small geographic area.

Places like Springboard Pool is not only a pool, but they have movie nights, volleyball, ping pong, shuffleboard and social events. Family membership is $595 and there is currently a waitlist, but no indication of timing.

Springfield Swim and Raquet Club is $535 for a family membership.

North Springfield Swim Club is for those living in, North Springfield. They do check your address. It’s $550 for a family membership.

Village West Pool has a variety of membership options but for families the cost is $545 for up to 4 family members or $610 if you have 5 or more.

Canterbury Woods Swim Club is just north of Braddock Road. Their membership fee is $625, but requires you to buy a pool bond for $300. You can try the pool for one year without purchasing the bond, but then you must purchase if you plan to remain a member.

Rolling Forest Recreation Association is a non-profit serving residents of West Springfield. Residents of the Winter Forest HOA and Rolling Forest subdivisions are called Charter Members and automatically allowed to join. Winter Forest is required to join, Rolling Forest is optional but you would lose your right to membership. You can regain the right but you wouldn’t ever be able to vote. The cost for those communities is $520. Other residents in the area may join but the cost is $600 and there are no voting rights.

Parliament Pool Association doesn’t have restrictions on where you live. Memberships are $300 initiation and run from $250 for an individual membership to $500 for a family.

Walden Glen Swim & Racquet also requires membership. The cost is $495 for an individual membership, $730 for a family membership and $200 for tennis only.

There are several others including Orange Hunt Swim & Tennis Club, Rolling Valley Swim and Tennis, Fox Hunt Swim and Tennis, and Saratoga Recreation Group.

For more year round type of fun, there’s Lake Accotink Park. There’s a 3.8 mile trail that goes around the lake, and the park hosts a variety of outdoor, nature-themed programs in the form of classes and camps. Birdwatching, Kayaking, Mountain Biking, mini-golf, hiking, and there’s a carousel here making this a place of fun for kids and adults too.

We’ll talk about the St James here and in the next section for kiddos, because it’s so great we need to cover it twice. Walking into the St James is like walking onto a college campus in heaven. There are tons of sports fields inside for everything you can think of, there are pools and a water park, football, lacrosse and soccer are in the field house. Baseball and softball are in the Hitting House. There’s a Court house for basketball and Volleyball, an ice house for skating and hockey, and then there’s cheer, dance, gymnastics, climbing, and golf.

Another place for family fun is the Go Ape Zipline and Adventure Park. It’s located at the South Run Recreation Center. There are several different options for various levels and abilities. And speaking of South Run Recreation Center, there’s a lot there as well. Group fitness classes, swimming, plus a field house with synthetic turf for most sports. Then outside there are trails, basketball courts, baseball/softball diamonds, soccer fields, tennis and trails.

The Sydenstricker Schoolhouse was built in 1928 and what’s amazing about this schoolhouse is that it is still a bustling community center. It stands as a piece of history that remains nearly unchanged over the past 90 years. It was among the last operating one-room schoolhouses in Fairfax County.

Kids

People move here because it’s an affordable suburb in DC with really great schools. Some areas have better rankings than others, but in general the scores are 7 & 8’s on Great Schools, and a few with mid level scores peppered throughout.

West Springfield, Saratoga, Cardinal Forest, Ravensworth, Crestwood, Forestdale, Garfield, Springfield Estates and Lynbrook Elementary Schools serve preschool through 6th grade.

Rolling Valley, Keene Mill, Hunt Valley, Orange Hunt, Sangster Elementary serve Kindergarten through 6th grade.

Then there’s Kings Park which is Kindergarten through 3rd grade, and Kings Glen which is 4th to 6th.

North Springfield Elementary School is Pre-K through 5th and actually in a different region and feeds to Annandale schools.

The middle schools are either Irving Middle or Key Middle which serve only grades 7 & 8. and for high school it’s either Lewis, West Springfield or Annandale High School. That’s because of the five regions in which Fairfax County divides the areas, three of them meet in a juncture in Springfield. There used to be eight regions, but they reorganized it into five to spread out the socioeconomic disparities.

You will find lots of excellent school scores here. The Great Schools Scores are in the 7-10 range, and the other reviews you find online on places like Google are all really good. Families like these schools, with one exception. On the east side of Springfield, the high school there, Lewis, doesn’t score as well.

There are other great things for kids in Springfield. So many of the parks have playgrounds. Kings Park Community has 4 playgrounds alone to serve the 1100 homes in the community and the Timbers has Brookfield Park, which has a great playground.

Sky Zone Trampoline Park is here. The St. James is unbelievable. They have a kids playground inside called Super Awesome and Amazing. The kids can test their skills at indoor rock climbing, traversing the overhead obstacle course, visit the Virtual Reality Games or go to the indoor waterpark. They offer camps and leagues where you can learn to play sports. This is literally worth moving to Springfield for, no joke.

Hidden Pond Nature Center has a playground, trails and the Nature Center is the Visitor Center where you can check out any programs, see live animals or peruse books and items about nature.

There’s the Studio for Piano if your little one is interested in learning to play, as well as the Perfect Pitch Music Studio where you can learn piano or take voice lessons.

Conclusion

We hope this gave you a great idea of what it would be like to live in Springfield! There’s a lot to know about the lifestyle, if you have any questions please reach out to us!

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks is hosting a PACT Act event at the VA Clinic in Springfield Saturday.

The event goes from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the clinic on West Republic Street. It’s open to veterans and their families with no appointment necessary.

The point of the event is to educate and screen veterans to make sure they’re aware of their benefits under the PACT Act as the August 10 deadline quickly approaches according to Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks Public Affair Officer, April Eilers.

“We are asking everyone to come to learn about the PACT Act to sign up for the PACT Act and also to get exposure screening for the PACT Act,” said Eilers.

The PACT Act expands VA benefits for veterans who fought in Vietnam, the Gulf War, or post-9/11 conflicts, and covers disabilities that stemmed from toxic chemicals such as burn pits or Agent Orange.

For veterans that apply before August 10, they can get retroactive benefits as well for the past year.

“Up from now until August 10, they will get retroactive benefits and pay for for their services,” said Eilers. “Then after August 10, they obviously still need to get the care, the care that they deserve, but they won’t get the retroactive benefits.

Anyone is welcome at the event without an appointment. Eilers says an event like this is so important to get the word out about benefits veterans can get.

“We have to get the word out. So people, so veterans are aware of the benefits that they have earned. And we’re really pushing and doing outreach events now,” said Eilers.

If you can’t make this event, the Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks hosts more events around the area. You can find a list of those here.

Those who can’t make an event can still get those benefits as well. You can call 1-800-698-2411 or the local VHSO team at 479-443-4301- ext. 63603.

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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Mark Greenwalt, a Springfield man with disabilities, opened up his non-profit coffee shop at the VA Medical Clinic on West Republic this week. Greenwalt named the organization ‘Mark’s Coffee Shop.’

Mark’s father, Noel Greenwalt, said Mark has wanted to do something productive and help others for a while now. With the opening of his coffee shop, he can do that by serving veterans and other customers that walk through the door. The proceeds made benefit youth, adults, and senior citizens with disabilities.

“My dad was looking for a place for me to do a coffee shop and to support me and my dreams,” Mark Greenwalt said.

Greenwalt said he is working in the coffee shop by serving coffee to all its patrons. Plus, it’s cheap for veterans in the clinic.

“We sell coffee at a reasonable price,” Greenwalt said.

He also said giving back to others with disabilities makes his time feel well spent, and Mark would instead do that than take the money for his personal use.

“It feels good to help.”

Vietnam veteran and neighbor of Mark’s, Jerry White, said it’s extraordinary someone would open a shop like Mark’s and give all the proceeds back to others with disabilities.

“It’s great to have something like this here, run by someone special like Mark,” White said. “It’s useful for someone to have something to do and feel important,” he said.

White also said it’s a wonderful feat. Greenwalt has opened his shop and works in it daily, improving others’ lives through his service. He also said a shop like this is a need in a veterans clinic.

“A lot of times you come in for blood work, you don’t have time to eat anything in the morning, and after you do your bloodwork, you can have some biscuits and gravy or good donuts or rolls,” White said.

Mark Greenwalt, along with the help of his parents, fully opened up Mark’s Coffee Shop on Monday, so there are limited items right now. However, they will continue to add menu items as they learn the ropes.

“Spread the word! Let them know they can come here,” Mark Greenwalt said.

Mark’s Coffee Shop is in the Veteran’s Canteen inside the VA Medical Clinic. Business hours are Monday-Friday from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Springfield, Virginia's business leaders made the same diversity and equity arguments Maryland leaders gave for securing the FBI's new headquarters building.

SPRINGFIELD, Va. — With the fight to land the FBI's new headquarters building raging on, small business owners in Maryland and Virginia are adding their voices to the conversation.

Bob and Edith’s diner is one of a handful of decades-long Springfield mainstays. Manager Aaron Chilin feels that thousands of federal employees relocating minutes away could be a once in a generation business opportunity.

"When we heard that, we thought, wow, that’s a good comeback from COVID," Chilin said.

Despite the merger of Beltway roads earning the local name of “The Mixing Bowl,” there’s confidence the area could handle the influx of employees that would commute to the region if the General Services Administration (GSA) selects Springfield as the next location for the FBI headquarters.

"I’m pretty sure there’s going to be an impact on traffic, bit it’s not that bad now that construction is over," Chilin said.

Close to the Franconia-Springfield Metro station, the FBI would move into a warehouse complex currently owned by the GSA. Virginia leaders couldn’t point to any economic impact studies to quantify how much business the FBI move could bring, but shops including locally owned Ahni Beauty simply feel the opportunity.

"It would be huge," manager Jamilla Williams said. "We’re a brand new business, we just opened Dec. 3 of last year. Its been kind of slow, so the extra traffic would be a bonus for us. We welcome it. Come on!"

Williams, a Maryland resident herself, says Springfield has the same equity arguments Prince George’s County is making to the FBI.

[Springfield is] a lot more diverse than I really knew before coming here to work," she said.

Shawarma Tacos, a fusion of Lebanese and Mexican food, symbolizes the diversity of Springfield, says owner and Lebanese immigrant Mohammed Canaan

"Springfield is very friendly, a friendly community," he said. "You have three very convenient streets down here. You’ve got all exits, 495, 395, 95. It’s the bottleneck for the majority of the cities. I do recommend FBI to come over here, because this would bring traffic for us, and a lot of money hopefully."

Springfield Town Center’s general manager believes the relocation could have a major impact for his community.

"Seventy-five-hundred jobs coming into the market, well-paid jobs, it’s going to help the schools, it’s going to help the local businesses, it’s a win for everybody," Eric Christensen said.

The mall’s pitch to the FBI? Everything it needs for their headquarters is already here, because those same factors are leading to the mall’s growth.

"There’s a reason this town center is here," Christensen said. "It’s because of the infrastructure and the community. We’re right next to a Metro station, we’re right off the Beltway, right off of 95. It’s a great location for us and for the FBI."

>Video below: Springfield shop owners welcome possible FBI HQ Virginia move

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