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Lady Fairfax Shirley Short
Shirley Short, or as we call her – our Volunteer Extraordinaire – is an amazing asset to Team MVD and Mount Vernon residents. Shirley is a retired Fairfax County firefighter and played an integral role helping residents during the 2006 Huntington flood. Since then she has worked tirelessly assisting with the many community events, ribbon cuttings, groundbreakings and public meetings we host each year, volunteering thousands of hours.
Shirley is often the first bright, smiling face you see at these events as she runs our information table and greets everyone as they arrive. In 2015, Shirley helped lead the first ever Ides of Bark Dog Festival that continues to be a barking success today, bringing together hundreds of our furry friends and their owners for a day of fun. In addition to leading Ides of Bark again this year, Shirley also single-handedly organized a new addition to our Town Meeting – Taste of Mount Vernon – providing free lunch from local restaurants to the hundreds of attendees at the Town Meeting. Next, she took on the challenge to provide 200 school supply filled backpacks at our first ever Back-to-School event. She is a dynamo!
Shirley also manages an extensive community information station at our office, as well as at the Lorton Community Center. She travels far and wide to gather materials she thinks our residents will want to see and keeps it stocked for everyone, in multiple languages. And, if she wasn’t busy enough with our office, Shirley also volunteers many hours with the Mount Vernon Springfield Chamber and the Mount Vernon Citizens Advisory Committee. In short, Shirley’s dedication to our community, her willingness to jump in at all times and her can-do attitude make us a stronger, more connected community!
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