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Vol. 30, No. 32 | Richmond Suburban Newspapers | December 11, 2013
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Movie theater plan withdrawn By Jim Ridolphi for The Mechanicsville Local Last week’s announcement by Hanover LLC withdrawing its application for a Conditional Use Permit to construct a movie theater in Mechanicsville came as a surprise to many. Others saw the writing on the wall at last month’s scheduled public hearing when planning director David Maloney announced the requested deferment involved more than just an incomplete traffic study. Maloney indicated delays had caused additional contractual issues that needed to be
L-DHS, Atlee win honors for publications Two Hanover County schools have received state championship recognition, Trophy Class, in several categories through the Virginia High School League (VHSL)/Jostens Regional Publications contest. Winners recently were announced during the Regional Publications Championship in Fredericksburg. They are: Trophy Class in the see HONORS, pg. 8
resolved. Apparently, the clock ran out on those efforts. “The applicant is the contract purchaser of the property, which means the deferral triggered a need to extend the contract period, as well as the construction timeline for the theater itself,” said Hanover LLC representative Andy Condlin. “Unfortunately, as is common when dealing with real estate transactions with this many moving parts, it is not always possible to keep every component moving forward at the
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Boy sends needy kids suitcase of toys sionary with an organization called Soles to Souls, with which she traveled to Haiti ome kids have lemonlast year. Although that group ade stands for a little specializes in providing shoes pocket money. to underprivileged people Logan Clark, a in seven different countries, fourth grader at Cool Spring Clark had a different way to Elementary School, spent his help in mind: toys. summer selling snow cones “They don’t have stores and peddling toy cars from his they can just go to,” Logan own collection, but he didn’t said. “They don’t have what keep the whopping $360 he we have.” raised. Bouncy balls, flying discs, Instead, Logan got puzzles, bottles of bubbles, together with his second rainbow jump ropes, airplane grade teacher, Marsha Rettig, gliders, coloring books and who was getting ready to see TOYS, pg. 21 head to Honduras as a mis-
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Logan Clark is shown making snow cones he sold to raise money to send toys to underprivileged children in Honduras.
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Local native becomes first VCU twirler Brittany Maiden continues her passion while pursuing master’s degree University of Virginia. There, she obtained a bachelor’s degree in sociology. s Virginia “During the last fall season Commonwealth of football [at UVa], something University’s first inside of me was just telling me “feature twirler,” that I couldn’t let this passion of Mechanicsville native Brittany Maiden gets to continue what she twirling go quite yet, and I began calls a passion in her life while she to seek a goal to twirl for a D1 continues on the path to complet- university in graduate school,” Brittany said. ing her education. After graduation, she said she For four years, she and her twin sister Victoria twirled for the wanted to obtain her master’s degree in elementary education. Cavalier Marching Band at the
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“Once I was accepted to VCU, I knew it was the place for me. Along with this goal of obtaining my master’s degree, I knew I wanted to keep twirling.” While under the leadership of head coach Shaka Smart, VCU’s basketball team has gained national attention, but, for Brittany, there wasn’t a Rams football squad for her to perform her twirling talents during games. Since there isn’t a football see TWIRLER, pg. 4