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Vol. 30, No. 10 | Richmond Suburban Newspapers | July 10, 2013
STOPS AT EVERY HOME IN TOWN
Tomato time!
Contests a big part of festival
Festival celebrating 35th year By Melody Kinser mkinser@mechlocal.com
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xcited and humbled is how the director of Hanover County Parks & Recreation describes his department’s emotions as they and the Hanover Tomato Festival Committee prepare SAGER
for the 35th anniversary of “the” event in Mechanicsville. The 35th Hanover Tomato Festival will be presented from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, July 13, at Pole Green Park at 8996 Pole Green Park Lane. Black Creek Volunteer Fire Department, under the leadership of the late Oscar see TOMATO, pg. 5
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D Sandy Watson, the widow of Oscar Watson, who spearheaded the Hanover Tomato Festival for 34 years, shared this photograph, dated June 11, 2010, when he walked out and found his first tomato of the season. She said he was on his way to a festival meeting. The 35th Hanover Tomato Festival is being dedicated in Oscar’s honor.
id you plant delicious Hanover Tomatoes this year? Do you have largest, smallest, ugliest, prettiest or the best tasting? Enter one of the Hanover Tomato Contests at the Hanover Tomato Festival and let the judges decide. Maybe you have less of a green thumb, but are a master in the kitchen, there are categories for you as well. see CONTESTS, pg. 14
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off with a rebellious flair. He raig Wayne Boyd, grew up in Mesquite, Texas, a who was “born Dallas suburb. under the influBoyd tackled and ence of gospel conquered several and country music,” will musical instruheadline the entertainments at ment for the a young 2013 Hanover age and Tomato later Festival. served His sound as his is said to be church rooted in the choir Southern directradition of country see music and LINEUP, CRAIG WAYNE BOYD pg. 24 topped
County now offers resources, online tools for better parenting raising children, and many of those resources are found online. Hanover County parents now have Parents are looking for as much an online option that provides valuable help as possible when it comes to information for raising kids of all ages,
By Jim Ridolphi for The Mechanicsville Local
with specific resources and tools to get the job done. Dr. Sheila Crossen-Powell, director of Hanover’s Social Services, presented a brief overview of the new website at
the June 26 meeting of the Hanover Taylor and Joan Marable with United County Board of Supervisors. Way. She was joined by assistant direc“They (Temoney and Marable) tor Dr. Tamara Temoney, Hanover see PARENTING, pg. 14 Business Council representative Debra
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