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Vol. 31, No. 52 | Richmond Suburban News | April 29, 2015
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ELECTION 2015
Harris will Radler pursues seek re-election 55th House seat Contributed Report news@mechlocal.com
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HANOVER — Hanover County’s Commissioner of the Revenue Scott Harris has announced he will seek re-election to a fifth term in the November general election. “It’s been a privilege to serve as Commissioner for the past 15 years,” Harris said. “I look forward to serving the citizens for another term.” Since his election in 1999, he said the Commissioner’s office has increased productivity and efficiency through automation, employee training and resource management. “I have a knowledgeable staff. We have HARRIS met the challenges with an effective use of technology and resources available to us and not with an increase in staff size,” he said. Harris said he continues to improve and increase the services offered at the govern-
ASHLAND — Toni Radler, a long-time Hanover County resident and community activist, has announced her candidacy for the House of Delegates from the 55th District, which includes portions of Hanover, Caroline and Spotsylvania counties. “The residents in the 55th District should be fully and fairly represented,” Radler said. “The General Assembly paid lip service to ethics reform when it set the ceiling on gifts to elected and appointed officials at $100, but then refused to establish an enforceRADLER ment mechanism. My opponent promised he would go to Richmond and provide leadership on ethics reform, but he has not done that.” Radler said the General Assembly needs to enact ethics reform on the local level as well by
see HARRIS, pg. 4
see RADLER, pg. 4
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Arthur M. “Mac” Hall Sr., seated on the left in the front, is surrounded by family and friends who joined him Monday, April 20, in remembering April 20, 1945, when the World War II pilot bailed out of his B-17 when it was struck down in Italy by German forces.
70 years later: local man recalls bailing from B-17 By Meredith Rigsby mrigsby@mechlocal.com MECHANICSVILLE — Donning a leather jacket with three yellow bombs painted on the right breast, Arthur M. “Mac” Hall Sr. watches as men gather in the back room of Anna’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria to celebrate the 92-yearold’s service and survival during World War II. A pilot in the Air Army Forces, Hall’s Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress was struck down in Italy by German forces. The three yellow bombs on his jacket represent the three bombing missions that
Hall flew during the war. The year was 1942 and Hall had decided he wanted to become an aviator in the Air Army Forces, the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force. “He ended up at the University of Minnesota, went through flight school in Arizona, next thing you know he’s in Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada,” said Arthur M. “Mac” Hall Jr. “Picked up a B-17, flew it across country, left from Florida, flew all the way up the East Coast around through Newfoundland and in through west Africa on see B-17, pg. 8
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