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Vol. 32, No. 33 | Richmond Suburban News | December 23, 2015
Ted Cruz visits Mechanicsville
HHS junior finalist for Snow Queen
By Joshua Lewis Special to The Local
Contributed Report news@mechlocal.com
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ICHMOND — DeAnna Baldacci of Mechanicsville is one of three finalists for the Children’s Museum’s Snow Queen for 2016. She has gone through an essay and interview process. Now it is up to the public to vote for her to achieve this honor. Residents from throughout Mechanicsville and Hanover County are being asked to support DeAnna by going to www.C-mor. org/snow-queen. According to her mother, Tami Baldacci, this is a scholarship program. “Thank you for all your support,” Tami said. “She has been dreaming about being
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Snow Queen every year since she has been visiting the legendary Santa as a little girl. She would be so grateful to help her dream come true.” DeAnna is a junior at Hanover High School. She volunteers regularly at the Children’s Museum, helping out at multiple locations and for various special events. She also volunteers for her church, Mt. Vernon Baptist, and at Hanover High by assisting the janitors see QUEEN, pg. 4
MECHANICSVILLE – The race to the White House made its way to Mechanicsville last week when Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, brought his campaign to Life Church on Atlee Road. On Friday, Cruz included the local visit on his 12-city “Cruz Country Christmas Tour,” speaking to a standing room only crowd of nearly 1,000 supporters. In addition to the hundreds of community supporters, U.S. Rep. Dave Brat, R-Virginia, and former Virginia Attorney General and 2013 gubernatorial candidate Ken Cuccinelli also attended. Rev. Buddy Thompson, Mechanicsville native and senior pastor of Life Church, gave the opening statement to the crowd eagerly awaiting Cruz, who is climbing in the polls. “We were honored to be asked to host such a historic
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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz, a U.S. senator from Texas, visited Life Church on Friday, where he addressed about 1,000 supporters. He is shown with Buddy Thompson, senior pastor of the Atlee Road church.
event on our campus. Life Church isn’t a stranger to community and civic engagement, but hosting a presidential contender was certainly new for
us. We appreciate the opportunity and believe that the faith community needs to continue having a voice in the important issues of these troubled times
that we live in,” Thompson said. The senior pastor’s opening remarks about the rich history that Virginians like Patrick Henry have had in forming our government brought some of the crowd to their feet as he said, “The church has always been a part of shaping our government ... it started in the church, let’s keep it in the church.” Cruz attended the event after first voting in the Senate on the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill. Having recently criticized presidential contender U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, RFlorida, for not attending key votes in the Senate, the Cruz camp changed the time of the rally from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in order to be present at the key budget vote. Cruz addressed his Democratic rivals seeking the nomination for president and defeating global terror. “We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism. We will not weaken, we
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