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| News, Updates & Listings Wednesday, Feb. 26 Ash Wednesday Service will be held at 6:30 pm New Highland Baptist Church. The church is located at 9200 New Ashcake Road.
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Tuesday, March 10
New Highland Baptist Church hosts Friday Night Live. This event is for age 4 through 5th grade children, from 6 to 8 p.m. The theme is “Love One Another,” and there will be a snack supper, games, Bible time, music, and fun hands-on activities. The church is located at 9200 New Ashcake Road.
The Mechanicsville AARP Chapter 5407 will meet rom 10 a.m. to noon at the First Union Baptist Church at 6231 Pole Green Rd. in Mechanicsville. Susan Richards, senior service specialist at the Hanover County Department of Community Resources, will be the featured speaker. A potluck lunch will be served furnished by the Chapter members. All national members of AARP are invited to attend as guests. For more information, call Larry Gooss at 804-839-2347.
Saturday, March 7
Saturday, March 14
“The last” of the current series of Community Salt Fish Breakfasts will be held from 8 to 9:30 a.m. at Enon UMC at 6156 Studley Rd. in Mechanicsville. The cost is $8 (ages 6 and under are admitted free of charge.). The breakfast buffet includes: salt fish, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage gravy, biscuits, corn cakes, hash browns, grits, apples, waffles, and beverage. This benefits (1) Heart Havens, “a non-profit,” providing residential support to adults with a developmental disability, where residents are empowered to discover what they love and to pursue their dreams, hopes, and passions [Homes are in Richmond, Stuarts Draft, Lynchburg, Virginia Beach, and Ashland (The Tate Home)] and (2) the church’s Men’s Ministry-
The Hanover Democratic Committee will host a Democratic Congressional District 1 Candidate Forum at 10 a.m. at Patrick Henry High School at12449 W. Patrick Henry Rd. in Ashland. All four announced Democratic congressional candidates -Phillip Cox, Qasim Rashid, Kevin Washington and Vangie Williams -- have committed to this forum. All voters and concerned citizens in Virginia’s First Congressional District are encouraged to attend. More information about the candidates is available at Ballotpedia: https://ballotpedia.org/ United_States_House_of_ Representatives_elections_in_ Virginia,_2020. For more information about the forum, contact John Suddarth at 804-405-0480 or john@suddarth.net.
Friday, Feb. 28
ASTRONOMERS Continued from pg. 16
Venus is the sole naked eye planet in early evening skies. It reaches its greatest eastern elongation on the 24th. Look for it high to the southwest after sunset – it sets around 11 pm. Mars and Jupiter rise to the
Saturday, May 16 The Highland Springs High School Class of 1970 will hold its 50th Reunion at the Hill Building at Sandston Pool, located at 501 Beulah Rd. in Sandston. Music will be by DJ Dalton Beagle. Dinner, drinks and dessert will be provided by Champagne Taste Catering. Bring your own mixers and alcohol. Small coolers are welcome. The doors will open at 4 p.m.; cocktails at 5 p.m.; dinner at 6 p.m.; and cleanup will be at 10 p.m. Cost is $45 per person until March 1, after which the cost is $50 per person. For invitations, contact Bill Brooks at 1970HSHS@gmail.com.
Saturday, March 21 New Song Church’s Student Ministry will sponsor the 5th annual Mission Possible 5K & Festival from 9 a.m. to noon to benefit its fourth mission trip to Haiti, which is planned for July 2021. The race begins and ends at New Song Church at 7450 Colt’s Neck Rd. in Mechanicsville. To register, visit www.newsongumc.org. Free family festival post-race, featuring human foosball, inflatable obstacle course and bouncy house, kids’ “field day” type games, including a 50-yard dash, and other festivities and prizes. For more information, contact 5K@newsongumc.org.
Friday, May 29 Hanover County Public Schools is inviting seniors
southeast around 4 am, followed an hour later by Saturn. They will appear to bunch up later in the month and should be a good show in predawn twilight. Mercury reaches its greatest western elongation on the 23rd but the ecliptic plane makes such a shallow angle with the horizon that it barely rises to the east southeast
who are enlisting in the military, have received an ROTC Scholarship, or an appointment at a military academy to take part in the 4th Annual Hanover Salutes program. Hanover Salutes is an evening to recognize students making a commitment to serve in the United States Armed Forces after graduation. The program will begin with a reception, including a full dinner, at 5 p.m. at Hanover High School. A ceremony will get underway at 6 p.m. in the auditorium.
Ongoing Families Anonymous Support Group meets from 7 to 8:30 p.m. every Monday at the Episcopal Church of the Creator at 7159 Mechanicsville Turnpike in Mechanicsville. The group is a self-help fellowship for the friends and family members of addicts who are in need of understanding and healing themselves. For details, call Sandy at 804-7304812 or email sandy.leigh@ verizon.net. Overcomers Outreach and Women’s Codependency, a Christ-centered anonymous support program offering hope and healing for recovering alcoholics, addicts and their families meet every Monday at 7 p.m. at the Mechanicsville Christian Center at 8061 Shady Grove Road in Mechanicsville. For more information, call 804366-9645 or email kjfaith1@ gmail.com.
before the sun. An overhead look at mid-March, a few hours after sunset, reveals a mostly empty sky at zenith. The likely unfamiliar constellations of Lynx and Leo Minor are in that direction, but there are no bright stars to grab your attention. Brighter and more familiar asterisms lay tens of
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Saturdays Trinity Lutheran Church, Ashland Campus, located at 11515 Ashcake Road in Ashland two miles west of U.S. 1, holds it church service at 5 p.m. with Pastor Nycholas Greig. For more information, visit www.trinityrichmond.net or call 804-270-9626.
Narcotics Anonymous group, has been organized and will meet from 6 to 7 p.m. in the lobby of the Pamunkey Regional Jail at 7240 Courtland Farm Rd. in Hanover. For more information, contact John Shinholser, McShin president, at 804-249-1845. The website is http://www.mcshin.org.
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All Souls Episcopal Church celebrates Holy Eucharist Rite II at 9:15 a.m. at Messiah Lutheran Church at 8154 Atlee Rd. in Mechanicsville. A nursery will be available for infants and toddlers. Katherine G. Dougherty is the Deacon in charge of All Souls. For more information, visit www.allsoulsva.org.
A Commanders coffee is held from 10 to 11 a.m. at American Legion Post 90 at 17662 Beaver Dam Rd. in Beaverdam to discuss issues of interest/befits of the American Legion. There also will be donuts. For more information, call Post Commander Eugene Truitt at 804-746-4734.
A Healing and Recovery SS Class meets at 9 a.m. at the Walnut Grove Baptist Church at 7046 Cold Harbor Rd. in Mechanicsville. The class is for adults 18 and over and is an extension of the NorthStar community that also meets at 6 p.m. Fridays at the church. The Christian 12 Steps and Biblical wisdom are the basis of study and discussion to learn about God’s place in our lives. All are welcome. For more information, call 804-746-5081 or contact Craig Simpson at craigwgbc@gmail.com. Outside the Walls, a new
degrees below zenith. Gemini is high (about 70 degrees) to the southwest, marked by the “twins” Castor and Pollux. Below Gemini we bid farewell to Orion and all the familiar bright stars in that constellation and those around it. To the south-southeast we find the sickle shape of Leo, with bright blue Regulus. Ursa Major
The Hanover Concert Band rehearses from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. every Tuesday, mid-January through mid December, at the Hanover Arts and Activities Center at 500 S. Railroad Ave. in Ashland, just south of U.S. 54. Membership is open to anyone who can read music and play a non-string instrument. High school students are welcome with parents’ permission. For more information, visit www. hanoverconcertband.org or call 804-789-0536.
Thursdays The Ashland Rotary Club meets weekly at noon at the
(including the Big Dipper asterism) is high to the northeast, and Capella marks the constellation Auriga to the northwest. If readers have questions about astronomy or science in general that you would like to see covered in one of these columns, please feel free to contact me at gspagna@rmc.edu.
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