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Continued from pg. 12 Facebook page (https:// www.facebook.com/ PamunkeyLibrary/) at 11 a.m.

Each Storytime features stories, songs, and fun, age-appropriate learning activities.

Check the calendar at https://pamunkeylibrary. libcal.com/ to see more virtual programs for all ages this fall.

For more information, call your local branch library or email ask@ pamunkeylibrary.org.

Continued from pg. 8 wrapped up with a tree lighting at the Windmill Bank. That time is special to Clodfelter, who, as Santa, greets all the little boys and girls.

Clodfelter told The Local that an advantage of the event is the fact that “just about everybody knows everybody in the town of Mechanicsville.”

The incentive for the parade remains the same after all these years. As Clodfelter said, it’s all about the kids. And that will be the case next year.

CALENDAR | News, Updates & Listings

Saturday, June 20 Rescheduled

The Reunion Committee for the Lee-Davis High School Class of 1980 has decided to postpone the reunion from June 20 to sometime in September due to the COVID19 situation. More details will be released by the committee as soon as they have been finalized.

Saturday, May 15, 2021 Rescheduled

The Highland Springs High School Class of 1970 has had to postpone its 50th reunion again. The new date is Saturday, May 15, 2021. All other previous information is correct, including the location at the Hill Building at Sandston Pool at 501 Beulah Rd. in Sandston. Music will be presented 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. The cost is $45 per person. Those who may have recently paid $50 after March 1 have been refunded $5. No tickets will be sold at the door. For invitations or more information, contact Bill Brooks at 1970HSHS@gmail.com.

Ongoing

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 804- 366-9645 or email kjfaith1@ gmail.com.

Saturdays

Trinity Lutheran Church, Ashland Campus, located at 11515 Ashcake Road in

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Rogers brings strength(s) back to Hanover

By Mike Barber Richmond Times-Dispatch

As Hanover High School’s football program built itself from a winless start-up to a title contender more than a decade ago, much of the foundation for that turnaround took root in the team’s weight room. That’s where assistant coach Jake Just would put the players through grueling workouts, the kind that young athletes simultaneously crave and dread.

So before each workout, Sam Rogers — the program’s do-everything star from 2010 to 2013 — would check in with Just, to see what the coach had in store for that day.

“I remember coming up to Coach Jake before each workout and saying, ‘What do we have today, man?’” Rogers recalled. “He’d be like, ‘Sam, don’t worry about it. It’s going to be an easy day.’ And it became a thing.”

For Just, it was a way to take some of the edge off what was about to happen, what he was about to ask of his athletes.

“That was kind of our tagline,” said Just, who said he picked up the slogan from another former coach at Hanover. “I would just repeat that phrase over and over and over. Just get it in their heads that it was an easy day.”

Now, that story is the inspiration for Rogers’ adult workout program, EZDay, which he runs

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Sam Rogers, former star and current head football coach at Hanover High School, leads students through a workout at Sports Reality in July. Rogers is bringing the strength and other training techniques he learned at Hanover and Virginia Tech to the Hawks.

every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 5 a.m. at Sports Reality in Mechanicsville, across the street from Hanover High, where he is the football coach.

Rogers, who starred at Virginia Tech and spent a year on the L.A. Rams’ practice squad, began the workout program with a test run in November, then launched it officially at the Sports Reality facility in January. Now, he has about 40 dedicated members enduring his “EZ” workouts that, like those from his high school days, are anything but easy.

They are high-intensity cardio sessions that focus on partner and team exercises, while still maintaining COVID-19 social distancing. Rogers will pair the members of the class with partners who line up across the facility from each other. They “meet in the middle,” though still at least 15 feet apart, then one runs back to their workout mat and does an assigned exercise.

When the first person completes that, they run back to the middle, at which point the partner runs to their mat to complete the exercise. They try to repeat this as many times as possible in the time Rogers has allotted for the particular drill.

The workouts always conclude with a “circuit.” The class splits in half and each half is a team. With members starting at their mats, they run essentially a workout relay race.

“You’re not just there for yourself,” said Ellis Whitshire, a 37-year-old from Rockville who is a member of the program. “You’re there to push and challenge everybody else you’re working out with. It’s a great culture.”

For Rogers, his passion for the program is about that as much as it is the exercise.

“There’s a certain group that wants to work out at 5 a.m., a certain type of person,” Rogers said with a laugh. “But it’s also people that just want to be

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