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Monday through toys, lawn and garden, furniFriday, Sept. 14-25 The Church of the Redeemer’s annual Yard Sale for Haiti will be held online ture and much more. Masks and social distancing are required. For more information, call 804-779-3370. only this year. See Facebook posting “Church of the Saturday, June 20 Redeemer Annual Yard Sale” Rescheduled for complete information on The Reunion Committee how to bid, shop, and donate for the Lee-Davis High School items. The event is being Class of 1980 has decided to hosted by dixonsauction.com. postpone the reunion from June Items are visible at the location 20 to sometime in September at Virginia Center Commons due to the COVID-19 situation. Mall. Donations will be acceptMore details will be released by ed through Sept. 11. the committee as soon as they have been finalized.

Friday and Saturday, Sept. 11-12 Saturday, May 15,

St. Paul Lutheran Church 2021Rescheduled will sponsor its “Everything for The Highland Springs High $1 Two-Day Yard Sale from School Class of 1970 has had 8 a.m. to noon at 8100 Shady to postpone its 50th reunion Grove Rd. in Mechanicsville. again. The new date is Saturday, The inside/outside and rain or May 15, 2021. All other preshine event will include linens, vious information is correct, kitchen, home décor, clothes including the location at the (children and adult), books, 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

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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 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.

Sundays

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 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

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He does suggest that hazard pay continue in round two for police officers. He also mentioned other employees that are focused on public safety.

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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 meets 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.

Tuesdays

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.

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

Narcotics Anonymous group, call 804-789-0536.

Th ursdays

The Ashland Rotary Club meets weekly at noon at the Iron Horse Restaurant at 100 S. Railroad Ave. in in Ashland. For more information, contact Steve Dunham at 804-496-6093 or sandrdunham@yahoo.com.

Overcomers Outreach & Women’s Codependency is a Christ-centered anonymous support program offering hope and healing for recovering alcoholics, addicts and their families. Meetings are held at 7 p.m. at Shalom Baptist Church at 8116 Walnut Grove Rd. in Mechanicsville. For more information, call 804- 366-6524 or email mjfaith1@ gmail.com.

Second Mondays

The WEB of Hope meets from 10 a. m. to noon at the Black Creek Baptist Church at 6289 McClellan Rd. in Mechanicsville. It is one of several groups in the Richmond

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-- sneeze guards all those little things that keep our employees safe). Farrar said the HVAC system had been upgraded to operate in a COVID world.

On July 7, he said they had to delve into expenditures “that went back to March and had to account for some of it.”

When COVID-19 struck, Farrar said Ashland Town Hall employees were not prepared to work remotely, but that they are “in a really, really good position now. It works absolutely wonderfully – it’s a dramatic improvement.”

Additional funding went toward PPE, cleaning supplies, enhanced janitorial services, and bio-hazard. “When we did this in July,” Farrar said, “we had no idea how long it was going to be.”

For round two, Farrar was recommending $130,000 hazard pay for police, and a busisee COUNCIL, pg. 17