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Vol. 37, No. 4 | Richmond Suburban News | May 5, 2021
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Nominees are . . . 6 seek Cold Harbor, South Anna HCSB seats By Jim Ridolphi for The Mechanicsville Local HANOVER — The Hanover County Board of Supervisors received six nominations for two soon-to-be open Hanover County School Board seats in the Cold Harbor and South Anna Districts at a public hearing last week. While 16-year school board veteran Norman Sulser is ending more than 40 years of public service with the county and did not seek reappointment, cur-
rent South Anna school board representative Kelly Evko did submit her name for nomination and reappointment. She joins two other candidates, including Army veteran Bob May and financial specialist Aleisha Miles vying for the South Anna seat. Supervisor Sue Dibble will select one of those names for board consideration at the May 26 meeting. Three candidates were nominated for the Cold see NOMINEES, pg. 8
ASHLAND – Stacie Taylor, the Instructional Technology Resource Teacher at Bell Creek Middle School and the Hanover County Online School, has been selected as the Photo submitted by Chris R. Whitley 2020-2021 Hanover County Stacie Taylor, the Instructional Public Schools Teacher of the Technology Resource Teacher Year. at Bell Creek Middle School Taylor has served students and the Hanover County in the county for 18 years, Online School, is the 2020first as a history teacher and, 2021 Hanover County Public since 2012, an Instructional Schools Teacher of the Year.
Senior Connections providing groceries By Melody Kinser Managing Editor ASHLAND – For over a year, Senior Connections has been providing groceries to its senior sites and others in need. In Hanover County, groceries are available in Montpelier and Ashland. Emily Lee, the manager of the Shiloh Baptist Friendship
Café, said the food program began in April of last year. The need has become so great that 360 were served last month. “Each participant gets two bags for the month,” she said. FeedMore partners with Senior Connections, Lee said. “And that’s where they pack up the groceries. People deliver either to the sites or senior homes. Managers will deliver
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to places like that.” “We’re going to do it as long as we can. They come very Tuesday to my site and they pick up groceries that will last them five days. Each bag has a menu on how to prepare meals for each day,” she added. The bags include canned goods, fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, sometimes frozen meat,
Technology Resource Teacher, collaboratively planning with teachers, creating engaging learning experiences for students, co-teaching lessons, and working on division-wide projects, among other things. She will now compete for the 2021 Region I Superintendents’ Teacher of the Year award. “I’m so thrilled, honored, and humbled to be recognized as Hanover’s Teacher of the
Year. It’s a particular honor in one of the most complicated years for teaching and learning I’ve ever known,” Taylor said. She added, “I recognize that my work is a team effort: a team of classroom teachers, technology integrators, tech support, and instructional leaders. And the incredible flexibility, perseverance, and compassion our students, parents, and commusee TEACHER, pg. 7
RSN writers and photographers win VPA honors By Dave Lawrence Richmond Suburban News MECHANICSVILLE – A trio of Richmond Suburban News writers and photographers, Joel Klein, Dave Lawrence and Nick Vandeloecht,
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