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Friday, Dec. 24
New Highland Baptist Church is hosting a Christmas Eve Candlelight Service with Communion at 4 p.m. The church is located at 9200 New Ashcake Road.
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St. Paul Lutheran Church Christmas Eve Family Candlelight Worship will begin at 5 p.m. and Traditional Candlelight Worship at 7 p.m. located at 8100 Shady Grove Road in Mechanicsville. For more information, call 804427-7500 or visit www.saintpaul-lcms.com.
Saturday, Dec. 25
St. Paul Lutheran Church will hold Christmas Day Traditional Worship that will begin at 10 a.m. at 8100 Shady Grove Road in Mechanicsville. For more information call 804-427-7500 or visit www. saintpaul-lcms.com.
Saturday, Jan. 8
A Community Salt Fish Breakfast is scheduled from 8 to 10 a.m. at Enon United Methodist Church, 6156 Studley Road in Mechanicsville. A buffet menu including salt fish, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, gravy, biscuits hash rounds, grits, apples, corn cakes, waffles and beverage. Admission is $10 for adults and children 7 and under, free. Carry out is available. Sponsored by Enon United Methodist Church. All profits go to the missions.
see CALENDAR, pg. 9
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Immediate arrest made in stolen vehicle case
Holiday hours for Hanover Government Offi ces, Courts and Solid Waste Centers
Hanover County Government offices and courts will be closed Dec. 23-24 for the Christmas holiday and Dec. 31 for New Year’s.
Hanover County solid waste facilities will be closed on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.
Branches of the Pamunkey Regional Library will be closed on Dec. 24, 25, 27 and 31.
Submitted by Tom Harris, Hanover County Public Information Officer.
On Monday, Dec. 13 at 2:18 a.m., deputies responded to the 8200 block of Ferrill Court for a reported stolen vehicle. Once on scene, deputies immediately relayed the description of the stolen vehicle to patrol units in the area. Shortly after, a deputy located a vehicle matching that description on Lee Davis Road. A traffic stop was initiated and it was determined that this was in fact the reported stolen vehicle.
The vehicle was occupied by five individuals, all of whom were from Virginia Beach. Based upon the investigation that followed, all five individuals were identified, arrested and transported to Pamunkey Regional Jail.
Four adults and one juvenile were charged with the following: Chance Josiah Evans, 22. Charge: Grand Larceny (F) Davione Charles Badgett, 23. Charge: Grand Larceny (F) Jawan Taki Johnson, 19. Charge: Grand Larceny (F) Tony Lamont Allen, Jr, 18. Charges: Grand Larceny (F), Entering/Setting Vehicle in Motion (M)
Arrest made in possession of child pornography case
HANOVER – The Hanover County Sheriff’s Office has arrested and charged a Mechanicsville man with possession of child pornography.
On Monday, Dec. 13, sheriff’s office investigators, acting on a tip from the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, executed a residential search warrant in the 8000 block of Christopher Paul Drive.
After executing the search warrant and collecting evidence, Derek Lee Short, 47, of Mechanicsville, was arrested and charged with Possession of Child Pornography (F).
Short is currently being held at Pamunkey Regional Jail with no bond. This case remains under investigation.
Anyone with further information about this case is asked to contact the Hanover County
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Sheriff’s Office at (804) 3656140 or the Metro Richmond Crime Stoppers at (804) 7801000. Citizens can also download the “P3 Tips” app for their mobile device to submit their tip. Both Crime Stoppers methods are anonymous.
The juvenile was also charged with Grand Larceny (F). “I am incredibly proud of the quick response and teamwork displayed by our deputies. Because of their teamwork and diligence, they were able to immediately recover a citizen’s property and arrest five criminals before they were able to victimize any more of our citizens,” said Colonel David R. Hines, sheriff.
Submitted by Lt. James R. Cooper, Hanover County Sheriff’s Office public information officer.
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Tom Foster honored with
Continued from pg. 1 Ruritan Forever Award established the rights of trans students to access the bathroom of their preferred gender. Hanover board members did pass other portions of the Contributed photo policy, including the rights of those students to be Tom Foster was addressed by the pronoun of their preferred gender recognized with a Ruritan Forever Award on Oct. 25 at with parental oversight. In the estimation of some speakers, that leaves the monthly meeting the county outside of the law when it comes to of the Atlee Ruritan transgender student rights, and clearly not in comClub. The award pliance with the VDOE regulations. was given by his family and presented by his daughter, Kendra Grimes is a Methodist minister with two teenagers in Hanover schools. “I’m here to speak Elizabeth Dowdy, to ask the board to reconsider you vote and accept former president of the state’s policy on transgender students,” she said. the club. Foster has “Not listening to those in our community who been in the Atlee are trying to tell us who they are and insisting that Club since 1970 and was instrumental in organizing the Studley we know them better than they know themselves causes great harm. I beg you, the school board, to Ruritan Club. He has do no harm. Don’t be pressured by voices that ask held many offi ces in you to draw lines and exclude others.” both local clubs, as Sarah Bridges, who lives in Beaverdam and also well as on the district and national levels, including district has two children in Hanover public schools, spoke in opposition to the board’s recent decision to not governor, national comply with VDOE guidelines. board member, “These kids are suffering,” she said. “You vowed Ruritan National to protect all Hanover students and all Hanover Foundation member students include trans students. Trans students are and foundation president. among the most vulnerable, and your failure to adopt policies to protect them shows that you do not care to protect them. Your are setting the tone in these schools for how these students are treated. You are perpetuating bullying for these kids by failing to adopt a policy.”
The Virginia ACLU filed a complaint in Hanover Circuit Court on behalf of five families who have children affected by the failure to pass those guidelines in Hanover.
School board officials had not received that suit as of Tuesday’s meeting, but once they do receive the complaint, they have 21 days to respond.
Todd Gathje, director of Government Relations for the Family Foundation and a Hanover resident, conveyed his opinion on the recent filing.
“In response to the ACLU lawsuits, I will remind you that a ruling in Lynchburg in July of this year that model policies are merely guidance and not regulations, basically giving local school boards the
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Todd Gathje told school board members that the recently fi led complaint by the Virginia ACLU should not deter board members from voting their conscience. Gathje said a recent VDOE policy regarding transgender students will be clarifi ed in the upcoming General Assembly.
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