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Dr. Wyatt T. Walker,left, shares from his book “Humor is the Best Medicine,” a collection of funny stories over 60 years of Walker’s ministry with Rho Iota Lambda Chapter President Damón Manning.

reminder of human injustice in our national history is framed within a collage at a window sill surrounded by family portraits and knick-knacks catches one’s attention. It is a photo of a man in his younger years, jubilant and surrounded by supporters as he emerges from jail. “That’s me getting out of jail in Petersburg for going in the ‘white door’ at the library,” said Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker during a visit at his Chesterﬁeld home. The hour-long visit, a few days before Dr. Walker was to be honored by his brothers of local fraternity Rho Iota Lambda of the Alpha Phi Fraternity for his lifetime contributions and role in the Civil Rights Movement, was candid among those gathered at his home. “It [interview] covered the ‘waterfront’,” Dr. Walker said with humor. Dr. Walker is known for his 60 years of service as pastor, as an author who has penned over 50 books, as a peace activist and an international visionary, and for working with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the Civil Rights Movement. Dr. Walker had met Dr. King in Virginia and later joined the Southern Christian Leader-

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Sean Dougherty, left, puts up a jumper against Monacan’s Derrick Cates. Dougherty scored 28 points in a 66-62 win over the Chiefs last Friday.

f someone had told the James River boys’ varsity basketball team that they’d be holding an 18-point lead at halftime in a game against regionally ranked district foe Monacan, they might have though the person was crazy. Or they might have been just crazy enough to believe it themselves. Last Friday night, as they hosted the Chiefs in a 66-62 win, the Rapids played more like a 9-2 team than the 4-6 team that their record said they were. The big difference in the game was a player who did not even make a high school squad four years ago. Senior guard Sean Dougherty was cut from basketball teams his 7th-, 8th- and 9th-grade years, but made his mark as one of the best distance shooters in the region Friday night. He hit 7 of 12 attempts from beyond the arch and scored 28 points to lead the Rapids to their third district win. “I think it’s one of the best stories in the region,” James River coach Tracy Hamner said. “He’s a young man who’s only been playing now for three years, and he plays like a kid [who got cut]. Now he’s one of the best players in the region and one of the best shooters in the region … He’s our leader and he just makes see RAPIDS page 6

ship Conference. Petersburg wouldn’t be the last time Dr. Walker would be incarcerated multiple times for protesting segregation and discrimination that had become an entrenched way of American life. Later, Dr. Walker served as Chief of Staff to Dr. Martin Luther King from 1960-1964. His other numerous accomplishments include his work in Harlem at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ (a full biography at midlothianexchange.com). Currently, he continues to be active, writing two or three hours each day. “I feel I have so much to write about,” he said. Now, he is serving with his fellow brothers following in the chapter’s motto “manly deeds, scholarship and love for all mankind.” Chapter President Damón Manning, 39, and fraternity brother Derrick Coles, 24, with Dr. Walker, 81, spoke of many topics including the mentorship programs the fraternity has become involved in since its ﬁrst ofﬁcial meeting in 2001. Besides partnering with Big Brothers and Big Sisters and serving as lunch buddies at Hopkins Elementary School and Falling Creek Middle School, the chapter is focused on the Go-to-High-School, Go-to College see WALKER page 3

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Meet the newly crowned Miss Chesterﬁeld BY MELODY KINSER

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wo years ago, Victoria Maiden claimed the crown of Miss Mechanicsville. She added the title of Miss Chesterfield on Saturday, Jan. 9, as she now looks toward the Miss Virginia Pageant. Preparation for the June state competition has already started for the Mechanicsville resident. On Thursday, she met with the Miss Chesterfield committee. “They’re behind me 100 percent and they’re going to prepare me for Miss Virginia Week.” Even though she lives in Hanover County, she was able to compete in Chesterfield County because the pageant permits any Virginia resident to participate within the commonwealth. “With the Miss Virginia Pageant,” Victoria said, “you can compete anywhere as long as you reside here, so that’s what’s really fortunate about it.” The 18-year-old is touting a platform of redefining beauty by partnering with Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty. “I’m promoting self-esteem in young girls’ lives and trying to block out the stereotypical electronic images in the media,” she said. She discovered the project online. “I think that I’ve become really passionate about girls, especially our younger generation, not measuring up to a girl’s picture in a magazine.” As an example, she used the scenario of a girl on her way to school who sees a billboard and turns to her mother and says, “Mom, I don’t look like that.”

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Before each event of the Miss Chesterﬁeld Pageant, Victoria said she “kind of just cleared my head and said this is the only part of the competition and then I would take each part of the competition one by one.” The evening opened with the swimsuit competition, “All of us girls were scrambling to get our heels on, our swimsuits on, and before I knew it I was out there.” She describes that event as “always a real fun thing for me because I stay ﬁt.” Having studied twirling for 14 years, she said she is a perfectionist in the talent category. “I want it to be perfect for a minute and 30 seconds to perform, so it’s not see MAIDEN page 8

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Virginia moves forward to assist Haiti after earthquake

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“Conan O’Brien needs to be in NYC. The East Coast misses his hair and humor. As far as who belongs in Johnny Carson’s iconic seat? Give it to Ryan Seacrest; he’s doing a great job with Dick Clark’s New Year’s bash.”

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“Maybe Ricky Gervais from the Golden Globes. It would have been cool to see them give it to a female comedian.”

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lubricants. Wiest said DSCR is also ready to send personnel to the military’s U.S. Southern Command in Miami to help coordinate supply efforts. USSOUTHCOM is working with the U.S. State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development to assess the need for humanitarian support in Haiti, according to Marine Col. Scott Dalke at DLA’s Joint Logistics Operations Center at Fort Belvoir, Va. Navy Vice Adm. Alan Thompson, DLA director, expressed full support to USSOUTHCOM. “I want to ensure that DLA is a key enabler to the disaster relief response. This agency will lean forward to support all USSOUTHCOM components and government agencies as required while continuing to provide seamless support to the global force,” he said. DLA frequently provides humanitarian aid for weatherrelated natural disasters around the world. Its most recent humanitarian assistance was in response to ﬂooding caused by Tropical Storm Ketsana “Ondoy,” which ﬂooded the Philippines and Samoan islands in September.

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support for the Civil Rights Movement. “It [community] played a crucial role, because without community, we couldn’t have done what we did,” Dr. Walker said. “It’s more pronounced now than it was before. We didn’t have everybody involved in the Civil Rights Movement. In fact, some of the detractors were in the black community. They got used to the status

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Manning added that it is a privilege having Dr. Walker as part of the local chapter and to honor him at the scholarship fundraiser. “Just to have this person in our presence and the opportunity to sit down and talk about how much we appreciate what he and his generation has done,” he said. “The other part too, for those in attendance, is hoping to rekindle the need to refocus.” The Black and Gold Scholarship program, named the Paul Robeson Oratorical Piece, is an oratorical and essay contest held in April. For more information about the chapter and scholarship program, visit www.rhoiotalambda.org. The Rho Iota Lambda Chapter is busily preparing for the 67th annual Virginia Association of Chapters of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity State Convention to be held in Chesterﬁeld mid-February.

again. He has brought back Those instances may happen that passion for the history,” still here and there,” Manning program with a “strong male he said. said. “We’re shocked, but that mentoring component with “I think, we ourselves, isn’t an everyday thing.” Lloyd C. Bird and James 18-24, need to speak about Today, mentoring includes River,” Manning said. the problems we face today,” understanding what is “What they’re doing is so Coles said. From increased important and reconnectimportant because they are high school dropout rates ing with youth about issues encouraging young people and teenage pregnancy to they are facing in their to know their history, and speaking about sexually communities, he explained. our generation was steeply transmitted diseases and “They’re living in different steeped in history of the HIV, as well as continuing times. Where they feel there’s black struggle and that’s what higher education, many a disconnect between them propelled us,” Dr. Walker students are not involved as a and school for whatever said. community in the problems reason; there’s a disconnect “This generation, in its teens independently face between the values that they effort programs of mentorevery day.” see on T.V. and how they’re ing, is the hopes and dreams Manning added that the treated in other ways. So how of my generation because complexity of issues facing do we talk about that and the we didn’t do; we didn’t train youth today has changed impact that will better – not the next generation. That over the years. “Talking about just the focus on self – but was our Achilles’ heel of our events of the past – kids how to uplift the community movement. We were focused aren’t getting attacked by and serve them in the future,” on the present and not the dogs from police ofﬁcers. Manning said. future. We were trying to They aren’t told they have Reestablishing a sense kill the beast of discriminato sit in a certain place, or of community provides the tion and racism and to the told to come in the back, much-needed support in exclusion of our interest of you know, back doors. They tackling issues facing today’s the future.” aren’t hit with water hoses. youth. It provided incredible For Coles, his personal observation is that there is a separation of history because it hasn’t been taken seriously. “Honestly, they fought. They In All Subjects went to jail. They got beaten Call Today! for the right to vote. Our generation, before Barack [Obama], we wouldn’t really In-home Tutoring Available vote. I think Barack made Mechanicsville • West End • Southside us feel like the ﬁght to vote www.sylvanlearning.com

quo and thought that we were rocking the boat, which we were.” Dr. Walker shared his memories of the trip to Birmingham. “Dr. King had said, ‘If we crack Birmingham, we could crack the south.’ And I felt that with Bull Connor [police commissioner], and his predictable behavior, he would do something foolish enough to help us and he did,” Walker said. “That’s what made the movement, his intransigence about keeping us from going to city hall and then turning the dogs and the hoses on us. All of that helped us because it developed sympathy from the rest of the American community and affected our foreign policy. We couldn’t lecture to Russia about human rights when they were turning hoses and dogs on school children in Birmingham, Alabama.” In looking back during a time of racial injustices and

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Pictured left: Rho Iota Lambda Chapter honored fellow brother and Chesterﬁeld resident Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker on Jan. 16.

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n Friday, Jan. 15, Virginia’s outgoing and incoming governors announced a system through which state employees can contribute to relief efforts in Haiti, where an earthquake killed tens of thousands of residents and left an estimated 3 million people hurt or homeless. Contributions can be made to the Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign, the workplace giving program for state employees, and those contributions will be forwarded to the International Disaster Relief Fund of the American Red Cross. “Since Tuesday’s disastrous earthquake, I’ve been struck by the incredible outpouring of concern and support from Virginians all across the Commonwealth,” said former Gov. Tim Kaine. “This special fund drive will allow state employees in particular to contribute quickly and efficiently to ongoing relief efforts in Haiti. I encourage all citizens to make a donation to the Red Cross as well.” Bob McDonnell, who was sworn in Saturday as Virginia’s 71st governor, joined Kaine in urging people to help Haiti. “This tragedy has affected millions,” McDonnell said. “The victims need food, water, medical care and shelter. Even the smallest donation will help to provide the basic necessities that are so vital to the well-being of so many. In this time of acute and pressing need, Virginians can make a difference.” The American Red Cross held a community forum in Richmond on Thursday about the disaster. Participants discussed how individuals and groups can assist Haiti, the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. “We have groups that are going down on an ongoing basis,” said Patricia Schwermer, associate director of the Catholic Diocese of Richmond. “The Catholic Diocese has extensive relationships with the Haitian people and is able to take donations and get the supplies that people need.” Representatives from the Virginia Council of Churches, Salvation Army, Bon Secours and Griffin Global Ministries also attended the forum. Griffin Global Ministries, a Christian organization based in Richmond, is working on a project called the Chicken Brocade. “Everybody that we know across the nation, we are asking to go to their stores and get those Ziploc chickens,” said the Rev. Terrie Elizabeth Griffin, founder and chief visionary officer of Griffin Global Ministries. “It is not heavy to carry, and people can eat it right out of the bag.” The Bon Secours Health System also is making donations. Dougal Hewitt, a vice president for the hospital network, said Bon Secours would match every employee donation for Haiti up to $100,000. Haiti will need long-term assistance, said the Rev. Jonathan Barton, general minister of the Virginia Council of Churches. “This recovery effort is not something that is going to happen in a couple of weeks. It’s not something that is going to happen in a couple of months,” Barton said. “This is going to be decades.” The earthquake that hit

violence, Walker never felt alone. “What distinguished our movement was that, in spite of the fear, that we were able to function and it was our religious faith that propelled us forward,” he said. “When I think back, I wonder how we did what we did, and again, I attribute it to our religious faith. You always felt that somebody was praying for us.”

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Don’t wane in effort this time BY ELIZABETH FARINA

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he international outreach to Haiti has been a remarkable measure of good will. It’s amazing to see nations mobilize aid to the port city that was left in ruins from an earthquake over a week ago. Dr. Wyatt T. Walker put it succinctly, saying, “The people in Haiti are a part of the fabric of humanity, and if they suffer, we suffer and that has its religious undergirding.” Many are anxiously awaiting news about whether or not their loved ones have survived. Others are grieving their beloved family members among the mass graves. The suffering is unimaginable and numerous stories of survival will be told and retold in the weeks ahead. Haiti has suffered for many years in abject poverty, as I’ve learned through my church and fellow parishioners from Moneta, Va. through its twinning program. The Lynchburg News & Advance reported ﬁve children from the girls’ orphanage in Port-au-Prince were killed in the quake. Through that program, I have come to realize that Haiti is not a charitable case or one-time donation and the earthquake has reinforced that belief. It is a proud nation that has suffered many injustices in its resilient history and has taken on several knock-out punches from Mother Nature. It will rebuild. Even with the millions of dollars pouring in to legitimate relief agencies and organizations, it will take an obscene amount of time to rebuild because of the enormity of devastation. And as the humanitarian effort unfolds, will we become numb to the stories? Will our immediate response to the calls for help fade with time or are we able to sustain the urgency in ﬁnally helping the Haitian people?

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Haiti around 5 p.m. Tuesday registered 7.0 on the Richter scale. Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, was leveled, and rescue workers are struggling to clear rubble and bodies from the collapsed buildings and streets. Virginians responding to the earthquake include more than 70 members of Fairfax County’s Urban Search and Rescue Team and 83 members of a Virginia Beach-based search and rescue squad. Schwermer said the situation in Haiti is dire. “There is no ﬁrst emergency response. There are no ambulances, and the hospitals are very few,” she said. “So it has been very devastating.”

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CA pledged on Friday, Jan. 15, $1 million in cash and supplies to Haiti relief effort. According to the company’s statement from its headquarters in Tennessee, the cash donations will go to relief organizations including the Red Cross and Doctors without Borders. The company will match employee gifts to The HCA Haiti Relief Fund managed through the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee. “The devastation in Haiti is almost incomprehensible and some members of the HCA family have been personally affected,” said HCA Chairman and CEO Richard M. Bracken. “We wanted to act quickly to provide assistance from the company and to establish an effective mechanism by which our people could fulﬁll their desire to help.” According to HCA’s press announcement, the company also is coordinating medical supply donations from its facilities across the country through its East Florida Division, based in Ft. Lauderdale. Working with Food for the Poor, a South Florida relief organization, local facility supply ofﬁcers are identifying which available supplies are most appropriate for current needs and arranging for collection and delivery. Richmond-based Ukrop’s, Joe’s Market, and First Market Bank are also offering a way to help support the local chapter of the American Red Cross Haiti Earthquake Relief efforts. During a two-week period customers can make donations to the Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts at check-out. Up to $50,000 collected at the locations will be matched by the company.

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have spent the majority of my life in Chesterfield County. I attended Chesterfield County Schools, K-12, and currently teach at a Chesterfield County School. My mother taught in a Chesterfield County School for 15 years, and my step-mother currently teaches in a Chesterfield County School, and has for the past 20 years. My husband graduated from a Chesterfield County School, and we have chosen to raise our children in Chesterfield County and send them to Chesterfield County Public Schools. Like many families in Chesterfield, our family operates on a monthly budget. Within this budget, we are faced with many tough decisions - decisions that affect our children and our entire family dynamic. Therefore, when the county officers, of the county I work for and the county I live in, started making comments about budget cuts, I did not panic because this is a normal practice for almost every family and business I know. Like many families, we have large household items that take the majority of our income. Is it true that getting rid of these items would free up a lot of money and make life easier? Yes. But while I would love to cut my mortgage and car payment from my monthly budget, it is simply not an option. Because everything within my family budget is not an option, my husband and I must look at our budget and find small ways to adjust our budget to make the largest impact. For my family, the small activities we involve ourselves in make our family unique; however, with the money crunch that we are currently facing,

most of these expenses have been cut. We still find ways to have fun and spend our weekends, but we now have to be creative - a park is just as fun as a museum, and the more I work on it, my cooking skills are becoming competitive to any local restaurant. We have not made any drastic changes, panicked, or stopped paying our mortgage or car payment. We are still a close-knit family that loves spending time together - the structure of our family is still solid. We have just taken small expenses and watched, amazed, how they quickly added up. In a recent survey sent to Chesterfield County Public School employees, the Superintendent of Chesterfield County Public Schools, presented a list of potential cuts that he was considering making. Once again, having to live on a budget, I was actually happy that I was given an opportunity to give my opinion and took this chance very seriously. However, upon opening the survey, I saw a lot of expenses that in my eyes are not optional. These expenses would be an easy answer to a hard fix, but cutting these presented expenses would crumble the foundation of a school system I hold so dearly to my heart. While they are large-expense items, like my mortgage, raising the number of children per class is simply not an option. By doing this, our livelihood and reputation as a county will be put at risk, and our children would suffer in a classroom intended for them to excel. Cutting out athletics and extra-curricular activities from our schools leaves students feeling empty and abandoned

- the opposite of what we as teachers try to portray in our classrooms. Finally, cutting teacher’s salaries by instituting furlough days, is nothing short of an insult to a group of people that has given Chesterﬁeld County Public Schools the wonderful dynamic it is well-known for. These, as well as many other suggested cuts, are simply not optional. I hope that the Superintendent, Dr. Marcus Newsome, will look at the budget from a creative viewpoint, like most of his families do. Don’t cut the obvious largebudget items - they are not optional. Please don’t force the foundation of our schools to crumble. We need to keep this foundation intact when the overall economy turns for the better. Please, look at the small expenses - the expenses that could be cut without a huge impact, and watch how quickly they can add up. Please listen to those who are offering suggestions - we personally have to make the hard decisions you are facing on a daily basis, with our own household. We may be able to offer a different, creative perspective to what you presented. Please listen to your teachers - we may know something about the operations of our schools, our departments, and our classrooms that you may not and offer expenses that could be cut. Finally, please remember that a lot of small expenses quickly add-up without making a huge impact on the overall dynamic of a strong school system like Chesterﬁeld County Public Schools. Beth Delaney Manchester High School James River High School Class of 1997

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s a Chesterfield County Public Schools (CCPS) graduate and resident with two kids in the system who also happen to participate in high school athletics, I want to take this opportunity to comment on the recent stories in the Times Dispatch regarding the budget issues and the potential remedies that are being floated such as cutting athletics and other “non-educational extracurricular activities.” It has been reported that consideration to actually cut these programs is in play in order to deliver a budget that addresses the reduction in funding due to the state and county budget deficits that are affecting many entities and organizations. On Saturday, Jan. 10, the Times-Dispatch reported that two wellknown activities directors, Ted Salmon at Cosby and Ron Paquette at L.C. Bird, indicated that if $1.8 million in athletic funding was cut from the division’s budget, then the athletic programs at the 14 county middle schools and 11 high schools would be in jeopardy and could conceivably be eliminated. Coach Salmon later said that general extracurricular activities were also endangered if those cuts went through. I missed these stories because I was out of town delivering my oldest daughter to college to begin a new semester at a new place so that she could continue her dream of being a collegiate runner. Yes, it was running, a well-regarded extracurricular activity as

viewed by college admissions directors, and her high school coach, a highly respected man who devotes his life to “his kids” and makes a pittance for the time and effort that he puts in to help craft excellence, that helped her find her new home in Charleston just mid-way through her second year of school. My wife called me during our last hours together at orientation to share this budget news with me and I felt like I had been kicked in the gut. Shortly after I got home from my four-day trip, I e-mailed my school board representative to share my thoughts and to gauge the county’s position and it was reaffirmed in her response to me. Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for your voices to be heard. As the taxpaying base of Chesterfield County, it is time to stand up and share your thoughts with the county and CCPS leadership that you helped put into office. We are at a financial breaking point, both figuratively and literally, and if we don’t let our county leadership hear what is important to us, they will assume that they know what is best for all of us and it will be too late to get back what is sacrificed to meet the budget. Chesterfield County has long enjoyed the respect of its peers and has been noted for years as one of the best places to raise a family and educate our children. By and large, our children enjoy quality facilities, ride in fairly new busses, have reasonable student-to-

teacher ratios, have the opportunity to learn in diverse programs that challenge kids of all abilities and voluntarily participate in activities that cater to all. Apparently this is all about to change, as everything is on the table and all are vulnerable. We are figuratively on a collision course to potentially dismantle the status quo and change a school system that all of us taxpayers have become accustomed to and entrusted with educating our children; both in and out of the classroom. There is no doubt that we are in uncharted waters and that we have to develop creative solutions so that CCPS can continue to fulfill the promise and mission of educating all of our children. However, I am also a firm believer that there is as much, if not more, education that takes place outside of a book and a building and we need to be good stewards of our resources to make sure that any decisions that we make don’t have unintended consequences. Every individual, business and entity is being affected by our economy. There is no secret to this, nor is this a surprise to anyone. We are in a difficult time and we need quality, effective and bold leadership now more than ever. We need to make some very deliberate decisions and not act hastily even as the budget season draws near. I can’t comment on the validity of what the Times-Dispatch is reportsee LETTER page 5

MidlothianExchange.com || January 21, 2010 || 5 from LETTER page 4 ing, but I have to assume that most of it is accurate based on their stories and the e-mail from my representative. However, while I may not agree with how the information is being gathered by CCPS leadership, I do appreciate the fact that a plethora of ideas will be coming in from the field and perhaps an idea or two will be worth pursuing as we move forward. Suffice it to say that I doubt any teacher will condone the cutting of another staff ’s position or that a janitor or maintenance professional would suggest the cutting of the maintenance budget, so I hope that great care is taken to process the information and I am hopeful that everything is on the table inclusive of the “lean, efficient organization” at the central office as quoted by Dr. Newsome on Saturday, Jan. 16, in the RTD and the actual bricks and mortar schools and the programs offered in each of them. The purpose of this letter is to address the issue of cutting sports and other related activities to help achieve the “necessary” budget cuts. We need to look beyond the numbers and consider the ramifications of cutting out these activities, because a generation of students will be negatively affected for years to come; and for many, these cuts may last a lifetime. Here are a few ideas as to why cutting sports and other “non-educational extracurricular activities” would be a bad idea: 1. College admissions are more competitive than ever before and they are looking for athletics and other extracurricular activities to help differentiate students. I.e.: The Naval Academy explicitly states that involvement in sports and extracurricular activities during the 9th & 10th grades are essential when seeking an appointment. 2. For many kids this is the only commonality and form of diversity that

they will experience outside of their homes. Kids need structure and sports will keep them engaged, occupied and out of trouble. 3. Families will relocate to where the schools are perceived to be better and that will be to where the resources and activities are in other counties. I know that there are plenty more examples as to why these cuts are a bad idea and I encourage each of you to share them with your representatives. We may not all be athletes and many of us could probably care less if these cuts actually happen, but think about the youth who make this county so attractive for others and businesses to relocate to. Think about how your neighborhood would be impacted if such a change occurred. Consider the alternatives if you should need to fill your car up on a Friday night when you encounter hundreds of kids loitering with nothing better to do. Think about the lost opportunities that our children will incur and how their lives will substantially differ than ours. Take a moment and think back at what you were able to participate in when you were in school. Not all of our memories will be great, but I’m willing to bet that there is a ball coach, a mentor, a teacher or significant figure in each of our lives that we think about when we recall the activities that we participated in during our high school days. Even the bad ones taught us life’s lessons and they continue to guide us today as memories that still have a purpose. Please get involved and tell your county leadership what you want and need. Remind them that they work for us and that their legacy will be determined by the choices that we empower them to make as the representatives of the voters and taxpayers of Chesterfield County. Scott Willard Midlothian

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MONDAY, JAN. 25

The Chesterﬁeld County Parks and Recreation Department offers a variety of recreation opportunities for adults 50 and older at Huguenot Road Baptist Church, 10525 W. Huguenot Road, Richmond. Advanced Beginner Bridge Lessons: Course 19806 will be held Mondays, 1-3 p.m. from Jan. 25 – March 1 (No class held Jan. 18). This course is for those with some bridge-playing experience who want to hone their skills. Register by Jan. 19. Tuition is $36. Find other games, healthy-aging programs, ﬁtness classes, entertainment and more. For details about a program, call Catie Horne at (804)339-2877. To register, call 748-1623.

THURSDAY, JAN. 28

James River Writers announces the January 2010 Writing Show “What’s Hot and What’s Not: Local bookstore owners discuss publishing, readership and new trends in the world of books” featuring Patrick Godfrey of Velocity Comics, Kelly Justice of Fountain Bookstore, Kelly Kyle of Narnia Children’s Books, Ward Tefft of Chop Suey Books and host, author and JRW Advisory Board member Jason Tesauro. The event will be held from 6:30 – 8: 30 p.m. at the Pavilion Room, Children’s Museum located at 2626 W. Broad Street Richmond. Tickets are $10 in advance at JamesRiverWriters.org or $12 at the door. Students are $5 at the door.

FRIDAY, JAN. 29

It’s a Jungle Out There! Annual Awards Celebration and Installation of Officers of the Chesterfield County Chamber of Commerce at the Holiday Inn Select-Koger Center, located at 1021 Koger Center Blvd., Richmond. A jungle theme will highlight the night’s festivities which will begin with a cocktail and networking reception at 5:30 p.m. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m. If you are interested in featuring your company as a sponsor, please contact Robin Hogge, Director of Events, at (804)748-6364 x 6 or email Robin at robin@chesterfieldchamber.com. The 3rd annual Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia Winter Lecture Series will take place in the Community Hall at Lucy Corr Village, 6800 Lucy Corr Blvd., in Chesterfield, 23832. On Friday, Jan. 29, CHSV Military History committee chairman Scott Williams will present a

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SATURDAY, JAN. 30

A Special Needs Job & Resource Fair for Virginia’s special-needs students and young adults (ages 16-22) will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the University of Richmond. Special needs-friendly corporations will provide attendees with an opportunity to learn about existing or potential employment, and nonproﬁt organizations and businesses providing programs and services for special- needs populations will offer families product information, summer programs and resources. “Special needs” encompass a wide range of disabilities and special needs, as categorized by the Virginia Department of Education, such as: autism; developmental disorder; developmental delay; deafness and hearing loss; blindness and visual impairment; emotional disturbance; intellectual disability; orthopedic impairment; speech and language impairments; traumatic brain injury; severe and/or multiple disabilities.Free, open to the public, and free Child Watch services. Hosted by Northstar Academy in coordination with the Jepson School of Leadership Studies.

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ACAC Fitness & Wellness Center is inviting the community to exercise for a cause all weekend leading up to the Super Bowl. ACAC will host the 3rd Annual Ber’s Bowl Feb. 5, 6 and 7. Group exercise classes will run non-stop from 4-7 p.m. on Friday, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Super Bowl Sunday. This event is free and classes are open to the public. For every class attended, ACAC will donate $1 for each ACAC member and $5 for each guest to beneﬁt Ber (“bear”) and others struggling with childhood cancer. Family activities such as a basketball shoot-out 2-4 p.m. on Saturday and family classes throughout the weekend are designed to ensure everyone in the family is having a blast. T-shirts featuring designs from local youth will be on sale, plus an ACAC Massage Therapist will offer seated massages for $1 per minute. All proceeds beneﬁt Ber.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 10

The New Virginians, a club for women new to the Richmond area in the last two years, will have its monthly luncheon at 11:30 a.m. at The Dominion Country Club, located at 600 Dominion Club Drive, Glen Allen featuring “Accessorizing” by Stein Mart. The cost for the luncheon is $25 for club members and their guests. Reservations for the luncheon are requested by noon on Feb. 3. For information on the club, visit www.thenewva.org; reservations, contact Kathy McEntee at (804) 784-9956.

FRIDAY, FEB. 12

Registration is open for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts preschool class “Young @ Art: Colorific Scientific” for ages 2-5 accompanied by an adult. Children enjoy a story, hands-on art activities and exploratory and movement games while viewing reproductions of VMFA works of art. Classes are guided by kindergarten Standards of Learning for Virginia public schools, and there is a new lesson each week. Log on to www.vmfa.museum/err. html for specific dates this month. The one-hour program is on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. in the Pauley Center. The fee is $5 per child (members $4); adults are admitted free. Pre-registration

The 3rd annual Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia Winter Lecture Series third lecture, is entitled, “What Communities can do to preserve their Heritage,” will be presented by Kristin Kirchen, architectural historian with the VA Department of Historic Resources. The lectures are free to members of the Chesterfield Historical Society, $5 per lecture for non-members. Each lecture starts at 7 p.m. and reservations are recommended. Please call (804) 796-7003 to make reservations. For more information please visit www.chesterfieldhistory.com more events onine at www.midltohianexchange.com.

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Seniors pin down a win for Rapids BY SARA PAGE spage@midlothianexchange.com

enior night proved fruitful for the James River varsity wrestlers as they earned wins over Midlothian (60-10) and Manchester (71-6) in front of their home crowd. In the marquee matchup with Midlothian, it was, fittingly, senior twin brothers Josh and Jesse Wells who tied the match and gave the Rapids the go-ahead. In the 145-pound match, Josh Wells got a fight from Chris Arrington. Ahead 2-1 in the second round, Josh Wells scored a take down. Arrington escaped but was taken down again and flipped with 13 seconds left in the round. Josh Wells couldn’t get the squeeze as time ran out but scored three points for a near fall. Josh Wells scored a take down early in the third round near the edge of the mat. Arrington escaped but momentum carried the contenders out of bounds. Josh Wells took a 17-4 edge. On the verge of a technical fall, Josh Wells got a quick flip, take down and pin with 35.1 seconds remaining in the match. His win tied the match at 10 all. Twin brother Jesse Wells continued the Rapids’ momentum in the 152-pound match. Facing off against Sam Townsend, Jesse Wells was a flurry of activity from the get-go. He scored a take down early but couldn’t get his opponent flipped. The two eventually carried out of bounds. Jesse Wells came back with another take down with 15 seconds left but ran out of time trying to score the pin. He took a 7-0 lead into the second round. Jesse Wells started from the down position in the second round but reversed the advantage and scored PHOTO BY KENNY MOORE a take-down early. A half-nelson gave him the flip with a minute remaining and he scored the pin with Austin Ingram of Midlothian drives low into Jeremy Randall of James River. 47.7 seconds on the clock to give James River a 16-0 the junior varsity squad and picked up his first varsity win “Tonight we had a fairly young squad. Most of those guys win. against Manchester earlier in the evening. will be back next year,” Midlothian head coach Jimmy Cox “The guys started to do some of the things we’ve talked His second match against James River’s Conlan Cassidy said. “They’re in great matches against great competition about,” James River head coach Mark Helberg said. “They proved tough. Cassidy scored a take down with 40 seconds and that’s what they need at this point in their young careers. wrestled with a little intensity, a little aggressiveness. One remaining in the fi rst round but Gerard did a good job twistThe more they get of that now, the better off they’ll be in the of the big things that came out of this match was when the ing around on his way to the mat to avoid the pin. future.” team starts to wrestle that way, it’s contagious. The other However, Cassidy would eventually score the pin with 1:31 Midlothian wins came from Blake Dunn in the 130guys on the team start to come out and wrestle that way.” left in the second round. pound weight class with a pin over Jordan O’Donnell at For a Midlothian team scarred by injuries and illness, Once Howard is back in the lineup, Gerard is expected to 1:05 and John Peterson in the 135-pound weight class with a the match gave some younger guys their first taste of tough move into Midlothian’s heavyweight slot. major decision (16-7) over Brian Hwangpo. varsity competition. The Trojans also moved Brandon Hogge in the 103-pound The Trojans were 53-21 winners over Manchester in the The Trojans were without Mark Howard in the 215early match. pound weight class. Paul Gerard stepped into the position off weight class and David Lessard in the 140-pound weight class into varsity positions for the evening.

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from RAPIDS page 1 everybody so much better.” Dougherty even completed the rare four-point play in the second quarter. The Rapids swung the ball right to open up the left side of the court. As the Chiefs’ zone collapsed right, Dougherty collected a pass on the top left side of the 3-point arch. He released just as a defender flew left trying to get a hand in his face. Momentum sent the defender squarely into Dougherty, who caught nothing but net with the shot. He swished the foul shot to complete the play. Dougherty and guard John Luter combined for six 3-pointers in the first half and helped James River out to an 18-point lead. Monacan, which went scoreless in the final two minutes of the half, hit the first basket of the second half as they pushed the tempo and attempted to dig themselves out of a hole. The Chiefs added height to their line-up with forward Derrick Cates. He pulled down three offensive boards in the third quarter and put up nine points to cut the Rapids’ lead to 10 going into the fourth quarter. The Chiefs held their opponents scoreless for nearly three minutes while Cates and guard Anthony Brown cut into the James River lead with nine points. A basket

off two offensive boards by Brown cut the lead to two with 2:07 left in regulation. But the Rapids slowed their offense down and turned back to their distance game. Dougherty attempted another 3-pointer. He missed the shot but was fouled in the process and hit all three free throws. On the other end, Ben Hauck pulled down a big rebound for the Rapids and sent the ball ahead to Reggie Somers who opened the lead back up to six. With 1:01 remaining, Monacan was forced to foul. James River players hit 3 of 8 attempts from the charity stripe in the final minute, but held Monacan to just one bucket. “You have to give credit to James River,” Monacan head coach Bill Roberson said. “They played well, they made the right passes, they knocked down shots when they had to. Our kids played hard, but we just got [behind]. You can’t give a good team an 18-, 20-point lead in the second half.” Dougherty led all scorers with 28. Luter added 14 points for the Rapids and Hauck pulled down nine rebounds. Cates led Monacan with 19 points and 13 rebounds; Brown added 14 points and 10 rebounds; and Bradley Riester put up 12 points.

he Trinity Episcopal girls’ varsity basketball team never trailed in last Thursday’s 27-20 win over St. Catherine’s School, but with both teams having trouble finding the bucket, the Titans knew possession time was of utmost importance. “We were just trying to slow the game down a little bit,” Trinity senior guard Jillian Brown said. “Even though they were picking up the pace, we knew if we slowed down the game and held the ball and kept scoring, we would win.” Slowing down the game was not the problem. The Titans successfully executed stalling tactics in the final minutes and forced St. Catherine players to foul in an attempt to get the ball back. Down 24-20 with three minutes remaining, St. Catherine’s Candice Brown picked up a steal to give her team the ball. The Saints patiently set up their offense then drove the baseline for a scoring attempt. Trinity’s Caroline Fletcher grabbed the defensive board and the Titans set up around the perimeter on their offensive end. St. Catherine players allowed 30 seconds to come off the board before they sent Jennifer Smith to the line. She hit the front end of the bonus to extend the Trinity lead to five. Fletcher grabbed another PHOTO BY KENNY MOORE rebound on the other end Trinity’s Jillian Brown sweeps in for two during the Lady Titans’ win over St. Catherine’s last with under a minute to Thursday. go and was immediately For both teams, scoring seemed to be the problem. mauled. She missed the free After a quick start in the first quarter, the lid closed on the throw but Jillian Brown again kept the Saints’ scoring opportunities to one shot on the other end and showed off her baskets in the second quarter. The teams combined for nine turnovers and put up a scoreless first three minutes in the dribbling moves on her way back down the court. With 30 second quarter. seconds left, she sprinted down the court, dodged two deSmith broke the drought with a long 2-pointer. fenders at half court with a behind-the-back move and took “If we just kept playing defense, boxing out, we knew our the ball straight to the hole. PHOTO BY KENNY MOORE offense would come,” Jillian Brown said. St. Catherine’s Chaney Maganello stopped the scoring Reggie Somers of James River, front, dribbles to the outside Brown gave Trinity a 10-point lead as she put on a dribattempt but picked up her fifth foul. Jillian Brown hit both as Jeff Connor of Monacan, back, tries to keep him out of the sides of the one-and-one bonus to give Trinity its final marsee TITANS page 7 paint.. gin with 23.5 seconds left.

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from TITANS page 6 bling clinic down the left sideline. She beat a defender near center court and split two defenders in the post with a scoop shot to put the Titans up 14-4. However the Saints turned up the heat on their own defense and cut the lead to five midway through the third quarter. Post players Meredith Doswell and Candice Brown took away the post area and forced longer shots. Meanwhile Alexis Crittenden hit a free throw and a 3-pointer at the top of the key to narrow the gap to two just before the end of the quarter. Jillian Brown opened the fourth quarter with a steal and score to keep the Titans up by four and set up the offensive slow-down. “We knew St. Catherine’s would be a close game,” Jillian Brown said. “We were just trying to calm down after the first half. We had a lot of turnovers so we were

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following: ushers, ticket takers, security personnel, parking, concessions personnel, cooks, press box assistance, merchandising, stadium operations and grounds operations. Job candidates do not need to contact the team prior to the job fair. Resumes will be accepted, but are not required for employment. Candidates will be asked to fill out an application upon their arrival at the job fair. Those planning on participating in the Flying Squirrels’ mascot tryouts, should arrive at The Diamond no later than 12:30 p.m. on Saturday. Candidates should wear athletic attire, as the tryouts will consist of physical elements, including but not limited to obstacle course, dance auditions, agility and gymnastic ability testing.

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Registration for girls’ lacrosse in the Weaver Athletic AsBruins to hold open gym sociation is open. Registration is available online at www. Courtesy of Dawn Pearson weaveraa.com. The Virginia Bruins will The elementary school hold an open gym for boys program is for grades 3-5 and U-15 and U-16 on Saturday, Jan. 30, from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. consists primarily of instrucat the University of Richmond tion. Practice is typically twice per week: a weeknight and a Weinstein Center. For more information contact Tim Gray weekend afternoon with early emphasis on fundamentals and at (804) 387-0759. generally ending with a light Flying Squirrels to hold scrimmage. The sign-up fee is $100. job fair The middle school program Courtesy of the Richmond Flying is for grades 6-8. The registraSquirrels The Richmond Flying Squir- tion fee is $150. The junior varsity program is rels, Double-A affiliate of the for grades 8-10 and is designed San Francisco Giants, will hold to prepare girls for varsity level a job fair at The Diamond to find game day staff for the 2010 competition. The registration season on Saturday, Jan. 23 from fee is $150. The varsity program is for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. grades 10-12 and caters to the Interested job candidates should come to The Diamond, most experienced players. The registration fee is $175. where members of the Flying PHOTO BY KENNY MOORE Practice for the middle Squirrels’ front office will be Trinity’s Bailey Marget, center, reaches for the ball against St. Catherine’s Ali Doswell. school through varsity levels is conducting on-site interviews typically four times each week for all positions available. The boards. just trying to calm down and and was the only player in and includes a challenging game team will also hold tryouts for play our game.” the game in double digits. Doswell led St. Catherine’s the role of team mascot imme- schedule against public and She led Trinity with 12 Fletcher added six points and with eight points and eight diately following Saturday’s job private school teams in the area. points and eight rebounds Victoria Smith grabbed six rebounds. fair session, beginning at 1 p.m.

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and Nathan will be exploring a mission to Mars. They will also have the opportunity to travel to the NASA Langley Research Center during the summer of 2010 to study in-

tensively on campus as well. Banner Christian School is very proud of Christopher and Nathan!

every aspect of the competition.” really much time once you As the names of the runperform. But I just took it ners-up were announced, trick by trick and ended up Victoria hadn’t realized her with a no-drop and all my placement. “I was seriously family was screaming.” in a dream; I just didn’t unAttired in an evening derstand and then Stephanie gown, it was time for the onConnelly of Winchester, the stage question. “They asked previous Miss Chesterfield, me ‘What is your platform was like ‘Come on,’ and I and how is it important to started crying and my family you?’ ” She told the judges was going crazy. And it didn’t about the Campaign for Real sink in till the next afternoon Beauty and how she is focusthat I was going to [the] Miss ing on self-esteem issues. Virginia [pageant].” She was then asked what With the Miss Chesterfield qualities make a good Miss victory comes a $1,000 scholVirginia. “I said she needs to arship, $250 gift certificate be hard-working, committed from Reign Apparel in North and willing to make changes.” Carolina, $250 gift certifiShe said she chose a brief ancate from Brides’ House in swer since she had elaborated Roanoke, a crown, a sash, a on her platform. trophy and flowers. In addition to taking the The pageant circuit is a crown and title, she claimed family affair in the Maiden the talent competition. “I family. Victoria’s fraternal definitely wasn’t expecting twin sister Brittany followed my first preliminary out of her as Miss Mechanicsville this season to win – I always 2009. Next month, Victoria feel like I can improve on

plans to be in the audience when Brittany crowns Miss Mechanicsville 2010. They attend Piedmont Community College and are twirlers at the University of Virginia. Victoria credits her twirl instructor, Diane Gunnells, for helping her hone her skills. Victoria is majoring in liberal arts and plans to pursue English degree at UVa, with the goal of becoming a news anchor. “This semester I’m taking a journalism class and hopefully interning at the channel 16 news station in Charlottesville.” She said her parents, Will and Kim Maiden, “have always been very supportive.” After her recent victory, her mother posted “I am very happy to have two crowns in my house” on her Facebook page. Melody Kinser is editor of The Mechanicsville Local

from MAIDEN page 1

Terry and Susan Walker of Richmond, Va., announce the engagement of their daughter, Jennifer Michelle Walker to David Max Strick, son of Mark and Miriam Strick, all of Newport News, Va. The bride-to-be is the granddaughter of Mrs. Emily Williams of Seattle, Wa., and the late Charlie Marshall Williams and Marshall and Gladys Walker. Jennifer graduated in May 2009 from Christopher Newport University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting. The groom-to-be is the grandson of Ana Maria Alvarez-Mena of Newport News, Va., and the late Maximo Alvarez-Mena and Leonard and Gloria Strick. Jennifer and David are employed in Newport News. A May 2010 wedding is planned.

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And the parade marches on

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Above: Manchester High School Lancer Band Brass Captain and Tuba Section leader Jack Himmelman, front right, made sure the countless hours of practice didn’t go to waste for him or fellow band members representing “the Commonwealth and Chesterﬁeld County and 320 high school bands” at the Inaugural Parade on Saturday, Jan. 16. Manchester was one of four Virginia high school marching bands that participated in the event.

Also, Midlothian Girl Scout Troop 603 had the opportunity to participate in the parade too (on left) as they saluted the 71st Governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell

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