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New law targets cyberbullying BY MATT BIRCH Capital News Service
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hink before you text – because sending malicious electronic messages with your cell phone soon could be punishable by law. Under legislation approved by Virginia’s General Assembly, it would be a Class 1 misdemeanor to use a cellular telephone or other wireless device to transmit a text message that contains “profane, threatening, or indecent language.” The bill targets teenagers engaging in “cyberbullying” via wireless communications. It would add “texting” to Virginia’s obscene phone call statute. On Monday, Feb. 21, the Senate unanimously passed House Bill 2059, proposed by Delegate Robert B. Bell, R-Charlottesville. It had cleared the House on a 99-0 vote two weeks ago. “Cyberbullying is a real problem, and makes it harder for students to learn,” Bell said in a statement. “I am hopeful that the law will protect students from those who would threaten or intimidate them through obscene texts.” The Cyberbullying Research Center, an information clearinghouse operated by criminal justice professors in Florida and Wisconsin, defines cyberbullying as “when someone repeatedly harasses, mistreats, or makes fun of another person online or while using cell phones or other electronic devices." About one in five adolescents will be victimized by cyberbullies, according to the center’s research. In extreme cases, authorities say, cyberbullying has driven young people to commit suicide. Virginia already has a law BULLYING P3
Resolution strengthens property rights BY ERICA TERRINI Capital News Service
Virginians’ private property rights would be more secure under a resolution passed by the General Assembly to restrict the government’s eminent domain powers. The resolution seeks to amend the Virginia Constitution to strengthen property right protections. Gov. Bob McDonnell said passage of the resolution last week “is a step in the right direction and is a long time coming.” “For too long, government and certain business interests colluded to make it possible to take the land of one landowner and give it to another, merely for the purpose of increasing tax revenue or employment or for private gain,” the governor said. On Tuesday, Feb. 22, the Senate voted 35-5 for House Joint Resolution 693. The following day, the House gave its final approval of the measure, 83-15. If the General Assembly passes the resolution again next year, voters will consider the constitutional amendment in a statewide referendum in November 2012. As a state legislator in 2007, PROPERTY RIGHTS P4
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Top left: Ethan Rossi, with a little help from dad Phil Rossi created a 3-D effect with "Sherlock Holmes" cake. Bottom left: Russel Lutge, Warriors "Into the Wild" cake. Right: Victoria Turner displays her cake based on the book "Shark Girl" during Midlothian Middle School's Oscars for Books event. A video and slideshow of all the cakes are on the school's Facebook page linked at midlothianexchange.com.
Project showcases culinary talent books," said librarian Cindy Ford. For three weeks, every day, six or ometimes a good book can seven kids would check out pans to tap the imagination. For use overnight, she explained. "We Midlothian Middle School only lost 10 cakes in the process. We students, reading took on a had 40 cakes and about 66 kids that whole new edible dimension with a went through it. We started with 50 school-wide library project. cakes and, as you know, the reality It all began with a cake pan in is that not every cake turned out," the shape of a book that sparked she said. the "Oscars for Books" baking The students and librarians marathon. The finished cakes, which shared what they learned through rivaled outcomes seen on shows like the baking and creative experience. TLC's Cake Boss, were on display in They shared their baking obstacles. the library on Friday, Feb. 25. "There was one student, and he, "We ended up with seven cake bless his heart, froze his cake before pans and we checked them out like it was cool. He brought it out the BY ELIZABETH FARINA efarina@midlothianexchange.com
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night before and it was covered in a sheet of ice," she said. The students also gained some tricks of the culinary trade such as using the “flower nail” method to distribute heat because the cake's book mold was thicker in the center of the cake than at its thin edges. They also learned about foundant, other types of cake icing and using specialty pens to write the title of their selected book. “They learned through the whole process,” Ford said. The library staff only had one restriction for the students' projects – the base had to be an edible cake.
“As long as it represented the book and have the title on it, they could use other items, but they had to bake a cake,” she said. Cakes were judged and awarded prizes for style and creativity. Also, each student received a blue spoon for participating and took their edible art home at the end of the school day. For Ford, the project provided an insight to what the students are enjoying in their spare time. “They really all know the Cake Boss, and Ace of Cakes and Cupcake Sisters. We were tickled because they didn't know about the Oscars as much.”
Cinderella Dreams connects teens with prom gowns Cinderella said it best: “In dreams you lose your heartaches." Since 2006, the Midlothian Junior Woman’s Club has helped many area teenage girls overcome the heartache of not being able to afford a prom dress due to financial hardships. This year the MJWC, Puritan Cleaners and 103.7 The River have teamed up for another successful Cinderella Dreams project. The project provides gowns and accessories, free of charge, to any girl who, just like Cinderella, needs help getting a gown for the ball. The Cinderella Dreams project is currently accepting donations until Friday, March 11 of new or gently used gowns and accessories at all Puritan DREAMS P1
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Mike Evino helps Midlothian Woman's Junior Club Cinderella Dreams chair Chrystal Graybill unload the donated prom dresses from storage. Several club members and volunteers were busy getting the store ready for the three-day annual event that helps girls who are financially challenged find a dress, shoes and accessories for prom.
Midlo runner makes a path to Va Tech But not only did he make a full recovery, Barlow became a key arren Barlow’s bid to contributor to Midlothian’s state become one of the top champion cross country squad high school distance as a senior. He finished second runners in Virginia in the district, third in the region nearly ended right after it began. and third at the Group AAA meet, Barlow, a consistent top-seven earning first-team all-Metro honors performer for Midlothian’s cross while also helping the Trojans reach country team as a freshman, entered the Nike Cross Nationals in Oregon. the summer before his sophomore In the process, Barlow also landseason training hard to improve ed an opportunity to compete in his personal-best time of 16:06 for the Atlantic Coast Conference and 5,000 meters. pursue an engineering degree from It only took a split-second to Virginia Tech. He signed a national alter those plans. A freak accident letter-of-intent with the Hokies last at the pool left Barlow with two month, a remarkable ending to an broken bones in his right lower leg improbable story. – an injury so serious, the surgeon “It’s been a journey,” acknowlassigned to operate on him refused edged his mother, Angie, a Virginia to guarantee that the 14-year-old Tech alumnus. “We’re very happy he would ever be able to run competi- gets to go to a school he loves. He’s tively again. just happy somebody wanted him.” The surgical team used 12 screws Barlow didn’t turn himself into and a metal plate to stabilize the a Division I runner by taking a bones. Barlow spent seven weeks traditional path. His first love was in a cast and five more in a walking swimming and he was good enough boot, then began two months of to qualify for the Junior Olympics physical therapy to counter muscle as a member of the local Poseidon atrophy in his right leg. club.
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Darren Barlow, center, with parents Angie and Scott, during the Midlothian senior's national letter-of-intent to run for Virginia Tech.
Barlow eventually started splitting time between the pool and the track, meaning he spent most of the year playing catch-up with peers who specialized in one sport or the other. Ironically, that experience helped
him. When he returned from the injury, he wasn’t intimidated by the prospect of having to work extra hard to make up for lost time. “It took a long time to get back,
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Celebrating Women's History Month in March
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The Chesterfield County Public Library system is hosting three free programs in March to celebrate Women’s History Month. On Saturday, March 12, 11 a.m.-noon, at Central Library, the Virginia Homespun Dance Ensemble will perform 19th-century dances with authentic representation of the social graces of that time period. Halloway House of Petersburg will present “Getting Dressed in a Hurry,� a demonstration of how a woman would get dressed for the day during the 19th century. A live model will get dressed for a normal day using all of the clothing articles from that time period. Authentic period clothing such as undergarments, outerwear and accessories will be on display. This program will take place on Tuesday, March 22, 11 a.m.-noon, at Chester Library. The program “Winning Women� will be presented twice on March 26, 10:30-11:30 a.m., at Central Library and 2-3 p.m. at Meadowdale Library. Storyteller Lynn Ruehlmann celebrates Women’s History Month with a look at photographer Dorothea Lange and cookbook author, Fannie Farmer. Registration is recommended and begins two weeks prior to the program start date. For more information, call (804) 768-7941. courtesy of Chesterfield County
Girls will be helped on a fi rst-come, first-served basis. Cleaners and metro-RichA donation of $5 is sugmond YMCAs. They are gested. welcoming volunteers of all Parents and their daughages to help prepare the store ters, who have previously and only adult-volunteers to help staff the store during the attended the shopping event, have expressed their gratiopen shopping days. tude and relief knowing that The shopping event is being held on two weekends the burden of buying a dress has been lifted by the Cinderat The Village Marketplace ella Dreams project. Shopping Center located To learn about volunteer at 13172 Midlothian Tnpk. opportunities, please contact in Midlothian. The shopping event will be on Friday, the project chair at: info@ cinderelladreams.net or visit March 18, from 5 - 8 p.m. and Saturday, the 19, from 11 the website at: www.cinderelladreams.net. a.m. - 3 p.m. The shopping event will continue the next courtesy of Meredith Covert weekend on Saturday, March on behalf of Midlothian Junior Woman's Club 26 from 11a.m. – 3 p.m.
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Henricus to conduct drawing for free park admission for one year for Facebook Fans Henricus Historical Park continues its 400th commemoration with the third major event in a series called “The Year of Henricus� with “Henricus Colledge – First University Charted in North America� on March 26 and 27. In 1619, the Virginia Company of London chartered a university designed to offer higher learning to both colonists and American Indians. After the Indian offensive of 1622, development was postponed until 1693 when the College of William and Mary became the first permanent university in Virginia. This event explores Henricus Colledge through familyfriendly historical interpretations and demonstrations, including lectures from experts on the university. Activities will highlight how colonists and American Indians applied educational systems within their cultures. American Indian activi-
ties will feature how the Powhatan people learned to cook, sew clothes, craft tools, make and use weapons and construct dwellings. English activities include militia, religious and cultural instruction, trade apprenticeships and house management including cooking and gardening. On Saturday, lantern tours recounting the Indian offensive of 1622 will begin at 7 p.m. and pre-registration is required. Both days, prominent lecturers will discuss the political and religious questions of the day, including the Indian offensive of 1622. In an effort to expand its social networking presence, Henricus Historical Park will conduct a drawing for five complimentary “400th Commemoration All-Access Passes� for Facebook fans if the Henricus page reaches 500 followers by March 26. Passes include free admission to the Park for two adults for one year,
advance notice of special events and programs and 20% off in the visitor’s center gift shop. Please help the Park spread the word by inviting friends and family to follow Henricus on Facebook here. “The Year of Henricus� began with Publick Days 2010 and will continue to lead up to the site’s 400th anniversary which will be commemorated in September 2011. Events will culminate with the arrival of 17th-century ship replica, Godspeed from Jamestown Settlement, at Publick Days this September. For more information about all events during “The Year of Henricus�, visit www.henricus.org or call (804) 748-1613. Reporters and photographers are encouraged to schedule tours in advance and attend all events. Admission for Henricus Colledge, which takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, is free for gift club patrons, $8 for adults and $6 for Lecture schedule Sunday children aged 3-12. Pre-regis12 p.m. - John Daniel Pagano, HistoriSaturday tration is required by March 19 cal Interpretation Supervisor at Henri1 p.m. - Robert C. Galgano, Ph.D., for the lantern tours, which will Instructor, Department of History, Univer- cus Historical Park: "A School for the take place from 7 to 9 p.m. on sity of Richmond: "Trust is the Mother of Infidels: The Creation and Destruction of Virginia's First College" Deceit: 1622" March 26, by calling (804) 7481 p.m. - Warren M. Billings, Ph.D., Dis2 p.m. - Stuart Peachey, Director of 1613. Henricus Historical Park Historical Management Associates Ltd.: tinguished Professor of History, Emeritus is located on 32 acres along the and Visiting Professor of Law, William "The Farming English People of 1622 scenic and historic James River and Mary Law School: "After Henrico Virginia" University: The Creation of William and 3 p.m. - Margaret E. Carlini, Education and is surrounded by the 810-acre Mary" Supervisor at Henricus Historical Park: Dutch Gap Conservation Area. 2 p.m. - Stuart Peachey, Director of “Legacy of Early Virginia Education The park is located at 251 HenriHistorical Management Associates Ltd.: – 1622 to Today� cus Park Road, Chester (23836). "The Farming English People of 1622
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Black History Month came to an ear-splitting, foot-stomping, hand-clapping, singalong-singing end Monday morning at Robious Middle School. The students from Siyani Roberts and Bridget Manasco's first block English class saw to that. With the accompaniment of local blues musician and educator Cy Taggart on guitar, the 18 students traced the black music experience in America from the earliest slave songs to the most contemporary hip-hop. They told the stories; Taggart, of the River City Blues Society of Virginia, sang the songs; and Aaren Parsons, displaying deft footwork and self-confidence not often seen in an eighth-grade boy, danced up a storm. "This whole program is just amazing," said Assistant Principal Jason Sears, still in awe from his temporary perch in the back of the auditorium between the second and third performances of the 30-minute show. It was put on once each for the sixth-, seventh- and eighthgraders. He credited Roberts, in her eighth year at the Chesterfield County school, with creating a month-long series of programs that were more intensive than any Black History Month celebration in recent memory at the school. In addition to the musical review, she helped students create for the school a black history museum displaying the many every day inventions and led an effort to decorate classroom doors with themes of AfricanAmerican accomplishments. Principal Javaid Saddiqi added,"The way our teachers and students have responded to the structure [Roberts and Manasco] created, our students and staff have really run with it. They appreciated the hard work and it compelled them to be active participants in this month." Roberts was quick to share credit with Manasco, in her first full year at Robious, and with everyone else in the school. "We wanted something that showed the kids that it was more than just sports and entertainment," she said. Each grade had a different theme for the door decorations from science, innovation, sports, entertainment, literature, and politics. But Roberts and Manasco kept the music for their class, which includes an educationally and culturally diverse mix of students. The students are black, white and Hispanic. Some speak English well, some as a second language. But no matter their backgrounds, they all needed
Teacher Siyani Roberts, center, encourages the students to join in the morning music event.
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Cy Taggart is known as the "Blues In The Schools" guy. A board member of The River City Blues Society of Virginia, a Richmond-based chapter in the international organization offers a free program that provides musical educational outreach to local schools through a grant from the Experience Music Project. "What we do is offer three different curriculum. We do a Fine Arts class, I do an improvisation class for ensemble and then this would be considered a performance," Taggart explained during a break between the student shows at Robious Middle School's Black History Month celebration. Taggart added that the improvisation class offers a chance for students to explore music. "The first thing I do is tell them [students] to turn the music stands around, we're not using them today. I teach them a simple improvisational vamp, a background thing, and give them simple tools to be able to actually improvise," he said. Taggart also teaches music history component of the program. He added that Siyani Roberts and Bridget Manasco asked him to provide music for the school's a way to connect with the topic. "We were looking for something to make the kids part of Black History Month," Manasco said. For a month, the students researched the music and put together their show. They did it in class some but mostly on their own time, usually at lunch. The reward, the teachers said, was that for a day, their students got to be something they normally aren't: the center of attention. "A lot of them are not the kids who are usually chosen for things," Manasco said of the students. To the surprise of the teachers, every student participated. Some, such as Aaren, ate up the attention. He perfectly mimicked the dance moves of Michael Jackson and added some of his own, drawing a rousing ovation each show. Others, such as Giovanni Mackie, mustered up all the courage they could to get through their parts, but they made it through without a hitch.
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Giovanni, who enlightened his schoolmates about the blues singer B.B. King, made it through all three shows just fine and pronounced himself A-OK. "I'm fine," he said. "It wasn't too bad." Focusing on music was more than fine with Cassidy Durham, who spoke about hip-hop. "Music is my life," she said after the second show. "I can't imagine life without music. And I think from this, I've learned how much AfricanAmericans have contributed to music." Roberts, as teachers are wont to do, came out having learned a lesson of her own. "I know what my kids'
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This isn’t 'snack happy' BY ELIZABETH FARINA editor@midlothianexchange.com
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Local program cuts are short-term fixes for federal budget With all of the current discussion about short-term federal spending resolutions and potential gridlock in Congress, you might think we have lost the opportunity for serious action on our longer-range deficits and debt. I remain convinced that our country is at a critically important moment: we simply must seize this opportunity to get our fiscal house in order for the long term, and since last summer this has been one of my top priorities. Partnering with my Republican colleague Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, we are working to try to turn the recommendations of the President’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform into legislation. Our current national debt stands at more than $14 trillion. If adopted in full, the commission’s recommendations would gradually reduce that debt by $4 trillion over the next ten years. Unfortunately, the current debate is centered on deep cuts in short-term, discretionary and nonmilitary spending, which only makes-up about 12% of the overall federal budget. The spending proposal recently adopted by the House of Representatives slashes funding for workforce training programs that are so important to many people across southwest and southside. It targeted federal support for the multi-state, multi-year Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort, and the House budget makes deep cuts in federal funding to
PROPERTY RIGHTS from P1 McDonnell sponsored a proposal similar to HJ 693, but it failed. “Every year since then, the General Assembly and special interests have attempted to chip away at those protections,” McDonnell said. “That is why there was a need to put these very fundamental rights in the Virginia Constitution and protect them from the political whims of future legislatures.” Just two weeks earlier, the Senate had defeated a motion to consider HJ 693 on a party-line vote, with all 22 Democratic senators opposing the measure. But last week in the Senate, 17 Democrats joined all 18 Republicans to approve the resolution. The reversal came after the measure was approved by one-vote margins by both a subcommittee of the Senate Privileges and Elections Committee and by the full committee. HJ 693 was sponsored by Delegate Johnny Joannou, a Democrat from Portsmouth. It would add these words to the state Constitution: • “The General Assembly shall pass no law whereby private property, the right to which is fundamental, shall be damaged or taken except for public use.” • “No private property shall be damaged or taken for public use without just compensation to the owner thereof.” • “No more private property may be taken than necessary to achieve the M
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Northern Virginia’s Metro mass transit system. The simple fact is, drastic and even painful cuts to these individual programs alone will not fix our larger structural budget problems. That's why Senator Chambliss and I have been working with a growing number of our Senate colleagues to address these fiscal challenges in a more comprehensive and responsible way. We must work together to control government spending, simplify our tax code, and begin to gradually eliminate our deficits. That is the only way we will fix our nation’s balance sheet over the long term. The deficit commission's recommendations, while far from perfect, represent a courageous first step in tackling our national debt in ways that will make our nation competitive for the 21st century: · The commission laid out a plan to accelerate healthcare savings in Medicare and Medicaid, and it provides a responsible roadmap to strengthen Social Security for the next 75 years. The commission’s plan protects Social Security, and does not use Social Security funds to balance the budget. · It dramatically simplifies a tax system in serious need of an overhaul. It proposes closing loopholes and phasing out some deductions while lowering overall tax rates for individuals and
corporations. · It puts everything on the table, including entitlement programs and defense spending. We believe that this has to be part of the discussion, too. As you might imagine, various political opponents and special interests already are mobilizing to short-circuit our work on this legislation, which demonstrates why this is such a difficult challenge. It also shows why Washington’s typical political response has always been to kick this can down the road, and push the tough choices to another day: · These choices do not get any easier simply by delaying action. Every day that we put off these difficult decisions, an average $4 billion is added to the national debt. · Every dollar that we spend simply paying the interest on our nation's staggering debt is disappearing into a fiscal sinkhole. These are resources that cannot be targeted toward creating jobs, expanding the U.S. economy or addressing any of our other shared priorities. While there are plenty of recommendations in the commission's plan that I would not have chosen, this much is crystal clear to me and the other members of our bipartisan coalition: we simply cannot postpone this difficult discussion any longer. U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-VA)
stated public use.” • “Just compensation shall be no less than the value of the property taken, business goodwill and access lost, damages to the residue caused by the taking, and damages to adjacent property caused by the taking.” • “A public service company, public service corporation, or railroad exercises the power of eminent domain for public use when such exercise is for the authorized provision of utility, common carrier, or railroad services.” • “In all other cases, a taking or damaging of private property is not for public use if the primary use is for private gain, private benefit, private enterprise, increasing jobs, increasing tax revenue, or economic development, except for the elimination of a public nuisance existing on the property.” • “The condemnor bears the burden of proving that the use is public, without a presumption that it is.” According to McDonnell, the resolution will ensure that “the cost of taking private property be borne by the public, not the individual property owner.” “The public at large benefits from the property, and so it should bear the total cost, which includes compensating landowners for loss of profits when businesses are forced to move, and loss of access when property is taken which gave a landowner access to his land,” McDonnell said. Before the legislative session began, the state’s Republican leadership said it
would push for protecting the property rights of Virginians. This was a priority for McDonnell, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and the Senate and House Republicans, noted Sen. Thomas Norment Jr., R-Williamsburg. Sen. Stephen Newman, R-Lynchburg, chairman of the Virginia Senate Republican Caucus, said the resolution’s passage was a major victory for all Virginians dedicated to ensuring private property rights. “It is also an important victory for Senate Republicans,” Newman said. “Our persistence and commitment have paid off.” Legislators see the proposed constitutional amendment as a corrective to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Kelo v. City of New London, Conn. In that case, the court ruled 5-4 that the power of eminent domain could be used to transfer land from one private owner to another to further economic development. Sen. Emmett Hanger Jr., R- Mount Solon, said the constitutional protections would have the greatest impact on Virginia’s farming communities. “Even before the Kelo decision made this a national issue, leaders in rural communities and agribusiness were advocating measures to limit eminent domain,” Hanger said. “The passage of this amendment is great news for rural Virginians.”
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I knew the day would come when my child would disagree with me saying, “but the teacher said…” First, I love my child’s teachers. They are thoughtful and kind. They are dedicated to their profession. They are also human. So, when I heard these words uttered from the mouth of my babe, I knew I was treading in to unchartered territories. How should I respond to such a statement? It was during our dinner time when I heard about “the school snack.” I didn’t receive a teacher’s note. I didn’t get an e-mail. I didn’t even have the luck of a courtesy phone call. Instead, my child tells me that the individuallywrapped snack I have been sending to school with her for over a week has too much sugar. Huh? Yes, my child’s snack had been exchanged that day for a “health” bar because the teacher said the snack from home had too much sugar. What federal or state regulations or guidelines, or even school policies, did I break? I couldn’t help feeling irritated as well as inadequately prepared to answer my child’s question about her snack. It was time to separate fact from fiction. In our pantry were boxes for both the snack I had sent with my child as well as a recently purchased box of those “health” bars too. Flipping over to the Nutritional Information graph, I noticed that the “health” bar wasn’t really that healthy. It had dietary fiber, but so did the broccoli being served for dinner. It had a trace percent of vitamins, minerals and 40 more calories and a whopping 8 more grams (two teaspoons) of sugar than the snack I had sent that day. Now, I was angry. I wasn’t angry at the teacher; I was angry at the energy and time wasted at comparing one snack to another snack in the name of parenthood. My choice of food for my child was being tossed out the door, literally. My choice as a parent had been undermined because of an assumption rather than fact. The worst part, the message was delivered through my child. In full parental mania mode, I cut out the nutritional value guidelines and stapled them to a penned letter requesting a parent-teacher meeting as scheduling permitted. We met. We talked. We listened. We agreed the snack would reappear in my child’s backpack in the future. We also agreed that parents, students, and teachers need to have an ongoing dialogue about food at school. It’s not just about food being nutritional, but being used as a motivator to reward (who doesn’t positively react to “free” pizza?). I agree that “food wars” in the classroom is a negligible problem in our universe. However, talking about food brought out such primal defensive instinct that left me wondering - does any other parent go through such extreme snack craziness?
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Thomas Dale Specialty Center event
Got Talent? Teens showcase performing arts talent in celebrity-judged competition Thomas Dale High School, home of Chesterfield County Public Schools' Specialty Center for the Visual and Performing Arts, is preparing for the culminating event of a two-week talent extravaganza on March 4 at 7 p.m. in the school's auditorium. The talent show, produced by Keri Wormald, features live critiques of competing acts by a panel of performance professionals. The acts, which began with over 60 student artists auditioning to perform for the first week's semi-finals this past Friday, went through the judges' decision to either be eliminated or move on to the finals to compete for cash prizes and bragging rights. This year's judges include actor, director, and producer Steve Perigard, actress and theatre educator Laine Satterfield, Richmond Boys' Choir artistic director Billy Dye, and season seven American Idol semi-finalist Colton Berry. Another surprise guest includes a young man soon to be seen on national TV on the new season of a reality singing competition. Contractual obligations prohibit revelation of the show, but Thomas Dale audiences will get a sneak preview of Shenandoah Valley native Matt Johnson's prodigious talent as a
composer, pianist, and singer. Johnson and Berry will also perform in the show. Also, Mariah Taliaferro, “Motormouth Maybelle” in Thomas Dale's recent hit production of Hairspray, will also take to the stage on March 4 to perform as audience members vote via text message for each evening's “People Choice” talent winner. The eclectic talent on hand will include an opera performance, a Broadway singer and tapper, two original contemporary dances, break dancers, singers, guitarists, rappers, a rock band and a performance by Thomas Dale's drumline. The evenings' hosts will be Dale teacher Justin Fashure and Kara Watts. A portion of the proceeds for the competition will provide seed money for Dale's International Thespian Troupe #924 to establish a “Future Thespian” scholarship fund. The scholarship fund is designed to help a Chesterfield County middle schooler to pursue singing, dancing or acting classes. Tickets to the event is $5 and may be purchased at the door.
Left: Midlothian resident Jessica Harmon, a freshman at Thomas Dale Specialty Center for Visual and Performing Arts, talks about performing on stage, her recent successes in the recording studio, and fellow students who provide a source of inspiration for the 15year-old singer. Harmon performed “If I Ain't Got You” by Alicia Keyes this past Friday at the first performance of the Thomas Dale event. Read about her accomplishments online at www. midlothianexchange.com
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Boxing and dodgeball events change of pace for annual youth event Top left to right: Blocked Trevor Cullen of team Smurf It Up, composed of Manchester High School students, blocks a ball during a dodgeball match. Lead with the right Raymond Robinson of the Richmond Police Athletic League (PAL) throws a right to Daniel Smith of Ninth Dimension boxing during a 132 lb. boxing exhibition. The referee is watching Robinson won the exhibition match by decision.
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CENTRAL REGION GIRLS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
Three-peat thriller Titans rally to beat Dale, claim third regional title BY WELDON BRADSHAW Media General News Service
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Kelsey Conyers is one of three seniors who have played on all three of Cosby's regional championship squads.
Cosby refuses to use youth as an excuse BY JIM MCCONNELL jmcconnell@midlothianexchange.com
Conventional wisdom said Cosby’s girls basketball team would take a step back this season after losing standouts Becca Wann, Jazmin Pitts and Andrea Bertrand – and their combined 45 points per game -- to graduation last June. The Titans were aware of those expectations when they gathered for their first preseason workout, but that didn’t mean they agreed. So after Cosby completed a remarkable comeback Monday night to beat Thomas Dale 62-55 for its third consecutive Central Region championship, there was no gloating or chestthumping – just the satisfaction that comes with working hard enough to prove all the naysayers wrong. “This is sweeter than the other two because no one thought we’d even be here, let alone win it,” Cosby coach Rachel Mead said. Cosby (23-4), which plays host to Northwest Region runner-up Stonewall Jackson in the Group AAA state quarterfinals Saturday at the Siegel Center, is at least a year ahead of schedule with a roster that features only three seniors and a starting lineup that includes a 14-year-old freshman post player. Monday’s game was further proof that age is just a number. While all three seniors (Kelsey Conyers, Kaylor Nichols and Chyna
Lennox) were in the starting lineup against Thomas Dale, Cosby's top three scorers were that 14-year-old, Dorothy Adomako, who poured in a game-high 19 points; another freshman, Madi Conyers, who came off the bench to hit three three-pointers and score 12; and a sophomore, Adriane Vaughan, who added 10. "Our young players are fearless," Kelsey Conyers said. "They have a lot of confidence." Confidence never was an issue for Cosby when Wann, Pitts and Bertrand were on the floor. Each scored more than 1,600 points in their high school careers, and their experience paid dividends as the Titans reached the state tournament in each of the past two seasons. Now it's up to the current group of seniors to counsel their younger teammates and give them a glimpse of what to expect when they run out onto the court for the start of Saturday's game. "The pressure is different," Lennox acknowledged. "It's like beginning a whole new season. The other teams are all just as good as we are, so we have to work hard and be focused." Mead has no doubt that her players -- veterans and youngsters alike -- will be ready when the bright lights come on again at the Siegel Center. "They showed me they can deal with the crowd," Mead said. "We consider this our home floor now."
Stunning. Simply stunning. Down 11 points early in the fourth quarter and seemingly headed nowhere, Cosby's girls used a smothering 1-2-1-1 full-court zone press to ignite a 20-2 run and defeat Thomas Dale 62-55 Monday night in the championship game of the Central Region basketball tournament at the Siegel Center. "Pure guts and hustle and never, never say die," said Titans' coach Rachel Mead of the reason behind her team's third consecutive regional title. "What more could I ask?" With Duke Universitybound Ka'lia Johnson (a game-high 22 points) running the show and getting plenty of help from her supporting cast, the Knights led 21-7 after a quarter, then fought off a mini-rally by Cosby and took a 32-26 lead into the locker room. Though Johnson, the regional player of the year, was flirting with foul trouble, Dale regained its intensity, increased its advantage to 51-
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Cosby's Olivia Morgan drives to the basket against Thomas Dale's Ka'lia Johnson.
39 entering the fourth period, and appeared comfortably in command. After a steal by Madi Conyers, Mead called time at 6:11 and made the strategic defensive adjustment that she will remember, well, forever. “If we couldn't dip into the lead any more than we had, we knew we'd have to press,” Mead said. “We had to
go after it. And we did, and it worked.” Thomas Dale led 53-41 when Johnson went to the bench after being whistled for her fourth foul with 6:20 left in the game. The Knights’ advantage was still significant (53-44) when Johnson returned to the court less than two minutes later.
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Cosby senior Kelsey Conyers had a simple, direct message for her little sister when Madi entered Monday’s Central Region final in the second quarter: The team needs you to step up. Did it ever. After a fast start, the Titans had gone ice-cold from the field. They scored only seven points in the first quarter and had only 12 when Thomas Dale star Ka’lia Johnson went to the bench after sustaining an injury to her right eye with 3:22 left in the first half. Searching for some offense with her team trailing by double digits, Cosby coach Rachel Mead played a hunch and sent Madi Conyers into the biggest game of her young life. Conyers insisted she wasn’t nervous. But she wasn’t exactly feeling confident, either, after struggling with her shot in pregame warmups at the Siegel Center. That all changed in the time it took for the freshman to get her first open look from beyond the three-point arc, line up her shot and let it fly. Swish! “Once the first one went through, it was a huge confidence booster,” said Conyers, who made two more threepointers and helped keep Cosby within striking distance until Johnson fouled out late in the game. She also made three free throws as the Titans rallied for a 62-55 victory and their third consecutive regional championship. Conyers’ 12 points were second on the team to Dorothy Adomako’s 19 and made her one of Cosby’s three doublefigure scorers.
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Cosby freshman Madi Conyers receives a congratulatory handshake from Chesterfield County school board representative Omarh Rajah following the Titans' victory over Thomas Dale Monday night at the Siegel Center.
“I just had to block everything out and play like I’ve been on the team for three years,” Conyers said. How cool was the kid? She wasn’t even fazed when she found herself being guarded by Johnson, the region player of the year who will play on
scholarship at Duke next season, at a couple different points of the second half. “That’s a big compliment in my book,” Mead said. FRESHMAN P8
Chiefs lament end of Cinderella run BY JIM MCCONNELL jmcconnell@midlothianexchange.com
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Monacan's Gabby Harris finished with 27 points and 11 rebounds in the Chiefs' semifinal loss to Cosby.
Monacan’s girls basketball team rolled into last Thursday’s Central Region semifinals with a ton of momentum and even more confidence. And why not? The Chiefs already had pulled a pair of upsets, beating district champions Patrick Henry and Highland Springs by a combined 31 points in their first two regional games. They also believed the law of averages was on their side; their semifinal opponent, Cosby, already had beaten Monacan three times this season. It’s been said that beating the same team three times in one season is extremely difficult. If so, how tough must it be to do it four times? “We wanted Cosby,” Monacan
coach Larry Starr said, standing outside his team’s locker room at the Siegel Center last Thursday following a 58-50 loss to the Titans – a result that ended Monacan’s season and left the Chiefs one victory shy of their first trip to the Group AAA state tournament since 2006. “Those two wins did a lot for us,” Starr added. “It’s the first time I saw fire in my girls’ eyes against Cosby. We came here to win the region.” For the first half, at least, it appeared that Gabby Harris was going to help Monacan do just that. The 5-7 junior came out firing from all over the court, hitting four three-pointers and pouring in 19 points as the Chiefs took a 30-29 halftime lead. CHIEFS P8
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Cosby's players and coaches celebrate after receiving the Central Region championship trophy for the third consecutive season Monday in Richmond.
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the field, none of which came close to their target. "The front line [of the press] has to be active to the ball," said Dorothy Adomako, a 6-0 freshman who as the rover on the press was credited with five steals. "The middle person [Adomako] has to keep her eye on the ball at all times and look for a bad pass." After back-to-back layups off steals by Adomako and another by Kelsey Conyers cut the difference to 53-48, Thomas Dale coach Kevin Coffey called a timeout in an attempt to calm his troops. To no avail. The momentum was squarely in the Titans' hands. They seemingly became more confident with each possession. Adomako dropped in two free throws, Lennox hit a layup off a steal, and Adriane Vaughan duplicated Lennox's feat to give Cosby a 54-53 lead at 2:51. Dale called another timeout. With smiles crossing their faces, the Titans began a game of keep-away and hit 8 of 14 free throws to ensure the victory that hardly seemed possible a quarter earlier. "We never gave up," said Kelsey Conyers, "We had faith in each other and in ourselves. We played as a team."
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Conyers was only concerned about Johnson to the extent that it affected her team’s ability to win the game. “I knew she was on me and I was happy because if she’s guarding me, that helps my teammates score and get rebounds,” she added. Kelsey Conyers has always known her sister was capable of putting up big numbers on offense. She may have been the least surprised person in the building to watch Madi bury one three-pointer after another. “She’s definitely a spark off the bench,” the elder Conyers said with a smile. “I had faith in her because she’s done it before.” With that, the sisters picked up their gym bags and began walking down the corridor that leads from the locker rooms to the floor of the Verizon Wireless Arena. Arm in arm, laughing and celebrating their team’s championship, they couldn’t PHOTO BY JIM MCCONNELL Sisters Madi (left) and Kelsey Conyers share a laugh during the awards presentation. have been happier.
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Midlothian's Darren Barlow will run at Virginia Tech next season after making it back from a serious leg injury to become one of the top cross country runners in Virginia.
He sent several e-mails to Tech’s coaches expressing interest in joining the squad as a freshman, but didn’t get a reply until midway through the cross country season. When Hokies cross country/distance coach Ben Thomas finally came through with an offer, Barlow jumped at it; now he’s looking forward to joining his older sister in Blacksburg in August. “Virginia Tech’s coaches are really good at getting the best out of everybody,” Barlow said. “I’m a motivated person and I don’t like doing poorly at anything; if I’m not going to do it well, why do it?”
I am happy to report this fine day that my dream of completing the Monument Avenue 10K is alive and well. That was in serious doubt as recently as a couple weeks ago, when scheduling issues and a lingering illness conspired to keep me away from my training team’s weekly Saturday morning run for the first time. It wasn’t the first time I had skipped a workout. In the interest of full disclosure, I’ve already made a mockery of our detailed weekly training schedule with my laundry list of excuses for ditching individual runs, among them: lack of motivation, pain in both knees and a work schedule that doesn’t always leave room for running during the week. Lame. I know. My better half has already felt compelled to note (with some annoyance) both my near-compulsive need to march to the beat of my own drum-
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but I like to challenge myself,” Barlow said. Angie Barlow said her son has been that way since he was a child. Whether he was playing sports or doing schoolwork, he always wanted to be the best. “He’s pretty driven,” she added. “He doesn’t cut himself any slack and he never makes excuses for why he can’t do something.” After such a serious injury, the physical challenges inherent in cross country weren’t insignificant for Barlow’s parents. But while they discussed their concerns with Darren, they never told him he had to focus strictly on swimming because there was less risk in re-injuring his ankle. “I think it probably was in the back of our minds, especially in cross country because it’s uneven terrain and you’re more susceptible to turning your ankle,” said Barlow’s father, Scott. “As time went on, it became less and less of an issue.” As his cross country times improved throughout his junior year, Barlow began to realize that he’d eventually have to choose either swimming or running if he hoped to compete in college. It wasn’t an easy decision. Poseidon coach Ted Sallade had been extremely supportive after Barlow’s injury and Barlow didn’t want to let his teammates down by quitting to focus entirely on running. But while Barlow received his only swimming offers from a few small Division III schools, he soon realized there was greater opportunity to land a scholarship if he pursued a combination of track and cross country on the next level. He made a visit to Lipscomb University, a Division I program in Tennessee, but wasn’t enamored by its liberal arts curriculum. He wanted to run for Virginia Tech. Even if he couldn’t run, he wanted to graduate from Virginia Tech. He wanted it so badly, he took the initiative and decided to market himself.
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