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Remembering the World Trade Center attacks thought about the beans and rice. We had a job to do and started walking up,” he said. The firefighters, with headlamps on their helmets, began climbing the WTC’s North Tower using the inner side of the stairwell while those working amid the 107 floors of the tower used the outer portion of the stairs. Smoke from the explosion filtered to the 93rd floor, according to the U.S. Fire Administration’s final report on the blast. Six people were killed and over 1,000 were injured BY ELIZABETH FARINA that day. “All we could see were legs coming efarina@midlothianexchange.com down. Every tenth floor, we’d take a breather and catch our breath and do another ten,” larence Singleton has seen vioSingleton recalled. lent horrors before that fateful It was at the 44th floor that his crew was September day in 2001. He’d told about a young pregnant woman who survived the frontlines durwas having trouble. Geralyn Hearne’s baby ing his time in Vietnam serving with the wasn’t due for 9 more weeks. Her friend U.S. Marine Corps. After being wounded and receiving an honorable discharge, the Donna Anderson was trying to comfort then 20-year-old headed to New York City Hearne when the firemen arrived. Smoke from the explosion below had filtered into where he would eventually find a career the upper floors. Singleton gave Hearne his with the Fire Department of New York mask after when she had an unexpected City. The now retired FDNY lieutenant would respond to two attacks on the World seizure. Singleton, a father of six, kept his smooth Trade Center within eight years. demeanor to help the mom-to-be remain The South Carolina native was on duty calm. His firefighter experience kicked in with FDNY Engine Company 3/Ladder Company 12, 7th battalion when responding knowing that she needed to be evacuated to to the bombing in the basement of the WTC the triage center that had been established on in February 1993. He remembers eating a big the 34th floor. He and three other firefighters carried Hearne the ten flights down in a lunch of beans, rice and smothered chicken chair. “I had one of the front legs in the chair before the call came through. “I was so full. and I wanted the guys in the back to raise I was joking saying that I hope this fire is in the basement because I thought I could only the chair’s back legs so I said, ‘Hey, could you walk down stairs; I felt that heavy,” Singleton raise those legs a little higher’ and Geralyn raises her legs,” Singleton said. said. Several jokes followed between the two Once the firefighters arrived on scene that and Hearne was left with the triage technicold February afternoon, they had assumed cians while the firefighters started back up to it was a transformer fire because the smoke their original destination on the 54th floor. was black and dense. “There were people “Then she’d get in trouble and we’d run back everywhere. We reported to the chief and down to her and she’d stabilize and we’d go he said, ‘12 Truck, I want you to go up and search from the 54th to the 59th floor, and by SINGLETON page 5 the way, the elevators are out.’ There was no

Retired FDNY Lieutenant Clarence Singleton, who now resides in Chesterﬁeld, served on the front lines during the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and 9/11.

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Retired FDNY Lt. Clarence Singleton was at the World Trade Center during the 1993 bombing as well as on 9/11 attack that killed 2,752 people including 343 ﬁremen.

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James River Regiment members Savannah Isenberg (left), Austin Willis, and Becca Hagan practice with fellow band members during the last week of August.

And the Regiment marches on Despite the earthquake and hurricane, the James River High School marching band, the Regiment, completes its rigorous two and a half weeks of band camp this week. Marchers have spent grueling eight hour days perfecting the show “Undercover Melodies,” which includes tunes from Mission Impossible, the Pink Panther, and James Bond. Band director, Keith Cottrill, said, “I am very pleased with the band’s progress during the past two weeks and impressed with the students’ commitment.” The Regiment performs their show during football

halftimes and at regional competitions throughout the fall. This year’s state competition is on Oct. 29 and the Regiment hopes to earn a superior rating to remain eligible for Honor Band status. The James River Regiment has been a Virginia Honor Band, the highest honor bestowed by the Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association, for the past 17 years. It is one of only three high schools in Virginia that has held the Honor Band status for every year of its existence.

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Chesterﬁeld teen awarded VHS Bobby Chandler Student Award The Virginia Historical Society (VHS) presented 12 awards to individuals who have made signiﬁcant contributions to research, education, and the mission of the society at a summer luncheon. A total of ten VHS awards were presented to a teacher, a businessman, an author, students, volunteers, and staff. Callie Marie Angle, a student at Mathematics and Science High School at Clover Hill in Chester-

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Pictured are:Callie M. Angle, left, and Virginia Historical Society Educational Director William Obrachta

ﬁeld County, was awarded the 2010 Bobby Chandler Student Award. The Bobby Chandler Student Award, made possible by the Kip Kephart Foundation, is awarded to a secondary school history student who demonstrates intelligence, creativity,

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Midlothian High School Principal Christine Wilson

Midlothian Exchange spoke with six high school principals around the Midlothian area to hear what they’re looking foward to this year. Last week, we heard from Manchester, Monacan and James River. This week, as thousands return back to school, here is what Midlothian, Clover Hill and Cosby high schools leadership had to say:

idlothian High School Principal Christine ‘Chris’ Wilson welcomes the school year anticipating new faces ready to break into their newest role as high school freshman. Here’s her advice for the newest students on campus and advice for new upperclassmen. Q: What are you looking forward to for the new school year? Wilson: I always look forward to welcoming a new class of young adolescents and then watching them progress and, in four short years, they’re leaving us as young adults. To me, it’s always been amazing to see that transformation. They’re very tentative and still little as freshman and each year you see the growth. By the time they leave us June of their senior year, they’re just self-assured, conﬁdent, articulate young people ready to go out and meet the world and take it on. I am always amazed by the talent our students have; it’s just phenomenal. Whether it’s academic, athletic or the creative arts that many of our students have, it is just so inspiring to see how they can do all these things and do it well. So, I look forward to that every year. I also look forward to the students who overcome challenges and watching them work with the teachers and watching their teachers work with them to help them succeed is probably the – it is the best part of the job.

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ANGLE from page 1 and research skills using primary source materials. Angle was recognized for her work on an applied history class project, “Between the Living and the Dead: A Study of the Inequity of Tuberculosis Treatment Between the Races in Virginia, 1900–1960.” VHS President and CEO Dr. Paul Levengood, who presented the award, said Angle’s project included a comparison of the treatment of tuberculosis patients at Catawba Sanatorium in Roanoke and Piedmont Sanatorium in Burkeville. “Miss Angle did extensive research using census records, newspaper articles, Virginia Commissioner of Health reports, and other government documents. Her analysis was impressive.” “I am grateful to be accepting this award,” Angle said. “This project, which

took me more than a year and a half to complete, involved a lot of hard work and effort. In the end, it was definitely worth it.” Five out of the last six Bobby Chandler Student Award winners have attended Clover Hill High School. Angle is the sixteenth recipient since this award was created in 1996. “It is in history that many of us find comfort, that we find meaning,” Levengood said to awards winners and their guests, trustees, and staff present at the event. “We are here as a refuge and as a place to learn and put our lives in context. What else but history, and perhaps faith, allows us to do that? With these awards handed out today you will see those who have excelled in the fields of scholarship, service, and support of the Virginia Historical Society.”

Neal Lappe named 2011-2012 President of AMA Richmond Neal Lappe has been named president of the American Marketing Association’s Richmond Chapter for the 2011-2012 term. With nearly 300 members, AMA Richmond has been Central Virginia’s leading source for education and networking in the ﬁeld of marketing for nearly 50 years. Members include seasoned marketing professionals, educators and students representing a wide variety of industries, government agencies, nonproﬁts, educational institutions and services. “It’s an honor to serve the AMA membership, and the marketing community at large,” said Lappe. “The AMA not only helped me develop my marketing expertise, it expanded my business relationships within the region. I hope that in my role, I will help others to do the same.” Lappe is the president of WebStrategies, Inc. a Richmond-based digital/internet marketing agency. Founded in 2004, WebStrategies, Inc. provides a variety

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of web development, search engine optimization and social media marketing services to businesses of all sizes. One of only about 50 Google Analytics Certiﬁed Partners in all of North America, WebStrategies uses web analytics and other business intelligence information as the foundation for their data-driven approach to marketing. For more information, visit http://www.webstrategiesinc.com/.

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Modern Woodmen supports Lucy Corr Foundation Tenth Annual 5K Run/Walk for the future Modern Woodmen of America made a $500 matching donation to sponsor the Tenth Annual 5K Run/Walk for the Future on June 18, 2011. Modern Woodmen, Marian Crow and the Modern Woodmen Youth Service Club representative, Haley Rivenbark present the check to Jean Russell, Special Events Coordinator for Lucy Corr Village, and Debra Marlow, Director of Development for Lucy Corr Foundation. Amy Van Alstine crossed the finish line first with a time of 16:39. It is the first time in the history of the race that a woman has clocked the fastest time. With a time of 17:07, Rena Chesser was the race’s second place finisher. Jeffrey Murray was the fastest male runner with a time of 18:09. Richmond Road Runners timed the race. The local Modern Woodmen youth service club is one of approximately 800 clubs nationwide that provide young Modern Woodmen members with opportunities to volunteer, be patriotic, learn new skills, make friends and have fun. Club members donate more than 300,000 hours of volunteer service each year. The Matching Fund Program offers club members the chance to show their support of a community cause or an individual in need by holding fundraisers. Last year, Matching Fund projects conducted

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Marian Crow, left, and Haley Rivenbark with the Modern Woodmen Youth Service Club and Jean Russell and Debra Marlow with Lucy Corr Village.

by Modern Woodmen chapters and youth service clubs raised $6.5 million to contribute to community projects, local organizations and individuals in need. As a tax-exempt fraternal beneﬁt society, Modern Woodmen sells life insurance, annuity and investment* products not to beneﬁt stockholders but to improve the quality of life of its stakeholders – members, their families and their communities. This is accomplished through social, charitable and volunteer

activities. In 2010 Modern Woodmen and its members provided nearly $24 million and 1 million volunteer hours for community projects nationwide. The 5K Run/Walk for the Future beneﬁts the Lucy Corr Foundation which supports the needs of Lucy Corr Village residents. More than 50% of residents receive benevolent care in the amount of $2 million a year. They have lived and worked in the region, fought for our country’s freedom, reared their

children, and outlived their resources. The Foundation supports this charitable mission. *Securities offered through MWA Financial Services Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Modern Woodmen of America. Member: FINRA, SIPC. Products are available in most states. Individual agents may not be licensed to sell all products.

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October Walk-a-thon to honor domestic violence victims and police officers The Chesterfield County Domestic Violence Resource Center and Chesterfield County Domestic Violence Task Force will host their 5k Domestic Violence Memorial Walk-A-Thon, Saturday, Oct. 15, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., at the Meadowbrook High School track, 4901 Cogbill Road, North Chesterfield. The registration deadline is Oct. 1. On-site registration will begin at 9 a.m. the day of the event. The rain date will be Oct. 22. Registrants are encouraged to

donate $10. Pledges and donations will be accepted and will benefit the Chesterfield County Domestic Violence Resource Center and Chesterfield County Domestic Violence Task Force. This event is sponsored by Walk Out … Allied Professionals Against Domestic Violence and the Medical Careers Institute, School of Health Science of ECPI University. To register, visit www.chesterfield. gov, click departments, scroll to Domestic and Sexual Violence Resource

Center. Select “About the Domestic and Sexual Violence Resource Center” and click the appropriate link beneath “October 2011 is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.” Once you’ve opened the registration form, go to the tool bar, select “edit,” then “select all” and “copy.” Paste the text into an email. Complete the form and email it to jonesturnerp@chesterﬁeld.gov. For more information, contact Patricia Jones-Turner, (804)318-8265. Chesteerﬁeld County

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Q: What advice do you offer for the juniors now that they’re upperclassmen? Wilson: Juniors really need to be looking at college choices and starting to narrow them. They should be checking out the career center that we have at Midlothian that gives them a pretty good picture of the history of our graduates and where they’ve gone so that they can use that as a barometer when thinking about colleges they would like to attend. They should certainly come to college night in October, if they haven’t already, because we do bring ﬁve admission ofﬁcers every year to talk about the college admission process and it’s really critical that they do that in their junior year, if not before. And certainly continue to build their transcript. Colleges say that the most important thing is the fouryear transcript. Stretching themselves academically, as much as they can, is important, and certainly not to be any less important, is being involved in the total life of the school.

Then, [I]moved to another school district that didn’t offer Italian, which led me to study Spanish and, probably the most influential person on my career, would be Senor Vincent Oliver, who was my high school Spanish teacher. He knew I was interested in becoming a Spanish teacher. He did everything he possibly could to help me – made me get up and teach class, had me help him with developing some class activities and then, I was lucky enough when I graduated college to earn my first job in my alma mater and he was my first supervisor. As a boss, you couldn’t ask for a finer person. He was always fair and consistent, personable and the one thing that really impressed me about him was that he was always calm no matter what happened, no matter what stress was heading out way, being calm and taking time to process and solve the problems was very inspirational.

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Cosby High School Principal Dr. Brenda Mayo

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is going to undertake a new student program called Rachel’s Challenge. It’s a national program, and the goal is to help our students demonstrate more service opportunities to the community and also demonHaving that ownership in a strate acts of kindness and club or athletic activity or compassion to all those they class ofﬁce or a leadership It’s been very helpful this encounter. role in the school is critical to week as we’ve worked The idea came to us through developing a well-balanced through earthquakes and a student, Brianna Shuttz. young person. While you’re hurricanes to have that sense She is part of Cosby Principal still a junior, keep in mind of ‘okay, we’re going to get Advisory Group. She had that you don’t want to get through this and we’ll be friends at Deep Run High into that senior slump next ﬁne.’ School who had implementyear either. ed the program several years ago. She wrote me a letter osby High School and said, “I really think this For the juniors, we offer, Dr. Brenda Mayo program would be great for and for all classes, we offer doesn’t mind a an academic enhancement Cosby. We do a lot of great challenge, espeperiod called Midlo Mornthings, our kids are involved ing. The juniors and seniors cially when she heard about in a lot of service projects, a national program from a but this is a program that are not required to attend Titan student. if they’re grades are high inspires all students to be enough, but we encourage better people, to be kinder Q: What are you looking them to attend because it’s to people, to engage in more forward to for the new not about just getting extra service to their community.’ help from teachers. It’s seek- school year? ing enrichment activities as So we brought the program Mayo: Cosby High School well. If they’re taking some of those challenging classes, that enhancement period gives them an opportunity to get some enrichment, to Only at Walgreens do some higher-level thinking so that they are challenged and engaged in the classroom.

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to make a good citizen. It takes a whole community to make a good citizen. We’re just looking forward to the program ... Rachel was one of the ﬁrst persons who died at Columbine. While she died, and that was a tragedy, that’s They will actually facilitate not the focus. Rachel, from two assemblies. They will a small child, knew that she train our student leaders in would have an overwhelming the building. We will be keep- effect on the lives of people ing our students after school she encountered. The website on our ﬁrst half-day and [www.rachelschallenge.org] they will train students and explains that as a young child administrators and teachers she traced her hands on the of the year as the seed leader- back of furniture and her ship to the program. Show parents found it. And she had us how to implement, give motto there [“These hands us examples of what other belong to Rachel Joy Scott schools have done across the and will someday touch milnation. The presenters will lions of people’s hearts.”] teach us, and then they will stay the day and invite our And as a tribute, her family parent community in and took her words, her vision, they will give the parents in before the tragedy occurred, our community the same and tried to make her vision assembly that they gave our of what she wanted her life student body. to become something good for the nation. So, born in Their mindset is that it takes more than a school

tragedy, Rachel’s Challenge is less about that, but it also makes us very aware of how we treat people in any setting from the students to how the parents treat each other when they come to student events, this would be good for all of the Cosby community. Q: What would you recommend to parents of incoming seniors? Mayo: Our parents and the seniors are becoming more aware of how critical the senior year is if they are going to make the GPA’s to qualify for NCAA scholarships for getting into the colleges of their choices. Schools are becoming so competitive. We generate an initial transcript for them when they send applications off by December 1. At Cosby, students are with us, their parents come with them to college and career PRINCIPALS page 4

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Remembrance: the 10th anniversary of 9/11 BY ELIZABETH FARINA

editor@midlothianexchange.com here are many of us who share similar memories of 9/11. Many of us remember how it was a normal routine that morning. We finished our coffee; some of us put the kids on the bus; most of us were comfortable in our safe world getting ready for that first appointment of the day after running the morning errands. If we were at home, the television was on in the background for that comforting noise. And then something on the television caught our attention, and in an instant, our safe, normal lives in the U.S.A. were no longer recognizable. Some share the memory of watching on national televised news a large airplane purposely crash into one of the World Trade Center towers as the other skyscraper burned from what had been reported at first as an accident. We knew at that moment that we were

under attack. It’s a memory of hearing reports that the Pentagon, a landmark of our nation’s military might, had a passenger plane slam into its walls, too. We knew then we were at war. And it’s the memory of hearing that a fourth plane had crashed in the rural farmland of Pennsylvania that left many of us wondering when and where the next attack would occur. We knew then, as we know now, our lives were forever altered. Since that violent day that claimed thousands of lives, we have changed for better or worse. For some, 9/11 was a call to serve our country and our community. For others, 9/11 was an excuse to hate anyone that didn’t ﬁt their deﬁnition of an American. For some, 9/11 was an opportunity to take advantage of the new normal. For others, 9/11 was an occasion to fully live life without fear. For parents, 9/11 was a wake-up call that their own childhood would be completely different than their

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children’s lives. For the third-grade students that witnessed and remember that day, their senior year would begin with the 10th anniversary of 9/11. We have grieved and continue to mourn the lives lost on 9/11, as well as mourn the lost lives of those who have died in combating this war. To me, taking the time to reﬂect on 9/11 is not about politics or vengeance or fear or nationalism. It is about remembrance. It is about reverence for life. It is about recognizing our fragile existence in the face of evil acts. And it is about embracing the heroes of that day – known and unknown – for being shining beacons of humanity during inhumane circumstances. We invite you to share your 9/11 memories on our Facebook page “Midlothian Exchange” or e-mail editor@ midlothianexchange.com.

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presentations. We have less issue with them. I think all schools have issues in May when the knowledge of acceptance has come, but if you look at our history, and we’re hopeful that it will stay there, our seniors are doing tremendous when it comes to the number of college classes they’re taking, dual enrollment and AP. I think that has been one of the reasons they have been able to get into some of the most prestigious colleges and universities even though we’ve only been in existence for ﬁve years.

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Nominate a senior volunteer for the county’s Hall of Fame by Sept. 16 The Chesterﬁeld Senior Volunteer Hall of Fame, a program established in 1983 to recognize seniors who make a difference in their communities, is seeking nominations through Sept. 16. To qualify, nominees must be at least 65 years old, reside in Chesterﬁeld County, and must have served after turning 65. Service may have been rendered outside the county. Judging will focus on the nominee’s contributions to improve the community or the lives of others. An independent panel will select the top three nominees for induction. An awards ceremony will be held Oct. 27 at the

Eanes-Pittman Public Safety Training Center, 6610 Public Safety Way. If you know an outstanding senior volunteer, please nominate them. Nomination forms can be downloaded from Chesterfield.gov. Click on the Family Resources link, scroll to Seniors, and click Senior Volunteer Hall of Fame. Nominations must be received no later than 5 p.m. on Sept. 16. For more information, contact the Senior Advocate’s office at 768-7878 or Leidheiserd@chesterfield.gov Chesterfield County

Cosby has the highest scholarship totals generated from a school in all of Chesterﬁeld County. We’re over $5 million and that is because of our guidance and students working together. Our Cosby seniors and parents support what we have to offer when you can speak to the fact, through the support of the counselors Mrs. Jane Hennesey and Mrs.[Paula] Tylus with the College and Career Center, we are making available knowledge of scholarships. I think we’re so fortunate that our guidance counselors do not give up. They set deadlines for students that have told us they’re interested. They seek them out so they meet those deadlines. We know that seniors have a lot on their plate and so much can be missed if they say ‘I’m tired. I don’t have time to do it.’ Our guidance counselors follow up because we know how important it is to our community. Our goal is to take one year off a fouryear program and our goal is to send as many seniors to a four-year institution as a sophomore and we think we can do it. So, we actually send our knowledge of scholarships to our teachers so that a teacher, who is more familiar with a student because the child is in their class, can prompt the student to go on and ﬁll out the form. Our teachers have been so good to us. They write letters of recommendation beyond the admission. A lot of the scholarships require a letter acknowledging the strengths of the student. We use all of our staff. The guidance department has an outstanding web page for all parents. We put up scholarships as they come in for all parents so they can be aware. I think parents are aware of the effort the effort the guidance department is putting out and they’re working in partnership with the parents to

find them. A lot of places don’t do that. Our guidance department works to find them with the kids. Q: Name something on your wish list you’d like to see happen this year. Mayo: On my personal wish list, I’m excited with the new changes that are going to happen with the Chesterfield County technology plan. The idea that we’re giving great attention to the infrastructure and increasing schools’ bandwidth and the mind set that we are going to work toward student uses of technology tools. That is exciting that we will look at some measure of bringing new tools at the student level. Really exciting.

lover Hill High School Dr. Deborah Marks is focused on her Cavalier students. (due to scheduling conﬂicts, we were unable to meet for a photo). Her dynamic personality encourages students to go for their dreams.

Q: What are you looking forward to for the new school year? Marks: I am looking forward to welcoming the 1800+ students to Clover Hill High School and the Math and Science High School at Clover Hill on the ﬁrst day of school. The faculty and staff have committed to building relationships with all students, providing rigor in all curriculum areas, and sharing the relevance for the learning during the 2011-2012 school year! Q: What are your recommendations to parents of freshmen? Marks: My recommendations to parents of freshmen are: Keep in touch with your child’s teachers Remember to check Edline often Listen to your child and what they are sharing about school Volunteer at the school Encourage your child to get involved in at least two clubs, teams, or groups Q: Name a book you’d like every high school student to read. Marks: All high school students should read Mitch Albom’s novels.

Final inspections for 2011 Best Warrior Competition in October Sergeant Major of the Army Raymond F. Chandler III discusses the layout of the testing station for the 2011 Best Warrior Army Physical Readiness Test during his visit to Fort Lee. Also pictured from left is Command Sgt. Maj. C.C. Jenkins, CASCOM CSM, 1st Sgt. LaDerek Green, Headquarters and Headquarters Company CASCOM first sergeant, and 1st Sgt. Garrick Griffin, the lead noncommissioned officer for the NCO Academy at Fort Lee. Full story online at midlothianexchange.com

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The Chesterfield County Fire and EMS Department, Sheriff’s Office and Police Department will hold a memorial at 11 a.m. on the lawn of the Chesterfield Historic Courthouse Building. The public is invited to attend this free event. A piece of steel from the World Trade Center will be unveiled as part of the ceremony. For more information about either program, visit chesterfield.gov.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 10 The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, located at 2341 Winterﬁeld Rd. in Midlothian will be open from 9 a.m. - 7 p.m. -for the community for solemn prayer and reﬂection with hourly music and a multimedia look back at that fateful day. A 7 p.m. Candlelight Service of Remembrance will be held with music by a local bagpipe performer and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom (2006), Lt. Col. Dave Kolmer.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 11 The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, located at 2341 Winterfield Rd. in Midlothian will have a 10 a.m. service that will consist of patriotic hymns with special offering to benefit The Families of the Wounded Fund, Inc. with an All-American picnic and old fashion sing-a-long and other activities for all ages. A performance of John Rutter’s “Requiem,” Sept. 11, at 11 a.m. by a 60-member choir at Bon Air United Methodist Church, 1645 Buford Road, Richmond, Va. 23235. The public is invited to this special worship service, marking the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America. The choir and guest musicians will be under the direction of Kathy Ritchie Toole, Bon Air’s Minister of Music . The Worship Committee of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church has given care and thought to the fact that the first Sunday of the regular school year falls upon the 10th anniversary of 9/11. A Service of Remembrance and Hope will be held on Sept. 11, 2011. On this day, there will be one worship service at 11 a.m. Members of the emergency services (fire, police, rescue) are being invited. The program for the day will include a fellowship brunch at 10 a.m., a special service of worship at 11 a.m. to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and offering the hope and love of Christ, and concert at 12:15 p.m. of patriotic music and hymns performed by The John Marshall High School Cadet Alumni Band on the church lawn. The public is invited. St. Luke’s is located at 4101 Fordham Road, Richmond (23236) or call (804) 276-7000 for questions. A remembrance service, sponsored by the University of Richmond Office of the Chaplaincy, will begin at 2 p.m. in Cannon Memorial Chapel. Led by University Chaplain the Rev. Craig Kocher, it will include candlelighting, prayers and readings from the Holy Qu’Ran, Hebrew Bible and New Testament. The names of Richmond alumni and family members of alumni who died on 9/11 will be read during the candle-lighting. Schola Cantorum, a select student choir, will provide music. For more information about the remembrance service, call the Chaplaincy Office at (804)289-8500. more events online midlothianexchange.com

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prise for me and other guys. We didn’t think about the jet fuel,” he said. When Singleton arrived near Cortland Street, he pinned his Lieutenant badge on his fire department tee shirt and started walking towards the North Tower. “There was debris everywhere and about a foot of dust on the ground, but my mind wouldn’t let me grasp that one of the towers was down; that it had collapsed,” he said. He was heading towards the waterside of the structures to see if he could be of assistance, even if it meant trading empty oxygen tanks for full ones for the active firemen. Yet, as he started walking, he noticed an engine company driver, known as a chauffeur, was asking for help from a man on the street to open one of the nearby hydrants. “He was looking at the hydrant wrench like, which end is up, so I took it, opened the hydrant and put the wrench back on the rig. It’s expensive and one of my guys lost one before and you have to put a lot of paperwork into them – so I told the firefighter his wrench is on the rig,” he said. Then he noticed a police officer on the end of the hose line holding it awkwardly while waiting for the water to charge through the hose. “A small voice inside said, ‘These guys are going to get hurt; you better work with them’ and it spared my life when the second tower came down a few minutes later,” he said. Singleton remembers hearing the start of the second tower collapsing above. “We didn’t look up. We heard this big, loud pop like something let go and we looked at each other. Then, it happened again and instinct said this building is coming down, get out of here. I don’t think any of us looked up,” he recalled. When a building collapses, firefighter training is to clear the scene by at least a height and a half of the structure falling to be safe of debris, Singleton explained. If the North Tower had fallen outward, instead of its pancake descent, it meant that Singleton and the crew working almost directly under the structure would have needed to run 2,025 feet to be clear of falling debris. They all ran in opposite directions and Singleton tripped. “I ended up on the ground. I thought I was going to die and was like ‘um, I’m out.’ Yet, it was very peaceful. I was on the ground hunched up waiting for a big piece to hit me and like, I’m out,” he said. “I

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heard the ﬂoors collapsing and pick up momentum … faster and faster. The dust cloud comes over and it was like, I’m going to suffocate to death, because every breath was like choking.” Singleton eventually got up in the darkness of the dust and began to tentatively walk away with a forward dislocation in his shoulder. He ﬁnally met a few paramedics on scene who put him on a gurney. He doesn’t remember the photographer that took his photo, which appeared in Life’s One Nation commemorative 9/11 book. He

does remember begging one medic to snap the shoulder back into place. He arrived at Saint Vincent’s and a physician took care of his request. That evening, with his arm in a sling, he walked back to the site and realized there was nothing left he could do to help. He began his trek back to Brooklyn. In January of 2005, Singleton moved from the city to Virginia in search of quiet. He misses his friends in New York, but the noise and crowds were beginning to have a profound effect on his health. He rarely talks about

9/11, but he has thought a lot about that day and the many other events that profoundly has changed his life. He started to focus on writing down his thoughts and experiences in order to help others who have experienced trauma in combat or other similar events. He looks to publish a book in the near future. “We did a disservice to others if we grow through something and do not pass it on, because someone might be going through the same thing and maybe they can draw strength from it.”

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back up. We did that about three times,” he said. The firefighters found out after leaving the WTC site that evening that she had been sent to Saint Vincent Medical Center and that the building had actually been bombed. “The next morning, I was so sore and literally rolled out of bed because every joint was aching from doing so much climbing. I was still thinking about whether she made it out okay. And then I saw her picture on the news,” Singleton said. Hearne had a baby girl on Feb. 26 who she named Meredith Ann Reitz. Her daughter weighed in at 1 pound, 9 ounces. After months in neonatal intensive care unit, the baby was released. Eighteen years and a high school graduation later, Singleton continues to celebrate with the family and check up on his “baby girl” who is attending Rutgers University this fall. “Merry presented me with a cap and a medallion from the U.S.S. New York, a ship made from World Trade Center metal,” he said. “Geralyn is remarried now. But we all keep in touch – Merry, her mom and Donna; we’re friends,” he said. Eight years later would be a very different story to responding to call of duty at the World Trade Center. “It’s one of those things that is still mind-boggling at times,” Singleton said. Each September since moving to Chesterfield, the retired firefighter finds cards from his neighbors’ children on his porch. He proudly hangs them on his wall commemorating the memory of 9/11. He hasn’t brought himself to read the names of the 343 firefighters that were killed that day; he is devastated about the lives was lost at the World Trade Center. He remembers almost becoming one of the casualties at the site. Singleton, who lived in Brooklyn at the time of the attack, retired in August of 2000 from the FDNY and continued working his part-time job of mortgage inspections. He remembers hearing on the radio that one building was hit by the plane and thought it might be an accident. He and millions of others had yet to realize that American Airlines Flight 11 had crashed into the WTC North Tower. The hijacked plane, United Airlines Flight 175, struck the South Tower at 9:02 a.m. Singleton headed towards Manhattan. “I have fought many fires in high rise buildings and we just go, knock out the fire, and go back to the firehouse – so that [collapse] was a sur-

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Free farm tour for the family this Sunday The fourth annual Farm Tour offers a fun, free educational outing for the entire family this Saturday. This year’s Farm Tour will highlight local agri-businesses including fruit and vegetable operations, sustainably produced beef, specialized equestrian facilities, a three-generation family farm and J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College’s horticulture program. The free, self guided tour will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 10, when six unique agricultural and agribusiness sites will be open to the public. Operators will make presentations on the hour and half-hour. -Belmead and Belmead Stables and Riding Club, located at 5000 Cartersville Road in Powhatan, are located on a 2,000-acre former plantation recently placed on the National Trust for Historical Preservation’s list of “America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.” Agricultural and agri-tainment activities include: community garden, horses, and more than 25 miles of bridle trails. -Carter Duke’s Farm, 2251 Sheppard Town Road in Goochland, features a bucolic historic property built in 1773 and AngusGelbvieh cattle managed with an effective rotational grazing practice. -J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College Goochland Camps, 1851 Dickinson Road in Goochland, is home to a well-established horticulture program. Faculty and students will be giving tours of three different demonstration gardens. -Kelona Farm, 4277 Old River Trail in Powhatan, produced 1,200 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat and barley and has a 50,000-bird poultry operation. Three generations are active in this family business. Visitors will be able to explore large farm equipment. -Oakdale Farm, 5719 Cartersville Road in Powhatan, is a nationally recognized equestrian operation that specializes in dres-

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THURSDAY, SEPT. 8 The National Alliance on Mental Illness-Central Virginia Chapter (NAMI-CVA) will meet at 7pm at the Weinstein JCC on 5403 Monument Ave., Richmond. Dr Ananda Pandurangi, newly appointed Vice Chairman, VCU Dept. of Psychiatry, and a national NAMI winner of the 2011 Exemplary Psychiatrist Award, will speak. Dr. Pandurangi was awarded for his exceptional contributions that improve the lives of people living with serious mental illness to include treatment, research and receiving almost a million dollars in new funding for research. The meeting is free and open to the public. For further information contact (804)285-1749.

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sage, stadium jumping and cross-country racing. Visitors will have the opportunity to watch dressage and jumping demonstrations. -Shalom Farm, 1231 Westview Road in Goochland, is an outreach program of the united Methodist Urban Ministries of Richmond. The two-acre fruit and vegetable operation provides tons of healthy produce for four impoverished inner-city neighborhoods. More than 1,400 volunteers pitch in each year to help provide four, local produce neighbors in need. The Michaux-St. James Foundation will serve lunch and pie at historic Michaux-St. James Church, located at 4097 Old River Trail in Powhatan. Foods used to prepare the meal will come from local farmers and all proceeds will beneﬁt the foundation. Reservations for lunch can be made by calling Sara Corbett at (804) 598-3590 by Sept. 8.

The Bon Air Cartist Association’s monthly meeting will be held at 9:30am at Congregation Or Ami located at 9400 Huguenot Rd., Richmond, (23235). This month’s presenters are David Camden (ceramics) and Jeremy Witt (photography), who will give a lecture and slide show that shares the story of the Cross Mill Gallery. For questions please contact Nell Chesley at (804) 217-8950.

Details about the tour directions are available online at powhatanchamberofcommerce.org or goochlandcahmber.org or both Powhatan and Goochland County TUESDAY, SEPT. 13 Extension Office websites. Tour sponsors The Midlothian Garden Club will hold its first include the Powhatan County Farm Bumeeting of the 2011-2012 year at 10:30 a.m. reau, Powhatan Tomorrow, the Powhatan Location will be at Bethel Baptist Church, 1100 Huguenot Springs Road, Midlothian. and Goochland Chambers of Commerce, The program for that day will be “A Study in The Center for Rural Culture, the County Parallels”--a Design Workshop by Barbara Office of Economic Development, and the Dillard. Powhatan Office of Virginia Cooperative Refreshments will be served at noon. All are invited to attend. For more information, Extension. please contact Sandy Howells at (804) 379Powhatan County Farm Bureau is one 4515 or Dolores Hale at (804) 794-3002. of 88 county farm bureaus in Virginia Farm Bureau Federation. With nearly Greater Southport Association presents ‘Meet the Candidates’ Networking Luncheon 150,000 members, VFBF is Virginia’s largand Trade Show from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at est farmers’ advocacy group. Holiday Inn Koger Center 1021 Koger Center The Farm Bureau is a non-governmenBoulevard Richmond, (23235) All candidates tal, non-partisan, voluntary organization running in the Greater Southport Area have been invited. Cost: Advance Registration: committed to protecting Virginia’s farms $15 member ~~ $20 Non-member At the and ensuring a safe, fresh and locally door: $20 member ~~ $25 Non-member Pregrown food supply. Register online: southportassociation.com VA Farm Bureau

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Rapids off to ﬂying start James River opens state title defense with victory By JIM MCConnEll jmcconnell@midlothianexchange.com

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Midlothian's Kyle Hart works on his putting on the practice green at Salisbury Country Club.

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idlothian High junior Kyle Hart is too young for a driver’s license (he just turned 16 Aug. 21), but he’s already got a “set of wheels.” Well, sort of. We’re not talking Ford, Chevy or Buick here. Hart’s main means of transportation is his Clubcart golf cart (with roof) he received as a family gift a while back. While it’s not equipped for taking a girl to the movies, or for a trip to the ice-cream parlor, it gets him where he wants to go – namely Salisbury Country Club’s links. “It’s nice to be able to drive up, whenever I want to go,” he said of his twoseater. His family lives just off the No. 8 hole tee box on the Salisbury Huguenot nine. Salisbury is also the home course for Midlothian High’s Trojans. “Kyle drives to practice every day,” said MHS coach Don Wade. “He’s a fun kid … and passionate about golf. “Golf is his life. He just wants to play.” Hart was all about baseball (mostly pitching/catch-

ing) most of his young life while playing in the Bettie Weaver Association of the CBC. Then his baseball career struck a wall. He was cut from the Midlothian baseball team as both an eighth and ninth grader (last cut as freshman). That’s when he began getting serious about the links. “It worked out for the best … now I’m hooked,” said the 6-foot, 190-pound Hart. “Golf is more fun. Also, it’s more of an individual sport … you can practice all you want.” For cart-steering Hart, that’s virtually every day. “Kyle has the luxury of being able to practice all he wants … and it’s paid off,” said Wade. As a sophomore, Hart earned All-Dominion District honors, was team MVP and qualiﬁed for regionals. Picking up his game this go-round, he’s averaged 72 strokes for the Trojans’ 18hole late summer rounds. His “worst” round has been a 76. Hart prepped for his junior year by taking runner-up honors in the RGA Junior (14-15 age diviHArt p8

ne year ago, James River’s boys volleyball team emerged from the season-opening Virginia Volleyball Showcase tournament with a seventhplace finish and a roster so unsettled, even coach Terry Ford wasn’t sure what to make of it. Ford, who has coached junior volleyball for years, saw flashes of talent from his squad in preseason workouts but never imagined the Rapids would end the season as state champions. Now his challenge is keeping James River at the top of the mountain after losing three starters, including all-state hitter Darren Kilby, from the team that beat Ocean Lakes of Virginia Beach in the Group AAA final. It won’t be easy, but based on their 25-14, 28-26 victory over Douglas Freeman in Saturday’s 2011 Showcase final, the Rapids already are ahead of last year’s pace. “We’ve talked about how our goals for this season have not been established,” Ford said. “Every team is different. We have a lot of guys who play juniors and they’ve developed skills they didn’t have last year.”

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James River's Sam Albus goes high for a kill as the Rapids defeat douglas Freeman.

James River, which beat Varina, Monacan and Deep Run in pool play before outlasting First Colonial in a tight three-game semiﬁnal, has three returning starters and decent size (six players 6-3 or taller) to comple-

ment its typically excellent defense. The Rapids also have two major weapons that make them a legitimate threat to repeat as state champions: a powerful middle hitter in 6-4 senior Sam Albus and

one of the state’s top setters in junior Mitchell Ford. The younger Ford, who enjoyed the luxury of being able to set the ball to Kilby on every critical point last rApiDs p9

Smith, cavs primed for big season By JIM MCConnEll jmcconnell@midlothianexchange.com

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Clover Hill's Harper Smith celebrates with teammates after smacking an ace during the Cavaliers" win over Midlothian.

ong overshadowed by the other volleyball program in its own building, Clover Hill’s girls volleyball squad is determined to make a name for itself this season. The Cavaliers got off to a good start last weekend by rolling to the title in the 16-team White bracket at the Virginia Volleyball Showcase. Unbeaten in pool matches against Evangel Christian, Hanover and Collegiate, Clover Hill capped an impressive performance by beating Douglas Free-

man in the semiﬁnals before sweeping Dominion District rival Midlothian 25-6, 25-20 in the championship match. “I think we made a statement,” said Clover Hill coach Benjamin Smith, an alumnus of the Cavaliers’ two-time Group AAA state champion boys volleyball team. “Our main goal is to win the district, but this is a big momentum boost for us.” Harper Smith, the coach’s little sister and a standout hitter, provided the biggest boost for Clover Hill with a remarkable serving perforCAVALiers p9

2011 HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCHEDULE All games start at 7:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted September 9 Prince George at Clover Hill Hopewell at Cosby Freeman at James River Midlothian at Powhatan Monacan at Mills Godwin Trinity at Collegiate, 4 North Cross at BSH, 7 September 16 Clover Hill at Matoaca, 7 Cosby at Midlothian James River at Huguenot Manchester at Monacan Trinity at Norfolk Academy, 4 FUMA at Powhatan September 17 BSH at Christchurch, 1 September 23 Monacan at Clover Hill

Huguenot at Cosby Benedictine at James River L.C. Bird at Manchester George Wythe at Midlothian STAB at Trinity, 4 Powhatan at Greensville September 29 George Wythe at Clover Hill, 7 September 30 Cosby at Monacan Huguenot at Midlothian James River at LC Bird Powhatan at Prince Edward Trinity at BSH, 7 october 7 Clover Hill at Manchester LC Bird at Cosby Midlothian at James River George Wythe at Monacan W. Albemarle at Powhatan Brunswick Academy at BSH, 7

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