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elcome to the May issue of Haymarket-Gainesville Lifestyle!

We have so many terrific stories to share with you this month. Most of which are, rather surprisingly, sports-themed.

You’ll meet Haymarket’s very own Paralympian, Evan Nichols, and Gainesville’s Keith Snyder, who did 160 helicopter spins in the sky to become a Guinness World Record holder.

You’ll also meet Bristow mom, Hilary Blasco, whose FIT4MOM franchise is helping moms get in shape, make friends, and have fun – all with their kids in tow.

And don’t miss our Rising Stars piece on 13-year-old Ethan Bernier of Gainesville who somehow manages to be an honor student, elite Boy Scout, and crazy good hockey player all at the same time.

Rounding it all out is a one final sports piece on the incredible Battlefield High School Boys Basketball team. The pictures alone, taken by our own Doug Stroud, will choke you up. What a season those young men had.

Until next month, happy reading and, to all the moms out there, Happy Mother’s Day!

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ilary Blasco has always been interested in fitness and health, and after becoming a mom, she decided to take it to a whole new level. She left her 9-to5 job and purchased a fitness franchise just for moms and moms-to-be.

“I had two little kids at home, Amelia and Ella, and I was trying to get through the days,” she says. “When we moved to Bristow a little over a year ago and I realized there wasn’t a FIT4MOM here, I decided it was time to shift my career into something I was a little bit more passionate about.”

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supportive of her starting this new venture.

“He could see my passion and knew how much it would mean to me to do this for moms in our area.”

Blasco was already familiar with the franchise from being a member in other cities and loves everything it has to offer. FIT4MOM allows her to combine her love of business, fitness and motherhood all into one.

Her grand opening in April of 2021 was a great success, even though it was in the midst of COVID. “We were outdoors, which helped, and moms really wanted to get out of the house,”

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Blasco leading the warm up at Braemer Park in Bristow.

“During our warm up,” said Blasco, “moms introduce themselves and their little ones and they answer an icebreaker question to get the moms engaged, laughing and talking to one another.”

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“Paying for childcare just to get in a onehour workout is expensive,” says Blasco. “Another benefit of our classes is the connections being made; meeting other moms, celebrating victories and having support.”

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that it provides a village of moms. I’ve met so many amazing people who have helped whenever I have questions about my own kid or just want to talk to another adult. My daughter gets to know other kiddos and I get to hang out with friends.”

Moms can feel very isolated, says Blasco, and here they can connect with others who are going through the same joys and challenges of motherhood.

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“It’s a wonderful, supportive, and fun environment,” says Heather DeJarnett of Haymarket, and mom to Lyla, 3, and Brodie, 16 months, who joined last July. “It helped me in more ways than I can express. It will give you regular time to work out, give your kids the opportunity to interact with other kids regularly, and give you a group of people in the same season of life as you.”

Every month, FIT4MOM also has regularly scheduled events, and every week, it has playgroups for the kids. “There is something for everyone,” says DeRosa.

“I’ve gone to breweries, paint nights, pizza parties, and escape rooms for moms’ night out, where we all hang out outside of workout clothes and without kids to chat and have fun. The crafts, play dates, and story times are times where my daughter can play with other kiddos.”

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“Moms can expect a Mother's Day themed Stroller Strides workout followed by crafts and activities for the little ones,” she says.

“They will also receive goodie bags filled with items from our local preferred vendors and there will be snacks for the kids and pastries and coffee for the moms. This is a free event and moms in all stages of motherhood are welcome.” They can also have Mommy and Me photos taken after the class. hg To find out more about what FIT4MOM has to offer, go to bristow-gainesville-haymarket. fit4mom.com.

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SURFING & SPINNING ON TOP OF THE WORLD A Guinness World Record Title holder is upping his own ante

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Keith Snyder beginning his record-setting set of helicopter rotations at the Jump Like a Pharoah Event in Cairo, Egypt.

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lying through the sky with a board strapped to his feet is Gainesville resident Keith (KĒBĒ) Snyder’s idea of a good time. What began as a hobby back in 1995 took him to the X Games and eventually on to win the Guinness World Record for the most helicopter spins in the air during a jump.

“In 1994, I saw this guy spinning and saw the smile on his face and I wanted to know what was going on there,” he says. “To stand on something in the sky - I just wanted to experience that. You are literally getting to stand on top of the world.

It's a very empowering feeling when you’re flying through the air.

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I actually go into this meditative state when spinning.”

At this point, he has completed over 6,500 jumps all over the world.

Sky surfing, says Snyder, began in 1988, and it progressed when people started adding in little tricks like flips and spins.

“It grew and grew until you had an international community of sky surfers. The X Games were born in 1995, and sky surfing went to an explosive level of participation because you had ESPN pumping money into the sport. That core group got so good so fast it became hard to chase. That became my fuel for a while.”

Making it to the X Games in 2000 was a huge accomplishment.

“The next year, they ended up dropping Sky Sports, but I started winning Nationals in 2001, 2002 and 2003 and came in third in the World Cup,” he says.

Snyder became so good that he began teaching others how to do it, and eventually opened a school in Arizona, where he was living at the time. “There's probably 250 people I've guided on how to do it safely.”

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Top: Snyder performs an Inverted Zhills. Center: Snyder on his way to the plane for what would become his Guinness Book of World Records recordsetting jump for most helicopter spins while skysurfing. He performed 160 spins in 60 seconds.

Below: “Seeing the pyramids for the first time as my canopy opened was sheer magnificence,” Snyder said.

Little did he know, his time in Arizona was coming to an end.

In 2020, his father, Chris, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer that can occur in the brain and/or spinal cord.

“I was in the middle of a text conversation with my mother [Catherine] when my father passed out,” says Snyder. “The next day, they found tumors and were going to operate. I flew back to be with them as soon as he came out of surgery. About 24 hours later, I was in their house in Gainesville looking out the window and knew I had to move back to be with them.”

Chris died in September of 2020 at the age of 71.

“After my father passed away, my mom started pulling things out of his end table and I could tell that it was stuff that meant something to him. My parents have been together almost their entire lives, and she found letters she wrote to him when they dated. There was also a little envelope with some of the stuff written about me for sky surfing.”

Later in 2020, Snyder was invited to a Jump Like A Pharaoh event by organizer Mahmoud Sharaf of Egypt. He was introduced to Sharaf by Omar Alhegelan of Saudi Arabia, one of the camera flyers who films him. Sky surfing over the pyramids was something he dreamed of doing for years.

Of course, winning the Guinness World Record in November 2021 in Giza, Egypt with 160 helicopter spins was another unforgettable experience for him. And he’s not done yet.

“The idea is to break this record one more time. Right now, that's planned for the beginning of November and my goal is to

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He’s also recently joined forces with a group called StacheStrong. “They’ve raised around $1.2 million for brain cancer and 99% of this money goes directly towards research,” he says. Snyder is going to help them add to this amount by taking pledges per rotation.

“Skydive Orange of [Orange, VA] is supporting this Guinness World Record and brain cancer research fundraising effort by giving me sky surfing flight time. We have an arrangement for the practice flights I need in order to attain the level of performance necessary to set these new record levels.” Onelife Fitness in Gainesville is also helping out with a free gym membership.

In addition to all of this, Snyder is busy writing a couple of books on sky surfing, which are due out in the near future.

One is a guidebook on sky surfing and the other will focus on sky surfing from an engineering point of view.

“I'm an engineer by trade and worked with the Merchant Marine Academy, so I want to help people understand the dynamics.”

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Top: Haymarket resident Evan Nichols is the youngest member of the 2022 United States Sled Hockey team. Center: Evans on the ice against Canada in the Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing in March. Bottom: Nichols, third row, fifth from the left, in the Team USA group photo after it defeated Canada for the gold medal in sled hockey at the 2022 Paralympic Games.

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van Nichols trusted Alex Green.

So when Green suggested Nichols try sled hockey when both were fifth-graders, Nichols listened.

Green knew how much his 10-year-old friend wanted to participate in an athletic activity without his disability standing in his way.

Nichols was born with arthrogryposis, a condition that limited his mobility by affecting his feet and his right knee. He underwent over 20 surgeries, including the first at 5 weeks old on both ankles to clip each Achilles tendon to pull the heel bone down into his feet.

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Then as a first-grader, Nichols had hip surgery at Children’s Hospital in Washington to reconstruct the ball of his left femur because the bone was dying due to the Legg-Calve-Perthes disease. Doctors performed the same surgery on Nichols’ right femur at the same hospital when he was in the third grade. Throughout the entire series of surgical procedures, Nichols had to learn to walk seven times.

Those surgeries allowed him to stand and walk on his own for short distances. For long distances, though, the Haymarket resident relied on crutches or a wheelchair to protect his hips from further damage.

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Paralympic Winter Games in Beijing.

Green was not able to see his friend reach this point.

He died June 5, 2016, from cancer at age 12.

But Green’s persistence is why Nichols is here. And it’s why this moment is as much about Green as it is about Nichols.

“Alex is the reason all this started,” said Nichols’ mom, Julie. “He opened up an entire community to us.”

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times. Prior to sled hockey, Nichols played soccer, basketball and baseball until his limited mobility prevented him from keeping up with the other kids.

He wanted to do more and could not.

Then Green proposed a sport he played that Nichols knew nothing about.

Sled hockey has the same rink dimensions, and for the most part, the same rules as regular hockey. But sled hockey players sit in specially designed sleds and use two sticks attached to the sled to propel themselves and steer as well as to move the puck.

Nichols attended a DC Sled Sharks’ practice at the MedStar Capitals Iceplex in Arlington. The experience changed his life. He enjoyed his first visit so much he wanted to go back. Sled hockey gave Nichols a much-needed athletic outlet where he thrived in a supportive community.

Little did he know at the time it would lead to where the 17-year-old Battlefield High School senior is now: the youngest member of the 2022 U.S. Sled Hockey team that won its fourth straight gold medal in March at the

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Top: Alex Green left, and Evan, both aged 10. Bottom: Evans playing for the DC Sled Sharks.

Nichols and Green met as first-graders and connected from the beginning. As the only two wheelchair-bound students in their class, they relied on each other in many ways. They never felt alone when they were together.

They liked to make people laugh. They passed the ball back and forth in physical education class and talked endlessly about their favorite sports teams, in particular the Washington Nationals and their favorite player, Jayson Werth.

And of course they shared an interest in sled hockey.

After Green became sick with cancer, he encouraged Nichols to stick with the sport. Even if he could not play anymore, Green showed up at games to cheer Nichols on.

Nichols did not fully understand what was going on with his friend and held out hope Green would return to the ice.

After Nichols learned of Green’s passing, he went numb, and in his words, “was out of it” for a couple of days. At the funeral, Green’s mother, Jenni, hugged Nichols and they cried together. As tough as this moment was, Jenni told Nichols that everything was going to work out.

Green was at peace now.

Jenni wanted Nichols to keep doing what he loved and what brought Green joy.

“The last time I saw him at a hockey game, he came to watch us,” Nichols said. “We got off the ice after we had won, he said congratulations to me.”

ON HIS WAY

In late December, Nichols received an email from USA Hockey. It contained two messages: one good news, the other bad.

The bad news was that the U.S. team’s trip in January to the Czech Republic had been canceled. Julie and her husband, Daniel, had hoped to see Nichols play overseas in this tournament because no spectators are allowed at the Paralympic Winter Games due to COVID-protocols.

But the mood brightened when Nichols read he had made America’s 17-player roster for the Paralympic Games. Julie was driving at the time. She got so emotional Nichols worried whether she was OK. “It was something we had not expected,” Julie said.

The news came as a surprise because Nichols skipped the U.S. Men’s Development Team, something that usually doesn’t happen. But Nichols impressed the coaches enough during camps last fall to earn a spot on this year’s Paralympic team.

He continued to shine during the team’s residency camp in Nashville in preparation for Beijing.

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“We have seen such an improvement,” said head coach David Hoff. “When we got to Nashville in January that was really the first time that we had the team altogether for an extended period, and it was exciting to watch him and some of the younger guys grow from the start to the end of residency.”

Nichols came home for a few days in February before flying to Los Angeles on Feb. 27 to prepare for the trip to Beijing. Julie admits she was a little nervous about her youngest child going so far away without his parents. But she took comfort in knowing that USA Hockey provided a guardian and that other players had experienced this situation before at a younger age than her son.

“Evan is a really good kid and a great young player,” Hoff said. “We always say we have a really nice mix of old-

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On March 18, spectators lined the street to celebrate Nichols’ success.

Friends and supporters surround Nichols at the parade in his honor on March 18. Back row, left to right: Osvaldo Sanchez, Evan Nichols, Joan Joyce. Front row, left to right: Owen Silampa, John McGraw.

er and younger players on our team, and he’s done such a good job fitting in with this group. It’s always nice to see that dynamic between the veteran guys and the young, up-and-coming players.”

Nichols took a leave of absence from school to focus on the Paralympics. But he will graduate in June and hopes to play sled hockey in college.

All because of one person’s efforts.

“Alex motivated me a lot more,” Nichols said. “He got me into this. I need to try my best. I would say I owe him a lot. He pushed me to continue.” hg David Fawcett is a reporter for InsideNoVa.com. You can reach him at dfawcett@insidenova.com

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Battlefield’s Bryce Hammersley (24) receives a hug from teammate Maddux Tennant (23) after hitting the come from behind, game winning threepointer to beat Patriot 55-54 on March 7 in the Class 6 state boys basketball semifinals.

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So they did a brief walkthrough, followed by another installment of a team favorite -- Knockout, a basketball-like game that develops shooting and other basketball fundamentals in an enjoyable way.

“This team is unlike any other team I have had,” Bills said.

“There’s a lot of jokes and they always are very loose … This team has quietly flown under the radar all year.”

After beating a Patriot team that had previously beaten all comers, the Bobcats took an “us against the world” mentality into the Class 6 state final against a very disciplined and talented 31-0 Hayfield team on March 11 at the Siegel Center in Richmond.

The Bobcats (20-7) lost 67-47 in their first state championship appearance. But Bills had nothing but praise for his team in offering up reminders why the Bobcats had the mettle and the talent to be on the cusp of a state championship in the first place.

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First, Bills recalled a Patriot game late in the season when the Pioneers led by 27 at one point, but the Bobcats cut the lead to two points.

“They [Patriot] had an amazing, fill-in-the-blank-withany-adjective-you-could-think-of type of season,” Bills said. “I congratulated coach [Sherman] Rivers again in a phone call. He did a great job all season. After cutting that lead to two points, I thought ‘If we could get another crack at them, we could do this or that differently and it might make a difference.’ It did."

Bills also said while three-year starter Bryce Hammersley brought experience and leadership to the team, the Bobcats had nine different leading scorers throughout the season, an indication of their depth and talent.

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Top: Battlefield’s Ty Gordon (32) comes up with the rebound against Patriot in the Class 6 state boys basketball semifinals.

Bottom left: Battlefield’s bench cheers on their teammates during the game. Battlefield won, 55-54. Bottom right: Battlefield fans cheer on their team.

John Champe in what Bills and his coaching staff dubbed the COVID loss, because the team lost three starters three hours before game time due to COVID protocols.

Bills cited his assistant coaches -- Kamau Street, Bill Witter and Robbie Rubio -- as another reason the team reached the state final.

“I have an amazing coaching staff that were excellent in dealing with a lot of stuff off the court,” Bills said. “I can’t say enough about them.”

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“Coming to work every day at Battlefield and seeing the pictures of the previous title teams in football, the three straight girls soccer state titles, and the individual titles Battlefield has had in track, wrestling, and swimming, you think to yourself, 'One day,’” Bills said. hg

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Where did the name “Kapers” come from?

“It is a nickname I got while waiting tables,” Kristina said. “My maiden name is Paul and at that point, most people called me KP. But there was one girl who blurted out ‘Kapers’ one day when she tried to get my attention, and it stuck with me as a special name. When I was trying to come up with a company name, my sister suggested Kapers Woodworks.”

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Kristina is a full-time mom, full-time senior survey researcher for a policy research firm, and nighttime builder of custom wood creations for her company, Kapers Woodworks.

Like many, Kristina discovered a new hobby when the pandemic hit.

When her husband Christopher, a local PWCS teacher, needed to teach remotely, and her then second-grade son, Preston, had to attend school virtually, the Rall’s needed to upgrade their desk situation. So, Kristina took the knowledge she gained building a pantry earlier that year and made two desks. She enjoyed the process and started watching female woodworkers on YouTube to learn the basics.

As her knowledge about types of wood and tools grew, Kristina began shopping on Facebook Marketplace for used tools and wood and making custom charcuterie boards. She also joined a local makerspace called Maker-

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Kristina has made cutting boards, charcuterie boards, signs, and trays with custom shapes and colored epoxy inlays.

Here she displays one of her charcuterie boards with a delicious selection of meat and cheese provided by Broad Run Boards. (broadrunboards.com)

smiths. The makerspace is volunteer run by members who teach classes and boasts a metal shop and large expensive equipment like router tables, belt sanders, and laser equipment, that most home woodcrafters don’t own.

Kristina dove headfirst into the learning process and spent many nights at the makerspace after her son went to bed. She took classes, became certified in using much of the equipment, and began planning new items to make.

“I’m adamant about doing everything from scratch and buying local,” Kristina said. “I get local wood that was just milled from a tree and dried, pull the bark off, mill it, cut it and use templates I create on the laser printer. I want everything I make to be truly handcrafted.”

Her career in education research has helped her hobby.

She didn’t want to merely learn how to use each tool, she wanted to learn the inner workings of them, to truly understand how to optimize each—even how to fix the belts and knives on some.

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Just as her assortment of tools has grown, so have her custom creations.

Kristina has made cutting boards, charcuterie boards, signs, and trays with custom shapes and colored epoxy inlays, and recently started making whiskey flights for the Old Towne Whiskey Club in Manassas. She even learned how to etch each glass.

Luckily, she has a great sense of humor for the many instances when people on Facebook Marketplace or other online shops think she’s buying tools for her husband, or when someone tries to “help” her use a tool. This woman isn’t afraid to stand her ground and show her expertise and talent.

In fact, she will soon be teaching classes at Makersmiths.

“I like the process of building as much as I enjoy the product itself. I like to work on the details and learn different skills.” Kristina said. “Part of my day job is prob-

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“I was commissioned by the Old Town Whiskey Club in Manassas to make these for the Board of Directors,” Kristina said.

“I made the small bar cutting boards that also have their logo in the bottom corner, and etched the glasses as well.”

lem-solving—if something goes wrong, I need to figure it out. Am I going to waste hundreds of dollars of wood, or am I going to fix it?”

Spoiler alert: she rarely wastes anything and typically pivots her design or uses the wood for another purpose.

In two short years, Kristina has taken a hobby and turned it into a growing business. And she encourages anyone who has a hobby and wants to spend more time on it to lean on the many resources available. She’s been part of an entrepreneurial group on social media that has helped her learn how to run a business and grow it. And from this group, she’s received nine orders, one of which is on its way to Argentina!

What’s next for Kapers Woodworking? In addition to teaching classes on how to create a charcuterie board, Kristina continues to take custom orders and learn how to make new pieces.

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n a cold December day, the Piedmont Predators were finishing up their practice. Among them was 13-year-old Ethan Bernier of Gainesville. Completely covered in his helmet, pads, gloves, and leg-guards, he stopped goals from shots taken by other players in a rapid-fire drill. And he was completely undeterred. As the super-fast rock-solid projectiles headed towards him, he did his best to block every shot.

This is a familiar afternoon setting for Ethan. Currently a student at Gainesville Middle School, he spends the day taking advanced level classes, working on his already terrific trombone skills, and practicing hockey with the Piedmont Predators. He does all this while maintaining honor roll status and participating in Boy Scouts. Recently he was promoted to Star Scout; the third highest rank a scout can achieve.

When asked what a typical week looks like for Ethan, his father Jason said, “He goes to school all day. On Mondays we have scout meetings, Tuesdays he has hockey, Wednesdays he usually has a hockey lesson. On Thursdays there’s another hockey practice,

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Ethan’s scouting activities started in the first grade and, while he can’t devote as much time to pursuing merit badges during the school year due to the demands of his classes and hockey schedule, he appreciates the opportunities he’s given to try new things.

so Friday is really his only day off unless he has a middle school game.”

He also has hockey games on the weekends.

There aren’t too many adults who could keep up with that schedule, never mind a 13-year-old middle school student.

Like lots of kids his age, Ethan’s tried activities that weren’t for him. Things like robotics and being part of the school council.

Excelling in hockey, the trombone, scouting, and academics are much more his style.

“I think he has gotten one B his entire life,” said Jason.

Ethan’s scouting activities started in the first grade and, while he can’t devote as much time to pursuing merit badges during the

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school year due to the demands of his classes and hockey schedule, he appreciates the opportunities he’s given to try new things.

Like what? Scuba diving for instance.

In 2020, Ethan received his scuba diving certification and says that, while it’s difficult to do, “I think that if I put the time into it, I’ll eventually get good at it.”

Surely being involved in this many activities and completing all the work associated with them can be a daunting task, especially for someone so young. However, when asked about how he handles the workload Ethan responded with his characteristic maturity.

“It’s kind of hard, but I’ve been doing it for so long that I’ve gotten used to it. It’s actually pretty fun because you get to accomplish a lot and you get to do what you want to do.”

Even the high school level classes he takes seem not to faze him.

“There’s a bit more to the curriculum and I think you do one or two more units, and the class is a bit more fast paced, but that’s it.”

To keep up with the workload, Ethan said he usually completes his homework when gets home from school or at dismissal time.

This leaves him time for other activities including those he enjoys just for fun.

“I like to play video games with my friends, and really like older games from the late 1990s and early 2000s.” hg

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Virginia extends 'cocktails to go' until 2024 Gov. Glenn Youngkin has signed two bills extending the state’s “cocktails to go” policy, which allowed bars and restaurants to sell alcoholic beverages for takeout during the pandemic.

The cocktails to go measure was set to expire on July 1 of this year.

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She is admitted to the Virginia State Bar, the U.S. District Court Eastern District of Virginia and the U.S. District Court Western District of Virginia. Kyhl earned her law degree at the Mitchell Hamline School of Law in St. Paul, Minn. She received her bachelor's degree in international affairs from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg. Kyhl is a member of the Virginia Bar Association, Fauquier County Bar Association and the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association.

Attention Wegmans shoppers: bring your reusable bags!

Recently, Wegmans announced it will eliminate plastic bags companywide by the end of year.

The company’s goal is to shift all customers to reusable bags, "the best option to solve the environmental challenge of single-use grocery bags," the grocery chain said in a news release.

“We understand shoppers are accustomed to receiving plastic bags at checkout and losing that option requires a significant change. We are here to help our customeris transition as we focus on doing what’s right for the environment,” said Jason Wadsworth, Wegmans category merchant for packaging, energy, and sustainability.

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Amazon data center in Culpeper gets greenlight Despite efforts from community members, historical and environmental groups to deter them, the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors voted recently to pave the way for Amazon to construct a data center on Route 3 in Stevensburg.

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