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Vol. XXXIII No. o. 21

November 20, 2019

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Powhatan groups honor Veterans Day By Laura McFarland Editor

OWHATAN – Powhatan County recently paid tribute to the men and women who have served in the nation’s armed forces with special Veterans Day tributes. Local organizations, schools and individuals used music, performance, and special speakers to draw attention to the sacrifices made by veterans and to honor them for their service. Several of the events are annual tributes to veterans. On Nov. 8, Powhatan Elementary School invited a large number of veterans and family members to attend the annual Veterans Day Salute put on by fifth-graders. Powhatan Post #201 of the American Legion of Virginia kept the tradition alive of holding a special ceremony at 11 a.m. on Veterans Day.

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This year marked the 100th anniversary of the first Armistice Day, which took place on Nov. 11, 1919, one year after the Allies of World War I and Germany signed an armistice to end hostilities. The 15th annual Huguenot Springs Veterans Day Candlelight Service also honored those who have served and fought in America’s conflicts through the years and the sacrifices they made. Other recent events held to honor Veterans Day included the annual Veterans Day Musical Show held Nov. 3 at Powhatan High School and special activities the local schools did with their students to impart the importance of the recognition.

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Heroes don’t always wear capes The fifth-graders at Powhatan Elementary School entertained a packed room on Friday, Nov. 8 as they read poems and sang songs to honor those who served in a program coordinated by music teacher Gina Dickerson. The fifth-graders performed songs such as “America, My Home,” “You’re a Grand Old Flag,” and a patriotic mash-up of “Land That I Love” and “America, the Beautiful.” Powhatan Middle School band students performed see VETERANS, pg. 6

School board still gathering input on calendar By Laura McFarland Editor

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POWHATAN – Powhatan County Public Schools is looking for input once again on whether the district will switch to an earlier start date next year. Tracie Omohundro, assistant superintendent for instruction, gave an updated presentation to the Powhatan County School Board during its meeting on Tuesday, Nov.12 about the question of the di-

vision’s start date. The school board is considering a staff proposal to start the school year two weeks early, beginning with the 2020-2021 school year. In July 2019, legislation went into effect that would allow divisions that haven’t already sought a waiver to start their school year up to two weeks prior to Labor Day, Omohundro said. Those divisions that do choose to start early are required to be closed the Friday immediately preceding Labor Day. At last week’s meeting, Omohundro presented the findings of the division’s school calendar committee, which has been reviewing this issue of a potential calendar change. Of the 42 committee members surveyed, 35 responded, with 73.5 percent voting in favor of a start date two weeks before Labor Day and 26.5 percent wanting to stay with a start date on the Tuesday after Labor Day. Omohundro noted that when the committee started meeting to review this topic, the majority of them were not in favor of changing the start date. The change in opinion for many came after thorough review and discussion, which the public may not have had. At their last meeting on Oct. 24, some of the major discussion items among committee members were impact on childcare, vaca-

tions, and academics. The committee’s recommendation will be one factor in the school board’s ultimate decision, Omohundro said. Another factor will be the results of a poll, which is going on right now. Every year, parents and staff are asked to choose between two calendar options, she said. This year, one of those options will feature a pre-Labor Day start date. Omohundro mentioned a previous survey sent out that received 1,564 responses from middle and high school students, parents, and employees. However, in that survey, they were asked if they would consider changing the calendar to begin two weeks early. Of the 1,564 responses received, 47 percent said yes, 37 percent said no, 13, percent said maybe, and 3 percent had another response. With the new poll, parents and staff will actually be choosing between the two calendars, she said. The Calendar A option, which features a post-Labor day start, would see school starting on Sept. 8, 2020, and ending on June 18, 2021. The Calendar B option, which starts before Labor Day, would see the first day of school on Aug. 24, 2020, and the last day of school on June 4, 2021. see SCHOOL, pg. 8

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Powhatan resident Fred Bates catches an eastern water snake on the set of ‘The Good Lord Bird.’ As a wildlife wrangler, he and other locals safely relocated animals during filming.

Locals wrangle wildlife for film productions By Laura McFarland Editor

POWHATAN – What do you get when a black snake crosses the road? For some local residents, a new business opportunity. Three years ago, Landon Graham agreed to let

filming for the television show “Homeland” take place on his property in northern Powhatan County. When the crew was unnerved to see a black snake crossing a gravel road one day, they asked Graham if he knew anyone see FILM pg. 4

Powhatan Education Foundation awards classroom grants By Laura McFarland Editor

POWHATAN – The Powhatan Education Foundation recently awarded almost $30,000 in grants to local educators to enrich student learning. During the Powhatan County School Board meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 12, the nonprofit handed out 15 grants to staff and teachers to be implemented at the district’s five schools. The mission of Powhatan Education Foundation (PEF) is see GRANTS, pg. 9

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Shown are members of the Powhatan Education Foundation and some of the educators who were awarded PEF grants to implement in Powhatan’s schools.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR Wednesday, Nov. 20

The Powhatan Food Pantry is accepting donations for its Thanksgiving Complete Meal program to provide those in the community with a traditional holiday meal who may not otherwise be able to have one. The program serves about 300 people each month through the food pantry, so the need is great. The food pantry has a complete list of items it is asking to be donated, preferably with the entire meal provided. For a complete list, contact the food pantry. Donations of $10 Food Lion gift cards or cash to purchase additional food are also appreciated. Make checks payable to the Powhatan Food Pantry and send them to Theresa Fields, treasurer, 1520 Swiftwood Drive, Powhatan, VA 23139. Drop off items at the food pantry, 2500 Batterson Road, from 10 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Donations will be accepted through Nov. 21. Contact Patsy Goodwyn at 804-598-4464 or patsygoodwyn@gmail.com. Powhatan County Public Library will continue to offer Storytimes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. beginning Sept. 10. These events provide an interactive experience that promotes early literacy skills and school readiness. Family Storytime on Tuesdays includes books, sign language, flannel boards, rhymes, songs, and a related craft or activity. Music & Movement on Wednesdays includes stretches, singing and rhythm instrument exploration of stories. Storytimes will run through Nov. 20. No registration required. Contact 804-598-5670 or visit the website at www.powhatanlibrary. net. Business Network International (BNI) Powhatan chapter meets from 8 to 9:30 a.m. every Wednesday in the Huguenot Volunteer Fire Department at 1959 Urbine Road. Visit http://bniva.com/va-centralvirginia-bni-on-fire/en-US/index. To attend a meeting as a guest contact Chapter President Page Yonce at pyonce@cfmortgagecorp.com. Senior Connections offers a lunch and social event called Friendship Cafe that is open 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday to Thursday at St. John Neumann Catholic Church. It provides socialization, nutrition, exercise, transportation and information about relevant topics for seniors ages 60 plus. Contact Senior Connections intake at 804343-3000. Feeding Powhatan is a nonprofit food pantry that exists to feed people who are struggling financially in the Powhatan community. The pantry will be open from 7 to 8 p.m. at 2408 New Dorset Circle (next to Community Life Church). Income guidelines apply. Visit us on Facebook at Feeding Powhatan or call 804-3036431. Powhatan County Public Library’s storytime is held at 10:30 a.m. every Tuesday and Wednesday. Library hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday. The library is closed on Sundays and county holidays. Contact 804- 598-5670. The Woman's Club of Powhatan meets at 10 a.m. at PCC (Powhatan Community Church), 4480 Anderson Hwy, Powhatan. The Woman's Club manages the Powhatan Clothes Closet, which is the main source of money for their many philanthropic projects such as the Powhatan Rescue Squad, Fire Departments, Social Services, Powhatan student scholarships, plus many more local causes. To attend a meeting, call membership chairman Kay Watson at 804-2404896 to let her know you will be coming or just simply drop in; the welcome mat is always out. Visit www.womansclubofpowhatan.org or look up the Facebook pages: Woman’s Club of Powhatan/The Clothes Closet of Powhatan. The Free Clinic of Powhatan, located at 3908 Old Buckingham Road, Powhatan offers health services (medical, dental, mental health, women's health) free of charge for uninsured and low income residents of Powhatan County. Administration hours are from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. On Thursdays, lab services are from 9 a.m. to noon and patient hours are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. On Mondays, registration for new patients is from 5 to 7:30 p.m. and patient hours are from 4 to 8:30 p.m. All patient visits are by appointment. Contact 804-5985637.

2 p.m. every Saturday at 3908 Old Buckingham Road at the back end of the social services building. Donations accepted anytime but preferably during regular hours. Shoppers can fill a paper grocery bag full of stuff for $3. The second hand store sells clothes, shoes, books, movies, CDs, housewares, linens, toys, small electronics, games and more. Look for The Clothes Closet of Powhatan on Facebook.

The original Powhatan AA meets from 8 to 9 p.m. every Thursday in the Powhatan Village Building.

The Powhatan Civil War Roundtable will meet at 6:30 p.m. at the County Seat Restaurant. The speaker is Derek Maxfield, talking about “Hellmira: The Union’s Most Infamous POW Camp of the Civil War.” Dinner will be included! Dinner will be included, cost is $20. Contact Pat Whitmer at patwhitmer77@gmail.com or call 240-298-0141 with questions or RSVP. Visit www.powhatancwrt. com.

The Powhatan Rotary Club meets at 7:30 a.m. every Thursday at the County Seat Restaurant.

The Powhatan Ruritan Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Powhatan United Methodist Church. Dinner will be served followed by a program and a brief meeting. They are a community service organization dedicated to our county. All are welcome. Contact Jake Berman at 804-651-4503.

The Powhatan Chamber of Commerce luncheon will be held at noon at County Seat Restaurant.

Awaken to Hope Al-Anon meets at 7:30 p.m. every Thursday at St. John Neumann Catholic Church.

The Powhatan Food Pantry is open from 10 a.m. to noon on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Tuesdays and 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursdays at 2500 Batterson Road. Contact the pantry at 804-372-9526 or powhatanvafoodpantry@gmail.com. The Woman’s Club of Powhatan’s Clothes Closet is open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Thursday, Monday and Tuesday and from 10 a.m. to

Let it rain, snow, sleet or hail! You’ll be prepared with the 2019 Powhatan Christmas Mother umbrella. For only $10 you can support the Christmas Mother program and be prepared for inclement weather, too! Small enough for a great stocking stuffer or to keep in your briefcase or bag, it’s available for sale at New Horizons Bank, Essex Bank, Citizens Bank and Trust, Hobby Hills Bakery, and Fine Creek Provisions!

The Powhatan Christmas Mother book and toy drive will be held through Dec. 16 at the Books-aMillion at Westchester Commons.

The 2019 Holly Days Bazaar will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Powhatan Elementary School, 4111 Old Buckingham Road. The event is an annual craft show with lots of vendors selling crafts, foods, face painting, grab bags and more. Even Santa is expected to make a visit. All money earned from the event goes back into the community and towards college scholarships. Visit http://midlothian85oes.org/ holly-days/ for details and to be a vendor! Holiday Homemade Showcase will be held on several dates in November and December at 153 Perimeter Dr., Westchester Commons next to Office Max. The events will be held on Nov. 23 and 30 and Dec. 1, 7, 8, 14, and 15. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays.

For all your gardening questions, the Master Gardener Help Desk is open Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.at the Powhatan Extension Office, 3910 Old Buckingham Road, located in the basement next to the May Memorial Baptist Church. Contact 804-598-5640.

Powhatan County Public Library patrons can join millions of readers worldwide in a riveting tale of survival during Big Library Read, the world’s largest digital book club.

A box was provided by the National Association of Counties (NACo) to provide citizens a place to bring flags that need to be retired properly. It is located at the County Administration Building in the vestibule area by the front doors. County Administration is working with local groups that hold flag disposal ceremonies and will be routinely transporting the flags collected to these ceremonies. For questions, call 804-598-5612.

The Coalition of Powhatan Churches needs drivers for clients to go to doctor appointments and small errands as present volunteers are being overwhelmed with requests. Contact Liz Benton at 804-372-6384 or angels5517@ aol.com.

Habitat for Humanity Powhatan depends on volunteers and so many friends and companies have helped in the past and continue to do so. The need is for so many different skills - just showing up and helping, specific talents like plumbing, electricity and drywall, cooking for events, and staffing the new soon to be open Habitat Store. Habitat has hired a parttime volunteer coordinator, Maria Sharples, to set up a data base, respond to volunteer phone calls and assign volunteers to projects. The volunteer hotline number is 804-372-9755. It is an answering machine and phone calls are returned on a daily basis. Call and volunteer!

The Powhatan County Democratic Committee meets from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Powhatan Library.

Monday, Nov. 25 A Powhatan Hope Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meeting will be held from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. every Monday at PCC Church, 4480 Anderson Highway, Powhatan, Room 102. It is an open discussion meeting. Wheelchair accessible

Tuesday, Nov. 26

The new Bridge of Reason AA meeting is held at 7 p.m. every Tuesday at Powhatan Mennonite Church, 3549 Old Buckingham Road, Powhatan. It is an open, decision and literature meeting for Powhatan, Goochland, and Cumberland counties.

The Powhatan Moose Family Center, 4140 Old Buckingham Road, will host Bingo with doors opening at 6 p.m. and games starting at 7 p.m. every Tuesday. Contact 804-598-2809.

AA meets at 8 p.m. every Tuesday at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church on Huguenot Trail.

Powhatan Food Pantry is in need of volunteers for AM food pickups at both Food Lion stores for various days of the week or substituting for illnesses and vacations. Vans for pickup are provided. Contact the food pantry at 804-372-9526 or powhatanvafoodpantry@gmail.com.

Powhatan AA meets at 8 p.m. every Saturday at Manakin Episcopal Church on Huguenot Trail.

Old Powhatan Baptist Church, 2202 Old Church Road, will hold a Community Thanksgiving Service and Meal. A 10:30 a.m. worship service will be followed by a free noon meal.

The Coalition of Powhatan Churches has recently been given office space by May Memorial Baptist Church. This office is in the Youth House adjacent to the church. COPC is very grateful to finally have a central location. The nonprofit is now looking for volunteers to receive applications, answer the phone, etc. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. If this is something you think you would enjoy a day a week or month, contact Patsy Goodwyn at 804-598-4464 or patsy@ goodwynlumber.com. If you have submitted your name as a volunteer before, contact Patsy again as some previous information was lost.

No one deserves to be abused. Find safety, options and support. Women’s support group based in Powhatan but open to all women impacted by domestic violence. The group is free, confidential and childcare is available. Contact 804598-5630 ext. 2422 or 2420.

Sunday, Nov. 24

Powhatan County Public Library will honor veterans throughout the month of November with a photo display of local veterans, and an opportunity for all ages to reach out to current military service members though a letter and card writing station in the library. Stop by the library’s atrium in November to craft a message of thanks to a currently deployed service member. The library will handle distributing completed letters via the Support Our Troops organization. Contact Powhatan County Public Library at 804-598-5670 or library@ powhatanlibrary.net.

Saturday, Nov. 23

The Powhatan Right (POWR) monthly meeting is held at 6:30 p.m. at the Powhatan County Public Library.

Backpacks of Love, nonprofit committed to eliminating hunger in school-age children by providing nourishing food for their weekend, needs help. In addition to the constant need for donated individual-sized food items, adults or students are needed to double bag the plastic bags the group packs in, which will help expedite the packing process. (This job can be done at home if people pick up bags at the pantry office.) The group also needs help breaking down boxes for recycling. This job should be done weekly preferably on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and/ or Thursdays after packing days. These are great jobs for students looking for community hours. Contact Gloria at 804-598-2723.

Narconon Arrowhead is here to help you. Narconon offers free addiction counseling, assessments, and referral services to rehabilitation centers nationwide. Call 1-800468-6933 or log on to www. narcononarrowhead.org.

Ongoing

The Powhatan chapter of the NAACP meets at 7 p.m. at different locations each month: Oct. 17, Little Zion Baptist Church; Nov. 21, Mt. Calvary Baptist Church, and Dec. 19, Greenbrier Baptist Church. Contact Gail Hairston at 804-5983435.

Thursday, Nov. 21

A free caregiver support group sponsored by Powhatan United Methodist Church and Powhatan Family Counseling will be held at 11:30 a.m. at the church, 2253 Rosson Road. It is an open group for anyone who has family or friends dealing with chronic mental health or physical illness. Some meetings will have a special guest speaker. The group is facilitated by Dr. Judith Cain-Oliver, licensed clinical psychologist. Contact Dr. Oliver at 804-598-9577.

Hope Project provides free transportation for Powhatan County residents to court, rehab, job interviews, doctor's appointments, and probation meetings for the those who have lost their driver's licenses due to drug-related charges. Contact the Hope Project coordinator at 804-301-3324. Give a minimum of 24 hours notice.

Upcoming

Unity Community Church will host Unity Around the Table Thanksgiving Dinner from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 28 at the Powhatan Volunteer Rescue Squad Building, 3920 Marion Harland Lane, Powhatan. No one should have to spend Thanksgiving alone, so the church invites people to come and enjoy dinner with their members. Visit www.ucc4me.org or contact 804-256-4411.

Spaghetti with Santa will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 2 at Four Seasons Restaurant, 3867 Old Buckingham Road, Powhatan. Join Santa and his helpers for a spaghetti buffet to benefit the Powhatan Christmas Mother program. Cost is $10 for adults online or $14 at the door; ages 5 to 10 are $7 online or $10 at the door, and ages 4 and under eat free with paying adult. Each ticket includes a spaghetti dinner with choice of meat or marinara sauce, salad, bread and a drink. Santa will be listening to Christmas wishes from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. Dine in or carryout. Purchase tickets at www. powhatanchristmasmother.org.

Goochland-Powhatan Master Gardeners will hold a Holiday Greenery Workshop at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6 at Powhatan County Public Library, 2270 Mann Road. Volunteers will demonstrate how natural materials can add a fresh look to your holiday décor. Participants will learn about various types of greenery and how to use them. Fresh-cut greens, grapevine wreaths, wire and ribbon will be provided. Wear casual clothes and bring pruning shears and gloves. Bring any decorating materials you’d like to use to personalize your wreath. Cost is $15 and includes supplies. Pre-registration is required and space is limited. Register online at https://forms.gle/ H5JR6byWrHXzChu86. Fees must be dropped off at or mailed to the Powhatan Extension Office, 3910 Old Buckingham Road, Powhatan, VA 23139 by Dec. 2 (make checks out to VA Tech Treasurer).

The sixth annual Mistletoe Market will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 7 at Pocahontas Elementary School, 4294 Anderson Highway. Only email pocaPTO@ gmail.com with any questions. Do not call the elementary school as this event is put on and run by the PTO and volunteers.

Ring in The Advent Season with the St. Mark’s Ringers hosted by Powhatan United Methodist Church’s Monday Night Circle at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 8. This event is free and open to the public.

Powhatan County Public Library will hold Bingo, sponsored by the Powhatan Friends of the Library, and everyone is welcome to play. Bingo sessions will run from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. to offer an additional half hour of game time. Four sessions are scheduled on the following Monday dates: Dec. 9, March 9, 2020, and May 11, 2020. Light refreshments and coffee will be served, courtesy of the Powhatan Friends of the Library. Players are welcome to bring their own lunch. Make new friends, win prizes and have a good time at the library! Contact 804-598-5670 or visit www.powhatanlibrary.net.

Raise a glass and toast the season and the Christmas Mother program. Betsy Blandford and Fine Creek Brewery invite you to join them on Thursday, Dec. 12 from 3 to 8 pm. Explore the new flavors creatively produced by expert brewers and support the Powhatan Christmas Mother program. This annual event offers a relaxing end of your day as well as an opportunity to meet Betsy and other Christmas Everyday Committee members and learn how your support brings Christmas joy to many Powhatan seniors and children.

Huguenot Volunteer Fire Department will hold its annual Santa Breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 14 at the station, 1959 Urbine Road, Powhatan. Cost is $6 for adults, $3 for children ages 3 to 11, and free for 2 and under. No reservations are needed.

Four Seasons host dinner for Christmas Mother program

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Chubby’s BP offers customers on the move U-Haul option Contributed Report U-Haul Company of Virginia is pleased to announce that Chubby’s BP has signed on as a U-Haul® neighborhood dealer to serve the Powhatan community. Chubby’s BP at 4200 Anderson Highway will offer U-Haul trucks, trailers, towing equipment, moving supplies and in-store pick-up for boxes. U-Haul Truck Share 24/7® is revolutionizing the moving industry through its more convenient, more secure way to pick up and return a truck. Since 2017, U-Haul Live Verify technology has allowed customers to conduct transactions entirely on their smartphones at any hour – day or night. There are no membership fees. Create an online account at uhaul. com to start skipping the lines and stop worrying about store hours. Normal business hours are 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Tuesday and Friday-Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m. WednesdayThursday. Reserve U-Haul products at this dealer location by calling (804) 5983572 or visiting https://www.uhaul.com/ Locations/Truck-Rentals-near-Powhatan-VA-23139/036192/ today. Chubby’s BP owner Himansu Patel is proud to team with the industry leader in do-it-yourself moving and self-storage to better meet the demands of Powhatan County. U-Haul and Chubby’s BP are striving to benefit the environment through sustainability initiatives. Truck sharing is a core U-Haul sustainability business practice that allows individuals to access a fleet of trucks that is larger than what they could access on an individual basis. Every U-Haul truck placed in a community helps keep 19 personally owned large-capacity vehicles, pickups, SUVs and vans off the road. Fewer vehicles means less traffic congestion, less pollution, less fuel burned and cleaner air. Chubbys BP is a great place to become U-Haul Famous®. Take your picture in front of a U-Haul product, send it in and your face could land on the side of a U-Haul truck. Upload your photo through Instagram using #uhaulfamous, or go to www.uhaulfamous.com to submit photos and learn more.

Correction A headline in the Nov. 13 edition of the Powhatan Today incorrectly identified the name of a local bank, Citizens Bank & Trust, which recently opened a new branch in Powhatan. It should have identified the bank as CB&T.

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Motorcycle club rides for Lonesome Dove

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Emily Nuckols from left, (Ronette), Kyleigh McCoy (Audrey), Brigham Wiedrich (Seymour), Heidi Wiedrich (Crystal), Bethany Gilman (Chiffon) will star in the Powhatan High School production of ‘Little Shop of Horrors.’ CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS

The Steel Warriors Veterans Motorcycle Club’s annual Horses for Heroes Ride was held on Aug. 31. The ride benefits and brings awareness to Lonesome Dove Equestrian Center in its mission to offer free therapeutic horseback rides to veterans.

Contributed Report The Steel Warriors Veterans Motorcycle Club’s annual Horses for Heroes Ride was held on Saturday, Aug. 31. More than 115 motorcycle riders departed from the West Creek Athletic Sports Complex and took the scenic ride to Lonesome Dove Equestrian Center in Powhatan County. This was the sixth annual ride to help raise funds for Lonesome Dove, which offers free therapeutic horseback riding to veterans. Once at Lonesome Dove, it was time for a good time with music, food, laughter, vendors and drawings for prizes. There were approximately 250 people present on a beautiful day. A toast was given “in honor of all those who did not make it home, all those currently serving and to Clint Arrington, the founder.” The board of Lonesome Dove cannot thank the Steel Warriors enough. In addition to the funds, the group helped to do the roof of the barn over, added a new deck to the house, put a roof on the swing area and all sorts of other chores

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P that are needed to keep the facility running. Ultimately, the goal of the ride and celebration is to bring the focus back to the veterans, who have sacrificed so much. All are welcome at Lonesome Dove. The nonprofit’s sessions are on its webpage, www.LDEquestrian.com. Come and visit - we will leave the barn door open.

owhatan High School is putting the final touches on its fall production, “Little Shop of Horrors.” An exciting blend of R&B, gospel, rock and roll, and 1950’s doo-wop, “Little Shop of Horrors” exposes the secret of mild-mannered floral assistant Seymour and his pet plant, Audrey II, which has some unusual feeding requirements. PHS students will perform the show at 7 p.m. on Nov. 21, 22, and 23 and at 2 p.m. on Nov. 23 and 24 in the auditorium of the school, 1800 Judes Ferry Road. Tickets are $8. The show will be per-

formed by a talented cast of students: Brigham Wiedrich (Seymour Krelborn); Kyleigh McCoy (Audrey); Heidi Wiedrich (Crystal); Bethany Gilman (Chiffon); Emily Nuckols (Ronnette); Jacob

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who could â&#x20AC;&#x153;wrangle snakes.â&#x20AC;? Graham accepted the role, inviting a few friends to take shifts checking the sites for snakes before and during the filming. He never imagined this simple decision would open up a whole new world for his friends and himself. That first request to be snake wranglers has led to more opportunities, with the group taking on the role again for about three months in 2018 on the set of the film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harriet,â&#x20AC;? and, just wrapping up more than five months of work as wildlife wranglers on the set of the miniseries â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Good Lord Bird.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a lot of fun. It was basically a very unique, very interesting opportunity and I was just glad to have a chance to take advantage of it,â&#x20AC;? Graham said. When filming in remote, rural areas like you find in parts of Powhatan and other parts of the state, humans and wildlife are bound to meet. The wildlife wranglers are tasked with either preventing that from happening, or safely removing and relocating the animals when it does so nobody gets hurt, Graham said. Working alongside a

representative from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the wranglers safely relocated possums, snakes, bees, spiders, skunks, and even an owl during the various film projects. With the exception of some hornets that were attacking people, none of the animals were harmed, and the wranglers are proud of that fact. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I respect creatures. We are filming out in the woods. Animals are just doing their things in their habitat. It is one thing to move them but another thing to kill them,â&#x20AC;? Graham said. The first job involved taking advantage of an opportunity literally in Grahamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s backyard. The subsequent jobs have come as an offshoot of building a reputation for doing a good job and helping put the cast and crew at ease in unfamiliar surroundings, said Fred Bates of Powhatan, another member of the group. With â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harrietâ&#x20AC;? filming in rural areas of Virginia in 2018, the issue of wildlife came up again. A friend who was the head medic on the set recommended the production reach out to Bates. The canine officer with the Richmond City Police Department enjoyed working on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Homelandâ&#x20AC;? and knew the others had as

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well. So he agreed to take the job and invited the others, including Graham, to step back into the role of wrangling. Some were friends from the area and others were fellow officers. They all were familiar with traversing a rural setting and not afraid of the wildlife they might find, Bates said.

Peace of mind In the beginning, on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Homeland,â&#x20AC;? it was all about trial and error, Bates said. The wranglers started off using sticks to look for snakes and going through the bushes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was hunting. We were hunters. Then we saw that the crew and cast started to really like it. They could relax onset and do their jobs while we did our job. They knew if they came upon any type of animal, we were there,â&#x20AC;? Bates said. There are three main elements of the job, Bates said. Wranglers need to be proactively hunting around the sets for critters, whether they walk, crawl, slither, or fly. They need to be connected by radio with an earpiece that lets them know if they are need without disturbing filming. And they need to be seen to be doing all of that by the cast and crew who might be feeling uncomfortable in the rural setting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got to remember, a lot of these guys are Hollywood folks and they are not used to the woods of Powhatanâ&#x20AC;? Bates said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It freaks them out a little bit. They see us hunting and they literally think we are like Steve Erwin. They like it and it makes them relax. That is an offshoot of what we do.â&#x20AC;? Part of the job is also getting used to the cadence of a film production. With each project, the wranglers have been assigned a shift on a particular day. They worked 12-hour shifts that sometimes drifted into the 14 and 15-hour range.

Graham, who works for Sign Crafters, said his job was good about letting him take time so he could fill shifts. Working on the film sets offered some extra money as well as some excitement, which he said he needed at that time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It filled a little bit of need for adventure for the summer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; enough to make me appreciate my daily routine a little bit more. It is a lot of fun but, I am glad to be back to normal now,â&#x20AC;? he said on Nov. 12, the day after his final day of working on the set of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Good Lord Bird.â&#x20AC;? Bates said he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t realize before he started hanging out around film sets how boring and unglamorous it could actually be at times. He might watch actors shoot the same scene for hours either to get it just right or capture it from a variety of angles. But even when it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the most exciting day, it was still fascinating to see how the filming process worked, especially when it came to filming somewhere as familiar as parts of Powhatan County, he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get better than the State Farm for filming. You have wide open areas. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have the sounds of traffic. You can make Powhatan look like any country scene anywhere in the country,â&#x20AC;? Bates said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Then when you add movie magic, they do incredible things. They can make it rain. They can make it look really hot with the lighting and the effects they do.â&#x20AC;?

Wrangling wildlife The process of wildlife wrangling on a movie set can also be both fascinating and grueling, Graham said. He recalled his first day working on the miniseries one day this June. He showed up and was already overheated and tired. A â&#x20AC;&#x153;very tall, furry looking man in period clothesâ&#x20AC;? came up behind him and

told Graham he would be wrangling butterflies for a scene that was about to be filmed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I realized it was Ethan Hawke once I saw past the makeup and beard,â&#x20AC;? he said. Hawke plays abolitionist John Brown in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Good Lord Bird,â&#x20AC;? and in that particular scene the actor would say a prayer and then open his hands and release a butterfly, Graham said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Five times I had to reload his hands with a butterfly to release. It was very satisfying. The butterflies looked great. Better than CGI. And it was a fun way to meet Ethan Hawke,â&#x20AC;? he said. He recalled the filming of a night scene shot at Three Lakes Park last year that involved Cynthia Erivo, who plays Harriet Tubman, crossing a river. Graham said he was up to his chest in water all night. He was on the lookout for snakes and fishing spiders, which can look large and menacing when they are emerging from or skimming the water, especially at night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are very large spiders on the water. I think anybody would be terrified of them,â&#x20AC;? he said. Wildlife is unpredictable. Graham said he was caught off guard when he entered an old building one day to clear it and had an owl flying circles around his head. On his last day of filming, he caught a large copperhead snake on set. â&#x20AC;&#x153;One day on the South Anna River I caught two hognose snakes. Everyone was terrified of it. I knew what kind of snake it was so I was able to ham it up a bit and jump right down there and catch it. It was a little bit of showmanship,â&#x20AC;? Graham admitted with a grin. One morning during filming on â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Good Lord Bird,â&#x20AC;? wrangler Dale Brooks, 76, of Chesterfield was called to one of the food tents first thing in the morning because a possum had found its way inside.

The possum was equally scared of the humans and ran under a pallet of water. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I picked it up by its tail and carried it out in a field and let it loose in the tall grass. It was a big possum,â&#x20AC;? she said, adding it was an entertaining experience because she finally got to wrangle something besides bees and hornets. While the job was fun, the reality of when humans and wildlife do meet can be harsh. Another night during the filming of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harrietâ&#x20AC;? at Berkeley Plantation, the crew rehearsed a scene twice and then was in the process of filming it, Brooks said. The cast had somehow stumbled upon some yellow jackets in the dark and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the whole cast ran out of the woods screamingâ&#x20AC;? and were badly stung. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of them took their clothes off â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the heavy coats because the yellow jackets were just sticking to them. I always carry a stick with me. One man, I had to basically scrape the yellow jackets off his back because they were embedded in the wool coat he was wearing,â&#x20AC;? she said. Bates talked about constantly looking for snakes, especially on hot days or when the crew was filming in the woods or tall grass. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The crew, they are running around in shorts. Sometimes I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if they know the danger they are in, so we are right there with them making sure everything is straight,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Creating opportunity Virginia sets aside $9.5 million each year for tax credits for film productions â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a drop in the bucket compared to some states spending hundreds of millions, said Andy Edmunds, director of the Virginia Film Office. But for every dollar in incentives Virginia provides, it returns $10 to the economy. Production crews hire carpenters, seamstresssee FILM, pg. 5

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es, painters, sculptors, makeup artists, actors, extras, and other crew. They have to house, feed, and transport all of those people, which is more money cycled back into the local economy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is like building a big construction project but it is a traveling circus construction project. That is why so many countries and states want this business â&#x20AC;&#x201C; when they come in, they touch all parts of the economy and multiple skill sets. ... Everything you can imagine in an economy, somehow they touch it,â&#x20AC;? Edmunds said. Part of that process is also discovering niche vendors who fill a need the production crews have, he said. With three successful filming projects under their belts, Bates and Graham said they are going to seriously spend the winter ahead figuring out how to organize a busi-

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ness to meet their niche market. Bates said he has two small children and works full time as a police officer, so he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have as much time this year to actually work as a wrangler. Instead, he spent more time doing the administrative side of scheduling wranglers, supplying them with the necessary equipment, and making sure they are paid. Working as a canine officer involves some paperwork, but he said administrative work isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t normally a big part of his job description. So working as more of a coordinator in the last few months has been his favorite part of the whole experience so far. It is good steady work that comes along about once a year. For someone that takes it seriously and does a good job of it, it is a nice opportunity they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to fail to take advantage of, Graham said. Brooks said she likes the idea of acting as a wrangler a little each year. She is retired and avidly hunts and fishes, so being in the Great Outdoors is nothing new for her. She said she spends a great deal of her time do-

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ing both in Powhatan, where her father and grandmother once lived, so she is pleased when the filming takes place there. She said it feels like â&#x20AC;&#x153;getting paid to walk around and look for things that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t bother me.â&#x20AC;? Powhatan has become â&#x20AC;&#x153;a focal point and Ground Zero for many historical projects of international significance,â&#x20AC;? Edmunds said. In addition to the rural locations, crews have loved the friendliness of the county and meeting â&#x20AC;&#x153;real, authentic people that actually know how to work with the land.â&#x20AC;? Powhatan has a â&#x20AC;&#x153;lot of woods and a lot of critters,â&#x20AC;? so Bates hopes more film productions will be attracted to the county and its rural sites for filming. He also thinks Powhatan is making a name for itself as a good place to film because of its setting but also because of the hospitality and work ethic film crews find when they visit. Reflecting on the experiences of the past three years, he marveled how it all â&#x20AC;&#x153;started from that one black snake in the road.â&#x20AC;? Laura McFarland may be reached at Lmcfarland@powhatantoday.com.

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the during the show, and the Powhatan High School JROTC Color Guard posted the colors. The keynote speaker for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event was Chief Warrant Officer 5 James Csomay, the father of two students at the school and a member of the U.S. Army Reserves since 11992. During his speech, Csomay talked about the origin of Vetta eerans Day and how it evolved through the years. He spoke th aabout how people celebrate the dday and recognize the importance of what the members of ta the military do for the nation. th He shared some of his own eexperiences in the Reserves, including the friends he made in aand his one-year deployment to Iraq, which he called a great tturning point in his life that tu made him better appreciate m what he has today. Also during the ceremony, Csomay recognized the dozens of veterans sitting in the back of the room watching the program. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am very proud to see the turnout today of all the great veteran men and women here. These people have huge hearts, and they have sacrificed more than we could ever understand. They have given see SALUTE, pg. 7

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Gratitude isn’t limited to one day a year By Laura McFarland Editor

hank you for your service. Five simple words spoken to a veteran and every day is Veterans Day. My parents recently came for a visit to help celebrate my birthday. We try to see each other in person a few times a year, and my birthday is always a popular choice. My parents recently had been in a car accident, and, while they only suffered minor injuries, they were still sore. Mom was up for waking up with me on my day off and attending a Veterans Day Salute at Powhatan Elementary School on Nov. 8, but Dad was hurting and needed to get a little more rest. I hadn’t had a chance to go grocery shopping before they arrived, so Mom and I had breakfast out that morning (after buying something for Dad to eat at home). As we sat there that morning, I looked over and noticed an older gentleman at a nearby table. He had taken off his ball cap, which identified him as a veteran. When I got up to throw away the trash from our meal, I walked over to greet him and say five simple words, “Thank you for your service.” He gave me a big smile and offered his thanks in return.

In the days surrounding this brief meeting, I saw some wonderful tributes to local veterans. On Nov. 3, I attended the annual Veterans Day Concert that Ruth Boatwright spearheads every year at Powhatan High School and it was, as always, a wonderful tribute. It was especially heartwarming to see a group of female veterans who were brought out from McGuire Veterans Hospital and given special recognition. I just mentioned that morning I was heading to the elementary school, which, once again, put on a fabulous show. The fifth-graders at the school should feel very proud of their performance and the way they honored the many veterans who were in attendance that day. This was actually Mom’s second time to attend this event as well, and she also praised the excellent job done by the school. I will admit to being disappointed that the Veterans Day ceremony hosted by the American Legion Post #201 was not better attended. It is a simple but heartfelt ceremony by a group that strives every day to honor the nation and those who have served it. The finale for me was the candlelight service presented at the Huguenot Springs Cemetery. I imagine it is hard in a setting like that not to reflect at least a portion of the time on those who never made it home, which did come up in the keynote speaker’s talk. I fully

Too much too soon? By Jim Ridolphi Contributing Columnist

As I entered a local retail chain store last week to purchase printer ink, I noted that only days after Halloween, there wasn’t a hint of the recently celebrated holiday. I quickly realized that cheery background music was holiday-related, the large colorful spheres strategically hung from the ceiling were Christmas ornaments and a special aisle reserved for stocking stuffers were all sure signs the Christmas season was upon us. Could it be true that Christmas had arrived in Richmond two weeks before Thanksgiving, a sure sign that something called Christmas Creep has taken on a new persona that more resembles a scene from “The Blob” than a subtle reminder that the holiday season is just around the corner. One lady exclaimed that the season seems to arrive earlier each year, and the decorations and trappings of the season are all “just too much.” It’s not a new complaint, and it seems consumers have long bemoaned about the seasonal starting date as it moved closer and closer to an October premiere. A little research reveals it’s a complaint that began almost as early as the Christmas season became more commercial and less reliant on calendars. I’m not sure when the season became a multi-month celebration, but I am convinced a fair number of Americans would rather observe the holiday in a more time sensitive manner. There was a time when the earliest signs of the season arrived in the mail. The arrival of major department store Christmas toy catalogs was an anticipated event at our home; and thumbing through those pages provided the first hint of the Christmas spirit for our family. Two weeks before Christmas Day, my father would crawl into our attic and receive a large box of

decorations, most of them in boxes reinforced with Scotch Tape, each of them showing the wear and tear of years of unpacking and packing. A string of NOMA Mazda lights adorned our front door, accompanied by two large candles that seemed as tall as a yardstick strategically positioned on each side of our porch. It was the same routine each year, but, somehow, always provided a special brand of excitement and anticipation for my sister and me. I suppose it was Christmas on a smaller scale, compacted into two or three weeks in December, but more than enough to provide all of those memories that represent the season for many of us. The earlier arrival of Saint Nick, I fear, also is responsible for a level of angst and stress that also has become synonymous with the season. The pre-Halloween reminders that the holidays are right around the corner serve as warnings to overworked parents that the race is on and the clock is ticking. It won’t surprise you that I prefer a simpler version of our collective favorite holiday — a time when trees stayed decorated for days, not weeks or months. A more concentrated season could well restore the true spirit of the season, funneling all of our enthusiasm and good will into a shorter period of time. Or, a new generation will embrace the extended holiday season as a period of beauty and enchantment that should last more than just a few days. Many consumers welcome the extra days of sales and specials and the beauty of twinkling outdoor lights well into January. I suppose the real importance of the timing involves that elusive feeling that accompanies the holiday season, a sense of good will and compassion that truly celebrates the season. Timing can’t change the true spirit of Christmas, or the special things that happen when families and friends gather to celebrate the holidays, whether it lasts a day or a year. 8460 Times Dispatch Blvd., Mechanicsville, Va 23116 Phone: 804-746-1235 Toll Free: 877-888-0449 Fax: 804-730-0476

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immense time away from their families, away from their jobs, and many have lost friends along the way,” he said. “They missed soccer games, and football games, and baseball games. They missed birthdays, they missed holidays, and some of them missed the birth of their child. But these veterans are the reason that the United States of America is such an awesome place to live.” Near the end of the performance, Dickerson read the name of the 54 veterans in attendance and asked them to stand and be recognized individually. The school also continued the tradition of playing the different military branch medleys and having the veterans stand for their branch’s song.

Overcoming Murphy’s Law At the beginning of American Legion Post #201’s annual Veterans Day ceremony, post commander Chuck Schirra explained that he wasn’t originally supposed to be the event’s keynote speaker. The program was supposed to be fuller and include a musical performance, but circumstances intervened and people couldn’t make it. So, Schirra, a U.S. Navy veteran of 26 years, stepped forward to speak. The bulk of Schirra’s speech focused on the United States’ form of government and how it compares to other nations. It was part history lesson and part English lesson as he tried to get down to the root of words people use without knowing their full and true meaning sometimes,

recognize that Memorial Day was established for that purpose and Veterans Day is about celebrating those still with us. But it’s also true that those who came before us and served in the military, whether they made it home or died in the line of duty, shaped what this nation and its military have become today. Honoring the ongoing tradition of bravery is never out of place. People celebrate Veterans Day in their own way. Some call family members who have served or are serving today. Some post special messages on social media. Some reflect on the service of these brave men and women in prayer, meditation, or moments of silence. Some go to an organized event like the concerts and ceremonies local groups held in the last few weeks in Powhatan. There is no right or wrong answer as long as you recognize in your heart what this day is about and why we celebrate it. In the same way, there is nothing that says Nov. 11 is the only time of year we should find ourselves taking the time to respectfully approach a veteran or active duty military personnel and say five simple words: “Thank you for your service.” Laura McFarland may be reached at Lmcfarland@ powhatantoday.com. he said. For Americans, some of the most important terms to the country’s past and future are Americanism, democracy, and capitalism, Schirra said. “You need all three to make this country function the way it should,” he said. Schirra juxtaposed the meaning of those words against terms such as socialism, fascism, communism, and anarchy. In particular, he took aim at calls for socialism and how he feels it hasn’t worked when it has been tried before, both in this nation and in other countries around the world. In the end, the point of talking about these theories of governing and examples we have studied in history was to remind people to “be vigilant,” Schirra said. “Veterans fought and died to defend our democratic form of government. Veterans, we took an oath, and people in the American Legion take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of all enemies domestic and foreign,” he said.

Gone but not forgotten As always, the annual Huguenot Springs Veterans Day Candlelight Service celebrated Veterans Day while also looking through the lens of those who served in earlier American conflicts, especially the Civil War. The event is always sponsored by the J.E.B. Stuart Camp #1343 of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Huguenot Springs Cemetery Foundation. Set in the Huguenot Springs Cemetery, which was lit with candles throughout the cemetery, it was a simple ceremony that included music by Pipe

Major David W. Hinton of the Virginia Scots Guards; a by a wreath laying ceremony, and an artillery salute by Knibb’s Battery. Keynote speaker J. A. Barton Campbell is a retired U.S. Army Reserves colonel whose speech was titled “Missing in Action, but not in our Hearts.” Cambell started by talking about the Civil War era, paying special attention to the roughly 250 men buried in Huguenot Springs Cemetery. Some are known, but “more than half are lost to our consciousness.” Campbell wondered about the people these men left behind and whether word ever reached them of the fate of their husband, father, brother, son, or friend. He named men who had served through the years, including ones from his own family. He spoke about the unbearable conditions the men faced during their service but also the way they endured those conditions and dangers to fight for a cause they believed in. In the same way, men and women who served in the years that followed upheld the tradition of fighting and standing their grown under untenable conditions, he said. Campbell spoke of the service members serving today around the globe in places such as the DMZ in Korea, the “yeoman on board a Navy ship somewhere in the South China Sea who will miss Thanksgiving and Christmas away from his family while he stands watch against the ever present threat of our enemies,” or the “marine in Afghanistan who doesn’t know if the next patrol will bring life or death.” Laura McFarland may be reached at Lmcfarland@ powhatantoday.com.

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King and McLennan united in marriage Brandee Michelle King, daughter of Drew and Donna King of Hampstead, North Carolina, and James Todd McLennan, son of James and LaDonna McLennan of Powhatan, were married on May 18, 2019. The ceremony was held at Fairview Farms in Powhatan, with Rick Butcher and Ben Burrows officiating at the ceremony. Jennifer Sheppard, sister of the bride was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were McKenzie Coley, Haley Creasy, Lyndsay Stout, and Christian Gleason. Flower girl was Brooklynn Coley. James McLennan Jr., father of the groom, served as best man. Usher/groomsmen were Justin Coley, Josh Vaden, Jeff Chenault, and Jake King. Ring bearer was Brantley Coley. The bride's grandmother, Ms. Julie King, was in attendance from Louisiana. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO The couple celebrated with a Disney Cruise and Mr. and Mrs. James Todd McLennan are residing in Powhatan.

Lunch Buddies wants positive mentors for students Contributed Report The Lunch Buddies Program positively impacts the lives of Powhatan students in grades K-12. The K-8 grade program provides weekly adult support to a student during their lunch period. It is the objective of the program that the support given to the student will inspire more of an interest in school, positive peer and adult relationships, rise in attendance, higher grades and overall positive behavior in the school. Citing the Virginia Mentoring Program website, studies show that mentoring can influence a young person's social-emotional

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Dr. Eric Jones, superintendent, pointed out that while the process of looking at the calendar started earlier this year because of the bigger question of shifting the school year, the process going forward is the annual tradition of asking people to choose between two calendars. Another factor the school board might consider is the news that the Chesterfield County School Board has delayed

competence, academic success, and avoidance and reduction of risky behaviors. Lunch Buddies must be at least 18 years of age, have a clean criminal history, be patient, flexible, encouraging, supportive, and overall interested in working with young people. They must go online to fill out the PCPS volunteer application, and to Central Office to get a background check. Afterwards, they would through one-on-one training with the county coordinator to go over program policies, procedures, do's and don'ts. After that process is complete, the mentor chooses their school assignment! The

discussing a pre-Labor Day start date for schools until a newly elected board is seated in 2020, Omohundro said. If the new school board approves a change, it would not take effect until the 2021-2022 school year. Chairman Joe Walters, who represents District 4, asked for the results of the poll before the school board’s December meeting. The board could make a decision at their December 2019 or January 2020 meeting.

school counselors then get permission from the families for their child to start participating in the program. From there on, the mentor and mentee would meet weekly during their lunch period and play games, color and draw, work on projects, talk about families, interests, and build a strong relationship where they can be comfortable to share feelings, beliefs, values, etc. The program runs through the second week in May before SOL testing. For more information, contact Zannatul Ferdous at zannatul.ferdous@powhatan.k12.va.us or 804598-5717 ext 2114.

Both Valarie Ayers, District 3, and Rick Cole, District 1, noted that many of the committee members changed their minds about a pre-Labor Day start after thoroughly reviewing the topic. Cole said it would have been nice if Chesterfield had decided to change its start date to ease the transition, but the fact that it didn’t doesn’t mean he will automatically exclude an earlier start date as an option. He pointed to other school districts that had

earlier starts for years when their larger neighbors did not. “Though ideally we would like to have everybody on the same calendar, I don’t think the fact that everybody around us is on the same calendar is a factor that will eliminate us making the change. … I am not 100 percent sure what I am going to do at this point, but I will say what I said from the beginning – I want to do what is best for our students,” Cole said.

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Blessed Sacrament Catholic Huguenot School 2019-2020 Marking Period One All A Honor Roll Third Grade: Lucas McCuiston. Fourth Grade: Heath Case, Havana Costello, Chase Watkins. Fifth Grade: Lucas Billings, Addison Dowdy, Carrington Harrison, Annie-Mai Milstead. Sixth Grade: Nick Hickey. Seventh Grade: Katie Book, Lucy Rowe. Eighth Grade: Waylon Bristow, Hunter Case, Will Fichter, Lily Hickey, Mary Grace Kurtz, Elizabeth Norwood, Charlie Potter, Mia Watkins, Natalie Yago. Ninth Grade: Nathan Barras, Davison Chapman, Cabrey Forward, Jeb Hatfield, Jackson Hawkins, Annie Huynh, Whitney Polster, Tabby Ringling, Berkley Roudabush. 10th Grade: Colin Hipps, Braelyn Lawhorn, Jack Milstead. 12th Grade: Raymond Avery, Mya Manson.

A/B Honor Roll Third Grade: Trace Bice, Christian Chicowicz, Andrew Costello. Fourth Grade: Charlotte Cavanagh, Abigail Hedrick, Jack Hickey, Abigail Kearns, Layla Sharp. Fifth Grade: Jackson

Andrus, Bryce Carrington, Hayden Case, Kathryn Ely, Jaxson Flowers, Anai Ibanez, Robert Lucas, Alexander Perkins, Sydni Pyle. Sixth Grade: Charlotte Corcoran, Paige Decker, Abby Gyi-Bassuk, Madeline Hedrick, Liza Watkins. Seventh Grade: Edmond Camara, Lizzie Davis, Frankie Davis, Clare Sheridan, Sophie Thompson. Eighth Grade: Makayla Gregory, Mason Hogan, Catherine Mary Mullins, Camdyn Pitts, Ally Romero. Ninth Grade: Claire Bailey, Noah Black, Natalie Ibanez, Justin Johnson, David Mann, Madelyn Mitchell, Angel Murphy, Dorian Page, Bibiana Posada, Jenna Schwab. 10th Grade: Josh Decker, Kenny Hickey, Emily Hobson, Tyler Jenkins, Jasmine Lee, Garrett Musselman. 11th Grade: Caroline Avery, Carson Conner, Dominick Falchi, Shaw Forward, Jessica Johnson, Henry Kiefer, Owen Long, Zachary Miles, Gabby Murillo, Hayden Roudabush, Emily Smith. 12th Grade: Rachael Bailey, Brad Barnett, Elizabeth Carter, James Hawkins, Robbie Kurtz, Katie Schiefer, Chris Snead.

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to enhance the learning experience for PCPS students, teachers and staff by promoting innovative educational opportunities, recognizing outstanding achievements, and developing community partnerships. Each year, the PEF awards Innovative Classroom Grants that present ideas for achieving the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s curricular goals, enhancing studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; personal development, and/or encouraging links with the community, said Dr. Tracie Omohundro, assistant superintendent for instruction, who announced the awards at the school board meeting. The nonprofit received more than 41 grant requests this year, she said. Of those requests, 11 were fully funded and four grants were partially funded, for a total funding of $29,290.60. Carolyn White, PEF president, had announced in August that the nonprofit was doubling the maximum amount of the classroom innovation grants this year to a maximum of $3,000. Three of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recipients received the maximum amount. Dr. Eric Jones, superintendent, pointed out that the PEF is made up of a group of volunteers who work to support the divisionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mission. It was exciting to see how many grants they awarded and the new maximum in place to help â&#x20AC;&#x153;teachers to do really excting and engaging projects for students.â&#x20AC;? He pointed out the grants and other things the

foundation does are made possible because of the fundraising they do. One of its biggest fundraisers will see the foundation hosting the Richmond Symphony at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 26 at Powhatan High School. Tickets are already on sale for $25 on www.eventbrite.com. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grant recipients were: Using a Growth Mindset and Authentic Learning to Build Language Proficiency: This resource will be used to build a growth mindset in students to promote selfreflection in the language acquisition process for all World Languages. Project leader, Nadia Hassan, $770. Adapted Physical Education Equipment: This program will stimulate and motivate the adapted PE students during class instruction and assist with activities in class. Project leaders, Amber Foos and Sarah Meade, $1,140. Adventures in 3D Printing Await: This 3D program will supply schools with the resources to start the first 3D printing lab for grades K-5. Project leader, Kelly Ann Terry, $2,271. Creative Writing with Music: Creative Writing with Music will have students experience the creative process of song writing with professional musicians in the area. Project leader, Gina Dickerson, $3,000. Hydroponic Indoor Garden: Students will create a hydroponic indoor garden and allow students to learn how to grow food

and eat healthy. Project leaders, Cheryl Paige Anderson and Lisa Brown, $1,180.33. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s About the Journey: This program will allow English 12 government students to ride a train to Washington, D.C. to visit the Capitol and meet their government officials, visit the Supreme Court and experience a Broadway play. Students will be exposed to live versions of what is being taught. Project leaders, Tracey Ingle and Jennifer Vandell, $1,500. Kagan Winter Academy: A program designed to have school staff attend the Kagan Winter Academy to serve in assisting with strengthening classroom instruction. Project leaders, Jacqui Mawyer and Martha Powers, $2,500. PHS Arrowhead on Location: This program will assist journalism students in providing updated technology to reach a wider audience of people from their school community. Project leader, Jennifer Kramer, $1,000. Outdoor Classroom: The outdoor classroom will be designed to conduct more interactive learning activities for students in an outside open environment. It will serve as an improvement to the current playground in place. Project leaders, Amy Hintz and Robyn Hall, $3,000. Powhatan High School Writerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Festival: This festival involves school visits from acclaimed authors, poets and young writers in the Richmond and Charlottesville area, exposing our students

to several professionals in the field. Project leaders, Nashae Jones and Paul Smartschan, $2,141.05. on Nov. 8 with forging Arrests SPEAR Robotics: public records (F). â&#x20AC;˘ One male was charged Upping Our Professional â&#x20AC;˘ One male was charged on Nov. 4 with possesGame: This program is deon Nov. 9 with possession of marijuana (Missigned of several students sion of marijuana (M) demeanor) and speedwho are involved in the and eluding officer/failing. SPEAR Robotics program ure to stop (M). â&#x20AC;˘ One male was charged who compete each year in â&#x20AC;˘ One male was charged on Nov. 5 with possesbuilding a robotic. This on Nov. 9 with driving a sion of marijuana (M), grant will help purchase motor vehicle while inpossession of a conmaterials for competition. toxicated (M). trolled substance (FeloProject leaders, Lindsey â&#x20AC;˘ One male was charged ny), drinking while opFreeman and Libbey Kiton Nov. 10 with driverating a vehicle (M), ten, $500. ing a motor vehicle expired registration, and Using Digital Arts to while intoxicated (M), speeding. Explore Our World: The refusal of chemical â&#x20AC;˘ One female was charged grant will help expose stutest, expired inspection on Nov. 7 with condents to enhanced areas of or rejection, and speedtempt of court (M). digital learning with seving. â&#x20AC;˘ One female was charged eral photography projects and media. Project leaders, Lauren Trimmer and Elizabeth Martin, $2,734.26. Vermiculture in the Classroom: This project Presents promotes elementary students to learn of life cycles, decomposition, plant Hey everybody, my growth, and conservation name is Jasper. I was while participating first picked up as a stray, hand with research in the and my owners never classroom. Project leaders, came for me. My best qualities are that Barbara Adcock and Lisa I love to play and Brown, $1,878.96. am super friendly; Virtual Reality Lab: however, I do need This lab will help students some basic training because I like to pull have a better understandwhen I am being ing of science, technology, walked. I also like to engineering art and mathwalk really fast, but ematics through virtual I am willing to learn how to leash walk emersion experiences. properly if you are Project leaders, Stephanie willing to teach me. I Wirt, Morri Pace, and Mewould really love to meet you and show you what a good lissa Glanden, $3,000. boy I am. Please call 804-598-5672 to schedule a meet and greet. Hopefully, I am the addition to your family Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in My that you have been searching for. Genes?: Students will be If you would like to help the animals able to test and present in our care, you can do so by donating to our their findings from DNA medical fund at Claws and Paws, samples through kits that 4313 Anderson Hwy., Powhatan, VA 23139 will be purchased with this Powhatan Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OfďŹ ce | Division Of Animal Control grant and help them underPhone: 804-598-5672 | Fax: 804-598-5109 stand the world and science of DNA. Project leaders, Kristen Bentzen and Libbey Kitten, $2,675.

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Achieving Referee of the Year By Nick Vandeloecht Sports Editor

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Powhatan’s Jay Harris spins his way to the basket for an attempted layup in practice.

New era begins

hen Reese Vandell was 12 years old, the number and range of paying jobs she could get were limited. There were the typical options like dog-walking and babysitting. But there was something else she could do at that age. She could become a soccer referee. Reese had been playing soccer since she was 3 or 4, so she knew the game well. And the process of becoming a referee was a smooth one; she needed to take a couple of classes and a test, but then she’d be able to start. She’s been refereeing ever since. And as her recent recognitions

show, she’s very good at it. On Oct. 2, the Virginia Youth Soccer Association (VYSA) tweeted that Reese had been named its 2019 Young Female Referee of the Year. One month later, on Nov. 11, the Powhatan High School senior earned an even higher honor, being named the U.S. Youth Soccer East Region’s Young Female Referee of the Year. “It means so much – I was in shock when I got the nomination and I quickly got the recommendations that I needed (to be considered for the award),” Reese said after receiving her see VANDELL, pg. 2B

Reese Vandell, from Powhatan, officiates a 2019 soccer match. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Runners take on states

Powhatan Basketball Preview: 2019 By Nick Vandeloecht Sports Editor For Powhatan’s varsity boys’ basketball team, a new era is beginning. Most of its 11 players are either new or inexperienced at the varsity level. Ryan Marable is leading the way as the new head coach. The Indians will be playing several new opponents with the shift to the Dominion District, comprised of nearby schools from Chesterfield County and South Richmond. But with the Powhatan Indians being an unknown entity overall, “the door’s wide open for their success,” as Marable put it. “It’s up to them to take what we’re giving them as a coaching staff, embrace it and take it and make a name for themselves,” he added, “and hopefully in return, we can make a name for ourselves as far as… the new district.” Following tryouts, Powhatan kept 5 juniors and 6 seniors. Returners with key minutes on the varsity court include Jay Harris and Trey Moore.

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Trinity Episcopal field hockey players celebrate Cori Nichols’ goal in the state final.

A perfect stretch together By Nick Vandeloecht Sports Editor RICHMOND – Cori and Lainey Nichols have now resided in Powhatan for two years, but where they live is steeped in family history. Their dad grew up there, and the street they live on is named Nichols

Road. They’ve also become a part of their school’s history in tremendous fashion. For the last two seasons, Cori, a senior, and Lainey, a sophomore have played together as teammates on Trinity Episcopal’s field hockey team; their mom Heather is on the coaching

THE PLAINS – Two runners represented Powhatan cross county this past weekend at Great Meadow in the Class 4 state championships as freshman Rebecca Ray competed in the girls’ race and junior Gavin Timmons took on the boys’ race. Timmons ran 38th out of 102 runners on a 16:59, and Ray ran 55th out of 101 runners on a 21:10. Loudoun Valley swept the Class 4 boys and girls team championships.

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Sisters Lainey (11) and Cori Nichols, who both live in Powhatan, helped their Trinity Episcopal School field hockey team win back-to-back state championships across two undefeated seasons.

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Standout volleyball season ends By Nick Vandeloecht Sports Editor On Monday, Nov. 11 in Spotsylvania County, deficits never mattered to Powhatan Volleyball. The Indians went down in the first set 10-3 and rallied to win it 28-26. They fell behind 19-13 in the third only to battle back and take a 23-22 lead. They were down 11-5 in the tiebreaking fifth set and charged back into the picture to trail 12-10 and 14-12. But in the end, Courtland was able to PHOTOS BY NICK VANDELOECHT/POWHATAN TODAY rally out of a 2-set deficit and win a wild Powhatan’s Natalie Mueller (8) goes for regional semifinal in five (26-28, 18-25, the kill; Bryson Amorese receives the ball. 26-24, 15-12) to advance to both the Re-

gion 4B final and the Class 4 state tournament. It was a heartbreaking end to the season for Powhatan (16-4, 19-6 including invitational games), who with a 23-22 third-set lead was two points away from advancing to Wednesday’s final and to states in straight-sets. But still, in the words of Powhatan head coach Cindy Bryant, the Powhatan Indians “had a great season.” When the coaches and players sat together in a circle near a corner in Courtland High School’s gymnasium moments after the loss, Coach Bryant noted how the younger players were thanking the up-

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Powhatan’s Gavin Timmons (above) and Rebecca Ray compete in the Class 4 cross country state championships.

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first honors from VYSA. “I felt like a better referee…and I felt a lot more confident in myself, because a lot of kids, they grow up and they think back and they’re like, ‘What have I accomplished in my life?’ And now I know that I’ve accomplished this and that I’m good at this.” Her journey began with youth games, and from there, she’s progressed to making calls in contests featuring college-aged student-athletes as well as players around her age, including Division I prospects and commits. She’s held different roles within the officiating crew as both the center referee and the assistant referee (AR). “I like both,” Reese said. “I think I’m a better AR, but I’m learning to perfect my positioning as a center, and I like center a lot more.” She’s officiated games that have stretched all the way into tense overtime, double-overtime and penalty-shootout scenarios. “And although that’s very stressful, you have to take a deep breath and just go with it,” she said, “and…you just have to stay confident, because once the referee loses control, the whole game’s gone.” Staying as confident as she can in her role is key for Reese. “The people that are above me and everybody, they say that I’m very good at my job, so then I’ve started to believe that I’m good at my job,” she said, “so when I get on the field, I have a mindset of: I know what I’m doing, and I try to keep the players safe, and to call as tight as a game as I can, because I don’t want anybody to get hurt, and I want it to be a good game.” She feels that refereeing definitely builds character. “You have to learn to not take things so hard, so when a player or a coach says something about a certain call, you have to just brush it off and just move on,” she said. “And it really taught me confidence…and I feel like that just made me grow up faster as a kid growing up.” Brian Smith, president of the Central Virginia Soccer Referee Association, said she puts in the work both on and off the field, and she makes sure to attend all of CVSRA’s training events. She’s always working on improving as a referee, whether that means heading over to Fighting Creek Park and refereeing a U12 contest, or officiating Elite Clubs National League girls’ soccer matches. “She’s got a real aptitude for it,” Smith said. “She enjoys it.” Chris Barnard, vice president of the CVSRA, has seen Reese grow on and off the pitch. “On the pitch she has improved each and every year,” Barnard said. “Her fitness, improving foul recognition and ability to manage games at the higher levels has been…rewarded by her receiving invitations to many of the top tournament academies in the state.” Every two years, CVSRA sends six youth referees to France to referee international games in a tournament with mentorship from World Cup and FIFA-level referees. After Reese got on the association’s radar a couple of years ago, she “got the opportunity to earn her way to go to France,” according to Smith. And then last year, Reese was invited to attend the Jefferson Cup Academy, where she caught the eye of Brenda Wright, who is a former FIFA assistant referee, the former PRO NWSL assistant assigner and a current MLS match inspector. From there, Reese got invited to go to the Needham youth tournament in Massachusetts, as well as to the Virginia State Cup semifinal games, Smith said. She’s learned a lot from the academies; she noted how a recent one featured one of the most decorated referees in the world, and that referee was a female – which, to Reese, “was awesome

to see.” “It feels really good to have some of the best referees in the world teach us,” she added, “because we know that we can trust what they’re saying and that they know what they’re doing.” Reese takes pride not only in the tightness of the games she officiates, but also in relying on others – on her officiating crew with whom she works. “It’s not just the center that’s refereeing the game – it’s the whole crew,” she said. “To be able to trust each other and know that we know what we’re doing is very comforting, because we know that if there’s any controversy in a call, we know that we were right, or we keep the mindset that we were right – we’re not gonna change our call.” She’s been surrounded by “such good referees and good people,” and she’s gotten “so much good advice” that has helped her to be a better person. “I’ve learned a lot from older referees, and in certain cases…if there was a certain situation on the field and at halftime we talk about it, now I know what is a bet-

“You’re never gonna please everyone, and that’s just something that you have to come to terms with when you’re a referee.” Reese Vandell

ter way to go by that because they’ve been in the same situation before,” she said. According to Smith, if Reese encounters a problem or thinks she had a bad game, she’ll seek out a more experienced referee and say: This happened. This is what I did. Did I do it right? “And if she doesn’t do it right, she doesn’t get defensive about it,” Smith said. “She takes the criticism, she takes the feedback and she learns from it.” When overseeing a game with younger kids, Reese noted that whenever you make a call, you want to make sure that you explain what you called, because sometimes they won’t know why you called what you called. And then, she added, there’ll be several instances where you have to pull a player aside and talk to them, “and you have to let them know that the way they’re acting is not acceptable.” “Sometimes that happens with a card or just a stern talking-to,” Reese said, “and especially with refereeing legally you can’t touch a player and you have to make it kind of obvious to the coaches and parents that, with your motions, that it’s not acceptable.” There are instances where parents or coaches will say something they’re not supposed to say, or a player says something to another player along the lines of: “You’re bad at this game.” When those things happen, you have to address them right away, “because they cannot talk to each other like that,” Reese said. “And I’ve had instances where parents are talking to the other team and saying [something] about how, ‘You grew up weird because you thought that that’s okay to foul someone like that,’” she said. “You have to address that right away so it doesn’t escalate.” That’s why Reese likes to keep a tight game, because “those games are usually the safest.” “No foul is going to be taken easily,” she said, “and nothing’s going to get out-of-hand” in order to make sure no one gets hurt. And if someone does get hurt, “then it’s from an accident – we stop the game, we make sure everything’s okay.” Out of the games she’s refereed, the more adverse instances she’s faced haven’t happened that often. But when they do, she addresses them as soon as she can. “It’ll happen once in every blue moon,” she said, “but it happens.”

And – she added – even though you as a referee might be upset with someone, you have to take a deep breath and speak to that individual calmly. You have to make sure that your point comes across, but not rudely. “You have to have a very good poker face to be a referee,” Reese said. “And a lot of the times the coaches are like, ‘Smile a bit! Smile!’ But you can’t really have emotion on the field.” When she sees football referees and baseball umpires during games, and she hears the crowd boo their calls, she definitely feels for the officials on the receiving end of those boos. And when she’s participated in games as an athlete – she plays both soccer and basketball – she’s come across a lot of teammates who would talk to the referees and yell at them. Reese said she’d make sure her teammates knew that wasn’t okay – that they needed to be respectful towards them. She knows it’s hard to make that call on the field, because “you know that it’s gonna be controversial.” “A game rarely ends where both sides were happy with the outcome,” she said. She remembers there having been a couple games where parents had come up to the officiating crew and said: You guys did an amazing job; this game was very well-done. But she said that doesn’t happen often, “because no one likes all the calls.” “You’re never gonna please everyone,” Reese said, “and that’s just something you have to come to terms with when you’re a referee.” But you can still be honored for a job well done. “This made me feel like I could go somewhere with refereeing,” Reese said of receiving referee of the year honors from VYSA. “It’s not just something to make me money; I could get better and… move up and ref higher games.” She wants to ref for as long as she can. “I plan to do it through college, after college,” she said. “I would love to take a flight to a game – that would be amazing…Ref professional games? That would be awesome – I would love to do that.” And if you play soccer and you know soccer – or even if you don’t know it – Reese encourages you to try to be a referee. “It takes…two five-hour classes and a test, and you have to recertify each year,” Reese said. “But it’s such a good job, and it builds character, and it’s a good way of making money. You make your own schedule, and that’s awesome.” Reese is at that point now where she’s starting to work with younger, less experienced referees. She strives to create a comfortable learning environment and influence them to try their best and ask questions. “And she understands that, whether she likes it or not, she’s a role model,” Smith said. “Even more-so now – she’s the youth female referee of the year. Referees know that. They’re gonna be looking at her and watching her and saying... ‘Hey, why’d you do this? Why’d you do that?’ And to be able to explain why you’re doing certain things is another understanding of the laws, and understanding your role in the game as she’s starting to give back.” For those interested in donning the whistle and uniform, Reese offers the following: “It seems very stressful and difficult at first,” she said. “My sister just started and it’s not her favorite thing to wake up at 7 a.m. in the morning on a Saturday and go ref a game at 8… “…but I’ve learned to love it. When I wake up, I wake up, and I go, and I’m excited for the game.” You have to start off with a good mindset, she said. “Because it will get better, and you will get better games…you will have the U16 final in a tournament,” Reese added. “It might seem tough at first, but it will get better along the way.”

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Trey Moore (left) shoots; Jay Harris defends.

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“I think we’ve got a lot of great tools that we can use in a way that – if they choose their role and they play through their role – then I think we have great potential to be good…” Moore said. “It’s all about hard work and determination: if we really want it or if we don’t.” “We have a lot of guys who care – they want to win,” Marable said. “The seniors want to leave the program better than they found it and I think that’s important.” Harris, who last year engineered Powhatan’s 8582 victory over Fluvanna on two clutch three-pointers, said they’ve got a lot of talent on this year’s team, and he’s excited to take on the upcoming season with his teammates. Michael Washburn, son of former longtime Powhatan boys basketball head coach Steve Washburn, and Logan Wyatt will be part of this year’s team. Brylan Rather, Ethan Kramer and L.J. Alston are all coming up from JV. Marable said his players are “great kids,” and he’s looking forward to working with them. But one major obstacle facing the Indians going into the new season is their overall lack of varsity experience. “That playing experience is huge and we don’t have that, so we’re just gonna have to learn on the fly,” Marable said, “and get that experience as quick as possible and lean on those guys that have a little bit of experience to provide some leadership.” With the return of Harris and Moore – and the team’s plethora of newcomers – comes the potential for an effective outside shooting game. But Marable and his coaches are also really trying to get their players to not fall in love with their jumpshots – and to put pressure on the opposing defense. “Just want to try to work on our shot selection a little bit more – we love the 3-ball, but we’re in love with layups,” Marable said. “If we can put pressure on the defense, get the ball into the paint and then kick-out to the guys who can knock down shots, I think it’ll give us a lot better chance to be successful... “I’m looking forward to just them changing up a little bit of their mentality and trying to get to the free throw line a little bit more this year and drive the ball a little bit more…” Mentality, Moore said, is “probably the numberone thing that we need to worry about right now.” “A lot of us…we’re a little shaky on some adversity edges, but other than that, I think we definitely can conquer it,” Moore said. This summer, the team took several players to the University of Richmond team camp, where they lost 6 times but were competing with teams towards the end of camp while playing in the hardest division according to Marable. “I think we really learned that when…adversity sets in, we have to come together and stay true to ourselves and help each other out,” Marable said, “because no one guy is really going to be able to bail us out and win games for us by themselves.” Moore emphasized communication with trusting each other. “On defense…we’ve got to more direct each other where we’re going rather than just saying something,” he said. “You’ve got to say something with a purpose – it can’t just be said.” Harris said they’ve been working on cutting to the ball, getting a lot of shots up during practice, moving their feet on defense and talking. Defensively, Marable and his coaching staff – which includes Jordan Burgess, Britton Marable (no relation) and Josh Forkey – take pride in trying to get stops and make offense difficult for the opposing team. Now, they’re just trying to get their players to “embrace that every possession.” Physically, Powhatan does have height on its side, notably from Kramer. “Ethan Kramer is a coach’s dream as far as his height, his size,” Marable said. “But he’s got great hands, great feet and he is just so coachable; he wants to learn so much, so really looking forward to getting him some touches and using him in our offense to help create some offense for our guards, too, so they don’t have to do everything on their own.” Powhatan also has length from players including Rather, Washburn and Wyatt. “They might not be ‘bigs’ by the standard definition,” Marable said. “But their length and their athleticism should give us some opportunities to do some things around the basket for sure.” Powhatan varsity boys’ basketball officially opens its 2019-20 season on Wednesday, Dec. 4 (7:15 p.m.) at home versus Cosby. The team hopes to see the fans come out to its games throughout the season and show how much pride that Powhatan has in both its boys’ and girls’ teams. To Harris, if a team has good tempo, then that team is “gonna at least put up a fight during the game.” “If we have our tempo right,” he said, “it’s gonna be hard to beat us.”

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perclassmen for treating them with kindness and for teaching them in kind ways. “That is the war we wanted to win this year,” Coach Bryant said, echoing the team’s focus on the culture component before the season began. “We’re thankful that we succeeded in that.” And when the team sat together after the game, the players – while the coaches understandably didn’t expect them to be happy in that moment – were able to say positive things about the season and to each other. Coach Bryant was also superimpressed and proud of how far her young players have come this year, with four of the team’s five sophomores holding starting roles. Among Powhatan’s sophomores, Allie Dulio racked up 18 digs, Faith Henderson delivered 5 kills and 2 blocks, Kendal McMullin made 11 digs and Bryson Amorese tallied up 7 digs and a whopping 43 assists while sneaking two of her setter dump attacks past the Cougars for two kills. Among the juniors, Natalie Mueller had 7 kills, 1 ace, 2 blocks and 15 digs and Kenzie Urbine made 2 kills, 2 blocks and 3 digs.

Senior DePaul commit Sierra Ellison was able to hammer the ball on booming hits throughout the match, racking up 19 kills and adding 2 aces. She also made a block and defended well with 17 digs. And senior middle Star Bryant, who secured her team a 28-26 firstset win when she spotted a deep kill in the corner, made 15 kills and added 7 digs, 3 blocks and an ace. All four of Powhatan’s seniors – Ellison, Star, Zoe Higley and McKenna Adams – have played huge roles at different points of the season, with Higley making keynote kills on well-placed attacks in games and Adams helping her team win sets and matches on strong defensive play. “I’m hoping that all four seniors get to look back and say, ‘I felt valued and had a role in my team – I was an asset to my team this season,’” Coach Bryant said. In looking ahead, the future remains bright for Powhatan. In addition to the plethora of young talent that heavily contributed to the Indians’ dominant 2019 season, the Powhatan Volleyball program this year featured “10 really talented 9th graders” on the JV team according to Coach Bryant. “We’re seeing Powhatan Volleyball’s going to be good for seasons to come.”

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Trio signs to Div. 1 schools Powhatan High School celebrated signing day festivities on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019 as student-athletes Rileigh De Weese (softball, from left), Brandon Eike (baseball) and Sierra Ellison (volleyball) signed to attend and play for Division I schools. De Weese, an all-Metro, all-state and all-region player who was part of Powhatan Softball’s state final team in 2018, will be going to UCONN. Eike, an all-Metro, all-state player and the 2019 Region 4B baseball player of the year who also helped the Canes 17u National team win the 2019 WWBA 17u National Championship, is going to the University of North Carolina. Ellison, who helped her Powhatan Volleyball team reach the 2019 Region 4B semifinals, and whose honors to date include all-region player with all 2019 postseason accolades yet to be announced, is going to DePaul University in Chicago.

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staff. For the Nichols family, it’s been a perfect stretch. Both sisters helped their Titans achieve 44 wins against 0 losses and win back-to-back VISAA state championships in 2018 and 2019. “Coming into the season, knowing we were state champs, we had a lot to work on and improve and try and keep that title,” Lainey said. “It just feels really good – especially since we are really close…it feels like you’re family.” “Especially coming out of last season…we felt like we had a ton of pressure, and I remembered thinking: Oh gosh, next year I’ll be a senior; how can we do any better than we already did?” Cori said. “Now that it’s over and we basically matched last year, I cannot be any happier.” Cori was one of the two players – the other being the team’s leading scorer, First Team All-State Player Mollie Schuma – to notch a goal in Trinity Epsicopal’s 2-0 triumph over cross-town rival St. Catherine’s in the state final. “It felt good…it being the state championship, there’s a lot of pressure to score and the game was really close the entire time,” Cori said. “We knew going in it wasn’t going to be an easy game; having played the same team so many times, it gets harder to beat them, because then you get used to the other team, how they play and knowing what they’re going to do and adjusting to that. So it felt really good to get that [goal] in, and just having the relief of actually having a point on the board.” Cori, named the LIS and VISAA player of the year, showed herself to be a great player since she first stepped onto the field, taking on defensive responsibilities early on. Her timing, her instincts and her takeaway skills “are unbelievably strong” according to Trinity head coach Margie Snead. “In turn, once she gets the ball, she’s very tactical in how we’re gonna transition from a defensive moment into attacking the cage,” Snead said. “Her pace, her choice of skill, where we’re moving the ball – she just did a fantastic job of that.” Cori was known to her coaches as “The Ninja” in her 9th and 10th grade years because she never spoke – and on the field, she would come out of nowhere. But last year when Cori started playing the center-mid position – sometimes it’s a defensive center-mid, sometimes it’s got more of an attacking component to it – Snead believes Cori started developing a lot of confidence in herself. “It was just great to see that come on early on in her junior year,” Snead said. “It was unquestioned in her senior year; she knew that we had faith in her in that role, that her teammates had faith in her in that role.” Cori often faced the most skilled and talented player on the opposing team. “She never got lost in trying to take away their strengths,” Snead said. “She was still able to bring what she brings to the table for us, and that’s a hard balance

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Cori Nichols (seated), surrounded by family, signed her National Letter of Intent on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2019 to attend and play Division I field hockey for the University of Richmond.

when you’re trying to protect the team from another player’s strengths while bringing your own to the mix, but she did a fantastic job of that.” Lainey, who played midfield and forward positions, was Trinity’s second leading scorer in 2019. Last year as a freshman, she was a contributor from the get-go, and she started off her sophomore season this year giving her team a lot of offensive power. As the season progressed, the Titans were able to utilize her in a couple of different places in addition to being fast up front with the ability to finish well. “She’s a strong defender as well, and there were times where we needed her speed and her defensive abilities in the midfield,” Snead said of Lainey. “We always knew we were losing what she could do up top in the midfield, but there would be games where she wasn’t getting enough touches on the ball up top, and moving her to a more midfield position, we were getting more out of her skill set, and in turn as a great midfielder, she provides balls to whoever’s playing up at the top at that time.” The VISAA state tournament set itself up to be exciting as three of the final four teams hailed from Richmond, including St. Catherine’s in the final and Collegiate, whom Trinity narrowly defeated 1-0 in the VISAA semifinals. “To have to battle through the teams that we had to to get to that championship just made it that much more exciting,” Snead said, “because we knew that they were formidable opponents and we had to play great hockey to win.” Trinity still has yet to lose a regular season match or postseason match since 2017, its win streak sitting at 44 games. To Snead, that’s “a little bit mind-blowing.”

But she added: “I think I am most proud of the team for not letting that be a focus as we went through the season… they really did a good job of not fearing a loss – we always talk about all the things that you can learn when you lose a game.” They would just talk specifically about their style of hockey, what they wanted to accomplish against a particular opponent and just bringing their best hockey in those big moments when it mattered the most. And if they did those things, that’s what the Titans would call “winning.” “And then, if it also won the game, that was a bonus,” Snead said. The team didn’t talk about keeping the win streak going for the sake of having a win streak. “It just wasn’t a part of what their daily efforts were about,” Snead said, “and that was huge. It took a lot off their shoulders, and I think as coaches, that was our biggest fear: that they were going to carry the weight of the previous season. And this was their season, this was their team and the two groups from last year and this year were very different. To take it game by game is what we wanted them to do, and they were mature enough to do that.” So while on the outside it looked like the same team winning the state championship again, for this particular mix of girls, that was their first together. “This year we had a lot of new players – last year Lainey was the only freshman…and she had me, she was already like a part of the team,” Cori said. “We had a lot of different personalities, which makes it really fun and interesting every day.” Whereas last year’s team was very boisterous in its passion and its motiva-

tion – “it was palpable,” Snead said; “you could feel it; they wore it in the way they took the field, in the way they spoke to each other” – this team was very matter-of-fact in its leadership. “They have confidence in their hockey abilities as individuals and they know that, in trusting one another and using the sum of their parts that, as a team, they can achieve great things,” Snead said, “and that was a given with them.” Certainly, she added, the Titans had their moments where “everything’s exciting and it’s loud in the locker room,” but “it wasn’t what you felt and saw as you watched them go about doing what they do so well.” “That was fun to kind of see the changing of the guards and watching these guys step up as leaders,” she said, “and understanding that they could be their own person and that they could be different from last year and they still could have amazing results.” Snead praised how her players, as focused and hard-working as they are, go about the process very joyfully. She described how all 25 of Trinity’s players are unique and different – they have different interests in other things with which they’re involved at school – and they all come together as a fun group. “That fun factor is a big part of it,” Snead said. “I don’t think we could be doing what we were doing if they weren’t enjoying the process.” She also felt very lucky to have a team of players who spend a lot of time outside of the season on their hockey, building up consistency in the fundamentals. And they push each other in practice. “I think the fact that they’re as talented as they are really is what brings out the best in each other,” Snead said. “And they don’t mess around in practice, and you don’t want to lose in a drill. It’s no joke, and they’re getting as much competition on a practice day as they do on a game day.” The players are really close; most of them play for the same club team outside of the high school season. “We’ve played with each other for years, and then coming to school – having the school relationship, seeing each other at school – it kind of just brings a different aspect to the team,” Cori said. While Lainey is excited to help the underclassmen over the next two seasons in her junior and senior years at Trinity, Cori next year will remain close to where she delivered a memorable high school career, as she will attend and play Division I field hockey for the University of Richmond. She’ll graduate having shared the joy of winning both state championships with her younger sister Lainey. “It’s going to be really weird not having this team next year because I’ve been playing with Lainey and all these people for so long; the change is going to be weird, but it will be exciting,” Cori said. “There’s so many different personalities, so every relationship you have with each player is different, and knowing that and being able to talk about different things and communicate differently is definitely something that I’ll take away from the season.”

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PBC PBC WWE Friday Night SmackDown Å WWE Backstage Inside PBC Boxing CFB 150 Football College Football: NC State at Georgia Tech. (N) (Live) SportsCenter (Live) Wheel Jeopardy Grey’s Anatomy (N) Million Little Away-Murder News Kimmel News Holly Sheldon Unicorn Mom (N) Carol’s Evil “2 Fathers” (N) News Colbert Big Bang Pregame NFL Football: Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans. (In Stereo Live) Å News ET Inside Super Harmony Good Will Law & Order: SVU News J. Fallon Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man FRYE Footwear David’s Down-Home Christmas (N) (Live) Å PBS NewsHour (N) Currents Art Seats at the Table: Poetry Amanpour-Co Untamed Wine American Masters Å (DVS) Native Art Now!: Currents PBS NewsHour (N) E. B. OutFront Anderson Cooper Cuomo Prime Time CNN Tonight CNN Tonight Hardball Matthews All In With Rachel Maddow The Last Word The 11th Hour Shark Tank Shark Tank Shark Tank Shark Tank Shark Tank The Story Tucker Carlson Hannity (N) Å Ingraham Fox News at Night Chrisley Chrisley Chrisley Chrisley Chrisley Chrisley Temptation Island Å (DVS) Chrisley Bones (In Stereo) NBA Basketball: Trail Blazers at Bucks NBA Basketball Burgers Burgers Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Conan Seinfeld PD Cam PD Cam PD Cam PD Cam PD Cam PD Cam Live PD: Wanted PD Cam PD Cam Two Men Two Men ›› “The Expendables 3” (2014, Action) Sylvester Stallone. “Expendables 2” Office Office Office Office Office Office Office Office Daily Lights Naked and Afraid Naked and Afraid Naked and Afraid (N) (In Stereo) Å Secretly Pregnant Secretly Pregnant Secretly Pregnant Secretly Pregnant Secretly Pregnant Tanked (In Stereo) Tanked: Sea-Lebrity Edition (In Stereo) Tanked (In Stereo) Tanked (In Stereo) ››› “Matilda” (1996) Mara Wilson. Å The 700 Club Å ››‡ “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” Andy G. Andy G. Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Two Men Two Men King King “Bluebeard’s 10” “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” ›››› “The Searchers” (1956, Western) “Holly Lodge” “Christmas Under the Stars” (2019) Å “The Mistletoe Secret” (2019, Romance) “Christmas Rese” “Every Day Is Christmas” (2018, Drama) “Jingle Belle” (2018) Tatyana Ali. Å Flip Flip Flip Flip Flip Flip Hunt Intl Hunters Hunters Hunt Intl Holiday Baking Holiday Baking Holiday Baking Holiday Baking Holiday Baking ›› “Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds” (2012, Drama) Tyler Perry. ››› “Baby Boy” (2001) Tyrese Gibson. “Edge-Tomrrow” ›››‡ “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015) Tom Hardy. “Ghost in the Shell” (2017) “Catching Fire” “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1” (2014) “Hunger Games: Mockingjay” Last Man Last Man ›› “Weekend at Bernie’s” (1989, Comedy) Å ››‡ “The Sandlot” (1993) American Pick. American Pickers American Pickers American Pickers American Pickers

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PBC Collection Deontay Wilder vs. Luis Ortiz - Prelims PBC PBA Bowling: PBA Clash. Å SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å College Basketball SportsCenter (N) (Live) Å Funny Videos 2019 American Music Awards: (N) (In Stereo Live) Å News NCIS: LA 60 Minutes (N) Å God Friended Me NCIS: Los Angeles Madam Secretary News Elmntry Football The OT Simpson Bless Burgers Fam Guy News America This Week ROH Football Night NFL Football: Green Bay Packers at San Francisco 49ers. (N) News Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Married Married Clever Creations Amazon Echo (Live) Great Gifts (N) (Live) Å Downton Abbey Secret Service: “The Chaperone on Masterpiece” (2018) ACL-Americana: John Sebastian: John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind: Daryl Hall & John Oates: Live in Dublin: CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom Special Report The Kennedys The Kennedys Kasie DC (N) Å Headliners Å To Be Announced Dateline Extra Å Shark Tank Shark Tank Å Shark Tank Shark Tank Shark Tank Å Fox News Sunday Watters’ World Å Revolution Life, Liberty Watters’ World Å Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Mr. Robot (N) Treadstone “Suicide Squad” ››› “It” (2017, Horror) Jaeden Lieberher. Å (DVS) “Jonah Hex” (2010) Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang “Christmas Stry” ›››› “A Christmas Story” (1983) “American Sniper” ›››‡ “Hacksaw Ridge” (2016, War) Andrew Garﬁeld. Å ›› “Walking Tall” ›‡ “Grown Ups” (2010, Comedy) Adam Sandler. “Mr. Deeds” (2002) ›‡ “Grown Ups” (2010) Å “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” “Talladega Nights:” ››‡ “Old School” (2003) Å Alaska Alaska: The Last Frontier (N) (In Stereo) Off the Grid Off the Grid 90 Day Fiancé 90 Day Fiancé (N) (In Stereo) Unpolished (N) 90 Day Fiancé (N) Lone Star Law Lone Star Law (N) Lone Star Law (N) Lone Star Law Lone Star Law ››‡ “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” (1992, Children’s) ››› “Home Alone” (1990, Children’s) King King King King King King Two Men Two Men Two Men Two Men “The Late Show” ›››‡ “Roman Holiday” (1953) Å ››› “Princess O’Rourke” (1943) Å “Christmas at” “Cherished Memories: A Gift to” “Merry & Bright” (2019) Jodie Sweetin. “Twinkle All t” “Christmas 9 to 5” (2019) Tiya Sircar. “The Flight Before Christmas” (2015) Property Brothers Beach Beach Off the Grid Hawaii Hawaii Hunt Intl Hunters Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Christmas Cookie Holiday Baking Blue Strk ›› “All Eyez on Me” (2017, Biography) Demetrius Shipp Jr. Martin Martin Harry P ››› “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” (2009) Daniel Radcliffe. Futurama Futurama The Walking Dead The Walking Dead The Walking Dead (In Stereo) Talking Dead Å Walk “Easy A” (2010) To Be Announced ››‡ “17 Again” (2009) Å American Pickers American Pickers American Pickers American Pickers American Pickers

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College Basketball College Basketball Undisputed NBA Countdown (N) NBA Basketball: Spurs at 76ers NBA Basketball Wheel Jeopardy House Fresh20/20 (In Stereo) Å News Kimmel News Holly Hawaii Five-0 Å Magnum P.I. Å Blue Bloods (N) News Colbert Big Bang Big Bang WWE Friday Night SmackDown (N) Å News First Spo DailyMail Mod Fam ET Inside The Blacklist Å Dateline NBC (N) (In Stereo) Å News J. Fallon Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man David & Jane’s Holi-YAYS (N) (Live) Å HP Computer Work. Isaac Mizrahi Live! HP Computer Work. PBS NewsHour (N) Wash Hoover Great Performances “Much Ado About Nothing” Aman VCU Ins. The Café Antique Roadshow Downton Abbey Dementia Care: PBS NewsHour (N) E. B. OutFront Anderson Cooper Cuomo Prime Time CNN Tonight CNN Tonight Hardball Matthews All In With Rachel Maddow The Last Word The 11th Hour Shark Tank Å Shark Tank Å Shark Tank Å Shark Tank Å Shark Tank The Story Tucker Carlson Hannity (N) Å Ingraham Fox News at Night Law & Order: SVU ›››› “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946) James Stewart. Mod Fam Mod Fam ›››› “The Dark Knight” (2008) Christian Bale. ››‡ “Red 2” (2013, Action) Bruce Willis. Misery Misery ››› “Beauty and the Beast” (2017) Emma Watson. “Ghosts of Girlfriends Past” Live PD (In Stereo) Live PD: Rewind (N) Live PD “Live PD -- 11.22.19” (N) (In Stereo Live) Å Two Men Two Men ››‡ “The Mummy” (1999, Adventure) Brendan Fraser. Å “Mummy Return” South Pk South Pk South Pk South Pk South Pk South Pk Kevin Hart: Stand-Up Stand-Up Gold Rush (N) Å Gold Rush: Pay Dirt Gold Rush “Motherlode Mountain” Å Opal Hunters Island Medium Island Medium Island Medium Long Lost Family Long Lost Family The Zoo (In Stereo) The Aquarium The Aquarium Secret Life-Zoo Secret Life-Zoo ››› “Despicable Me 2” (2013) Å The 700 Club Å ›››‡ “Shrek” (2001, Children’s) Å Andy G. Andy G. Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Two Men Two Men King King “Page Miss Glory” ››› “Soylent Green” (1973) Å ››› “Jason and the Argonauts” (1963) “Marry Me At” “Switched for Christmas” (2017, Drama) “Christmas Under Wraps” (2014) Å “Last Chance” “The Magical Christmas Shoes” (2019) “The Road Home for Christmas” (2019) Dream Dream Dream Dream Dream Dream Hunt Intl Hunters Hunters Hunt Intl Diners Diners Diners, Drive Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners T. Perry’s The Oval Tyler Perry’s Sistas Martin Martin ›› “Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds” (2012) Van Helsing Å Futurama Futurama ››› “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” (2002) ››‡ “Hancock” (2008) Will Smith. Å ››› “Star Trek” (2009, Science Fiction) Chris Pine. Å Last Man Last Man Squares Squares Squares Squares To Be Announced Ancient Aliens Ancient Aliens Ancient Aliens (N) In Search Of Å Ancient Aliens

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College Basketball NFL NFL PBC Press Inside PBC Boxing Sports. NBA Basketball: Warriors at Mavericks NBA Basketball: Celtics at Clippers Wheel Jeopardy Gold Schooled Mod Fam Single Stumptown (N) News Kimmel News Holly Survivor (In Stereo) SEAL Team (N) S.W.A.T. (In Stereo) News Colbert Big Bang Big Bang The Masked Singer Almost Family (N) Fox News at Ten DailyMail Mod Fam ET Inside Chicago Med (N) Chicago Fire (N) Chicago P.D. (N) News J. Fallon Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Dog Gifts Under $50 (N) In the Kitchen With David (N) (Live) Å Mally: Color PBS NewsHour (N) Nature “Bears” (N) NOVA “The Violence Paradox” (N) Å Amanpour-Co Darley Time/By Poldark-Master Poldark-Master TBA Currents PBS NewsHour (N) E. B. OutFront Anderson Cooper Cuomo Prime Time CNN Tonight DNC Debate MSNBC Democratic Debate Pre-Show: MSNBC-Wash. Post Democratic Debate: Post-Debate: Shark Tank Shark Tank Å Shark Tank Back in the Game Shark Tank Å The Story Tucker Carlson Hannity (N) Å Ingraham Fox News at Night Law & Order: SVU WWE NXT (N) (In Stereo Live) Å Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU “Transformers” All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite (Live) Å ›› “Get Hard” (2015) Will Ferrell. Burgers Burgers Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Full Conan Full The First 48 Å The First 48 Å The First 48 Å The First 48 Å The First 48 Å Two Men Two Men ››› “Bad Santa” (2003, Comedy) Å ››› “Bad Santa” (2003, Comedy) Å South Pk South Pk South Pk South Pk South Pk South Pk South Pk Yankers Daily Lights Expedition Un. Expedition Un. Expedition Unknown: Rediscovered (N) (In Stereo) Å Say Yes, Dress My 600-Lb. Life “Robin’s Story” Hoard-Buried Hoard-Buried Extinct or Alive Extinct or Alive Extinct or Alive (N) Monster Squid: The Giant Is Real: Å ››› “Home Alone” (1990) ››‡ “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” (1992) The 700 Club Å Andy G. Andy G. Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Two Men Two Men King King “Cool Hand Luke” ››› “McCabe and Mrs. Miller” (1971) ›››‡ “Klute” (1971) Jane Fonda. Å “Christmas” “Write Before Christmas” (2019) Å “Crown for Christmas” (2015, Romance) “Gift Wrapped” “Christmas in Louisiana” (2019) Å “A Sweet Christmas Romance” (2019) Buying and Selling Property Brothers Property Brothers Hunt Intl Hunters Hunt Intl Hunters Guy’s Games Guy’s Games Guy’s Games Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Cake 2019 Soul Train Awards: T. Perry’s The Oval Tyler Perry’s Sistas Copwatch America “The Green Mile” ››› “Edge of Tomorrow” (2014) Tom Cruise. Å ››› “Elysium” (2013) Å “Bourne Suprm.” ››› “The Hunger Games” (2012) Jennifer Lawrence. Å “Catching Fire” Last Man Last Man Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Forged in Fire Forged in Fire Forged in Fire (N) (In Stereo) Å (DVS) Kings of Pain: Bit

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Homes for Sale Real Estate Policy All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Virginia Fair Housing Law, which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, elderliness, familial status, or handicap.” We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all the dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis. HOME SITES, LOTS, LAND POWHATAN- 10 acres of land on Maidens Road. Perked, Lot Cleared, Driveway Constructed. Ready to Build!!! $140,000. Call 804-971-6964 or 804-840-9087

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Accounting Analyst - Goochland Powhatan Community Services is recruiting for an individual knowledgeable & practiced in budget development, monitoring and management, and related reporting. Must have minimum degree in financing or accounting, w/master’s degree and/or CPA preferred. Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a complex accounting environment, preferably Virginia local government accounting, or an equivalent combination of training & experience. Minimum salary $45,000.00 or commensurate w/experience. See www.gpcsb.org/job -opportunities for full job description & ad. GPCS agency application must be submitted by 12/2/19, 4:30 PM. EOE.

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Notice is hereby given, pursuant to § 15.2-2204 of the Code of Virginia, that the Planning Commission of Powhatan County will conduct a public hearing on Tuesday, December 3, 2019, at 7:00 PM in the Powhatan County Village Building Auditorium, 3910 Old Buckingham Road, to consider the following request: Case #19-09-REZC: Richard Lee Bucher (District #4: Powhatan Courthouse/Mt. Zion) requests the rezoning of Tax Map Parcel #39-4A from Agricultural-10 (A-10) to Village Residential (VR) with proffered conditions and amendment of the zoning district map of approximately 5.66 acres of land with frontage along the north side of State Route 13 (Old Buckingham Road) approximately 0.25 miles west of State Route 620 (Mill Quarter Road) (3780 Old Buckingham Road). Proffered conditions address maximum residential densities (up to 3 single-family dwelling units), minimum lot area (1.5 acres), building design, access, and right-of-way dedication. The 2019 Long-Range Comprehensive Plan designates the subject property as Village Residential (Courthouse Village Special Area Plan), which recommends maximum residential densities of four units per acre. All Planning Commission meetings are open to the public and interested persons are encouraged to attend on the day and time speciﬁed above. Copies of the proposed plans, ordinances, and amendments may be reviewed in the Department of Community Development in the Powhatan County Administration Building (3834 Old Buckingham Road) between 8:30 AM and 5:00 PM of each business day. Copies of staff reports are available prior to the Public Hearing upon request.

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