Got foam? Hanover represented in railway training in Colorado
Photos courtesy of Hanover Fire/EMS
Firefighter Dallas Larsen of the Laurel Meadow Station 17 and Firefighter Eric Harper of Chickahominy Station 10 recently attended a FEMA-funded Flammable Liquids by Rail/Crude Class 3 in Pueblo, Colorado. This program is designed to educate and better prepare for incidents surrounding flammable liquids during possible derailments throughout the railway system. With major railways in Hanover County, it’s critical to know not only when to intervene, but how to intervene to prevent catastrophic loss of life and property. The three-day program included classroom, hands-on skills, and live fire training using a train derailment prop. It consisted of 20+ tank cars in a simulated derailment to learn how to properly apply massive amounts of water and foam. They also learned how to control leaks and extinguish fires of specific hazards to prevent further environmental damage.
Author-historian to lead walking tour of North Anna Battlefield Staff Report news@mechlocal.com DOSWELL – The Hanover Foundation Fund Raising Tour will feature author and historian Gordon C. Rhea leading a walking tour of the North Anna Battlefield from 8:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 23, at 11576 Verdon Rd. in Doswell. The guided walking tour will focus on
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a leave of absence from work and devoting most of my time to her care. She made the job easy, and it wasn’t many days later when I knew I had made the right decision. Keeping a promise to protect her from the loneliness and desperation of a chronic
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the Civil War Battle of North Anna. Rhea is considered a foremost expert on the Overland Campaign, having written a six-book series covering each major battle of the 1864 operation. Participants will meet at the North Anna Battlefield Park for a light breakfast followed by an introduction talk. Rhea will then lead the group through the battlefield, highlighting the important areas and aspects of the engagement.
disease, I kept her at home for more than a year. During that time, we laughed, cried and faced the reality that faced us with a sense of togetherness. That’s not to say there weren’t tough and difficult days, much tougher on her than me. Through it all, she remained constant in the one role she had mastered and dedicated herself
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Be prepared for plenty of walking. The park consists of many miles of trails with steep hills and uneven terrain. Tickets for the fundraiser are: z Tour only -- $25 per person or $20 for Tavern members. z Tour and lunch at the Hanover Tavern -- $35 or $30 for Tavern members. To make a reservation, contact David Deal at 804-537-5050, extension 24, or ddeal@hanovertavern.org.
to — being a mother. After providing a lifetime of guidance, an endless multitude of consoling hugs, bandaging too many skinned knees to count and almost never eating a meal sitting down, she provided her final and greatest gift of all: love in the face of adversity. Those final months allowed me to tie all the loose ends, to get answers to those final few
questions I had. It allowed her to keep performing what she considered her most important role, that of mother. She did that so well her spirit still remains alive in her children and grandchildren, not only on this Mother’s Day, but every day of the year. And we owe that to one amazing person — our mother.
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students accounted for more than 20% of those disciplinary actions. The study concluded the number of economically disadvantaged students in Hanover continues to increase, but most students felt safe in county schools. Gifted programs throughout the county also are disproportionally accessed by white students and 84% of advanced diplomas were earned by that group. Equity and other issues also were apparently on the mind of a group of citizens who rallied prior to last week’s meeting in the parking lot of the Central Office. A group calling itself Hanover Patriots announced the rally as an opportunity to “Free Our Schools . . . from critical race theory (equity), masks, indoctrination, COVID-19 tyranny, Anti-American Marxist agenda”. Several of those participants spoke during the public comment period and expressed objections to the county’s policy that requires students to wear masks, a proposed Virginia Department of Education mathematics initiative that some speakers equated to a dumbing down of math selections, and the teaching of critical race theory in Hanover classrooms. Regarding the definition of equity, Gill said, “If you ask 10 people, most likely you are going to get 10 different definitions. It is a word that has come to mean many things to many people. My hunch is that when you (the school board) adopted the equity policy it had a different meaning in your mind than perhaps
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operated a blacksmith shop on Hanover Avenue near Ashland Town Hall? (The answer can be found in the Museum, in downtown,
has been portrayed by others.” Gill clarified the meaning of equity from an operational standpoint. “The definition is simply to provide every student with the resources and materials so that each child can maximize his or her success. “It is not to limit the abilities or opportunities of one in favor of another. Rather, as a rising tide lifts all ships, so too do we have the responsibility to lift and maximize the potential of every child,” Gill said. Chairman John Axselle reminded the speakers that both the mask wearing regulations and the Virginia Pathways mathematics initiative were state issues and were not under the schools board’s purview. Gill said the system will follow state law requiring masks, but said those guidelines are constantly changing. “As it pertains to masks, frankly, we don’t know what it will say in regards to masks in September.” The board is planning action on the return to learn plan at its June meeting, but Gill said there could be more changes and updates would be provided through the upcoming weeks. In other matters, the superintendent was the subject of a bad news/good news set of motions and approvals from the board in an item added to the action agenda for last week’s meeting. Following a closed session evaluation of the superintendent who is serving in his sixth year at HCPS, the board rescinded the final two years of his current contract . . . and replaced it with a new four-year agreement that extends his tenure until 2025. Financial terms of the new arrangement were not available. and online.) Students can still bring a completed scavenger hunt to the museum for a prize. New scavenger hunts will be available for the Flex Learning Days in the 2021-2022 school year.
