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Vol. 7 No. 44 | Richmond Suburban News | July 6, 2022
Tools 4 Teachers store celebrates grand opening By Christina Amano Dolan Editor A community partnership has been making meaningful change in the classrooms of Hanover County Public Schools over the last school year. Now, with the official opening of the Tools 4 Teachers store, two organizations are paving the way for even greater change in coming school years by supplying more school supplies to teachers and students in need. Mechanicsville Churches Emergency Functions (MCEF), Ashland Christian see TEACHERS, pg. 11
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Pat Hubert of MCEF, Anthony Keitt of ACES, Carrie Cicuto of HCPS and Tools 4 Teachers volunteer Ron DeMilta cut the ribbon together with other store volunteers, Glady Hubert, deputies of the Hanover County Sheriff’s Office and Rickey Dandridge of the Arc of Hanover.
HAAC launches summer camps for young artists By Christina Amano Dolan Editor The Hanover Arts and Activities Center (HAAC) returns this season with a packed calendar of fun-filled summer camps for the community’s youngest art enthusiasts to enjoy, including the wrapping up of last week’s program: “Camp Bloom Summer 2022.” Camp Bloom followed the center’s first summer program, “Paint the Universe,” with a session spanning from June 20 to 24 that catered to children in first through third grade. Paint the Universe was led by local artist Lindsey Finch and
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The Camp Bloom campers hand painted their own colorful, floral-inspired shirts to take home with them and wear to camp.
challenged campers to explore their creativity through various forms of art and paint on different surfaces including wood and canvas while learning how see CAMP, pg. 5
Commonwealth’s attorney presents 2022 state law changes Contributed Report Ashland-Haniver Local
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Finally – well, almost finally – the General Assembly has completed its special session and vacated Richmond for the moment. Marijuana legislation still awaits the governor’s signature. The following does not address every new law or amendment to existing law, only those in my opinion, of interest to my fellow citizens. Unless otherwise noted, all changes became effective July 1, 2022.
The prohibition of selling, bartering, giving, furnishing or possessing with the intent to sell, barter, give or furnish a switchblade is eliminated. Effective March 22, 2022, no passenger car, pickup truck or panel truck shall be operated on the highway if it has been modified so as to increase the height of the front bumper to be more than four (4) inches greater than the height of the rear bumper. Hunting on Sunday on public or
private lands is permitted so long as it occurs more than 200 yards from a place of worship. The prosecution of an alleged misdemeanor offense of causing or encouraging acts rendering children delinquent where an alleged adult offender has consensual sex with a minor 15 years or older at the time of the offense shall be commenced no later than five years after the victim reaches majority (age 18) if the adult offender was more than three
years older than the victim at the time of the offense. The term “incapacitated adult” is changed to “vulnerable adult” for purposes of the crime of abuse and neglect of such adults. Vulnerable adult is defined as a person 18 years of age or older who is impaired by reason of mental illness, intellectual or developmental disability, physical illness or disability or other causes, including age, to the extent the adult lacks sufficient understanding see LAWS, pg. 2
