Powhatan Today –11/25/2020

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November 25, 2020

Powhatan sees COVID numbers increase

By Laura McFarland Editor

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OWHATAN – While COVID-19 numbers in Powhatan remain relatively low compared to the rest of the state, the county has seen a steady increase in numbers in recent weeks.

As of Nov. 22, the Virginia Department of Health website reported that 404 people have tested positive for the virus in Powhatan, 21 people have been hospitalized, and six people have died.

Statewide, there have been 217,796 cases (195,499 confirmed and 22,297 probable); 14,046 people hospitalized (13,787 confirmed and 259 probable), and 3,938 deaths (3,628 confirmed and 310 probable), according to the website.

During a presentation he gave to the board of supervisors on Monday, Nov. 16, county administrator Ned Smither said that about 1.3 percent of Powhatan

residents had tested positive for COVID-19, and, of those, 5.6 percent of the positive cases resulted in hospitalization.

“Powhatan has always tracked below state averages since March, when the pandemic began. But we are experiencing slight upticks in cases,” Smither said.

Once someone tests positive for COVID-19, the county gets his or her name and address from the health department but no other personal information, said Curt Nellis, emergency management coordinator. The primary purpose of this is to put the information into the computer aided dispatch system so that public safety officers are aware of a positive case if they have to respond to an emergency at that house.

“The biggest takeaway for the public is to continue to do the things that are recommended by the health department: social distancing, wear a mask, wash your hands, stay away from large groups if possible, monitor yourself for signs or

symptoms, and get tested early if you think you have symptoms of COVID exposure,” Nellis said. “We have been very fortunate in the county that our numbers are relatively low in comparison to our surrounding jurisdictions. Even though right now we only have six deaths, those are six tragedies.”

Between April 1 and the beginning of August, the county had a total of three days when five or more cases were reported in a day, according to the health department website. The county saw a few spikes of up to six new cases in a day in August but had much lower numbers in September.

In October, the county had eight days where the number of reported cases increased by anywhere from five to 10 people, according the health department website. While November started with few additional cases, the numbers have again been steadily on the increase.

For anyone tracking data on the

Bauer loves being the Turkey Man

By Laura McFarland Editor

POWHATAN – “The Turkey Man is here!”

These were the first words out of George Bauer’s mouth when he walked into his living room on Nov. 16, ready to talk about how he got the nickname. Before sitting down to chat in a chair with a turkey cover on the back, he reached over to the fireplace and grabbed a colorful felt turkey hat and smiled widely as he put it on his head.

Does he wear this hat when he delivers frozen turkeys to the Powhatan Food Pantry? No, but he thought it was fun to show it off, he said.

Bauer, 83, of Powhatan takes great pleasure in the moniker of Turkey Man, a nickname given to him a few years ago by Theresa

health department website, Smither warned not to be alarmed by the Nov. 16 data, which had 18 cases reported. A computer system problem meant some of the results were delayed in being recorded. But as of Nov. 22, the county had six days this month with five or more new cases.

At the time of Smither’s report, Powhatan was the 17th lowest locality out of 133 localities in Virginia in number of cases.

“Although we are doing better than many of our peers, we need our residents and businesses to stay focused on COVID-related safety as five cases per day is still a serious number of cases,” Smither said.

When Governor Ralph Northam announced his new restrictions on Nov. 10, he pointed out that Virginia is in a much better place than many other states but that cases are still on the rise. He introsee COVID, pg. 5

Emory Paulin shows strength in cancer fight

By Laura McFarland Editor

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George Bauer picks out a turkey at the grocery store that he will immediately take to donate to the Powhatan Food Pantry.

Fields, co-manager of the food pantry. Come November, he is known for stopping by every week and dropping off turkeys to be given to families in need.

“Every week here he comes with his turkeys. He is so sweet.

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POWHATAN – Emory Paulin’s parents are amazed at her strength every single day.

In the four months since she was diagnosed with an osteosarcoma tumor in her right leg, the little Pocahontas Elementary first-grader has endured brutal chemotherapy treatments and their side effects, hospital stays, unending tests and doctor visits, and, most recently, the amputation of leg, said her mom, Jennifer Paulin of Powhatan.

Emory has a tendency to dig her heels in, her mom said. If the little girl doesn’t

Emory Paulin, 6, of Powhatan is shown recovering cheerfully not long after a surgery to remove her leg, which had an osteosarcoma tumor.

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Powhatan United Methodist Church recently held a Blessing of the Animals for church members and their pets. Shown left are Donna and Adam Estes with their son, Mason, hugging labrador Booker during the prayer.

Staff Report POWHATAN – “I have many friends with cold, black noses,” Pastor Karen Hittel laughed as she described a unique service she conducted recently at Powhatan United Methodist Church (PUMC).

The congregation was invited to bring their creatures, great and small, to participate in a Blessing of the Animals - a service in which animals are blessed and prayed for. Fourteen families, along with their four-legged friends, participated in the service outside on the church grounds. One member even brought a pet crayfish to be blessed.

According to Julie Layman, director of family ministries at PUMC, “This was such a refreshing new project for our church. The animals really got along and were well behaved.”

COVID-19 did force Hittel to change the way she’s done similar services in the past. Typically, she walks around to each family group and places her hands on the animal to bless them individually. To ensure everyone was socially distanced and safe, she opted to bless all the animals corporally, or as one group.

Hittel called out during the service, “Make sure you’re holding your animals,” as she blessed them together. Layman said this was a very moving moment as families embraced their animals and were physically connected in small groups scattered throughout the field.

Donna Joy Estes of Powhatan, her

husband Adam, and their son Mason brought their 7-year-old chocolate labrador Booker to the blessing, which was a first for him. She said she believes in the power of prayer and that everybody can use a little more of it, so why not take Booker to be prayed for as well?

“It was so fun. All the dogs were super excited to see each other, and it was really cool to see people with their animals. You see these people all the times at church but when you see their dog, it tells you something different about them that you maybe not would guess. It was fun to see the different types of pets,” she said.

Booker was very vocal during the blessing of the pets, barking during the middle of the prayer, Estes said.

“He wanted to let people know he was there,” she said with a laugh.

Estes added that she appreciated the church holding the blessing because anisee BLESSING, pg. 5

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O B I T UA R I E S LILLIAN ADAMS Lillian G. Adams, 88, of Powhatan, passed away on Monday, November 16, 2020, at home surrounded by her family. She was born May 19, 1932, in Buckingham, to Bly and Elizabeth Gutherie and married FrankADAMS lin Adams of Cumberland in 1954.

She graduated from Longwood College in 1954, where she received a B.S. degree in Business Education. In 1975, she received a Master of Education degree in Elementary Education. She re-

tired from Chesterfield County Public Schools with 28 years of service. She most enjoyed family and was a very giving wife and mother. Her hobbies were crocheting and collecting antiques. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Diane and Keith Roberts of Powhatan; son and daughter-inlaw, Franklin and Nancy Adams of Powhatan; son, Rob Adams of Raleigh, N.C.; two grandsons, James Atkinson Jr. (Jamie) and wife, Gwen, of Greenfield, Ind. and Franklin Adams III (Trae) and wife, Rachel, of Midlothian; four great-grandchildren, Jack, Coleman, Eva Atkinson and James Adams.

A private service will be held in Buckingham County at the Salem United

Methodist Church, 2160 Ca Ira Road, Cumberland, VA 23040. Online condolences may be made at bennettbardenfh.com.

FRANCES TILMAN Frances Hardy Tilman, 88, of Powhatan, died on Wednesday, November 18, 2020. She was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, Samuel Cole Tilman. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Maryvel and Andrew Firda, and her granddaughter, Catherine. Mrs. Tilman worked for the State of Virginia for 37 years and also helped her husband establish and run Samuel Cole Tilman Woodworking. She was an active member of the Virginia Dahlia

Society and the Powhatan Garden Club in the 1960s, 70s and more recently, the Friends of the Powhatan Public Library. In retirement, she created many beautiful croTILMAN cheted blankets for donation through the "From the Heart" organization. A graveside service was held on Friday, November 20 at 2 p.m. in the Powhatan Community Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to May Memorial Baptist Church or St. Joseph's Indian School (stjo.org).

Online condolences may be made at bennettbardenfh@com.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR Wednesday, Nov. 25

Powhatan County Public Library is open to the public, but due to COVID-19-related safety measures, there are limited hours and occupancy: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Thursday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.

For Thanksgiving week, the library will follow the county’s schedule: 10 a.m. to noon on Nov. 25 and closed Nov. 26 and Nov. 27. The library will reopen for normal hours on Nov. 28. Books to Go and Curbside Print services continue to be available with pickup in the library atrium during open hours. Library staff are available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Thursday and on Saturday to provide service and support via phone, online chat, and email. Library programs will remain online. Face coverings are required inside the library. While Powhatan County remains under a local state of emergency, the library restrooms and meeting rooms remain closed. Contact the library at 804-598-5670 or library@ powhatanlibrary.net or visit the digital branch at www. powhatanlibrary.net.

Powhatan County Public Library is still offering Books to Go. Patrons may reserve print materials, DVDs, and audiobooks online or by phone. This provides a contactless pick-up option for those who prefer to obtain library materials in traditional formats while the building is closed to the public due to COVID-19.

To take advantage of this service, patrons have two options: place items on hold online through the catalog at www.powhatanlibrary. net or call the library at 804598-5670 to request items.

Online hold placement is available 24/7. Phone service is available from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Thursday and on Saturdays. Holds placed after 4 p.m. (online or via phone) will be available on the next business day.

Staff will contact patrons by phone when items are available for pick up. Items will be packaged in a new paper bag labeled with the patron’s last name. The bag will be placed on a table at the main entrance of the library. When patrons are notified that their items are available for pick-up, the order must be picked up by 4 p.m. that day. Due to limited stock, items not picked up will be placed back into circulation and patrons may place another hold for pickup. Limit of 10 holds per cardholder per day and 50 items checked out total per card. Library WiFi and e-branch resources are available 24/7. Contact Powhatan County Public Library at 804-598-5670 or

library@powhatanlibrary.net.

Powhatan County Public Library is now offering Curbside Print. Patrons may submit one printing/ copying request per day for up to 10 pages of black and white printing at no charge. Requests may be submitted via email to print@ powhatanlibrary.net. Staff will notify the patron via email when the print request is ready for pickup on the table in the library atrium.

Business Network International (BNI) Powhatan chapter meets virtually from 8 to 9:30 a.m. every Wednesday. Visit Www. BNIVA.com for information.

To attend a meeting as a guest contact Chapter President Sandy Duncan at sandy6284@msn.com.

The Free Clinic of Powhatan has resumed in-person appointments. Located at 3908 Old Buckingham Road, the clinic offers free health services for uninsured and low income residents of Powhatan, Cumberland and Amelia counties. Services include medical, dental, dietary, counseling, women’s health. Call 804-598-5637 to schedule or request more information. Patient visits are by appointment only. Registration for new patients is 4 to 7:30 p.m.

Mondays. Lab services are provided from 9 a.m. to noon Thursdays. Patient appointments are 4 to 8:30 p.m. Mondays and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays.

Administration hours are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.

Happy Thanksgiving from the staff of the Powhatan Today.

Passion Community Church, 4480 Anderson Highway, Powhatan, will hold its annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner but it has been changed to a drive-thru event from 1 to 3 p.m. Volunteers will follow strict guidelines for this event. Spread the word and invite those you know who may be alone or unable to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal.

Consider picking up meals for those unable to get out in our community. Reserve meals on the Events page of the church website, https:// pccwired.net/. Interested in serving for this event?

Complete the form on the website and select the appropriate option. Food donations are also welcome!

Items needed include: Turkeys, Hams, Dressing mix, instant mashed potatoes, green beans, and veggie trays. Drop off all donations at the Powhatan Campus no later than Tuesday, Nov. 24.

Westchester Commons will hold a livestreamed Virtual Tree Lighting at 7 p.m. on the Westchester Commons Facebook page. As we adapt to the craziness of 2020, Westchester Commons is bringing you its annual tree lighting event in quite a different way this year.

Hosted by CBS6's Bill Bevins, viewers will see holiday performances from The Diggity Dudes, Susan Greenbaum, The Embers featuring Craig Woolard and Good Shot Judy! Plus, they'll have a special appearance

by Santa Claus! There will be a special offer for kids at the end of the show on how to pick up a gift from Santa at Westchester Commons!

The Powhatan Food Pantry is open from 10 a.m. to noon on Nov. 28 and Dec. 1 at 2500 Batterson Road. Contact the 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.

Monday, Nov. 30

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.

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

County offers business grants for winterization pacity and temporarily expand to outdoor spaces. The winter months will require accommodations to existing and future temporary spaces in which these establishments can apply for supplies to accomplish those tasks.

Businesses may apply for up to $10,000 per business and funds must be spent by Dec. 30, 2020 to be applicable. Applications are open from Nov. 20 to Dec. 2, 2020.

No special skills needed, just a friendly face and a willingness to help. The clinic uses a computerized checkin that is user-friendly and the staff is happy to help. If volunteers can come once or would like an ongoing volunteer position, contact Elizabeth Farrell at 804-5985637. For more information about the Free Clinic, visit www.freeclinicofpowhatan. org or follow the clinic on Facebook.

Upcoming

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 5 to 7 p.m. on the following dates through the end of 2020: Dec. 2 and 16. The food pantry is located at 2408 New Dorset Circle (next to Community Life Church).

Visit us on Facebook at Feeding Powhatan or call 804-303-6431. Register at https://forms.gle/ QhweP5RgCTP4ryZz6.

American Legion Post 201 will sponsor a Brunswick Stew sale on Saturday, Dec. 5 in the parking lot of the War Memorial Cultural Arts and Community Center, 2375 Skaggs Road. Quarts of stew can be pre-ordered by calling 804-598-2187. All preordered stew must be picked up between noon and 3 p.m. that day.

Ongoing

Four Seasons Restaurant will hold the Spaghetti with Santa fundraiser to benefit the Powhatan Christmas Mother. The socially distanced, all-you-can-eat dinner will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. at the restaurant.

Cost for adults is $10 online or $14 at the door; for ages 5 to 10 is $7 online or $10 at the door, and ages 4 and under eat free with a paying adult. Debit and credit only. No cash accepted.

Curbside pick-up is available. Buy now at www. powhatanchristmasmother. org.

PowHER Hour+ Monthly Luncheon is held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the first Tuesday of the month at different locations throughout the county. Visit https:// www.powhatanchamber.org/ events/powher-hour-monthlyluncheon/.

Saturday, Nov. 28

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, Dec. 1

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

BUSINESS BRIEFS Powhatan County Economic Development announced last week it is accepting applications to the Powhatan Business Winterization Grant program. The grant program is funded using the Federal CARES Act funding, which the Powhatan Board of Supervisors allocated funds to assist small businesses in Powhatan.

This funding is intended to cover COVID-19 related costs for eating and drinking establishments required to limit inside ca-

Friday, Nov. 27

Thursday, Nov. 26

Unity Community Church will embrace a season of giving for the second year with Unity Thanksgiving Around the Table. Everyone is welcome to come and receive a meal and fellowship. The event will be held at the Powhatan Rescue Squad Building, 3920 Marion Harland Lane, Powhatan, VA, 23139, Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. UCC will follow CDC guidelines. There will be limited seating available for those who wish to dine with us. All meals will be prepared to go and delivery is available by calling the church at 804256-4411 by Nov. 24, leave your name, phone number and address, and someone will contact you to confirm.

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 804-5985630 ext. 2422 or 2420 for more information.

Volunteers are needed ASAP to help register patients at the front desk of the Free Clinic of Powhatan. Hours are from 4 to 8:30 p.m. on Mondays and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursdays.

The Monacan Soil and Water Conservation District has approved approximately $260,000 dollars of funding to area farmers and landowners. The funding is from the Virginia Agricultural Cost Share Program (VACS).

The purpose of this funding is to cover a portion of the cost for farmers to install conservation practices to reduce erosion and nutrient runoff to improve water quality. This funding will implement approximately 144 separate conservation practices in Goochland and Powhatan counties.

These practices included converting erosive cropland to permanent grassland, installing fencing and excluding livestock access and waste from streams, continuous no-till cultivation of crops, and several new practices to more efficiently use and prevent runoff in the application of nitrogen and phosphorous from cropland.

The grant of funds from the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation for this program is the largest amount of funding the Monacan District has received in the last ten years.

There are still funds available to assist other farmers and landowners with installing additional practices. For information, contact the Monacan Soil and Water Conservation District at 804556-4936.

Powhatan Food Pantry is in need of volunteers on Saturday mornings for food pickups at both Food Lion stores. Vans for pickup are provided. Contact Theresa Fields at 804-389-9136 or powfields@comcast.net.

The Coalition of Powhatan Churches has available resources to help people who would like assistance in learning to manage their finances. If you know of anyone who needs or would like to have this service, or to get more information, call Robin Cupka at 804-8019851.

Available now Emergency Housing relief funds to assist with rent, mortgage or other housing concerns. Powhatan Community Action Agency received a donation from Bob and Karla Curtis for emergency housing relief for families in Powhatan County

affected by COVID-19.

Contact Renee Van Natter at valerie.vannatter@dss. virginia.gov or via cell at 804 814-5332.

Powhatan County Public Schools has identified locations to park school buses that will give Wi-Fi access to students who need it. The Wi-Fi enabled school buses are part of the school district’s plan to help families with poor connection to the internet.

The locations of the school buses are: Little Zion Baptist Church, 5680 Cartersville Road; Muddy Creek Baptist Church, 3470 Trenholm Road; Mount Zion Baptist Church, 2591 Ridge Road; Providence Presbyterian Church, 1950 Ridge Road; Powhatan Volunteer Rescue Squad Sub Station, 5901 Old Buckingham Road, and Macon District Volunteer Fire Department (Company 3), 6377 Old Buckingham Road. Families may also access Wi-Fi at Powhatan County Public Library, 2270 Mann Road; Powhatan Administration Building, 3834 Old Buckingham Road; Village Building, 3910 Old Buckingham Road; Powhatan Courthouse, 3880 Old Buckingham Road, and Genito Presbyterian Church, 2910 Genito Road.

For passwords, hours, and specific locations, visit http:// www.powhatan.k12.va.us/ groups/80385/return_to_ learning/wifi_hotspots.

PCPS is offering internet hubs for students and families to access the internet for virtual learning.

There are daytime and evening options available at Pocahontas Landmark Center (4290 Anderson Highway), Powhatan High School (1800 Judes Ferry Road), and Powhatan Middle School (4135 Old Buckingham Road). The hub at Pocahontas Landmark Center is open from 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays.

PHS hours are 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays and 5 to 8 p.m. on Thursdays. Middle school hours are 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays and 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 4 p.m. on Wednesdays. Times may be grade level specific.

Any PCPS student is able to sign up for these threehour sessions, but certain students will require parental supervision. Signups will be available on a two-week basis beginning the Friday prior to the two-week period.

Students and parents using the hubs will be expected to follow the Health Plan in the Return to Learning 2020 guide. Space is available on a first-come, first-served basis. If you need to cancel a reservation, contact Kelsey Brice at 804-598-5700.

FIRE AND RESCUE BRIEFS Fire department offers tips on winter heating Is your chimney ready for a fire? According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), half of all home chimney fires are reported in the months of December, January and February. Fine Creek Volunteer Fire Department would like to share these home heating and chimney fire prevention tips as we head into these months.

Have heating equipment and chimneys cleaned and inspected every year by a qualified professional.

If you burn wood in your fireplace, use dry wood as your fuel. The more moisture you have in the wood, the more likely you are to add creosote buildup.

Make sure the fireplace has a sturdy screen to stop sparks from flying into the room. Ashes should be cool before putting them in a metal container. Keep the container a safe distance away from your home. Never store ashes on porches or decks even if they feel cold.

Keep anything that can burn at least 3 feet away from heating equipment, like the furnace, fireplace, wood stove, or portable space heaters. Store flammables away from heating equipment. Remember to turn portable heaters off when leaving the room or going to bed.

Have a 3-foot “kid-free zone” around open fires and space heaters.

Don’t forget to test smoke alarms and CO detectors at least once a month.

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School board hires new company to clean schools

By Laura McFarland Editor

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OWHATAN – The Powhatan County School Board sent a strong message that it would be watching when it recently hired a new company to handle the cleaning of all school buildings beginning Jan. 1, 2021.

During its meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 10, the school board unanimously voted to approve signing a contract with HES Facilities, LLC for the cleaning and sanitation of all five schools, the joint transportation facility, and the Pocahontas Landmark Center. The annual contract is for $872,356.

The board members took their time with this decision at the meeting and made it clear to the new contractor that it is essential for the health and safety of staff and students that the company’s workers do their job well.

Even before the pandemic made cleanliness such a hot topic in spring 2020, school board members were taking issue with the cleaning job being done by SSC Service Solutions in the schools. In particular, problems keeping enough staff members to fulfill the terms of the contract was an ongoing issue.

Kim Hymel, who represents District 5, repeatedly

kept the issue in the forefront as she passed on complaints she had received from staff members about classrooms, bathrooms, and other areas not being cleaned to the standard that was promised. So it was no surprise at the Nov. 10 meeting when she repeatedly hammered home how important the issue was and how the schools weren’t looking to be burned again.

“We are not happy, and we haven’t been happy. And when I say we, I am talking about our teachers, our students, parents, the board,” she said. “We are not happy with what has happened, and we are expecting to pay you if you do the job and if you don’t there is going to be the door. I hate to be so blunt with you at the beginning here, but you need to understand that this county, this community is tired of having dirty schools. We have great education going on here and we need to have great clean schools as well.”

While this is the company’s first contract in Virginia, HES Facilities has over 20 school systems, small and large, that it serves in five states, according to representative Russell Leboff. He described the relationship the company will have with the school division as a partnership where they will work together for the goals they want to achieve.

“What I would like for you to understand is we are your partner in education. We are not going to be a

Board gets look at parks and rec possibilities

By Laura McFarland Editor

POWHATAN – The Powhatan County Board of Supervisors last week got a glimpse into the issue of parks and recreation and how it might develop in the future ahead of the start of discussions about a 10year capital improvement plan.

During the board’s meeting on Monday, Nov. 16, supervisors heard a presentation on the final draft of the Powhatan Parks and Recreation Master Plan that was completed in April 2020 by PROS Consulting.

The presentation focused on the areas of upkeep and expansion the county may consider making a priority for the next 10 years in the department.

Ramona Carter, director of public works, and Chris Shust, chairman of the parks and recreation advisory committee, gave the presentation, which detailed the results of a survey administered in May 2019. In total, the county re-

ceived 540 completed surveys representing 2,071 county residents.

The draft plan recommends spending that falls into three categories: The sustainable projects repair existing facilities and include ADA improvements, athletic field lighting improvements, irrigation improvements, furniture fixture equipment improvements, and trail renovation in Fighting Creek Park.

This category accounts for $2.15 million over a 10-year period.

Expanded service projects include additions to Fighting Creek Park such as shade over spectator areas, an additional set of batting cages, an archery range expansion, and restrooms by the playground. It would also include restrooms and concession stand improvements at the Admin Complex, restroom improvement and expansion at the Village Complex, and adding a dog park and restroom near the animal shelter. The total price tag for these items is $1.55 million.

company that says that is not a part of our job description. We are going to say how can we help you get this achieved,” Leboff pledged.

Some of the topics the board covered with this issue included HES committing to hiring existing SSC Service Solutions staff for positions; worries about getting good service if when the contract for HES is lower than the previous company; making sure salaries for staff are competitive; the fact the company will start the contract with all new equipment; the importance of good managers in creating a happier workforce; and what penalties are in place if the company falls short.

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The visionary projects include a multi-purpose field expansion and a baseball field expansion at Fighting Creek Park, a trail master plan, and a master plan for the facilities at the Pocahontas Landmark Center.

The total for these projects is almost $6 million.

County administrator Ned Smither said he wanted the board to have the information ahead of their Dec. 10 workshop, when the 10year CIP will be discussed.

Board members had questions about the cost of a few of the projects, especially restrooms, which tend to be very pricey.

Bill Cox, who represents District 4, questioned why trails, which ranked of high importance in survey results, did not have more funding earmarked for them. When approving the CIP, he said the county needs to be careful about aligning its dollars to what the citizens have said they want. Smither said this has already been a discussion point among staff.

Man buys winning lottery ticket in Powhatan Contributed Report John Morrison really likes the chocolate shakes at the Sheetz at 4201 Anderson Highway in Powhatan. That’s why he went there on the evening of Nov. 17. Along with the shake, the Amelia Courthouse man bought a Cash 5 with EZ Match ticket from the Virginia Lottery.

The shake was good, but the ticket was a lot better. He won a jackpot worth $564,000.

“Everybody’s been talking about this new game,” he said as he claimed his prize. “You’ve got to be in it to win it!”

Morrison matched all five winning numbers in that night’s drawing: 3-12-17-18-31. He used Easy Pick and allowed the computer to randomly select the numbers on his ticket.

Morrison, who is retired, said he has no immediate plans for his winnings, although he hinted that there

may be a new car in his future.

Cash 5 with EZ Match is a new twist on a familiar game. The first drawing was Oct. 26, and Morrison is the game’s first jackpot winner.

The game features a rolling jackpot, starting at a minimum of $100,000. If nobody matches all five winning numbers, the jackpot increases for the next drawing. The odds of matching all five numbers to win the jackpot are 1 in 749,398.

Party raises funds for sheriff’s office

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Village Concepts Realty Group hosted a Village Block Party on Oct. 1 at Three Crosses Distillery and raised more than $2,815 for the Powhatan County Sheriff's Office. The business chooses a charity or community servant every year as a recipient of proceeds from its events. This year, employees wanted to show their support to the local sheriff’s’ office and animal control, saying it was their honor to be able to give back to their community this way. Employees presented the check to the sheriff’s office on Oct. 21. Shown are Sheriff Brad Nunnally, from left, Deputy Glenn Koontz, Tracey McClung, Jeff Waters, Suzanne Cline, Deputy Mike Wheeler, Melanie Peloke, Sgt. Matt Baltimore, and Chief Deputy Jeff Searfoss.

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STUDENT NEWS

Pocahontas Elementary School First Nine Weeks Honor Roll First Grade All A: Kalynn Bareford, Ethan Barley, Kamden Belles, Landen Bradley, Connor Brooks, Matilda Brooks, Rory Buchholz, Charleigh Burgess, Raelynn Cardwell, Brooklyn Carmichael, Colin Castillo, Cheyenne Clarke, Amelia Cumbea, Selene Cummings, Vincent DeBois, Ellie Dinch, Noah Flowers, Robert Fobes, Justin Franklin, Kayleigh Freeman, Kennedy Gibson, Dylan Graham, Brody Gravely, Kali Green, Teagan Greenway, Harrison Hailey, Lindsee Harold, Carter Huff, Jocelyn Hunter, Kensington Ickes, Carter Jastram, Emma Jenkins, Abigail Knight, Amanda Knight, Emma Elizabeth Lane, Wyatt Leonard, Walker Losch, Kinsley Maher, Whitley Maher, Santiago Andres Manza-

nilla Leon, Lily Martin, Elaina McMillion, Colby Melton, Ellie Nebel, Declan O'Reilly, Hensley Patterson, Emory Paulin, Noelle Peterson, Thaddeus Pierce Jr., Kensley Pigg, Xander Raymond, Nevaeh Reddick, Trey Redmond, Rylan Rezek, Brooks Riddle, Molly Schwend, Archer Shiver, Khloe Smith, James Taylor, Virginia Weiss, Vincent Yates.

First Grade All A/B: Jase Allard, Joshua Alston, Anaiyah Bailey, Norelle Bailey, Megan Brooks, Addilyn Church, Piper Clark, John Coon, Silas Corey, Kian Cosgriff, Abigail Cox, Keegan Crawley, Ryleigh Daniel, Patrisha Doyle, Cory Fridley, Jillian Gills, Austin Green, Corby Henderson, McKenzy Homer, Damian House, Dominic House,

Sid

Patches

Hey Everyone we are Sid, and Patches. We would really love a home together as we are brothers and have grown up with each other. Neither of us could imagine our lives without the other in it for support, play, and just to snuggle together. We are up to date on shots, and have already been neutered. However there are a few things that we must have at our new home. First we MUST have a fence, and Second our home cannot have poultry. Our previous owners loved us very much, and giving us up was a very difficult decision. Our previous owner stated that we were great with children and we like other dogs. Please if you can provide us with a home together and meet our must haves, Please call 804-598-5672 to schedule a meet and greet, We look forward to meeting you soon.

If you would like to help the animals in our care, you can do so by donating to our medical fund at Claws and Paws, 4313 Anderson Hwy., Powhatan, VA 23139 Powhatan Sheriff’s Office | Division Of Animal Control Phone: 804-598-5672 | Fax: 804-598-5109

Darius Jackson, Jesse Justus, Langston Kantzler, Andrea Marali Lascurain Flores, Faith Legette, Weston Lourinia, Madelyn Maier, Hunter Marshall, Miranda Ortiz, Paisley Parker, Katherine Pierson, Tannar Pine, Cameron Putnam, Allie Ransone, Travis Snead, Kendyl Southers, Taylor Stauffer, Zayne Trotman, Kate Weaver, Harper Westby, Claire Whitlock, Bryce Williams, Elizabeth Williams, Aiden Yanez, Vincent Yates.

Second Grade All A: Avery Alexander, Maggie Altizer, Arianna Amos, David Arencibia, Georgia Aycock, Savannah Berry, Aubree Bondurant, Aubrie Bryant, Harper Burton, Hailey Campbell, Lillian Chassereau, Brantley Coley, George Cox, Wesley Cox, Liam Crawford, Katherine Davis, Tatiana Dawkins, Charlotte Dern, Chesney Elder, Zakary Elton, Alexander Erie, Claire Fairchild, Alexander Fife, Owen Flowers, Sophie Fontenot, Evan Ford, Austin Frasier, Colin Fulmer, Bryce Gee, Lillian Gildea, Zane Gilliam, David Gordon, Maryah Greenstreet, Bryson Gregory, Olivia Griffin, Kylie Grubbs, Madelyn Hancock, Cheyanna Hart, Aubrey Hathaway, Jack Henry Hendrick, Carson Hessick, Raelynn Hodges, Callum Hoyt, Lanie Jastram, Dylan Kaloski, Liam Lavender, Reaghan Lawson, Layla Leandro, Tyler Ledford, Jaxon Lilly, Jordynn Lilly, Dylan Marshall, Landen Mauck, Sydney Maxwell, Landen McPherson, Clayton Miller, Jalyah Monroe, Skylar Montgomery, Raider Morris, Jiovanni Moses, Vanessa Newman, Lillyana Outman, Kayden Pizzeck, Emmett Pritt, George Richter, Levi Richter, So-

phia Rodriguez, Landon Rogers, Cassidy Roy, Zayden Ryan, Madelyn Sanford, Whitney Shelton, Clay Shock, Theodore Shultz, Thomas Smith IV, Charlotte Smith, Caylee Snellings, Blake Stewart, Jackson Stinnett, Noah Stovall-Mcgarry, Lucian Strader, Jason Stroud, Lillian Stroud, Katelyn Tackett, Ivy Tanaka, Abigail Trevillian, Emily Wadford, Margaret Wadford, Richard Walton, Anastasia Wilder, Howard Wilkinson, Avery Williams, Bethany Willis, Ashton Wood, Selena Wright, Milena Yancey, Jazzlyn Young.

Second Grade All A/B: Nathan Austin, KayLynn Belles, Janiya Brown, Grayson Cole, Clinton Collins, Conner Cridlin, Austin DeKeyser, Willow Eagan, Dani Gentry, Alexandra Hicks, Chloe Jones, Ava Martin, Haven Moore, Trevor Moseley, Jaxon Newton, Isabella Shiflett, Kathleen Skeens, Brooklyn Smith.

Third Grade All A: Coleson Bakes, Savannah Benkovitz, Riley Clark, Harlan Coleman, Leah Coley, Degan Cornell, Canyon Crain, Shannon Crews, Madilynn Crompton, Macey Davenport, Cheyanne Dunivan, Emily Durrbeck, Jackson Fife, Carson Franklin, Tanner Gills, Alesis Green, Hunter Hall, Alexander Halvorsen, Aubree Hill, Bryson Kantzler, Levi Kitchen, Joseph Lazo Ota, Noah Lunde, Aiden Marcum, Chase Melton, Connor Merkel, Aubrey Miller, Keller Neumann, Travis Oliver, Emma Palmore, Natalei Pine, Avery Quinones, Tavyn Rama, Sydney Raymond, Olivia Reinke, Nicholas Rucci, Skylar Ryan, Zachary Sei-

bel, Jolee Shepperson, Charlotte Snider, William Stotler, Da'vyon Taite, Brayden Taylor, Thomas Timberlake, Harper Yandle.

Third Grade All A/B: Lilliana Bailey, Noah Bates, David Bell, Allison Bohn, Lillian Brandenberger, Kinleigh Brooks, Brooklyn Bryan, Brooke Carter, Adrianne Church, Kelsey Coon, Genevieve Cosgrove, Emori Daniel, Dorian Dawkins, Amelia Etheridge, Janae' Frye, Benjamin Griffen, Connor Guy, Madison Harding, Evelyn Hawkins, Lacy Hendel, Marissa Hughes, Stuart Jeffress, Jude Kelly, Emmarose Lewis, Fallon Ligatti, Lydia Martin, Ryleigh Martin, Levi McGee, Jovani Medina, Knox Pannill, Avery Reed, Caleb Reinke, Sydney Richardson, JaLinn Rush, Aislyn Smolka, Ethan Stepko, Morgan Talamantes, Sawyer Traylor, Mason Whitehead, Alyssa Williams.

Fourth Grade All A: Alexis Babb, Adalie Burkhart, Anabella Castillo, Aidan Cosgriff, Harlynne Crain, Parker Daniels, Clayton Davis, Isabella Desmet, Abigail Fairchild, Hailey Fishburne, James Gibson, Reed Golden, Haylee Hill, Madeline Hutchinson, Riley James, Chloe Johnson, Addison Leary, Avery Lessner, Camden Lilly, Connor Murphy, Jacob Nicholson, Elena Paulin, Morgan Persaud, Jasper Peterson, William Plunkett, Christian Ramirez, Noah Rowe, Alondra Rutherford, Thomas Steele, Ethan Swan, Kainoa Tanaka, Ella Terry, Everett White, Annabel Williams, Madison Williams, Michael Williams, Devin Willis, Tyler Wilson, Madalyn Winall, Julian Yancey.

CHURCH DIRECTORY St. Luke’s Episcopal Church

SUNDAYS Live Stream Worship!

www.stlukespowhatan.org All are Welcome For more information visit www.stlukespowhatan.org Route 711 at Three Bridge Road 794-6953

The Bridge

Genito Church Presbyterian “Building a Bridge of Hope�

Isaiah 58:12 Church 2910 Genito Rd. Powhatan, VA

372-9074 Worship with us this Sunday Church service @ 9:30 AM Sunday school @ 10:30 AM

Sundays: Morning Worship 10:00 AM Wednesday: Family Life Night 7:00 PM 2480 Academy Road 598-7159 Pastor: Johnathan M. Whichard

Providence Presbyterian Church

EVERGREEN COMMUNITY CHURCH (PCA) Proclaiming & Practicing the Gospel of Jesus Christ Indoor Worship Service at 10:00 AM Meeting at the Powhatan War Memorial Building at 2375 Skaggs Rd, Powhatan, VA 23139

ECCPCA.ORG

598-8844

Rev. Robert Barnes

Worship Service 10 AM Meeting in the gym

Meeting Sundays in Amelia, Farmville, Fork Union, Midlothian, Powhatan and Online.

Visit pccwired.net for services times & locations.

598-1174 pccwired.net

598-4970

Powhatan United Methodist Church Living As Christ’s Disciples Within Our Hearts and Beyond Our Doors 2253 Rosson Rd.

Just off Rt. 13 in the Village

598-4438

Worship: 8:30 & 11 a.m.

Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.

www.powhatanumc.us Weekday Preschool (ages 2-5)

598-6090

Mount Calvary Baptist Church 2020 Red Lane Road

Powhatan, VA 23139 1801 Huguenot Trail Sunday School 9am Pastor, Larry B. Collins Sunday Worship 10am Sunday School 9:45 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study 6:45pm Sunday Worship 11:00 a.m.

Wednesday Bible Study Bryan M. Holt, Pastor 7:30 p.m.

378-3607 www.EmmausChristianChurch.org Office 804-598-2398

Community Church Dr. Cavell W. Phillips, Pastor Where there is Unity, there is always Victory.

A church “Where you are welcome�

Wednesday: Bible Study Join Us For Sunday Worship 6:30 – 7:30pm ( 60 Minute 11:00AM – 12:30PM Warm Up To Sunday ) Powhatan Village Building 3910 Old Buckingham Road ucc4me.org Powhatan, VA 804-256-4411

Thomas Adams, Riley Aeschlimann, Beauly Amos, Avery Bauer, Brooke Bellamy, Brayden Blankenship, Rachel Bohn, Ashlynn Braswell, Carlynne Butler, Jakson Castlebury, Elizabeth Caudle, Greyson Chamberlain, Kennedy Coles, Mason Connelly, Mackenzie Corker, Corbin Cridlin, Jeremiah da Silva, Ryan Dalton, Natalie Danburg, Fiona Day, Liam Dinch, Kendall Elliott, Hunter Freeman, Kylee Gordon, Nalea Graham, Liam Greenway, Tara Guy, Aeverie Hardy, John Harmon, William Harris, Lillian Hendrick, Jackson House, Emma Huff, Joshua Hughes, Sage James, Ryleigh Kaloski, Hunter Kantzler, Gavin Kerr, Jocelynne Lahham, Isaac Lane, Madelyn McMichen, Campbell Moore, Shakira Morris, Tiffany Mosby, Natalie Palmore, Preston Parker, Alaysia Pretty, Chloe Reese, Owens Reynolds, Sparsh Rudra, Anna Shoemaker, Hadley Singh, Hunter Smith, Ryder Talley, Lydia Tibbs, Dylan Tomlin, Hunter Trentham, Lana Wagner, Mason Whitlow.

Fifth Grade All A: Kaitlyn Berry, Sean Bjerregaard, Matthew Brandenburg, Cailin Britt, Ashton Brooks-Cooke, Chase Brownson, Dustin Church, Avabel Cote, Julia Crompton, Jillian Crowder, Carly Davidson, Tyler DeGroat, Nicholas DeKeyser, Dakotah Dunn, Landon Flora, Luke Forkey, Madison Gareau, William Gobble, Danica Hirsch, Jackson Holland, Victoria Howell, Seth Hull, Alexander Johnson, Aidan Kaleta, Ashmeet Kaur, Zebadiah see STUDENT, pg. 8

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Powhatan Christian Fellowship Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 a.m.

Worship Service 11:00 am Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

Sunday School 10:00 am Wednesday Night 7:30 p.m.

Located 1950 Ridge Road (Rt. 627) 2/10th of a mile north of Rt. 13

Fourth Grade All A/B:

3308 Pleasants Road, 1/4 mile off of Route 711 Russ Cress, Pastor 598-0733

St. John Neumann Catholic Church Rev. Walter G. Lewis, Pastor Saturday - 5 p.m.

Sunday - 8:30 a.m. & 11 a.m.

598-3754 www.sjnpowhatan.org Located behind Flat Rock Village Shopping Center

Call 804-746-1235 ext. 2 for details.

Powhatan Today, November 25, 2020

C R I M E R E P O RT Arrests • One female was charged on Nov. 10 with possession of marijuana (Civil), driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated (Misdemeanor), driving without a license (M), operating an uninsured vehicle (M), and reckless driving – excessive speed (M).

• One female was charged on Nov. 10 with destruction of property, monument (M) and assault and battery (M).

• One female was charged on Nov. 13 with driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated (M) and DWI, refusal of test, first offense.

• One female was charged on Nov. 13 with driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated (M) and abuse and neglect of children endangering health (Felony).

• One male was charged on Nov. 14 with driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated (M).

• One female was charged on Nov. 15 with driving a motor vehicle while intoxicated (M).

• One male was charged on Nov. 15 with violating a protective order (M).

• One male was charged on Nov. 15 with brandishing a firearm (M).

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Law enforcement team takes second place at benefit shooting match

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A Powhatan team represented the county in the Virginia Citizens Defense League/Law Enforcement Officer Benefit Pistol Match on Sept. 26. The event was held to benefit the American Cancer Society. The Powhatan team, which took second place, consisted of Marilyn Durham, from left, Rob Cerullo, David Hunt, Joe Fallis, Brad Nunnally, Austin Schwartz, and Christine Boczar.

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Powhatan United Methodist Church held a Blessing of the Animals led

by Pastor Karen Hittel, shown right with Phinny. Keith Buch, left, had his crayfish blessed.

BLESSING Continued from pg. 1

mals are an important part of many families’ lives.

With the pandemic and so many unknowns, they decided to only offer the service to the congregation this year.

“We want to open this family-oriented event up to the community once COVID is behind us,” Layman commented.

Plans are already under way for a follow-up service in October 2021. “We hope to have animals of all kinds,” she said. “No ani-

COVID Continued from pg. 1

duced restrictions that went into effect at midnight on Nov. 16 and included restricting public and private gatherings to 25 people; lowering the age requirement to wear masks indoors in public spaces from 10 to 5 years old; limiting restaurant

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mal will be turned away.”

PUMC was the fourth church where Hittel has coordinated a Blessing of the Animals. As an animal lover herself, this is a service near and dear to Hittel’s heart that she wanted to introduce once she arrived in Powhatan. Those who participated in the service remarked that it was a relaxed, enjoyable time that gave members something fun to look forward to, given the difficult past months during the pandemic. Hittel celebrated her one-year anniver-

sary as pastor at PUMC in July. This was the first time the local church celebrated the congregation’s animals, but it certainly won’t be the last.

PUMC welcomes the community to attend inperson worship services each Sunday at 10 a.m.

Live streaming services may be viewed on the Powhatan United Methodist Church YouTube channel. PUMC can also be found on Facebook.

For more information, visit https://powhatanumc. wpcomstaging.com/.

and bar hours and the hours when alcohol can be sold, and adding criminal consequences to retail stores found in violation of statewide guidelines for physical distancing, wearing face coverings, and enhanced cleaning.

Nellis pointed out that the state’s positive case numbers decreased when restrictive measures were

introduced before, and that is what the governor is trying to achieve with his new restrictions. If people follow the guidelines, the state will be more likely to break this new trend of rising numbers, he added.

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CHURCH DIRECTORY

Contemporary – 8:30 a.m.

Sunday School – 9:45 a.m.

Worship – 11 a.m.

Children’s Worship – 11 a.m.

Prayer/Bible Study – Wed. 6:30 p.m.

2095 Red Lane Road Children’s Worship (all ages) – 1/2 mile off Rt. 60 on Red Lane Road Wed. 6:30 p.m.

804-598-2455 New Generation Praise & Worship – www.redlanebaptist.org Sunday 6 p.m.

Worship Service 9:00 a.m. Lighthouse Youth – Wed. 5:30 p.m.

Small Groups 10:30 a.m. Miracles of God Sp. Needs Service: 2 p.m. the 2nd Sat. of each month Wednesday Night Classes for all ages at 6:15 598-3481 • 975 Dorset Road Dr. James Taylor, Pastor www.gracelandbc.org

1059 Dorset Road Powhatan, VA 23139 Reverend Mark A. Divens, Sr. Pastor

Praise and Worship Service Sunday School 9:45-10:45 Sunday Morning Worship will begin at 11:00 a.m.

GREENBRIER BAPTIST CHURCH “God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

We walk by faith and not by sight” – Pastor Darnell Carruthers

Sunday School: 10:00-10:45 a.m.

Worship Service: 11:00 a.m.

4731 Bell Road, Powhatan, VA 23139 804-598-5491

Holly Hills Baptist Church

5680 Cartersville Road Powhatan, Virginia 23139

(Independent Bible Believing)

Pastor Gregory L. Beechaum Sr. “The church where Jesus is Alive”

www.HollyHillsBaptist.org

Randy Blackwell, Pastor Sunday School - 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Morning Worship - 11:00 a.m.

Youth Ministry 6:00 p.m.

Adult Bible Study 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday Prayer Meeting 7:30 PM

379-8930 1659 Anderson Highway 3½ miles east of Flat Rock

9:00 a.m. ---- Sunday School 9:45 a.m.----- Prayer & Praise 10:00 a.m.--- Sunday Morning Worship 5th Sunday at 11 a.m.

Hour of Power 7:30 p.m. ---- Tuesday Night Worship & Bible Study

Baptist Church “A Church Where Love Never Fails!”

Pastor Otis B. Lockhart, Jr.

MOUNT ZION 2591 Ridge Road Powhatan, Virginia 23139 804-598-2051 Rev. Bryan Stevens, Pastor 11 a.m. – Worship Service 9 a.m. – Church School Wednesday Bible Study 10 a.m. & 7 p.m.

Muddy Creek Baptist Church Sunday School - 9:45 am Worship - 11 am Wednesday Bible Study & Prayer Service - 7:00 pm Pastor Jeff Beard, MA, MBA 3470 Trenholm Road www.muddycreekbaptist.org

375-9212

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Call 804-746-1235 ext. 2 for details.

804-375-9404

Hollywood

BAPTIST CHURCH

Graceland Baptist Church Dr. Ronald Wyatt, Jr., Pastor

OLD POWHATAN BAPTIST CHURCH 3619 Huguenot Trail Powhatan, Virginia 23139 www.finecreekbaptist.org Sunday School: 9:45 a.m.

Worship Service: 11:00 a.m.

Traditional

2202 Old Church Road www.powhatanbaptist.org

“Your Community Church”

598-2763 Sunday School at 9:30 am Morning Service at 11:00 am Bible Study Every Wednesday Night at 6:30 pm 3964 Old Buckingham Road

Sundays 10:00 AM Wednesday 6:30 PM Experiencing the presence, power and person of Jesus Christ

Loving, Investing, Fulfilling, Empowering Senior Pastor Justin Wilson Sunday Service 10:30am 2410 New Dorset Circle www.Communitylifechurchpowhatan.org Feeding Powhatan Open 3rd Wednesday of the month

FIRST ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH

Sunday 10am, 11am & 6pm Wednesday 7pm

3920 MAIDENS RD., POWHATAN

804-598-2301

Evening Bible Study 7:00 p.m.

Worship on the Lawn Service Times 8:30AM and 10:15AM OPBCKids during 10:15AM service

Family Worship Center 2901 Judes Ferry Road Powhatan, Va 23139 804-379-8223

Sunday School 10:00 a.m.

Sunday Morning Service 11:00 a.m.

Wednesday Mid Day Bible Study 11:30 a.m.

Brad Russell, Pastor 598-4241

Travis L. Keith- Pastor Church Office: 794.7054 1530 Cook Road (Rt. 636)

www.glbcpva.org

Just Across from South Creek Shopping Center!

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EMORY Continued from pg. 1

want to do something, a battle may be brewing.

But while she definitely has harder days when the side effects or pain wear her down, Emory has remained a joyful, happy 6-year-old through it all and has displayed wisdom beyond her years, Jennifer said proudly.

“She has been phenomenally strong throughout all of this with just completely accepting what is happening to her body and what she is going through.

At no point during this has she said, ‘I give up, I am not doing this anymore, you can’t make me,’ which is sort of what we expected,” Jennifer said. “She has jokes that she brings to the hospital that she tells the nurses. She has taken it all in stride, certainly much better than Jason and I are.”

When Emory began favoring her right leg this summer, her parents didn’t think too much of it because she wasn’t complaining or asking for a Tylenol. She was still biking, riding her scooter, and generally always on the go.

But when she went in for her regular pediatrician appointment on Aug. 6 and the doctor ran his hand down her leg, he felt a lump and immediately said she needed to have an X-ray. She was admitted to the hospital the next day.

When Emory was diagnosed in August with an osteosarcoma tumor in her right leg, Jennifer and Jason had their world completely thrown off its axis.

This was their spunky, spirited, stubborn little girl, and here was this ag-

gressive form of bone cancer trying to take her away.

“It is certainly devastating to any parent to hear your child has cancer. It was sort of an out of body experience for me,” Jennifer said. “At every point along the way before somebody said ‘your child has cancer’ my mother-inlaw, my boss said ‘are you worried?’ I said ‘No, I am not worried. We don’t have any cancer in the family.’ It never even occurred to me that was something it was going to end up being.

Even while he was telling me, there was still a part of me that was saying this is not happening.”

The chosen course of treatment was to have 30 weeks of chemotherapy and at week 10, after doctors had assessed how well she was responding to the chemo, to have a surgery to remove the tumor, she said. Emory is receiving two different types of chemo, one of which is more severe than the other. Depending on the treatment, she struggles with being sick, fatigued, dehydrated, and feverish.

The chemo is on a fiveweek round, so she stays in the hospital three of those five weeks with two weeks in the middle for her to recover from the nastier chemo, Jennifer said. But she goes every week to the Children’s Hospital of Richmond and gets blood drawn and sometimes needs a blood transfusion because the chemo is really hard on her body.

“Certainly that is the time where she is like, ‘This isn’t working. This isn’t making me any better.’ It is hard for a 6-yearold when she is throwing up and feeling awful to tell

her these are the things they are doing to make her better,” her mom said.

Emory’s parents have been grateful that through those tough times, Emory has activities to take her mind off being sick. She has been doing virtual classes with Pocahontas Elementary while her older sister Elena, 9, attends in-person. Elena has been a big support for her little sister, trying to play with her and comfort her however she can. Emory has also really expressed herself through art.

“She has modeling clay and paint pens. In her worst moments, she sits

broke her leg, releasing cancer cells into the blood and soft tissue that put her at a higher risk, Jennifer said.

“We looked at a lot of options but she is so little and has a lot of growing to do. An internal prosthesis would really be committing her to being a lifelong patient. Some of the other options weren’t viable because the tumor was so close to her growth plate,” Jennifer said. “We were told that amputation was a possibility. We didn’t want that to be the answer, but the more information we got, we realized that (amputation) going to give her The Paulin family includes parents Jennifer and Jason, Elena, 9 and Emory, 6.

and paints pictures or she will sit and make little sculptures of animals or grapes and apples and plums. She has a very vivid imagination and we have been shocked at how she has really used art as a way to deal with what she is going through,” Jennifer said.

The family got another shock when, days after Emory had her first chemo treatment, she fell and

the best quality of life and also be able to ensure that the cancer won’t come back, at least in her leg.”

Before Emory had surgery on Oct. 29 to remove most of her leg, her parents explained the options to her and let her have a say.

“She chose the amputation because she realized she didn’t have to have multiple surgeries and that she would get a prosthetic leg and be able to walk.

During hospital stays, Emory Paulin has turned to art as a way to stay occupied.

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We have gone to the clinic a few times and she has seen pictures of what her leg will look like. She has been readily accepting of her situation throughout,” Jennifer said.

Emory came through the surgery beautifully and physical therapists had her up and moving the next day, her mom said. The little girl came home with a walker she uses to walk and has been “healing beautifully.” The family was also happy with tests results that show how well the chemo has been working, she added.

After the Powhatan Today interview earlier last week, Jennifer said she talked to Emory about everything that has happened and “she said she feels ok about losing her leg, even though she's a bit scared about learning to walk again with her prosthetic leg. She really doesn't like feeling sick when she gets the chemo but she also told me she loves all her new nurse friends at VCU.” Besides the pain of watching their child endure so much, juggling all of her treatments and care has added extra stress to the normal family dynam-

ic. Jason is one of the owners of Bear Creek Academy in Cumberland and Jennifer is a CPA in Powhatan. Jennifer said they are incredibly grateful to family and friends who have helped in different ways.

The Paulins were also incredibly touched when one of Jason’s friends set up a GoFundMe account that has seen huge support.

As of Nov. 22, the fundraiser had reached $49,095 out of a $50,000 goal, which has been a shock to Jennifer.

“We are very humbled by the number of people who have reached out and commented on it and donated to it,” she said.

Jennifer said her family isn’t looking too far into the future. They are going week by week, getting Emory through chemo treatments, having her fitted for a prosthetic, which was supposed to happen Tuesday, and enjoying the holiday season together.

Fortunately, the way the schedule worked out, Emory isn’t supposed to receive treatment this week and is expected to spend Thanksgiving at home with her family.

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Don’t let COVID steal Thanksgiving joy

By Laura McFarland Editor

L

et’s be honest right off the bat – 2020 has been abysmal. I don’t have to list all of the reasons why this is true; we’ve been living with them for what seems like years.

So, unfortunately, as we look forward to tomorrow and celebrating Thanksgiving, some people may be struggling with that perpetual mission of finding things to be thankful for right now.

For most people, Thanksgiving, and probably Christmas as well, are going to look and feel completely different this year. Even before Governor Ralph Northam introduced the restrictions on gatherings of 25 or more people on Nov. 10, the ongoing reality of the pandemic and the rising COVID-19 numbers already had people deciding not to travel or have guests over in the same way.

Maybe your family couldn’t be together like you wanted this year. Maybe you have lost your job or your business is suffering. Maybe you know people who are sick or hurting and it’s difficult not to be able to help them in the way you want. Maybe you are still struggling with strong feelings about situations that are going on in our state and country in the areas of politics, public health, social justice, law enforcement, constitutional rights, and just plain human decency.

Any one of those things could be a reason to put a damper on the holiday season ahead, especially when they have likely altered how you wish you could be celebrating with family and friends.

Now that I have covered what this holiday season won’t be, let’s talk about what it can be. And I apolo-

gize in advance for the cheesiness, but ’tis the season and all that.

Hopefully, tomorrow is another day for you on this Earth loving those who are important to you and being loved in return. It is a time to say “I am grateful for you” to those people, whether you are looking across the table at them or video chatting from 1,000 miles away. This season is a time to say even if I am not eating the macaroni you make from Grandma’s recipe, looking at the Black Friday ads with you and making a shopping list, or sitting on the same couch and watching a football game, you are in my mind and heart.

If that doesn’t help raise your spirits, sometimes building new traditions or turning your attention away from your own life and focusing on helping others can be amazing and uplifting experiences.

These are just a few ideas to consider: Plan a family project to support the Powhatan Christmas Mother program by donating toys, clothes, funds, or more to the program. Although the program had to make some changes this year in how people are getting involved, they are still asking for people to “adopt” a family, child, or senior to provide gifts from a list provided by the program’s adoption coordinator.

Organizers are accepting requests to adopt by email at powhatancec@verizon.net. Visit powhatanchristmasmother.org for more information.

Reach out to military personnel, a military family, or veterans. Operation We Are Here (www.operationwearehere.com) has a great list of resources ranging from nonprofits that put together holiday card and letter campaigns to care packages to charities that you can support. This is a timely one since many of these organizations will have looming cutoff dates so they

Taking special care of Jack

By Jim Ridolphi Contributing Columnist

While watching college football this weekend, I immediately noticed the patch on the arm of most coaches on the sideline, and realized it was Coach to Cure weekend.

For more than a decade, the American Football coaches Association (AFCA) has participated in an annual event that raises awareness and money for research for people who suffer from Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy.

Fans who attend the game are asked to contribute to the effort organized by Parents Project for Muscular Dystrophy (PPMD), and volunteers across the nation organize special events in the week leading up to the game.

Many teams host kids who suffer from the neuromuscular disease and greet them on the sideline or at midfield for the coin toss. It’s a special event that offers truly deserving kids a chance to be the center of attention. More importantly, it provides a learning moment for the majority of the public who are unaware of Duchenne or routinely confuse it with other diseases.

Nationally, the program raises millions of dollars annually for research as health care professionals across the globe search for a cure for a disease that shows no compassion or mercy for the people it affects.

For the past 10 years or so, we’ve spent this fall weekend celebrating with Goochland’s varsity football team on Coach to Cure

weekend. The cold, sometimes rainy nights at the stadium are memories no one in my family will forget, especially my son Jack, who suffers from Duchenne.

As I reflected on the many years of great memories associated with Coach to Cure and the Goochland Bulldogs, I thought back to those first events organized shortly after Jack’s diagnosis.

Things were different in those days. I recall a small boy who at first was intimidated by a bunch of giant athletes who liked to whoop it up. I remember the first time he let go of my hand to accompany his teammates to midfield for the toss.

He stubbornly clung to my hand as the players extended theirs for the short walk. Jack didn’t want to let go.

The players noticed Jack’s hesitancy and the look of dismay on my face as the officials waited patiently. As one of the players knelt beside Jack and spoke with him, another looked at me and said, “Don’t worry, Mr. Ridolphi, we’ll take care of him.”

I let go and stood on the sideline as the group walked away — four giant football players with one tiny boy with the number one on the back of his jersey extending well past his knees.

I never worried again in the many years that followed, and, in fact, the Goochland players have always taken care of Jack, handling him with care as his condition worsened over the years.

And when he could no longer walk with his teammates, they grabbed his wheelchair and

rolled with him to begin the game. It’s the kind of display that brings tears to a parent’s eye, watching a team of good kids and great athletes reaching out to help a child that will never carry the ball or score a touchdown.

Truth be known, mine aren’t the only tears I've noticed on these special nights, and it’s often the comments of Jack’s teammates that mean the most to me.

Throughout the years, hundreds of Goochland players have dedicated a small part of their experience with Jack and displayed a sense of kindness and compassion that my family won’t soon forget.

I suppose I didn’t appreciate fully the commitment contained in that simple statement made by a player to reassure a parent at that first Coach to Cure event, but looking back, it’s something that Goochland players and coaches have done for more than a decade: take care of Jack.

So, on this Coach to Cure weekend when the field at Goochland is dark, it’s important to recognize the special people who make this event special for many reasons. They are my heroes.

Hopefully, they’ll be back on the field soon accompanied by a kid in a wheelchair with a #1 on the back of a jersey that is still too big. It’s what I call a winning combination.

Again, my thanks to all who make this event possible in Goochland and the many friends and supporters who make it a great event for Jack and his family.

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Have a virtual “watching” experience together.

Plenty of times in recent years when I wanted to feel close to someone but couldn’t be physically with them, we would pick a movie we both had access to, synchronize the start time as closely as possible, and “watch” a movie together. Just a tip: it helps if it is one you all have seen so you feel more comfortable talking during the show.

Watch the 94th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. NBC will be airing a modified version of the parade from 9 a.m. to noon complete with performers, balloons, floats, and more. They have made some major changes to the parade, including significantly reducing the number of people participating, but I am expecting that they will include as much as current guidelines will allow and work to bring a sense of joy and familiarity that makes it a family tradition for so many.

Work out some fun choreography and create a lip-syncing video that goes viral. We need all the extra cheer we can get right now.

Reach out to a friend or neighbor who is alone this holiday season and try to surprise them in some way with a small gift, a note of support, texts with corny Thanksgiving jokes, a friendly call, a porch visit, or a yard sign. Offer the gift of a smile – it’s free.

Remind people that they are not alone and that someone cares.

However you choose to celebrate this holiday season, the Powhatan Today staff wishes you a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. We are thankful for our readers and your continued support and feedback.

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L E T T E R S TO T H E E D I TO R In spite of pandemic, people still found a way to honor veterans Dear Editor, I am writing in response to the article titled “Lack of events doesn’t dim appreciation” published on November 18, 2020. I am currently a sophomore at James Madison University, and after reading your article addressing this year’s lessened Veteran’s Day activities, I thought back to all the years I sat in the Powhatan High School auditorium awaiting the assembly that was always very well done. Things looked very different this year around the country on this day. Appreciation and recognition were given in a more individualized way rather than a broad pronouncement, and we all had to take a step back to look at our broader histories to address this.

While recognition did seem much smaller, some traditions did still continue. I remember in middle school making cards for veterans and to extend this, the ROTC here at JMU was still able to fill the quad with American Flags. Recently, I have been thinking of the community as more of an organism. As soon as one part of the organism is affected, the rest goes downhill from there.

This can relate back to the COVID-19 pandemic in that the health of our surrounding communities has been affected and, unfortunately from that, our community is unable to function in the way that most of us want and believe it should. Despite both smaller communities and the country as a whole having to celebrate more individually this year, throughout these areas, people were still able to come together for the greater good of recognition with card making, American flags, and simple thank yous.

Hannah Anderson Powhatan County

Solar fields take up land needed for future trees for lumber Dear Editor, The construction industry is currently facing a major crisis with skyrocketing lumber prices, and I am not just talking about new construction. A friend was putting up a new wooden fence around their back yard and within a three-week time the cost of materials tripled in price.

Now think what will happen to the cost of lumber if we stop planting pines and don’t have any to harvest in 30 to 40 years. see LETTERS, pg. 8

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That is exactly what will be happening if we continue to approve large solar fields on our timber land. Proponents of solar say the trees have already been cut, the land is damaged so it won’t hurt to put solar fields in. This thinking is wrong! It’s wrong because timber is a renewable resource. Those cut over tracts of land need to be replanted in pines providing the lumber for our future and habitat for our wildlife. I would like to see the comprehensive plan changed so that 100 acres would be the maximum acreage that a solar farm would allowed to be and only 25 percent of the tract or tracts of land.

Terry Adcock Powhatan County

Holocaust comparison is not warranted Dear Editor, Thinking of the over 6 million people, mostly Jewish people, who were tortured, starved, worked, gassed or shot to death during the Holocaust, I am offended and shocked by the incendiary comparison a fellow citizen made to his own life in his letter to the editor last week. I am not minimizing the writer’s feeling or lived experiences – he is entitled to that and to his opinion.

I am, however, saddened by the public expression of this opinion. We live in a beautiful part of the world, on land

STUDENT Continued from pg. 4

Koelzer, Eli Kupesky, Jacob Lane, Jose Lascurain Rodriguez, Peyton Ledford, Madison Machotka, Francis Maher, Tyler McCracken, Shawn Murphy, Madalyn Myers, Cassidy O'Neil, Kadence Oliver, Jackson Orban, Emiliano Palacios, Lorelei Pope, Ryder Rodriguez, Kalia Ross, Parker Russell, Eric Smith, Garrett Smith, Makenna Talamantes, Conner Thomas, Stella Tucker, River

that once belonged to the Native people, on land later toiled by the free labor of enslaved people stolen from Africa. We should be grateful for the freedoms we enjoy. We are even allowed to publicly express opinions that are hurtful to many people, such as comparing having to learn about other peoples’ history to the Holocaust. I’d say we should count our blessings.

For the record, I am a veteran and expert markswoman. However, I do not feel that we, as individuals, need to own assault style weapons. Last I heard, those are the only ones that are talked about not being sold to just everyone.

Otherwise, we can bear as many arms as our arms allow bearing. No 2nd amendment right is being taken away from anyone. While I completely disagree with the author of the letter, I would be one to speak out for him, if anyone ever ‘came for him’ or anyone else.

Lastly, I hope everyone stays healthy, because our health care system is about to collapse under the weight of COVID-19 cases, which some people still believe to be a hoax. It is not a hoax, and as hundreds of thousands of health care workers have now gotten sick, think about who will take care of us if we have a heart attack, are in a car accident, or break a leg. Research has shown that wearing a face mask will protect you from COVID-19. So even if you care about only yourself and your individual rights and freedoms, do yourself a favor and WEAR A MASK! Claudia Rankins Powhatan County

Williamson, Natalie Woodard, Harrison Yarbrough.

Fifth Grade All A/B: Devin Adams, Blake Blish, Lily Bowers, Conner Brock, Ethan Burchett, Sahlomen Burton, Madison Carmack, Hunter Cheely, Emma Crews, Hudson Day, Christopher DeShazo, Kassidy Finney, Krystalynn Gayness, Macie Greene, Brayden Gregory, Jacobee Hardy, JaDa Henderson, Carter Jackson, Maggie Jackson, Chase

Jastram, Lorenzo Lewis, Conner Mabe, Richard McGee Jr., Zachary Meyst, Summer Mitchell, Hayden Murphy, Paulett Ortiz-Anguiano, De'Aricka Parham, Keymon Pretty, Oktobyr Pritchett, Connor Proffitt, Kayden Quinones, Michael Richter, Kenya Rose, Kaya Ross, Elijah Savage, Lilly Thomas, Ariana Tyszka, Cole Varela, Megan Walker, Ty Walters, Simon Woodard.

MORE STUDENT NEWS ON PAGE 5B

TURKEY Continued from pg. 1

“Last year and the year before, we couldn’t get them through Feed More and we didn’t have money to buy them. Then here he would come with his turkeys, so we were always able to give somebody a large turkey because of him.”

Bauer never set out to be the Turkey Man. About seven years ago, CONTRIBUTED PHOTO he bought a few turkeys George Bauer, center, drops off turkeys to the and took them to a church Powhatan Food Pantry where they are accepted by to donate, but it didn’t co-managers Theresa Fields and Bobbie Clocker. have the freezer space needed. So he went to St. lesson Bauer has been ever and you’ve got to try John Neumann Catholic teaching by example for to make the best of it,” Church, which was hap- as long as his daughter, she said. py to help him distribute RoseMarie Reese, can reWhen asked why he it to a family who needed member. He has a strong likes to live and give the it. That became an annual personality and can be way he does, Bauer credtradition. stubborn and need to its his late mother, MarBut a few ago, he vis- have things a certain way, garet “Muzzy” Bauer, ited the food pantry and but he also has a really who raised himself and saw the walk-in freezer. big heart for helping oth- five siblings. She died in That is when he got the ers, she said.

2006 at age 105. idea to start bringing Growing up, Reese reWhen he was growing more turkeys. In 2018, he members how her dad up, the family didn’t have brought 21 turkeys, taught his children to not much, but his mother which is when Fields waste and to take care of made sure they didn’t go gave him the nickname. things and pass them on hungry, Bauer said. She “You are taking care to others. Throughout her could make food stretch, of somebody that needs life, if she heard of some- such as saving and drying help. Especially when one in need, he was will- out bread heels to be resomeone has got kids, ing to help. He also gives hydrated and used with they’ve got to have some- what he can to causes onions and celery as turthing,” Bauer said. near to his heart, such as key stuffing at ThanksAs of last week, Bauer St. Jude Children’s Re- giving. had donated 16 turkeys to search Hospital, Boys “My mother could the food pantry, which is Town, veterans groups, cook anything and make less than the goal of 24 he and Native American anything happen,” Bauer hoped to achieve to beat tribes. said. his 2019 donation of 23.

But she was also strict He served in the Army However, limits on how Reserves for more than 11 and made sure her chilmany turkeys people can years. He owned Gee Bees dren knew they shouldn’t buy at a time have slowed Sporting Goods on Hull waste, he added. him down, as has strug- Street from 1993 to 2003, “She had a motto. gling to lift them because and Reese remembers how When you sit down at the of issues with his back. often Bauer would give table, if you put it on your But he will continue to away merchandise to chil- plate, you are going to eat do what he can, whether dren who wanted to play it,” he said with a grin. it is helping the food pan- sports but couldn’t afford Laura McFarland try or friends and neigh- it or donate items he may be reached at Lmcbors who are struggling. farland@powhatantocouldn’t sell.

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November 25, 2020

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For Shenk, a perfect final year

Helping a family in need

Collegiate senior, tennis standout from Powhatan goes unbeaten this season

Powhatan 9u competes in fund raising tourney for family fighting cancer

By Nick Vandeloecht

By Nick Vandeloecht

Sports Editor

Sports Editor

Having grown up playing tennis in the Richmond-area, Kayli Shenk has known Helena Huff and Nora Willett since they were all little, and even though they’re the same age, she’s always looked up to them talent-wise.

And that was: before Shenk joined Collegiate in 2019; before the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the globe; before Huff returned to the school from Atlanta; before Huff, Shenk and Willett got to be teammates on the same Cougars varsity tennis team this year; and before the three seniors played in every single team match of this fall’s condensed, conference-only season.

“I love being able to be a part of a team with them, and the other amazing seniors, and we’ve had such a great time together this year, despite the restrictions,” Shenk said. “We were able to have an awesome senior night, and I have classes with the girls, so our friendships haven’t been hurt by the new guidelines.

“It’s sad that we didn’t get a chance to play doubles, but we’re all just so happy we got to even play in the first place.”

This season was no guarantee going in. The pandemic led to the cancellation of all spring sports statewide, and also to many organizations altering their summer leagues or cancelling them outright. The Virginia High School League ultimately postponed its fall seasons to the early spring. The League of Independent Schools private school conference, which includes Collegiate, announced that it would hold its girls tennis and cross country

MIDLOTHIAN – In a crazy year when life got turned upside down by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, just being able to play an entire youth season of football seemed like a tall task.

The Powhatan 9u Chiefs team not only did just that, but they also got to participate in one more tournament – a charity fund raiser for a family battling breast cancer – after it initially seemed like the season would end with the Chesterfield Quarterback League playoffs in early November.

“To able to have this one last tournament, get out here, get the boys together and do this was just phenomenal,” said Powhatan 9u coach Bobby Cook. “Coming out here win, lose or draw – it’s for the family we were doing it for, but also, getting the players together, they love seeing each other, so it was just awesome in this weird year we’re having just to have a little extra overtime.”

While the Chiefs took losses in Saturday’s double-elimination tournament against Salem Church and the Evergreen Eagles, they did score two touchdowns overall against their high-powered opponents, and they did so with several 7u players stepping up to join the team – thus ensuring they had enough players to compete in the tournament – and help their older teammates.

Charlie Jamerson caught both touchdown passes from Mason Cook, and Hunter Freeman caught a twopoint conversion. On defense, Aiden Kilbourne and Michael Gibbs each caught an interception, and Dylan Strickland defended several passes

see SHENK, pg. 2B

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY ANTHONY RUMLEY

Kayli Shenk during the 2020 season.

FILE PHOTO BY BILLY FELLIN

Jim Woodson (left) and Ernie Henderson (right) are honored in their final home game as Powhatan High School varsity football coaches in 2018.

‘It’s about the kids’ Remembering Coach Ernie Henderson

By Nick Vandeloecht Sports Editor

P

OWHATAN – Ernie Henderson was a man of few words.

But when he talked, people listened, and the longtime Powhatan High School assistant football coach’s order to “Drive! Drive!

Drive! Drive!” on the sled in practices still resonates with those who played for him.

That command spoke to who he was, how hard he worked, how hard he pushed others to get the best out of them.

And the best of what they had – more than what they thought they had – was what they gave. What they wanted to give. Because they knew he’d do anything for them.

He was tough but fair. Someone you’d run through a brick wall for. A brilliant defensive mind.

A father figure. A true friend.

Those outpouring of remembrances and many others, both written and spoken by the community over the last 12 days, helped paint the portrait of a man and coach who made a difference in countless lives.

They recaptured the brilliance of an offensive line coach who turned players weighing less than 180 pounds into state champions – of a defensive coordinator who made Powhatan a tall task for opposing offenses to overcome.

They recalled the life lessons that he impressed on multiple generations of student-athletes through the hard work he modeled and the love he had for them.

When Ernie Henderson died on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020 at 61, a pillar in the Powhatan County community was lost.

But to that same community that loved and remembered him well – to those whose lives he touched and shaped – his legacy lives on.

“He was truly a life coach for anybody that came in contact with him,” said Gwendolyn Henderson, Ernie’s wife of 29 years. “He’d do anything he could to try to enrich their lives and try to help them to go on a better path.”

“Coach Henderson made a major impact in all of our lives. He instilled many qualities in all of us that make us who we are today,” Jason Campbell, who played for Coach Henderson for four years and was on Powhatan football’s coaching staff alongside him for 25, said via social media. Whether Ernie was coaching football, basketball, track or baseball or monitoring the weight room, Campbell said he was always there.

“He gave endless hours to the community and helped all of us through it all,” Campbell said. “We in Powhatan are so blessed to have such great leaders.”

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Like an older brother Those who knew and loved Ernie described him as genuine, as authentic.

He loved the game and he loved the kids. That passion for helping others carried over to his work with youth in the juvenile justice system.

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fields in the Richmond-area were not devoid of referee’s whistles blowing, or of fans cheering in response to a caught pass in the end zone or an athlete holding up an opponent’s flag inches before they could cross the goal-line.

Powhatan completed its 2020 Chesterfield Quarterback League fall seasons in the 7u,

9u, 11u and 14u age divisions, with two 14u teams competing.

The 7u team won its opening game in the season-ending CQL tournaments, and the 9u team, featuring players from 7u, was slated to compete in this past weekend’s fund raising tournament, with all proceeds supporting a CQL-community family fighting breast cancer.

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Legendary coach was also phenomenal athlete

By Nick Vandeloecht Sports Editor Before he became a legendary football coach, Ernie Henderson carved out his legend as a competitor. It wasn’t just because the 1976 Powhatan High School alum played in the 1974 state championship game, then proceeded to become one of PHS’ most accomplished athletes by starting all four years at Appalachian State – two as a nose guard, two as an offensive guard – while also throwing the hammer on the college’s track and field team.

It was also because, when he stood at 5’7 and weighed between 230 and 240 pounds – 260 when he played in college – Ernie didn’t look like the type of player who could run a 4.7 in the 40.

But he did.

“His quickness was just unbelievable, had great speed for somebody that size,” said longtime Powhatan coach Bob Baltimore, who knew Ernie ever since the latter was in elementary school and coached him in football. “As good as he was athletically, he had a bigger heart. When the ball was snapped, he gave it 100% until the whistle blew every play, every down, and he didn’t like getting beat by a man or team.”

After the state’s winningest high school football coach – the legendary Mike Smith from Hampton – first saw Ernie when Baltimore checked him in for the Virginia High School League All-Star game, Baltimore recalled him eventually sharing that his first thoughts were: How in the world did this kid get nominated for a high school all-star game?

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kids,” Gwendolyn said. “That’s the kind of person he was – and he loved his family.”

To both Ernie’s cousin Anthony “Tony” Henderson, and to Linwood Jackson – who played for PHS from 1989 to 1992 and would go on to become one of Powhatan’s longtime coaches – Ernie was like an older brother.

As Tony grew up, Ernie was one of the people he went to for advice about everything.

“I kind of patterned myself as a young kid after all the things he did,” said Tony, who played for Powhatan from 1991 to 1994, was part of the team’s coaching staff from 2000 to 2004 and is now Senior Associate Athletics Director at William and Mary.

“He was very influential in a lot of the things that I did and a lot of the decisions that I made as a youngster and growing up.”

Jackson was among the players whom Ernie would pick up and take to practice. And that wasn’t the last of the rides over which Jackson and Ernie would bond. Every Sunday for 26 years, Ernie would pick him up and drive them to the Powhatan football coaches’ meeting when Jackson was part of the staff.

“He always shared his wisdom with me,” Jackson said. “Whether it was about life lessons or just football,

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seasons this year, but it wasn’t confirmed. Shenk and her teammates practiced halfway through the summer as usual, and they were hoping for the best, but it wasn’t until shortly before their first scheduled match was supposed to begin that the season was green-lighted.

“I was shocked to say the least – I was sure we’d be out of school and tennis within the first month of school,” Shenk said. “But Collegiate has done exceptionally well maintaining our health procedures, and it’s definitely paid off!”

Just for the team to be able to complete this year’s 10-match season is a huge achievement on its own, given the ongoing circumstances. But the Cougars did more than that. They stayed healthy and avoided major injuries. All 14 players got to participate in a sanctioned match. They all improved in something throughout the year.

They also went unbeaten.

Collegiate assembled a 10-0 team season and won 94% (66-4) of its sanctioned individual matches. Shenk,

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The original cutline reads: “ERNIE ‘THE STUMP’ HENDERSON LEAVES HIS LINE AND THE DEFENSE BEHIND ON TD GALLOP; Powhatan Blocking Back Breaks Free Behind Block From Teammate Eddie Crump (52).”

Smith saw why in that first practice.

They put Ernie in at nose guard on defense, but after 10 minutes, they had to stop practice because Ernie was so quick off of the line on the snap that he was rushing into the backfield before they could get a play off. Smith and his coaches had to get Ernie off of defense just so they could learn the offense.

Before that, in a high school regional championship game against Madison

High School at Albemarle, Baltimore’s coaching staff called a play for Ernie, who was then a junior and a blocking back in Powhatan’s double wing, to run the ball. He went 50 yards untouched, outrunning the entire Madison team, its secondary included, until he reached the 5-yard line.

That’s when one of the defensive backs jumped on his back, wrapping his arms around his neck.

to me, he was always open and honest with me.”

“He would do anything for you, which he did for me,” said Paulette Bowman, who knew Ernie since she started working at Powhatan back in 1984, was asked by him to help him coach the JV boys basketball team and became good friends with him. “He was always there if I needed him.”

Bowman, who went on to coach both the track and field and girls basketball teams, learned the ropes of coaching through working with him; she saw how he related to the students, how he handled himself.

“He always put the kids first,” she said, “that’s what he taught me: put the kids first, let them know that you’re there for them.”

The players saw he would do anything for them. If a player needed food, he made sure they had food. Bowman said that if they needed sportswear, he’d pay for it.

Every day throughout his coaching career, Ernie would go out of his way and give players rides to practices and track meets, even after working night shifts at his job. That inspired Jackson to give rides as well.

If one kid had something, he’d make sure the other kid had something. If the parents wanted to talk to him, he would make the time.

“He made the time for everybody,” his wife Gwendolyn said. “He was happy to do it, he wanted to do it and he cared.”

He made sure nobody was left be-

hind. And because the kids knew he’d do anything for them, Ernie got that from them in return.

Huff and Willett all went 10-0.

“I was ecstatic to have an undefeated season!” Shenk said. “For both the team and myself, and especially my senior year, I thought it was an awesome way to finish up my tennis career!”

Shenk knew that, with Huff returning and two of their top-four players, Willett and freshman Elizabeth Mendoza, no longer facing injuries, they “would be a force to be reckoned with.”

“And I was definitely right!” she said. “Our lineup was stacked this season and I have no doubt that if we had been allowed to have the states tournament this year, we would have taken home the title.”

Her first match against Veritas and her last one against Trinity were her personal favorites from 2020.

“Those were the matches I feel like I played my best,” she said. “I’m really proud of myself for all the effort I put in throughout the season.”

In the Veritas match, Shenk, putting away a ton of shots and utilizing her serve, delivered a 30-minute victory on line No. 4. At Trinity, she played No. 3 and felt like her shots were more confident and powerful.

Her favorite moments go beyond

the scheduled matches on the court.

She loved how, in their practices, they split up into two equal intra-squad teams and had friendly competitions through games and drills.

“That was a really fun aspect of this year,” she said. “I think the coaches are going to keep it up in future seasons!”

There was also Senior Day, a day that, like the season, was no longer a guarantee going in. But she was able to share that day alongside Huff, Willett, Kylee Sanderson, Sarina DePalma and manager Rebekah Wright.

To her team, Shenk was known for always smiling and laughing on the court – her teammates said her energy bounces off and brightens everyone else’s day – and she was praised for her good sportsmanship and strong commitment to the sport.

“Kayli’s awesome – her spirit, funloving, just out there wanting everybody to have fun and still competing,” said her head coach Allyson Brand.

With her senior season in the books, Shenk closed out her high school tennis career having played in the starting lineup all four years. She quickly emerged as a leader for Powhatan High School her freshman and sophomore seasons, then continued to showcase that leadership on the court in the

‘You’d run through a wall for a guy like that’ Powhatan coach Nathan Mullins, who played both offensive and defensive line under Ernie from 2004 to 2007 and coached with him from 2015 to 2018, recalled preparing for his second-ever start on varsity against what was then an unknown team in Monticello his sophomore year. He was going up against a senior, who had earned Region Player of the Year honors the year before, and he spent the whole week watching film and studying his matchup.

He remembered Ernie pointing to his upcoming opponent and talking him up as being really good, but then telling Mullins: You can take this guy.

As long as you watch him and study him, you can take him.

That whole week of practice, Ernie was constantly building him up in “a quiet way,” as Mullins put it – “he didn’t have a whole lot to say, but when he said it, it carried a lot of weight to it” – and when game time came around, Mullins leaned on the things that his coach told him about his opponent’s tendencies.

After the game, Coach Henderson said he did well.

“As a guy who’s only played – that was my second varsity start – it showed me that he believed in me,” Mullins said.

Ernie carried both the ball and the player into the end zone to cinch the 55yard touchdown.

“He just was probably one of the toughest competitors I ever saw,” Baltimore said. “He just loved to compete against anybody in anything, but he did it in his own quiet and reserved way, not vocal. He didn’t do a lot of rah-rah stuff on the field. He just let his play do the talking.”

He was athletic across the board; although he didn’t play on the high school team, he could play basketball well. He was also a good baseball player – in fact, Baltimore started him at catcher on varsity, and he recalled how, in one game at the old Goochland High School baseball field, Ernie hit a moonshot over top of the left field fence.

Ernie’s homer landed on the gymnasium roof.

“It was one of the longest balls I ever saw hit,” Baltimore said. “Top five.”

When she would play Ernie in tennis, former longtime Powhatan multisport head coach Paulette Bowman thought she was going to hit the ball from side to side and “run him to death.”

“He ran me to death,” she said. And on the first day of practice when they were playing fall softball together, she was playing shortstop when Ernie came up to bat, and she heard, “Hey, you better move back.” She moved back to the edge of the grass, but the response she got was: “Nope, that’s not far enough.”

“If he made contact, he was going to make it to first,” Bowman said. “If anybody was on base, he brought them home because the ball was hit so far . . . it was a rocket, every time. Every time.”

“That meant a lot as a 15-year-old.”

As a player, you’d know that Coach Henderson would put so much into it, it’d hurt you to feel like you let him down, Linwood Jackson said.

“You don’t want to be the reason why the play failed,” Ernie’s cousin Tony Henderson said. “You don’t want to be the reason why he’s not seen as a fantastic defensive coordinator because of something that you did.”

Win or lose, you were going to give it your all for him.

“He’d do everything to get the best out of you, but he loved you, too, and he praised you as much as he got on you when you didn’t do things right,” Tony said. “That’s all you’d want out of a coach. You’d run through a wall for a guy like that, and most of the guys did.”

And Powhatan’s linemen went to work, said former longtime Powhatan head football coach Jim Woodson, whom Ernie Henderson coached alongside for four decades.

“They go down the hill and they go to all the sleds and all this stuff, and they come back, they’re dripping wet ... you can tell they’re working their tails off,” Woodson said. “That’s just the way it was. If you were a lineman, you were tough.”

Among the players Ernie worked with were the three Christovich brothers – Andrew, UVA walk-on Collin and Derek – who weighed between 285 and 320 pounds and, much like see HENDERSON, pg. 3B

top four for Collegiate both this year and last year, when they reached the VISAA state semifinals. She was named to First Team All-LIS and Second Team All-State in 2019.

“It’s such an honor to be part of this team, but to be able to play in the starting lineup freshman-senior year has been so cool for me,” Shenk said.

“Coming to tryouts junior year had me worried about where I would be in the lineup, but I’ve worked really hard to play strong, and I’m so grateful I’ve gotten to play as a starter.”

Looking ahead to college, Shenk recently got accepted to Coastal Carolina and was waiting to hear back from a couple other schools on Nov. 12. She’s really excited to pursue Marine Sciences.

“I’d really like to focus on my academics at first,” she said, “and then, if my schedule allows, maybe find some tennis clubs just to play for fun.”

She feels fortunate to have played four varsity tennis seasons across her high school career at Powhatan and Collegiate.

“I’ll be so sad to leave the amazing friends and teammates I’ve acquired over the years. I wish every one of them the best of luck in their futures, and I’ll forever be grateful for the experiences both schools gave me!”

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‘If I know it, I can stop it:’ a brilliant defensive mind

By Nick Vandeloecht

typical postgame Friday night included washing uniforms, evaluating their team’s performance and planning for the next team. They’d stay up after the clothes got done, hanging up all of the uniforms, and a lot of the times, they wouldn’t even go home until after (and sometimes well after) 1 a.m.

With Ernie in the role of defensive coordinator, Woodson said it was like they had two head coaches.

“He was awesome at his job, and everybody knew it,” Woodson said.

“The players knew it. The other teams knew it. When they came to Powhatan, they knew they were going to be in for a long, hard night.”

Ernie embraced the challenge of overcoming opposing offenses, and in 1996, the challenge in that road to the championship looked steep. The Indians opened the playoffs with a win against the pass-oriented Madison County, coached by legendary Eddie Dean, then matched up against a Randolph-Henry team that ran the veer, “which is very, very difficult to stop,” Woodson said, because it’s assignment football on every play. Randolph-Henry had also beaten them earlier in the year.

Not this time. Powhatan came out on top, but then, the Indians had to face a Northumberland team that ran the no-huddle spread offense, which in

1996 was way ahead of its time.

Powhatan won again. But in the championship game, they “had to turn around and go back 40 years in time,” Woodson recalled with a laugh, and try to defend Giles County’s single wing offense. Powhatan’s coaches said that Harry Ragsdale, the father of Giles’ head coach at the time (Steve Ragsdale), had written a book about the single wing.

Ernie read that book.

Linwood Jackson recalled saying to him: “Man, you’re going to know this offense backwards and forwards!”

Ernie told him: “If I know it, I can stop it.”

Powhatan stopped Giles 20-8 to win that game – and the state title.

Seven years later, Powhatan had given up a slim 100 points all season when it went into its state championship matchup with William Fleming, a powerhouse that at the time featured multiple future Division I players.

That total stayed at 100.

The Indians fended off Fleming 6-0 for their fifth shutout triumph in their perfect 14-0 season. The Indians had to play that game without their allstate 6’4, 225-pound linebacker and tight end Eric Byers, who in the game before dislocated his collarbone. It took two sophomores to replace him at both positions, and the sophomore who

played at linebacker, Jonathan Marshall, reeled off 15 tackles in the final.

But before the Indians won those grand titles, they did “the impossible” during Jason Campbell’s senior year as a player.

They took down one of the toughest teams, the Central Lunenburg Chargers, 33-21, and they did it with the help of Ernie’s decision to run a 52 full house defense. The formation countered Central’s full house T offense, which featured two tight ends and everyone else behind the line in the backfield. Powhatan’s players covered the two ends, and Ernie had everyone else attacking, putting a lot of pressure on the Chargers.

“When he turned around to go throw a pass,” Woodson said, “we had a guy right in his face making a tackle.”

He added: “When we installed that full house defense, we didn’t lose to Lunenburg again.”

The bottom line, to Woodson, was that Ernie just loved what he was doing.

“And he was going to try to get the kids in the best position to win,” Woodson said. “His preparation was outstanding – astonishing, really – to get all that done, and . . . it’s great for the coaches to know all this stuff on the sidelines, but the bottom line is, the kids have to know it, and they have to execute it out on the field, and he had them ready.

“All the switching gears like that is very, very difficult,” Woodson said, “but the passion was there, and it was contagious. The kids picked up on it ... when he came out there, every word he was saying, they just soaked it up.

They got it.”

“Those defensive kids that he coached believed in him, and everything that came out of his mouth, to them, was gospel,” said Baltimore, who coached alongside Ernie from 1985 to 1996. “If Coach Henderson said it, it was going to work, and we’re going to do it the way he says to do it.”

to sign something; he rested the bar on his chest (which had 315 pounds on it), signed the paper and finished his set.

“I think Ernie’s stature and the way he was built and looked was a great motivator for him,” longtime Powhatan coach Bob Baltimore said, “and I think it was a great motivator for the kids who played for him – who saw this guy who was not real tall – that, ‘Hey, I don’t have to be a giant, I don’t have to be this, that or the other. I just have to play hard, just like Coach Henderson.’”

to the parents to the community.

“The way he lived his life made him somebody that people look up to,” Baltimore said. “When you leave this Earth, if people look up to you, you had a great reputation, but I think somebody once said that your reputation is what people think of you; your character is what counts. Your character is what you do when people aren’t looking.”

To Baltimore, Ernie not only had the great reputation – he was also a man of character.

He taught the players the importance of preparation – of being a great teammate, of not wanting to let your teammate down. It was about building accountability – building young people to be better brothers, husbands, fathers and significant people in the community.

When you got a little older, Jason Campbell pointed out, you realized that

Coach Henderson was getting you ready – not just for football, but for life in general.

“He changed a lot of kids’ lives, definitely,” Linwood Jackson said. “I know he changed mine.”

“I wouldn’t be where I am today without his influence,” his cousin Tony Henderson said. “He was a big-brother type to me, provided a lot of guidance just by the way he lived and also always being available to bounce ideas off of and talk things through.

“Besides my dad and my grandfather, he’s another one I owe pretty much everything to.”

“Ernie certainly is an example of hard work, dedication to what you do, of commitment to what you do, to do it right – never take a shortcut,” Baltimore said. “He just was special, and he will be missed by many.”

Sports Editor With a chuckle, Jim Woodson recounted one of the first games he and Ernie Henderson ever scouted four decades ago, back when they started out as assistant coaches together: a matchup between Hermitage and Thomas Dale, the latter of which was Powhatan’s next opponent.

They headed to Thomas Dale High School, but they found no game. The contest, in fact, was all the way over in Hermitage. They got there at halftime and gave “the best scouting report we could give in one half,” Woodson said with a laugh.

But, from there, the two coaches more than found their way together.

From 1985 to 2018, with Woodson helming the team as the head coach and Henderson leading the defense, Powhatan secured 16 district championships, eight regional titles, two state runner-up finishes, state championships in 1996 and 2003 and the winningest record (282 wins against 106 losses and 1 tie) by a head football coach in the Richmond-area in that 34year span.

They weren’t alone. When he took the helm in 1985, Woodson brought former PHS head coaches Jerry Ward and Bob Baltimore onto the coaching staff. Ernie picked up a lot of his knowledge about defense from Ward, as well as from Virginia coaching legend Bill Mountjoy, who was a great reference for him on defenses covering the Wing T, single wing, double wing and veer offenses.

Linwood Jackson and Jason Campbell, who both played under Woodson and Henderson, also coached alongside them for at least 25 years each, adding to the legendary coaching tenures that have helped make Powhatan formidable across multiple sports and seasons.

For Woodson and Henderson, a

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their coach, didn’t do a whole lot of talking – just a lot of action.

There was Skip Carleton, who went on to play at VMI, as well as Brandon Adams, who played on the ’96 championship team and worked just as hard in practices as he would in games. Ernie was so proud and would always mention to Woodson, even years after, how Adams – when he hit one of the defensive sleds they used in practice (you had to hit it five times in a hitand-roll sequence) – he’d bottom it out every time.

Most of the time, Powhatan did not have the big, physical guys who could overpower people; Woodson remembered one of their centers, Bobby Oglesby, was about 5’10 at best and weighed 180 pounds, yet he played both sides of the ball. Zach Stell, who weighed 156 pounds, helped Powhatan win a state championship at offensive guard in 2003.

Tony Henderson said you didn’t have to be a superstar football player; what mattered to Ernie was that: 1) you loved the game; and 2) you gave everything you had when it was your time to play.

Ernie also inspired his players with his own strength. In fact, he was literally known as the strongest man in Virginia in the 1980s.

In weight-lifting, he bench pressed 602 pounds and squatted 1,000. They say people would see him on the sign-in list for weight-lifting competitions and drop out. Clarence Craddock on social media remembered when Coach Henderson was in the weight room on the bench and Coach Bowman needed him

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Powhatan High School’s 1985 varsity football coaching staff. From left: Jim Woodson (head coach), Bob Baltimore, Ernie Henderson and Jerry Ward.

Never thinking about himself Ernie’s consistency is a trait that stands out to Nathan Mullins.

“It didn’t really matter if he was sick or ... I know he probably had some tough days at work and days where he only got three or four hours of sleep, but he was always there,” Mullins said. “There was never a time where it was like, ‘Coach Henderson can’t make practice.’”

When Ernie suffered a stroke two years ago, the coaches wondered if he’d be able to make it out for football.

Mullins said Ernie was there on Day 1, doing everything he could.

Even when Ernie’s health was declining, Linwood Jackson recalled him talking about coaching again.

Jackson replied: you gave this county more than enough; you need to get healthy.

“Kids need me,” was Ernie’s response. “Kids need me.” He was never thinking of himself, Jackson said – he was always thinking of the kids.

He loved his community – he loved Powhatan High School. And to say Ernie was beloved in return “is kind of an understatement,” Baltimore said; he was admired by everybody, from the players

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The tournament raised more than $3,000. Coach Bobby Cook said quite a few parents from Powhatan voluntarily made donations via cash, check and Venmo for the family, who is part of the CQL community.

“It’s special to see just, in our county alone, Powhatan people step up, because we haven’t always been part of CQL, so to see them step up and [help] a family that’s all the way in the other

far side of the CQL region here and just take it personal, again having a parent step up and cover all the costs [for our players to compete in this tournament] and then other parents saying, ‘We want to donate,’ it’s just been phenomenal,” Cook said.

He appreciated the players and parents who sacrificed one more week this close to Thanksgiving to partake in this tournament “for the right reason, for the charity.”

“I think it was just phenomenal for the players, parents, association, the league,” Cook said. “It just shows character to everybody to step up for somebody in need.”

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Big Bang Conan Å The First 48 Å The First 48 Å The First 48 Å The First 48 Å The First 48 Å “Raiders of the Lost Ark” “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989) Å “Indiana Jones” Office Office Creek Creek Creek Creek Creek “Jim Gaffigan” Kevin: Dirty Jobs Å Dirty Jobs Å Dirty Jobs Å Dirty Jobs Å Dirty Jobs Å Dr. Pimple Popper Dr. Pimple Popper Dr. Pimple Popper When Skin Goes Stories of the ER Deadliest Catch Deadliest Catch Deadliest Catch Deadliest Catch Deadliest Catch ››‡ “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” (1992) The 700 Club Å ››› “Home Alone” (1990) Andy G. Andy G. Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond King “Black Stallion” ›››› “Rear Window” (1954, Suspense) “The Man Who Knew Too Much” (1956) “Christmas Tree” “Christmas by Starlight” (2020) Å “The Christmas House” (2020) Å ››‡ “The Holiday” ››‡ “The Holiday” (2006, Romance-Comedy) Cameron Diaz.

“Dear Santa” Å Home Town Å Home Town Home Town Å Home Town Home Town Å Holiday Baking Beat Beat Beat Beat Beat Beat Beat Beat BET Star Cinema “Miss Juneteenth” (2020, Drama) Nicole Beharie.

“Tyler Perry’s Madea” ››› “The Fifth Element” (1997) Bruce Willis. Å Witch ››‡ “Maleficent” (2014) Angelina Jolie.

“National Lamp. Christmas” “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (1989) NatlLmp Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Swampsgiving Swamp People: Swamp People: Swamp People: Swamp People:

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Mod Fam Mod Fam ››‡ “Justice League” (2017, Action) ››‡ “Aquaman” (2018, Action) Jason Momoa. Å (DVS) ›››‡ “Crazy Rich Asians” (2018) Constance Wu. ›››‡ “Crazy Rich Asians” (2018) Constance Wu. The First 48 Å First 48: Shocking Live Rescue “Live Rescue -- 11.27.20” (N) (In Stereo) Å ››‡ “2 Guns” (2013, Action) ›‡ “Gone in 60 Seconds” (2000) Nicolas Cage.

“Con Air” (1997) “We’re the Millers” Dunham: Dunham: Dunham: ›› “Bad Santa 2” Gold Rush Å Gold Rush “Face Off” (N) (In Stereo) Å Gold Rush: D. Turin The Family Chantel 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way (N) 90 Day 90 Day: Other 90 Day River Monsters Beast-Kept Secrets River Monsters: Deadliest Man-Eaters River Monsters ›››‡ “Zootopia” (2016, Children’s) Å The 700 Club Å ›››‡ “Ratatouille” (2007) Andy G. Andy G. Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond King “Shadow-Doubt” ››› “7 Faces of Dr. Lao” (1964) Å ››› “Billy Rose’s Jumbo” (1962) Å “Cro-Christmas” “Five Star Christmas” (2020, Romance) “A Timeless Christmas” (2020) Å “Christmas in” “Dear Christmas” (2020, Romance) Å “Christmas Hotel” (2019) Tatyana Ali. Love It or List It Dream Dream Christmas Martha Martha Hunters Hunt Intl Diners Diners Diners Diners Diners, Drive Diners Diners Diners Diners “The Nutty Professor” (1996) ›› “Nutty Professor II: The Klumps” (2000) Å Payne As. Liv ››› “Doctor Strange” (2016, Action) Å (DVS) Movie ››› “The Fifth Element” (1997) Å Planes ›› “Four Christmases” (2008) Å ›› “Fred Claus” (2007, Comedy) Vince Vaughn.

Cheerleaders ››› “Pure Country” (1992, Drama) Å ››‡ “I Can Only Imagine” (2018) Å Ancient Aliens Å Ancient Aliens Å Ancient Aliens Å Ancient Aliens Å Ancient Aliens Å

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College Basketball College Basketball: Teams TBA. (Live) College Basketball: Teams TBA. (Live) College Basketball: 2K Empire Classic Basket College Basketball: 2K Empire Classic SportCtr Wheel Jeopardy Gold House Conners black-ish For Life (In Stereo) News Kimmel News Holly The Amazing Race The Amazing Race S.W.A.T. (In Stereo) News Colbert Big Bang Big Bang The Masked Singer I Can See Your Fox News at Ten DailyMail Mod Fam ET Inside Women of Worth: Saturday Night Live (In Stereo) Å News J. Fallon Last Man Last Man NewsNation (Live) NewsNation (Live) NewsNation (Live) NewsNation Å Send to a Friend David’s Gift Guide (N) (Live) Å Making Spirits Bright (N) (Live) Å PBS NewsHour (N) Nature (In Stereo) NOVA (In Stereo) Secrets of Dead Amanpour-Co Make48 Time/By Trouble-Maggie Roadkill-Master: Secrets PBS NewsHour (N) E. B. OutFront Anderson Cooper Cuomo Prime Time CNN Tonight Anderson Cooper The ReidOut (Live) All In With Rachel Maddow The Last Word The 11th Hour Shepard Smith Shark Tank Shark Tank Å Shark Tank Shark Tank The Story Tucker Carlson Hannity (Live) Å Ingraham Fox News at Night NCIS (In Stereo) WWE NXT (N) (In Stereo Live) Å “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” “Eagle Eye” (2008) All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite (N) Å ››› “The Conjuring 2” (2016, Horror) Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Full Conan Å Court Court Court Court Court Court Court Court Court Cam Å ››› “Bad Santa” (2003, Comedy) Å ›› “Bad Santa 2” ››› “Bad Santa” (2003, Comedy) Å South Pk South Park Å South Pk South Pk South Pk South Pk South Pk The Daily Show Expedition Josh Gates Tonight Expedition X Å Lost Relics of Expedition Un. My 600-Lb. Life My 600-Lb. Life “Sarah’s Story” My 600-Lb. Life: Where Are They Now? Lone Star Law North Woods Law: Uncuffed (In Stereo) North Wo. Law Northwest Law ››› “Tangled” (2010, Children’s) Å The 700 Club Å ›››› “The Little Mermaid” (1989) Å Andy G. Andy G. Raymond Love-Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond King King “You Only Live Twice” (1967) ››‡ “Torch Song” ››› “Thunderball” (1965, Action) Sean Connery.

“Heart-Holidays” “Good Morning Christmas!” (2020) Å “A Nashville Christmas Carol” (2020) “Grounded for” “Twinkle All the Way” (2019, Romance) “Rediscovering Christmas” (2019) Å Fixer Upper Å Fixer Upper Property Brothers Hunters Hunt Intl Hunters Hunt Intl Guy’s Games Guy’s Games Guy’s Games Guy’s Games Guy’s Games “Boo! A Ma” Payne As. Liv Tyler Perry’s Sistas Games People Play Tyler Perry’s Sistas “Harry Potter” ›››‡ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” (2011) “Monster House” “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” (1987) “Polar Express” ››› “The Polar Express” (2004) Å Last Man Last Man Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Reba Reba Forged in Fire Forged in Fire Forged in Fire (N) Beyond Oak Island Beyond Oak Island

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Football Update College Football: TCU at Kansas. (N) (Live) Å Football College Football: LSU at Texas A&M. (N) (Live) Å Scores College Football: Teams TBA. Football College Football: Teams TBA. (N) (Live) News NCIS Paid Prg. Carbon Robbie: Santa Claus: 48 Hours (In Stereo) News Storm of Football Update College Football: Teams TBA. (N) (In Stereo Live) News 12 News Paid Prg. The National Dog Show: (In Stereo) Å Saturday Night Live News SNL Blue Bloods NewsNation (Live) NewsNation (Live) NewsNation (Live) NewsNation Å Black Friday Innovations Black Friday Weekend (N) (Live) Å Lawrence Welk Durrells in Corfu Doc Martin Å Eric Clapton’s Crossroads: Secrets of Dead Nature (In Stereo) NOVA (In Stereo) Independent Lens (In Stereo) Currents CNN Newsroom (N) CNN Newsroom (N) “Three Identical Strangers” (2018) Å Hist.-Comedy American Voices Week-Johnson Week-Johnson American Voices Week-Johnson The Profit Å Shark Tank Shark Tank Shark Tank Shark Tank Life, Liberty Watters’ World Å Justice Judge Greg Gutfeld Watters’ World Å “Harry Potter” ›››‡ “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2” (2011) “Harry Potter” “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” ››› “Wonder Woman” (2017, Action) Gal Gadot. Å (DVS) Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Full Lara Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage › “Grown Ups 2” (2013, Comedy) Adam Sandler. ››› “Role Models” (2008) ›‡ “Grown Ups” “Vacation” (2015) › “Joe Dirt” (2001) David Spade. Å ››‡ “Hot Tub Time Machine” (2010) Moonshiners Å Moonshiners Å Moonshiners (N) (In Stereo) Å Moonshiners Å 90 Day: Other 90 Day: Other 90 Day: Other 90 Day: Other 90 Day: Other Dr. Jeff: RMV Dr. Jeff: RMV Dr. Jeff: RMV Mega Zoo (N) Secret Life-Zoo Cinder ›››‡ “Moana” (2016) Voices of Dwayne Johnson. ›››› “Beauty and the Beast” (1991) Two Men Two Men Two Men Two and Half Men Two Men Two Men Two Men Two Men Two Men “Welcome-Hard” ›››› “An American in Paris” (1951) ›››‡ “Moulin Rouge” (1952, Biography) “Christmas at” “Christmas Waltz” (2020) Lacey Chabert. “Christmas by Starlight” (2020) Å “Merry Liddle” “Merry Liddle Christmas Wedding” Å “No Time Like Christmas” (2019) Å Home Town Å Home Town Å Home Town Å Home Town Å Home Town Å Diners Diners Christmas Cookie Christmas Cookie Christmas Cookie Christmas Cookie “Acrimony” (2018) ›› “Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family” (2011) Å Martin Martin ››› “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” (2017) Chris Pratt. ››› “Doctor Strange” (2016, Action) ››› “Elf” (2003, Children’s) Will Ferrell. ››› “Elf” (2003, Children’s) Will Ferrell. ›› “Fred Claus” “The Italian Job” ››› “Tombstone” (1993, Western) Kurt Russell. Å “Top Gun” (1986) History’s Greatest Mysteries (In Stereo) History’s Greatest Mysteries (In Stereo) History’s Greatest

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News Simpson Burgers Simpson Ice Age: Burgers Fam Guy News America This Week ROH Football Night in America (N) NFL Football: Chicago Bears at Green Bay Packers. (N) News Last Man Last Man NewsNation (Live) NewsNation (Live) NewsNation (Live) NewsNation Å Black Friday Power Air Fryer (N) Black Friday Weekend (N) (Live) Å Finding Your Roots Masterpiece 50 Fabulous: Masterpiece 50 Fabulous: Austin City Limits I’ll Have-Phil Royal Kitchens: American Masters (In Stereo) Currents Royal Kitchens: CNN Newsroom CNN Newsroom This Is Life This Is Life State of the Union American Voices Week-Johnson Week-Johnson American Voices Week-Johnson Shark Tank Empires of New York (Series Premiere) Empires-New York Empires-New York Fox News Sunday Life, Liberty Revolution Greg Gutfeld Life, Liberty Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU “Wonder Woman” ›› “Suicide Squad” (2016, Action) Will Smith. ›› “Suicide Squad” (2016) Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Flight Attendant Transfr ››› “Back to the Future Part II” (1989, Comedy) ›››‡ “Back to the Future” (1985) Michael J. Fox. ››‡ “The Proposal” (2009) Sandra Bullock. Å ››‡ “The Proposal” (2009) Sandra Bullock. Å › “Joe Dirt” (2001) ›› “50 First Dates” (2004) Å Dunham: South Park Å Alaska Alaska: The Last Frontier (N) (In Stereo) Off the Grid Off the Grid 90 Day: Other 90 Day Fiancé: The Other Way (N) Love-Mama’s Boy 90 Day: Other North Woods Law North Woods Law North Woods Law Moonshiners Å Moonshiners Å “The Incredibles” (2004) Å ›››‡ “Incredibles 2” (2018) Voices of Craig T. Nelson. Å Goonies Two Men Two Men Two Men Two and Half Men Two Men Two Men Two Men Two Men Two Men “Running-Empty” ››› “Indiscreet” (1958) Cary Grant. Å ››‡ “That Touch of Mink” (1962) “Christmas Waltz” “If I Only Had Christmas” (2020) Å “Christmas Town” (2019, Romance) Å “Christmas Un.” “People: Once Upon a Main Street” “Feliz NaviDAD” (2020) Mario Lopez.

Fixer Upper Å Renovation Inc Å Renovation Inc Å Home Town Å Home Town Guy’s Games Holiday Wars Å Candy Land Å Christmas Holiday Baking Soul Train Awards: 2020 Soul Train Awards: (N) DJ: 2020 Soul Train Awards: Å “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” (2017) ››› “Ant-Man” (2015, Action) Paul Rudd.

Movie “Twister” (1996) Fear the Walking The Walking Dead: World Beyond (Season Finale) Walking ››‡ “Look Who’s Talking” (1989) Å “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” ››‡ “Overboard” (1987) Å American Pickers American Pickers American Pickers American Pickers American Pickers

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Undisputed Monday Night NFL Football: Seattle Seahawks at Philadelphia Eagles. (Live) SportsCenter Wheel Jeopardy Disney Holiday: CMA Country: The Good Doctor News Kimmel News Holly Neighbor Bob All Rise (In Stereo) Bull “Prison Break” News Colbert Big Bang Big Bang L.A.’s Finest (DVS) Filthy Rich (N) Fox News at Ten DailyMail Mod Fam ET Inside The Voice “Live Top 17 Performances” Weakest Link (N) News J. Fallon Last Man Last Man NewsNation (Live) NewsNation (Live) NewsNation (Live) NewsNation Å Cyber Monday Spectacular (Live) Å Cyber Monday Spectacular (N) (Live) Å PBS NewsHour (N) Antique Roadshow Legacy List Independent Lens (In Stereo) Å Secrets of Dead Creating Creating Freedom Summer: American: PBS NewsHour (N) E. B. OutFront Anderson Cooper Cuomo Prime Time CNN Tonight CNN Tonight The ReidOut (Live) All In With Rachel Maddow The Last Word The 11th Hour Shepard Smith Shark Tank Å Shark Tank Shark Tank Shark Tank Å The Story Tucker Carlson Hannity (Live) Å Ingraham Fox News at Night Chicago P.D. WWE Monday Night RAW (N) (In Stereo Live) Å Total Bellas Å “Ant-Man Wasp” ››› “Doctor Strange” (2016, Action) Å (DVS) “Ant-Man and The Wasp” Fam Guy Fam Guy Fam Guy Fam Guy Fam Guy Fam Guy American American Conan Seinfeld The First 48 Å The First 48 Å The First 48 Å The First 48 Å The First 48 ›››‡ “The Help” (2011) Viola Davis. ›››‡ “The Help” (2011, Drama) Viola Davis. (In Stereo) Å Office The Office Å Office Office Office Office Office The Daily Show Street Outlaws: Full Street Outlaws: Fastest in America (N) (In Stereo) Å Street Outlaws: Full The Family Chantel 90 Day Fiancé The Family Chantel The Family Chantel Love-Mama’s Boy Homestead Rescue Homestead Rescue: Survival Shelter (N) Insane Pools: Off the Deep End XL (N) ›››‡ “Wreck-It Ralph” (2012) Å The 700 Club Å ›››‡ “Up” (2009) Voices of Ed Asner.

Andy G. Andy G. Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond King King “White Heat” ››‡ “The Poseidon Adventure” (1972) ›‡ “Flap” (1970) Anthony Quinn. Å “12 Gifts-Cmas” “The Sweetest Christmas” (2017) Å “It’s Beginning to Look a L” “No Time Like” “The Christmas Listing” (2020) Å “Love at the Christmas Table” (2012) Fixer Upper Å Fixer Upper Bargain Mansions Fixer Upper Fixer Upper Å Christmas Cookie Holiday Baking Holiday Baking Christmas Cookie The Big Bake ›‡ “Blue Streak” (1999, Comedy) Martin Lawrence. Å ››‡ “Lottery Ticket” (2010) Bow Wow. ›› “Hunter Killer” (2018, Action) Gerard Butler.

Futurama ››› “Ant-Man” (2015) Paul Rudd.

“The Intern” (2015) ›› “Four Christmases” (2008) Å ›› “Fred Claus” (2007) Vince Vaughn.

Last Man Last Man Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Mom Cheerleaders Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars “The Spy Who Pawned Me” Pawn Stars Å

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PBA Bowling Å WWE Friday Night SmackDown Å Breaking Bowling Top 25 College Basketball: Champions Classic College Basketball: Champions Classic SportsC. Wheel Jeopardy The Bachelorette (In Stereo) Å (DVS) Big Sky (In Stereo) News Kimmel CBS6 News Rudolph, Reindeer: Let’s Make a: FBI: Most Wanted News Colbert Big Bang Big Bang Cosmos: Possible NEXT “File 6” (N) Fox News at Ten DailyMail Mod Fam ET Inside The Voice (N) Å Weakest Link Transplant (DVS) News J. Fallon Last Man Last Man NewsNation (Live) NewsNation (Live) NewsNation (Live) NewsNation Å Jane’s Gift Shoe Shopping philosophy - beauty Cheers! to Holiday Shopping With Leah PBS NewsHour (N) Ken Burns: Here & There: Johnny Cash: A Night: Amanpour-Co Saman Keep Up Durrells in Corfu Doc Martin Å Inside Balmoral: PBS NewsHour (N) E. B. OutFront Anderson Cooper Cuomo Prime Time CNN Tonight CNN Tonight The ReidOut (Live) All In With Rachel Maddow The Last Word The 11th Hour Shepard Smith Shark Tank Å Shark Tank Shark Tank Shark Tank Å The Story Tucker Carlson Hannity (Live) Å Ingraham Fox News at Night Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Law & Order: SVU Mod Fam Mod Fam “Mad Max: Fury” ›››‡ “Gladiator” (2000, Historical Drama) Russell Crowe.

“Hercules: Wars” Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Big Bang Misery Conan Misery Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Storage Movie (In Stereo) Å Movie (In Stereo) Å Office Office Office Office Drunk Drunk Drunk Drunk The Daily Show Moonshiners Moonshiners Å Moonshiners: Outlaw Cuts (N) (In Stereo) Moonshiners Å Welcome Fat Fabulous Fat Fabulous Welcome Christmas Trees: Alaskan Bush Alaskan Bush People: Wild Life (N) Yukon Men (N) Å Yukon Men (N) Å “Home Alone 2: Lost in N.Y.” ›› “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” The 700 Club Å Andy G. Andy G. Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond Raymond King King “Holly.-Makeup” Women Make Film ››› “Crossing Delancey” (1988) Å Women Make Film “Picture a Perfect” “Heart of the Holidays” (2020, Romance) “Good Morning Christmas!” (2020) Å “Christmas Vine” “People: Once Upon a Main Street” “A Taste of Christmas” (2020) Å Fixer to Fabulous Fixer to Fabulous Fixer to Fabulous Hunters Hunt Intl Hunters Hunt Intl Chopped Å Chopped Å Chopped (N) Å Supermarket Candy Land Å ›‡ “Blue Streak” (1999, Comedy) Å ›› “Bad Boys II” (2003, Action) Martin Lawrence. Å ››‡ “The Day After Tomorrow” (2004, Action) Å Futurama ›› “Hunter Killer” (2018) Gerard Butler.

Fred ››› “The Polar Express” (2004) Å “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” (1971) Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Last Man Cheerleaders Mom Mom Curse-Island Digging Deeper Curse-Island Beyond Oak Island Curse-Island

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Wyatt Adams, Julianne Ayers, Ella Barrett, Grant Baughman, Gabe Beasley, Annabelle Blaisdell, Layla Blaisdell, Jackson Boggs, Georgia Boggs, Richard Bolton, Zachary Brunelli, Greyson Caudle, Ashby Chester, Kaya Clark, Fabio Conigliaro, Savannah Corcoran, Jase Curtis, Owen Davis, Jackson Demay, Charlie Dunn, Brynn Emery, Connor Fessler, Avia Fischer, Carlos Fosse, Evan Fuller, Aubrey Goodrich, Sadie Gould, Roland Graham, Levi Hackney, Catherine Hall, Olivia Hixon, Hayden Hoover, Hadley Hurt, Chance Johnson, Maci Jones, Patrick Kearns, Landon Kerns, Madison King, Gates Lawson, Arturo Leon, Josie Levermore, Scarlet Lewis, Aria Lindsay, Joseph Long III, Logan Look, Allison Loyall, Graham Lyons, Audrey Mapes, Olivia Matthews, Harper McCormick, Rylee McDaniel, Rylan Mead, Chase Mesco, Chase Meyer, Charlie Miles, Serenity Minugh, Coen Moore, Trey Moss, Charlie Murray, Ava Muse, Addison Nelms, Ellie Nelson, Declan O'Leary, Wyatt Pallett, Marina Pantelejeva, Lucia Ann Pasi, Tristan Ramsey, Raylen Reese, Ava Reynolds, Erica Ricker, Madeline Ringstaff, Gio Rivera, Lucas Roudabush, Haven Schiller, Michael Schwartz, Louis Seivard, Seth Siliman, Rollyson Sletten, Sloane Stigall, Roan Sullivan, Ashleigh Taylor, Zion Taylor, Sam Thomas, Sonya Tye, Dustin Tyson, Clementine Ultsch, Nolan Urban, Charlotte Wilkes, Henry Zornow.

Kollin Brunstetter, Owen Bullock, T.J. Delaney, Tristin Dillard, Isaac Early, Joey Gajewski, Britney Jones, Axel McClendon, Cody Miller, Peyton Mungo, Lucas Shell, Declan Taylor.

Juan Alejo, Harvest Ashman, Anthony Bardon, Faith Dodd, Avalyn Edwards, Devin Ferriby, Addison Gaters, Cameron Glidewell, Kingston Goode, Bentley Hatchett, Lilly Hinden, LaCorei Holland, Leland Jackson, Colin Kirby, Richard Laning IV, Lorenzo Leon, Joshua Ogo, Evan Owen, Zoey Peine, Ryder Weeks, Hayden Wood, Krissa Sweeney.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING POWHATAN COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION 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 1, 2020, at 6:00 PM in the Powhatan County Village Building Auditorium, 3910 Old Buckingham Road, to consider the following request: Case #20-05-CUP: North Ridge Powhatan Solar LLC (District #1: Subletts/ Manakin/Flat Rock) requests a conditional use permit (CUP) to permit a solar energy farm within the Agricultural-10 (A-10) zoning district per Sec. 83-162 of the Zoning Ordinance of the County of Powhatan. The use is proposed to be located on Tax Map Parcel #41-1, which is located on the north side of U.S. Route 60 (Anderson Highway) northwest of its intersection with State Route 678 (Rocky Oak Road) near Flat Rock (2700 Anderson Highway). The subject property consists of 315.84 acres. The maximum project area subject to this request is 197 acres. The 2019 Long-Range Comprehensive Plan designates the subject property as Rural Residential and Natural Conservation on the Countywide Future Land Use Map.

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In accordance with § 15.2-2232 of the Code of Virginia, the Planning Commission will make a determination as to whether the request is in accord with recommendations made in the 2019 Long-Range Comprehensive Plan.

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Members of the public may also participate remotely by joining a webinar at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89655087654 or by dialing in by phone at 1-929-205-6099 OR 1-312-626-6799, then typing in the webinar ID 896 5508 7654. During the public comment period, participants may raise their hand using the zoom controls on the computer screen, or (if dialing in) by pressing *9 on a phone.

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The meeting may be watched live by visiting http://powhatanva.gov/432/Live-Streamof-Powhatan-County-Meetings.

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 and will be available online at least five (5) days prior to the meeting at http://powhatanva.gov/agendacenter. Please call (804) 598-5621 with any questions.

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