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News Near You for Oct. 20

By Staff Reports
Published: October 20, 2009

NEWS NEAR YOU

Chesterfield The Chesterfield Disability Services Board will hold its annual Disability Awareness Fair

tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Epiphany Catholic Church, 11000 Smoketree Drive. Vendors will be available to talk about their services and programs for people with disabilities.

Hanover The Patrick Henry Family YMCA will hold a groundbreaking ceremony Friday at 10 a.m. to mark the start of a $2.4 million construction that will consolidate the two Hanover YMCAs in an expanded facility at 217 Ashcake Road. The first floor will feature two youth centers, an intergenerational room, staff offices and multiple social areas. The second floor will have a 6,000-square-foot wellness center and two group exercise studios. The renovation will nearly double the

YMCA's capacity for child care and camp programs, offer more social and program options for teens and active adults, and enable the YMCA to serve a wider range of health and fitness needs.

Richmond Friends of the

Richmond Public Library will sponsor Susan Greenbaum in a free concert on Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. in Library Park, at Second and East Main streets. For details, visit http://www.richmondpubliclibrary.org.

Henrico The Henrico County Retired School Personnel Association luncheon meeting will be held Oct. 29 at the Cultural Arts Center in Glen Allen, beginning at 11:15 a.m. The speaker will be Patrick Russo,

superintendent of Henrico County Public Schools. For details or to register, call (804) 270-7643 or (804) 747-1966.

Chesterfield James River High School will be hosting "College 4 U," a college preview event for high school students with disabilities, their parents or guardians and education professionals. The regional event will take place Nov. 7 from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. at James River High, 3700 James River Road. The deadline to register is Friday. Registration is $5 per student and includes up to two family members. For details, call (804) 828-6947.

Richmond The Department of Public Utilities is providing free home weatherization kits for senior citizens on Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Pleasants Hardware, 2024 W. Broad St. The Department of Social Services will be there to accept fuel assistance applications. An ElderHomes representative will answer weatherization questions, and a Senior Connections representative will offer information. You must be a city resident and 65 or older to receive a kit. For more details, call 646-5463.

Chesterfield The Chesterfield County Planning Commission meets today at 3 p.m. in the public meeting room of the county administration building. On the agenda is a public hearing on a request for tentative approval of the 125-home Queensgate subdivision, near Coalfield and Queensgate roads.

AROUND THE STATE

Alexandria The maximum speed limit of 55 mph is being restored along the Woodrow Wilson Bridge corridor between Maryland and Virginia on the Capital Beltway. Speed limits were reduced in 2005 as construction was under way.

Roanoke A group of veterans is in Virginia on a nationwide bus tour to support reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Tour sponsor Operation Free says climate change is a national-security threat. Charlottesville native and former Army Staff Sgt. Chuck Tyler said the group seeks support for a U.S. Senate bill that would cut pollution and develop clean energy. The bill includes a cap-and-trade system that would require power plants and industries to cut carbon dioxide emissions. Stops were in Roanoke and Charlottesville yesterday and are scheduled for Richmond and Norfolk today.

Alexandria Federal prosecutors say Mark Allen Jackson, a former ROTC teacher in Maryland, has pleaded guilty to traveling across state lines to have sex with a student in Virginia. Jackson, 43, of Alexandria, entered the plea yesterday. He will be sentenced on Jan. 8.

-- From Staff and Wire Reports