This daily column features short news items from the 20 localities that make up the greater Richmond area. On Mondays, we run at least one item from each of the localities. If you have a news item, call 649-6990 or e-mail us at Amelia Work has begun on the visitors center at Amelia County’s Sailor’s Creek Battlefield State Park. The $1.1 million center is expected to be completed next summer.

Richmond Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church, 14 W. Duval St., will hold a historic-preservation seminar on Monday. The seminar will focus on the importance of preserving black heritage and will be held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. The seminar will include a panel discussion, lunch and a walking tour of Jackson Ward in downtown Richmond. The cost of the seminar is $35, and it is open to the public. To register, call APVA, (804) 648-1889, or the church, (804) 648-7511.

This daily column features short news items from the 20 localities that make up the greater Richmond area. On Mondays, we run at least one item from each of the localities.

Police Chief Jeffrey W. Faries wants city youth to get to know their police officers—and he wants them to have a little fun doing so. A new set of trading cards featuring all 47 police officers in the agency, including the department’s narcotics dog, is available to city youth—or anyone else who wants to collect them, Faries said.

Roughly 700 people gathered at a church in Colonial Heights to remember a teen who disappeared a week ago in the Appomattox River.

A body believed to be that of a Colonial Heights teen missing since Monday was discovered yesterday in the Appomattox River. William Shields, 16, a junior at Colonial Heights High School, disappeared while swimming with friends. Authorities had been searching near the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge that connects Colonial Heights with Petersburg.