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County seeks foster parents

The Henrico County Department of Social Services will hold a meeting Thursday, July 11 for individuals and couples who may be interested in providing foster care to county youth.

Henrico has a significant need for foster parents, with 98 children placed in foster care as of April 30, according to Social Services. A total of 53 children entered care during the past year. > Read more.

Awards honor emergency responders


They were young and old, big and small, but the individuals presented with awards at the Henrico Division of Fire recognition ceremony May 23 had one characteristic in common: modesty.

“If you were to ask them if they did anything,” Henrico Fire Chief Anthony E. McDowell said of those being honored at the Henrico County Government Center, “they would just say they were doing their job.” > Read more.

Henrico’s Top Dads


In celebration of Father’s Day, the Henrico Citizen and First Things First of Greater Richmond sought nominations of “Henrico’s Top Dads” from children and teens ages 5 to 17. Entries were judged by officials from both organizations and Henrico School Board member Lamont Bagby. The top 10 winning submissions appear here in alphabetical order, and honorable mention recipients also are listed on this page. Each dad was recognized at First Things First’s Celebrate Fatherhood event at Ukrop Park in Chesterfield June 9. > Read more.

State agencies work to protect streams

Editor's Note: This is the third in a series of articles about Henrico streams.

In all the excitement and celebration about the opening of the newly rebuilt Huguenot Bridge, it was easy to overlook the flurry of activity a dozen yards below.

As barricades, orange barrels, and yellow-vested Virginia Dept. of Transportation (VDOT) employees slowly receded from the bridge surface the day after its May 28 opening, and traffic flowed without hindrance for the first time since 2010, a different team of VDOT workers clustered beneath the underside of the bridge to plant an assortment of young trees. > Read more.

Bon Secours graduates new class of nurses

Three years, 124 credits and more than 800 hours of hands-on practice later, 26 men and women joined the profession of Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton in a ceremony May 16 at St. Mary's Catholic Church.

Not only had these eager graduates earned their places in the field of nursing, but they also earned the first bachelor's degrees granted by the Bon Secours Memorial College of Nursing. > Read more.

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Community

Short Pump Ruritan Club donates $50k to Virginia War Memorial

The Short Pump Ruritan/Civic Association Foundation, Inc. recently presented a check for $50,000 to the Virginia War Memorial Educational Foundation. The donation will be used to finance the production of a new film about the Vietnam War as part of the War Memorial’s award-winning Virginians at War film series. > Read more.

Vintage Home Market set for June 15-16

A longtime Lakeside business owner and his partner are bringing "The Vintage Home Market" to the Richmond International Raceway Complex June 15-16.

Tony Turner has operated a business on Lakeside Avenue for nearly 20 years, beginning with Huckleberries Home & Garden for 10 years in The Hub Shopping Center and followed by Feathernesters across the street in the Lakeside Town Center. > Read more.

Fan Care offers heat relief to seniors

Qualifying senior citizens can receive free relief from summer heat through the 23rd annual Fan Care program, which provides fans and cooling assistance to seniors 60 and older in need.

The program is an initiative of Senior Connections, The Capital Area Agency on Aging for seniors who meet income eligibility requirements and have a situation that threatens their health. > Read more.

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Entertainment

A community ‘Kaffeehaus’ in Henrico’s Far West End

Born and raised in good old Europe, I am quite familiar with the traditional Austro-Hungarian tradition of the Kaffeehaus, an institution that represents a lifestyle of relaxing and thinking in a familiar environment with coffee, pastry, news, good service, marble tables, subdued sounds like the click-clack of the coffee machine, mugs and plates, conversations among patrons and with staff and a bit of low volume Johann Strauss music.

And so it was a thrill to find a modern version of a Kaffeehaus right here in Henrico County: The Daily Grind, near Short Pump Town Center. > Read more.

Oklahoma tornado victims to benefit from Innsbrook concert

The Innsbrook Foundation will present a special concert June 19 at the Innsbrook Snagajob Pavilion to raise funds benefiting the victims of the Moore and Shawnee communities of Oklahoma.

The Innsbrook After Hours RVA Cares event will feature five bands and a family festival in recognition of the many families devastated by the Oklahoma tornadoes on May 20, which killed 23 people, injured 377 others, and left destroyed and damaged homes affecting 33,000 residents. > Read more.

Food trucks arrive in the West End

West End residents no longer have to pick between fighting the summer mall crowds for a quick bite or breaking the bank to eat at a fine-dining spot because one Richmond group is bringing both to them.

RVA Street Foodies, the organization behind the outdoor food truck courts at the Virginia Historical Society and Hardywood Brewery, debuted its new Henrico food truck court at All Saints Episcopal Church on River Road May 22. > Read more.

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