The Official Guide To Richmond's Far West End
Kate Hall, CEO and founder of the popular parenting blog Richmondmom.com, nearly dropped the phone when she heard the news. Chevy had selected Kate among 5 bloggers nationally to take a road trip to Texas and participate in this year’s SXSW Interactive Conference.
The Deep Run Marathon Dance student committee will be hosting a “Remember the Titans” Movie Night. Tickets are $5 per person at the door for a meet and greet with 87-year-old Coach Yoast, Petey Jones, and several other Original Titans. Light concessions will be available during the meet and greet and attendees are welcome to bring items to be autographed and take photos with the Titans.
The Springfield Park Elementary Knowledge Master Open team competed against 203 teams from all over the United States to place first in both the county and state, and 23rd in the nation overall.
After a nail-biting 19 rounds of spelling word after word, Aditya Kannoth, a sixth-grader at Moody Middle School, won first place in the Henrico County Public Schools District-Wide Spelling Bee for the fourth year in a row. Kannoth spelled “surrealism” to become the spelling bee champion.
As an athlete and physical education teacher at Rivers Edge Elementary School, Rhett Rutman started to realize there weren’t many books that promoted exercise within the classroom, so with an R.E.B. Award grant he won in 2009, Rhett and his wife, Meredyth, created a children’s book about two subjects close to their heart–exercise and children.
Henrico County Public Schools has announced a batch of awards given out by Governor Bob McDonnell and the Virginia Department of Education. These awards were given out to high-performing Virginia schools and school divisions.
This is your opportunity to clean out your closets and donate something you already have, but don’t use, to a good cause. Over the next two weeks, Saxon Shoes will wrap up their 2012 Saxon Shoes for the Needy program. Donated shoes will benefit deserving area families through the programs of The Salvation Army ARC.
An annual favorite returns to the Far West End this year as The West End Academy of Dance and Pilates, Dance and More join together to produce a much loved holiday classic, “The Nutcracker Sweet,” being performed at Deep Run High December 10th and 11th at 2:00 p.m.
Deep Run High School’s award-winning Blue Cheese Robotics team hosted a robotics tournament on Saturday, November 19th, inviting 24 area teams to attend from Henrico and surrounding counties, which amounted to over 100 participants.
Mondial Assistance USA, a global travel insurance and assistance company with U.S. headquarters in the West End, announced that it is now accepting applications for its 2012 travel scholarship program, ScholarTrips. The program is open to middle and high school students from the city of Richmond and the counties of Henrico, Hanover, Chesterfield, Goochland, Powhatan, New Kent and Charles City. Four recipients will receive scholarships of $2,500 for study abroad programs. The winners will be announced by January 13, 2012.
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