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Welcome to your weekly Reader Rewards newsletter! Where we're inching ever closer to schools re-opening.  After a year-and-a-half of mostly distance/remote learning - we're SO close to having kids be back in the classroom.  A breather for some parents, for sure.  But then there's this issue we've all been wrestling with for that same amount of time: COVID-19.  Plans haven't changed yet, but the rise of the delta variant has made planning a bit dicey.  If you missed the announcement concerning the Oceana Airshow - check it out here. The Pilot's Elisha Sauers had an overview on what scientists felt was needed to slow COVID at this point.  While yours truly will not read the drill again - we do know what to do!  

For all the bad that has come about as a result of COVID-19, there continues to be local stories of hope.  If you missed The Pilot's Alison Johnson's report on the Fairy Tree in Norfolk that has helped make wishes come true during COVID - read up on it right here.

We always try to feature a local story here at Reader Rewards pertaining to the water, given we're nearly surrounded by it.  The Pilot's Stacy Parker gave everyone a report on how to literally get fresh fish off the boat.  If you missed it earlier this week - here you go!

We usually wrap up the newsletter with a brief on sports of some sort.  The Pilot's Olivia George had another encouraging feature on a local "hero" this past Sunday.  Check out her coverage of the positive impact Coach Glen from Norfolk's Berkley neighborhood.  This one is definitely a good read!

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Home Depot -
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Dick's Sporting Goods - 
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COMING SUNDAY:

Ten years ago, the Tide launched in Norfolk, becoming the first light rail system in Virginia. A decade in, what lessons have been learned about the 7.3-mile line that was never extended across the border into Virginia Beach? And, more importantly, with no movement on extensions in Norfolk and ridership remaining relatively stagnant, what does its future look like?

 Read more in this Sunday's Main News section

In theory: A survey of all 7 Hampton Roads police and fire departments to see who is monitoring vaccination rates and how those vaccination rates compare to the general population. But it turns out most departments are not tracking how many of their staff are protected. Why? 

Read more in this Sunday's Main News section

 Coverage of a parade in Norfolk celebrating Keyshawn Davis, who won a silver medal in boxing at the Olympics.

Read more in this Sunday's Main New

The weekend of Aug. 20 marks the 190th anniversary of the Nat Turner Rebellion in Southampton County — when Turner, an enslaved man, led a band who killed an estimated 55 white people. He and several others were caught, tried and hanged. The repercussions have rippled through U.S. history, and in Southampton.

Read more in the Sunday Break section

A new take on the Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner: How women especially, but also children, nurtured, supported and carried on resistance -- before, during and after the rebellion in 1831. A historian's research. 

Read more in the Sunday Break section

A cafe, yoga studio, boutique, massage therapy and more — all under one roof — is headed to Norfolk’s East Beach neighborhood in 2022.

The Well Co. & Cafe — a Columbia, South Carolina-based wellness business that offers a smorgasbord of healthy food, apparel and fitness options — plans to open its second location in a new East Beach apartment development. The business expects to create about 15 to 20 jobs, the owners said.

Read more in the Sunday Work & Money section

 The benefit game Thursday was billed as “A house divided.”

On one sideline was Lakeland High head coach Joe Jones.

Across the field was younger brother, Perry Jones, the head coach at Glen Allen High, outside of Richmond.

Both are former standouts at Oscar Smith High.

They both were hired in 2019, one month apart, with Joe getting his job first.

Read more in the Sunday Sports section
     

       




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