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Welcome to your weekly Reader Rewards newsletter!  I know, I know.....yours truly mentioned this here last week - but time flies fast and we'll mention it again: The Summer Olympics are BACK!  A whole five years since the last summer games, but the opening ceremony is tomorrow!  In case you missed our handy guide to your Friday night viewing party last weekend, The Pilot's Denise Watson has you covered right here.

It will certainly be different with out fans in the stands at most if not all venues - no thanks to COVID-19.  Athletes have already turned up positive test results.  Japan is going through what we're starting to see here in The States: continued growth in positive cases, hospitalizations and deaths.  The Pilot's Elisha Sauers provided coverage this past weekend, for a recap - check out her story here. We here at Reader Rewards strongly recommend serious consideration given to the vaccine.  For those that haven't already, of course.  Otherwise, you know the mantra: wear a mask, keep six feet of physical distance and wash your hands often!

On a more positive note - here's one for everyone in Chesapeake.  Anyone that has traversed Battlefield Boulevard in years past MUST remember the guy in the roller skates at the intersection with Cedar Road.  He hasn't been seen in quite some time.  Well - he's BACK!  Gordon Rago's story right here gives us the update!

Rounding out the sports scene - congratulations to the Milwaukee Bucks.  They secured their first NBA Championship in 50 years!  Some may recall whose loyalty has yours truly here at Reader Rewards - yes The Los Angeles Lakers.  Well, in those same 50 years The Lakers won 12 NBA Championships.  So The Bucks have some work to do!

Enjoy The Opening Ceremony of The Olympics and the start of the games!  As well as our contests this week!

Contests this week! Once again we've got more of your favorites: Whole Foods, Bed Bath & Beyond and Carrabba's!

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Last Week's Contest Winners

Walmart -  Ilene Putterman

Lowe's -
Cynthia Johnson

TJ Maxx - 
Carol Schratzmeier


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COMING SUNDAY:

Virginia wants schools to adopt policies to protect transgender students. Will school boards follow through?

 Read more in this Sunday's Main News section

When a body bag was pulled from a second floor apartment in Ocean View late last year and carried down the wooden stairs, residents from nearby units gathered outside to watch.

Numerous police cars and firetrucks arrived that Sunday morning, with sirens blaring and lights flashing. A van from the medical examiner’s office drove up later.

A woman in a neighboring building was among the onlookers. She captured all the action on her cell phone, snapping pictures and recording video.

That was Nov. 15, 2020. The location: 1216 Hillside Ave., an apartment building a couple of blocks from the beach.

The person found dead there was later identified as 36-year-old Sheena West of Virginia Beach. The veterinary office worker and mother of a teenage son had mysteriously disappeared the night before while out with friends at a Virginia Beach restaurant and bar. Her friends said she left her phone and wallet behind and didn’t tell them she was leaving. Surveillance footage showed her exiting with an unknown man.

Read more in this Sunday's Main News section

Virginia is now home to one of the most extraordinary food documents ever compiled by a single human.

Perhaps, if you were curious one day about the invention of cheese, you’ve already found it. The Food Timeline is an endless scroll of food facts and recipes that looks like an artifact from the ancient Geocities days of the internet, a rose-tinted window onto the World Before Google.

But in its simplicity, the Timeline also contains multitudes.

Read more in the Sunday Break section

  • For years, E'sa Simon was a staple to passersby in Great Bridge, the man who roller skated in the gas station parking lot all day to his own music. But for the past couple years, Simon was gone and people feared the worst. He's now back home, thanking people of the city for their support.

    Read more in the Sunday Break section

    Jordan and Phillip Dail opened the Cape Charles Candy Company on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in 2018. Ready to expand, they found a sweet spot in the Norfolk Premium Outlets formerly occupied by Forbes Candies.

     Read more in the Sunday Work & Money section

            

          




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