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Welcome to your weekly Reader Rewards newsletter!  Where yours truly here at Reader Rewards is a Chesapeake resident and is HOPING to see that recycling truck sometime SOON.  Sounds like I'm not the only one that hasn't seen it in four weeks time!  For an update on the Chesapeake recycling situation - check out The Pilot's report by Noble Brigham right here. If it DOES show up this week, it will probably be the last, but PLEASE just one more pick up?

Ok, in the spirit of keeping things uplifting and lighter here at the Reader Rewards newsletter - how about the story involving the Ocean View barber retiring after cutting hair for 63 years??  If you missed it, The Pilot's Caitlyn Burchett has the write up on "Mr. D" finally hanging up the scissors after all those years.  Check out Caitlyn's story on "Mr. D" right here. Absolutely incredible dedication Mr. D!

Still on the topic of long-standing business in Norfolk, how about the update on The Monastery in downtown Norfolk?  Whether you've had a chance to stop in at The Monastery - be sure to check out report by Rekaya Gibson right here. Wonderful success story about Anna and Adolf Jerabek!

One last update/plug on business in Norfolk.  Who remember Borjo coffeehouse??  For Norfolk residents - especially those around ODU - Borjo was a must throughout the week.  Unfortunately it closed in 2019.  Borjo will be open once again this summer under the ownership of Bill Odom.  Be sure to read up on Borjo courtesy of The Pilot's Trevor Metcalfe - right here.

The official start of summer is just over a week away.  With it - comes trips down to The Outer Banks.  With that in mind, how about a throw-back report from a former reporter of The Pilot - Lorraine Eaton?  Lorraine's 5 "must eat" places on the Outer Banks?  Well - read up on Lorraine's suggestions right here! 

Lastly - it's' that time of year here in Hampton Roads - specifically Norfolk.  I know, you thought we were done with Norfolk plugs.  Can't pass this up in terms of weekend recommendations.  Harborfest!  The Pilot's staff has put together a report of all this weekend's festivities - right here.

On the sports front, we have The Boston Celtics and Golden State Warriors battling for the NBA Championship and the NHL's Stanley Cup Championship is still a bit away yet. Many local high schools are participating in post-season spring sports.  More to come on that in coming weeks!

Contests, contests, contests! Next weekend The Virginia Arts Festival has Williamsburg Live.  We have 3 pair of tickets EACH to Mandy Moore, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit and Martina McBride!  We also have gift card contest to Target, Kroger and Food Lion!

Enter to win a $50 gift card to one or to win Williamsburg Live tickets. Go to MyReaderRewards.com to win!



Last Week's Contest Winners

Amazon -       Linda Karen Bunting

Wawa -  
Rhonda Meehan

Walmart -   Nancy McKeown

CONTESTS

An Emmy-, Grammy- and Golden Globe-nominated actress, singer, and songwriter, Mandy Moore first came to national attention with her platinum-selling 1999 debut album So Real. With her sophomore effort I Wanna Be with You arriving in 2000 and her self-titled third album released in 2001, she starred in the film adaptation of Nicholas Sparks's A Walk to Remember in 2002, winning an MTV Movie Award for Breakthrough Female Performance.  Register at MyReaderRewards.com for a chance to win a pair of tickets to see Mandy Moore at Williamsburg Live on June 17th!

Four-time Grammy Award winner Jason Isbell headlines Saturday night at Williamsburg Live 2022, as part of an unforgettable music weekend. A fan favorite at major festivals and halls including Bonnaroo, Red Rocks and Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium—home of the Grand Ole Opry—Isbell is “a singer-songwriter of observant insight and penetrating empathy, brilliantly adept at compressing a complicated range of emotions into a terse, plain-spoken turn of phrase…evoking a world with a few brush strokes” (The New York Times).  Register at MyReaderRewards.com for a chance to win a pair of tickets for the concert on June 18th!


Multiple Grammy® nominee Martina McBride has sold over 23 million albums to date, which includes 20 Top 10 singles and six #1 hits. Martina McBride has earned more than 15 major music awards, including four wins for Female Vocalist of the Year from the Country Music Association and won three Academy of Country Music for Top Female Vocalist. Martina has been awarded 14 Gold Records. Nine Platinum honors, three Double Platinum Records, and two Triple Platinum Awards. Martina was awarded the Covenant House Beacon of Hope Award and Music Business Association’s prestigious 2015 Harry Chapin Memorial Humanitarian Award for her philanthropic efforts on behalf of domestic violence.  Sign up for a chance to win a pair of tickets to see Martina McBride at Williamsburg Live on June 19th at MyReaderRewards.com!

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COMING SUNDAY:

Ryan Suit tries to keep a close eye on marijuana legislation.

As the co-owner of a Virginia Beach shop that sells cannabinoid products, he doesn’t want to be caught off guard by any new rules or regulations. Yet even Suit was shocked to learn that buried within the state’s recently unveiled budget proposal is a provision that would create a new criminal misdemeanor for marijuana possession.

“They essentially weaponized the budget proposal against cannabis,” he said.

Suit said he was unaware the budget conference committee was even considering the measure in the budget — and he isn’t the only one who was blindsided.

Read more in the Sunday Main News section

When bulldozers start rolling on a sprawling and brambly tract in York County, the move will be more than just development. It will also be redemption.

What’s coming to the onetime Commonwealth of Virginia Emergency Fuel Storage Facility — ground that regulators once deemed environmentally unsafe — is a light industrial site called Kings Creek Commerce Center and a Dominion Energy solar farm. The hope is to start the project later this year or early the next.

Stakeholders in the project, including six Hampton Roads municipalities and Dominion, are eager to repurpose the land that has intersected with history at numerous pivotal points and paid a price for it.

Government reports have described the 432-acre property, which is tucked between a creek, National Park Service land and a military base, in no uncertain terms:

“Groundwater contamination was found in the uppermost aquifer in five discreet areas,” claimed a 1996 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency report.

“The sediments in two ravines and a pond at the facility are heavily contaminated with petroleum hydrocarbons and the aquatic habitat on-site has been impacted,” said another in 2015.

The site was abandoned in the late 1980s, but regulators have since given the property the all clear, with provisions such as prohibitions on using groundwater.

But its next life marks a new chapter in an eventful timeline.

Read more in the Sunday Break section

Don’t expect elegant images of queens, peacocks or Victorian gardens on Roberto Lugo’s ceramics.

He decorates pottery with his life and those who have been most influential in it: His mother teaching her granddaughter how to make pasteles, a Puerto Rican dish, is the center of a dinner plate. Rapper Biggie Smalls’ face is splashed on a decorative urn. Lugo’s teapots have spouts and handles that look like guns, images he was more familiar with growing up in Philadelphia.

His work has won prestigious honors and has been showcased in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia. His “Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room” exhibition is on view at the Met.

More than 50 of his pieces will be on view at the Hermitage Museum and Gardens in the “Roberto Lugo: Pottery with Purpose” exhibition, which opened this weekend. It highlights how his work reflects his multicultural experience and celebrates current and historic figures who have made an impact in social justice and race relations.

Read more in the Sunday Break section

Fifty-six years ago, Pembroke Mall became the first enclosed mall in Hampton Roads.

Now, the aging center is taking on a new look and purpose.

Mall owner Pembroke Square Associates is teaming up with Charlottesville-based Castle Development Partners to break ground in March 2023 on a 12-story apartment complex above the former Stein Mart. The project will include 322 one-, two- and three-bedroom units ranging from 550 square feet to 1,800 square feet.

Read more in the Sunday Work & Money section

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