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Also on today's calendar: Aug. 19/26: Back to School Supply Drive at VHS & Port Warwick Foundation's Summer Concert Series and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: What do you call a snowman that is having a temper tantrum? 🤔 (Answer below!)
• Business Notes: Newport News shipyard recruits through schools; Sentara expands food lockers (pilotonline.com) — Newport News just secured a $2.5 million Safer Communities grant to fuel its Momentum for Peace violence‑reduction plan, funding data systems, youth leadership, and local nonprofits. The piece also highlights Newport News Shipbuilding's WAVES program bringing more than 50 Virginia high school graduates straight into shipyard careers, plus other Hampton Roads business, education, and healthcare updates.
• At Quo Vadis retreat, young men strive for holiness (catholicvirginian.org) — A seminarian serving at St. Jerome in Newport News helped lead this summer's Quo Vadis retreat in Hampton, where 37 high school boys prayed, hit Buckroe Beach, and explored possible calls to priesthood. Participants say the long weekend's brotherhood, Eucharistic adoration, and powerful martyrdom stories are helping them discern their futures and stay grounded in faith.
• Trump's shipbuilding plan can't come at expense of Hampton Roads, Virginia lawmakers say (stripes.com) — Newport News Shipbuilding's role in Trump's new shipbuilding directive is front and center, as Virginia lawmakers from both parties insist any expansion or overseas work must not siphon jobs or contracts from Hampton Roads. They argue the region's carriers, submarines, and naval yards already anchor the Navy's industrial base and should be strengthened before any new Pacific shipyard or foreign-built vessels move forward.
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