Camden Talley, 4, lends his great uncle Jeremy Rountree a hand. The pair spread gravel to slow weeds in a garden near their home. Location: Chimborazo Boulevard and N Street in Church Hill.

Workers are busy readying the Stuart C. Siegel Center at Virginia Commonwealth University for the start of basketball season, with a free preview of the men’s team 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, at the annual Black & Gold Game. The arena will be enhanced with four new luxury suites, a new scoreboard over center court, installation of a new sound system and new branding marks for VCU and the Atlantic 10 conference. The center’s seating capacity will remain about 7,700.

City Council member Parker Agelasto shovels dirt from a road at Byrd Park in the West End. Margaret Quay and Aretha Gayle joined him last Saturday in the HandsOn Greater Richmond citywide cleanup effort. Volunteers teamed in nearly 60 projects to beautify neighborhoods in the annual event.

Signs of autumn in Richmond’s East End

An estimated 150 clergy members boarded chartered GRTC buses and traveled down metro Richmond’s four major transportation corridors, where they prayed at stops and listened to the concerns of public transit riders last Thursday about the need for a comprehensive regional rapid transit system. Above, from left, Ishaq Shabazz, the Rev. Micah McCreary and Bishop Daniel Robertson Jr. pray at the end of the Hull Street Road bus line in South Side. The event was held in conjunction with the 5th Annual Metro Richmond Clergy Convocation. Riders boarded outside Richmond Hill ecumenical center in Church Hill, which organized the event with the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University.