We’re No. 1! / Jubilant Highland Springs High School football team members and supporters show off their championship trophy after their 27-7 rout of Stone Bridge High School of Loudoun County in the State Division 5 final last Saturday at the University of Virginia’s Scott Stadium in Charlottesville. The celebration continued Tuesday with a ceremony at the Henrico County school.

A patient pedestrian waits to push his cart filled with metal and other items across the railroad tracks. He is on his way to turn his collection into cash at the recycling plant at Stratton Metals, 900 Brook Road, on North Side. He is among hundreds in Richmond who make money collecting paper, aluminum cans and other recyclables.

A rose blooms in Jackson Ward

Graduation pride at VSU

Dr. Pamela V. Hammond, interim president of Virginia State University, leads the academic procession into the fall commencement ceremony last Saturday at Daniel Gymnasium on the campus. State Sen. Rosalyn R. Dance of Petersburg, the commencement speaker, is second in the line that includes members of the VSU Board of Visitors, administrators and faculty. Sen. Dance and Dr. Hammond received honorary degrees during the ceremony.

Valedictorian Destini Orr, below right, of Petersburg, savors the VSU graduation scene after receiving her degree. The university’s top scholar majored in health and physical education/sports medicine. More than 400 students were awarded undergraduate and graduate degrees at the ceremony.