Fitness fun Six-year-old Alayzin Smith energetically hoops it up during the 4th Annual Health and Wellness Fair at Blackwell Elementary School in the city’s South Side. The school, along with the city’s Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities and the Minority Health Consortium, hosted the spring event to promote community health.

Volunteer carpenters install a wheelchair ramp at a home in the Swansboro neighborhood of South Side near George Wythe High School. The volunteers were among 800 people who worked in the neighborhood Saturday to repair and improve 40 homes for low-income elderly homeowners. The nonprofit Rebuilding Together Richmond organized the one-day blitz in celebration of National Rebuilding Day. This is the 23rd year that RTR, once known as Christmas in April, has led this free neighbor-helping-neighbor effort to spruce up homes for those in need.

Sprouting tulip in the West End

The YWCA of Richmond honored leaders in eight disciplines for their high achievement at its 35th Annual Outstanding Women Awards luncheon. More than 800 people attended the event held April 24 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. The honorees and their areas, from left: Dr. Melissa Nelson, health and science; Mary E. Langer, law and government; Genene D. LeRosen, education; Marilyn West, business; Kathy Glazer, nonprofit management; Judy Anderson, volunteerism; Susan Brown Davis, human relations and faith in action; and Ana Ines King, arts.