Where’s the cat? // Volunteer Inez Crews engages the attention and participation of pre-schoolers Tuesday at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Learning Center in the East End as she reads “Pete the Cat: Rocking in My School Shoes.” The book is part of the monthly read aloud and share program sponsored by RVA Reads. Each youngster will get a new book each month to take home and read and share with their families. Story on A6.

Lynda Solansky, left, and sculptor Maria J. Kirby-Smith clean the bronze Richmond Police Memorial statue in Nina F. Abady Festival Park beside the Richmond Coliseum. Ms. Kirby-Smith created the 8½-foot-tall statue that was placed in 1987 and pays homage to city police officers and the 28 killed in the line of duty between 1869 and 2003. A private foundation paid for the statue that depicts an officer carrying a child down steps. The artist and her friend drove up from South Carolina to wash and wax the statue Tuesday, possibly the statue’s first cleaning since it was dedicated 28 years ago. The cleaning was done ahead of a wreath-laying ceremony that Mayor Dwight C. Jones will lead Tuesday, Nov. 24, according to retired Officer Glenwood W. Burley, the statue’s protector. He’s now leading a push to win city approval to move the statue from its home on the 7th Street side of the park to The Carillon area of Byrd Park. The Carillon Civic Association, which represents people living next to the park, has publicly expressed opposition, arguing the statue would be out of place and urging city leaders to find a more suitable location.

Lady bug spotted in the West End

VCU homecoming royalty // Lawrence Cooper and Amy Chong are all smiles after they were presented as the Virginia Commonwealth University 2015 Homecoming King and Queen last Friday at the Rams’ game against Prairie View A&M University at the Siegel Center. The Rams trounced the Panthers 75-50. Last weekend’s homecoming festivities at VCU included a parade, alumni and student leader networking brunch, a step show and a VCU women’s basketball game won by the Lady Rams, 73-42, over Coppin State University.

‘The Hand of God’ at VMFA // Adam and Eve emerge from “The Hand of God,” one of 200 works by French master sculptor Auguste Rodin that will be on display in Richmond beginning Saturday, Nov. 21, at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition, “Rodin: Evolution of a Genius,” will include other plasters, as well as bronzes, marbles, ceramics and works on paper by the 19th-century artist who is regarded as a pioneer of modern sculpture. His most popular works, “The Thinker” and “The Kiss,” also will be on display in the exhibit that is drawn mostly from collections at the Musée Rodin in Paris and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. In conjunction with the exhibit, VMFA will offer educational programs and events around the state for audiences of all ages. The works will be on view through March 13 at the museum, 200 N. Boulevard. Information: www. vmfa.museum or (804) 340-1400.