Are you ready for some football? Three-year-old Mikenzie “Button” Williams recruits game officials for cheering duty last Saturday during halftime of the exciting Richmond Parks and Recreation Pee Wee Football championship game. The Battery Park Vikings defeated the Hotchkiss Eagles 6-0 in overtime, clinching the title for 9- and 10-year-olds at City Stadium. Championship matches also were played in four other age groups. Officials learning new cheers are, from left, William Jessie, Ellery Lundy, Rudy Waddell and Jimmy Drayton.

Judge Jamison retiring // Family and friends join in unveiling the portrait of outgoing Judge Birdie Hairston Jamison, right, that will hang in the Richmond General District Court. With her at Friday’s ceremony at the Manchester Courthouse are, from left: Sheriff C.T. Woody Jr., Judge Jamison’s sister, Paige Hairston, Delegate Delores L. McQuinn, former Delegate Jean W. Cunningham, Richmond General District Court Chief Judge D. Eugene Cheek, former state Sen. Henry L. Marsh III and Judge Jamison’s other sister, Mable Lewis. Judge Jamison, 57, is the dean of the state’s traffic court judges. She began hearing cases in Richmond in 1991. Her tenure on the court officially ends Tuesday, Nov. 30. She must step down because the General Assembly declined to reappoint her to a new term last January. Numerous speakers at the retirement ceremony lauded her service to the court.

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Water is good for you. That’s the healthy message Richmond Public Schools and Richmond City Health District officials passed to elementary school students during Water Week demonstrations and activities last week. The aim is to encourage students to drink more water rather than sugar-laden drinks. Above, Bridgette Harris distributes fruit-infused water to students at George Mason Elementary School in Church Hill last Friday. Water Week kicked off the RPS Hydration Station Initiative involving special water fountains that have been installed in all city elementary schools. Students will receive water bottles they can refill at the hydration stations.

Fresh turnips for the holiday at 17th Street Farmers’ Market

The new home of the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia at 122 W. Leigh St. comes alive in a public illumination ceremony last Friday. Craig Alexander Matthews, left, directs the Richmond Boys Choir during its performance at the outdoor event that drew about 125 people.

Above, Mayor Dwight C. Jones and Marilyn H. West, chair of the museum’s board, center, lead board members, other dignitaries and the public in applause as the lights go on. More than $8 million has been poured into transforming and expanding the former Leigh Street Armory for the museum’s use. The project is expected to be complete in January.

Originally opened in 1895, the building first served black militia units and was the only building in the nation ever constructed for that purpose. The armory later was used as a city school, a warehouse and a World War II recreation center for black soldiers. It has been vacant since the late 1980s.

Human bodies became the canvas last weekend at the 23rd Annual Richmond Tattoo Arts Festival at the Greater Richmond Convention Center.

Cheryl Gee of Norfolk, top right, gets a tattoo of an elephant on her left shoulder from Big Daddy Jaz. Ryan Bennett, right, requested a tattoo of the Grim Reaper on his torso, which artist David Bruehl of Tampa, Fla., put on. The festival featured a select group of world-class tattoo artists and unique vendors.

In Alicia Rasin’s memory // Delivering turkeys and other Thanksgiving fixings, warm hugs and big smiles, Mayor Dwight C. Jones, Richmond Police Chief Alfred Durham, Sheriff C.T. Woody Jr., police officers, area ministers and community leaders this week carried on the holiday tradition of giving to families started by the late Alicia Rasin, the city’s “Ambassador of Compassion.” Ms. Rasin, who helped families of homicide victims and others, succumbed to heart failure in early October.

On Monday, two of Ms. Rasin’s sisters, from left, Albertina Walker and Tina Edwards, accompanied Richmond Acting Deputy Police Chief Steve Drew as he took a turkey and fixings to a family in the Richmond Dairy Apartments in Jackson Ward. Right, Chief Durham hugs Ladonna Thompson after Ms. Rasin’s sisters presented her with a Thanksgiving dinner basket.

Remembering Leonard Lambert Sr. // Hundreds of people gathered to remember Leonard W. Lambert Sr. at a funeral service Tuesday at Saint Paul’s Baptist Church in Henrico County. Stirring music filled the sanctuary and family and friends shared warm reflections of Mr. Lambert, who was described as a man of strong faith who left a lasting mark in Metro Richmond by his decades of legal, church and community service. Dr. John W. Kinney, dean of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University, delivered the eulogy at the service, which also included remarks from Mr. Lambert’s sister, Dr. Elizabeth Johns, Mayor Dwight C. Jones and others. Among his achievements, Mr. Lambert became Richmond’s first African-American judge in 1973 when he was named a substitute judge for the Richmond General District Court. At left, his wife, Sylvia J. Lambert, and other family members leave their pews during the recessional at the conclusion of the service.