Helping hands/Londyn Pair, 2, gets assistance from her uncle, Jason Johnson, as she tries on her new backpack, one of the giveaways at last Saturday’s CAHN Block Party at the Manchester Medical Center in South Side. The event, sponsored by the Capital Area Health Network, or CAHN, was in celebration of National Health Center Week and featured health and wellness vendors providing information and resources to the community. CAHN, a nonprofit, operates seven low-cost health clinics in the Richmond area, including one in the medical building at 101 Cowardin Ave. (photo: Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press)

More devastation in Haiti/Earthquake survivors in southern Haiti huddle in a tent Tuesday trying to shield themselves from Tropical Storm Grace’s torrential rains. The storm hit just three days after the desperately poor country suffered major damage and loss of life from its latest devastating earthquake on Saturday morning. Nearly 2,000 people were killed, 9,900 others injured and 37,000 homes destroyed in a section of the Caribbean nation located 80 miles from the capital Port-au-Prince in the magnitude 7.2 quake. (photo: Joseph Odelyn/Associated Press)

Cityscape: Slices of life and scenes in Richmond/Artist Hamilton Glass speaks at the unveiling Aug. 12 of the dramatic new mural he created to celebrate the Richmond Behavioral Health Authority’s 25th anniversary. Location: 107 S. 5th St. in Downtown. RBHA commissioned the veteran muralist and founder of the mural group Mending Walls to mark the occasion. RBHA staff also worked with Mr. Glass on the mural that focuses on shining a light on mental health needs. A former city department, RBHA was organized as an independent authority in 1996 to enable it to seek other sources of funding for its services. The agency offers mental health, addiction treatment and mental disability services to residents of Virginia’s capital city, including crisis, counseling and day programs for those with mental health issues. RBHA plans to host open houses next month to allow the public to learn more about its offerings, according to its current board chair, the Rev. Cheryl Ivey Green. (photo: Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press)

New wheels for Chesterfield schools/Al Parham, supervisor of Chesterfield County Public Schools’ bus fleet, wipes off the plug-in station for the school system’s two new electric school buses during a “Plug-in Ceremony” Aug. 12 at the county’s bus maintenance facility, 7300 Walmsley Blvd. School and county officials, along with officials from Dominion Energy, attended the event held to show off the two new vehicles that were delivered in May. Chesterfield is the first municipality in Metro Richmond to receive the electric school buses through a program sponsored by Dominion Energy. Under the program, school districts pay no more for the electric buses than they would for a diesel model. The program also covers the cost of the charging stations. The first 50 buses were provided under the program in 2020 to 14 school districts in various parts of the state. (photo: Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press)

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