Celebrate the Season with our parade. It all kicks off at 7p.m. with the spectacular illumination of the Downtown Norfolk and Olde Town Portsmouth skylines. The City of Portsmouth is a major sponsor and will have a float in the parade.

By Cindy Butler Focke
Correspondent
LYNNHAVEN
Soon after moving into their dream home in 1975, Chet and Barbara Ehrenzeller heard a knock at the door while preparing Thanksgiving dinner.
It was Furman Dey, the only son of John B. Dey, for whom a nearby elementary school is named. The younger Dey had sold them the home and moved to a Norfolk retirement community.

NORFOLK The Virginia Baptist Mission Board is offering free drop-off laundry service today and Saturday to South Hampton Roads residents whose clothing was damaged during last week’s nor’easter.

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NORFOLK It's billed as a "Blowout adoption event for our black babies." The Norfolk Animal Care Center, the city's animal-control facility, is offering half-off fees on black dogs and cats starting the day after Thanksgiving, dubbing the event "Black Fur-iday."

SUFFOLK Ron Trimyer, 51, bought a golf cart last month to drive around his Chatham Woods neighborhood. "It's really fun just driving around, just putt-putting and looking at everything," he said. There's only one problem. Golf carts aren't legal on public streets in the city, despite an assurance that Trimyer said he got from a police officer before he bought his cart.

By Staci Dennis
Correspondent
BAYSIDE
Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat keeps James Brown Jr. from delivering the mail.
And a locked front door, a desperate cry for help and crawling though a kitchen window couldn't keep him from coming to the aid of Horace and Betty Hill.
He recently received a national award for the good deed.

By Stacy Parker Correspondent OCEANFRONT "Who would ever think that a child would learn to ride a bike at 3?" asked John Lugo. He knows it's possible with Kazam. The concept of a training bike originated in Europe. The Lugos' youngest son tested a neighbor's European model and learned to ride a bike at age 3. Lugo's wheels started turning.

By Steven G. Vegh The Virginian-Pilot NEWPORT NEWS Scanning a grocery cold case recently, Korean-born Naime Name passed by dried squid and anchovies in soy sauce and stopped dead before big jars packed with swirled green cabbage. One, two, three, four of the gallon jars ended up in her cart.

SUFFOLK All the dogs came at once. The police department had gone years without a K9 unit, until the mid 2000s, when it acquired six German shepherds. They're all close in age, and they'll all reach retirement about the same time, said Maj. Larry Wilson. With a working life of about eight years, that's not too far off.