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RVA 5x5 - March 3, 2024

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This week check out our five stories on:

• The effort underway to preserve the invaluable and once-they-are-gone-they-are-gone-forever memories and stories and future lessons of the people who knew about Richmond Community Hospital (RCH) and why we need to preserve it. They saved Maggie Walker, and they can save RCH.

• Why Virginia Union needs to think longer term and why a historical preservation program centered around saving the Richmond Community Hospital could lead to a program to provide generations of students with careers.

• The city is not interested in providing infromation about what is happening inside city government and is actively working to prevent provid…