Virginia
Hodge finds a place to put down his roots at West Virginia
If Ross Hodge was leaving North Texas, he wanted to find a place where he could plant roots. Turns out that’s exactly what Athletic Director Wren Baker wanted in a candidate for the next head coach as well.
“We felt like it was important the next head coach and their family put down roots and truly embrace being here,” Baker said.
West Virginia certainly has those qualities on the basketball side of things but also offered the right fit for Hodge and his family with just the location itself.
Hodge and his wife Shelly have two children, Emery and Reed and it was a family decision to make the choice to leave their deep ties in Denton.
For one, the decision brought Shelly back closer to her family in Baltimore, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
It also brought them to a place where they can embrace the location and scenery.
“The Morgantown community, we love mountains. We love rivers. We love lakes. There’s something about being in the mountains,” Hodge said.
It’s something that Hodge mentioned during the interview process that there’s something spiritual about being around nature and it dates back to growing up in the country.
He would then move to the city in Dallas during his formative years and admittedly had never been an avid outdoorsman, but things changed once he took the assistant job at Colorado State.
Hodge served as an assistant with the Rams from 2012-16 and it was during his time in Fort Collins where he discovered his love of the outdoors.
“Was the opportunity to get connected and go on hikes and spend time in the mountains and it lets you know there’s something much bigger than you out there,” he said. “And there really is something divine about spending time in nature, and my family loves that, and we can’t get the opportunity to do that.”
Throw on top of the people in the community with the opportunities that the basketball program provided, and it made the decision a no-brainer for Hodge to make the move to the Mountain State.
“I’m interested in people and being in a place that we can call home,” Hodge said.
“I didn’t know I could go that fast,” Richard Delcid, the general manager of a Domino’s Pizza in Manassas, told WTOP.
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‘I didn’t know I could go that fast’: Virginia pizza maker breaks record
A general manager of a Domino’s Pizza in Manassas, Virginia, won the chain’s “World’s Fastest Pizza Maker” competition this month.
Richard Delcid prepared a pepperoni pizza, mushroom pizza and cheese pizza for the oven in 31.22 seconds.
“I didn’t know I could go that fast,” Delcid told WTOP.
“Eight seconds better than the previous record,” Robert Donner, one of the owners of the Domino’s on Centreville Road, said.
The competitors at the May 13 Las Vegas event came from Domino’s locations around the world, and Donner said the competition is about more than speed.
“They’re judged by weight, they’re judged by portion, and they’re judged on whether they’re sellable to a customer,” Donner said.
When Delcid first started working for Domino’s in 2012, he was a teenager. He was much slower then, he joked.
As with anything, practice makes perfect.
“We record ourselves during practices,” Delcid said. “We dissect videos, we look at body movement, hand movement, everything.”
Delcid was not alone in Vegas. Donner, who is part owner of more than 30 Domino’s Pizza locations in Virginia and Maryland, brought dozens of employees to the event.
Coming in second at the competition was another member of Donner’s team.
Joe Burr, who is known as “Domino Joe,” is the local director of training, and calls himself the Dan Marino of the Domino’s World’s Fastest Pizza Maker competition.
“I’ve won third place a couple times, I’ve won second place like three or four times,” Burr said. “So I’m like always a bridesmaid, but never a bride.”
Don’t let Burr’s jokes fool you — he has known Delcid for a long time and is very proud of him.
“I like to say it’s not the sculptor, it’s the clay. Richard is the best clay,” Burr said.
Along with a championship belt and a trophy, Delcid’s record‑breaking performance earned him $5,000 from Domino’s Pizza corporate, and his local bosses kicked in another $5,000.
Virginia
Netflix casting Central Virginia singles for “Love on the Spectrum” after Danville man joins show
DANVILLE, Va. (WSET) — Netflix is searching for singles in Central Virginia to appear on its documentary-style dating series “Love on the Spectrum,” after a Danville man was cast for an upcoming season and producers are now looking to find his match.
The series follows adults on the autism spectrum as they navigate dating.
Monica Karavanic, executive director of The Arc of Southside in Danville, said the person cast has ties to her organization.
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“This show has been loved by millions internationally and so for it to come to Danville is pretty awesome and we’re just really excited and hoping to make it work,” Karavanic said.
Casting is focused on singles ages 25 to 40, of any gender, who live near Danville or Lynchburg and would be interested in going on a date with a man on the spectrum. Producers say the time commitment could be as little as half a day.
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RICHMOND, Va. — Friday will be sunny and seasonably warm, with highs in the upper 70s and low 80s.
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Rain chances will be very limited over the next week, with only a slim chance with a frontal passage on Monday.
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