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RICHMOND – Several impeccably restored tractors, including a rare model, lined 110 E. Main St.

ORRICK – Orrick’s class of 2022 experienced tragedies in the journey from pre-kindergarten through senior year. The 2014 tornado as fourth-graders.

RICHMOND – Evans Midland Carnival brought clean, well-maintained rides to the Richmond Mushroom Festival May 5-7. The public responded with enthusiastic crowds lining up to spin, slide, climb and dip at breakneck speeds that thrilled teens, leaving them grinning, and other rides offered comfortable speeds suitable for children accompanied by protective parents..

THE QUESTION: Which plate that Angela Davis holds contains cake? Left? Right? Neither? Both? Both smell delicious. The answer: Neither. Each plate contains a candle she and daughter Elyssa Cervantes, 13, create. The mother-daughter team sells the candles at the Richmond Mushroom Festival.

RICHMOND – Before “Is It Cake?” reached TV screens, Elyssa Cervantes, 13; and her mother, Angela Davis, had people asking the same question. The mother-daughter team creates delicious-looking and aromatically accurate desserts and drinks – a few being cheesecake, sundaes and daiquiris – from wax.

SOME PEOPLE are just lucky sometimes, and Johny Teegarden, Richmond, is one of them. He holds up just two of scores large morel mushrooms he discovers by accident. “I found these going down the highway,” he says, holding them up during the Mushroom Festival. “I picked 200-some mushrooms from under two trees.” As mushroom hunters would agree, that’s really lucky.

AS PART of the performance in downtown Richmond during the annual Mushroom Festival, Taylor Woods does a flip. She is among the dancers with Shapes Dance and Acro in Richmond.