Week in review

Chesapeake cleanup collage

Volunteers who pitched in for the annual Clean the Bay Day fished out an interesting array of items, ranging from two live kittens to a toilet seat. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, which sponsored the annual cleanup, said those discoveries were among 200,000 pounds of castoffs pulled from Virginia streams and shorelines last Saturday. The kittens were delivered to a local animal shelter.

Besides the kittens and commode, volunteers found a car transmission, a dead Atlantic sturgeon, the carcass of a 40-pound red drum, a refrigerator and countless cigarette butts, cans, bottles and food wrappers. The Virginian-Pilot reports that more than 6,300 volunteers helped clean up.

Zombie invasion

Zombies invaded Virginia Beach over Memorial Day weekend and staggered around Town Center-- looking not for victims, but for food donations for charity, the Virginian-Pilot reported. Heather Carey, 22, of Virginia Beach coordinated the third annual Virginia Beach Zombie Walk for the Hungry over the weekend, in the attempt to encourage young people to embrace a charitable cause. Although the group did not exceed their goal of 50 pounds of canned food for the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia, they certainly raised awareness. "We started with 36 zombies two years ago, but were up to 120 last year," Carey told the Pilot. "Zombies are kind of hard to ignore. I hope it keeps awareness on the need to feed."

Church robbery

Two teens accused of robbing a Woodbridge church at gunpoint during a worship service were charged Monday, Insidenova.com reported. Police have accused Stephen Ernest Wing, 19, of entering a back room of the Christ is Lord Ministry where four church employees were counting the tithes. Church officials say a robber entered wearing a mask and carrying a gun, took the money and fled the scene in a car. After the robbery, a police spokesmen said Wing met with Andrew Phillip Conteh, 18, who has also been charged.

Lemonade for a cause

A 9-year-old girl's Memorial Day lemonade stand raised over $700 for victims of the Joplin, Mo., tornadoes. Tessa Yates, who lives in Dale City, set up the lemonade stand in front of her house and advertised with neighborhood posters and a Facebook page. "One of my Girl Scout promises is to help people at all times," Tessa told InsideNova.com. "I really like helping people. When I help people, I feel really good about myself." The Yates family donated the lemonade stand proceeds to the Salvation Army.

Oops

About 7,500 University of Mary Washington students' personal information was accidentally disclosed on an online portal that only students and faculty can access.

The Free Lance-Star reports that Mary Washington chief information officer Dana German told students in a memo that students' names, dates of birth and social security numbers were removed from the EagleNet portal on May 23 after a student notified the university. According to the memo, three students accessed the information before it was removed. Based on talks with students and the information's limited exposure, German said she doesn't believe there's any threat to students' privacy. She said university officials have taken steps to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Measles concerns

Some students at a Charlottesville school who were exposed to measles spent their last week of classes at home. School officials say the students weren't vaccinated when they were exposed to the illness May 20. Charlottesville Waldorf School coordinator Amanda Tipton tells The Daily Progress that one of four measles cases in the city is a student. Tipton wouldn't say how many students weren't vaccinated, citing the families' right to privacy. Classes at the 174-student school ended today. Health officials have said a woman contracted the disease in India.

A woman's gift

A 102-year-old Canadian woman who served as a U.S. Army nurse during World War II visited Arlington National Cemetery yesterday to return a special tablecloth. Hilda Cann of Kelowna, British Columbia, brought the cloth to the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at the cemetery in northern Virginia.

First Lt. Cann was working at an Army hospital in England when one of her dying patients asked her to tell his wife in Cincinnati that he loved her. Cann delivered the message in person and received the linen tablecloth as thank-you gift from the grateful widow. On her 100th birthday, Cann asked her son to help her return the treasured memento to the American people.

Humane society cruelty

A member of the Suffolk Humane Society's board has been charged with animal cruelty. Authorities seized 13 cats from 79-year-old Elizabeth Ann Epps' home last month and arrested Epps last Friday.

Suffolk spokeswoman Debbie George says animal control officers responding to a complaint found the cats in dirty cages without water. Ten cats were euthanized because they were feral, one was adopted and two are available for adoption at the Suffolk Animal Shelter.

She told WVEC-TV that she was hospitalized recovering from a stroke when her husband, Michael Wilkinson, called police.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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