Consultant Mike Watkins speaks to attendees during the final day of a four-day charrette at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, designed to help plan for the Lakeside community's future. (Liana Hardy/Henrico Citizen)
The day before Thanksgiving, Lt. Governor-Elect Ghazala Hashmi donned a bright yellow reflective vest and held out a bright green shopping bag filled with produce at the door of a busy food pantry in the Lakeside neighborhood of Henrico.
As the groups of people lined up outside the Islamic Center
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