Credit: Last year’s kickoff event at Mack Benn Jr. Elementary School. Right to Left: Principal Jacqueline Chavis, First Lady Dorothy McAuliffe, Principal David LeFevre, Paula Otto. (Courtesy Virginia Lottery)

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