People check out a 28-foot model of an envisioned park that would span the James River. The Richmond BridgePark Foundation unveiled the model last Thursday at a Broad Street venue. The area would include trees to help make it feel more like a park. As yet there is no funding for BridgePark, which would cost millions of dollars to create. The proposal was inspired by a similar walking bridge, the High Line, in New York City. One proposal calls for BridgePark to use the still visible piers of a bridge that was toppled in a past flood. The proposed bridge would link Kanawha Plaza in Downtown to the Manchester Climbing Wall in South Side and fit between the Manchester Bridge that links 9th Street to South Side and the new pedestrian T. Tyler Potterfield Memorial Bridge that connects Brown’s Island on the north bank of the James River to Manchester on the south bank of the river. (Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press )

Winter pansy in North Side (Sandra Sellars/Richmond Free Press)

Armistice Day: Gov. Ralph S. Northam congratulates Martene Whiting Jr., 13, a seventh-grader at Tabb Middle School in Yorktown, after he read his winning essay on “What was the impact of World War I in Virginia?” during last Sunday’s Veterans Day ceremony at Dogwood Dell. The essay contest and ceremony was part of the state’s commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, known as Armistice Day. (Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press)

Armistice Day: Martene Whiting Jr.’s parents, Martene and Samantha Whiting, above, both Air Force veterans, stand as the crowd recognizes them during the ceremony. Clapping for their older brother are Emmanuel, 7, and Danuel, 5. (Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press)

Night at the museum: It was “Love, Peace and Soul Saturday” last weekend at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and dozens of people enjoyed the evening of music, dancing and food as they wandered through the galleries perusing the 130 pieces in the newest exhibit, “Congo Masks: Masterpieces from Central Africa.” Above, Chalsea Freeman of Chesapeake, left, and Shakeyla Bell of Chester pause at the entrance of the exhibition. The exhibit will be on view through Feb. 24. (Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press )

Night at the museum: It was “Love, Peace and Soul Saturday” last weekend at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and dozens of people enjoyed the evening of music, dancing and food as they wandered through the galleries perusing the 130 pieces in the newest exhibit, “Congo Masks: Masterpieces from Central Africa.” Above, Clarence Basset of New Kent looks at some of the pieces. The exhibit will be on view through Feb. 24. (Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press )

Night at the museum: It was “Love, Peace and Soul Saturday” last weekend at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and dozens of people enjoyed the evening of music, dancing and food as they wandered through the galleries perusing the 130 pieces in the newest exhibit, “Congo Masks: Masterpieces from Central Africa.” Legacy Band set the tone in the Atrium. The exhibit will be on view through Feb. 24. (Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press )

Commissioner John L. Newby II, with the Department of Veteran Services of the Commonwealth of Virginia participates in the Commonwealth's Veterans Day ceremony at Dogwood Dell Sunday , Nov. 11, 2018, the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day with his daughter Jillian Newby, 9, both of Henrico County. (Regina H. Boone/Richmond Free Press)