Wilkes Jewelers had a special guest helper recently when 10-year-old Henrico resident Harrison Conrad wanted to create special Christmas gifts for the ladies in his life — his mother, grandmothers and sisters.
Harrison, whose grandparents Tom and Terrie Conrad reside in Appomattox, developed an interest in jewelry and mining through a third-grade science class lesson at Veritas School in Richmond.
“How I got interested in this, I went to a class where I go to Veritas School and learned about all these jewels and gold, and I thought, ‘These are valuable. I might want to have a job like this one day,’” Harrison said.
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