Friends of the library The Friends of Chester Library will have a meeting on Thursday, August 17, at 7 p.m. in the small meeting room at the library to elect a new leader for the Friends branch. Current members and any person interested in joining the Friends are welcome to attend. Only a paid Friends member will be allowed to vote. For more information call Jan Rusbasan, 712-0970, or Mike Uzel, 720-0937, or [email protected].
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How are your tax dollars allocated? County residents can now see how their individual tax dollars are working in the community using a new taxpayer receipt tool. Residents can simply answer two questions, and the Chesterfield taxpayer receipt will provide a breakdown of how their taxes were used to support programs and operations in several categories: government operations, public safety, health and welfare, community development, parks, recreation and cultural, schools and facilities, and infrastructure. Learn more at blueprint.chesterfield.gov.
Last weekend, Joe and Mary Carroll Jordan celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a great gathering of family members and friends. They were married on Aug.10, 1967, at Good Counsel Catholic Church in Little Rock, Ark. Mary Carroll’s uncle, the Rev. Thomas Keller, officiated at the wedding. In December 1967, they moved to Chesterfield, where Joe was to begin teaching mathematics in January 1968 at the new John Tyler Community College. He taught there until May 2014, when he retired after 45 1/2 years of teaching. He had the privilege of teaching math for 36 years with his brother Ed,…
The Chesterfield County Planning Commission is currently reviewing and updating the 2012 Comprehensive Plan and would like to hear from you. Each month they will post a few updated draft chapters for public comment. Citizen comments will be presented to the Planning Commission and posted online and may be incorporated into the revised chapters. After the entire document has been reviewed, they will hold a series of public meetings to meet each of you and hear what you think about the updated Comprehensive Plan in its entirety. The following draft chapters are open for comment until midnight, September 4th: Chapter…
The Henricus bluff before the development of Henricus Historical Park. Circa 1980. The monument commemorates the first hospital in America and the Varina parish wish eventually became Saint john’s church. At Henricus Historical Park, the church famous for Patrick Henry’s “give me liberty or give me death” speech is commemorated with a cross. An obelisk near it commemorates the first university in the colonies that would become the United States. ” I came to work for Henrico County in 1977 and I was an assistant county manager. We reorganized in ‘78 and I became deputy county manager,” said George…
The Chester Methodist parsonage was located at 12020 Winfree St. This two-story frame hip-roofed house, built around 1895 faced the former Chester Methodist Church rather than the street. As described in Jeffrey O’Dell’s “Chesterfield County Early Architecture and Historic Sites,” the dwelling has a three-bay front with floor length windows, an asymmetrical five-bay lateral façade, and wraparound Eastlake verandas on the front and west sides. Erected as a residence for Methodist ministers, the dwelling served as such until a new parsonage was built on Percival Street in 1925. Today, the dwelling houses several apartments. It continues to face a…
Charlotte and Henry Sawyer recently set up shop on the Village Green selling lemonade, water, and fans. They knew they were the perfect products to sell for the 90-degree plus days the community has been experiencing. Bottled water or a cup of lemonade sold for five cents and fans were going for 10 cents. Henry said their purpose was “just to get some money to buy toys.” The reason drinks were so reasonable, Charlotte said, “We are trying to get as many customers as we can and some people were even giving us a dollar for water.”
BY L. FAUSZ The “Lace House,” a legacy piece of the former owners of Meadowbrook, has returned to the gardens of its current owner, Meadowbrook Country Club. Known as a summer house, a replica now watches over the reflecting pool and the restored Charles Gillette gardens, thanks to the vision and seven-year effort that included lots of work, lots of hours, and lots of fundraising by the Women’s Club of Meadowbrook and committee members of the Gillette Gardens at Meadowbrook Inc., a public charity. Committee members, invited guests, and descendants of the original creators of the gardens dedicated the Lace…
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“Volunteers are caring, sharing, giving, and very hard-working, and we are so very thankful for you and all the wonderful things you do, just grow.” Volunteers for the Shepherd’s Center of Chesterfield were greeted with this statement on their program during an appreciation luncheon last Wednesday. During the welcoming, Executive Director Susan McCammon applauded the volunteers and expressed the center’s appreciation for service completed during the past year. The 279 volunteers (not all in attendance for the luncheon) supported the 668 clients enrolled in the program. Eighty-six of them are volunteer drivers who provided 706 medical trips and 111 grocery…