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A mother and son duo best known for their ASSIST Student Athletes program that aids students with getting sports scholarships is opening a summer camp for kids ranging from ages six to 14. William Carter and his mother, Chana Carter, run and operate the ASSIST (Athlete Scholastic Support Initiative for Securing success Tomorrow) Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization that was founded in 2003 and has helped over 1,700 youths obtain scholarships. Camp ASSIST will have two locations – Chester (behind Elizabeth Scott Elementary School) and downtown Richmond – and it is designed to help campers develop and embrace positive self-esteem, courage, community…

Larry Halley bought his first sports car 52 years ago, a 1953 Chevrolet Corvette (C1). He paid $650 for it and drove it until 1982. After sitting for 30 years, he and his son Larry Jr. decided to restore the car back to its original form. After a five-year restoration project, the father and son drove the car 13 miles, the most ever since restoration, to the Corvette Club of Richmond 21st Annual Roundup, hosted by a club Halley Sr. helped start 51 years ago. Halley’s ownership of a Corvette was one of many stories that could be heard during…

More than 4,000 Chesterfield County Public Schools students received their high school diplomas during graduation ceremonies June 7-12 at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Siegel Center in Richmond and Virginia State University’s Multi-purpose Center in Ettrick. Graduations at VCU and VSU were streamed live online at http://mychesterfieldschools.com/students/graduation/and on Comcast Channel 96. Each graduation will be re-broadcast exactly two weeks later on Comcast Channel 96 and Verizon Fios Channel 26, and the ceremonies will be available online at http://chesterfieldschoolsva.swagit.com/original-programming/. Photos courtesy of Chesterfield County Public Schools.

Johnny Wilson was a athletic star, succeeding in four sports and life over 90 years A bronze statue standing nine feet tall graces the front of Anderson High School in Anderson, Ind. The residents of the central Indiana burg have waited over 70 years for their hero’s life to be celebrated. Now their hero belongs to Chester. Triple-sport athlete “Jumpin’” Johnny Wilson watched the unveiling of his likeness on May 30, 2016 as over 500 local residents responded with cheers. According to local newspaper reports, Wilson responded from the podium with his typical humility. In 1927 Wilson was born into…

The dealership was owned by Harold Tench Goyne, Sr. who died in 1968. Goyne began his Chevrolet dealership by 1927 and moved to the Rt.1 and Rt.10 location in Chester, VA. by 1931. . Called Dutch Gap Motor Company, it was the premier Chevy dealer around according to letters thanking Mr. Goyne for the Chevy they bought from him. Goyne had some competition with the T.C. McCoy Ford dealership north of Dutch Gap Motors. But by the late 1940s Harold Goyne was afraid his dealership would suffer if Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike (Interstate 95) were to be built. He and other community…

A road at Meadowbrook High School in honor of fallen soldier, Staff Sgt. Michael D. Moody Jr., U.S. Army, who was killed fighting in Iraq. The ceremony marked the official naming of the road to Michael Moody Jr. Drive. It is appropriate that the road is named in his honor, since Moody spent his teenage years in Chesterfield County, graduating from Meadowbrook High School in 1994. Moody was fatally wounded on June 23, 2007 from wounds sustained while engaging the enemy in Baghdad Iraq when insurgents attacked his unit. During his distinguished career, Moody was awarded two Army Commendation Medals…

Work has started on the new replacement for Beulah Elementary School to be built at a different location from the original school, making the new school more centrally located in the attendance zone. Members of the School Board and other local leaders broke ground on one of several school projects financed through the 2013 Bond Referendum. The new school will replace the original Beulah Elementary, which was built in 1928, and is scheduled to open August 2018.

Among the soft textures of falling snow and the thick warmth of a winter coat appear piercing eyes, rosy cheeks, and a child’s resolute expression. This is “Brennan,” a pastel on paper created by Patricia Faris and the winner of the 2017 John Tyler Community College Foundation Art Award. Faris, an art student at the college, says she was inspired to paint “Brennan” the moment she saw a photo of the young girl. “The picture was taken by Brennan’s mother during a snow in 2016,” says Faris. “The colors and the expression on Brennan’s face were stunning, and although pastels…

Members of the Woodland Pond Garden Club and Chesterfield Juvenile Detention Center administrators braved the rain recently to reminisce and receive updates on the horticulture program and the Campbell-Cobb Greenhouse. The Chesterfield Life Changing Academy is part of the greenhouse program, and the garden club has been donating to them for 10 years. The greenhouse program started in 2007, under the supervision of the detention center’s then-principal, Brad Peebles. The students in the post-dispositional program, a program Peebles hired Renita Davis-Kelley (Business and Information Technology teacher at the detention center) to run, are responsible for the planting and selling the…

If you are a Chesterfield County resident 60 or older, with a disability, or coming from a low-income household, and you need transportation, then you are eligible for Access Chesterfield. Access Chesterfield is a shared-ride transportation service for Chesterfield residents that services those aforementioned and curb to curb (and door to door if needed) service is provided. Access Chesterfield is the first of its kind for Chesterfield County. According to Sarah Snead, Deputy County Administrator for Human Services, there was a need to provide transportation services to the elderly, the disabled, and those with low income, and Access Chesterfield was…

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