Chester resident Kate Ewalt recently received a Virginia Association of Science Teachers Recognition in Science Education (RISE) award. The award recognizes excellence in science education at the middle school level. Ewalt is a seventh-grade life science teacher at Colonial Heights Middle School.
ABOVE: Caroline George, 7, made a snowman on Snow Sunday, Dec. 9. Some reported 12-13 inches of snow.
ABOVE: Boone, a 3-year-old German Shorthaired Pointer and black and tan Coonhound mix, was sad that he couldn’t play fetch because everything was hidden, his owner Lisa Simmons said.
A food machinery automation company plans to open a sales office in the Chesterfield County Airpark on Whitepine Road. JASA Packaging Solutions, Inc. chose the site over Atlanta, Boston, Chicago and Raleigh, N.C. “Currently, there is a big growth in the U.S. going on in the healthy convenience market,” said Sandra Somford-Pannekeet, owner/president of JASA. She explained that “ready to eat” meals are JASA’s “sweet spot.” The Netherlands-based company has done business in the U.S. for the last 20 years and has existing dealers for their vertical packaging machines used by supermarkets and wholesalers. The company’s facility will include a…
A number of commercial developments are in the works in Chesterfield County besides a new Bissell plant that is going up. These developments include:•Project Lightning II, a 303,393-square-foot warehouse and 17,567-square-foot office building planned for 38.7 acres at 1401, 1501 and 1601 Bellwood Road east of Jefferson Davis Highway in the James River Logistics Center. The proposed use is a warehouse distribution center. There are 96.9 acres at the site. The developer, Devon USA, has had two buildings in the center since 2002. According to reports, Devon plans to develop the third site as a speculative project in the hopes…
ABOVE: Guest spotter, Roy Cox, on left, congratulates winner Rhonda Anderson, on right, during the Chesterfield-Colonial Heights Christmas Mother live/silent auction Nov. 17 at the Cultural Center of India, 6641 Ironbridge Parkway. CHESTERFIELD – The annual live/silent auction for Chesterfield-Colonial Heights Christmas Mother was held at the Cultural Center of India on Nov. 17. Over $55,000 was raised to help the Christmas Mother program with the mission of insuring that no child in the community is without food, clothes, toys and books and that no elder is forgotten during the Christmas holiday. The 300 attendees had a grand time bidding…
ABOVE: LibraryBots team member Tyson Tross works on the team’s robot in ‘the pits’ at competition at L.C. Bird High School. The LibraryBots, a robotics team sponsored by Chesterfield County Public Libraries, hosted the FIRST FTC Greater Richmond Qualifier tournament at L.C. Bird High School on Dec. 1. Forty-four teams from across the state competed in the event, with one team traveling from Ohio to compete. The LibraryBots worked at the Central Library Makerspace for three months to build a robot to compete in this year’s challenge, “Rover Ruckus.” Seven of the team’s 11 members joined the robotics team for the…
When Diane Merryman had an oral surgeon give her the bad news – “it’s cancer” – she wasn’t entirely surprised. After all, she had been experiencing a mouth sore in her upper palate for nine months that should have healed in 30 days. “It really didn’t hurt much,” she said. “It just wouldn’t go away.” What was surprising was that she was one of the most unlikely candidates for the diagnosis. She never smoked, she only drank a glass of wine occasionally, and had regular checkups at the dentist. “Most of the doctors I saw that year (2014-15) relied on…
Construction is underway at the Project Goliath site at 1200 Battery Brooke Parkway. County officials have been hush-hush on providing details on the project because the county Economic Development Authority was involved. However, a construction supervisor at the site last week confirmed that vacuum company Bissell is building on the 41.6-acre site. A site plan was approved by the county July 12. The plan calls for a 431,200-square-foot one-story warehouse and a 5,600-square-foot office in the James River Industrial Center east of Interstate 95 and south of Willis Road. Parking for 70 employees in Phase I and 20 employees in…
ABOVE: Matoaca Woman’s Club member Wilma Norris, on left, is pictured with last month’s guest speakers, Lisa Schaffner and Danielle Hawkins. The guest speaker at the Matoaca Woman’s Club’s November meeting was Lisa Schaffner, who spoke about her role in the United Network for Organ Sharing program, a non-profit organization based in Richmond that matches life-saving organs from deceased donors to patients on the national waiting list.