Hello and welcome to the wonderful world of the Dogpound. Right now I am dogged tired. I have been cleaning house all week. When I mean cleaning, I have been cleaning the outside of the house. Once a year I give the siding a good cleaning to get the dirt, bugs, bird droppings, and mildew off. I am sure everyone has seen those commercials where you just spray some chemicals on, and like magic, you have bright, clean, good-as-new siding. I have never had that experience. I have a wrap -around porch, from the living room entrance way around to…
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If you don’t look twice, you’d think coach Michael Blankenbecler is a player on James River’s boys volleyball team. At 25 years years of age, he blends in, but he’s had a successful coaching career including a trip to the state championship game last season. The Rapids are looking to do that one better this year by winning a state title. “It’s nice because I get to play in practice,” Blankenbecler said. “I have experience playing, I know what they have been through, and I can show them what it means to be a top level team.” Blankenbecler would know…
1. L.C. Bird (4-0) After a lackadaisical first half effort, the L.C. Bird Skyhawks woke up, scoring 28 points in the second half to put away Manchester 35-0. The Lancers won on a hail mary last year in week 10 of the season. Though dominant on defense, pitching their third shoutout of the season and just allowing a single touchdown to Thomas Dale in the fourth quarter, the Skyhawks are not without a chink in their armor. At times, the offense has struggled to produce for periods of time. That simply wasn’t the case of the second half, as J.B.…
Five generations celebrated during a bridal shower for Ashley Cunningham. From left to right are Mya Johnson, Ashley Cunningham, Penny Conner, Marie North and Clara Dennis. Cunningham said they all live fairly close to each other and go to church together. Clara Dennis is her Granny and she is very healthy at age 96. She has never worked or driven a car. Cunningham’s daughter is eight-years-old and has a good relationship with the entire family.
Sidewalks are showing up from Meadowbrook to Ettrick in the south east of Chesterfield. A new pedestrian walk was recently completed on Cogbill Road from Meadowbrook High School west to Iron Bridge Road. The two-tenths-of-a-mile project also included landscaping with crepe myrtles and period streetlights as well as curb and gutter on about half the project. “Many people have been asking for pedestrian accommodations on Cogbill,” said Jesse Smith, director of transportation for Chesterfield County. The last section of sidewalk completed the county’s plan for sidewalks between Ironbridge and Hopkins roads, according to Smith. “I am excited to say that…
Chester could see some improvements just north of Route 10. Two separate developments, one a combination retail and multifamily, and the other an over 55 development, could be completed in 2017. Shoppes Moore’s Lake is beginning to offer preleases through Thalhimer Real Estate. The retail space will total 300,000 square feet with the smallest spaces to be about 1,200 square feet to the largest at 82,000 square feet, large enough for a grocery store or other large retailer. The property size, formerly the site of American Mobile Home Park, is about 20 acres. Thalhimer reports that the retail space should…
Other than the movie, where did the term “pay it forward” come from? The concept is old, but the familiar phrase was coined by Lily Hardy Hammond in her 1916 book in the “Garden of Delight.” Lily said “you don’t pay love back, you pay it forward.” The term has been around since the great years of Athens, in 317 B.C. Other scholars have used the expression throughout history. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “In the order of nature we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom but the benefit we receive must be rendered…
SEPTEMBER 16 INTRODUCTION TO 3-D PRINTING – Central Library. 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Registration on line at library.chesterfield.gov CHESTERFIELD COUNTY FARMERS MARKET Final market for the season– 3 – 6 p.m. Chesterfield County Government Complex on Mimms Loop. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING -3 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Public Meeting Room, 10001 Iron Bridge Rd., Chesterfield. SEPTEMBER 17 GRANDPARENT CONNECTION, HELPING YOUR GRANDCHILDREN SUCCEED IN SCHOOL – 4:40 p.m. – 6 p.m. Chesterfield Community Development Building, 9800 Government Center Pkwy. Info – 768-7878. CARFIT – Certified CarFit technician will help participants adjust their cars to fit. 10 a.m. – 2…
The Chesterfield Historical Society of Virginia, in partnership with the Chesterfield Department of Parks and Recreation, presents programs in support of homeschooling families. These programs, designed for all grade levels, are fun and engaging while covering specific learning objectives. Chesterfield Coal Tour the site of the first commercial coal mines in North America while learning of the impact this industry had on the region. Learn about rock types, conduct scale hardness tests and learn about the impact of coal mining to the region. This activity addresses geology and coal mining. Midlothian Mines Park, 13301 North Woolridge Rd., Midlothian, VA 23114…
Electronic cigarettes were introduced to the US market in 2007. Though much of the initial marketing was aimed toward smoking cessation, these devices have quickly become a popular source of nicotine for many individuals, both teens and adults. An e-cigarette is made to deliver nicotine to its user by aerosolizing a nicotine-containing solution. The device has four parts: the battery, the heating element, the vaporizing chamber, and the solution cartridge. Some devices are manually activated by pressing a button. The solution is heated, aerosolized, and the vapor is then inhaled. Other machines automatically activate when the user draws on it…