The Kiwanis Club of Chester will honor the local Korean War veterans at a banquet on Wednesday, September 14, 2016. The group is seeking veterans from the Chester, Bensley, Courthouse, Rivers Bend, and Colonial Heights areas. Please send your name(s), address, email and daytime telephone number to: Kiwanis Club of Chester, P. O. Box 2275, Chester, VA 23831.
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The Chesterfield County Public Library will host the Chesterfield Maker Expo 2016 – a family-friendly event that will include a variety of makers. The vendors will create or demonstrate everything from robots to printmaking, coding to crafts. Maker Expo is on Saturday, June 4, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Central Library, 9501 Lori Rd. The library’s 3D printers and other high-tech equipment will be part of the Expo. The technology is part of the library’s “makerspace” – a creative arealocated in the Central Library. The space provides hands-on opportunities for collaboration, creating, inventing, and learning. Middle and high…
The 1.2 million-square foot, 3,300-employees, Amazon Fulfillment Center at Meadowville Technology Park may soon be no longer the big boy on the block at the business park. Amazon could get a little brother if a new business dubbed “Project Buzzard” decides to build on part of a 223-acre site that runs behind the Amazon. The parcel can be accessed by Bermuda Hundred Road or by Meadowville Technology Parkway. “Project Buzzard” would be the sixth commercial enterprise to be located in the technology park. Chesterfield Economic Development Authority is currently expanding the park on the north side of Meadowville Technology Parkway,…
Salem Church Middle will present a performing arts showcase 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. June 2 in the Heritage Amphitheater at Pocahontas State Park. More than 250 students will perform selections showcasing the school’s “Journey of Hope” project-based learning units and other spring pieces. The performances by drama, chorus, orchestra, guitar, and band students is free to the public, but there is a parking fee of $4 cash per vehicle. This family-friendly event will have food trucks at 5 p.m. for people who would like to buy dinner. For more information, email [email protected].
Founded in 1830, a route between Richmond and Petersburg was built by the Richmond & Petersburg Railroad. One stop on the railroad was in Chester. The little train depot was located at a rail crossing on Curtis Street. The crossing still exists as a modern crossing, but the station is gone. The railroad stop can still be imagined in a vacant area where Curtis Street curves, crosses the tracks and would have skirted the station on the north side. Can you see people boarding and disembarking while the train takes on water and delivers mail? The station is better known…
MAY 25 BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING – 3 p.m. until 7 p.m. Public Meeting Room, 10001 Iron Bridge Rd., Chesterfield. Sessions typically begin at 3 p.m., break at 5 p.m. for dinner, and then resume at 6:30 p.m. MAY 26 THE ACOUSTIC CONCERT SERIES – 7 p.m. until 8 p.m. Central Library. Free concert. River City Trio, old-timey fiddling and fun. MAY 27 FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT – 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. Chesterfield County Fairgrounds, 10300 Courthouse Road. Enjoy the family movie, “Inside Out,” under the stars. Visit the vendors for giveaways before the movie begins and kids can enjoy…
A soon-to-be teenager has shown the meaning of selflessness and compassion with giving instead of receiving for her birthday this year. Taylor Thomas, daughter of Rhonda and Warren Thomas, turns 13 on May 29, and the Matoaca Middle School seventh-grader is sending out 13 care packages to troops serving overseas through SupportOurTroops.org. She has also made 13 knotted quilts for residents at Tyler’s Retreat. After a lunch with her friends and a visit to Bruster’s Ice Cream, the birthday party joined residents at Tyler’s last weekend with enough handouts of goodies for all the residents and at least 13 games…
The genesis of the modern strawberry is perhaps the greatest long-distance plant breeding project of all time. One variety was found in colonial Virginia. Another was found in South America about a century later, and they were accidentally bred together in Europe. Today, strawberries are still important in the part of Virginia that gave birth to the modern fruit. In 2015, strawberry sales generated just under $1 million in cash receipts for the 16 growers in Virginia Beach, according to Roy Flanagan III, a Virginia Cooperative Extension agent in the city. Growers who collaborated with a VSU berry project generated…
I have a new item for your garden this year “bling.” Bling is generally defined as a flashy object worn by people. We have all seen bling, and some of you reading this even have bling in your closet! Besides the belts and the jewelry, what about the reading glasses that go with nothing but just look cool? Bland landscapes across central Virginia need excitement, and here are a few ideas that can make your corner of the world just a bit brighter. Decorative garden stakes give options for breaking up bland walls and fences. Garden stakes can resemble realistic…
Falling Creek Middle School built a beautiful mobile library that will be placed on the grounds between Falling Creek Elementary School and Falling Creek Middle School so that families may have more access to books. Lowe’s donated a sturdy wagon that constitutes the base of the library. Cliff Jones, technology education teacher at Falling Creek Middle School, designed and created the structure to look like an old school house. Mr. Jones and his students took on the project and made their mobile library come to life. The library has six opening doors revealing to the selection of books and is…