100th birthday!
0Charles Wilson Stewart Charles Wilson Stewart, a Lucy Corr Health Care Center resident, celebrated his 100th birthday Jan. 29. He was born in Charles City and is the youngest of five children. Stewart worked for Pittsburgh Plate Glass and Binswanger Glass. His daughters Veronica and Blondina, and many of his eight grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and a host of great-great-grandchildren joined in a birthday dinner.
New M&M Fund created in honor of Piazza: Teacher, fitness enthusiast died last year
0Cynthia Piazza HOPEWELL — The John Randolph Foundation recently announced a new memorial fund at its Jan. 17 awards ceremony. The Cynthia Piazza Mind and Movement, or M&M, Fund will honor the life of a Chester woman who died Oct. 31 after battling brain cancer. Piazza taught for more than 20 years and was a Title I math specialist at Harrowgate Elementary School for 14 years. She was named the county’s elementary teacher of the year in 2010. The M&M Fund will carry on Piazza’s passions of improving the education of underprivileged students and encouraging physical fitness. Her husband, Michael…
Upcoming events
0Music artist to perform at free event After three years touring in Europe, Michi returns to Chester to perform an acoustic concert. She will perform a solo acoustic concert from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17 at Easy Street Grub-N-Pub, 2612 Perdue Springs Drive. Admission is free and open to all ages. Michi is currently ranked No. 1 on Richmond-Petersburg’s Reverb Nation folk music chart. Michi and her band have performed for crowds of up to 250,000 and have opened for Grammy-Award winning recording artists including Miley Cyrus, Carly Rae Jepsen, Meghan Trainor, Kelly Rowland and Betty Who. Winter…
A happy ending in Powhatan
0Your “Living Safe” column by Pete Hypes (Jan. 16) brought back memories of a true story when I was living in Powhatan County and a member of the local all-volunteer fire department. It seems that back in the late 1960s, over a period of several months we received six or eight fire calls on a parcel of land owned by a couple who had a young boy (8 or 9 years old) who was somewhat mentally challenged. Following one of these fires, while chatting with one of the sheriff’s deputies, who was also a fire department member, the young lad…
Herring, Northam are hypocrites
0The hypocrisy is simply overwhelming! Attorney General Mark Herring demanded that Gov. Ralph Northam resign because Northam admitted to appearing in blackface, or worse, as a 25-year-old medical student. Now, Herring admits that he, too, appeared in blackface whilst in college. Is Herring going to look in the mirror and resign? I doubt it. What galling and unfathomable hypocrisy! But folks, it’s even worse. Five years ago, these two same individuals (Herring and Northam) condemned Myrna’s and my relationship. They stated in their sanctimonious, holier-than-thou attitudes that I should resign from the House of Delegates while at the same time,…
Police looking for attempted robbery suspect
0John L. Hargrave UPDATE: Hargrave turned himself in to police on Tuesday, Feb. 12. Police are seeking a man who is wanted in connection with a 2018 attempted robbery that occurred in the 17000 block of Lansmill Drive in south Chesterfield. At about 4 p.m. Nov. 23, a woman heard a knock on her door. When she opened the door, she was met by an unknown man who displayed a handgun. The suspect entered the residence and demanded cash. The woman left the residence to get help, and the man fled. Detectives obtained warrants for John L. Hargrave, 34, for…
Fire near landfill results in electricity outage
0Chesterfield Fire and EMS responded around 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, to the 11800 block of Lewis Road for a fire at the Ingenco building, where methane from the landfill is converted into electricity at the Shoosmith Bros. complex. A warehouse building had fire and smoke conditions when firefighters arrived, Lt. Jason Elmore said in a press release. It took crews approximately an hour to get the fire under control. A brief electrical outage was reported in the area. A fire marshal’s investigation determined the cause was accidental and was likely caused by an electrical failure in a piece of…
Ettrick store burns, firefighter injured
0Firefighters fight a fire at an Ettrick grocery store last week. One firefighter was injured while battling a fire in the 21100 block of Chesterfield Ave on Wednesday, Feb. 6. Smoke showing from the roof of Virginia’s Best Mart Grocery Store at 21113 Chesterfield Ave. was reported around 11:50 a.m. “Occupants of the building self-evacuated,” Chesterfield Fire and EMS Lt. Jason Elmore said. The fire was under control at 12:15 p.m. The cause of the fire was electrical, Elmore said. Elmore said the firefighter had non-life threatening injuries. The store will be closed for an undetermined amount of time.