Please try to make one of these two events on Wednesday night:
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Pat Turner (Dist. 5) Town Hall Meeting
Manakin Fire Station 6:30 to 8:00PM
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Districts 1&2 Candidates Forum on Growth
Goochland Library (across from YMCA) 7:00PM
These are some serious times for Goochland County residents. Decisions that are being made right now about the future of our county will reverberate throughout the 21st Century and beyond. Will this beautiful place we call home only exist in pictures for our grandchildren? At least a dozen For Sale signs are ominously positioned on Broad Street between Satterwhites Restaurant and the Henrico County line. It won't be long before all this property is sold and the five elected members of the Goochland County Board of Supervisors will largely determine how this farmland is transformed into commerical development. Has the East End of the county been written off completely? Is it time for us to just accept that the time has come to kiss our "rural lifestyles" goodbye?Candidate Question: Judging by the amount of available commercial real estate within a small area, Centerville appears to be in danger of becoming one big strip mall. How do you plan to prevent that from happening?
To the best of my knowledge, this weather beaten bench in the Food Lion shopping center is the only public seating available in Centerville! If you want someplace to kick back outdoors and enjoy a good cup of coffee in pleasant surroundings, you've got to go into Short Pump. That's a crying shame.Candidate Question: How do you plan to make Centerville an attractive, clean, pedestrian friendly community that all locals residents can be proud of?
I took this shot two days ago and these sewage and water pipes are now underground. With access to public water and sewage, the flood gates to commerce are about to open. We are going to see some rapid and drastic changes around here in the coming weeks and months.Candidate Question: Centerville is the gateway to Goochland County. Please share your specific vision for this vital area.
Candidate Question: Whatever happened to this?
(posted by Jim Hale)
