Lee White, director of the Chester Presbyterian basketball league, which has more than 400 participants in Chester and Enon, has reached a crossroads. He has been volunteering as the organizer for the league for a number of years.
Chester Business Association (CBA) members last week lunched shoulder to shoulder in the downstairs meeting room of Howellet’s to hear comments, opinions and hopes for the future from those involved with Chesterfield’s countywide comprehensive plan during what was christened a “pocket forum.”
Linda and I headed east on Saturday with our two grandkids to Busch Gardens. We had some free passes and the grandkids have a lot of free time, so off we went. Fifteen minutes in, as we entered Interstate 64, we realized we were in trouble. No, it wasn’t the kids, but the traffic; it was bumper to bumper.
Have you ever been to a meeting or seminar at which the facilitator asks everyone to introduce themselves, tell where they are from and then tell everyone something they may not know about you? Introductions go around the horn something like this: Hi, I’m Stephanie and I live off Hopkins Road and something you don’t know about me is
Sometimes you just wonder if it’s just time to retire. Last week, I had the pleasure of covering all bases on the news front since our star editor was on her honeymoon. So, aside from my usual duties of chatting on the phone all day, I had to actually cover meetings and news events.
Ah, graduation: Such pomp and circumstance; such pride of accomplishment; heaps of congratulations. By the end of last week, the caps and gowns were growing out of style, gift cards were being cashed-in and plans for summer vacation had replaced graduation as the first topic of conversation.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness..."
Some of you may be looking at workations or even volunteercations, during which you volunteer your time off to help Habitat for Humanity or even clean the oil sludge from the beaches in Florida or Alabama. Some of you may consider what became popular a couple of years ago when the economy crashed – the staycation.
This column initially ran about 18 months ago. Most things haven’t changed, but look at the unemployment rate in Chesterfield. We were not doing too badly at the time; our rate now stands at 6.5 percent.
You might call it a comedy of errors. But, representing the community in an elected position is no laughing matter. The Chesterfield County School Board decided to close Chester Middle School to, as they say, relieve overcrowding at Thomas Dale High School.
