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Volume 57, Number 22 • May 31, 2012
Saturday event will highlight landmark By Ben Orcutt Special Correspondent
Jackson Blacksmith Shop, one of Goochland County’s historic landmarks, will be the setting for Saturday’s 2012 Gospel Explosion Showcase. Registered as a Virginia Historic Landmark in 1997
and listed on the National Register of Historic Places the same year, Jackson Blacksmith Shop was restored in 1995. “It was my great-great grandfather’s blacksmith shop that he established and it was passed down from see Gospel > page 9
Photo by Ken Odor
Guest speaker Capt. Bryan Rhode and his son Andrew, 3, get together after the Memorial Day ceremony Monday on the Goochland Courthouse Green.
Honoring our fallen warriors But the message was the same as always: remembrance and respect for those who have given their lives for their country. And living for those who cannot. By Ken Odor The ceremony also focused on the almost 150 women have died jodor@goochlandgazette.com in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as saluting veterans still Goochland American Legion Post 215’s annual Memorial Day present who served in WWII, several who were called to stand and ceremony had some new features this year, with a contingent of re- be recognized. As they do every year, members of Post 215 Auxiliary laid a enactors (all USMC combat veterans) and displays of weapons and gear from WWII. see Memorial Day > page 4
Guests urged to give back in memory
Photo by Ben Orcutt
Charles W. “C.J.” Bruce Jr. is coordinating this year’s annual open house at Jackson Blacksmith Shop.
INDEX
Calendar Classifieds Letters Obituaries
20 21-23 6 12-13
Opinion 6 Sheriff’s Reports 7 Sports 14-17 TV Listings 18-20
SPORTS
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Goochland battles in regional openers
Goochland YMCA gets CarMax grant
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