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Volume 58, Number 28 • July 12, 2012
Fireworks show sets attendance record By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
“I like the really big ones,” said 7-year-old Shaw Stancil, as he played Frisbee with his dad an friend Matthew Wilson, 6, while waiting for the annual Goochland County Parks, Recreation & Facilities Management July 4 Fireworks Display. Big fireworks, that is. And he got to see a bunch of them later on when the show started. Stancil was not alone as the heat proved no match for the draw of a colorful patriotic show, as more than 12,000 showed up for the event.
Hunter Cook blows some soap bubbles while her son Ian, 5, takes a bite of his ice cream. Ian and his brother Conner, 10, were on their first visit to see the annual Goochland Fireworks Display. Warm weather didn’t dampen turnout establishing a record of 12,000, according to parks and recreation’s Michele Swalin.
But school retains option to file suit By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
Goochland supervisors have scheduled a special meeting July 26 at 1 p.m. to consider an appeal of County Administrator Rebecca Dickson’s rejection of Benedictine College Preparatory Schools plan of
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Michele Swalin of parks and recreation said attendance set a record, doubling last year’s turnout (hampered by a rain delay) and substantially more than 2010’s 7,500. “We’ve been coming here for years,” said Shaw’s dad Cary. The family lives just across the bridge in Powhatan and Goochland’s is the nearest fireworks show in town. Some folks came a little further. Hunter Cook brought her two sons, Ian, 5 and Conner, 10. The family hails from Kansas City. No, they didn’t come from there for the fire-
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development. But Benedictine attorney Darvin Satterwhite, who filed an appeal of Dickson’s ruling on June 26, said his client reserves the right to file suit in Goochland Circuit Court. Satterwhite said that decision hinges on “the validity of the appeals process,” which he said Thursday is not authorized by Virginia, a Dillon Rule state, where the powers of
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