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Volume 59, Number 35 • September 5, 2013
Goochland Lions Club Annual BBQ heats up Sept. 12 Contributed Report
The Goochland County Lions Club will hold its Annual BBQ & Raffle at Dover Lake in Manakin-Sabot on Thursday, Sept. 12. Gates will open at 5 p.m. for the rain or shine event. This year’s fundraiser will include BBQ, two whole hogs for a pig pickin’ and a raffle for gift certificates. Raffle tickets are being sold for $10 per book. The raffles include a $1,000 gift certificate at Green Top Hunting & Fishing and a $200 Food Lion gift certificate. The BBQ dinner is being catered by PQ’s BBQ. Tickets, which are $20, are advance sales only. Live music also will be available, as well as beer and wine.
Fatal July 13 accident still under investigation
The Lions Club has been holding an annual fundraising BBQ for more than 30 years as a community event to support various local programs such as sight assistance, hearing assistance, scholarships for high seniors, educational programs for high school juniors and many other community services and programs. Club members said they appreciate the past support of sponsors and the public in making the event a success and look forward to that same support again this year. Tickets for the event can be obtained from any Lions Club member. For more information, contact Dennis Parker at agentparker@verizon.net or 804512-9272. By Jodi Deal Regional Reporter
A July 13 single-car crash on Jackson Shop Road that left one young man dead and another injured is still under investigation, Goochland County Sheriff
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Photo by Ken Odor
Goochland County 4-H Shooting Education Club member Camden Hill, 11, takes aim during a recent club meeting at Cavalier Rifle and Pistol Club in western Hanover County.
James Agnew has confirmed. Frederick Hoffman, 22, died at the scene of the accident, which happened at 1:38 a.m. According to Agnew, another occupant of the sport utility vehicle sustained injuries, and was transported to the hospital
in a private vehicle. Agnew declined to identify the driver of the vehicle, citing the ongoing investigation. A police report on the accident said the vehicle had two occupants at the time of the crash, but does not specify the
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name of the driver. The report does indicate the driver fled the scene of the accident. In the report, Benjamin Clay Parrish, 23, is named as the injured occupant of the vehicle. Although the nature of his injuries is not described, it
is indicated that he had “visible signs of injury.” The vehicle, a 1999 Toyota 4-Runner owned by Michael Lee Parrish of Goochland, was traveling south when it ran off the left see Wreck > page 3