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Volume 59, Number 38 • October 9, 2014
A taste of autumn Fall flavors on full display in Woman’s Club’s ‘Indian Summer Fare’ brunch menu. See page 4
Pharmacy closes after 28 years in the county Owner calls operating Manakin-Sabot store ‘a dream come true’ By Roslyn Ryan Editor
After nearly three decades of serving the Goochland area, Gunn’s Pharmacy on Broad Street in Manakin-Sabot filled its last prescription on Oct. 7. “It’s just the right time,” owner Earl Gunn said Monday, as he neared his last day of operation, though that doesn’t mean the decision was an easy one. Gunn and his wife Gunn Sally opened their business in March 1986, and, over the years, they have come to think of many of their customers as family. Those customers would have had a hard time finding a pharmacist who enjoyed his job more than Gunn. Working as a pharmacist had been his see Pharmacy > 2
Photo by Mark Gormus/ The Richmond Times-Dispatch
Local county and school officials joined several hundred students and residents for a formal commissioning ceremony for Goochland High School’s first Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program on Oct. 2. The event was held on the school’s football stadium.
Goochland salutes first JROTC class
By Roslyn Ryan Editor
G
oochland High School junior Tara Johnson hadn’t given much thought to the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (MCJROTC) before the program came to her school this year. In fact,
Johnson had initially signed for an introduction to firefighting class. When that option was cut, however, Johnson decided to give the MCJROTC program a chance — and now she
Johnson see JROTC > 5