INSIDE Heading back: Goochland students kick off brand new school year. > page 6 Volume 61, Number 34 • August 25, 2016
Pics in the park
Goochlanders share favorite photos in honor of National Park Service’s 100th birthday. See page 7
New book examines county’s successes Peterson looks back on board’s handling of debt, details “common sense” approach to governance By Roslyn Ryan Editor
Stories about governments behaving badly have never been hard to find, but a new book by Goochland’s District 5 supervisor Ken Peterson tells a decidedly different tale. Peterson, now in his second term, has just published “In Search of Good Government: From the Grand Experiment to the Goochland Revolution,” a book he describes as a rare success story in a day and age when many local governments Peterson are making headlines for all the wrong reasons. “There’s really so much negativity around politics, so this is meant to be a positive, uplifting, inspirational story,” said Peterson, a first-time author whose career has been spent in the world of business and finance. In five chapters, the book details the journey see Book > 3
A new put-in place for paddlers
Contributed photo
Goochland river enthusiasts gathered Friday to celebrate the official opening of the county’s new kayak and canoe launch at Tucker Park. Shown are Manuel Alvarez, Jr., Goochland County Board of Supervisors; Summer Sterling, L. L. Bean Outdoor Discovery School Coordinator; Don Leeger, Friends of Goochland Parks board member; Kitty Kimmel, Treasurer, Friends of Goochland Parks; Derek Stamey, Director, Goochland County Parks Recreation and Facilities and Friends of Goochland Parks board member; Sarah Perkinson, Dominion State and Local Affairs, Central Virginia; and Terry Hazelton, Vice President of Friends of Goochland Parks. The launch will provide the only non-motorized access to the James River in Goochland County. For more on the ceremony, see page 2.
Drink it in: Lickinghole’s local brews lauded By Roslyn Ryan Editor
Make no mistake about it, Sean-Thomas Pumphrey is a teacher. Not necessarily the kind who doles out homework assignments or holds forth on European history, but a skilled
educator nonetheless. His subject matter? Beer. As co-founder of Goochland’s Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery, Pumphrey said he considers it his duty to help educate people curious about the craft beer movement, welcoming them into a strange and wonderful new world with its own unique — and sometimes hard to
decipher — lexicon. Want to understand the difference between a Russian Imperial Stout and a Czech-style lager? Don’t know your IPAs from your IBUs? Pumphrey wants to help. “I really think education is at the heart of the LCCB experience,” see Lickinghole > 4