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Volume 61, Number 43 • November 10, 2016
Dancin’ Dawgs excel at area robotics competition. See page 3
Fire-Rescue gets approval for new hires
For as long as there has been a Best Apple Pie contest in Goochland, Joyce Clemmons has been taking first place. Her secret? She’s not telling.
Chief tells supervisors help is needed sooner than expected due to shortage of volunteers By Roslyn Ryan Editor
Citing an unanticipated drop in volunteer staffing, Goochland County Fire Rescue Chief Bill MacKay asked county supervisors Nov. 1 to approve the hiring of four new paid staff members six months sooner than had been previously planned. According to MacKay, the county’s 10-year plan to gradually increase staffing among the county’s six firehouses had been based on levels remaining close to what they were in 2013, when the plan was adopted. Since then, however, the number of volunteers has see Ne w hires > 2 Photo by Roslyn Ryan
Richmond Symphony comes to GHS Nov. 19 Contributed report
Holiday music will fill the auditorium of Goochland High School at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 19, as the Richmond Symphony Orchestra returns for its tenth annual concert. The performance, expected to draw as many as 1,000, is sponsored by MEDARVA Healthcare and hosted by the Rotary Club of Goochland. It’s the third year in a row that MEDARVA has helped underwrite the popular event. Chia-Hsuan Lin will conduct this year’s perforsee Symphony > 4
Goochland’s Joyce Clemmons said she often finds the recipes for her award-winning apple pies in the cookbooks she loves to collect.
Winner bakes all By Roslyn Ryan Editor
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lenty of people will tell you that they bake a mean apple pie. But few can back it up quite as well as Goochland resident Joyce
Clemmons. In fact, while the rest of the world was going bananas over the finale of the Presidential race this week, Clemmons was quietly savoring a much sweeter victory: On Oct. 29, she was once again named the winner of Goochland’s Best Apple Pie contest, held each year during
the county’s Fall Festival. Fun fact: Clemmons is the only repeat winner in the contest’s history. Actually, she is the only winner period. Out of the four years the county has been hosting the contest, Clemmons’ pies have been judged the best see Apple Pie > 8