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Volume 63, Number 20 • May 24, 2018
HONORING THOSE WHO GAVE ALL
Planners approve of retirement community
Sheltering Arms, VCU break ground on new hospital. See page 5
Plan for 87-acre site located in West Creek is in preliminary stage
County working to find homes for 14 hounds
By Roslyn Ryan Editor
Goochland County seniors may soon have a new option when it comes to housing. During the May 3 Planning Commission meeting, commissioners unanimously gave their stamp of approval to a plan that will bring a largescale continuing care retirement community to the West Creek development complex in the county’s eastern end. Though the project will not require approval from the county to move forward, since retirement communities are allowed by right in the West Creek Development, developer Erickson Properties II, LLC, was required to present a conceptual master plan to the Planning Commission for review. Right now, explained Director of see Community > 3
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Gladys and Steve Grubb, in 1968, on the day Steve left to begin his tour of duty in Vietnam.
A love that endures By Roslyn Ryan Editor
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early 50 years after her husband Steve was killed in Vietnam, and despite the fact that she has remarried, Goochland resident Gladys GrubbWoodfin still sometimes uses her old last name.
By Roslyn Ryan Editor
She has kept all of the letters Steve sent her while he was serving in the Army, as well as the ones she received from the government after she was informed, on June 3, 1969, that he had been declared Missing in Action. Ten days later, a chaplain would arrive at her front door to tell her Steve was gone. She was 20 years old, and a widow. And to this day Gladys doesn’t seem quite sure how to describe what that meant.
In an effort to find homes for 14 hound dogs currently being housed in the county animal shelter, Goochland Animal Control will be waiving the adoption fee on these animals until May 31. Shelter Coordinator Julie Lawrence, who has worked at the shelter for five years, said this is the first time she had seen this many hounds at the facility at one time. “Every cage is filled at the moment,” said Lawrence, who describes the animals as “very lovable” dogs who will make excellent pets. All the animals have been given rabies and distemper shots, she confirmed, and
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