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JUNE 22, 2018
Supervisors agree to renovate schools, county courthouse TRACY BELL
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he Stafford County Board of Supervisors agreed by a 5-2 vote Tuesday to approve its 2019-2018 Capital Improvement Plan, setting the wheels in motion for the renovation of Fredericksburg Christian School’s Stafford building. Supervisors Mark Dudenhefer, R-Garrisonville, and Cindy Shelton, R-Aquia, cast the dissenting votes on the CIP. The agreed-upon CIP was amended from an earlier phase-one plan for the FCS campus, which eliminates a 20-classroom addition previously considered. The amended version also reduces high school Number 6 plans by $20 million. The board deferred a vote on the CIP from its last meeting. On Tuesday, Dudenhefer said his no vote was due to a lack of attention in the CIP to transportation issues. There are “zero road projects” in this CIP, he said. “The single biggest problem in the county of Stafford, and our CIP or budget doesn’t address them one single bit, so I will be voting no,” he said before the vote. Shelton said she’d vote no because more preschools and early-childhood learning opportunities are needed in Stafford for the county’s youngest learners, who soak up so much knowledge before even entering grade school. The board’s vote also means that Ferry
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine listens as Stafford Democratic Committee Chairman Ben Litchfield discusses the primary before introducing Vangie Williams Thursday evening June 14 at a campaign Meet and Greet at Adventure Brewing North in mid-Stafford County. ©MARTY VAN DUYNE | NEWS NET NEWS
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.S. Sen. Tim Kaine kicked off his 2018 re-election campaign with a Meet and Greet at Adventure Brewery North on Thursday evening. Vangie Williams of King George County who is the first African American woman to secure the Democratic Party’s nomination in Virginia’s 1st Congressional District joined Kaine at the event. Stafford Democratic Committee Chairman Ben Litchfield discussed the Democratic Party primary wins before introducing Williams. The congressional candidate thanked the crowd for their support, especially for all the doors they knocked on during the primary. She went on to make a plea for
continued support, telling the crowd: “I’ve attended events in basements” and that no campaign event is too small to host. Williams introduced Kaine, who acknowledged her team of supporters who are called the “Vangelinas” and “Vangelinos.” Kaine said that Democrats are running in a mutually supportive manner in the 2018 General Election. “It’s got to be about Virginia; it’s got to be about the dignity of work,” Kaine said. Kaine spoke of working in his father’s ironworking shop and said people need to understand that not everyone has to go to college. He believes we need to get back to realizing the dignity of all types of work. “It’s got to be a Virginia that works for all,” he said.
“I love the final line of the pledge of allegiance ‘With liberty and justice for all,’ ” Kaine said. He believes the goal should be to be “all inclusive,” providing the same opportunities for all Virginians. Kaine spoke of some of the hateful rhetoric from his opponent, Prince William County supervisors Chair Corey Stewart, and said “Virginia is for Lovers.” Kaine has held elected office since 1994 in positions from city council to mayor to governor of Virginia before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012. He was Hillary Clinton’s running mate in the 2016 presidential election. Williams will be running against Republican incumbent Rep. Rob Wittman and she will be Virginia’s first woman of color elected to Congress is she wins.
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