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RILEY INGRAM

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“I ask for your vote on November 7th for
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able to give important pay raises to our
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Sunday, Oct. 8
10 am.
BLUEPRINT CHESTERFIELD PHOTO BY ANGELA CARPENTER A Service of Celebration
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CHAIRMAN MARIE VAYER PACK THE TRAILER WITH SUPPLIES FOR VETHOUSE.
Healthy living, well-being, FROM LEFT STATE REGENT JUDITH JOY SURBER, PRINCESS ANNE COUNTY Please note: all creatures must be
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pet carrier or cage.
communities, environmental 804-748-2182 • 12201 Richmond Street • Chester, Virginia 23831
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BY MARK FAUSZ Surprises
The Southern Air Line (SAL) generosity in support of these service
railroad once split the proposed Regent Cheryl DeVine-Holick, along Alzheimer’s
A trailer loaded with nonperishable
Matoaca Mega Site, and the rail bed the Vetshouse projects.” with members Bettie Beaudrias, Angela
transportation mega company left behind
is now a 10-foot cutthrough of the 1,675 foods, snacks, drinks, paper products, and Specialty Center
acres slated for the home of industry. other household necessities headed to the
Heading south in a straight line
parallel with Branders Bridge Road, Vetshouse in Virginia Beach last month.
what now looks like a well-traveled The Virginia Daughters of the American
old dirt road skirts east along a huge Revolution adopted Vetshouse as their
natural lake created by an earthen dam ABOUT 150 PEOPLE ATTENDED A MEETING ABOUT THE MATOACA META SITE ON BRANDERS BRIDGE ROAD ON service project during their Fall Forum
constructed by the SAL in lieu of a MONDAY EVENING. IN CONTRAST TO LAST WEEK’S MEETING THE GROUP WAS SUBDUED WHILE LISTENING TO A meeting at the Hilton Richmond Hotel
bridge. The shadows of pine, oak, and PRESENTATION BY CHESTERFIELD COUNTY LEADERS. in Short Pump, held over the weekend
cool hiding places for its abundance of 5,000 dirty number to BARD group of Sept. 15 and 16. Ten members of the Holiday gift buying
magnolia crawl from the banks creating
The project was suggested by
fish. BY DANIELLE OZBAT Bermuda Hundred Chapter attended.
Jane Amelon after she visited Vetshouse
In the mid-1900s, the SAL
Branders Bridge Road.
passenger trains almost took flight at The Matoaca Mega Site controversy 5,000 homes being built in Chester off back against the Mega Site. Princess Anne County Chapter Regent
Julie Ranson, who built the BARD
supplies. State Regent Judith Joy Surber
over 100 miles per hour as they passed has led to the re-formation of a group After the announcement of the website, said she first heard about the
through Chester, the traveler barely known as Bermuda Advocates for mega site, Mike Uzel, the head organizer mega site when Gov. Terry McAuliffe and realized their dire need for
seeing one of the hidden treasures of Responsible Development (BARD), of BARD, started a Facebook page for came to the county. Ranson attended the immediately supported the idea, and State from our local merchants
Chesterfield. But the same steel rails which was originally formed in the Matoaca Mega Site, and an official first info session, and despite arriving 15
drive. Members across the state donated
also carried the materials of industry opposition to the Branner Station BARD website was recently created for minutes early, she said it was packed and DAR Service for Veterans Committee Demential Connection - Preparing the Family
– citrus, forestry products, paper, and development that would have led to citizens who are interested in fighting a poor way for people to get information. Chairman Marie Vayer, organized the presented by the Alzheimer’s Association
steel. The Matoaca Mega Site is not only 13 years and she said the Mega Site is the thousands of items that were sorted,
Ranson has lived in Chesterfield for

a plot of land that could be the location its residential zoning. But in the same which allowed us be part of the October going to affect many people (including boxed, and packed in the trailer during the Wednesday, October 18 th 6 p.m. - 7 p.m. HOLIDAY ISSUE
Vetshouse Inc. has been serving
of new industry of the highest use, but Comprehensive Plan, the Bikes and Planning Commission meeting agenda.” herself), not just those who live in THE APPLIANCE PLACE •
rail will access just as the SAL did Trails plan indicates that the Linear Park Hart said he didn’t expect the Bermuda District, and that they would Fall Forum meeting.
so many years ago. The rail with its Trail, the same railroad bed that runs negative response to the rezoning. lose property or see decline in property over 800 homeless veterans since 1992. Sunflower Gardens cutting-edge Alzheimer’s Specialty Center
adjacent road, according to Chesterfield’s through the Mega Site is still shown on Chesterfield Transportation value. Their 12-month program offers housing, is designed with neighborhoods around a town center – giving residents with
Economic Development, will change Comprehensive Plan maps. Department Director Jess Smith said his Another BARD member who does food, clothing, and guidance of job skills Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia the chance to live normal lives. Nov. 15, 2017
Reservations and Deposits are now being taken
southeastern Chesterfield in ways which “It’s a game changer for us and the department has been analyzing possible not live in the general area of the site but and placement to homeless veterans of
only 5,000 new jobs for the community region,” said Garrett Hart, director of East West Freeway routes for a year, and said the entire county would be affected the U.S. Armed Forces to facilitate their “Come take a walk through town with us”
Other service projects carried out
can do. the Economic Development Authority of before that when the rezoning for the by the Mega Site is Freddy Boisseau. 05
at the meeting included the collection of
More houses, more businesses,
meeting and was not impressed by the
Station with 5,000 homes was to be
that attract millennials, but it’s not my
more crowded schools, more traffic, and Chesterfield County. “We want projects mega residential development Branners Like Ranson, Boisseau attended the first return to productive lifestyles. 5305 Plaza Drive Prince George, VA 23860 804-452-5000 OCTOBER 04, 2017
loss of property. These are the arguments job to convince anyone.” built. format. old cell phones to be restored and given
or issues discussed at Monday night’s Michael Uzel, founder of the “All of the conceptual alignments Ranson fears what the impact of to women in Texas and Florida disaster www.sunflower-gardens.com
meeting. Bermuda Association for Responsible were shown on displays at the first the highway as does their fellow BARD
in their Virginia facilities for traveling
In 2006, the Branners Station Development, asked Hart in an e-mail public meeting and will be provided member, Stephen Pentecost. Ranson areas. Snack items and drinks were
rezoning for the 1,675 acres turned about the short amount of time between at all future meetings,” Smith said. said the Matoaca rezoning website designated for the USO welcome centers
the rail bed into a north-south major the Mega Site announcement and the “The analysis of the impacts of these uses vague words on their site to make military and their families. Empty ink
arterial that ran from the proposed rezoning hearing that is needed for alignments will also be provided,” he the claim that property values will rise cartridges will be recycled and the funds
Mega Site and ended at the railway industrial to be located there. added. Smith also said he has been because people will want to live close to raised sent to the DAR Schools. Surber For advertising information call:751-0421
abutments on Chester Road supposedly “We will not place our application working in the transportation department where they work, of which Pentecost is
to reduce traffic issues. Two years later, on the Planning Commission agenda for 15 years, and the East-West Freeway doubtful. issued, “Special thanks to the VADAR
the economy crashed, and the Branners until it is complete and includes the and the Comprehensive Plan map have “There is no guarantee that the daughters for their overwhelming
Station developer canceled the project. information from our studies and public always been on the map. He continued people who will work at this site would
In 2012, County’s Comprehensive input,” Hart responded. “We filed the that he went back to what was the first utilize the proposed east-west highway. news@villagenewsonline.com
Plan included the property as R-12, rezoning application to start the process Read more on page 3 Read more on page 3 Contact Tyler at tyler@villagenewsonline.com
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