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2017
Mr year in review

It’s been almost 10 years since the Americana Mobile
Home Park’s last resident pulled up stakes to find a new
home in another part of the county. A developer was to
build a shopping center and apartments there, but now
George Emerson and Phil Roper announced in March that
Moore's they were ready to close on the 66-acre
THE COLONY VILLAGE APARTMENTS JUST tract and build 385 urban-style apart-
NORTH OF RT. 288 ON JEFFERSON DAVIS Lake ments units in three buildings along
HIGHWAY WAS BUILT ABOUT FOUR YEARS the west side of Moore's Lake. A for-
AGO. THE SUCCESSFUL PROJECT HAS mer developer had envisioned a similar
GIVEN BIRTH TO A SIMILAR PROJECT ABOUT Apts.
TWO MILES SOUTH. development although a more modern
design. Emerson and Roper plan to build a development Tournament Champs
similar to their complex north of Moores Lake called Col-
ony Village, which the company is currently expanding. CIT INTERMEDIATE TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS. BACK
The project will cost $54 million and apartment ROW FROM LEFT: CASE KINNE , CHARLES CLEM-
will rent at market rate which, for the Moore’s project, MONS, DONOVAN COBBS, CAYMAN RUFFIN, MAT-
THEW RIVERA, AARON HARPER, PAUL JOHNSON,
will range from $1,050 to $1,550 per month. Commercial AND COACH TONY JOHNSON. FRONT ROW FROM
and retail development will also be included along Jeffer- LEFT: SEBASTIAN ALFONSO, LUCAS MC MILLAN, AND
son Davis. JAMES ENGLISH.
Katie Sponsler is not a name that comes
to mind when you are talking politics. Until
GIS spec. 2015, she was busy serving her country in
other ways.
of 45 years scribed as a politician. “I don’t feel like a poli-
She is still taken aback by being de-
and Coming to tician,” she said.
But she entered
historician get you the world of politics
when she decided to
retires oppose 27-year incumbent Kirk Cox in the
66thHouse of Delegates district. Sponsler will

be a fresh face if she wins a seat in the House .

There are few people, possibly none, it,” said Fickett in his comments during From our Family to yours,
more familiar with Civil War history in Ches- a Chesterfield County Supervisors’ res-
terfield County than George L. Fickett Jr. olution presentation honoring him for
Working for Chesterfield County for 45 his 45 years of service. Fickett received Happy New year!!
years, Fickett made his job his fulfillment a “Take Pride in America” award from
rather than his daily grind. the National Park Service in December
That fulfillment came “My father said, 1987 for his efforts in sav-
through his various posi- ing the land that became the
tions in the county govern- ‘Don’t find a job Howlett Line Park, and he-
ment, beginning in 1971 as for the money you worked with the county and
a draftsman in the Utilities the federal government in
Department and ending with can make; find a securing a $176,500 grant
his retirement as GIS Spe- in 2002 to purchase the site
cialist for the Department job that you like.’” that would become the Ware
of Information Systems – George Fickett Bottom Church Battlefield
Technology. Fickett was in Park.
essence a cartographer in every sense of His accomplishments gained the re-
the word, which allowed him to discover spect and the assistance of David Roth,
and pursue a passion that became almost editor of Blue and Gray Magazine, and
an obsession with him. the two created the first 28-mile driving
“My father said, ‘Don’t find a job for tour of the Bermuda Hundred Campaign
the money you can make; find a job that in 1995, which contained eight designat-
you like,’ and I’ve made a career of ed sites.

Construction tradesman

How many washers will six pieces of spaghetti spanning two cups hold? This is a
good question, and it’s one Bruce Peterson asks his “Geometry in Construction” class
at Carver College and Career Academy, where he has been teaching for the last five
years.
Until this year, Patterson has been teaching construction trades, and geometry was
only a side subject, taught in a small room off the carpentry class, to teach carpentry
students the geometry needed to square a wall or cut a rafter. This year he has teamed
with the school’s geometry teacher to offer this new course. Students earn a credit for
both Geometry and Carpentry 1 and see the real-world application of mathematics.
“They learn construction methods and how it ties into math,” said Patterson. “Out
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