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DECEMBER 13, 2017 XX NO.16

Village News

Weekend snow nips Christmas Chester

parade in the bud Bengals
junior

will look into it for the
future,” she said. “There champions
are a lot of things that
go into planning the
parade, and including a
reschedule date is not as
easy as ‘picking a date.’
There are significant
costs involved if we have
to cancel the original date
and go to a reschedule
date. In addition, we
have to have support
from the off-duty police
we hire for the event,
and those we hire for
the original date would
not be available for the
reschedule date due to
their scheduled shifts.
We also would have
to ask the businesses THE CHESTER BENGALS JUNIOR TEAM
DID AN AMAZING JOB AGAINST AN
that allow us use of UNDEFEATED SPRING RUN HUSKIES
their parking lots for TEAM DURING THE 2017 CHESTERFIELD
QUARTERBACK LEAGUE SUPER BOWL.
staging to agree to close FINAL SCORE 13-7. THE BENGALS WON
an additional day if THAT FINAL GAME.
rescheduled. We rely SEE STORY ON PAGE 11.
on a lot of volunteers to
pull off the day of the You all pitched
parade. If you would in on the Jones
like to volunteer the story
day of the parade for an
opportunity to see what The Village News has always been
THE SNOW DID GET THE LITTLE ONES OUTDOORS FOR SOME PLAYTIME. one small aspect of the mad about local history. We follow the
RADLEY WAS QUITE PROUD OF HIS SNOWMAN. parade entails and help first streetcars to the first schools and
The Kiwanis Chester Christmas Parade roads that would not be clear.” with this issue for reschedules, e-mail teachers, doctors, and librarians; POWs,
was canceled Sunday due to the snow storm Dvoral emailed all the participants, ChesterChristmasParade@verizon.net.” Civil War heritage, and the birth of the
that blew in on Friday. According to Pam posted it on their Facebook page, posted it The Kiwanis Club of Chester, a industrial age.
Dvorak, parade chairman, VDOT made in the Facebook event, had the digital signs volunteer organization, was just as We have a folder on the server
the decision Friday afternoon based on the changed and notified the TV stations when disappointed with the cancellation as here at the office where we store every
weather forecast they were seeing for the VDOT notified her of the cancellation. the participants and spectators. Many historical picture we can get our hands
weekend. “We cannot overrule or ignore Unfortunately the TV stations did not add it months and hours go into planning and on and we build our page 2 stories from
their decision,” she wrote in an e-mail. “Even to their list of closings. coordinating the parade. Dvorak said them. Pull out a picture of an old school
though the weather was warmer Sunday Dvorak said rescheduling was not preparations were still ongoing when the house in Meadowbrook, let’s find a story
afternoon, they take into consideration possible. “ This [rescheduling] is not VDOT cancellation was received. The behind it. The same with a picture of
that we would be closing a major road and something we have ever done – the last club will carry over the intended theme trenches still left from the Civil War.
detouring a lot of traffic onto side and back parade cancellation was 2013 – but we to next year’s parade, Dec. 9, 2018. Read more on page 3
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