The Chesterfield Daily

Your plans for the 4th?

Eric — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:16:46 +0000

Youth Services Volunteer Sought

Eric — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:13:01 +0000

Chesterfield County’s Department of Youth Planning and Development is looking for volunteers to sit on a Youth Services Citizen Board.

Applicants should live in Clover Hill District or Midlothian District and want to interact with high school students.

More info - go RTD

Quick - Hide the Honey!

Eric — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:49:32 +0000

From the RTD today. Chesterfield County police said they received several sightings of a bear going through trash cans in residential areas this morning. The sightings came from — Ives Road, Hull Street and Turner roads, the Stevens Hollow area, and Able Road and Ghent Drive.

Police don’t have an exact description of the bear and are not actively searching for it.

- The folks at chesterfielddaily.net are going to go out on a limb here for the description — basically, a big black hairy animal that enjoys fish and picnic baskets… “Do you need more than that?”

Millwood School will offer high school grades

Scott — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:29:18 +0000

According to Chesterfield Observer:

“Millwood School has announced plans to offer grades 9-12 beginning in the fall of 2009. The school is located on 79 acres on the western border of Woodlake.”

Mazda opens new engine rebuilding facility

Scott — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:24:25 +0000

According to RotaryNews.com, Mazda has opened a new engine rebuilding facility in Chesterfield County. This 133,000 square foot building is “the only operation of its type in North America”.

“Our remanufacturing here is primarily for rotary engines,” [Robert Davis] said. “We’re looking to expand in the future, maybe to transmissions and even other automotive parts.”

Taste of India, June 21-22

Scott — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:54:39 +0000

The Cultural Center of India (CCI), a non-profit organization, announces the 5th Annual “Taste of India” event, to be held at the Cultural Center of India, 6641 Iron Bridge Parkway, Chesterfield, on Sat., June 21 and Sun. June 22, noon - 9 p.m. For directions, go to the Cultural Center of India Web site home-page, http://www.geocities.com/ccihall/index.html

The objectives of the festival are to provide the community in the Metro Richmond and Tri-Cities areas with a glimpse of Indian culture, a taste of diverse Indian cuisine, and to exhibit Indian handicraft, art, music and various cultural dances from noon to 9 p.m.

Visitors will be able to taste the flavor of authentic Indian cooking, from chicken curry, lamb curry, kabab, varieties of bread, the South Indian pancake, the “Dosa” and from North India, “Samosa.” Or, enjoy the specific regional foods from various regions of India .

Some of the available beverages will include “Lassi,” to sooth your stomach, the traditional Indian “Chai” (tea) from Darjeeling or Assam and varieties of Indian beer. Smother your sweet tooth with fragrant “rasgullas” and many other Indian desserts, as well as Indian ice cream. While enjoying the foods and quenching your thirst, enjoy shopping for fine jewelry - pure gold, pure silver and real diamond jewelry, saris, Bollywood designer clothing, music CDs, books and many more items.

Throughout the event, specially designed cultural programs will include folk dances and presentations from various regions of India. Be sure to come prepared to take photos or video and stay the whole day!

Admission is free and the event is open to all. This is a family event!

New webpage provides residents a ‘toolkit’ to prevent community decline

Scott — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:37:29 +0000

County residents concerned that property in their neighborhoods is not being maintained properly, or worried that their community may deteriorate in the future, have a new place to turn to for advice and information.

The Chesterfield County Sustain Our Communities Committee, or SOCC, has developed a new Web page at www.chesterfieldcommunities.com to assist residents who have such concerns.

The Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors created the SOCC in 2006 to help prevent the decline and deterioration of older communities. National research, as well as local experience within the Jefferson Davis Corridor and the village of Ettrick, has provided practical examples of how to prevent blight and sustain communities.

“We hope to assist our county residents in maintaining the health of their neighborhoods and surrounding communities,” said Cliff Bickford, SOCC chairman.

The new Web page offers advice and program information, as well as a toolkit to assist residents with sustaining and improving their neighborhoods. The toolkit provides guidance in organizing a neighborhood association or strengthening an existing one.

“In my work as a professional neighborhood association administrator, I found that there are critical actions that neighborhoods can take to prevent decline,” said SOCC member Bill Swift, who was instrumental in the toolkit’s development. “We have written this advice down and want to make it available to all of our county residents.”

VT Student from Midlothian receives Goldwater Scholarship

Scott — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:56:38 +0000

The prestigious Goldwater Scholarship went to 321 student out of over a 1000 across the nation. Three students from Virginia Tech received this scholarship. David Tatum, resident of Midlothian, was one of those three.

“A member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Tatum has studied the trafficking of sulfur in bacteria with the Department of Biochemistry and, more recently, molecule-based magnets with the Department of Chemistry.” according to Virginia Tech.

Plane crashes into a house, 1 in critical condition

Scott — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:25:07 +0000

This morning (Sunday) a plane crashed into a Midlothian home near the intersection Hull and Genito. The two men in the plane that had taken off from a Chesterfield airport died in the crash while the woman in the house, Melissa Bowen, is now at VCU Medical Center in critical condition.

The Crash happened approximately at the 3100 block of Woodsong Drive.

10 million dollar settlement for sexually abused inmates

Scott — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:15:08 +0000

9 females inmates from a prison in Chesterfield County pressed charges about being sexually abused in prison by male and female guards as well as one teacher. One of the inmates ended up getting pregnant as a result of it. After pressing charges and seeking 10 million in damages, a settlement was reached. It’s not public though what deals were made.

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