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Volume 57, Number 17 • April 29, 2010
Goochland chamber head resigns
Garden Fest grows at JSR
Chamber President Doris Elderman is leaving May 31 Staff Reports news@goochlandgazette.com
Doris T. Elderman announced last week that she is resigning her post as president of the Goochland County Chamber of Commerce, effective May 31. Elderman says that she is leaving the position in order to devote more time to her ailing father, who lives in North Carolina. Elderman has served as the chamber’s president for more than five years. “Doris has been a sparkplug to our chamber. The growth that we have enjoyed in recent years is largely a factor of the energy and spirit that she brought to this job. She will be sorely missed,” said Paul Miller, the chamber’s chairman. Elderman, a North Carolina native, had served as executive director of the Milton (Pennsylvania) Area Chamber of Commerce and worked for the Milton Area Industrial Development Corp. Elderman and her husband will continue to reside in Goochland. Miller said the chamber launched an immediate search for a replacement. The Goochland Chamber represents nearly 400 firms that do business in Goochland County.
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Susan Moncure, above, is ready to place a handful of red wigglers into her worm bin last Saturday at the Spring Garden Fest at J. Saregeant Reynolds Community College. Tables filled with colorful bedding plants from the JSR Horticulture Club greet potential customers to the celebration.
By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
“I’m ready for worms,” declared an enthusiastic Susan Moncure Saturday, standing over her plastic bin filled with moistened strips of newspaper and soil. Moncure, a Richmond resident, came to
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Goochland to take the Composting Organic Pretty soon Moncure was holding a big Kitchen Waste With Worms class at the Sixth handful of red wigglers, ready to transfer them Annual Spring Garden Fest held at J. Sargeant to their new home, labeled “Moncure Abode.” “I just love them,” she said, describing them Reynolds Community College. Taught by Master Gardener Susan Davis, as her new pets. class members learned the process of conWith more than 20 classes, numerous venstructing a bin in which they could turn kitchen see Garden Fest > page 3 waste into rich compost for the garden.
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