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Volume 57, Number 23 • June 9, 2011
Palen announces run for School Board By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
Goochland Education Association (GEPA) Chairman Penny Palen said Monday she will run for the Goochland School Board District 2 seat in November now held by Raymond A. Miller. Palen said the turning point in her decision came when a GEPA member asked her, “You’re going to be at the School Board meetings anyway, why not make a difference?” Palen, 46, a former mortgage banker, now works as an independent con-
tractor for several mortgage and insurance companies, performing property inspections on real estate in default or foreclosure. She and her husband Mike Marcialis, Senior Facilities Manager for Capital One, Central Virginia, live in Sandy Hook have two children who attend Goochland schools, a son who will be in the seventh grade at GMS in the fall and a daughter heading into the third grade at Goochland Elementary School. A career relocation by Palen’s husband brought the family to central see Palen > page 4 Photo by Ken Odor
Tearful Goochland High School graduate Katie Newman gets a hug from her friend Allie Perry after the end of the graduation ceremony last Friday at the Arthur Ashe Center.
Goochland High School seniors get their diplomas in the cool By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
Photo by Ken Odor
Goochland Education Parents Association Chairman Penny Palen said Monday she is running for School Board in District 2.
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For GHS ValedictorianCallie Alvis, high school went by too quickly. “I know for a fact that I never imagined that when I walked through those doors freshman year that the next four years would fly by
so fast,” said Alvis, speaking from the podium at the Arthur Ashe Center to her classmates and their families and friends. One hundred seventy five seniors graduated this year, with almost all making the walk across the stage to pick up their diplomas. In contrast to last year’s torrid
temperatures on the football field at GHS, it was comfortably cool in the Ashe Center, with plenty of room for all who wanted to attend. “We’ll move mountains,” said Senior Class President Carrie Mills in her remarks. “We’ll be famous thanks
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