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Volume 57, Number 24 • June 16, 2011
Young cartoonist takes on issues of the day By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
The national debt. Foreign policy. The budget. Brandon Myrick, 12, thinks about all these things. And he worries. Then he draws cartoons about them. “Mom calls me the ‘World worrier,’” said Brandon last week while taking a break from his work at Bear
Technologies, LLC in Goochland. The company, an engineering startup, is owned by his parents, Tom and Karron Myrick. A rising 8th grader at Goochland Middle School, Brandon got turned on to political cartoons after a recent visit to The Holocaust Museum in Richmond, where he picked up a book see Cartoonist > page 2
Photo by Jim Fields
Goochland County consultant John Rhodes addresses Rachel Parker at Tuesday’s Economic Development meeting. Rhodes agreed with Parker that broadband internet is essential to county growth.
Meeting explores growth ideas By Jim Fields jfields@mechlocal.com
Does Goochland County want to grow, increase its tax base and become a destination for businesses looking to locate in Central Virginia? Or is Goochland County happy with staying as it is and letting other localities reap the benefits of commerce and growth?
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These are questions being asked frequently these days by John Rhoades of Moran, Stahl and Boyer, a consulting firm from Sarasota, Florida hired to help the county created an action plan to move forward and realize its untapped potential. Rhoades led a public meeting last week at the government Administration Building that attracted 22 interested citizens to talk about growing Goochland
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County. “Goochland is an interesting county,” he said. “On one end of the county, you have tremendous amounts of farm land, wetlands and other area that people probably want left alone. On the other end, the county shares a boundary with Henrico County, and you have an area made for development. see Meeting > page 4
SPORTS Are participation fees in the future for Goochland sports? > page 9
Photo by Ken Odor
Budding cartoonist Brandon Myrick gives his idea of the national debt in one of his recent cartoons.
INCIDENT REPORTS from the Sheriff’s office > page 8