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Volume 57, Number 36 • September 15, 2011
Chairman Mattox to seek re-election to School Board By Jim Fields jfields@mechloal.com
Some of the more hotly contested elections on Nov. 8 in Goochland County may be for seats now occupied by members of the Goochland County School Board. Challengers for each of the five seats have announced their candidacy and at least two of the School Board members will be new after the election, as Max Cisne and Andrew A. Meng III are not seeking reelection. But Chairman Ivan. O. Mattox Sr. will be seeking his third term on the School Board. Mattox is the current Chairman of the School
Board. His opponent in District 3 is attorney John Lumpkins. “I have two sons in the Goochland Public School system and the parent in me wants the school board member in me to make sure that my children get the best education possible,” he said from his Innsbrook office last week. “Actually, I have 2,400 children that I want to make sure get a good education. I consider every student in the Goochland Public School system to be my child, and I will look after their educational interest as much as their own parents will.” see Mattox > page 3
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Firefighter/Paramedic Frank Romero of Company 1 holds a candle with the help of his son Frank L. Romero at the Sunday evening 9/11 observance at Company 5.
County remembers 9/11 By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
After a day of inumerable memorials and TV replays of the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2011, more than 100 people turned out for a Sunday evening observance at the Company 5 Firehouse in the Courthouse. Goochland Fire/EMS Chief Robert MacKay led the ceremony, which featured the display of a piece of steel from the World Trade Center which will eventuall be a part of a 9/11 monument planned for Henrico County by Richard Melito,
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creator of the Freedom Flag. County Administrator Rebecca Dickson read the poem “One,” with a theme of unity in the face of tragedy. “The real story is about the first responders and ordinary citizens,” said MacKay, of those who took part in the largest rescue the world has ever seen. After viewing a tape of the events of 9/11, the names of the first responders who died on that day were read as those present conducted a candlelight vigil in their honor.
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School Board Chairman Ivan Mattox speaks at a previous School Board meeting.
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