INSIDE An interview with Goochland County’s Planning Director > page 5
Volume 57, Number 39 • September 30, 2010
County planner retires after three decades Bob Hammond discusses the changes he has seen in Goochland County By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
Photo by Ken Odor
Goochland Powhatan Community Services Director of Administration Allison Hunter, left, and Case Management Supervisor Allison Meyer are ready to stir some chili for this Saturdays Warm Your Hearts Chili Cook- Off. Below, from left to right, Director of Prevention Randy Camden, Allison Meyer, Allison Hunter and Director of Case Management Bob Villa are hard at work getting ready for Saturday’s Warm Your Hearts Chili Cook-Off.
Chili Cook-Off for a cause this Saturday By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
Come rain or come shine it will be a warm day this Saturday at Goochland Powhatan Community Services. The first annual Warm Your Hearts Chili Cook-Off, scheduled for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the agency’s site on Earls Road and River Road
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SPORTS Plummer returns as Bulldogs roll. > page 9
West, across from the Goochland Library, promises to light a fire in visitors’ bellies. The event is the public mental health agency’s second foray into fundraising, brought on by the downturn in the economy and cuts in state and local funding.
He’s thinking about getting a passport, now that he’ll have some time to use it. After 30 years and more than 300 Goochland County Planning Commission meetings, Planning Director Bob Hammond’s last day is Friday. After growing up in Brunswick, Georgia, Hammond worked a couple of planning jobs after taking his Masters in Public Planning degree from the University of Georgia. But he was looking for a change. “I was looking for something in the Atlanta area,” he recalls. Goochland wanted a planner and David Clabo, who was serving as Goochland’s county administrator and who also happened to be a Georgia Tech graduate, placed an ad for the job in the Atlanta paper. Hammond saw it, applied and was hired. “I thought I’d come up here for two or three years, but I ended staying for an entire career,” he said. Things were a little different in 1980, he recalled. “Goochland was a sleepy little area,” he said.
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