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Volume 57, Number 42 • October 27, 2011
JSRCC Goochland Campus unveils new community art gallery By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
The Goochland Campus of J. Sargeant Reynolds hopes to become a center of county activity, said Reynolds President Gary L. Rhodes last week. A Wednesday reception marked the opening of an art gallery in the main lobby of the academic
building. “The goal is to turn this campus into a county hub,” said Rhodes to the 20 or so visitors who turned out for the event. Rhodes and Goochland’s Wayne Dementi teamed up to turn the Goochland Campus into a community center that would be available to see Gallery > page 3
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GEPA’s Adeeb Hamzey demonstrates the lights that notified speakers when their time had expired at Sunday’s candidate forum for local candidates for supervisor, school board and constitutional offices.
As the election looms, forums for candidates come to an end By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
With the November 8 election date fast approaching, voters had a chance last week to take another look at the candidates for local office at three
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forums. The last forum, sponsored by the Goochland Education Parents Association (GEPA), may have proved the most interesting. Held Sunday at the Goochland Recreational Center, it was sparsely
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attended. But the format devised by GEPA and moderated by Wayne Dementi, allowed for questions directly from the audience, something previous forums did not offer. see Forum > page 12
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Artist Robin Caspari’s son Burke, 4, relaxes under one or his mom’s paintings that is part of the new art gallery at JSRCC, Goochland Campus.
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