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Volume 57, Number 45 • November 11, 2010
BOS votes to reserve funding County administrator says that fund balance in previous years was overstated By Amy Condra acondra@goochlandgazette.com
Photos by Ken Odor
Big Buddy Zachary Kewer, above right, talks with camper Tyler Alberico at last weekend’s Comfort Zone Camp at Westview on the James. Below left, Campers walk in a line with their hands on the shoulders of the camper in front in a team-building exercise.
Camp offers support for grieving kids By Ken Odor Staff Writer
When Elizabeth Sullivan was 12, her dad went out jogging. He collapsed and died, a victim of a fatal heart arrhythmia. Now Sullivan is the Volunteer Coordinator for Virginia for Comfort Zone Camps, a non-profit bereave-
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ment organization that helps children deal with the loss of a parent, sibling or primary caregiver. The group held a camp for 67 youngsters this past weekend at Westview on the James in Goochland, free of charge to the kids, thanks to a partnership with State Farm Insurance. Sullivan recalled when her mother signed her and her
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two younger sisters up for the program in 1999 at Camp Hanover. “We said no, but she said yes,” said Sullivan. “I had done some individual therapy and hated it,” said Sullivan. She said she spent the first six months after her father’s death, “isolated, with no safe place to talk about it. I
Goochland County administrators asked supervisors last week to consider a number of reservations, or allocated monies, from the county’s general fund Deputy County Administrator John Wack said at the Nov. 3 Board of Supervisors meeting that preliminary, unaudited results from FY 2010 general fund operations indicate that expenditures exceeded revenues by about $5.3 million. “We did anticipate significant use of fund balance, of more than $8 million,” said Wack. “So this is more favorable than anticipated.” The general fund balance is expected to decrease from about $25.7 million as of June 30, 2009, to about $20.3 million as of June 30, 2010. Reservations recommended by county administration included nearly 30 items, including $480,000 for park development, $248,264 for courthouse security funds, $470,000 for a utilities master plan, $541,825 for a Tuckahoe Creek Service District loan repayment, $33,000 for fire hydrant maintenance see BOS > page 4
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Holladay third graders practice their fishing skills