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Volume 55, Number 50 • December 24, 2009
Good Samaritan in Goochland Cuts to the School Board’s proposed 2010-2011 fall nearly $2.2 million short of the county’s By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
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Music Director Kim Watts leads the visiting Byrd E.S. third graders as they sing carols to the Meadows Nursing Home residents.
Byrd students sing at Meadows By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com
The 84 residents of the Envoy at the Meadows nursing home on Dogtown Road got a special visit last Friday, when third graders from Byrd Elementary
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School arrived for their annual visit. Led by Music Director Kim Watts, 58 students arrived at 10 a.m. for a visit of about 40 minutes. They sang a selection of Christmas carols, accompanied by Watts on the guitar and encouraged the residents to sing along.
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“We’re just going to spread the joy,” said Watts. Third grade teacher Mandy Tickle said the tradition has been going on for more than 10 years now, started by retired Byrd E.S. teacher Ellen
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Bobbie DeHart had seen Jennifer Burgoyne at Burgoyne’s job at the local Food Lion in Centreville before, where she is the Assistant Deli Manager, but the two had never met. That didn’t happen until the evening of November 11, when the car DeHart was riding in was struck by an SUV turning left onto the Route 288 on-ramp. DeHart was a passenger in her friend Astrid Oettinger’s Volvo station wagon as they traveled east on Broad Street Road. It all happened in a driving rain with low visibility. “I couldn’t see well because of the rain,” said Oettinger, who said she was traveling slowly. Burgoyne was behind her, with her 6-year-old daughter Aryonna in the car when the crash happened Burgoyne was the only one who stopped to help, said DeHart. In the heavy rain she got out and managed to get DeHart, who had head injuries and was bleeding heavily, back into the passenger seat of the car. “I stayed right beside her until the rescue squad got there,” said Burgoyne. The Centreville Rescue Squad was there within minutes along with a Goochland Sheriff ’s Deputy. see Budget> page 3
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