The Goochland Gazette – 01/02/2020

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Volume 65, Number 1 • January 2, 2020

TAKE IT TO THE MAT: Benedictine wrestlers win title at Classic. See page 8

County honored for 2020 budget

FACES OF

2019

Contributed report

A look back at a few of the fascinating Goochland residents we met last year

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fter meeting his goal of becoming the nation’s top seller of Boy Scout popcorn last year, 15 year old Beck Garnett decided that it was time to take his telent for saesmnship in another direction.

So after having sold more than $200,000 in popcorn over the years, Garnett switched gears to train other area Boy Scouts and to help them sell.

“I feel like I have reached my goal [of being No. 1 in the nation] and have been working toward that for eight years,” said the Goochland County teen who is a member of Troop 444, which meets at Reveille United Methodist Church. “I can really help this other troop reach their goal.” see Faces > 3

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Among those whose stories we were able to share in 2019 were, clockwise from left, popcorn sales champ Beck Garnett, 2019 Christmas Mother Robin Hillman, and lifelong Goochland resident Ruby Amos, who celebrated her 100th birthday in 2019.

Goochland County has once again been awarded the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award by the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA).

This award was received for the third year in a row and the fifth time since 2014, this time for the County’s Fiscal Year 2020 Budget. It represents a significant achievement for Goochland County and reflects the commitment of the board of supervisors and staff to meeting the highest principles of governmental budgeting. In order to receive the budget award, an entity has to satisfy nationally recognized guidelines for effective budget presentation.

These guidelines are designed to assess how well an entity’s budget serves as a policy document, a financial plan, an see Award > 2

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Recent Property Transfers 12127 Branch Overlook Drive, Manakin Sabot; Eagle Construction of Virginia LLC to John Michael Gillis, $533,450.

Billingsley III, trustee to Michael W. Long, $400,000.

307 Libby Hill Court, Manakin Sabot; Roland L. Moore to Ronald L. Ferrell, 12136 Branch $390,000.

Overlook Drive, Manakin 2232 Parkers Hill Drive, Sabot; Eagle Construction Maidens; Bruce G. Wood to of Virginia LLC to Brian A. Mindy E. Socola, $475,000.

Dalessandro, $640,920.

2607 Turner Road, 12110 Ebb Pointe Goochland; Mark King Circle, Manakin Sabot; Eagle to Joseph Carter Norton, Construction of Virginia $186,500.

LLC to Richard A. Williams 187 Woodfern, III, $567,480.

Richmond; William 1913 Haskin Road, Noftsinger Jr., trustee to Goochland; John S. George L. Koebel, $886,000.

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The Goochland County Animal Shelter has temporarily relocated to the County’s Central High School Cultural and Educational Complex located at 2748 Dogtown Road, in Goochland. The temporary Animal Shelter will operate at the rear of the Central High School Complex until the new shelter is completed. Citizens can continue to contact the Animal Shelter by calling (804) 556-5302.

The shelter currently has the following pets available to a good home: A diluted female torti, about 7 years old; a black and white female cat, about 4-6 years old; and a neutered male hound, about 4-6 years old.The Goochland Animal Shelter is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

The facility has many lost dog and cat fliers posted. For more information on these pets, as well as the many more still in need of homes at the Goochland Animal Shelter, call (804) 556-5302. You also can visit the shelter on Facebook at “Goochland County Animal Control.”

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Budget documents must be rated “proficient” in all four categories, and in the fourteen mandatory criteria within those categories, to receive the award.

“Attainment of the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award is a noteworthy accomplishment, not all counties get recognized with this award,” noted County Administrator John A. Budesky.

“It demonstrates Goochland County’s ongoing commitment to fiscal planning and transparency.”

Award recipients have pioneered efforts to improve the quality of budgeting and provide an excellent example for other governments throughout North America. The FY 2020 Adopted Budget can be found on the County’s website (www. goochlandva.us) under annual budget and capital improvements.

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Ruby Amos Given the choice of any place in the world to live, Goochland’s Ruby Amos will say that her home in Oilville is undoubtedly the one she would pick.

After all, she should know — she’s been there over 100 years.

“To me, Goochland is the best place to live,” said Amos, who was born just a few miles away from the home in which she has lived for 70 years. “I call it God’s Country.”

Last July, as preparations continued for her grand birthday celebration, Amos took some time to look back on a life she describes as a blessed one.

“The Lord’s been good to me,” she said, remembering the years spent raising five boys with her husband John.

If there were things she didn’t have — including a driver’s license — Amos says she didn’t miss them. Instead, she describes days she kept full with work she loved, including sewing, cooking and tending the large garden that provided most of what the family ate.

They also raised cattle, pigs and chickens, making trips to the grocery store largely unnecessary.

Born on Aug. 4, 1919, Ruby Amos was the third of 10 children born to Stanley and Nettie Richmond. These days, nearly a century later, she still enjoys doing genealogy research and sharing her deep knowledge of local history.

Amos says the secret to her longevity lies with the things she has avoided — like cigarettes — but also with the things she has enjoyed as much and as often as she can, including staying active.

“I’ve always loved to run, loved to be active,” said Amos.

“I’ve always felt that if you give up [moving], your body gives up too. And I’m not ready to give up.”

Lisa Landrum Several years ago, when Goochland County Public Schools’ supervisor of nutrition services Lisa Landrum hit upon a solution for providing nutritious meals to local students in need during the summer months, she knew her first step would be to get all of the other people who would need to be involved in the project on board.

And, in this case, that meant literally.

Landrum’s plan, to turn a decommissioned GCPS

bus into a kitchen on wheels, meant that she and her staff would be able to visit local neighborhoods and ensure that those who might otherwise struggle with hunger could have access to warm and healthy meals. And while Landrum faced a number of hurdles in her quest to get the project up and running, it is already proving an invaluable community resource.

Even before Landrum and county school board members happily cut the ribbon on the county’s new Sunshine Food Bus on June 11, it had already served over 130 meals.

“It was tough, but it was worth it,” said Landrum of the various challenges involved in getting the bus outfitted with the electricity, water and food service equipment that would be needed to safely serve hundreds of meals throughout the summer.

Fortunately, the school administration, including GCPS Superintendent Jeremy Raley, and the local school board were enthusiastic supporters of the plan from day one, and also pitching in to help were numerous local partners including the Goochland Education Foundation, the see 2019 > 14

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continued from >1 He spent this fall training members of Boy Scout Troop 442 to sell popcorn to raise money.

Much of his effort has gone to Troop 442, which meets in the Manchester area of South Richmond. That troop previously had been struggling but Beck’s commission replaced the troop’s equipment and backpack gear.

“Beck is a living example of what the Boy Scout of America instills in the youth who participate in our programs — it is about character and leadership,” said George M. McGovern, Scout executive and CEO at the Boy Scouts of America’s Heart of Virginia Council.

“At 15 years old, what he has done by giving back to those in need speaks to his character,” McGovern said.

“And now he is teaching the youth in those units how to sell and earn their way and that speaks to his leadership. These are the life skills that help communities and that employers look for when hiring potential employees.”

The process has been very rewarding, Beck said.

“They have picked it up very well and they have been very responsive,” he said.

“They have been doing great so far. It’s great to see them progress on their selling skills and really help their troop.

They have have picked up very quickly and easily and will be able to do so much more with the money they are raising.”

Members of Troop 442 plan to use the commissions they earn this year to pay it forward like Beck has done. They are planning to give 10% to help fund a new girl’s unit of their troop and 10% to a another new troop being formed in a financially challenged area of Richmond.

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Obituaries REVA N. ALVIS Reva Nuckols Alvis, 78, of Manakin-Sabot, went home to be with our Lord and Savior December 21, 2019. She was preceded in death by her parents, Brownie and Corine Nuckols; sister, Maggie Johnson.

She is survived by her husband ALVIS of 61 years,

George Alvis Jr.; daughters, Debbie Dunlavey (Donald), Phyllis Henley (Merton); sons, Dennis Alvis (Betsy), Randy Alvis (Cindy); grandchildren, Jason Dunlavey (Parker), Erin Henley, Michael Dunlavey (Harli), Thomas Henley (Rachel), Callie Carter (Scott), Brett Alvis, Peyton Dunlavey (Ashley), Adam Henley (Maryanne), Georgie Alvis, Emmy Alvis, Hannah Molnar; great-grandchildren, George Albert Raylan Henley, Josie Caroline Dunlavey; sis-

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ter, Virginia Nuckols; brother, ers, donations may be made to husband to his wife Patsy of 60 Frank Faudree (Janet). Reva was Centerville Fire and Rescue Co. years and the greatest dad to a beloved wife, mother, grand- 3 or Goochland Baptist Church. his sons. After graduating from Chilhowie High School, Curtis mother and friend to all who JOHN C. JONES served in the United States Army knew her. A devoted farmer’s Mr. John Curtis Jones, and then worked as a metal fabwife, Reva lived her life in dediage 80, of ricator for Nance Corporation cation to Alvis Farms, the comGoochland, and then C&L Welding prior to munity and all things agriculpassed away his retirement. He was preceded tural. She was a partner of Alvis December in death by his parents, John Farms LLC, a lifetime member 22, 2019, and Myrtle Jones. Curtis leaves of Goochland Baptist Church after a behind his wife, Patsy; two and a charter member of long battle sons, James “Chuck” (Linda), Centerville Co. 3 Volunteer Fire with health Gregory (Angela); grandchiland Rescue. A memorial service issues. He dren, Kristen Goodloe (Matt), was held Friday, at Goochland JONES was a loving Brooke and Jordan Jones; one Baptist Church. In lieu of flow-

great-grandchild, Avery. He is also survived by two sisters, Betty Stokes and Rosemary Staples (Bill); and one brother, Allen Jones (Rita). Family will receive friends at Norman Funeral Home, Goochland, Va., on Friday, December 27, from 6 to 8 p.m. Services will be held on Saturday, December 28, at 11 a.m. at Elpis Christian Church, 2703 Elpis Church Rd., Maidens, Va. 23102. Burial will be private at a later date. In lieu of flowers, make donations to Elpis Christian Church.

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Goochland Parks and Recreation will be offering Beginning Ballet, a 14-week class to help young dancers ages 2 to5 with balance and coordination. Students will learn ballet basics and play fun dance games. Dancers should plan to wear a leotard, dance skirt, tights, and ballet shoes. This class is held at the Goochland Sports Complex from 4:30 to 5:15 p.m., and the cost is $200.

For more information, contact Parks and Recreation at (804) 556-5854.

The Cochrane Rockville Branch Library will host First Friday Films from 4 to 6 p.m.

All are encouraged to bring the whole crew for a great movie on the big screen. Refreshments will be provided by the Friends of the Rockville Library. Call (804) 749-3146 or visit the library at 16600 Pouncey Tract Road for more information.

Saturday, Jan. 4 The Teen Volunteer Advisory Board will meet at the Goochland Branch Library from 1 to 2 p.m. Young people who are interested in getting volunteer hours, helping their community, and making some good friends are encouraged to join the Volunteen group and find out about the library’s monthly opportunities and how to make a difference. Snacks will be provided by the Friends of the Goochland Library. Call (804) 556-4774 or visit the library at 3075 River Road West for more information.

Goochland Parks and Recreation will be offering Intermediate Ballet and Jazz, a 14-week session during which dancers ages 6 - 9 will learn technique and fun choreography. This class will focus on skills like leaps, turns, and splits while having fun and being active. Dancers should plan to wear a leotard and tights, dance skirt or shorts, and ballet or jazz shoes. This class is held at the Goochland Sports Monday, Jan. 6 Complex from 5:15 - 6:15 p.m., and the cost is $200. For more Abrakadoodle will present information, contact Parks and “Kids on Canvas: East meets West,” offering participants the Recreation at (804) 556-5854.

chance to traverse the world through the fantastical landscapes of European artists, explore traditional motifs in vase paintings by Chinese artists, and have fun creating art inspired by some of the world’s most creative artists. Students will be inspired by Latvian artist Elita Patmalniece and his eye-popping portraits, and explore color through the circular abstracts of Japanese artist Atsuko Tanaka. Students should bring their imaginations and a paintbrush, and prepare to have a world of fun. This 6-week program is designed for students ages 5 to 12. Classes are held at Goochland Elementary School from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., and the cost is $90. For more information, contact Parks and Recreation at (804) 556-5854.

and will help participants lead a healthier life. Please note, a $25 one-time Karate association fee will be taken at the door for first time students. This program is held at the Goochland Sports Complex from 6:30 to 8 p.m., and the cost is $70. For more information, contact Parks and Recreation at (804) 556-5854.

Tuesday, Jan. 7

Goochland Parks and Recreation will welcome all to come out for a fun trick-taking, Ace-Ten game of Pinochle! All levels of players are welcome.

This is an ongoing program for participants ages 50+ where players can bring a friend or meet a friend. Pinochle Club meets at the Central High Cultural and Educational Complex from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. , and is free. For more Goochland Parks and information, contact Parks and Recreation will be offering kara- Recreation at (804) 556-5854. te, offering students the chance to learn techniques including Abrakadoodle will present kicking, punching, blocking, Teen Art Splash, offering teens sparring and partner work. the opportunity to foster and Emphasis will be on philosophy cultivate their creativity and and discipline of the martial imagination. Training instrucarts to increase students’ self- tors will offer a two-hour art lesconfidence and physical condi- son that will allow participants tion. This challenging program see Calendar > 5 is for those age 7 through adults

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January 2, 2020 held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., and the cost is $60. For more continued from >4 information, contact Parks and the chance to create original Recreation at (804) 556-5854. work of art using multiple types of media and tapping into their Wednesday, Jan. 8 creativity and originality. This Goochland Parks and class is designed for participants Recreation will be offering a ages 12 to17. Classes are held at new format to help children Goochland Middle/Goochland ages 5 to 11 learn to play tennis.

High School from 3:30 to 5:30 In QuickStart Tennis, the size p.m., and the cost is $25/per of the courts, the equipment, class. For more information, and even the net height has contact Parks and Recreation at been decreased to make learn(804) 556-5854. ing easier for children. This class

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All are invited to the Central High Cultural and Educational Complex to take part in Youth Music Label, a literacy, technology, and youth music development program that allows youth to create music by turning a classroom into a record label run and managed by youth.

Students will learn to write and record the music, develop marketing strategies, design the artwork, and much more.

This 8-week class, designed for students in grades 6 to 12, is

will be held on Wednesdays beginning Jan. 8 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Classes will be held at Goochland Elementary School, and the cost is $50. For more information, contact Parks and Recreation at (804) 556-5854.

Goochland Parks and Recreation will be offering a class to help discover effective strategies for saving money, managing spending and improving your credit. This free financial education seminar will be held at the Central

High Cultural and Educational Complex from 6 to 7 p.m., and will be presented by VACU. For more information, contact Parks and Recreation at (804) 556-5854.

Do you enjoy bridge?

Goochland Parks and Recreation will be offering the chance to join other bridge players with basic knowledge of the game. Players will rotate tables. This is a free ongoing program where participants can bring a friend or meet a friend. Bridge Club meets at the Central High Cultural and Educational Complex from 10 a.m. to2 p.m. For more information, call (804) 556-5854.

Thursday, Jan. 9 Storytimes at the Goochland Branch Library are as follows: Toddler, 10 a.m., Preschool 10:45 a.m., Mother Goose 11:30 a.m. Call (804) 556-4774 for more info.

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LEGO Adventures will be held at the Goochland Branch Library from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m., featuring a fun night of free LEGO play with friends.

Materials will be provided. Call (804) 556-4774 or visit the library at 3075 River Road West for more information.

The Goochland Parks and Recreation Staff is inviting all to join them as they explore exciting and different sports from around the world. This program will focus on teaching the skills and techniques needed to play

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touch rugby, handball, cricket, and much more. Kids will be split into two age groups 6 to 8 and 9 to 12 for this 6-week program, designed as a fun, noncompetitive class. Sport Around the World will be held at Byrd Elementary School from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., and the cost is $60.

For more information, contact Parks and Recreation at (804) 556-5854.

The Canasta Club meets at the Central High Cultural and Educational Complex from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., for players ages 50 and older. All levels of players are welcome to take part in this free ongoing program. For more information, call (804) 556-5854.

Goochland Parks and Recreation will be offering karate, offering students the chance to learn techniques including kicking, punching, blocking, sparring and partner work.

Emphasis will be on philosophy and discipline of the martial arts to increase students’ selfconfidence and physical condition. This challenging program is for those age 7 through adults and will help participants lead a healthier life. Please note, a $25 one-time Karate association fee will be taken at the door for first time students. This program is held at the Goochland Sports Complex from 6:30 to 8 p.m., and the cost is $70. For more information, contact Parks and Recreation at (804) 556-5854.

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Old sled offered treasured connection to past

by Jim RidolphI Contributing Columbist

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t’s funny how some memories of Christmas remain in our minds, crystal clear in its detail; while others fall into the category of who knows where I was or what I was doing.

That doesn’t mean those occasions weren’t festive and rewarding, they just didn’t make that imprint in our psyche that some others did.

Throughout the years, I’ve written about many of those most memorable Christmas days of my life. Oddly, I”ve rarely described the Christmas that I’ll remember for a lifetime, a memory that always makes me appreciate my family more at this time of year.

It’s a time of year that is always tinged with an unfilled void and a sense of sorrow not just for one of two seasons, but for a lifetime.

Unfortunately, the holiday season also is a time of increased mortality and that group of survivors who have experienced a death in the family at Christmas are unwilling members of a lifelong society who will always see the holidays through a different lens.

But, for some unknown reason, this holiday brought back memories of a different Christmas, one year after my father’s death.

Our small family gathered up our presents and headed to Grandma’s house for the holiday. Realizing it

would be a tough anniversary, all of us thought it best to be surrounded by the comfort of a loving family. So, we gathered in my Nannie’s house in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to endure our first Christmas without my dad.

It was a cold and gray Christmas Eve as I strolled around the large yards on all sides of the house. I poked my head in the many outbuildings, but one my grandmother called the meat house caught my attention. It had long since surrendered its meat-curing purpose and now housed a untidy collection of old furniture and trunks.

Hanging on one of those poorly lit walls, I glared at a familiar sight, the shape of a sled hanging on a wooden peg, probably resting there for

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decades when some other young boy hung it after a run on the hill at the high school.

I asked my uncle about the sled, and he said it had been hanging out there as long as he could remember, but encouraged me to take it down and use it if when the weather cooperated. I carried the musty smelling sled to the back porch that ran the length of the rear of the

house, and wiped off years of dust with a damp cloth.

What lay beneath was a Flexible Flyer Americana, runners in perfect shape and the wood darkened and many times soaked with oil to preserve its integrity. It was as perfect as the one my father had given his kids not so many Christmases see Sled > 11

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How many great people can you meet in a year? As it turns out, quite a few

By Roslyn Ryan Editor

Every year at this time, as we here at the Gazette look back on the various stories we’ve covered, it never fails to amaze us just how much can happen in the space of a single year. In Goochland, as in any community, change is the only constant, and each week seems to bring some new development that takes hold of the county’s collective attention.

While the headline-making events are certainly interesting to look back on — as we did last week — it is undoubtedly even more enjoyable to remember the many people we were blessed to meet.

Some of those we were introduced to in 2019, of course, may need no introduction at all: Having lived in the county now for over 100 years, Ruby Amos (read more about her on page 3) has already made more friends than most of us will in a lifetime, and also serves as a living, breathing encyclopedia of Goochland history and lore. We spent time with her this year as she prepared to celebrate her 100th birthday, and were charmed immediately by her sharp wit and formidable memory.

If Amos represented Goochland’s longest-tenured residents, another one of our favorite faces this year offered a shining example of how the county’s young people continue to lift up those around them.

Rosie Williams (page 15), a see Letters > page 15

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All-Metro player part of Saints’ best year yet Ellis, from Goochland, helped St. Catherine’s volleyball team reach its first-ever state final

By Nick Vandeloecht Sports Editor

RICHMOND – To Claire Ellis, Madison Williamson was one of the best captains.

She was really nice, and she was among the players who taught Ellis leadership on St. Catherine’s volleyball team.

Ellis recalled Williamson telling her: You always say that you don’t want to be a leader because you don’t want people to look up to you. But I’ve looked up to you since you were a freshman.

“That really helped me in becoming a captain for two years,” Ellis said.

The skills, approaches and lessons she learned from her teammates and from her longtime coach and instructor Skip Weston helped the St. Catherine’s senior Libero from Goochland County deliver a storied high school career that saw her become the school’s all-time digs leader with over 1,400, and earn First Team All-Metro, All-State and AllLIS honors following the conclusion of the Saints volleyball team’s best season to date.

Ellis has been part of the Saints’ team ever since her 9th grade year – her first year at St. Catherine’s after she was at Salem Christian School in Goochland since she was at least 4 years old.

“Some of those girls, I had been together with since I was 3 or 4,” Ellis said of her former classmates at Salem Christian.

“But coming here…everyone was so nice and so welcoming, I’ve just really enjoyed it.”

She started out playing

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St. Catherine’s volleyball team members, clockwise, from top left, Elise Williamson, Claire Ellis (5), Rian Sherod, (18) Jailah Channer, Jessie Atkinson (16) and Quinn Menger (22) celebrate a first-game point during LIS championship action on Friday, Nov. 1.

Libero her freshman year, then shifted to defensive specialist, or middle back, with the team’s senior DS’s also getting to play at Libero. Towards the end of the season, she got put back into the shirt, and she’s played Libero ever since. Throughout Ellis’ first three seasons, the Saints put together banner campaigns – her freshman year, they made the state quarterfinals, and in both her sophomore and junior years, they reached the state semifinals – before going the furthest the program has ever gone this past fall: the state final.

Ellis helped her Saints get there – and she did so while playing through a fractured femur.

She confirmed the injury before the LIS tournament and learned that she had been playing with the fracture for a month. She doesn’t know exactly when it hap-

ELLIS

pened because she was having knee problems a little bit before that; they thought that it might had just been her meniscus or patella, but it was actually the femur where it connects to the knee, right behind the knee. Ellis said it also bruised the bone.

She played with padding around her knee, and she said that, while her doctor didn’t want her to keep playing, he realized she was playing her

senior season – let alone going to states – so he said that she could play through it, but after the postseason, she’d have to take 10 weeks off. She’s dealt with pain at some points, but now that she’s taking time off, it’s not bad right now.

It also didn’t really hinder her play through her final LIS and VISAA tournaments.

“When the adrenaline’s going, it didn’t really affect me,” Ellis said. “Sometimes it would after – when I would ice it, I couldn’t bend it for a little while, but playing, it’s not bad.”

A diving force throughout the season, Ellis racked up 21 digs in the LIS final against Collegiate (3-0), 26 digs in the Saints’ state semifinals win over Bishop O’Connell and 15 digs in the state championship match. According to the Times-Dispatch, she had 378 digs to go along with 57 aces and 46 assists.

Ellis, who is set to play at Libero for Shepherd University in West Virginia, loves being defensive captain.

“I love defense – that’s my favorite part, is just digging,” she said. “It’s just kind of fun because their big hitter will come up and take a big swing and if you dig it, everyone’s like ‘Oh!’” She began her volleyball journey around 5th grade; she saw that her sister was playing volleyball at her old school, so she came out and, as a 5th grader, would get her hand on the ball. The coach would pepper with her, and by her 6th grade year, he had let her onto the team, where she’d help in practicing with the players. It was also in 6th grade that Ellis played on her first travel team: 12 Metro at Richmond Volleyball Club.

Before that, she had been playing basketball and also danced, but she realized that

physical contact sports weren’t for her. When she went to volleyball, she liked the team aspect of it, and how mentally tough you have to be, “because unlike most sports, you can be up 10 and then be down in a matter of a few minutes.”

Ellis figured she and her Saints would probably make it to the finals this year “because this is the best that our team has ever been in the history of St. Catherine’s.” The Saints assembled a 26-5 overall record, won the LIS tournament championship, went undefeated in regular season and LIS play and didn’t drop a set in their three-set-minimum matches (invitational matches are typically two sets minimum) until they defeated Bishop O’Connell 3-1 in the state semifinals.

“I knew that we had to do well because it was my last year and I was like: It’s the last time I’m going to be playing with a lot of these girls and we’re all gonna branch off, especially with my senior friends,” she said, noting how she and Jailah Channer came onto the team as the only two freshmen together, and how she played with fellow defensive standout Jessie Atkinson on her 12’s team.

And junior setter and All-Metro Player of the Year Quinn Menger, from nearby Powhatan County, has been a longtime teammate – and a friend for five years now.

Ellis and Menger first played together on RVC’s 14u Nationals team before transferring to St. Catherine’s and becoming part of the volleyball team at the same time.

They also played beach volleyball together before going to St. Catherine’s and have spent every day before school

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Ellis continued from >7 together.

“I’ve loved every year playing with her,” Ellis said. “She’s a setter and I’m a Libero and it’s kind of a neat little combination because I’m helping make her job easier.

She’s always the more talkative one and I always love when she’s encouraging everybody – it’s really fun playing with her – and then I’m more of the quiet one, but I will be very competitive sometimes, and it’s really funny when we’re on opposite sides because we just go at it with each other.

“And if we’re on the same side, then we are going to beat whoever’s on the other side,” Ellis added with a laugh, “because we are so competitive.”

There were a lot of emotions and motivations behind wanting to win states, including going up against a perennial title contender in Flint Hill. And while the Saints ultimately finished as the state runners-up to the Huskies – who won their third straight state title and their 10th in the last 12 years – Ellis said that “it was actually nice to actually just take a set off them” in the 3-1 loss.

“I loved it, because it’s really good competition for us,” Ellis said of getting to challenge for the state championship. “And the states were just so much fun, because, before playing, you’re with your team, you’re in a hotel together, you get to bond, you’re making Tik Toks or videos… and then you’re in the bus, you’re singing songs all the way there.

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St. Catherine’s senior Claire Ellis (Goochland) receives the ball during a 2019 regular-season match at Collegiate.

And then, when you get there, it’s like you’re getting up against this really big competition and you’re just using what you have done all year and just laying it out there on the court. And it’s really cool because that’s the first plaque for volleyball that we’ve ever brought back for states.”

Her team could rely on every one of its players who stepped onto the court. Most of the Saints’ starting lineup had played travel ball, which, Ellis pointed out, doesn’t happen a lot. With Ellis and Menger transferring in, Channer beginning her years with the team as a freshman just as Ellis did, Elise Williamson getting to play during Ellis’ sophomore year and Rian Sherod beginning varsity as an eighth grader, an incredibly talented core of players came together to lead the Saints.

Once they got that whole group going – in Ellis’ words, they were “just kind of unstoppable.”

“We knew what we wanted

to do,” she said, “and then we brought in people like Campbell [Wood] and [Guinevere] Buono… which was really nice, and Bella [Lupica], our freshman middle, which she was put into a really hard spot this year, but she really worked through it. I’m really excited to see what happens after.”

Ellis said she was very fortunate to get onto the team her freshman year.

“I was really nervous to come in because I was new,” Ellis said.

“But everyone was so nice and they really taught me leadership… so when they left, I would end up taking over.”

She also felt fortunate to have Skip Weston, with whom she had done private lessons at RVC since she was around 10 years old, as her head coach at St. Catherine’s.

During lessons, he didn’t just limit her to Libero-related instruction – he let her hit in addition to setting, passing and serving.

“I really am grateful that he

taught me how to hit, though, because I actually know how to hit now, so if ever need-be, I can do it,” she said.

Ellis added that Weston is “always looking out for your best interests.”

“He always wants you to do well and he will check up on you if you’re hurt – he’ll send you a text – and he just wants you to be your best,” she said. “He wants you to do your best, and that makes you want to do it so he’s not wasting his time or anything, because you want to do well for him.”

In continuing her volleyball career to the collegiate level, Ellis had a really tough decision this summer as she was looking at a few different schools. But when she went to the camps, Shepherd was the one that really made her feel like she was part of the team already.

“And they really went out of their way to make sure I was doing all right and always talking to me, and I really liked that aspect,” she said, “and the coach has always been so nice.”

To Ellis, it took the Saints a lot of time, effort and hard work to craft their best season yet.

“And then you have to come into the gym always wanting to get better,” she said. “We all had to come in like: This is what we want to do this year…we don’t want to drop a set in the LIS, we’re gonna win LIS for the eighth year in a row and we’re gonna make it to the states’ finals.

“That was our goal,” she said, “and we worked really hard to work up to that goal.

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The Cadets wrestling team won the Colon E. Baker Classic, held Dec. 28 at Great Bridge High School, and saw six of its wrestlers take home individual titles.

Brenden Barnes won at 120, defeating Grassfield’s Daniel Coffey by tech fall. Barnes reached the final with the help of four pins

in the tournament.

Multisport standout Brian Daughtry also pinned his way to the heavyweight final, which he won by a 16-6 major decision over Lafayette’s Michael Rodriguez.

Zane Cox won the 152 title by pinning Landon Kissell in 45 seconds. Cox reached the final with the help of three pins and a win by forfeit.

CJ Griffith won the 160 title by pinning Grassfield’s Garrett Forrest in 48 seconds. Griffith reached the final match with the help of four pins, including one in 20 seconds over Cox High School’s Aiden Manning.

Ryan Tremain won the 170 title by pinning Ocean Lakes’ Jake Levine in 4:37. Tremain reached the final with the help of three pins

and a tech fall win over Grassfield’s Robert Martin.

Sam Slate won the 182 title by pinning Kempsville’s Garrett Hodges, also in 4:37. Slate reached the final with the help of four pins.

The Cadets will next compete in a tri meet at Goochland High School, which will be held on Tuesday, Jan. 7 at 6 p.m. and also will feature King William.

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BEST 5 OF 2019 Goochland boys basketball makes history The Bulldogs set new records with their 2018-19 season, delivering a program-best 23 wins and reaching the program’s first-ever state semifinals contest on an incredible 21-game winning streak. They won the James River District and Region 2A tournament championships, and they had strong senior leadership from JaMel Allen, DJ Harris, Isaiah Matovu and Perry Snead-Johnson.

Benedictine football wins 2019 state title The Cadets, who saw key players suffer injuries that took them out for large chunks of the season, were led by a stalwart defensive effort that never relented from Game 1 to the final, in which they defeated rival St. Christopher’s 14-6 for the 2019 VISAA Division I state championship. Dual-sport standout Jay Woolfolk, who is committed to UVA both for football and baseball, was hurt early in the season but returned for the playoffs to lead the Cadets at quarterback.

Goochland volleyball reaches state semis For the second time since they won the state championship in 2015, the Bulldogs returned to the state semifinals, this time doing so after bumping up from Class 2 to Class 3. Featuring senior leadership from middle blocker Mary King, versatile setter Trinity Wonderling, Libero Ellie Spencer, defensive specialist Ilaria Russell and outside hitter Rachel Carter, Goochland won the Region 3B title over Independence 3-0, powered past Park View 3-0 in the state quarterfinals, fell to Tabb 3-1 in a competitive state semifinals match and won 22 straight matches.

Benedictine baseball wins 2019 state title Led by a large and outstanding senior class, featuring Jamari Baylor who not long after was drafted by the Phillies, and Jay Woolfolk, the Cadets battled past St. Christopher’s 7-4 to win the 2019 VISAA Division I state championship. They finished the season 28-2, got attention from national rankings along the way and won a memorable state quarterfinals game over Norfolk Christian, 11-10 in 14 innings.

Ragone helps Dragons win first state title Goochland’s Emma Ragone contributed to Maggie Walker’s Governor’s School’s girls soccer team not only winning its first state championship in 2019, but also ending George Mason’s historic run of state titles at 11 straight.

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ing when I could excuse myself and give that Flexible Flyers a proper test.

My mother patiently clasped the seemingly endless clamps on black boots that smelled like retreads, made much more difficult by the endless number of socks she had required.

The new piece of rope provided sharp contrast to the darkened wood sled, and the Flexible Flyer logo barely visible under tons of lacquer and wood oil.

The hill at the high school was packed

with kids trying out new toys just received, and the hill was smooth and fast coated with a tiny glaze of ice on the surface. The old Flexi didn’t disappoint, and flying down that large hill somehow reminded, renewed and refreshed me.

Somehow, that old sled made me feel like the kid who had just received the best gift ever.

It was almost dark as the flurries transformed to flakes. The walk home almost seemed dream-like with big Christmas lights reflecting off the white surface, and the snowy dark sky as

a backdrop.

I walked down the unplowed streets, the sled following like a loyal dog and skimming across the quickly freezing snow with no effort.

As I climbed the hill to my grandmother’s house, I remember thinking what a great Christmas Day this had been.

And that old sled accompanied me on many runs in various locations, and always reminded me that some things in life have the power to provide joy if only in limited doses; but the impact they have last a lifetime.

Sixty years later, I still think of my dad almost every day, and, yes, Christmas Eve still makes me melancholy, but it only lasts a second as I remember what I had, what I have, and just what good fortune can come in the oddest of forms, like that old worn sled.

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2019 continued from >3 Goochland Rotary Club, Piedmont Smokehouse, Old Dominion Metal Products, Inc., and the Goochland Community Action Program.

Goochland county Career and Technical Education students also played a major role in getting the Sunshine Food Bus ready for service. .“It’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen in my time here,” said assistant superintendent Steve Geyer, who attended the dedication ceremony held in front of the county administration building. “It’s a great example of the kind of cooperation that can happen when people come together on behalf of our students.

Annika Wooton For 2019 Miss Kansas Annika Wooton, the path to making her dream come true wasn’t the easiest one. And unlike another famous resident of that great state, clicking her heels together three times wasn’t going to get it done.

Instead, Wooton had to put in years of hard work, learn to weather disappointment, and remain laserfocused on her goal.

Fortunately, on June 8, all of that perseverance finally paid off when the former Manakin-Sabot resident was announced as the winner of the 2019 Miss Kansas Pageant.

The photos from that day show her elation as she received her crown, the moment that officially kicked off the year that the title will be hers. But while the former Miss Wichita certainly enjoys all of the glitter and glitz that goes along with being a pageant contestant, Wooton insists that isn’t the part she likes best.

Wooton, who moved back to her native Kansas from Goochland to attend the University of Kansas, said she considers herself fortunate to be able to compete alongside the many talented young women she has met since beginning her pageant journey nearly a decade ago in the Greater Richmond Outstanding Teen competition.

“These are such driven women with incredible goals, serving their communities,” said Wooton, explaining that, as times have changed, the

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pageant world has as well.

While the glamour remains, some aspects, including the swimsuit competition, have been phased out.

The focus of the organization, she said, “is preparing great women for the world and preparing the world for great women.”

Rosie Williams Ask Randolph Elementary School student Rosie Williams what she might like to be when she grows up, and she tell you that the thing she wants most is to help make people’s lives better.

And in fact, she’s already won an award for it.

Last year, the Goochland County School Board presented Williams with an ECCHO Award, an honor reserved for those students, teachers and staff members who display the school division’s five core values of excellence, creativity, courage, honor and optimism.

The awards are held quarterly and honor recipients from each of the county’s five schools and the division.

Williams was nominated by Randolph teacher Sherrill Kauffman for her optimism.

The example that was cited in her nomination took place last year, when Williams was in fourth grade.

A fellow student who had been struggling approached her and asked how she always managed to stay so positive and upbeat, despite any challenges she was facing.

Did she think, the young man asked, that she could help him learn to be that way too?

Williams agreed and the two began talking regularly, walking the track during recess and going over ways the student could learn to channel his emotions in positive ways. Thanks to the work the two did together, the improvement in the young man’s outlook was soon plain to see.

If Williams has already proven adept at helping others to overcome challenges, it may be in part because she has dealt with some significant ones of her own.

Born with degenerative bilateral hearing loss, Williams relies on hearing aids to help navigate the world around her. And while intensive ther-

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Randolph Elementary School student Rosie Williams was honored this year with an ECCHO Award from Goochland County Public Schools for championing the division’s values.

apy beginning at eight months old helped ensure she would be able to excel academically and socially, the condition means that Williams must still face numerous obstacles most children don’t.

Fortunately, said Williams’ mother Mary, the school system in Goochland has done an outstanding job of working with the family to ensure that Rosie has been provided with whatever services she needs to ensure her academic success.

Outside of the classroom, Williams happily negotiates a whirlwind schedule of Girl Scouts, travel soccer and basketball, and enjoys competing in the Reading Olympics and serving as the Historian for her school.

Funny and engaging, she laughs easily and often but also displays the kind of drive and tenacity that is sure to take her to the top of whatever profession she does eventually choose.

“I have high expectations, and I Trice for Mayor.” like setting goals for myself,” Williams While Trice insisted he wasn’t sure said. “And I’m just going to keep who put up the signs, the title of working hard at that.”

Mayor is one he’s proudly held for some time.

“I always say I wasn’t actually Stu Trice elected,” Trice said, but instead the As Election Day neared there was title was passed down to him from an at least one candidate in Goochland uncle, a former local postal employee who insisted he wasn’t feeling much who was similarly well-known in the anxiety about the outcome. community.

Even when people laughed and Trice, who shoed horses before called his campaign a joke, Stu Trice opening up a saw and knife sharpenjust laughed right along with them. ing shop in Hadensville, embraced Because technically, well—it was. his turn in the spotlight, and said As the only candidate in the race he thought his candidacy may have for Mayor of Hadensville, a position offered some people just what they that didn’t actually exist, Trice was needed after a long and occasionally so popular in his neck of the woods brutal campaign season. that his recent campaign kicked off People are just too tense these without him having anything at all days, Trice said, and pointed to this to do with it: according to Trice, he year’s contentions election season in didn’t know he was running until Goochland as a prime example. campaign signs started to spring up see People > 15 all over the area reading “Re-Elect Stu

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People continued from >14 His candidacy may have been fake, Trice laughed, “But I’m totally honest — how many other campaigns can say that?”

Floyd Callihan Of all the things he has accomplished over the past 93 years — and the list is long indeed — Goochland resident Floyd Callihan says the one of which he is most proud is having lead the charge in 2004 to have Virginia’s Route 288 designated as the WWII Veterans’ Memorial Highway.

Callihan, whose own WWII service included serving aboard the USS Block Island, was himself honored on Oct. 19, when he was inducted into the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame.

The honor serves as the capstone to a career that has earned Callihan myriad awards and accolades for public service, as well as the respect and admiration of his peers and fellow veterans.

While nine decades may seem like quite a few years — he turned 93 on Sept. 30 — Callihan seems to have packed in enough living so far for twice that many.

Born in 1927 in Columbus, Ohio, Callihan was already showing an industrious streak by the time he was in high school, spending much of the time that he wasn’t studying working in a local pie shop.

With the United States embroiled in war in the Pacific and in Europe, Callihan left school before he finished his senior year to join the US Navy (he would eventually be awarded his diploma).

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large numbers of American military transports.

It was during this time, Callihan remembers, that he first fell in love with the idea of flying as he watched the pilots take off and land on the carrier’s deck, igniting the spark of what would become a lifelong passion for aviation.

Callihan began taking flying lessons in 1953, the same year he joined the United States Air Force Auxiliary, the Civil Air Patrol, as a warrant officer in the Northfield Senior Squadron. He quickly earned his private pilot’s license, and would eventually earn his multi-engine and commercial licenses as well.

After years of dedication and perseverance — during which he was credited with 16 “finds” and 6 “saves” as a search and rescue pilot — Callihan achieved the rack on full Colonel and was appointed Commanding Officer of the CAP’s 1,500 member Virginia Wing.

Throughout his career, Callihan earned high praise for his willingness to roll up his sleeves and get things done.

Away from the airfield, he and his wife Shirley, whom he met and fell in love with while on leave from the Navy and married in 1947, raised their three children, daughter Susan and sons Douglass and Glenn.

Robin Hillman When Goochland native Robin Hillman was selected as the 2019 Christms Mother, she said she was honored to have been chosen.

“I have always thought this was such a special program, helping those in our community during Christmas, bringing some of the joy of the season to those in need,” said Hillman, adding that she and her family know how much joy can be received from serving others.

“My first involvement with the Christmas Mother Program was around 1996 or so when I coordi-

fellow student in need, left even our reporter feeling better for having continued from >6 met her— quite a feat for someone young student singled out earlier so young.

Of course, there are invariably this year by the Goochland School those we have the chance to meet Board for her efforts on behalf of a

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WWII veteran Floyd Callihan, pictured here with a photo of a plane he once flew, was inducted into the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame on Oct. 19. The honor serves as the capstone to a career that has earned Callihan myriad awards and accolades for public service, as well as the respect and admiration of his peers and fellow veterans.

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nated adopting several families for work,” Hillman said. “My son, who was about 7 at the time, helped me make the deliveries to the families.

One of the mother’s was so thankful she gave my son a Christmas ornament. We’ve always cherished that ornament. Every year since then, we have hung it on our Christmas tree.”

Hillman’s community minded spirit started in high school when she joined Goochland Department of Fire-Rescue and Emergency Services as a volunteer.

During her 36 years of volunteer service with Goochland Fire – Rescue, Robin found her passion for emergency and disaster preparedness.

She was instrumental in the establishment of Goochland’s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program in 2004 fol-

lowing the impact to Goochland from Hurricane Isabel in 2003.

Following the implementation of the CERT program, she received a Certificate of Distinguished Service Award from the Commonwealth of Virginia and Virginia’s Department of Emergency Management.

More recently, in 2015, she received the Goochland FireRescue Chief’s Award serving as Goochland’s Deputy Emergency Service Coordinator.

While finishing her Data Processing degree in 1984, Hillman began her career at National Card Control, Inc., located at that time on Cardwell Road.

Thirty-five years later, Hillman still works for the same company.

Through the years, she has had many roles at the company such as Computer Operator, Programmer, Business Analyst, Data Processing

Manager and Contact Center Manager.

Hillman attributes her ability to serve her community as a very active volunteer to her loving family, all of whom share her desire to help those in need.

Robin and husband Tom, live on Route 6 just east of the Courthouse area. Tom is a volunteer Captain at the fire-rescue station in Crozier and is an IT Specialist for the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

They have two children, Philip and Kaitlyn. Philip is a fourth-generation firefighter and is a Lieutenant with Spotsylvania County Fire, Rescue and Emergency Management.

Kaitlyn is a Behavioral Therapist with Dominion Youth Services.

—The Richmond Times-Dispatch’s Gregory Gilligan contributed to this report.

each year who delight us simply by being unapologetically themselves, and by reminding us that a community’s cast of “characters” is often its greatest asset. If you’ve ever had the chance to meet Stu Trice (page

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As always, we feel tremendously fortunate to have connected with so many Goochland residents from so

many walks of life this year, and to have been able to share their stories with our readers. We are looking forward to another fascinating year ahead, and can’t wait to see who we’ll get to meet next.

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