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Vol. XXXI No. 11
September 13, 2017
Powhatan supports Hurricane Harvey victims By Laura McFarland News Editor
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OWHATAN – When a call for help for the victims of Hurricane Harvey along the Gulf Coast went out, Powhatan County responded. In addition to individual donations residents have made on their own, two Powhatan supply drives, including one that is ongoing, have been held to help victims who often have lost everything in the flooding that resulted from the hurricane. A tractor trailer full of supplies left Powhatan on Friday, Sept. 9 carrying bottled water, food for humans and animals, toiletries, cleaning supplies, school supplies and much more, said Regina Reams, founder and president of Virginians on a Mission, which sponsored the drive. The second drive put on by May Memorial Baptist Church and Elam Animal Hospital Inc. will continue collecting donated travel size toiletries to make hygiene kits to send to hurricane victims through Friday, Sept. 15. The local re-
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Members of Powhatan County Fire and Rescue load and organize a truck of donated supplies bound for hurricane victims in Texas.
sponse is part of the effort by the Virginia Baptist Disaster Response, which is supported by the Baptist General Association of Virginia, said the Rev. Michael Edwards, pastor of May Memorial. Reams started Virginians on a Mission
in 2013 to provide disaster relief to Moore, Oklahoma tornado survivors. Then, as now, she put a call out for supplies in Powhatan and beyond and as a result increased her plans from taking a horse trailer full of supplies to a packed
tractor trailer. Helping the victims of Hurricane Harvey is the third such collection drive that Virginians on a Mission has done, Reams said. At the beginning of the month, she began asking for donations online and by setting up tables in front of various businesses in Powhatan, Chesterfield and Amelia counties. “This is more localized than the Oklahoma effort. A lot more people from Powhatan were involved in this than people from Chesterfield and Richmond. … People actually felt personally involved and that is how we wanted it to be,” she said. As donations came in during the week, members of the Powhatan County Fire Department showed up on a few different days to load and organize the trailer. Reams said the transport, which was covered by an anonymous donation, was bound for Rockport, a town in Texas that was devastated by the hurricane. She expected it to arrive in the town on Monday, Sept. 11 and said she had communicated with local law enforcement there to make sure it was distributed to those in need. see HARVEY, pg. 8
Parade brings joyful celebration to hundreds
First Day of School for PCPS
By Laura McFarland News Editor
POWHATAN – Hundreds of people once again filled the Village area with revelry as the annual Powhatan Labor Day Parade made its way down Old Buckingham Road last week. The parade on Monday, Sept. 4 saw great participation from the
community members who came out to both participate and watch it, said Betty Bowman, president of the Powhatan Lions Club, which hosted the event. For a little over an hour, community and civic groups, churches, businesses, politicians, first responders and more paraded through see PARADE, pg. 5
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Students get off the bus at Pocahontas Elementary School on Sept. 5. See more photos page 3.
Fears about parade unfounded on page 6
Hundreds of spectators in Powhatan were entertained by the Powhatan Labor Day Parade, which featured 65 entries from across the community.
Public urged to participate in creating comprehensive plan By Laura McFarland
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POWHATAN – Local leaders and county staff are seeking the public’s input on how they want Powhatan County to develop in the years to come. In the coming weeks and month, the final work is going to be done on updating the county’s comprehensive plan first by the Powhatan County Planning Commission, which has already been working on the project with staff for more than a year, and then by the board of supervisors. But to make sure county staff and the two boards receive as much feedback as possible to consider in their deliberations before the document is formally adopted, residents will have several opportunities to provide input on how they envision Powhatan’s growth in the future. While it is not binding, the compre-
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