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Master Gardener volunteer training accepting applicants Contributed Report Master Gardeners are trained volunteers who promote environmentally sound horticulture in their communities. If you have an interest in becoming a Master Gardener volunteer, now is the time to complete your application for an opportunity to gain in-depth knowledge about gardening and give back to your community. All applications for the Goochland Powhatan Master Gardener training program for 2021 must be turned in by Nov.
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opportunities where other people can get involved for the public good. The resolution was actually approved by the House of Delegates on Aug. 24, but Ware kept it a secret from Boatwright until the chamber meeting. Drawing on something Boatwright had said earlier in the luncheon about not waiting for just the right conditions before acting, Ware said he didn’t want the opportunity to honor her to get away. “This is as happy a day as I have had for many, many days in this year we have had with all of its difficult days,” Ware said. Boatwright said she had a suspicion something was going on because her daughter, Amy Potter, was insistent she come, and all of the employees from Richardson-Harris-Boatwright Insurance Agency Inc. were there as well. She listened in stunned silence as Ware read the resolution in her honor. “My first reaction was I thought, so this is why Amy wanted me to come to this meeting today,” Boatwright said with a big grin. Ware said Potter was his “secret agent” to gather information about her mother. As Ware read the resolution, Boatwright said she was amazed to hear her life laid out in that way. 2048 Valley Springs CT
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agents, and local experts. In exchange for training, participants are asked to volunteer time to their county’s Virginia Cooperative Extension program with at least 50 hours of volunteer service within one year following the training to earn their certification as a Master Gardener. The type of service done by Master Gardeners varies according to community needs, and the abilities and interests of the Master Gardeners. Some answer telephone requests for information related to gardening while others staff plant clinics
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“If I had to sit down and think about all the things I have done, they have just been so fun. What I have done in my life has been fun times,” she said. Boatwright was asked to attend the October chamber meeting on the pretext of sharing her memories during a presentation on the Powhatan Leadership Institute (PLI). Organizers of the community program have decided to cancel the 2021 session and plan instead to return in January 2022. During the presentation, Boatwright talked about the county tour that always begins every PLI session. As a lifelong resident, she assumed before the tour she would be seeing things she already knew. She said she got off the tour bus realizing she had learned even more about her county, which she appreciated. At the end of her speech, Boatwright reminded those present to live in the moment and not put off things until tomorrow that they can do today. “I want to tell you, don’t wait to do something until it gets convenient, because it’s never going to be convenient,” she said. The House resolution talks about Boatwright’s life from childhood to present day. The daughter of William Ivy and Eva Denoon Stokes, she was born Ruth Stokes in in her parents’ home on Trenholm Road and has spent the entirety of her
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83 years in the Trenholm community. Boatwright credits her humble but happy upbringing as a key factor in how she decided to live her life and help others. “I lived the greatest life but didn’t have anything,” she said. She graduated from Powhatan High School in 1955, where she played on the girls’ basketball team, and to this day she “loves basketball and doesn’t miss a game when her granddaughter, Charlie, is playing.” Shortly after high school, at a dance at Sunnyside, Ruth Stokes met Freddie Boatwright. The couple married 66 days later. In May 2020, the couple commemorated their 64th wedding anniversary. Together, Ruth and Freddie Boatwright have three children, six grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. In 1962, Boatwright began working at a local insurance agency, where she subsequently became an equal partner in 1981, and, though semi-retired in 2007, she still works three days a week in the firm. In addition to being a wife, mother, and businesswoman, Boatwright is a lifelong member of Muddy Creek Baptist Church; a longtime member of the Powhatan Chamber of Commerce; served on the Huguenot Academy board for several years in the 1980s; supported Powhatan’s Relay for Life since its inception in 1995; and worked on the organizational
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Powhatan resident Ruth Boatwright holds a resolution in her honor that was passed in the House of Delegates. Del. Lee Ware was the chief patron of the bill and presented the resolution to her at the Oct. 15 Powhatan Chamber of Commerce meeting.
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