Learning from the past

Staff Reports
Published: July 25, 2008

2007: Look for change at the Jefferson Area Board of Aging (JABA) Senior Center in Greene. One of those changes is a transformation of sorts, along with other JABA senior centers in the region, from a senior center into something more like an intergenerational communication center. The other thing: it’s got a new supervisor. Her name is Sandra Davis.  Davis replaces former Center Coordinator Judy Berger,  now working in Charlottesville. Debbie Foreman, regional manager for JABA’s Adult Day healthcare and Senior Centers explains the change from senior to community center: “We feel that all generations benefit from each other and a senior center that serves all ages.”
2003: The winds of educational change have just begun to pick up and sweep about Greene County with almost as much gusto as River City’s 76 trombones. While Lorraine Crawford’s arrival on the scene was no where near as flashy as Professor Harold Hill’s in “The Music Man,“ the new principal of William Monroe School has her own ideas for improving life for the youth of small-town America. An Ohio native and current resident of Massanutten Village, Crawford earned her Masters from Longwood College and began her career by teaching music, followed by middle and high school math.
1998: Water quality in the Rivanna River basin, which includes about half of Greene County, may not be as good as past findings by the Department of Environmental Quality suggest.
Rivanna River Basin project chairman Russell Perry presented the group’s 1998 report entitled “ State of the Basin” to the Greene County Board of Supervisors Tuesday night. The 24 member Rivanna River Basin Roundtable complied the report after more than a year of research and discussion. Two Greene Countians, Irene Feltner and Tommy Darnell, participated in the Roundtable discussions.
1983: Greene County officials this week received verbal confirmation that a $52,191 Virginia Community Development Block Grant has been awarded to further the work of the county’s newly-organized Community Development Advisory Committee. Earmarked for projects ranging from transportation to housing to recreation, the funding will augment that which was previously supplied by several grants. “ Basically, this allows us to continue what we’re doing now-plus branching out a little,“ says Jeff North, the county’s community development executive director.
He noted that the grant is for the 1983-84 fiscal year which begins October 1.
1948: Tuesday, August 3rd, Democrats and Republicans will go to the polls in this county to choose there nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives. In the Democrat primary, those running for the US House of Representatives are Howard W. Smith, incumbent and Arthur F. Souther of Arlington. Republicans will choose their nominee for the Federal House from Tyrreel Krum, newspaperman and veteran of Vienne,Va., and Charles G. Pratt, of Fauquier.
Democrats in the same primary, will choose between U.S. Senator A. Willis Robertson and James P. Hart, Roanoke attorney, for the U.S. Senate.