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FluvannaReview.com April 12 – 18, 2012 | One Copy Free • CountyCounty AAdministratordministrator HHiredired • NNoo WWaterater aatt ZZionion CCostlyostly • LLakeake MManageranager ProfiledProfiled • TTalkingalking ttoo tthehe TTreeree GGuyuy 22012012 CChrishris DDaughtry:aughtry: FFromrom FFluvannaluvanna ttoo FFameame 11998998 APRIL 12 – 18, 2012 • VOLUME 32, ISSUE 15 THIS WEEK IN REVIEW... Page 6 Page 8 Page 10 FOUNDED IN 1979 BY LEN GARDNER Steven Will water at High school www.fl uvannareview.com Nichols is Zion Crossroads honor roll Publisher/Editor: Carlos Santos running the make money? released. carlos@fl uvannareview.com county. 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GM overhauled its I would like to take this time to say thank management, took the bailout money, you and recognize all of the Fluvanna went into temporary bankruptcy, killed County Sheriff’s Offi ce Communication unprofi table product lines, and sold off Offi cers for their dedicated service they peripheral businesses. Chrysler took provide not only to the members of the bailout money and FIAT completed its sheriff’s offi ce but to other police, fi re, buyout of Chrysler. Auto companies, rescue and citizens in general. suppliers, and unions worked together Being a communications offi cer (911 to improve processes. Unions voluntarily dispatcher) can be challenging and gave up cost–of–living increases, dental takes a special individual to s t a y coverage, some other benefi ts, and agreed to be paid through auto stock funds. calm during a time of 9 P X 5 AL The bailout crisis and be able to O 2 M B . 2 963 Y . A R succeeded. perform multiple O V A . task at the same P Chrysler paid off c m its loans in full. time. a r o l c GM is paying Your service o . s w @ e off its loans on does not go f vi luv re unnoticed by those anna schedule. Chrysler, whom you serve. It is GM, and Ford are truly appreciated during the time of need. all profi table and their market shares This includes but not limited to, a house are growing. GM recently announced fi re, a heart attack patient or a citizen that its most profi table quarter in history. needs to speak with a deputy. According to the nonpartisan Center On behalf of myself, the sheriff’s offi ce for Automotive Research, “1.45 million and the citizens of Fluvanna, we say people are working as a direct result of thank you for your service. the $80 billion bailout”.* So why are Sheriff Ryant L. Washington conservatives angry? Candidates Romney and Santorum argue that the auto Lake is great companies should have relied entirely on bankruptcy processes and should not Lake Monticello is the greatest have taken bailout money. They ignore community to live in. I want to thank the probability that without the bailout, everyone for the food, fl owers, and, most the industry could not have recovered certainly, the concern shown during my as quickly as it did. Many of those 1.45 on-going medical problems. billion jobs would have been lost. At one A big “thank you” to you all. level, there are sour grapes: Republicans Winnie Browning don’t want to admit that Obama did Lake Monticello anything right. And there seems to be another reason The bailout worked for their anger. The prolonged bankruptcy Why do conservative politicians advocated by Romney and Santorum continue to gripe about how President would have allowed the auto companies Obama conducted the auto industry to kill or weaken the unions, slash wages, bailout? The facts are as follows. For years, and eliminate benefi ts. Success of the General Motors, Chrysler, and Ford had bailout appears to be less important to been in trouble, asking the government conservatives than the opportunity to for assistance. Chrysler tried to get itself weaken unions and to run roughshod bought (again) by a foreign company. over hard–earned rights of American In 2008, President Bush initiated the workers. auto bailout – essentially a plan to Dave Miller throw money at the auto companies. Palmyra President Obama refused to implement *The New York Times editorial, that bailout until coherent plans for February 26, 2012 Comments from fluvannareview.com and Facebook On the Central Elementary honor roll in the April 5 issue: CONGRATULATION TO ALL THE STUDENTS THAT MADE HONOR ROLL!!!!!!!!!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. I KNOW EVERYONES PARENTS ARE PROUD OF THEM. – WEPARTY On a March 29 story about the increasing demand for social services: Hopefully the county will be able to hire more social workers soon because they are needed. – Fluvannan On a April 3 story about the CVEC raising its rates: Tax increase, water increase now electric increase..... It’s becoming too expensive to live in Fluvanna. – Fluvanna Resident Correction: Kashawn Anderson won the Fluvanna’s Got Talent contest. We ran the wrong photo on the bottom of the cover of the April 5 issue. We regret the error. April 12, 2012 | FLUVANNA REVIEW | 5 Steven Nichols named new county administrator BY RUTHANN CARR When Scudder resigned, Nichols said it the board’s choice for county administra- build staff,” Nichols said. “We’ll be hiring CORRESPONDENT felt like the right time. tor. in people that can make our team better.