Debate over new Glade Hill Volunteer Fire Station continues in Franklin County
The proposed plan for the new station will also house the county’s department of public safety
Concerns over proposed Glade Hill volunteer fire station plans
FRANKLIN COUNTY, Va, – People in Franklin County are continuing to speak out against proposed new plans for a volunteer fire station.
The Glade Hill Volunteer Fire Station is over 50 years old, causing issues for the firefighters.
“It doesn’t meet the current truck sizes that are being built and they won’t fit in the station. It’s a bad location for sight distance trying to get out of the road in an emergency vehicle. It’s outgrown and outdated,” said President of the Franklin County Volunteer Fire Association, Morris Ledbetter.
Homestead Creamery has a plan to urge customers wary of dairy to try drinking milk again.
A few years after launching its first line of so-called A2A2 milk, thought by some to be easier to digest, the Franklin County company is going all in. Each of the dairies it works with has fully transitioned its herd to cattle with the A2A2 gene.
It wonât change the taste or the nutritional value of the product, but it could draw in new customers who in the past have experienced digestive discomfort after drinking milk.
âWe started getting testimony where A2A2 milk really made a difference. Weâve been reading some science, and we believed it,â said David Bower, co-owner of Homestead Creamery and the owner of a dairy that provides some of its milk.
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Man dies after launching boat at Smith Mountain Lake Smith Mountain Lake (Source: WDBJ7) By Eddie Callahan | February 15, 2021 at 9:16 AM EST - Updated February 15 at 9:16 AM
(WDBJ) - A man died Friday after falling into Smith Mountain Lake while handling a boat being launched for a day of fishing.
Two men launched their boat from the Penhook boat ramp before Richard Donald Haynes 3rd, of Axton, fell into the water about 25 feet from the launch site. The boat kept drifting out into the cove, with Haynes trying to climb back into it unsuccessfully.
A bystander noticed Haynes struggling as he was swimming back to shore and proceeded to enter the water to try and help him. A lifejacket was thrown in the water by two other bystanders, using a rope to try and help the two get back to shore faster. Haynes was not wearing a lifejacket when he fell into the water.
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