Dear Editor,

I would like to reply to your comment on the BOS voting down the veterinary clinic that was to be located on Huguenot Rail (Route 711). I was more than a little surprised by your comments. I thought you would have been unbiased over the project but nevertheless that’s your opinion.

My father was a coal miner and a dairy farmer. He did business his whole life on his word and a hand shake. When the committees were formed to study and recommend the use of property along Route 711, they said there would be no commercial development west of the intersection of 288.

I was promised that such would be so. I commend the gentleman for sticking to their word and upholding a promise. I commend them for their action and thank them for their honesty.

BJ Sifers
Powhatan