Jeff Bourne, chair of the Richmond School Board: I appreciate the opportunity to share with all of the Richmond Free Press readers my foremost wishes for 2017.
My first and foremost wish is for continued health and well-being for my wife, Anedra, my daughter, Sydney, and my son, Joseph. I also pray that I become a better husband and father in 2017.
As Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” So it is my hope that, as we move through the year 2017, our city takes bold steps to enrich and improve the lives of our most precious resource — our children.
Giving our young people the opportunity, tools and foundation to reach their wildest dreams is vitally important to the future of our city, our region, our Commonwealth and our country.
Those are my foremost wishes for 2017 — and every year.
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Foremost wishes for 2017
Kaine, Stoney, Locke, Bourne and Nelson tell them They respond to a special Free Press invitation
Kaine, Stoney, Locke, Bourne and Nelson tell them They respond to a special Free Press invitation
