May 14, 1989 — The Shenandoah Town Council room was filled to capacity Tuesday night as residents in the Denver Avenue area came out despite the wet weather to put a “damper” on a Northern Virginian minister’s plans for a youth home.
The Rev. Thomas Herter of Woodbridge asked the council last month for a special use permit to operate a Christian youth home at an apartment building located at 522 Denver Avenue. The minister said the home would be designed to nurture the needs of those who come from broken homes, who “were never shown any love at home or who may have not been given the right opportunity from society.” Residents of the home would remain in the county for a three-month period before being transferred to either a farm in Pennsylvania or Georgia.
Shortly after Herter’s proposal last month, petitions began circulating in the town against the home. None of the town residents at Tuesday’s hearing spoke in favor of the idea.
~ From the public archives of the Page News and Courier
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