Treasurer quits after Waverly police shake-up

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Treasurer quits after Waverly police shake-up

Posted on: 6:54 pm, July 12, 2012, by Wayne Covil, updated on: 06:56pm, July 12, 2012

http://wtvr.com/2012/07/12/treasurer-quits-after-waverly-police-shakeup/

WAVERLY, Va. (WTVR) – The treasurer of a small town in Virginia is making a big statement after town leaders opted not to renew the police chief’s contract.

Pam Diehl said she never imagined she would walk off the job after 31 years.

Diehl said she resigned as treasurer Wednesday after the town council decided not to reappoint Waverly Police Chief Kevin Lands.

In fact, Tuesday night was the first meeting for four of the five recently elected town council members.

Their quick decision divided many of the town’s 2300 residents.

In fact, some residents told CBS 6 News’ Wayne Covil Thursday they think the chief and other officers have done a good job cutting down on crime. They worry his departure could mean trouble for the area.

Additionally, Diehl said the meeting had the largest public turnout in more than a decade. But she said the public’s praise fell on deaf ears.

“I felt like I could no longer work with a mayor and town council that had a preset agenda and did not have the Town of Waverly’s best interest at heart,” Diehl told Covil from her front porch Thursday.

Mayor Walter Mason isn’t saying much about Deihl’s resignation. 

“I have no comment on that, that’s town’s business,” said Mason. ”Like what happened with anybody else, that has a vacancy, it’s going to be filled.”

Additionally, Deihl said that there is no one to take her place at this point, since the town’s longtime clerk recently retired.

Stay with CBS 6 News and WTVR.com for updates on this developing story. 

If the link above does not work try watching the TV 6 news story I taped from the TV below .....

http://youtu.be/w7IH6e2TjzU

It takes a great person to standup for what they feel is right and to 

take such a bold move as Pam Diehl has done. There comes a point

 in each of our lives we must do what we feel is right and just. We

 all need to commend folks like Pam and we need to wake up and  

get involved in OUR TOWN. Do not let it get to the point where 

 you say “I should of” or “we could of” or “why did that happen”.

Things only happen when we become complacent or ignorant to 

what is happening around us.

A 1-2 Punch is Delivered

Local residents along Coppahaunk Avenue in the Town of Waverly get some support in their fight to clean up the neighborhood and ask folks to “Just Be A Good Neighbor.” The 1-2 punch a right cross from the Sussex Surry Dispatch and blow to the mid section by WTVR TV CH 6. Adrienne Wallace, Editor of the Sussex Surry Dispatch ran an “above the fold-Front Page” story and Wayne Covil, Reporter with WTVR visited town, talked with neighbors and ran a story on the 6 PM news last night. A photo of the SSD front page and a link to the CH 6 story are below.

Link to the story that ran last night on WTVF TV CH 6

http://wtvr.com/2012/05/02/neighbors-fed-up-with-board-members-blighted-home/

Although the Town of Waverly said it sent 6 or 7 letters over the last few years the question still needs to be asked…. WHY DID IT TAKE a newspaper story, a TV News story, several trips to town and county meetings and a petition to get some action. AND the jury is still out on that “action”, in the TV news story reporter Covil said he talked with Rufus Tyler who said he has personally been doing the interior renovation and when that is done he will begin on the outside. Well let’s hope his skills are with interior decorating but from the looks it’s the same ol story of lots of talk and promises and little or no real action.

Lets hope that with the newly elected leadership in the town of Waverly they can set aside personal agendas and get to work making the Town of Waverly "A Nice Place to Live". And one last question ...... Why can't neighbors just do the right thing? Take pride in what ever you do and own!

A GREAT BIG THANKS TO BOTH THE SUSSEX SURRY

 DISPATCH AND WTVR CH 6