2011-10-05-Renan Volunteer Fire Department 50 years
PITTSYLVANIA COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
RESOLUTION
2011-10-05
VIRGINIA: At the adjourned meeting of the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors held in the General
District Courtroom of the Edwin R. Shields Courthouse Addition in Chatham, Virginia on Tuesday, October
18, 2011, the following resolution was presented and adopted:
WHEREAS, the Renan Volunteer Fire Department was one of the first rural Fire Department in
Pittsylvania County, chartered in the fall of 1961; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Charlie Franks was asked by the charter members of the Renan Volunteer Fire
Department to serve as the fire department's first chief; and
WHEREAS, over the past 50 years the department has had nine chiefs: Charlie Franks-1961-1964;
Carlton Hutcherson -1965-1967; Garland Shelton - 1968-1971; Frank Worsham -1972-1973; Garland
Shelton -1974; Charlie Franks -1975-1992; Paul Barbour -1993; Kenneth Hutcherson -1994-2000; Dale
Crews -2001-2008; and Scott Hutcherson-2009-Present; and
WHEREAS, after working out of the Agricultural Building at the Renan School the first year, in
February 1962, Robert Reynolds donated a tract of land for a building site and a building was erected the
following year which continues to serve as the site for the Renan Volunteer Fire Department; and
WHEREAS, in the late 1970s, a second addition was made to the building, and a third edition was
added in 2005; and
WHEREAS, from its creation until now, the department has upgraded from the one vehicle, a 1952
oil truck with no pump, to five vehicles -one crash truck, one mini-pumper, two pumpers and one tanker;
and
WHEREAS, when the department originated, the minimum age was 21 years old, and today the age
has been lowered to 18 years old and, there is also a program for firefighters 15-18 years of age; then
BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of Supervisors of Pittsylvania County, on the behalf all of the
citizens of Pittsylvania County, congratulate and thank the Renan Volunteer Fire Department and its
members for its 50 years of service to the citizens of Pittsylvania County and the Board of Supervisors
wishes the Renan Volunteer Fire Department and its members a safe and successful future providing
protection to the citizens of Pittsylvania County; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be presented to the Renan Volunteer
Fire Department.
Given under my hand this 18~' day of October, 2011.
Tim R. Barber, Chairman ~
Pittsylvani ounty Board of Supervisors
William D. Sleeper, Clerk
Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors