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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Faced with knotty legal issues and a packed court house last Thursday, the Rappahannock Board of Zoning Appeal* delayed action until May 22 on the variance request from Nationwide Pentacostal Evangelical Association for a church campground.
Supporters of the ■N.P.E.A:’4 application for “camper hook-ups for those who come to worship” at the organization’s annual 10 day camp meeting in June outnumbered opponents, judging by a show of hands requested by BZA chairman Josef Gardiner. Led by Pentacostal pastors from local, out-of-county and outof-state churches, proponents with infants and toddlers in tow faced neighbors angered by the shouting and singing that went on until after midnight at last year’s camp meeting.
Beginning at 9 a.m., speaker after speaker testified with the preachers all adding short sermons, dragging the meeting out past a two hour lunch recess until late afternoon.
Rev. L. D. Savage, chief spokesman for the N.P.E.A., told the board members that the application covered only camping at the annual meeting that begins on June 20 of every year. He noted that the health department gave approval last year for a dumping station and SO camper hook-ups, the site currently has 13 installed, he said. "So you already have a trailer park now,” remarked BZA member Pete Estes. Savage explained that he was unaware last year that
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