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After he and his wife, Penny, moved to the town of Washington in 1978, Keesey was given responsibility for organizing the founding convention of the Virginia Council of Senior Citizens. I^ast year. Gov. Charles Kobb appointed him to the Governor’s Council on the Aging. Keesey also is a member of the Area Agency On Aging’s Advisory Council. He is chairman of Trinity Episcopal Church’s outreach committee, a member of the troop coomittee for the Boy Scouts and a members of the board of directors of the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and the Community (RA AC).
“1 would like to be elected senator so that I can meet with the Silver-Haired Legislature to continue to work to meet the needs of seniors,” Keesey said. “Incidentally, sometimes those needs are the same problems facing others.” He added that he favors the elimination of the sales tax on food and perscription drugs, life-line utility rates, long-term care and a statewide discount program
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