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Census
The Census Bureau recently released more tabulations of information from the 1990 Census of Population and Housing for Virginia. It marked the second major release of 1990 census data - the first was redistricting data.
State highlights from the tabulations include:
• Virginia’s 1990 population reached 6,187,358 persons - 51 percent of whom were female.
• Median age was 32.6 years.
• Eleven percent of the state’s population was 65 years old and over.
• Households averaged 2.61 persons in 1990.
• Median value of all housing units was $91,000.
Information from the tape, as well as other census data, will be distributed through the Virginia State Data Center. This network consists of the Virginia Employment Commission, Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia, the state’s twenty-one planning district commissions, and the Virginia State Library and Archives.
Census results will be pored over during the coming decade as demographers and other social scientists try to come to a better understanding of who we are and how we’ve changed. The Census, willed to us by our forefathers, truly is democracy at its best.
Kids' project
A group of Rappahannock boys were recently thanked for a project some readers participated in and one we think all should know about.
Jeremy Slack of Washington received a letter last month from Millard Fuller of Habitat for Humanity in Americus, Ga. Jeremy and his fellow Pack 123 Cub Scouts, with help from leader Mike Dunigan, collected $154 from handmade wooden donation boxes they placed around Rappahannock. They sent the proceeds in to the international group.
“I know that God is very pleased with what you and the fellow members of your pack have done,” wrote Mr. Fuller. “The Bible tells us to love one another, and that love must be expressed in very specific and concrete ways. You have surely expressed your love and concern in a beautiful way and what you have done is so deeply appreciated by all of us at Habitat for Humanity.”
To those well-chosen words we add our own congratulations to Jeremy and the other Cougar Cub Scouts.
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