April 19, 2005: Headlines: COS - Thailand: Wildlife: Parks: Richmond Times Dispatch: James River Park manager Ralph White returns to work today after a two-week suspension without pay
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April 19, 2005: Headlines: COS - Thailand: Wildlife: Parks: Richmond Times Dispatch: James River Park manager Ralph White returns to work today after a two-week suspension without pay
James River Park manager Ralph White returns to work today after a two-week suspension without pay
James River Park manager Ralph White returns to work today after a two-week suspension without pay
White returns to work
BY REX SPRINGSTON
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Apr 19, 2005
James River Park manager Ralph White returns to work today after a two-week suspension without pay. He spent part of his time off camping in a Southwest desert.
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White, a popular presence at the park since 1980, was punished for twice unlocking park gates, against orders, to allow bird watchers, dog walkers and others to enter early or stay late.
Richmond's parks officially open at sunrise and close at sunset.
While city officials pondered White's punishment last month, scores of people rose to his defense and sent numerous e-mails to City Hall and The Times-Dispatch.
As it turned out, White outlasted his agency head, parks director Dinesh V. Tiwari, who resigned Friday. Tiwari said last week that City Administrator William Harrell asked him to resign. A spokesman for Harrell would not comment and called it a personnel matter.
Several top city officials have left City Hall under Mayor L. Douglas Wilder's new administration.
Reached at home yesterday, White broke up with emotion expressing his gratitude for the support he and James River Park received.
"I love this city and this river and this park," he said.
White worked on a day off Sunday to supervise Fish and Frog Freedom Day, in which children released minnows, yellow perch, bullfrog tadpoles and other aquatic denizens into the quarry pond on Belle Isle, part of the park.
White spent a week of his suspension camping in Death Valley National Park, located mostly in southeastern California. Unusually heavy rains have triggered a colorful wildflower bloom there.
White celebrated his 61st birthday Thursday by reading and writing at night with a headlamp. He was buzzed by several moths and a bat. "It was very satisfying."
Contact Rex Springston at (804) 649-6453 or rspringston@timesdispatch.com
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