Editor, Gazette-Journal:

I have a new trustworthy neighbor and friend. Her name is Sheila Crowley of Mathews County in the Port Haywood area. Please listen and learn about her. You’ve just got to meet her, hear her and you’ll know she’s the one.

I’m excited about her taking on the challenge of the 98th District, Virginia House of Delegates seat. We need to do more to protect our most vulnerable citizens, especially the elderly, handicapped and our children. She will do that.

Sheila has a long list of accomplishments, a few that are listed here.

She is on the faculty of Virginia Commonwealth University as an assistant professor where she teaches social policy, and organizational and policy practices. She has vowed to read everything that comes before her to understand it, and only then act on it.

For 17 years, she was president and CEO of the National Housing Coalition, where she headed the membership organization that was dedicated to achieving socially jus...