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December 04, 2012 News & Features » Cover Story

White's Rapids 

During the last three decades, Ralph White scrubbed and cleaned and remade the James River Park System. Now he's ready to call it a day.

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Ralph White is inches away from getting fired. His annual performance reviews routinely rate his work as slightly below average. His superior slapped him with five letters of reprimand in the last 10 months alone. He has been told that during…

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