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MOOREFIELD, HARDY COUNTY, W.VA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2013
Ten Graduate from South
Branch Valley Drug Court
Sayers to
Resign as
Wardensville
Recorder
By Jean A. Flanagan
Moorefield Examiner
Photo by Jean Flanagan
From left, John Treadway, Sen. Donald Cookman, Chief Justice Benjamin, Jack Burner, Sheri Collins, Heather Bergdall, Clay
Thorne, Lynn Ludwig, August Parker, Nathan Bergdoll, Seth Haines, James Parker, Jeremy Ritter, Robbie Whetzel.
By Jean A. Flanagan
Moorefield Examiner
While seniors at Moorefield and
East Hardy High schools were
preparing for graduation, another
group of people were celebrating a
very unique graduation. Ten adults
were graduating from the South
Branch Valley Drug Court program.
Graduation ceremonies were
held on Friday at the Hampshire
County Judicial Center in Romney.
The second-floor courtroom was
packed with family, friends and fellow Drug Court participants. Also
in attendance were Chief Supreme
Court Justice Brent Benjamin, Senator (formerly Judge) Donald
Cookman and Penny Porter, representing U.S. Senator John “Jay”
Rockefeller.
Just as graduation from high
school signals a turning point in a
person’s life, so too is graduation
from Drug Court.
“This program is simple, but not
easy,” said Adult Drug Court Probation Officer Seth Haines. “These
graduates are like the Phoenix, rising from the ashes.”
Convicted felons addicted to
drugs and/or alcohol are given an
opportunity to participate in Drug
Court, based on the crime they have
committed and their willingness to
follow the mandates of the program. Felons convicted of violent
crimes are not permitted in Drug
Court.
The program takes at least a
year to complete. There are three
phases, beginning with intensive
counseling, community service,
drug testing and extensive reporting. As the participant moves
through the program, less counseling, drug testing and reporting are
required. Participants are required
to seek full-time employment or be
engaged in community service
throughout their time in the program.
Haines thanked the Treatment
Team, whose members volunteer
their time and energy for the participants in Drug Court.
Each week, the team meets and
discusses each case individually.
They determine if the participant is
following the program, whether
there have been setbacks, and if
there should be sanctions.
“They do that for days like
today,” Haines said. “There are
many hours that go into making
decisions. Their one common goal
is why you are here now.”
Justice Benjamin, who was
instrumental in establishing drug
courts throughout the state, said he
was proud of the graduates. What
began as a pilot program in four
counties is now active in 30 counties. By 2016, every county in West
Virginia will have a drug court.
“In order to help people get on
with their lives once they have committed a crime, there needs to be
punishment, but there also needs to
be tools for when they get out,” he
said. “It’s about saving lives and
families and turning lives around. It
doesn’t stop here. Every day is a
battle. But if you have a problem,
drug court will always be here. And
if you don’t have a problem, stop by
and say hello.”
Benjamin said the success of
drug court will be put to use in
other areas of the criminal justice
system with the passage of the Justice Reinvestment Act recently
signed into law by Governor Earl
Ray Tomblin. ”The legislature recognized the success of drug court
and saw that it can work in other
areas,” he said.
“There are very few things I find
greater and more fun than a drug
court graduation,” he said.
Sen. Cookman, who Haines
called, “the father of Drug Court,”
was instrumental in establishing the
SBV Drug Court while he was
Judge of the 22nd Circuit, didn’t
even try to contain his pride. “This
is indeed a wonderful occasion. I
am so proud of the people graduating here,” he said.
“They tell us not to get personally attached to the people in drug
court. But it’s impossible not to.
I’ve been mad, cried, laughed, lost
sleep over these people. We live
our lives through you. I’m sure
there were times you thought we
gave up on you. I hope your family
members and friends realize what
you’ve gone through.”
Cookman highlighted the work
of the Treatment Team, especially
Haines and Cary Ours, director of
the SBV Day Report Program.
“You have to have Day Report to
By Jean A. Flanagan
absent from school.
“I couldn’t get up to take the
kids to school,” Parker said. “When
the police came with CPS, they saw
evidence of making meth in our
bedroom.”
The Parkers were arrested and
charged with operating a clandestine drug laboratory and operating
a clandestine drug laboratory in the
presence of children. Both are
felonies and the Parkers went to
jail.
Today, August Parker has completed her GED and is enrolled in
Eastern WV Community and Technical College. She is studying to
become a social worker. “I want to
work with troubled teens,” she
said.
Parker and her husband James
are two of the people who gradu-
Obituaries ................4
Social ........................5
Library Windows .....6
Classifieds ...............4B
Legals ......................6B
John Sayers
everything signed by the mayor. The
recorder is responsible for filing
reports with the state and arranging
annual audits of the books.
“When I started, the town didn’t
have a budget,” Sayers said. “In 1993,
we instituted the Business and Occupation tax, which was actually mandated by the people. They wanted
full time police protection and a full
time town hall, but there was no
money to pay for them, hence the tax.
It let us operate as a real town government.”
During his tenure Sayers has
served under a multitude of mayors.
Continued on page 6
Continued on page 8
Community Design
Drug Court Helps
Team Makes First
One Family Find Its
Visit
to
Moorefield
Way to Normalcy
Moorefield Examiner
In the spring of 2011, August
Parker sat in the Potomac Highlands Regional Jail. She was jumpy
and jittery, coming off of meth
amphetamine.
“When does it go away?” she
asked. “When does the craving go
away?”
Parker and her husband, James
were arrested in March of that year.
They were manufacturing or “cooking” meth amphetamine in their
Moorefield home.
The West Virginia State Police
had responded to a call from the
West Virginia Department of
Health and Human Services Child
Protective Services. The Parkers
had two children, who were often
INSIDE
Opinion....................2
When John Sayers was elected
Wardensville Town Recorder the
town hall was a 10 x 12 cinderblock
building with a door and two windows. Town Hall was open four days
a month. There was a part-time water
and sewer clerk and a part time
police officer. The year was 1992.
“There was a desk for the mayor
and a desk for the water and sewer
clerk,” Sayers recalled. “There were
two filing cabinets and five chairs,
one for each member of council.
Anyone else who came to council
meetings had to stand.”
Sayers will formally resign his
position as town recorder at the Wardensville Council meeting scheduled
for Monday, June 10. According to
town code, the council must fill the
vacancy “as soon as practical.” Sayers
has held the position for 21 years.
“Only one person has run against
me during that whole time,” he said.
“That was in 2010. They won by two
votes, were disqualified from serving,
so I was appointed to fill the position.”
The job of recorder is to be the
secretary and treasurer for the town.
Basically, that means the recorder
takes minutes at the meetings, keeps
the financial records and attests to
Continued on page 8
By Jean A. Flanagan
Moorefield Examiner
Traffic, parking, development,
redevelopment and the new high
school were just a few of the items
presented to Jenny Selin, her husband Steve Selin, along with college
students Daniel Jencks and Fran
Jones.
Jenny is the Coordinator for the
West Virginia University Community
Design Team. Steve is a professor of
Human Dimensions of Natural
Resource Management at WVU in
the Division of Forestry. His focus is
Recreation, Parks and Tourism
Resources. Daniel and Fran are
undergraduate students with majors
in Design Studies. They are members
of the WVU Community Design
Team and they made their first visit
to Moorefield on Thursday.
Moorefield was chosen, through a
competitive selection process, to be
the recipient of the WVUCDT urban
design expertise.
“They bring a wealth of experience with traffic, space and landscape planning,” said Doug Mitchell,
president of Summit Community
Bank. “They will listen with an unbiased opinion, put our ideas on paper
and show us how to execute them.”
Mitchell has been working with
several entities to solve issues related
to expansion and revitalization in
downtown Moorefield. “I was trying
to figure out how to get all the groups
on the same page,” he said.
A coworker at Summit mentioned the WVUCDT and Mitchell
applied. “I had two weeks to put the
application package together,”
Mitchell said.
“We’re here to get the lay of the
land,” Jenny said. “You have a great
downtown. People are coming in and
going out. We’re an addition to what
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HARDY TIMES
Lunch Bills
All Hardy County School lunch
bills need to be paid in full at the
close of the school year. If you have
questions regarding your account
please contact the cafeteria manager
at the school your child attends, or
call the Child Nutrition Office at 304530-2348 Ext 223. Payments may also
be made using a debit or credit card
at www.parentonline.net
Delinquent accounts will be
turned over for collection to Magistrate Court.
Sundays in 2013: May 25, June 22
and 23, July 27 and 28, Aug. 10 and
11, Aug. 24 and 25, Aug. 31 and Sept.
1, Sept. 28 and 29. The homestead is
located at the intersection of Route
259 and Howard’s Lick Road in
Mathias.
Public Meeting
The Potomac Valley Conservation District Board meeting will be
held on Wednesday, June 5, at 7:30
pm. The meeting will be held at the
USDA Service Center in Moorefield.
A copy of the agenda will be available
three days prior to the meeting and
Mathias Homestead may be obtained at the District
You can tour the John Mathias office, 500 East Main St., Romney, or
Homestead this year from 10 a.m. - 4 by calling 304-822-5174. The public is
p.m. on Saturdays and noon - 4 p.m. invited to attend.
Blood Drive
Family Day
The American Red Cross will
host a Blood Drive on Thursday,
June 6 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. at
the Wal-Mart, 11 Harness Rd. in
Moorefield. For information go to
the web site
www.redcrossblood.com
Celebrate Family Day at Brighton
Park on Saturday, June 15 from 10
a.m. - 4 p.m. The event is sponsored
by the Hardy County Family Issues
Task Force and is free to everyone.
There will be food, drinks, games,
prizes, fishing safety and techniques
and fire safety. The event will take
place rain or shine.
PHARC News
The next Potomac Highlands
Amateur Radio Club license testing
session will be on June 8, 9 a.m. at the
Eastern WV Community and Technical College. The next PHARC meeting will be Thursday, June 20, 7 p.m.
at a location to be determined. The
PHARC net runs each Monday at
8:30 p.m. on the N8VAA repeater
Yard of the Month
The General Federated Women’s
Clubs of West Virginia Moorefield
Women’s Club will be sponsoring the
Yard of the Month this summer from
May to October. Nominations must
be in by the 15th of each month. To
nominate a yard, call 304-538-6169, if
no answer leave the address of the
yard being nominated.
Spay and Neuter
Have a cat or dog that needs spay
or neutering? Contact Spay Today,
this area’s reduced-cost spay and
neutering program. New vets and
many locations. For information go
to www.baacs.org or call 304-7288330.
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OPINION
Back at you
For nearly 44 years we’ve been writing editorials in the
Moorefield Examiner. Since 1986 our readers have had the
pleasure and the agitation of reading the paper’s favorite
columnist, David Heishman, and his Unbased Opinion.
This week is a first. The editor is responding to Unbased
who wrote about cursive writing several weeks ago and
stated it wasn’t necessary to be taught any more.
For those who don’t know, there are a lot of topics we
“discuss” at home and agree to disagree on, but this issue
David took to the printed page so the editor must defend her
position.
Cursive writing. We hated it in the fourth grade when
pasted above the blackboard was the alphabet in all its circular glory. The challenge was to replicate those whirls and circles and we couldn’t. We couldn’t draw and we couldn’t
make nice with the beautiful handwritten lettering. We
remember Opal Halterman (later Yokum) who, as far as we
were concerned, had the most perfect handwriting in the
class. Not true for us, but somehow we mastered enough of
the cursive alphabet to pass.
Later, when we weren’t being graded on our cursive, we
mixed swirls and printed letters that were at least somewhat
legible and much faster when taking notes. Admittedly, if we
had to write in all cursive, it was often illegible even to us.
When we learned to type and computers arrived we seldom used our handwritten cursive, except when covering
meetings or signing documents.
That said, we still think cursive is something that needs to
be taught, if only on a limited basis.
People still need a signature written in cursive. We realize
that checks are becoming passe with the use of credit and
debit cards. However, an application has to be made to
obtain those cards and you have to sign that application. If
you borrow money for a home, car or business, you have to
sign the documents. In cursive. A signature cannot be
printed.
Some high school and college courses require a handwritten test, essay or paper. True also of some portions of the
ACT or SAT exams.
If you want to find out about your family and need to
research old deeds or wills or other old documents you will
have to be able to read cursive. Granted, some of those
handwritten documents are hard to read, but if you have
never had to learn cursive, it would be almost like trying to
read a foreign language.
We agree with David that the old handwritten documents
had more opportunities for discrepancies, but having typed
both original and copied material, we can tell you there’s just
as much possibility of mistakes when typing as in writing by
hand. It’s all too easy on a keyboard to misspell a name,
transpose numbers or leave out whole phrases when duplicating material, and often no one knows any better unless
they carefully proof against an original.
Our final argument is just purely practical. No matter how
high tech our phones and computers become, there is always
the possibility of a break down in electronic technology.
Storms, terrorists and human error can all bring our digital
society to a screeching halt.
It would be nice, if that were to happen, to be able to take
a pencil and piece of paper and write - by hand - needed
information.
That’s enough on this topic. Both your editor and
Unbased got it out of our systems and will try not to revisit
cursive any time soon.
MY UNBASED OPINION
Saturday morning I finished cutting and splitting enough wood to
supply Doghouse’s stove next winter.
A broken white oak top and a bunch
of dead cedar butts furnished all I’ll
need for cold weather. Hauling and
stacking it under Doghouse can wait
until cooler weather when creek isn’t
so likely to rise and steal it all.
Saturday afternoon, quality time
in and on the bank of Moore’s Run.
In the run on Bath Rock splashing
like a kid. Ivory soap in my eyes, tee
shirt for a wash cloth and cool clear
creek water sluicing down my back. I
don’t know how to describe how
good it felt. Thought about writing
“Old Man And The Creek,” a title I
borrowed from Ernest Hemmingway’s “Old Man And The Sea.”
On the bank later I dripped dry in
a bag chair under Doghouse’s big old
dying rotting maple. I hope it lasts as
long as I do. I can help Doghouse
problems, like the under floor insulation calves rubbed loose, but that
maple has me worried. Chunks fall
off nearly every hard storm.
I sat out under the maple instead
of on deck to beat the sun. Deck gets
BY
DAVID O.
HEISHMAN
full afternoon burning sun, but under
the tree it was mottled. I still got sunburn on the back of my neck.
Plastic bottles of Canadian Mist
and water beside me, a yellow legal
pad on a clipboard on chair arm, pen
in hand I set out to write notes for a
column or two. Wrote in that horrible cursive that’s no longer taught in
schools. Better than wearing out my
thumbs on a phone or balancing an
iPad on wet boxer shorts on spraddled sweating legs.
Pause to scan across the creek.
Years ago I read in Zane Grey’s
“Spirit of the Border” how frontier
scout, Lewis Wetzel, “Death Wind”,
always looked for hidden Indians
close enough to hurt him first. He’d
scan further out later for dangers he
might avoid through stealth. I’ve
always scanned woods that way,
wanting squirrels close enough to
shoot first then those further out to
sneak up on later. Saturday afternoon, I just didn’t want anybody to
Indian up on me and laugh at the
spectacle I made.
Soon there won’t be so much
woods to scan. I’m cutting timber.
Pin Oaks. According to professional
foresters an unusual stand of them.
They’re dying. Hypoxylon Canker is
the culprit. It’s a disease, particularly
of oaks, but other hardwood trees
also. If it were the days when we
heated Big House with wood, we’d be
in fuel wood heaven with so much
dead and down going to waste. I’ve
decided to get some good out of it
even if Pin Oak quality is not so great
for structural uses.
Foresters also say I’ll have trouble
replanting trees. Japanese Stiltgrass.
Another invasive to fight along with
all the others. Friday I used up
another back pack sprayer tank of
brush killer on Japanese Barberry,
Multiflora Rose and Tree of Heaven
in those same woods.
Barely
scratched the surface of noxious
weed species I own.
The Stiltgrass is thick persistent
ground cover. It competes with tree
seedlings for growing space and usually wins. A grass specific herbicide is
recommended for control and I’ve
bought some already. When timber
cutters are through, I’ll try spraying
small patches where I’ll plant tree
seedlings in chicken wire tubes to
protect them from deer. Paw Paw
seedlings started well with that system.
All this from notes I wrote
relaxed, drying and sipping under old
maple. Up the creek, maybe fifty
feet, under the far bank, a frog
plunked a loose string on a ukulele.
East, several hundred yards behind
me, machinery sounds as Tommy
Rinard, his sons and grandsons
cleared big round bales from my two
ten acre fields. South toward Wardensville, a post driver’s ringing
thunks as somebody built fence.
Beside me that steady quiet gurgle of
flowing clear creek water.
Country. Farm. Heaven.
died May 29...Floyd Davis, 58, died
April 17 in Ohio.
Mary Weese and Ronald Douglas
Kerns were married May 11.
Born to Sgt. and Mrs. J. W.
Palmer, a son, James Wesley III...to
Mr. and Mrs. James B. Shobe, a son,
James Breathed, Jr... to Sgt. and Mrs.
Thomas Denney, a son, Thomas
Craig, Jr...to Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Kuykendall, a son...to Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Sherman, a son, Andrew
Lee.
Congressman Jennings Randolph
had informed the Examiner that
presidential approval had been given
to a county-wide sanitation WPA
project. The county would receive
$24,562 for elimination of all unsanitary devices by constructing sanitary
privies in rural areas and suburban
territories where sewer systems were
impractical.
Superintendent G. R. Kiracofe
told the Lions Club that preliminary
plans for the county’s three new high
schools had been sent to Washington
for approval.
Page Crites died June 2 at his
home at Walnut Bottom...George B.
Hulver, 66, died April 25.
A marriage license was issued to
Camsie M. Foltz and John M. Lawson...Eva Garrett and John Shell
were married June 1.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.
Walters, a daughter...to Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence L. Smith, a son, Robert
Anderson.
GLANCING BACKWARD
Fifteen Years Ago
June 10, 1998
County Commissioners considered the establishment of E-911,
what it would cost and the possibility
of putting it on the ballot...Commissioners also learned that
a number of businesses, including the
state park, had not remitted their
hotel-motel taxes.
Mindy Cookman of Petersburg
was chosen to reign as queen of the
Mountain State Forest Festival.
Moorefield’s 25 year-old swimming pool was renovated.
Naomi Weaver Walters, born
1915, died May 23 at Fairfax Hospital...Rita Kolb Osborne, 52, Flemington, WV, died June 3... Amelia
Celestino Surato, 50, Lost River,
died May 31...Mary Mowery Ketterman, 85, Baker, died June 6...Trenton
S. Miller, 84, Baker, died June 3.
Moorefield defeated Wheeling
Central 7-2 and lost the championship to Wahama 9-4... Lucas Taylor, Brent Metheny and Charlie
Yakubow made the All-Tournament
team.
Thirty Years Ago
Week of June 1, 1983
The new veterans memorial was
dedicated at Olivet Cemetery and
Oak Hill Cemetery during the
Memorial Day services.
West Virginia’s Welfare Department became the WV Department
of Human Services.
Mrs. Viola Mauck of Wardensville was named the 1983 Belle
of Hardy County.
Violet Orndorff Heltzel, 86, Wardensville, died May 27...Geneva Florence Halterman, Bergton, died May
24...Seymour Aldine Whetzel, 78,
FROM
MOOREFIELD
EXAMINER
ARCHIVES
Mathias, died May 30...Waymoth
Carr Miller, 83, Harrisonburg, died
May 26...Sanford Wilson Simmons,
60, Cumberland, MD, died June
1...Luther B. Cook, 76, Petersburg,
died June 2...Mary Davy Hartman,
59, Purgitsville, died May 31.
Sharon Colleen Martin and
James Blaine Wratchford were married on April 30.
Susie Shupe, Moorefield’s track
star, won the State A-AA discus competition with a throw of 114.11 feet.
She also won the PVC shot put and
broke the record with a throw of 37
feet 3.5 inches.
Forty-five Years Ago
June 5, 1968
Sixty Years Ago
June 10, 1953
The summer playgrounds were to
open with Coach Johnny Paugh as
director. He was assisted by Betty
Harper and Jeanette Simms. A number of special events were planned
including pet shows, weekly community nights, and a Lions and Fire
Company challenge to the Junior
American Legion team for a softball
game.
Hardy Telephone Company was
still petitioning the Public Service
Commission to serve the many areas
of the county without telephone service.
Susan Rinard Stewart, 79, Wardensville, died June 5...Bell Helman
Kerby, 51, died June 6 in Winchester...Sally Jane Taylor Hyre, 74, died
May 31...Estelle Haines Hahn, 50,
died May 28 at her home in Gore.
Ruth Brill and Stanley Gross were
married June 4.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Seymour
Shockey, a son...to Mr. and Mrs.
Boyd Heishman, a son...to Mr. and
Mrs. Cletus Dolly, a son.
Orin C. Western was elected
mayor of the Town of Wardensville.
Pauline W. Orndoff was elected
recorder, and Alfred J. Ludwig,
William R. Franks, Jack F. Scott,
Chester Tharp and J. Holmes Spence
were elected to council.
A ground breaking ceremony
marked the culmination of a twoyear project by Moorefield and
Petersburg to build a golf course.
A contract for nearly $121,000
was approved for Hott and Miller to
construct a water and sewer system
for the Trout Pond Recreation Area.
Hardy County was to graduate
114 seniors from the three high
Seventy-five Years Ago
schools.
Sylvester Gainer Thomas, 54, June 8, 1938
Ninety Years Ago
June 7, 1923
C. W. Bonney had purchased a
new hack for hauling passengers
from the station to his hotel.
St. Johns Academy held its second commencement. One of the five
graduates was K. C. Van Meter, Jr.
Nancy Wolf and Ocie Southerly
were married June 1...Mary Fairchild
and Lemuel Halterman were married...Mabel Wilson and Ira Simon
were married June 2...Lucy Sager
and Frank Gochenour and Leta
Stine and John Heishman were married.
Born to Mr. and Mrs.. Mose Sites,
a daughter...to Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Kessel, a son.
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School’s Out
Did you ever hear the expression
“she’s a grass widow”? We were in a
discussion with a friend who is
slightly older than we are and she had
never heard it even though she also
grew up in this area. We remembered our grandmother talking about
grass widows and knew there was
another part to the quote but could
not remember what it was. A little
research on the web enlightened us
that a grass widow had lost her husband to divorce or abandonment but
he was still living. The rest of phrase
had to do with the “sod widow” who
lost her husband to death. The web
had all sorts of explanations for grass
widow, but very little for sod widow.
We assume it may have been a
regional idiom because we do
remember the “old folks” using the
phrase. Based on their use one
woman’s man was still above the sod
and one was below. Makes sense.
And why is this important? It isn’t
but it made for an interesting conversation and provided an idea for this
column.
Be Careful
We really had to laugh recently
when we read a story about a young
man opening a record store in the
Charleston area. Yes, you read that
correctly, we said “record” store.
He’s going to sell vinyl records and
even provides a description of them
for the MP3 generation. “...records
are the black, circular, vinyl things
your parents and grandparents grew
up listening to in high fidelity back in
the 1970s.” We have news for that
young man. Vinyl records were
made much earlier than the 70s.
Vinyls were easily available at least as
far back as the 50s because we purchased some with our hard-earned
pennies. Before that there were the
hard flat records in the 20s into the
50s. Even earlier, perhaps back to
the turn of the last century records
were made in cylinder form and
played on wind up record players
with a large sound horn. Somewhere
in this old house over the years we
have had all of those records and
record players. One of the saddest
days in our record memories was dis-
We try every year to watch the
National Memorial Day concert in
Washington. This year’s event was
special because one of the veterans
who was both interviewed and stood
on stage for one of the musical numbers was Leon Reel, a native and resident of Hardy County and a Korean
War Prisoner of War. Our only regret
was that he was not identified by
name nor was it mentioned that he
had been a POW.
people having vision, hearing, cognitive, ambulatory, self-care or independent living difficulties. In people
with disabilities in West Virginia, 26.8
percent reported having severe difficulties walking or climbing stairs,
compared with the national average
of 18.2 percent.
**********
West Virginia’s exports grew by
25 percent last year, surpassing the
national growth rate of 4.6 percent.
The state’s exports reached a record
level for the third consecutive year
growing to $11.3 billion in 2012. Coal
exports grew 40 percent to $7.4 billion. The manufacturing sector
exported products grew to a record
$3.67 billion from plastics, machin-
ery, chemicals, aerospace components, medical devices, automotive
components, aluminum, wood, electrical machinery and rubber products.
**********
AAA Fuel Gauge reported that
as motorists kicked off the summer
travel season a gallon of unleaded
gasoline cost West Virginians an
average $3.652, a slight decrease of
.06 cents from the previous week.
The national average was $3.63.
Across West Virginia prices ranged
from a high of $3.788 at Huntington
to a low of $3.559 at Martinsburg. In
Hardy County prices continued, for
the fifth week, to hold at $3.59.
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covering that mother’s copy of the
Paul Whiteman orchestra playing
“Rhapsody in Blue” with Gershwin
on the piano had gotten broken. It
was truly a collector’s item.
Children At Play
NEWS BRIEFS
The Vandalia Gathering celebrating traditional West Virginia was celebrated, as usual Memorial Day
Weekend. This year the Vandalia
Gathering will also be featured during the 150th Birthday Celebration of
West Virginia’s birthday. Concerts
featuring the winners of the May
event, competitions, the Liars Contest, food and craft vendors will be on
the Capitol grounds June 22. For
more
information,
go
to
www.wvculture.org.
**********
The WV Division of Natural
Resources is asking boaters and
anglers to help stop the spread of
Asian carp, an invasive species which
threaten native species. The division
is asking those who use state waters
not to transfer the fish or any other
aquatic species. Anglers are also
asked to properly clean their boats at
the end of a fishing trip, including live
wells. When you spot an invasive
species, the division asks you to
report it.
**********
Census figures show West Virginia leads the nation in the percentage of adults receiving federal government income assistance who have
disabilities. Of the 46 million American adults who received incomebased government assistance in 2011,
30.4 percent of them had a disability.
In West Virginia, the rate was 41.7
percent. Disabilities were defined as
MOOREFIELD (WV) EXAMINER, Wednesday, June 5, 2013 - Page 3
NEWS
[email protected]
Community Foundation
Golf Tournament Tees Off
On June 22, the Hardy County
Community Foundation will host its
sixth annual Spirit of Hardy County
Celebration and Golf Tournament at
the Valley View Golf Course in
Moorefield, to celebrate charitable
giving and volunteerism in Hardy
County. The event will honor Robert
Branson, the Community Foundation’s 2013 “Spirit” honoree.
Branson was selected for this
award based on his leadership, community involvement, acts of kindness
and willingness to help and motivate
others to give of their time, talent and
treasure here at home in Hardy
County.
In addition to the tournament
and luncheon celebration, Branson
was given the privilege of naming and
determining the purpose of an
endowment fund to be held by the
Community Foundation. In memory
of his good friends, Don Biller and
Dave Garret, and in honor of their
efforts and dedication to the betterment of Hardy County, Branson
chose the Baker Park to be the beneficiary of his endowment fund. Earnings from the Baker Park Fund will
provide general support for the park
for years to come. Proceeds from this
event will establish this new fund.
The tournament will begin with at
8 a.m., with registration beginning at
7:15 a.m. There is a registration fee
for a team of four and includes green
fees, golf cart for four and lunch for
four.
Cash prizes will be awarded to
first, second and third low-score foursome. First place will receive $750;
second place, $500; and third place,
$250. Other prizes will be awarded
for longest drive and closest to the
pin.
For those who do not golf, there
are other ways to support this event
through a variety of sponsorship levels ranging from the Legacy Sponsorship to a “Friends of the Honoree”
Sponsorship, which entitles the
donor to lunch at the celebration following the tournament.
The luncheon celebration will
take place at noon. Team and lunch
registrations by June 14th are
encouraged, however teams may register the morning of the tournament.
Details about the event, including
sponsorship levels and benefits, are
available for download on the “News
and Updates” page of the Community
Foundation’s
website,
www.hardycountycf.org, or by contacting Amy Pancake at 304-5383431 or [email protected].
The Hardy County Community
Foundation is an affiliate of the Eastern West Virginia Community Foundation and was founded in 2008 to
build local, permanent endowment
to generate annual charitable grants
and scholarships perpetually. Community foundations number more
than 700 across America with 26 in
West Virginia and focus entirely on
working with local individuals to
build local assets to meet local needs.
Missoula Children’s Theater Bringing
‘Pinocchio’ To McCoy’s Grand Theatre
“Pinocchio,” the classic tale of a
wooden puppet longing to become a
real boy, is coming to McCoy’s
Grand Theatre, and your children
can be the stars of this Missoula Children’s Theatre show.
In just one week, the Missoulu
Children’s Theatre Actors/Directors
will craft a rousing fairy tale starring
local children. Local students ranging in age from kindergarten to 12th
grade will star in the production. All
ages are needed, and there are plenty
of spots avaliable. from seasoned
young actors to those looking for
their first role on the stage.
Starting with group auditions at
10 a.m. Monday, June 24, Missoula
will cast the show with about 50 local
students. Among the roles to be cast
are Pinocchio, the Blue Fairy, Jiminy
Cricket, the Fox and Cat, Candlewick
and Crew, Urchins, School Kids,
Puppets and Toys. Rehearsals will
follow during the week, culminating
in two performances for the public
on Saturday, June 29.
“Pinocchio” is one of the most
popular stories of all time. The original novel “The Adventures of Pinocchio” was written in the late 1800’s,
and the character was immortalized
in Disney’s 1940 animated film
“Pinocchio.” This Missoula Children’s Theatre version is an original
musical take on the story, designed
for a quick production with a young
cast.
The students will learn all that
goes into putting on a show, both in
front of and behind the curtain. The
Missoula team arrives with costumes,
sets – everything needed to put on a
quality show… except the cast. Local
students provide their time and talent, and the Missoula crew takes care
of the rest.
“We’re excited to bring the Missoula experience back to McCoy’s
Grand,” said Derek Barr, a member
of the McCoy’s Grand Theatre board
of directors. “Last year the show had
to be canceled due to the derecho
that tore through the area, so that
was very disappointing. We’re ready
to put that behind us and again offer
this wonderful opportunity to our
area’s children.”
Past Missoula shows at McCoy’s
Grand have included tales inspired
by the familiar stories of “King
Arthur,” “The Wizard of Oz,” and
“Alice in Wonderland.”
“Many of our regular performers
at McCoy’s got their start here
through Missoula,” Barr said. “I’m
always amazed at what the Missoula
actors and directors accomplish with
a young cast in just one week. The
children love it.”
Auditions for “Pinocchio” will
take place from 10 a.m. to noon
Monday, June 24, at McCoy’s Grand
at 121 North Main St. in Moorefield.
No preparation is required to audition. Students wishing to audition
must stay for the entire two-hour session, and the first rehearsal begins 30
minutes after auditions end.
Children who are cast will be
asked to pay a fee to help cover
expenses. Discounts are available for
subsequent children from the same
immediate family who participate.
Rehearsals will be held from 10 a.m.
to 2:30 p.m. June 24-June 28 with a
30-minute lunch break each day; cast
members will be asked to bring
snacks and a bag lunch. Not all cast
members will be needed at every session, but those who audition must be
available to attend all rehearsals
required for their roles. The Missoula team will distribute detailed
rehearsal schedules at the conclusion
of the auditions.
Admission to the two public
shows at McCoy’s Grand Theatre on
Saturday, June 29, is $5 for anyone
more than 2 years old. Each participating child receives one free ticket
to one June 29 performance.
All rehearsals and performances
will take place at McCoy’s Grand. All
those cast must be available for all
rehearsals and performances, and all
participating students must have a
permission form signed by a parent
or guardian. For more information,
visit the McCoy’s Grand Theatre
website at www.mccoysgrand.com.
Missoula Children’s Theatre is
based in Missoula, Mont., and has
toured the world for more than 30
years. More than 24 teams of Tour
Actor/Directors visit more than 1,100
communities each year.
West Virginia Declares Quarantine
to Protect Walnut Trees
(AP) - West Virginia has declared
a quarantine to prevent thousand
cankerous disease from killing walnut trees in the state.
The Department of Agriculture
said Thursday that the quarantine
went into effect May 20.
Plant Industries Division director
Sherri Hutchinson says no walnut
plants or plant parts from Arizona,
California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada,
New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and
Washington can be brought into West
Virginia or moved through the state.
The quarantine also applies to areas
of any state where the disease has
been found.
The quarantine includes any
hardwood firewood from infected
areas, the fungus that causes the disease, and the walnut twig beetle,
which infects trees with the disease.
Nuts, nut meats, processed lumber and finished wood products such
as furniture are exempt from the
quarantine.
NASCAR Racer Visits Moorefield
The Nationwide-sponsored
NASCAR Camero paid a visit to
Weimer Automotive in Moorefield
on Thursday, thanks to local agent
Cynthia Hinkle.
Nationwide Insurance also
sponsored a race simulator so drivers could experience a NASCAR
race firsthand.
Also participating at the event
were representatives from the
West Virginia Farm Bureau. Mem-
bers of the WV Farm Bureau are
entitled to discounts on vehicles at
Weimer Automotive, on equipment at Lawrence Equipment (a
Case/IH dealer), Nationwide
Insurance and W. W. Grainger.
Gov. Tomblin Recognized
By National Magazine
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin was highlighted in the article “Ten People
Who Made a Difference in the
South” by Southern Business &
Development magazine. The article
cites Gov. Tomblin’s economic knowhow, as well as his popularity.
“...when Earl Ray Tomblin
stepped into the West Virginia governor’s office, the state’s economy took
off,” Mike Randle writes. “In 2011,
West Virginia was home to the second-best job growth in the U.S. and
No. 1 in the South and first in export
growth nationwide.”
Also included in the article are
Dan DiMicco, executive chairman of
Nucor steel; John Correnti, an
Arkansas entrepreneur; J. Wayne
Leonard, a Louisiana energy innovator; Michael Hecht, the President
and CEO of Greater New Orleans
Inc.; Mike Eades, a Louisiana economic developer; Agnes Zaiontz, a
major part of the Mississippi-based
Tennessee-Tombigbee
Waterway
Development Authority; Glen Fenter, the president of Mid-South Community College; Texas Governor
Rick Perry; and Missouri Governor
Jay Nixon.
USDA Extends Signup for
Farm Conservation Program
(AP) - The federal government is
extending the deadline for farmers
and ranchers to sign up for its Conservation Stewardship Program.
The voluntary program provides
financial and technical help to eligible farmers and ranchers who conserve and enhance soil, water, air and
related natural resources on their
land.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday that farmers
would have until June 14 to sign up.
The original deadline was Friday.
The stewardship program is run
by the Agriculture Department’s
Natural Resources Conservation
Service. Participants receive annual
payments for installing and adopting
conservation activities and improv-
ing, maintaining and managing existing activities.
More than 39,000 farmers and
ranchers participated between 2009
and 2012. They enrolled over 50 million acres of farm and ranch land and
received conservation payments
worth $680 million a year.
Nearly 1,000 W.Va. Bridges Structurally Deficient
(AP) - Federal highway data show
that nearly 1,000 bridges in West Virginia are structurally deficient.
On a sufficiency scale of 0 to 100,
the Federal Highway Administration
rates seven bridges in the state as 0.
But West Virginia Department of
Transportation spokesman Brent
Walker tells the Charleston Gazette
that the federal ratings don’t mean
the state’s bridges are unsafe.
The ratings serve as a guideline to
prioritize the use of federal funds.
Any bridge that scores below 80 is eligible for renovation or rehabilitation.
A score below 50 makes a bridge eli-
gible for federal replacement.
States are required by the federal
government to inspect bridges at
least every two years. If specific problems or deficiencies are found, the
state regularly inspects bridges on a
more frequent basis.
Community Design Team Makes
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you’re already doing.”
Jenny, Steve, Jencks and Jones will
evaluate the needs of the Moorefield
project in terms of expertise, and
assemble a team that will visit Moorefield in the coming weeks.
“We want to take the collaborative
approach to planning,” Steve said.
“We want to make sure that everyone
who needs to be at the table is at the
table.”
Questions about defining downtown, historic districts, vacant lots,
parking and traffic received basically
the same answers.
“We work in concepts,” Jenny
said. “You are the local experts.”
“We provide a range of proposals
and you decide which you chose,”
Steve echoed.
Over the next three to four
months, the team will meet with various groups, look at maps, identify
issues and form several alternative
concepts from which to chose. They
will also provide suggestions about
funding and revenue sources.
A question was raised about enticing people to get involved why otherwise aren’t interested.
“In Buchannon, the planning commission goes to C.J. Maggies to talk
about what they doing next in the
town,” Jenny said. “They have a facilitator, they have a conversation, they
establish priorities.”
Steve suggested pot-luck dinners.
Jenny said the process would identify a few things to work on now and a
few to work on later. “The important
thing is to get all the decision-makers
in the room,” she said.
Mitchell stressed the transparency
of the project.
“This will be a community-driven
plan,” he said. “The door is open to
everyone.”
The Moorefield Examiner will
continue to cover this process and will
provide information about future
meetings and forums. In the meantime, questions and comments can be
directed to the Hardy County Chamber of Commerce at 304-530-1786 or
[email protected] org.
Panel Looks at Tax and Fee Hikes
To Fund West Virginia Roads
(AP) - A commission studying
West Virginia’s highway system is
proposing tax and fee increases to
raise millions of dollars for maintenance and repairs.
The proposals include increasing
the sales tax, increasing vehicle registration and title fees, and raising the
cigarette tax.
Media outlets report that the
West Virginia Blue Ribbon Highway
Commission decided Wednesday to
hold six public hearings around the
state on the proposals in June.
If all the proposals were
approved, they would generate more
than $400 million in additional revenue annually. But that’s less than
half the funding needed to fully
maintain and repair the state’s roads
and bridges.
Wes Stafford with the engineering
consulting firm CDM Smith told the
commission that more than 1,300 Steve and Jenny Selin speak to a group of community and business leaders regarding the
revitalization of downtown Moorefield.
miles of state roads are deficient.
OBITUARIES
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~FRANCIS E. “GENE” WOOD~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Gene died at home in University
Francis E. “Gene” Wood was
ington Post, with particular focus on
born in Jefferson City, Missouri on
comics and the editorial page. One of Park, Maryland surrounded by family
September 19, 1932. Although he left
his most cherished possessions was on May 18, 2013 from complications
Missouri and moved to Maryland in
his library. A few weeks before he of Lewy Body Dementia (LBD), a
1964, Gene always considered himdied he asked his home care aide to pernicious disease that attacks both
self a Missourian and frequently
help him count his books. The count cognition and mobility. Despite the
returned to Missouri to visit his famwas never completed but he esti- hard struggle of dealing with LBD,
ily and childhood friends. It was in
mated 2,000. Books simply gave him Gene was able to maintain an active
Missouri that Gene became a Boy
life with frequent trips to his beloved
joy.
Scout. Gene considered his scout
In 1972, Gene purchased 22 acres Mosshill and he regularly enjoyed
leader, along with his grandparents in
of hilly land bordering the Lost River dinner with friends up to one week
Madison, the strongest influences of
State Park in Hardy County, West before his death. He loved following
his childhood. As an adult, Gene was
Virginia. This simple act was the the news and cursing politicians.
a scout leader and active in adult
A highlight of his last year was his
beginning of a strong and abiding
leadership training, for which he was
connection to the hills, not a surpris- 80th birthday celebration, where his
presented the distinguished Silver
ing bond for a naturalist like Gene. family joined him at Deep Creek
Beaver Award. Throughout his life, research showed that African Ameri- With the help of many, Gene built a Lake for a week of fellowship.
Gene exhibited the unassuming nice- cans are less prone to having head log cabin with trees he cut, dragged
Gene is survived by his wife and
ness reflective of his Midwest roots. lice than other groups, thus enabling down the hills and barked by hand. partner of 33 years, Nan Booth. His
It was one of the many traits that school systems to more efficiently Over four decades, the original tiny previous two marriages, to Alice
attracted people of all backgrounds manage lice outbreaks among stu- cabin was expanded and plumbing Wood and to Margaret Wood, ended
and ages to Gene.
dents. A major research effort of his and electricity added. Life-long in divorce. He is also survived by four
At the age of 19 Gene joined the was documenting the early detection friendships were cemented around children, including Nancy Wood1st Marine Division and fought in of chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide the much-used wood stove. Once the Cohen of York, Pennsylvania, John
Korea where he earned a Purple resistance in the German cockroach. cabin was built Gene diverted his Wood of Jessup, Maryland, Joseph
Heart and the rank of Sergeant. In the 1980s Gene adapted the agri- interest to cultivating a moss path, Wood of La Luz, New Mexico, and
Gene often attributed his military cultural concept of Integrated Pest which meandered around the woods. Rebecca Wood of Seattle, Washingtime as life altering, as it exposed him Management (IPM) to reduce pesti- Thus the cabin and surrounding hills ton; his brother Bill Wood of Jefferto the necessity of teamwork, the cide use in dwellings by developing began to be called Mosshill.
son City, Missouri and his sister
hardship of war and the opportunity trapping, baiting and harborage
While not a sophisticate by the Sharon of Lenexa, Kansas; three
for leadership. It also provided him reduction techniques to manage usual definition, Gene was a lover of grandchildren, including Aaron
with the VA benefit that afforded exploding German cockroach popu- art, an excellent insect illustrator and Wood, Joshua Wood and Grace
him the funds to support his educa- lations in apartment buildings. Large a sculptor. He also was very good at Wood; two nieces, one nephew, nine
tion, which included a BS and MS demonstration projects were con- drawing insect cartoons. He loved art in-laws, many dear friends — and
from the University of Missouri and a ducted with Baltimore City public history and representative painting two Boston Bull pups.
PhD in entomology from the Univer- housing and the National Institutes
A memorial program in Gene’s
and enjoyed taking many art classes
sity of Maryland.
of Health’s animal care facility, which where, in retirement, he transitioned honor will be held on the University
Gene was a pioneer in the field of
still uses this program. In retirement from insect illustrations to drawing of Maryland campus on June 21,
urban entomology. As an Extension
2013 at 3 pm in Room 1140 in the
Gene co-authored three IPM manu- the human form.
entomologist and Professor, he conals for the EPA and consulted with
Gene was a proud Democrat and Plant Science Building. In lieu of
centrated on educating the pest conthe National Park Service to use a fierce supporter of social justice. In flowers, the family asks that donatrol industry and the public they
urban IPM to preserve historic build- the 1960s and 70s he served as an tions be made in Gene’s name to
serve, as well as conducting applied
ings across the country from insect ombudsman for affirmative action in either the non-profit organization
research. Using his skill as a scientific
attack, including the room in which his college at both Missouri and Literacy West Virginia, to support
illustrator, he produced scores of
establishing a literacy program in
publications and drawings covering Abraham Lincoln died. Gene Maryland. He never shied away from
Hardy County, West Virginia, or to
the identification, biology and con- received the Distinguish Service an argument where he could articuthe University of Maryland Foundalate
the
liberal
cause.
His
unwavering
Award
for
Extension
from
the
Unitrol of pests. His illustrations will
soon be available on the University of versity of Maryland College of Agri- sense of fairness made him much tion, to support student scholarships.
Maryland website. In the 1970s he culture in 1986. In 1988, the year of respected, even among conservative Checks for the literacy program
should be made out to Literacy West
began transforming a loosely organ- his retirement, he co-founded and friends.
Virginia and sent to Judy Azulay, PO
One
of
the
trademarks
of
Gene
hosted
the
first
National
Conference
ized group of Maryland “exterminawas his love of a good party and a Box 522, Union, WV 24983. Checks
tors” into pest management profes- of Urban Entomology.
Gene loved to read and read glass of Merlot, preferably Yellow for the entomology scholarships
sionals by providing training leading
to certification at his annual Inter- widely. He was intrigued with the ori- Tail. Gene and his wife Nan enter- should be made out to the University
state Pest Control Conference, which gin of words, a lover of rhyming tained literally thousands in their of Maryland Foundation, with a note
is still hosted today by the University poetry, a student of history, and an home with casual gatherings filled on the check “For Steinhauer Scholof Maryland Entomology Depart- ardent fan of Mark Twain. Although with dear friends, great storytelling arship,” and sent to the U of MD
non-religious, Gene informed him- and ample food and drink. Gene put Department of Entomology, Rm
ment.
Gene worked extensively with self about religions around the world. great stock in friendship and often 4112 Plant Sciences, College Park,
public institutions. His applied He loved the daily read of the Wash- said, “It takes a friend to be a friend.” Maryland, 20742.
ROBERT CLEVELAND INSKEEP
Robert Cleveland Inskeep, age 64 Morgantown, W.Va.; two brothers,
of Medley, W.Va., passed away Satur- E. Keith (Ansusan) Inskeep of Morday afternoon, May 25, 2013 at the gantown, W.Va. and J. Carter
Winchester Medical Center in Win- (Debby) Inskeep of Maysville, W.Va.;
two sisters, Betty J. Inskeep of
chester, Va.
He was born May 23, 1949 in Petersburg, W.Va. and E. Jane
Petersburg, W.Va., and was the son of (Larry) Kessel of Fisher, W.Va.; four
the late Emmett VanMeter Inskeep granddaughters; six grandsons;
numerous nieces; great nieces;
and June Marie (Clower) Inskeep.
He was a member of the Peters- nephews and great nephews.
Funeral services were conducted
burg Presbyterian Church, a 1967
graduate of Petersburg High School Wednesday, May 29, 2013 at the Fraand had retired from American ley Funeral Home Chapel with PasWoodmark after 40 years. Two tor Dan Stern officiating. Interment
granddaughters, Cheyenne and was at the Inskeep Family Cemetery,
Sierra Keplinger also preceded him Medley, W.Va.
Memorials to help defray medical
in death.
Surviving is his wife, Barbara L. expenses may be made to the family
Eaton-Inskeep; a son, Jared Inskeep at 44 Inskeep Lane, Burlington, WV
of Morgantown, W.Va.; five daugh- 26710.
Condolences to the family may be
ters, Kimberly (“Bink”) Self of
Petersburg, W.Va., Stephanie (Mike) left at Mr. Inskeep’s obituary at
Keplinger of Petersburg, W.Va., www.fraleyfuneralhome.com .
Arrangements were under the
Nicole (Eric) Rohrbaugh of Medley,
W.Va., Amanda Snider of Morgan- direction of the Fraley Funeral
town, W.Va. and Angela Inskeep of Home.
GARNETT PERRY REGESTER
Garnett Perry Regester, age 86, a
resident of Rt. 1 the Water Camp
Community
near
Belington,
departed this life Monday, May 27,
2013 at his residence.
He was born May 2, 1927 at Hall,
W.Va. in Upshur County and was a
son of the late Henry David Regester
and Annie (Suder) Regester.
On December 18, 1946 he was
united in marriage to the former
Adeline Francis Ricottilli who resides
at their home in the Water Camp
Community.
He is survived by one son, Timothy Regester and wife Tammy of
Moorefield; three daughters, Carolyn Bainbridge and husband Danny
of Fairmont, Norma Everson and ation, a member of the Belington
husband Dave of Belington and Church of Christ and a former memPamela Hamilton and husband ber of the Moorefield Church of
Delane of Grafton; two daughters-in- Christ.
laws, Judy Neff of Woodstock, Va.
and Nancy Lewis of Moorefield; one Wednesday, May 29, at the Talbott
brother Garry Regester of Buckhan- Funeral Home in Belington with the
non; one sister, Tina Lanham of Evangelist Steve Snider and EvangelHagerstown, Md.; eleven grandchil- ist Michael Phillips officiating. Interment was in the Regester Cemetery
dren; and nine great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by twin at the Water Camp community near
sons, Larry and Jerry Regester, one Belington.
Memorial contributions may be
sister, Mary Ellen Carr and two
sent for the Gabbi Cook Fund for
grandchildren.
Mr. Regester attended the Liver Cancer Research in care of the
schools of Barbour County and was a Belington Church of Christ, PO Box
veteran of the US Army serving dur- 444 Belington, WV 26250.
Condolences may be sent to the
ing the WWII era. He was owner and
at
operator of G. P. Regester Rustic family
Fencing of Moorefield from which he www.talbottfuneralhome.com
retired in 2005 and moved back
Funeral arrangements were
home to Belington. Garnett was a under the direction of the Talbott
member of the Farm Bureau Associ- Funeral Home, Bellington.
MIRIAM BERNICE THOMPSON
Miriam Bernice Thompson, age
90 of Washington St., Moorefield,
W.Va. passed away Friday afternoon,
May 24, 2013 at her residence.
She was born on July 10, 1922 in
Muncie, Ind., and was the daughter
of the late Thomas Frederick Toombs
and Laura Ethel (Dick) Toombs.
She was a Presbyterian by faith
and was a member of the Eastern
Star. Her husband, Charles Brown
Thompson, a grandson, Edward
Brown Smith, two brothers, Jesse E.
Toombs and Wilbur F. Toombs and a
sister, Elizabeth I. Smith, preceded
her in death.
Surviving is a son, Charles R.
Thompson, III of Moorefield, W.Va.;
ANGELA ELIZABETH ALGER-LOWERY
a daughter, Saundra M. Romijn of
Angela Elizabeth Alger-Lowery, JoAnn Alger of Baltimore, Md.; Moorefield, W.Va.; three grandchilage 33 of Old Fields, W.Va., passed maternal grandmother, Mary Collett dren, Tereasa M. Smith, Charles R.
away Monday evening, May 27, 2013 of Old Fields, W.Va. and maternal Thompson, IV and David P. Smith;
near Franklin, W.Va. as a result of an grandfather, Harlan Barr, Sr. of and two great-grandchildren.
ATV accident.
Lynchburg, Va.
Inurnment at Arlington National
She was born on July 25, 1979 in
Baltimore, Md. and was the daughter Friday, May 31, at the Fraley Funeral
of Deborah Ann Barr of Old Fields, Home Chapel with Pastor Dan
W.Va. and Donald Edward Alger of Howard officiating.
Baltimore, Md. A son Christian preCondolences to the family may be
left at Ms. Alger-Lowery’s obituary at
ceded her in death.
Surviving is a son, Andrew Low- www.fraleyfuneralhome.com
ery of Moorefield, W.Va.; two brothArrangements were under the
ers, Donald Biscotti and Nicolaus direction of the Fraley Funeral
Nocar of Moorefield, W.Va.; a sister, Home.
PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHURCH
1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith
WIC JUNE SCHEDULE
WIC offers nutrition education and receive services in Petersburg if
healthy foods to pregnant, breast feed- desired. Petersburg WIC Clinic, Hosing, and postpartum women, infants pital Drive, is open Mondays from 8
and children under the age of 5. Please a.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesdays, Wednesdays
phone 304-538-3382.
and Fridays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and
Hardy County WIC Clinic. Wilson
Plaza (first floor), 712 North Main St., on Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Suite 105, Moorefield, WV, meets on with the following exceptions:
June 20 - Closed - WV Day
Tuesdays and the first, second and
JEAN C. ERBER
WIC is an Equal Opportunity
fourth Fridays in June, 9:00 - 3:00.
Hardy County participants can Provider.
Jean C. Erber, age 87, of Baker,
By her direction she was creW.Va.. died of lung cancer on Thurs- mated with her ashes to be scattered
day, May 9, 2013 at the Winchester over running water. She wanted no
UPLICATE RIDGE LUB EPORT
Medical Center, Winchester, Va.
ceremonies or services to mark her
She and her husband had lived in death.
A Howell game was played on May and Ron Michaels, 65; Kathryn
West Virginia for over 25 years ever
She is survived by her husband of 29 with five tables in play in the South Moomau and Steve Kimble, 61; Lary
since they retired from federal gov- 47 years, Robert; her sister, Jewell;
Branch Duplicate Bridge Club held at Garrett and George Ours, 58; Sue Halernment positions in the Washington
two sons, Charles and Christopher; the Hardy County Public Library. terman and Helen Chambers, 56; and
D. C. area. She was an avid member
three grandchildren Alexander, There were ten pairs playing 27 boards Sandra Evans and Polly Ours, 54 1/2.
of the Baker CEOS club and enjoyed
The bridge club meets each
with an average match-point score of
gardening, cooking and traveling Augusta, and Austin; and one great
Wednesday at the library beginning at
grandson, Cooper. She was an 54.
throughout the region.
Overall winners were Bruce Leslie 7:00 p.m.
She faced her incurable cancer endearing, kindly, and vibrant soul
bravely by choosing to fight it with who will be sorely missed by all who
radiation and chemotherapy. She ever knew her.
Obituary
courtesy
Elmore
died painlessly under sedation with
Funeral Home, Moorefield, W.Va.
her husband nearby.
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To the many friends who have helped and provided
support following the death of my husband, Richard
Dasher, I would like to express my sincere thanks.
Thank you for the cards, flowers, memorial gifts, visits,
and support. I especially wish to thank Elmore Funeral
Home, Pastors Pat Pitsnogle and Cindy Skinner, and the
ladies of the Peru Community Center for the meal they
provided. Your many acts of kindness and sympathy
continue to be a great comfort to me.
Kathy Dasher
Rig
Assembly of
God Church
Cemetery will be held at a later date.
Condolences to the family may be
left at Ms. Baker’s obituary at
www.fraleyfuneralhome.com
Arrangements were under the
direction of the Fraley Funeral
Home, Moorefield, W.Va.
It’s been 1 year since
God called you home and
it seems like yesterday.
I think of you everyday.
sadly missed,
always loved,
never forgotten.
Your Mom,
Mary Srout Dove
and Family
In Loving Memory
Picture me as I was,
Full of life and love.
Although not with you now,
I’m watching from above.
I know how much you miss me,
And I miss you too.
It was my time to leave,
As each of us will do.
When you yearn for comfort,
Look here at my smile.
Talk to me, remember me,
Sit with me awhile.
Time will heal your heart,
Each day, better than the last.
Happiness will return to you,
Sorrow in the past.
It will be alright with me,
If one day my photo’s tucked away.
Your life must move on,
But in each other’s hearts we’ll stay.
Teri Harrison
SOCIAL
Vance to Perform in Concert
AGE IN ACTION
June 10 -14, 2013
Mathias, Moorefield,
Wardensville (Home Delivered)
Nutrition Sites
Monday, June 10 - Chili Dog on
Bun, Baked Beans, Potato Wedges,
Peaches
Tuesday, June 11 - Chicken
Nuggets or Pieces, Cheesy Rice &
Broccoli
Casserole,
Spinach,
Oranges or Juice
Wednesday, June 12 - Birthday &
Father’s Day Meal: Roast Beef,
Mashed Potatoes w/Gravy, Green
Beans, Blueberry Dessert
Thursday, June 13 - Meatballs
over White/Brown Rice, Northern
Beans, Pears, Bread
Friday, June 14 - Chicken &
Dumplings with Peas & Carrots,
Corn, Tomatoes, Wheat Bread,
Apple Rings
Mathias Site Closed on Fridays
ACTIVITIES AT MOOREFIELD
SENIOR CENTER
Monday, June 10 Tuesday, June 11 - Senior Shopping, 1:00
Wednesday, June 12Thursday, June 13- Bowling, 1:00
Friday, June 14- Bible Study,
11:15
REMINDERS
•Anyone wishing to pick up a
meal at the Mathias Nutrition Site or
the Moorefield Nutrition Site, please
call by 9:30 a.m. Due to the availability of food, substitutions are sometimes necessary. Anyone under the
age of 60 is welcome to come and eat
with us and there is a cost. If you are
age 60 or older and live in the
Moorefield, Rig, Fisher, Frosty Hollow, Fort Run, or Old Fields areas
and would like to come into the Senior Center for lunch and/or activities,
and need a ride, please call us at 304530-2256 and the van will pick you
up. Please call by 10:00 a.m.
•HCCOA receives funding from
federal and state entities including
WV Bureau of Senior Services and
Upper Potomac AAA, local government, donations and memorial contributions.
•The Moorefield Senior Center
has Ensure. It is available by the case
(24 cans), half case (12 cans) or six
pack. Flavors available are strawberry, chocolate, vanilla and butter
Those who are planted
in the house of the
Lord shall flourish in
the courts of our God.
pecan. They are also available in the
Plus. Call the center for the price.
•The Moorefield Seniors are
making dried potato necklaces to
sell. If you would like to see them,
come by the Center, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Monday - Friday.
•The Seniors are making Memorial Crosses for cemetery placements.
If you would like to see them come by
the Center.
•Medicare: If you need help with
your Medicare Part D Prescription
Drugs call the Center to talk with
someone to help you, Monday-Friday, 8 - 4. (304) 530-2256.
•Wardensville Home Delivered
Meals: If you are not receiving a regular home delivered meal and you
want to get a meal on any day, Monday-Friday, please call the Moorefield Nutrition Site by 9:00 a.m. at
304-530-2256. If you know you will
not be home for your meal or you
need an extra meal you can let Dave
(Moorefield) or Eric (Wardensville)
know the day before.
DONATIONS
Those making donations were
Jim Weeks, Betty Wilkins, Lona
Sherman, Charlie Hefner, Geraldine
Hefner, Lola Crider, Mary Wolfe,
Pastor Carolyn Berg, Food Lion, and
the Moorefield Examiner. Donations
are greatly appreciated. Have a safe
and happy week.
Molly Look, Majoring in Health and Exercise Science, Earns Degree
As Bridgewater College’s graduating seniors and their families celebrated on Saturday, May 18,
Supreme Court of Virginia Justice
William C. Mims urged the 301 graduates to remember society’s timeless
virtues and to build meaningful lives.
Molly Look, majoring in health
and exercise science, from Mathias,
earned a degree.
“Tomorrow your horizons will
expand,” Mims said. “Your hopes
and dreams and challenges will grow.
So many things will change. But
always remember that the timeless
virtues apply equally to all persons at
all times in all places. They are not
circumstantial. They will not change.
We are
relocating!
PSALM 92:13 (NKJV)
We regret there
will be
no
Neff
School
Reunion
this year.
We look forward to
getting back
together next year!
The state of Maryland held auditions for its All State Community
Band. Todd Vance of Bowie, Maryland formerly of Moorefield auditioned and made 1st chair alto sax.
He will perform in the concert held in
Columbia, Maryland on July 21, 2013
at the River Hill High School.
Todd is a member of the Bay
Winds Community Band of Annapolis, Maryland. He graduated from
Moorefield High School where he
played bari sax in the band. He made
the West Virginia All State Band
Dr. Todd D. Vance
when he was a junior.
ginia.
He
is employed as a matheTodd received his BS degree from
matician
for
the U.S. Government.
Shenandoah University and earned
Todd is the son of Doug and
his Doctorate of Philosophy in Mathematics from the University of Vir- Donna Vance of Moorefield.
EACHS Head Start
Administrative Office is
moving to Moorefield!
Effective: 06-10-13
NEW CONTACT INFORMATION:
EACHS Head Start, Inc.
112 Bean’s Lane, Suite 102
304-530-5511
304-530-5512
304-530-5513 – FAX
[email protected]
To all my family,
friends, church family
and neighbors, I want
to say a great big
thanks! All the prayers,
visits and cards have
meant more than you
will ever know.
God Bless All of You.
NEVA POLING
WANTED
After the revolution, they will stand.”
Among the 301 students in the
Class of 2013, 100 earned bachelor of
arts degrees, 175 earned bachelor of
science degrees and 26 are scheduled
to complete degree requirements
during summer school sessions,
which conclude Aug. 2.
Bridgewater College is a private,
four-year liberal arts college located
in the Central Shenandoah Valley of
Virginia. Founded in 1880, it was the
state’s first private, coeducational
college. Today, Bridgewater College
is home to approximately 1,750
undergraduate students.
Florence Graduates With Honors
and Dan Adkisson of Egg Harbor,
N.J. and grandson of Cathy and Tim
Corcoran of Mathias, W.Va., graduated with honors from Marywood
University in Scranton, Pa.
In 2011 Frank earned his B.A. in
Art Therapy and minor in Physiology
and his Masters in Art Therapy in
May 12, 2013.
Frank is a member of the National
Honor Society, Theta Chapter,
“Alpha Epsilon Lamb Da”, and The
Honor Society of Graduate and Professional School Students.
As a professional artist, Frank has
had several exhibits throughout
Scranton, Pa. He has begun working
Frank Florence
as a professional art therapist, profesWith a graduating class of 906 stu- sional councelor and a certified art
dents, Frank Florence, son of Maggie therapist.
Come Join Us at
Vacation Bible School!
Former members of the Lost River Artisans Cooperative
previously known as the Lost River Crafts Cooperative, to
attend a gala celebration of the 25th anniversary of its founding.
• Live music
• Demonstrations by Current Artists
• Food & Much More!
Please call Ray Galloway, at (304) 897-7511, or email at
[email protected] with your email address, postal address, or
phone number so that we may provide complete information.
Join us for a Heartful
of God’s Word
Vacation Bible
School Experience!
Rig Assembly of God
10 Queens Dr., Rig, WV
Sun, June 2 at 6:00 PM
Mon., June 3–Thurs., June 6
at 7:00 PM
Oak Grove UM Church
Fisher, WV
June 10–14, 2013
Supper at 6:00 p.m.
Bible School from
6:30–8:30 p.m.
Sign up for
Summer Reading Program
begins June 8!
Open to ALL ages
LOST RIVER VALLEY VFW 7780
Chicken BBQ
HARDY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY • 102 N. Main Street, Moorefield
• 304-538-6560 • Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.; Saturday 8:30 a.m.–noon
Mathias-Baker Vol. Fire Co
Saturday, June 8
Mathias Community Center
on June 11
SEND CARDS TO:
514 Howards Lick Rd
Mathias WV 26812
Friday Nights
at Mathias Fire Station
Progressive Jackpot 59#s for $500
Crazy G Jackpot $500
Reg. Bingo Payouts $25 Minimum
Doors open at 5:30 • Early Bird begins at 6:30
Regular Bingo starts at 7:00
For info call G.L. (304)-897-7025
or Elaine (304)-897-5432
MES PTO would like to thank and recognize the
following businesses for their continued support
during the 2012–2013 school year. We could not
have done it without you!
FREE TO EVERYONE
Food & Drinks, Games & Inflatable Slides
Prizes, Fishing Safety & Techniques
HC Animal Control Adoption Opportunities
This event is rain or shine
For more information,
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Hardy County Family
Issues Task Force
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Anthony’sJ r.
AmericanW oodmark
Bonnie Haggerty, Moorefield
Accounting
C & P Carpet
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Eastern WV Community & Technical
College
Fertig’s
FoodL ion
Fox’sP izza
GoldenL anes
Hardee’s
Hardman’sH ardware
Hardy County Health & Wellness
Hardy Telecommunications
Hawse Shop & Save
House of Flowers
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KountryAtti c
Main Street Toys
McDonald’s
O’Neills
Photos by Mellissa Kay
Pilgrims
Ponderosa
PotomacL anes
7012
Sheetz
South Branch Inn
Stray Cat Café
Subway
Summit Community Bank
TractorS upply
V103R adio
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Chicken ready
at 10:00 a.m.
Proceeds benefit
local community!
Would the man
who had the
young puppy tied
to the front of the
Family Dollar
Store next to
Food Lion on
Sunday (5/26/13),
please contact
Polly Long
at 304-538-7227
or 304-851-1924.
Thanks.
Henry B. Sager
Perry R. Sager
William M. Sager Beulah F. Sager
All are buried at Lena Sager Cemetery,
Trout Run, Perry, W.Va.
Were they buried somewhere else before, and
if so, where?
Also, does anyone have a list of names of those
buried in Trout Run area Cemeteries?
PLEASE CONTACT:
DonaldR yman
3549 Rittenour Road, Woodstock, VA 22664
Phone 1 540-459-2705 E-Mail: [email protected]
Plans are under
way for the
It is not too late
to join the fun!
To be a Food Vendor,
call Lion William Bean at 304-530-6190
To make a Parade Entry,
call Bill Fitzwater at 304-257-2343
LIBRARY WINDOWS
Book Memorials (May 2013)
“And the Mountains Echoed” by
Khaled Hosseini – given in memory
of Vallie Schell Webb by the MHS
Class of 1947.
Monetary Memorials (May 2013)
Donation given in memory of
Grace Harper by R.W. Harper
Update Your Status!
Patrons whose library accounts
reflect a lost or overdue item status
NEED to contact the library that
owns those items in order to clear up
discrepancies. Most patrons with
these statuses will have received an
overdue letter or a phone call. If
these issues are not addressed, a
library account will remain
“blocked,” preventing access to
library services (e.g., book borrowing,
internet use, eBook download, etc.).
Please contact the Baker library at
304-897-5544 or the Moorefield
library at 304-538-6560 to make sure
your account is in good standing.
Summer Reading Is Back!
Sign-up for the 2013 Summer
Reading Program begins June 8th
and ends June 15th. The program is
open to all ages (infant to adult) and
you read at your own pace. There will
be crafts, activities, prize drawings
and more throughout the program—
not to mention a blowout pool party
that will cap off another summer of
successful reading! If you’re interested in joining us but unfamiliar
with how the program works and
need more information, please stop
by the library or give us a call at 304538-6560 and we’ll try to answer all
your questions.
New Fiction & Mysteries
The Son by Phillip Meyer – Kidnapped by the Comanche after his
mother and sister are murdered, thirteen-year-old Eli McCullough
quickly adapts to Comanche life until
the tribe is decimated by armed
Americans, leaving Eli alone in a
world where he is neither white nor
Indian.
Bannon Brothers: Triumph (Bannon Brothers; 3) by Janet Daily –
Federal criminal investigator Deke
Bannon is rugged and powerful and
just as dangerous as his older brothers RJ and Linc. But ambitious
Atlanta TV anchor Kelly Johns, who
is tracking an explosive story behind
a deadly international gang, may be
more than his match.
The Quarryman’s Bride (Land of
Shining Water; 2) by Tracie Peterson
– Separated by duty, yet bonded by
love, can Emmalyne and Tavin dare
to dream that God could change the
hearts of those keeping them apart?
The Broken Places (Quinn Colson; 3) by Ace Atkins – When an
infamous murderer is released from
prison and returns to Jericho preaching redemption, skeptical sheriff
Quinn Colson is forced to confront
the man’s vengeance-seeking victims
and former partners in crime, a situation that is further complicated by a
dangerous tornado.
Zero Hour (Kurt Austin; 11) by
Clive Cussler – When a scientist discovers a possible way to tap an unlimited energy source using machines
that cause massive earthquakes, Kurt
Austin, Joe Zavala and their NUMA
teammates race against time to
locate the scientist’s machines under-
Sayers to Resign
“When I was elected, Welton
Orndoff was reelected mayor,” Sayers said. “He had been mayor for 12
years, but only served for two weeks
of that term, then moved to Pennsylvania. So, two weeks into my term, I
was acting mayor.”
Two months later John Bowman
was appointed mayor by the Wardensville Council. He served out the
term, but didn’t run for reelection.
In 1994, there was no one on the
ballot for mayor. Denise Crawford
was elected to council and at the first
meeting, she was appointed mayor.
She served for five years before moving away.
Pete Hornbeck, a local funeral
director was appointed to take Crawford’s place in 1999. He was defeated
in 2000 by Jay Crawford, coincidentally the ex-husband of Denise. That
same year Tracey “Scotty” Miller was
elected to council.
When Jay Crawford moved away
in July 2001, Miller was appointed
mayor by the council.
“Scotty Miller is absolutely the
best mayor I have ever worked with,”
Sayers said. “He is dedicated,
thoughtful, a man of integrity and he
cares deeply about this town. Where
other folks want to tear down or tear
apart, Scotty has always wanted to
build on the most recent success. He
never let me stop thinking about how
we could do things better.”
As recorder, Sayers has facilitated
the growth of Wardensville. Some of
it was serendipitous, some by design.
In 1993, the Hardy County Board
of Education closed the Wardensville
school. Their plan was to auction the
building to the highest bidder. The
Wardensville community asked the
council to step in and keep the school
for the community. “There was a
meeting on the steps of the school
and the people overwhelmingly
wanted the school to stay in the community,” Sayers said.
The council asked the school
board to donate the building to the
community. But the board was hoping to realize some revenue from the
sale, so the property was divided into
two parcels – the ball field and the
school building. “That way they could
sell the ball field and donate the
building,” Sayers said.
Judge Robert Mathias and his
wife, Evelyn, bid and were successful
in obtaining the ball field. The building that now houses town hall was
part of that sale. “We bought town
hall from Judge Mathias for $1,100,”
Sayers said.
“We told the community, right
from the start, that we couldn’t afford
to maintain the old school building,”
Sayers said. “So for the most part it
has supported itself. The town has
not put anything into it except help
with fundraising and grant writing.”
Sayers said Dr. Jerry Hahn was a
saving grace to the community center. He came forward and leased
space for a doctor’s office. “He also
paid for the renovations to his offices
and the pharmacy,” Sayers said. “He
leased the pharmacy to someone
else. Right now, the Hawse Health
Center leases and operates it.”
In 2010, the Community Center
was established as an Enterprise
Fund separate from the town budget.
It enables the Community Center to
borrow money and apply for grants
on its own.
In addition to the doctors’ offices
and pharmacy, the Community Center currently houses a telecommunications retail store, a library, fitness
center and gymnasium. There is
additional space that could be leased
when the right tenant comes along.
Under Sayers’ watch, Wardensville has upgraded its water and
sewer systems to modern utility
plants.
“At one point, there were plans to
add 100 new homes to the water and
sewer systems and we knew they
would never be able to service that
many more homes,” Sayers said. “So
we applied for funding to upgrade
the water and sewer and then the
(housing) bubble burst. The homes
were never built, but we have firstrate water and sewer systems.”
Grant management is a full-time
job and as a result, the town staff has
grown. There are now five full-time
employees, including the chief of
police. “We are required by state
code to have certified water and
sewer operators,” Sayers said.
There are new sidewalks, new
street signs, new entrance signs to the
community and a new pubic works
garage.
“I have personally overseen
dozens of federal and state grants
totaling more than $4 million to benefit our community,” Sayers said. “Of
course, I didn’t do it alone. Along the
way, there were a lot of good people
who put in a lot of volunteer hours to
make this all happen. I’m just very
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MOOREFIELD EXAMINER
cover Your Talents and Passions and
Transform Your Life by Ken Robinson
– Robinson provides an inspirational
and practical guide to self-improvement, happiness, creativity, and personal transformation.
Bacon Nation: 125 Irresistible
Recipe by Peter Kaminsky – A collection of 125 smoky, savory, crispy,
meaty, salty, and sweetly sensuous
recipes that go right through the
menu, including dessert.
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
by Alysia Abbott – Abbott shares her
memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and ‘80s San Francisco
with an openly gay father.
Echoes of My Soul by Robert K.
Tanenbaum – Returning to his roots
as a Manhattan Assistant District
Attorney, Tanenbaum writes a pageturning real-life thriller about a case
of two young women murdered, an
innocent man convicted and sent to
jail, and the young D.A. who refused
to give up until justice was served.
Dinner with the Smileys: One Military
Family, One Year of Heroes, and
New Non-Fiction & Bios
Finding Your Element: How to Dis- Lessons for a Lifetime by Sarah Smiley – Fifty-two guests take turns filling a military father’s chair at his
family’s dinner table while he serves
his yearlong deployment.
up, at an end-of-summer party they
connect instantly, but their love is
tested when she returns to high
school and he begins to work his way
through an Ivy-League college.
The Last Academy by Anne
Applegate – Fourteen-year-old Camden Fisher arrives at a boarding
school after a falling-out with her
best friend, but Lethe Academy is a
strange place, where students disappear suddenly, and as she searches
for answers Camden begins to fear
what she will find.
Invisibility by Andrea Cremer – To
break his curse of invisibility, a boy is
helped by a girl, who is the only one
who can see him.
The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
(AR) – Cassie Sullivan, the survivor
of an alien invasion, must rescue her
young brother from the enemy with
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68th D-Day Anniversary WWII Battlefields Tour
By Diane S. Hypes
Moorefield Examiner
World War II Army Veteran Carlton Saville was drafted into the service in the summer of 1942. By
November of that year he found himself headed to Alaska going through
the Inland Pass to Dutch Harbor in
the Aleutian Islands, one of the
largest fishing areas in the United
States, and a place that had been
bombed by the Japanese before his
unit arrived. He would serve three
years in Dutch Harbor before he was
discharged as a Corporal in March of
1945
Upon his discharge Carlton came
home to Moorefield to resume his
life. He got a job working for the U.S.
Postal service where he worked for
35 years, retiring in 1980. An avid
golf player with many friends, he continues to be upbeat in his outlook on
life, and is a joy to be around, always
looking at the funny and ironic side
of life.
But like many of the World War II
Veterans, Carlton had thought a lot
about the war he fought in. He visited
the WWII Memorial in Washington
and took a trip to Europe in 2000.
Eventually it brought him to the realization that he wanted to see the
beaches where some of the worst battles in WWII were fought. “I felt like
I wanted to see this area because the
soldiers who fought in the European
theater sacrificed so much that I didn’t have to because of where I had
served. I especially wanted to see
where the Battle of the Bulge took
place,” he said.
Carlton began watching for
WWII Battlefield tours advertised in
the VFW and American Legion publications. It was in March of 2012
when he saw an ad for the 68th DDay Anniversary WWII Battlefields
Tour scheduled for June 2-13, 2012.
Carlton mentioned this trip to
some of his WWII friends but none
of them were interested in going, so
he asked his close friend, Carter
Williams. Carter agreed to the trip
telling him that he was honored and
humbled that he had asked him.
Out of the 35 in their group there
were 11 WWII Vets, a total of 19 Veterans in all on the trip. Carlton was
the oldest in the group, and it turned
out Carter was the youngest. One
veteran in their group had been
awarded the highest military medal
awarded by France.
“The weather turned out to be
very rainy and some days a bit on the
chilly side,” Carter said. “The latitude of Northern France and Belgium is that of Nova Scotia where the
weather comes off the English Channel. The daylight was long with the
sun coming up around 5 a.m., and it
was not dark until 11:00 p.m. The
group travelled approximately 2,100
miles over eleven days in a motor
coach. At times we did a lot of walking. Some of the Vets couldn’t make
it everyday, but Carlton, at 91 went
most places,” Carter said. “Folks
were pretty amazed at him.”
They departed the US on June 2,
and arrived in Paris on June 3. After
touring the many sites in Paris such as
the Eiffel Tower, Champs-Élysées,
the Arc de Triomphe, the Seine River
plus many other historic sites, they
left Paris on June 5 to begin the Bat-
Carlton Saville (standing second from right) pictured with the veterans on the World War II Battlefield Tour.
tlefields’ tour. Their first stop, the
Normandy Beaches, past Guyon La
Roche, where German General
Rommel had his headquarters during
the Normandy Invasion. They continued on to Caen, Carentan, and
Saint-Côme-du-Mont where they visited Dead Man’s Corner. It was here
the 101st Airborne Division encountered the Green Devils, the German
paratroopers of the 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment, early on the morning of June 6, 1944.
Their next stop was Saint-MéreÉglise, the first village liberated by
the 82nd Airborne early on that same
morning. A mock-up of paratrooper
John Steele whose parachute got
caught on the church steeple can still
be seen today.
They continued on to Utah Beach
to attend another ceremony at the
Landing Museum at La Madeleine,
where the WWII Veterans were presented with a Certificate of Appreciation for their service.
On June 6, the group commemorated the 68th D-Day anniversary
with a celebration ceremony at the
Normandy American Cemetery and
Memorial near Colleville-sur-Mer
situated on a cliff overlooking
Omaha Beach and the English Channel. The cemetery contains the
graves of 9,387 of our military dead.
On the ‘Walls of the Missing,’ in a
semicircular garden on the east side
of the memorial, are inscribed the
1,557 names of our missing soldiers.
The next stop was to Pointe-duHoc, the area where Col. James Rudder’s 2nd Ranger Battalion climbed
the treacherous cliffs that fateful day
on June 6, 1944. The area is virtually
unchanged from the time our troops
left 68 years ago. Numerous bomb
craters and many of the original
bunkers, where German guns were
positioned, are still in place.
It is interesting to note that during the Normandy Landing, a heavy
storm forced General Eisenhower to
postpone D-Day from June 5 to June
6. At 10 p.m. on June 5, thousands of
planes took off from England to
carry out the bombing raids, or drop
Paratrooper John Steele landed on the church in Saint-Mére-Église
in Normandy, France on June 6, 1944; his chute caught on the
steeple.
“Patton’s Barracks”, the place where
General Patton died on December
21, 1945. The journey continued
through Germany’s beautiful countryside to Dachau for a visit of the
Concentration Camp Memorial,
which was established in 1965 on the
grounds of the former concentration
camp. The Dachau concentration
camp was set up on March 22, 1933
and was liberated by American
Forces on April 29, 1945.
The next destination was to the
Kehlsteinhaus, also known as
“Eagle’s Nest.” This chalet-style
building is on top of the mountain, a
birthday present to Hitler intended
as a retreat for him. Hitler rarely visited the place, but his mistress, Eva
Braun, was said to have loved it very
much. After the war, the building was
used by the Allies as a military command post until 1960.
Reminiscing about this historical
trip, Carlton said, that you can’t walk
through the cemetery in Luxembourg
without noticing the dates on the
grave stones of when these soldiers
were killed. Some of them just
missed living to the end of WWII by
months, and because of their sacrifice many lives were spared. And, of
course, there were just as many sacrifices in the Pacific theater during the
war, he said.
“I think because these battles
were fought in Europe,” Carlton
said, “that the Europeans are more
aware of the sacrifices than we Americans are. When they have memorial
services many, many people turn out
to honor the veterans. During one of
our visits to these historic places, a
person on the street came up to me
and thanked me for my service and
told me that the longest peace they
have known in their country is from
WWII to the present. On another
day, a young woman walked up to me
and thanked me for my service, and
then handed me a package. I didn’t
know whether she wanted me to take
it or not, but I did and then she
walked away. The package contained
a lovely small framed drawing.
“I found that the European people I met on our tour were really
appreciative of what we had done,”
Carlton said, “and I guess what really
amazed me was that although it has
been over 68 years ago, they have not
forgotten all the soldiers sacrificed
during WWII.”
Photos provided by Carter Williams
Carter Williams and Carlton at General Patton’s grave site.
over Normandy the 18,000 American
and British parachutists given the
task of knocking out the German batteries and preparing for the first wave
of the assault.
At dawn on June 6, 5,000 ships
were positioned along a 50-mile front
off the Normandy beaches. At 6:30
a.m. the first American landing craft
reached Omaha and Utah Beaches.
At 7:30 a.m. British and Canadian
troops took their positions on Sword,
Juno and Gold beaches. By nightfall
on D-Day, 150,000 men and 2,000
tons of equipment had landed on the
beaches. But the Allies, at the cost of
terrible losses (2,500 killed and, 9,000
wounded), had managed to advance
only a few miles inland. The Battle of
Normandy had begun.
Before leaving Normandy, the
group payed a visit to the Arromanches. The site of the Mulberry
“B” Harbor, which was used to land
over 2.5 million men, 500,000 vehicles, and 4 million tons of supplies.
This area eventually became known
as Port Winston.
The journey continued to Rouen
and the Compiegne Forest, which
was the scene of fierce fighting during WWII, and was also the place
where the Peace Treaty of WWI was
signed on November 11, 1918.
Their final destination that day
was at Reims, where they visited the
school building which was Eisenhower’s Headquarters during the latter part of WWII. It was on May 8,
1945, when General Eisenhower and
the Allies received the unconditional
surrender of the German Wehrmacht.
On the way to Luxembourg City
US Cemetery at Luxembourg
the group traveled through the
Argonne Forest, which during the
war, was Omar Bradley’s 1st Army
Group Headquarters, as well as General Patton’s 3rd Army Headquarters. There was also a visit to the
American Military Cemetery where
General George Patton is buried,
and which overlooks a cemetery of
more than 5,000 of his fallen troops.
They continue along the roads
and through the villages, viewing the
battlefields so prominently known as
the Battle of the Bulge, where
100,000 of the 500,000 German
troops, who attacked during the Battle of the Bulge, became causalities.
The Americans had 81,000 causalities.
The tour continued to Elsenborn
Ridge, the north shoulder of the battle to Hollerath, known as Purple
Heart Corner, and then they walked
into the Ardennes forest, where you
may still jump into one of the foxholes. The group also walked among
the “Dragon’s Teeth,” the anti-tank
defense on the Siegfried Line.
The next day the group crossed
the border into Germany and drove
along the west side of the Rhine
River to the site of the Ludendoff
Bridge, in WWII frequently called
the Bridge of Remagen. This bridge
was captured by the Allied forces on
March 7-8,1945, establishing a
bridgehead across the Rhine River.
In an ensuing battle, the bridge was
severely damaged and collapsed into
the Rhine on March 17, 1945. Pontoon bridges were built to carry military traffic over the Rhine River.
The next day the tour group Carlton sitting in front of General Rommel’s quarters near
departed for Heidelberg driving past Normandy, France
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ated from the South Branch Valley
Drug Court on Friday, May 31. They
completed an intensive program of
counseling, community service, drug
testing and community-based support group meetings.
Parker started doing drugs when
she was 13. “I smoked weed, did acid
and coke,” she said.
At age 15, she started taking meth
amphetamine and at age 16 dropped
out of Moorefield High School. “I
knew I was failing math, so I just
decided to quit,” she said.
Parker had two children when she
was 19 and 21 years old.
“Thankfully, I quit the drugs
when I found out I was pregnant,”
she said. “I even stopped smoking.”
Over the next several years,
Parker was on-again, off-again drugs
of various kinds, including meth,
marijuana and prescription pills. In
2007, she and James tried to get help
for their addiction.
“We went to a treatment program
to get off pills in 2007, but it didn’t
work,” Parker said. “They just gave
us Suboxone. They didn’t offer any
counseling or any tools to stay clean.”
Suboxone is a drug used to treat
opiate addiction.
When they were arrested in 2011,
Parker said, “We were ready to quit.”
The Parkers spent seven days in
jail. Their two children were returned
to them three days later.
“I still don’t know why they gave
us our kids back,” Parker said. “I
know they were neglected on my
part.”
When the Parkers got out of jail,
they enrolled in the Day Report Program. They participated in it for eight
months, minus the time they spent in
jail for a 60-day evaluation.
A 60-day evaluation is often
ordered by the court to determine if
the offender is a threat to society or
themselves. Professional counselors
talk with the offender and monitor
their behavior and submit a report to
the court.
“I went to the Lakin Correctional
Center in Mason County,” Parker
said. “It was the longest 60 days of my
life.”
The Parkers pleaded guilty to
operating a clandestine drug laboratory and were offered slots in the
Drug Court Program. “We entered
Drug Court on December 23, 2011,”
Parker said.
The charges of operating a clandestine drug laboratory in the presence of children were dropped
because Hardy County Prosecutor
Lucas See said, at the time, the state
couldn’t prove the children were
present during the manufacturing of
the meth amphetamine.
Since they have successfully completed the program, the Parkers can
petition the court to reduce their
charges from a felony to a misdemeanor.
At her sentencing, Parker asked
Judge Donald H. Cookman to order
her to get a GED. “Judge Cookman
told me I was the first person to ever
do that,” she said.
While Parker admits she was
ready to give up drugs for good, she
didn’t know how to live without getting high.
“I was an active drug addict for
more than half my life,” she said.
“For the first three months, I would
ask James every day if he wanted to
get high. I didn’t really want to, I just
wanted to know if he did. He always
said no. So I stopped asking him.”
Parker started working on her
GED in February 2012. She was near
the end of Phase I of Drug Court.
“Drug Court was hard work,” she
said. “You have to do 28 hours of
community service, classes four
hours a day, three days a week and
two meetings a week. You have to
call in twice a day and get three drug
tests a week, plus random tests.
Those are whenever they decide to
call you. I was lucky. My GED classes
counted toward my community service.”
Parker received her GED on
April 20, 2012. It was also her 10th
wedding anniversary. She was in
Phase II of Drug Court.
“Phase II is not much different
from Phase I,” Parker said. “You still
have to do 28 hours of community
service and go to two meetings a
week. You have two drug tests a week
plus randoms and you have to call in
once a day.”
In June 2012, Parker enrolled in
Eastern West Virginia Community
and Technical College. In July, she
found out she was pregnant with
their third child.
Odella March Parker was born on
April 10, 2013. While Parker was
clean during her first two pregnancies, it wasn’t long after she had her
children that she went back to drugs
August Parker
again. Not so with Odella. It is a
whole new experience for her.
Parker and her husband started
going to church in the summer of
2011.
“When I was in jail, I asked God
to get me out and I told Him, if he
did, I wouldn’t turn my back on him,”
she said. “Well, I got out of jail, I got
my kids back, I got into Drug Court,
I’m clean and sober. We surrendered
to God and were baptized. Now
we’re door greeters at the Moorefield Church of God.”
When asked where she’d be without the Drug Court program, Parker
didn’t hesitate.
“I’d probably be in jail,” she said.
“Maybe I would’ve found God in jail,
but I wouldn’t know how to stay clean
once I got out. I wouldn’t know to
look for triggers. I wouldn’t know
that I had to change people, places
and things.
“Now I have ways to stay clean. I
have tools. I go to meetings. I can talk
with my pastor. She wants us to start
a Celebrate Recovery program at
church. It’s Christian based for all
addictions.”
When asked how has her life
improved, Parker said, “Now I feel
responsible. The kids that were
absent from school all the time, participate in school functions. They
only missed one day last year and
that was for dentist appointments.
“We bought our own home. We
have a vehicle. We didn’t have a car
for two years. We either walked or
got rides from other people. The
drugs were more important.
“Our house is less chaotic. We
enjoy each others’ company now. It
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served as Town Hall.
small-town government. We have
trouble getting people to run for
election. Members of council don’t
have to serve.”
Sayers is emphatic that he and
Betsy are not giving up on Wardensville. In fact, they are contemplating a lasting tribute to Ray “Red”
Funkhouser. “I’m hoping to work on
a fundraising effort to increase the
Red Funkhouser Fund in the Hardy
County Community Foundation that
benefits the park so we can install a
nice bench overlooking the park in
Red’s honor,” he said.
“Betsy and I are here for the long
haul. We have a lot left to do here.”
“When I went to jail, the Lord
blessed me by being put in Drug
Court,” said Robbie Whetzel. “I can
be a father. I have a driver’s license. I
have 400 days clean. I got my life
back.”
“I was taught many things, but the
most important is responsibility,”
said August Parker. “Without it,
sobriety would be useless. Thank you
for teaching me about responsibility.”
“Thank you for teaching me how
to live a sober life,” said James
Parker. “Thank God for delivering
me from addiction.”
“Drug Court taught me I don’t
need to be high to feel good, “ wrote
Jeremy Ritter, who asked John
Treadway to read his essay. “I thank
Drug Court for not giving up on me.
I will stay the better person I’ve
become.”
According to Haines, this set of
graduates have performed more than
7,200 hours of community service,
have completed more than 3,000
hours of counseling. Their combined
charges could have resulted in more
than three decades of jail or prison
time, which would have cost taxpayers more than half a million dollars.
Ten Graduate
have drug Court,” he said. “The success of our drug court lies with them.
“I challenge you to keep up your
fight against addiction. Use the tools,
share the tools. Think about helping
someone else. Tell them about AA
(Alcoholics Anonymous) and NA
(Narcotics Anonymous). Tell them
about Drug Court.”
Each of the graduates read from a
prepared essay about what drug
court has meant to them.
“Drug Court is definitely a life
changer,” said Clay Thorn. “I will
ever be thankful to the people who
supported me in this program.”
“I was addicted to pills and it cost
me everything,” said Sheri Collins.
“Now I have a full time job and two
of my three children back. Life is
good because of this program.”
“I learned I have a disease of
addiction,” said Jack Burner. “I
learned I don’t have to use drugs or
drink.”
“I’ve been given a life I didn’t
know I was capable of having,” said
Lynn Ludwig. “I’ve been clean and
sober for 2 ½ years. I have a vehicle
that’s legal.”
“I was at a very low place when I
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came to Drug Court,” said Nathan
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Tomblin signed the bill Thursday
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my businesses. Granted, I probably
spend more time than your typical
recorder might.”
Sayers also has a full time job with
the Library of Congress. He is a Public Affairs Specialist in the Office of
Communications. “And, I have to
face the fact that I’m getting older
and can’t do what I used to do,” he
said.
“When we came to live in Wardensville, we wanted to make it a better place. To make it a better place,
you need businesses and infrastructure. Everything we’ve done, every
board we’ve served on, has been to
help improve Wardensville.
“But we also want to keep that
small town feel. So people will want
to live here and work here. We now
have great infrastructure, a great
park and pool and a great workforce.”
Of the scrutiny, Sayers said it will
make it more difficult to find his
replacement.
“The environment for public officials seems to be reflective of the
‘hate government’ baloney,” he said.
“People think government is bad. But
government is the people, especially
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• Senator Donald H. Cookman
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• Cary Ours - Day Report
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• Gary Combs - Day Report
Counselor
• Gary Long - Day Report
Counselor
• Marcus Weese - Day
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• Andy Pond - Day Report
Officer
• Sarah Royal - Drug Court
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• Kenny Watson - Probation
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• John Rohrbaugh - Probation Officer
• Laura Hartman - Probation Officer
• Chief Steve Reckart - Law
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• Deputy Robert Carl - Law
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• Julie Frazer - Defense
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Snapp Era Comes to an End
East Hardy Skipper Ends 36-year Run
Story & Photos
By Carl Holcomb
Moorefield Examiner
It has been one long ride into the
sunset, but this trail has ended.
Raymond Snapp, head coach of
East Hardy’s baseball program, is
stepping down.
Snapp who has led the Cougars
for the past 34 years, was honored
with a cermony at the state tournament in Charleston as the Coach of
the Year this past Saturday.
“It’s a good honor, but it truly
reflects what the kids did last year,”
East Hardy Baseball Coach Raymond
Snapp stated.
“We built the field from scratch. I
have a lot of pride in the field. We’ve
had some good wins and some bad
losses. We made some good runs over
the years. Every time we went to the
state tournament built fond memories. I will always cherish the 1987
state championship.”
Snapp began his baseball coaching
career in 1977 at Mathias High
School, then when the school consolidated into East Hardy High School in
the 1978-79 school year, he continued
at the helm.
Coach Snapp has left an impressionable legacy which has helped
bring recognition to the East Hardy
Baseball program.
“He had a very long and distinguished career for the East Hardy
Baseball team. East Hardy is well
known for baseball,” East Hardy principal Brad Simmons remarked.
“East Hardy High School has
been put on the map for a myriad of
things including athletics and academics. We are very fortunate to appear as
many times at states as we did with
Coach Snapp. He was always there for
his baseball players. He has been the
only head baseball coach for East
Hardy High School. We are getting a
new school and a new coach. He was
here at the beginning and until the
end. Hopefully, someone else will
come and make a legacy too.”
Snapp came one game away from
reaching the state tournament in his
final season, losing 6-5 in extra innings
against Notre Dame.
Snapp reached the pinnacle of
success when guiding his team to the
state championship in 1987 and made
seven state baseball tournament
appearances throughout his career.
The Cougars were the state runner-up last season with a school best
record of 31-7.
Coach Snapp has developed a
number of talented baseball players
who went on to play in college including: Jacob Bowman (PSC), Jeremiah
Bowman (PSC), Dustin Brill (D&E),
Adam Foltz (Clarion), Alex Foltz
(JMU), Joey Hahn (Marshall), Jamie
Miller (PSC), Steven Snapp (PSC),
and next year at PSC- Korey Foltz,
Tyler Mongold, and Shawn Skovron.
Coach Snapp had well over 50
players selected to the all-state base-
ball teams over the years.
Snapp finished his illustrious baseball career with an overall record of
562-359.
Snapp added five girls basketball
state tournament appearances during
his tenure in that program with a
record of 436-248.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and
Margaret Thatcher became the first
female Prime Minister in the United
Kingdom in 1979.
A far as technology, there was the
introduction of the Sony Walkman
(cassette tape player) in 1979.
Apple just introduced its second
To give some perspective on Snapp’s version of its computer in 1977, and
run:
today there are iPods, iPads, iPhones,
When he first became a baseball Macbooks and more.
coach at Mathias High School, Jimmy
When Snapp took the helm at
Carter was our president, the movie East Hardy, not only were none of his
Star Wars was huge in the box office, current players born yet, their parents
and this sportswriter was born.
were still in high school.
1977 prices: 65 cents for gas, $1.68
In fact, Snapp has coached a numfor gallon of milk, and 13 cents for a ber of players who went on to see
first class stamp.
their progeny play for him.
Entering the new East Hardy
The 2013 Cougars team was full of
High School Baseball Season:
the father-son combination under
1979 prices: 86 cents for gas, $1.62 Snapp: Justin Basye (John), Wyatt
for milk, and 15 cents for a stamp.
Basye (Terry), Korey Foltz (Kevin),
Upon retirement, the 2013 prices: Tim Hahn (Chris), Tyler Mongold
Gas $3.59, Milk $3.65, Stamp 45 (Calvin), Shawn Skovron (Eric),
cents.
Bryce Strawderman (Brent), Dylan
Strawderman (Bradley).
East Hardy Softball coach Calvin
Mongold was a member of Snapp’s
first baseball team at Mathias and
East Hardy.
“Raymond’s coaching style hasn’t
changed over the years. I pitched for
him all four years. I was proud to see
my son pitch in his final career game
in the region championship,” Mongold stated.
East Hardy longtime assistant
coach Kevin Foltz played for Coach
Snapp as did his three sons Kolby,
Kollin, & Korey.
East Hardy has grown into prominence throughout the state, recognized for not only its athletic programs, but its high academic
standards.
Perhaps the East Hardy Baseball
field will be named after Raymond
Snapp in the years to come.
“My biggest thrills were the
Region Championships I saw his
Continued on page 2B
From Awards to Graduation, Hardy County Athletes Achieve Excellence
Shawn Skovron
East Hardy Male Athlete of the Year
Morgan Mongold
East Hardy Female Athlete of the Year
Justin Basye
Ralph J. Bean Award
Korey Foltz
Jamie Good Award
Moorefield Graduation - Top Left: Xavier Brown. Top Right: Spencer Coby. Bottom: Quincy Fraley,
Joshua Thorne, Hannah Gilbert, Noah Carr, Grant Sherman, and Garrett Keller.
Page 2B - MOOREFIELD (WV) EXAMINER, Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Notre Dame Rallied To End Cougars’
Season in Region II Championship
who reached on a dropped third
strike.
After McKinsey walked the two
first two batters in the seventh, he
NUTTER FORT — For the
and Harlow switched spots. The
past couple of seasons, a scrappy,
Cougars added a pair of runs on
never-say-die attitude has defined
Mongold’s sacrifice fly and Justin
the Notre Dame baseball team.
Basye’s RBI single.
It was never more evident than it
After the Irish’s three-run sevwas on Friday at Frank Loria
enth, McKinsey came up with the
Memorial Field as T.J. McKinsey
defensive play of the game. Wyatt
crossed the plate with the running
Basye hit a soaring foul pop up
run as Santino Cava reached on an
behind the plate. The wind pushed
error in the bottom of the eighth,
the ball into fair territory but McKcapping a three-run rally, to give the
insey kept up and made a diving
Fighting Irish a 6-5 victory against
one-handed grab to record the out.
East Hardy for the Class A Region
Harlow then struck out the next two
II championship and a spot in next
hitters to get out of the inning.
week’s state tournament.
“That play T.J. made was huge,”
The win improves Notre Dame
Harlow said. “That was the No. 7
to 23-10 and the Irish will face
hitter in their lineup so I knew No.
Region I champion Magnolia at 10
8 and No. 9 were coming up and we
a.m. Friday at Appalachian Power
wanted to get out of the inning
Park in Charleston.
before getting back to the top of
With the loss, East Hardy ends
their order. I kept my cool and was
its season at 23-11.
able to strike both of them out.”
“I took off as soon as Santino
Freshman Josh Baker, who has
made contact and after about three
the highest batting average for the
steps I glanced back and saw the
We were very close
Irish, led off the bottom of the
ball bobbled and I knew I was
to winning the game. I
eighth by drilling a double to the
going to score,” McKinsey said.
gap in right-center. McKinsey
“It was an unbelievable
thought we’d get the three
followed with a single to put
game. We refused to give up
and now we are going to the outs. We couldn’t get the outs, we runners on the corners. After a
state tournament. The had a couple of errors. They hit the walk to Miller that loaded the
young guys on this team,
ball where we couldn’t catch it. It bases, Morrison hit a hard
grounder to second but Bryce
they all stepped up in key
was just one of those games. It’s a Strawderman threw home for
situations.”
tough loss for the kids. They are the force out. Cava followed
As thrilling as the victory was, it was equally taking it hard, but will get over it. with his grounder to short that
Foltz mishandled, allowing
unlikely. The Cougars broke
a 2-all tie with an unearned We would have liked to be back McKinsey to end the game.
“These guys never cease to
run in the sixth and two more
in Charleston, but it wasn’t
amaze
me,” Marozzi said. “We
runs in the seventh. All three
meant to be.”
never got down. We had some
runs were scored with the benefit of
clutch hits and T.J. made a phejust one hit.
– Coach Raymond Snapp,
nomenal play behind the plate.
East Hardy ace Tyler Mongold
East
Hardy
Spencer came in and did what we
was three outs away from shutting
needed him to do, throw strikes.
the door on the Notre Dame sea“We felt like we might need both
McKinsey was dominant on the
son and sending the Cougars to
mound in the first 2 2-3 innings, of those guys (McKinsey and HarCharleston.
“We helped them out,” Notre retiring eight of the first nine bat- low) to get through this one and we
did. I have to give a lot of credit to
Dame coach Patrick Marozzi said. ters he faced with four strikeouts.
However, with two outs in the my coaching staff, Tom Koreski,
“We had a couple of miscues and
we gave them three runs. But when top of the third, Korey Foltz drew a Michael Koreski and Tony Petrucci.
we came into the dugout in the sev- walk and Shawn Skovron followed We spent a lot of time scouting this
enth, I just told them, ‘Hey, let’s just with a two-run homer to just about team and it paid off.”
McKinsey struck out nine in his
go up to the plate and see what hap- the same spot Harlow’s landed
six innings of work and all five runs
deep beyond the left-field fence.
pen.’”
McKinsey and Mongold took were charged to him. Harlow went
After managing just four hits
through the first six innings against over the game through the middle two innings with three strikeouts to
Mongold, the Irish doubled that innings before the Cougars caught a get the win. The two hurlers comtotal when they needed them the break in the sixth. With runners on bined to allow just four hits.
Every player in the Irish lineup
first and second, Wyatt Basye hit a
most.
Jordan Miller led off the bottom taylor-made double-play ball to had at least one base hit. Miller was
of the seventh with a single. Chad Petrucci at shortstop. Petrucci the only player in the game with two
Morrison followed with an infield fielded the ball cleanly and stepped hits.
Foltz and Skovron scored four
single before Santino Cava drilled a on second for a force out but his
double to center, driving in Miller throw to first was wide, allowing of the Cougars’ runs. Mongold sufand making it 5-3. Morrison then Dillon Walker to score and make it fered the loss, giving up up 10 hits in
7 1-3 innings with five strikeouts.
scored on Anthony Belcastro’s sin- 3-2.
Sports Editor Chris Johnson can
The sequence was made even
gle to make it a one-run game. Cava
scored the tying run on Chris more frustrating for the Irish con- be contacted at 626-1443 or by
sidering Walker was on base as a email at
Petrucci’s groundout.
[email protected].
After an intentional walk to D.J. courtesy runner for Justin Basye,
By Chris Johnson
Sports Editor Exponent-Telegram
Murphy, Spencer Harlow stepped
to the plate with runners on first
and second and just one out. Harlow hit a sinking line drive to East
Hardy first baseman Justin Basye
who snagged the ball out of the air
and stepped on first for an inningending double play.
It was perhaps the only play in
the game that didn’t turn out in
Harlow’s favor.
After Murphy lined a one-out
double in the bottom of the first,
Harlow crushed a two-run homer
— just the second home run of the
season for the Irish — to put Notre
Dame up 2-0.
“As soon as I hit it, I knew it was
gone,” said Harlow, who started the
game behind the plate. “It was big
to score a couple of runs early
because with T.J. on the mound and
the way he has been throwing, we
knew we might not need a whole lot
of runs.”
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Coach Snapp not only taught the
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Coach Snapp developed each
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“I think we built a good tradition
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they’re going to conduct themselves
as gentleman. They are going to play
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Coach Snapp said the thing he
won’t miss about coaching is the bus
rides which probably amounted to
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Coach Snapp will always be
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and respect for others.
Before every baseball game,
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“East Hardy always fielded very,
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going to the State Championship
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“Personally, I think of Coach
Snapp as a very capable coach and
outstanding neighbor. ”
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Class A Prep Softball All-State Selections
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. —
The 2013 Class A high school
softball squad as chosen and
distributed by the West Virginia Sports Writers Association.
CLASS A
First Team:
P – Chelsey Parkins, Buffalo, Jr.
(captain)
P – Danica Rogers, Moorefield, Jr.
P – Taylor Tomblin, Man, Sr.
P – Ali Burdette, Buffalo, So.
P – Sarah Henry, Wheeling
Central, Sr.
IF – Abbi Fetty, St. Marys, Sr.
IF – Lacy Perkins, Doddridge
County, Jr.
IF – Beth Cook, Moorefield, Jr.
IF – Sydney Bennington,
Wheeling Central, So.
IF – Mackenzie Smith, Sherman, Sr.
OF – Katie Higginbotham,
Buffalo, Jr.
OF – Emily Ohrm, Wirt County, Sr.
OF – Mikaela Britton, St. Marys, So.
UTIL – Jessica Puddister, South
Harrison, Sr.
UTIL – Mallory Chapman,
Magnolia, Jr.
UTIL – Julie Bishop, Gilmer
County, Jr.
C – Ashlie LaFalce, Doddridge
County, Sr.
C – Summer Sword, Man, Sr.
Second Team:
P – Nicole Hartley,
Clay-Battelle, Sr.
Megan Sheets, Doddridge
County, Sr.
P – Linda Hall, Cameron, So.
P – Tori May, Sherman, Sr.
P – Ashley Templeton, Wahama, Sr.
IF – Morgan Mongold, East
Hardy, Jr.
IF – Brianna Ross, Charleston
Catholic, Jr.
IF – Emrie Gray, Williamstown, So.
IF – Amy Childers, St. Marys, Sr.
IF – Tiffany Young, Gilmer
County, Sr.
OF – Kelsey Billups, Wahama, Jr.
OF – Joni Zavolta, Wheeling Central, Jr.
OF – Ashton Chancellor,
Williamstown, So.
UTIL – Kaitlin Sisler, Fayetteville, So.
UTIL – Andrea Guzek, Bishop
Donahue, Sr. (captain)
UTIL – Jennifer Sang, Huntington
St. Joe, Sr.
C – Kelsey Bird, Valley-Fayette, Jr.
C – Marilyn Cassell, East Hardy,
Jr.
P–
Special Honorable Mention:
Katie Scott, Bishop Donahue;
Chase Christy, Buffalo; Audrey
Bryan, Cameron; Courtney Wilt,
Doddridge
County;
Jodie
Funkhouser, East Hardy; Ashley
Gilkerson, Fayetteville; Jamie Conrad, Gilmer County; Amanda Paul,
Madonna; Abby Durig, Magnolia;
Madison Keffer, Man; Katelynn
Wills, Moorefield; Sophia Messenger, Notre Dame; Myah Charkowi,
Paden City; Nikita Kimble, Pendle-
ton County; Hannah Metheny,
Richwood; Mykaela Hearn, St.
Marys; Baylee Harless, Sherman;
Charity Lower, Tygarts Valley; Martina Parrish, Tyler Consolidated;
Ashley Gast, Wheeling Central;
Cierra King, Williamstown; Shania
Tanner, Wirt County
Honorable Mention:
Selena Ghaphery, Bishop Donahue; Olivia Dunn, Buffalo; Katie
Allen, Buffalo; Marissa Meintel,
Cameron;
Darian
Vines,
Charleston Catholic; Kennedy
Elliot, Clay-Battelle; Alissa Davis,
Doddridge County; Morgan Basye.
East Hardy; Alexa Roles, Fayetteville; Morgan Allen, Gilmer
County; Chelsea Gale, Huntington
St. Joe; Madison Burchill,
Madonna; Audrey Gibb, Magnolia;
Kelly Grimmett, Man; Alexus Hatfield,
Montcalm;
Michaela
Regester, Moorefield; Taylor Zuber,
Moorefield; Katie Shaffer, Notre
Dame; Taylor Cosper, Paden City;
Maddie Roedersheimer, Parkersburg Catholic; Brittany Huffman,
Pendleton County; Tiarra Brown,
Richwood; Mariah Martin, St.
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Hanna Burnside, South Harrison;
Whitney James, South Harrison;
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Jenna Ashcroft, Valley Wetzel; Bre
Harris, Valley Wetzel; Chelsea Calloway, Van; Bailey Hicks, Wahama;
Laken Visnick, Wheeling Central
Class A All-State Softball First Team
Beth Cook, Moorefield
Class A Softball All-State Second Team
Morgan Mongold, East Hardy
Class A Softball All-State
First Team
Danica Rogers, Moorefield
Class A Softball All-State
Second Team
Marilyn Cassell, East Hardy
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304-530-5400
Emergency
Generators
Sales &
Installation
•GARAGE DOORS
Underground Dynamics, LLC
Precision
Overhead Doors
Jim Teter, Owner
Locust & Pine
Fence Material
for Sale
Owner Jeff Saville
Licensed & Insured WV041077
Home, Farm,
Mobile Home, Cabin
Heritage Insurance, LLC
304-538-6677
•LANDSCAPING
Sales • Service • Installation
Green Earth
Landscaping
Kelly Kipp, Owner
304-616-7879
FREE
Estimates
www.greenearthlandscaping.org
Licensed & Insured
304-856-3894
Jonathan L. Eye, Owner
Call 540-746-3361 or
Cell 1-304-358-7830
[email protected]
Lic.#WV049574 • Insured
Partners 1st Federal Credit Union has an opportunity for you!
We are seeking an energetic friendly, reliable professional
with outstanding leadership, sales and service skills to
manage our Moorefield, WV branch. This full-time position
works 36 hrs/wk M–F. This position will manage the branch
and 2 team members to provide excellent service to
membership and meet branch goals. In return we offer full
benefits package including medical/dental insurance, sick,
personal and vacation pay, 401(k) plan, and incentive pay
program.
Send resumes to corporate office:
Human Resources
1330 Directors Row
Fort Wayne, IN 46808
www.partners1stcu.org/careers
[email protected]
Fax: 260.482.6675
Advertising rates in this section: $6.00 first 25 words. Ten cents per
word each additional word. Blind ads double the above rates. Display
ads on these pages, $7.60 per column inch. Legal rates governed by
state law. Only current paid-up accounts will be allowed to charge classified and/or display advertising. All others must be paid in advance.
Political advertising must be paid in advance. The Moorefield Examiner
assumes no financial responsibility for typographical errors in adver-
•Paving, Seal Coating
•Driveways, Roads, Parking Lots
•Commercial & Residential
Free Estimates • Short Gap, WV
WV002326
HC 71 Box 92A,
Capon Bridge, WV 26711
J.T. PLUMBING
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Lic#WV042172
WeT ake PRIDEi nY our DRIVE!
Serving WV and VA since 1986
•PLUMBING
•PAVING CONTRACTORS
Scott Liller
Looking for a dynamic career opportunity with a
strong financial institution? Want to lead a team and
build strong relationships in the community?
304-874-3685 Office
540-539-3200 Cell
•FENCING CONTRACTOR
Furnaces
1407 US Route 220 North
W. VA. INSURANCE CO.
Residential
& Commercial
Kenneth & Denise Dove, Owners
License #WV037343
Cell# 304-257-8882
•INSURANCE
•ELECTRICAL
Hours: M–F 8am–7pm;
Saturday 9–12
304-726-7292
Branch Sales Manager
JUNE 7 AND June 8. Rt. 220
South of Moorefield. 8am-? Rain
or Shine.
MULTI-FAMILY Yard Sale, June
8th, 8am-? on Fisher Straight 6
miles from Moorefield on 220-S.
Women’s size 6-10, plus sizes,
men’s XL-2XL and mens camo
clothing. Lots of name brand
RIVERSIDE CABINS and RV clothing and misc items.
APPLY BY July! Fall enrollment
park. Open year round with full
is going on now! Beat the heat, hook-up and cabins along the YARD SALE, Saturday, June 8
beside NAPA. 8am-? Women’s
get the best seats in your classes, river, pool, mini-golf, gem mine,
plus clothes, girls and boys clothes,
finalize your financial aid, and fishing. Fisher, WV 304-538-6467.
Play
Station
2
games,
enjoy your summer. Attending SEPTIC TANKS PUMPED, X-Box 360 games, ROCKBAND
M & M Septic Service. Call 304- GUITAR/DRUM PLAYSET (xSHORT ORDER cook. Apply in Eastern West Virginia Community
257-3191.
box 360) and various household
person for application at Sunset and technical College can teach
Restaurant
items.
you the skills required to be a part
260 REUNIONS
RESCARE / CORNELL Street
Group Home has an opening for a
part-time LPN/RN in the
Keyser,WV area. Must have reliable transportation and hold an
unencumbered WV LPN or RN
license. Position requires organization, reliability, and knowledge
of the MR/DD is helpful. Medical/ Dental, Cancer/ Vision plans
available. EOE M/F/D/V. Apply
online at www.rescare.com or call
Eugenia or Jeremy at 304-7880101.
ONE STORY house in Moorefield, 3BR, 2 full baths. 304-2578371. $650 plus $300 Security
deposit.
200 WANTED
To Do
CINDY’S
NAME BRAND
YARD SALE. Fri., June 7, 8:00
am to 7:00 pm. Sat., June 8, 8:00
am to 2:00 pm. Couch and love
seat, table, metal shelves, clothes,
shoes, jewelry, coach purse, many
more items. 1952 Pine Ridge
Road. Don’t miss this one!
Drain Cleaning • Water Leaks
Moorefield Area
FREE
ESTIMATES
304-851-2967 • #PL03639
Gary & Brian Cosner
WV Lic.#20211
304-822-7377
Serving Hardy, Grant & Hampshire Counties for over 20 years!
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Business Directory!
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304-530-6397
to reserve space
today!
tisements; only one corrected classified insertion can be printed at no
charge, so immediate notification regarding incorrect classified advertisements is required. The Moorefield Examiner reserves the right to
correctly classify, revise or reject any advertising. Employment: It shall
be an unlawful employment practice, unless based on bonafide occupational qualifications or except where based upon applicable security
regulations established by the United States or the state of West Vir-
Where have you been?
Tom Vardaman
703-869-5650
2704 1st Rd N
[email protected]
Where have you been?
Arlington, VA 22201
Hardytravel.com
ginia for an employer or employment agency to print or circulate or
cause to be printed or to use in any form or application for employment
or to make an inquiry in connection with prospective employment,
which expresses the following: Directly or indirectly any limitation, specifications or discrimination as to race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical handicap, marital status, sex, age or any intent
to make such limitation, specification or discrimination. Rentals and
304-897-6060
800-235-4044
West Virginia Certificated
Solid Waste Hauler
Serving Hardy & Grant
counties since 1990
Real Estate: Notice: All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference,
limitation, or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, disability,
familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference,
limitation, or discrimination.” We will not knowingly accept any advertising
for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed
that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.
THE OLD MASTER
The devastating weather that
impacted Oklahoma also affected
the Big 12 baseball tournament.
Instead of a double-elimination format, the start was pushed back a
day, and it became a round-robin
with two pools.
WVU lost its first game to
Kansas, but rallied to beat TCU
and Oklahoma State to finish 2-1. If
TCU had beaten Kansas in the final
pool game, the Mountaineers
would have moved on to the finals.
Alas, the Jayhawks won, and
Kansas went to the tournament
final.
The Mountaineers (as expected)
did not get a bid to the NCAA tournament, but the season vastly
exceeded expectations. Harrison
Musgrave earned Big 12 Pitcher of
the Year honors, and was also
named 2nd Team All-American by
Louisville Slugger.
In an upset, Randy Mazey was
not named Big 12 Coach of the
Year. Instead, Brad Hill of Kansas
State got the honor. The Wildcats
were picked seventh and won the
regular season crown, so it was not
a horrible miscarriage of justice.
But I think the voters failed to
appreciate the entirety of just what
Coach Mazey did. First, he didn’t
have a true home field for the conference games – WVU traveled
hours to host a game. Second —
BY
JAY
FISHER
and this was grossly underestimated
– Mazey managed to make WVU
baseball relevant throughout the
state. That is his greatest accomplishment of the season, and the
voters really did not understand the
magnitude of that feat.
Much more important than any
trophy or honor, WVU baseball
came through for the people of
Oklahoma that were hit by the tornados. WVU had stayed in the
Sooner state after their Oklahoma
State series while awaiting the start
of the Big 12 tournament. The tornado that devastated Moore, OK,
was just miles from the team’s
hotel. The Mountaineers headed to
Walmart to buy supplies for the tornado victims. They distributed the
supplies before the Big 12 tournament, and after the tourney, they
spent a day helping with cleanup.
This generated a great deal of good
publicity and good will. But the best
part is that this was truly something
they did because it was the right
thing to do – they showed true
Mountaineer spirit.
Highland Trace Realty, Inc.
PO Box 307, 200 E. Main Street, Wardensville, WV 26851
John B. Bowman, Broker
Charlotte Bowman, Assoc. Broker
Steve Bosley, Sales Agent 304-897-5700
Office 304-874-3030 • Toll Free 1-877-293-3643
E-MAIL: [email protected]
WEBSITE: www.highlandtrace.com
2-pane & 6-pane Wooden Sash Windows
Some need repair • Some have wavy glass
$5.00 a sash or make offer
Can be seen on weekends in front of Big House
970 SR259 N, Wardensville, WV 26851
American Legion Baseball: Potomac Valley Post 64-78 honored the 1993 Petersburg American Legion Post 78 state championship
team with a reunion ceremony and exhibition game last Sunday at Petersburg High School.
The American Legion Baseball season is getting ready to commence. The Potomac Valley
Post 64-78 squad will be fielding senior and junior league teams this season. PV Post 64-78 will
start the season with a tournament in
Moundsville this weekend. There was a junior
league game scheduled for yesterday.
The Potomac Valley Post 64-78 kicked off its
2013 campaign with an exhibition game and
reunion picnic honoring the 1993 Petersburg
Post 78 state championship team last Sunday.
Alumni from the Petersburg squad took a
moment to introduce themselves and give advice
to the aspiring atheletes of the Potomac Valley
Post 64-78 team before competing in an exhibition contest.
One of the alumni was Circleville alum and
former MLB pitcher Travis Harper.
Harper’s advice to these baseball players:
“It’s a great opportunity for these guys. If you
want to compete and improve your craft, the
high school season’s not enough. The guys really
improve when they play longer. It was beneficial
for us and these guys will get a lot out of it too.
They probably don’t realize it, but they’ll have
fun and work hard. It doesn’t matter where you
Petersburg American Legion Post 78 alum Mitch Moran tagged second base for the are from, but if you can play, you can play.”
out as Potomac Valley Post 64-78 player Austin Williams slid in a moment too late.
GOLF NEWS
Valley View Ladies
Golf Association
May 28
PAR 3 Golf Format
1st Place 72 Ruth Junkins
2nd Place 75 Deb Bishop
3rd Place 76 Irene Lewis
4th Place 86 Linda Barnes
*Barnes had low putts with 32
Call David 304 490 9070
Now Taking Applications
Yellowbud Place: 1 BR garden apartments,
2 & 3 BR town homes. Rent includes water, trash
Call
about and sewer. 1BR: $440.00. 2BR: $465.00 & 3BR:
$565.00. Many amenities include: dishwasher,
our
stove, refrigerator & garbage disposal. Laundry
move-in
room on site and tot lot for children. Security
special! deposit equals 1 months rent.
Call 304-538-7082
Here’s the wind-up and the pitch: Moorefield Little League Softball
pitcher Bekah Cook threw for a strike during a game last Saturday.
The regular season is ending and all-star teams start this weekend.
Quaint 1910 country two-story home with
three bedrooms, one bath, appliances,
nice yard and glassed-in back porch.
Call Kris at 304-257-6192
304.530.3100 Phone • 888.583.5043 Toll Free
304.530.3101 Fax
224 N. Main Street, Moorefield, WV 26836
Adopt a shelter William S. Shultz, Broker
pett oday
JOB OPPORTUNITY
The Hardy County Prosecutor’s Office is seeking
employment applications for the following position:
FULL TIME / PART TIME ASSISTANT PROSECUTOR
Candidate needs to have passed the West Virginia State Bar
and have been sworn in and be an active member of the Bar
in good standing as well as be duly licensed and authorized
to practice as an attorney under the laws of West Virginia.
An application is available during normal working hours
at the Hardy County Courthouse, 204 Washington Street,
Room 104, Moorefield, WV, 26836, or by phone at (304)
530-0200. The application is also available online at
http://www.hardycounty.com/. Application with Resume
should be returned by June 14, 2013 to the attention of
Lucas J. See, Hardy County Prosecutor, 204 Washington
Street, Room 104, Moorefield, WV 26836.
The Hardy County Commission is an Equal Opportunity Provider and Employer.
NOW HIRING
ALL SHIFTS
at
Moorefield
McDonalds
Moorefield Little League players
from the Summit Community
Bank squad gathered together
to secure a ball hit into the
outfield by Grant County LL 3rd
Base team.
Apply online at
mcstate.com
Outside Sales
Associate
Wanted
The Moorefield Examiner, Hardy
County’s only source of local news
and activities, is looking for
someone to sell print and website
advertising.
The successful candidate will
be a well-spoken professional,
knowledgeable of the area and
able to think on their feet.
Earn a salary plus
commission. Your efforts
will decide how much
money you make.
The Moorefield Examiner
has been published for more
than 150 years and offers
excellent working
conditions, good pay and
benefits.
Send resumé to:
P.O. Box 380
Mountain Hospice seeks to fill
the following positions in the
Pendleton/Grant County, WV
area:
Full-timeR N
PRN Social Worker (BSW)
PRN Nurse Practitioner
PRN Hospice Aide/C.N.A.
Must be licensed in WV and able
to help with on-call duties.
We offer competitive wages,
travel reimbursement and a
compassionate, flexible work
environment, along with excellent
benefits for FT positions.
If you want to help make a
difference in the lives of others,
please submit resume to:
Mountain Hospice HR,
1600 Crim Ave.,
Belington, WV 26250,
[email protected],
fax 304-823-1400 or apply at
www.mountainhospice.com.
EOE/M/F/D/V
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
THE REGION VII WORKFORCE
INVESTMENT PLAN
Available for Public Review
The Region VII Workforce Investment
Board has prepared a draft Workforce
Investment Plan modification for the period
July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014. The Plan
states goals and outlines the Board’s planning and operational processes. Public participation is extremely important to the
process of preparing a sound workforce
investment plan. Citizens can review the
Plan modification May 16, 2013 through
June 16, 2013 at the Martinsburg WorkForce WV Career Center, 891 Auto Parks
Place; Suite 135, Martinsburg, WV and the
Moorefield Workforce WV Career Center,
1929-2 State Road 55, Moorefield, WV. The
Plan modification is also available for review
at Eastern West Virginia Community Action
Agency, Inc., 401 Maple Avenue, Moorefield, WV; Grant County Courthouse, Petersburg, WV; Hardy County Courthouse,
Moorefield, WV; Hampshire County Courthouse, Romney, WV; Mineral County Courthouse, Keyser, WV; Berkeley County Courthouse, Martinsburg, WV; Morgan County
Courthouse, Berkeley Springs, WV; Jefferson County Courthouse, Charles Town ,
WV; and Pendleton County Courthouse,
Franklin, WV. You can obtain a copy of the
Plan modification or additional information
by contacting WIB Staff at (304) 530-5258 or
[email protected], The Plan is
available for review at
www.wvregion7wib.org.
The Workforce Investment Board will
receive written comments on the Plan until
June 16, 2013. Please forward comments to
the Region VII Workforce Investment Board,
1929-2 State Road 55, Moorefield, WV
26836. The Board will also receive e-mail
comments at
[email protected]
An Equal Opportunity Program/Employer
Auxiliary aids and services are available
upon request to individuals with disabilities.
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TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
The undersigned Substitute Trustee, by
virtue of the authority vested in him by that
certain Deed of Trust, dated the 27th day of
February, 2008, and duly recorded in the
Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Hardy County, West Virginia, in Deed
Book 237, at page 689, Jose Lozano and
Ilda Lozano did convey unto Jim P. Williams,
Trustee(s), certain real property described in
said Deed of Trust: and the beneficiary has
elected to appoint Seneca Trustees, Inc., as
Substitute Trustee by a Substitution of
Trustee dated April 18, 2013 and recorded
in the aforesaid Clerk’s office; and default
having been made under the aforementioned Deed of Trust, and the undersigned
Substitute Trustee having been instructed
by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. to foreclose
thereunder, will offer for sale at public auction at the front door of the Hardy County
Courthouse in Moorefield, West Virginia, on
June 13, 2013 at 12:45 o’clock p,m.
the following described real estate,
together with its improvements, easements
and appurtenances thereunto belonging,
situate in Moorefield Corp. District, Hardy
County, West Virginia, and more particularly
described as follows:
ALL THAT CERTAIN PROPERTY SITUATED IN THE CITY OF MOOREFIELD IN
THE COUNTY OF HARDY AND STATE OF
WEST VIRGINIA AND BEING DESCRIBED
IN A DEED DATED 07/13/2005 AND
RECORDED 08/22/2005 IN BOOK 287,
PAGE 835 AMONG THE LAND RECORDS
OF THE COUNTY AND STATE SET FORTH
ABOVE AND REFERENCED AS FOLLOWS:
LOT 12, HIGHLAND VIEW SUBDIVISION,
DEED BOOK 255, PAGE 498. PARCEL ID
NUMBER: 1/133.12
At the time of the execution of the Deed
of Trust, this property was reported to have
an address of; 63 Highland View St, Moorefield, WV 26836.
The referenced real estate will be conveyed with no covenants of warranty, and
subject to all covenants, restrictions, easements, rights of way and reservations which
may be a matter of record in the aforesaid
Clerk’s Office or visible upon the ground, all
prior liens and encumbrances, including,
without limitation, liens for real estate taxes,
incinerator, sanitary and sewer charges. The
purchasers at the sale shall be responsible
for paying the recording costs and also the
tax on the privilege of transferring real property (the cost of the tax stamp to be affixed
to the deed). The purchasers shall be
responsible for payment of all real estate
taxesThe subject property will be sold in “AS
IS” condition. The Substitute Trustee shall
be under no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the subject property to vacate said property.
TERMS: $10,000.00 in cash and/or certified funds as deposit with the balance due
and payable within 30 days of the day of
saleFEDERAL TAX LIEN: m the event that
there are Federal Tax Liens against the property, the United States would have the right
to redeem the property within a period of
120 days from the date of such sale or the
period allowable for redemption under local
law, whichever is longer.
Pursuant to the Deed of Trust, the
Trustee may postpone the sale by public
announcement at the time and place designated or by posting a notice of the same,
and act by agent in the execution of the
sale. The parties secured by the Deed of
Trust reserve the right to purchase the property of such sale.
SENECA TRUSTEES, INC.
6108 Mid Atlantic Drive
Morgantown, WV 26508
(304) 413-0044
(304) 292-2918
Toll free: (888) 534-3132
Reference File No. 20-032142-12
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August, 2007, and duly recorded in the
Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Hardy County, West Virginia, in Deed
Book 232, at page 326, Harold Dean Hiser
and Penny L. Hiser did convey unto Jeffrey
R. Roth, Trustee(s), certain real property
described in said Deed of Trust; and the
beneficiary has elected to appoint Seneca
Trustees, Inc., as Substitute Trustee by a
Substitution of Trustee dated May 3, 2013
and recorded in the aforesaid Clerk’s office;
and default having been made under the
aforementioned Deed of Trust, and the
undersigned Substitute Trustee having
been instructed by Bank of America, N.A, to
foreclose thereunder, will offer for sale at
public auction at the front door of the Hardy
County Courthouse in Moorefield, West Virginia, on
June 13,2013 at 12:45 o’clock pm
the following described real estate,
together with its improvements, easements
and appurtenances thereunto belonging,
situate in Moorefield Corp District, Hardy
County, West Virginia, and more particularly
described as follows:
All that certain tract or parcel of real
estate situate along Grand Avenue, west of
County Route 7, adjacent to Misty Terrace
Trailer Park, located South of the City of
Moorefield, known as Lot 4 containing 0.317
of an acre, more or less, identified on a plat
of survey recorded in the Hardy County
Clerk’s Office in Deed Book 275, Page 160.
Reference is hereby made to said plat of
survey, and to Lot 3 set forth thereupon, for
a specific description of the tract or parcel of
real estate conveyed in trust hereby.
And being the same property conveyed
unto H. Dean Hiser and Penny L. Hiser, husband and wife, by deed from Hardy County
Habitat for Humanity, Inc. dated May 31,
2005, and of record in the Hardy County
Clerk’s office in Deed Book 286, Page 68S.
Reference is hereby made to any and all
documents in chain of title for all pertinent
purposes.
At the time of the execution of the Deed
of Trust, this property was reported to have
an address of: 110 Second Street, Moorefield, WV 26836.
The referenced real estate will be conveyed with no covenants of warranty, and
subject to all covenants, restrictions, easements, rights of way and reservations which
may be a matter of record in the aforesaid
Clerk’s Office or visible upon the ground, all
prior liens and encumbrances, including,
without limitation, liens for real estate taxes,
incinerator, sanitary and sewer charges. The
purchasers at the sale shall be responsible
for paying the recording costs and also the
tax on the privilege of transferring real property (the cost of the tax stamp to be affixed
to the deed). The purchasers shall be
responsible for payment of all real estate
taxes.
The subject property will be sold in “AS
IS” condition. The Substitute Trustee shall
be under no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the subject property to vacate said property.
TERMS: $8,000.00 in cash and/or certified funds as deposit with the balance due
and payable within 30 days of the day of
sale.
FEDERAL TAX LIEN: In the event that
there are Federal Tax Liens against the property, the United States would have the right
to redeem the property within a period of
120 days from the date of such sale or the
period allowable for redemption under local
law, whichever is longer.
Pursuant to the Deed of Trust, the
Trustee may postpone the sale by public
announcement at the time and place designated or by posting a notice of the same,
and act by agent in the execution of the
sale. The parties secured by the Deed of
Trust reserve the right to purchase the property at such sale.
SENECA TRUSTEES, INC.
6108 Mid Atlantic Drive
Morgantown, WV 26508
(304)413-0044
(304)292-2918
Toll free: (888) 534-3132
Reference File No. 20-007240-13
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The Hardy County Board of Zoning
Appeals will hold a public hearing on Monday, June 24, 2013 at the hour of 7:00 PM in
the Planning Office of the Hardy County
Court House, 204 Washington Street,
Moorefield, WV 26836. The purpose shall
be to review a variance request submitted
by Mr. Gary Dill. The purpose of the Variance request is to commence a part-time
firearms repair and assembly business in an
“R” residential zone. The location proposed
business is located on 672 Highview Road,
Trout Pond Subdivision, Hardy County,
West Virginia and being more particularly
described as Parcel 34, Tax Map 370, Lost
River District. Additional information may be
obtained at the Hardy County Planning
Office located in the basement level of the
Hardy County Courthouse, 204 Washington
Street, Moorefield WV—304-530-0257.
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TRUSTEE’S SALE OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE
The undersigned Substitute Trustee, by
virtue of the authority vested in him by that
certain Deed of Trust, dated the 3rd day of
PUBLIC NOTICE
The Moorefield Zoning Appeals Board
will hold a public hearing on Monday, June
17, 2013, at 6:00 P.M. in the Council Room
of Inskeep Hall to hear the following request
for a variance to the Moorefield Zoning Ordinance:
Charles & Catherine Carr - request for a
variance in fence height to six feet for their
property located at 319 South Main Street.
The property is currently zoned R-2.
Anyone desiring to make comments
pertaining to this request to the Zoning Ordinance is invited to attend the hearing or may
submit a written comment at or prior to the
hearing on Monday, June 17, 2013 at 6:00
P.M. All written comments should be mailed
to 206 Winchester Avenue, Moorefield, WV
26836.
By Order Of:
Brian Wolfe
Building Inspector/Zoning Officer
Town of Moorefield
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First United Corporation Announces 1st Quarter 2013 Earnings
First United Corporation a
financial holding company and the
parent company of First United
Bank & Trust, announces consolidated net income available to common shareholders of $1.5 million
for the first three months of 2013,
compared to a net loss attributable
to common shareholders of $3.1
million for the same period of
2012. Basic and diluted net income
per common share for the first
three months of 2013 was $.24,
compared to a net loss per common
share of $.50 for the same period of
2012. The change in earnings, from
a net loss for the first three months
of 2012 to net income for the first
three months in 2013, was primarily
due to a $7.3 million decrease in the
provision for loan losses during the
first three months of 2013 when
compared to the same time period
of 2012. This decrease was offset
by a decrease in net gains of $.4 million due to reduced gains on sales
of investment securities, and a
decrease of $.7 million in other
income due to a reduction in bankowned life insurance (“BOLI”)
income driven by a one-time death
benefit of $.7 million which was
received in March 2012. Total
other operating expenses increased
$.5 million during the first three
months of 2013 when compared to
the same period of 2012. Other
expenses related to other real estate
owned (“OREO”) increased $.6
million in the first quarter of 2013
when compared to the first quarter
of 2012. The net interest margin
for the first three months of 2013,
on a fully tax equivalent (“FTE”)
basis, decreased to 3.26 percent
from 3.30 percent for the first three
months of 2012. The net interest
margin for the year ended December 31, 2012, on a FTE basis, was
3.30 percent.
Financial Highlights Comparing
the First Quarters of 2013 and 2012:
• $7.3 million decrease in the
provision for loan loss expense, primarily due to reduction in chargeoffs from the first quarter of 2012.
• Stable net interest margin, on
a FTE basis when comparing the
first quarter of 2013 of 3.26 percent
to the first quarter of 2012 of 3.30
percent.
• Allowance for loan losses to
loans outstanding of 1.86 percent as
of March 31, 2013 compared to 1.83
percent as of December 31, 2012.
• Other operating income and
expense remained stable when
comparing the first quarter of 2013
to 2012.
According to William B. Grant,
Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer, “Our improved financial
performance during the first quarter resulted from stabilization of
our asset quality and our ability to
sustain our net interest margin as
we solidified our balance sheet and
increased core earnings.”
million since December 31, 2012.
During this time period, cash and
interest-bearing deposits in other
banks increased $1.8 million, the
investment portfolio increased
$16.2 million, and gross loans
decreased $15.2 million. Total liabilities decreased by approximately
$1.0 million during the first three
months of 2013, reflecting a
decrease in total deposits of $1.1
million offset by a slight increase in
accrued interest payable and other
liabilities. Shareholders’ equity
increased $3.0 million from December 31, 2012 to March 31, 2013 as a
result of the net income recognized
during the first three months of
2013.
Comparing March 31, 2013 to
December 31, 2012, outstanding
loans decreased by $15.2 million
(1.7 percent). Commercial real
estate (“CRE”) loans decreased
$8.2 million as a result of the payoff
of several large loans and ongoing
scheduled principal payments.
Acquisition and development
(“A&D”) loans decreased $4.3 million due to the movement of $2.1
million from construction to permanent financing and $2.2 million of
payoffs. Commercial and industrial (“C&I”) loans decreased $.6
million due to scheduled principal
payments. Residential mortgages
increased by $2.1 million. The
increase in the residential mortgage
portfolio was attributable to the
Balance Sheet Overview
Total assets were $1.3 billion at purchase of a pool of loans of
March 31, 2013, an increase of $2.0 approximately $8.4 million in Janu-
COMMUNITY CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Thursday, June 13
Community Together, 6:00 p.m.
Upper Cove United Methodist
Church, Mathias. Everone welcome.
Every Sunday
AA Meeting, 6:00 p.m., (CS),
Gimmee 12 Steps Group, Baker
Methodist Church, Old Rt. 55
Every Monday
AA Meeting, 8:00 p.m., Moorefield Presbyterian Church
*********
Al-Anon meeting at the Capon
Bridge United Methodist Church
(corner of Route 50 and Cold
Stream Road) meets every Monday
at 7:00 p.m. For additional information, contact Clyde DeWitt at
304-874-4291.
Every Second Monday
Friends of the Library meeting,
4 p.m., except in Aug. and Dec. All
meetings are open to the public and
anyone interested is welcomed to
attend.
Every Third Monday
SCV Camp 582 (Sons of Confederate Veterans) meeting, 7:30,
Hardy County Public Library.
Members urged to attend and visitors are welcome.
Every Tuesday
Narcotics Anonymous meeting,
(open meetings to everyone), 6:30 7:30 p.m., Moorefield Presbyterian
Church, S. Main St., Moorefield,
WV. For information, call Gary at
304-530-4957.
**********
AA Meeting, 8:00 p.m., St.
Mary’s Catholic Church, Grant St.,
Petersburg.
Every Wednesday
Open Community Lunch,
Emmanuel Episcopal Church, corner of Winchester Ave. and South
Fork, Rd., 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Be
our guest for good food, good fellowship, to visit with your neighbors
or to meet and greet new friends.
Every Wednesday Night
AA meeting, 7:30 p.m., Lost
River United Methodist Church
For more information, call 304-8976187.
Second Wednesdays
Hardy County Rod & Gun Club
meeting, 7:00 p.m. All members
urged to attend. Guests are welcome.
********
Potomac Highlands Shrine Club
meets the second Wednesday of
each month at Family Traditions
Restaurant, Va. Ave., Petersburg,
WV. Meeting and meal to start at
5:30 p.m. For more information call
304-257-4801.
********
Potomac Highlands Ladies
Shrine Club meets the second
ary 2013 offset by refinancings and
regularly scheduled principal payments on existing loans. We continue to use Fannie Mae for the
majority of new, longer-term, fixedrate residential loan originations.
The consumer portfolio decreased
$4.1 million due primarily to repayment activity in the indirect auto
portfolio slightly offsetting new production. At March 31, 2013 and
December 31, 2012, approximately
60 percent of the commercial loan
portfolio was collateralized by real
estate.
Total deposits decreased $1.1
million during the first three
months of 2013 when compared to
deposits at December 31, 2012.
Non-interest bearing deposits
increased $22.8 million. Traditional savings accounts increased
$3.8 million due to continued
growth in our Prime Saver
product. Total demand deposits
increased $2.9 million and total
money market accounts decreased
$11.2 million. Time deposits less
than $100,000 declined $2.1 million
and time deposits greater than
$100,000 decreased $17.3 million
due to the repayment of a $20.0 million brokered certificate of deposit
at its maturity in January 2013.
Our internal treasury team continues to promote the strategy of
increasing our net interest margin
by changing the mix of our deposit
base and focusing on customers
with full banking relationships.
Comparing March 31, 2013 to
December 31, 2012, shareholders’
equity increased from $98.9 million
to $101.9 million. The $3.0 million
increase in shareholders’ equity was
attributable to the net income recognized in the first quarter of
2013. The book value of the Corporation’s common stock was
$11.50 per share at March 31, 2013,
compared to $11.14 per share at
December 31, 2012.
At March 31, 2013, there were
approximately 6,199,283 outstanding shares of the Corporation’s
common stock, an outstanding
immediately exercisable warrant to
purchase 326,323 shares of the Corporation’s common stock, and
30,000 outstanding shares of the
Corporation’s Fixed Rate Cumulative Perpetual Preferred Stock,
Series A.
First United Corporation is the
parent company of First United
Bank & Trust, a Maryland trust
company (the “Bank”), and three
statutory trusts that were used as
financing vehicles. The Bank has
three wholly-owned subsidiaries:
OakFirst Loan Center, Inc., a West
Virginia finance company; OakFirst
Loan Center, LLC, a Maryland
finance company (collectively, the
“OakFirst Loan Centers”), and
First OREO Trust, a Maryland
statutory trust formed for the purposes of servicing and disposing of
the real estate that the Bank
acquires through foreclosure or by
deed in lieu of foreclosure. The
corporation’s
website
is
www.mybank4.com.
Tree Farmers Host Woodland Tour and Workshop
Come out to an Educational
Woodland Tour and Workshop and
meet other woodland owners and
discover ways to improve your own
woodland on Saturday, June 15,
from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in Berkeley
County, at the Keller Tree Farm.
Pat and Jim Keller and a host of
natural resource professionals will
lead the tour and tell the group
about some key strategies in controlling invasive plants such as treeWednesday of each month, Grant of-heaven, multiflora rose, etc.
County Senior Center, Petersburg, They will discuss releasing quality
6:00 p.m. For more information call crop trees, wild grapevine control,
planting oak, persimmons, and
304-749-7288 or 304-434-7075.
Every Thursday
AA Meeting, 6:30 p.m., Moorefield Presbyterian Church
*********
Narcotics Anonymous meeting,
(open meetings to everyone) 8:00 9:00 p.m., St. Mary’s Catholic
Preliminary harvest figures for
Church, Grant St., Petersburg, WV. the 2013 spring gobbler season indiFor information call Gary at 304- cate West Virginia hunters checked
530-4957.
in 10,974 bearded turkeys, accord*********
ing to Curtis I. Taylor, chief of the
Friendly Franklin Family Group Division of Natural Resources
for parents, spouses and family Wildlife Resources Section. This
members whose lives are impacted year’s harvest represents a 32 perby a loved ones misuse of sub- cent increase over the 2012 harvest
stances (alcohol or drugs) meets at and is 13 percent above the previ7:00 p.m. at Faith Lutheran Church, ous five-year average.
102 Maple Ave., Franklin, WV. For
Hardy County hunters killed 121
more information contact Shelby turkeys this year, compared to 101
304-249-5538.
last year.
Every Friday
“Our biologists expected a
AA Meeting, 7:30 p.m., Need- higher harvest because of the carrymore Meetings Group, Baker over of birds from last year’s lower
Methodist Church, Old Rt. 55.
harvest,” said Taylor. “In addition,
Every Saturday
the weather was perfect for hunting,
AA Meeting, 10:00 a.m., Lost especially during opening week
River Grill, Rt. 259.
when the majority of hunters were
********
in the woods.”
AA Meeting, 8:00 p.m., Grove
The 2013 harvest was higher in
St. United Methodist Church, all districts and 52 counties comPetersburg.
pared to 2012. While the harvest in
other tree species, planting berry
species and wild edibles, beekeeping and the importance of pollinators, and streamside land protection along a certified trout stream.
They will also visit and discuss
wildlife management including
food and habitat areas and a
portable sawmill operation. This
will be a moderately difficult walk
on mostly flat terrain. Appropriate
hiking footwear is recommended.
Registration is free. Lunch is provided. Everyone is welcome.
To RSVP and to get directions
to this free event, please contact
Dan Magill at the WVU
Appalachian Hardwood Center by
phone at 304-293-9419 or by e-mailing: [email protected]
This event is made available
through the collaboration of the
Eastern Panhandle Conservation
District and WV Conservation District, WV Woodland Owners Association, WVU Appalachian Hardwood Center and Extension
Service, WV Forestry Association
and WV Tree Farm Program, and
the WV Division of Forestry.
WV Hunters Harvest 10,974 Spring Turkeys
District 2 virtually equaled the fiveyear average, the other districts saw
significant increases above that
average. Harvest in District 3
increased almost 21 percent over its
five-year average and both Districts
1 and 4 saw increases of 15 percent
as well. The top 10 counties were
Preston with a kill of 403, Mason
(360), Harrison (355), Kanawha
(327), Ritchie (325), Jackson (312),
Greenbrier (309), Wood (308),
McDowell (305) and Marshall
(301).
The 2013 harvest was the highest since 2006 and stopped a declining spring harvest trend that began
in 2007. Similar to most hunted
species, reproduction is correlated
to harvests. Average fall mast
crops which keep hens in good
physical condition through the winter, followed by average springs
with moderate rainfall, ensure good
poult survival, which increases the
population for future harvests.
“Because a significant portion of
the harvest is composed of twoyear-old birds, one factor that
added to this year’s harvest was the
successful poult production in
2011,” Taylor said. “We are hopeful that this spring will continue to
provide moderate-to-average rainfall and we will have above-average
reproduction, rebuilding the turkey
population to levels we experienced
a decade ago.”
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American Legion Post 64 Chose Nine to Attend Boys State
This year the John M. Golliday
American Post 64 chose nine local
young men from Moorefield High
School and East Hardy High
School to attend the American
Legion Mountaineer Boys State at
the Jackson Mill 4-H Camp near
Weston, from June 9 - 15.
These young men were chosen
to attend by Edmund L. Reel,
Chairman of the Boys State Committee. They are as follows:
Jared J. Beard, son of Jared and
Angela Beard
Mason S. Hedrick, son of
Colleen Hedrick
Joseph M. McNeill, son of
Edward and Joyce McNeill
Jacob Lee Myers, son of Gerald
and Mary Myers
Jeffrey T. Runions, son of Carl
and Tess Runions
Samuel J. Warner, son of Marlene Ciccola
Benjamin J. Martin, son of Jim
and Tina Martin
Kevin A. Malone, son of Vivian
Malone
Stephen B. Hott, son of Teryl
Frye
The American Legion Mountaineer Boys is a respected education program in which each student
takes part in the city, county and/or
state government operations. The
program has been part of the
American Legion Department of
West Virginia since 1936.
The students are exposed to the
rights, privileges, duties and responsibilities of franchised citizens.
Activities include legislative sessions, court proceedings, law
enforcement presentations, assemblies, bands, chorus and recreational programs. A staff of 50 volunteers oversee the week’s
activities. The staff consists of
lawyers, judges, members of the
media, teachers and members of
law enforcement. Many of them are
former Boys State citizens.
All applicants are members of
the junior class with a scholastic
average of 3.0 or higher. Each
applicant has not attended Boys
The following events happened
on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV:
The West Virginia Encyclopedia at
www.wvencyclopedia.org.
June 6, 1919: Historian Otis Rice
was born in Hugheston, Kanawha
County. Rice was named West Virginia’s first Historian Laureate in
2003.
June 6, 1989: During the Pittston
strike, about 60 miners embarked
on a four-day march from Logan
County to Charleston, retracing the
path of the 1921 Armed March on
Logan.
June 7, 1899: Congresswoman
Elizabeth Kee was born in Radford,
Virginia. She became West Virginia’s first female member of Congress in 1951.
June 7, 1926: An explosion at a
sand mining operation in Morgan
County killed six men. Their deaths
were the inspiration for the ballad
‘‘The Miner’s Doom.’’
June 9, 1927: Karl Dewey Myers
was named the state’s second poet
laureate by Governor Howard
Mason Gore. Myers held the post
for 10 years.
June 9, 1957: T.D. Jakes was born
in South Charleston. He is the senior pastor at the Potter’s House, a
nondenominational church in Dallas, Texas.
June 10, 1775: The Berkeley
County Riflemen were organized
by Capt. Hugh Stephenson of Shepherdstown, in response to a call for
Revolutionary War soldiers by Gen.
George Washington.
June 10, 1921: Labor leader
Daniel Vincent Maroney was born
on Cabin Creek, Kanawha County.
Maroney served as the international president of the Amalgamated Transit Union from 1973 to
1981.
June 11, 1782: Frontiersman
William Crawford was tortured and
burned at the stake. Crawford had
been captured by the Delaware,
who mistakenly blamed him for the
treacherous murder of about 100
Moravian Christian Indians.
e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia is a project of the West Virginia Humanities Council. For
more information, contact the West
Virginia Humanities Council, 1310
Kanawha Blvd. E., Charleston, WV
25301; (304) 346-8500; or visit
www.wvencyclopedia.org.
State previously and is a citizen of
West Virginia. Boys State is open to
those meeting the requirements
regardless of race, color or national
origin. Young men recommended
are outstanding in the areas of academics, school activities and character.
The cost for the young men to
attend was sponsored by the American Legion Post 64, Summit Community Bank, Bean Settlement
Ruritan Club, VFW Post 2102,
Baker Ruritan Club, Mathias Ruritan Club, and VFW Post 7780.
Photos were not available for
Kevin Malone and Benjamin Martin
Jared Beard
Mason Hedrick
Joseph McNeill
Jacob Myers
Jeffery Runions
Samuel Warner
Stephen Hott
RESA 8 Trains Local Teachers on Managing Behaviors
Crisis prevention in the classroom is one of the best deterrents
to a student’s behavior escalating
and becoming out of control. West
Virginia schools are utilizing the
program from the Crisis Prevention
Institute to help teachers learn how
to manage behaviors in the classroom, look for warning signs, prevent power struggles, and, in
extreme situations, safely control an
out of control student.
The Crisis Prevention program
focuses on the different stages of a
student’s behavior and educates
educators, administrators, and
paraprofessionals on how to safely
manage the behaviors without making the situation worse. One of the
key ideas is that of Precipitating
Factors which is the idea that there
are things in a student’s life that are
outside of our control that will
impact their behavior in the classroom and that we can’t expect them
to “leave it at the door.”
“Being CPI trained will be a
valuable skill to have if there was
ever a situation in which a student
needed to be nonviolently
restrained,” Angela See, East
Hardy High School teacher commented. “When enacted correctly,
it promotes the well being of all
involved in the situation.”
Other staff attending from
Hardy County were: Scott Con-
ners, Tim Crites, Kelly Rumer and
Stephanie Simmons.
CPI Trainer John Milliman asks
this of his student’s, “Have you ever
gotten a speeding ticket on the way
to work? How did that make you
feel that day? Did it impact your
attitude? Now, picture you’re a student who didn’t eat last night or for
a couple of days because of snow, is
your lesson really the thing that’s on
their mind? Or maybe you were
bullied at the bus stop, or you have
an ill parent; how will this impact
your attitude in the classroom.”
In addition to the idea of the
Precipitating Factors CPI, also
focuses on the concept of Rational
Detachment or the idea that we
can’t take things personally. Sometimes educators become the target
of acting out behaviors because the
school or classroom is a safe environment and the student has no
other way to express themselves.
CPI helps teachers learn how to
work with these students both during, and more importantly, after an
incident occurs.
Another important part of CPI
is for staff members to learn how to
keep themselves safe in the face of
an aggressive student and how to
safely control his or her behavior.
Although some people identify CPI
as “restraint training”, the control
positions are only utilized as a last
resort and when the student is an
imminent danger to themselves or
others as approved through West
Virginia Policy 4373.
As the name states, CPI is about
Crisis Prevention and management.
For more information please contact John Milliman, RESA 8
Special Education Coordinator,
at
304.267.3595
or
at
[email protected].
Potomac Edison Spending $55 Million On Upgrades
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$55 million this year to upgrade its
West Virginia.
The company said Tuesday that poles.
the projects include new distribuPotomac Edison is a subsidiary
tion circuits and replacement of of FirstEnergy Corp. of Akron,
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