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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
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Riggleman Turns
Self over to Police
On Friday, Feb.
7, at approximately
3 p.m. Tyler Riggleman turned
himself in
at the Hardy County
Tyler Riggleman Magistrate
Court. Riggleman was accompanied by his
attorney, Dan James, and turned
himself over to Moorefield Police
Chief Steven Reckart. A concerted effort by the
Moorefield Police Department,
State Police and the U. S. Mar-
shall’s Office had been made during the past week to locate Riggleman who had fled from the police
during an attempted arrest on Feb.
2. In conjunction with attempts to
locate Riggleman State Police arrested Jason Russell, 37, of Moorefield for a felon in possession of a
firearm, and Heather Adams, was
arrested for giving false information of a member of the State Police, and obstructing an officer. Riggleman, Russell, and Adams
were arraigned by Hardy County
Magistrate Craig Hose, Riggleman’s bond was set at $112,700,
Russell’s bond was set at $2,500,
and Adam’s bond was set at $2,000.
Resident Complaints
Result in Drug Arrests
And Indictments
By Jean A. Flanagan
Moorefield Examiner
In July 2013, numerous complaints by members of the community led Moorefield Police to initiate surveillance on a property in
the unit block of Poplar Street. As
a result, five people were arrested
on drug charges.
In January, Moorefield Police
and the Hardy County Sheriff’s
Department executed a search
warrant based on information received from the public and investigation begun in July 2013. Three
people were arrested on drug
charges.
“The Moorefield Police Department would like to express their
appreciation to the community
for its support,” MDP Chief Steve
Reckart said. “We will continue to
aggressively pursue this problem.”
These eight people were among
13 indicted by the Hardy County Grand Jury on Feb. 2 and arraigned on Feb. 11: *Andrew T. Tanner, 39, of
Moorefield was charged with one
count of attempting to operate a
clandestine drug laboratory, one
count of possession of pseudo-
ephedrine with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine and
one count of conspiracy. *Christopher M. Sherman, 28
of Old Fields was charged with
one count of attempting to operate a clandestine drug laboratory,
one count of possession of pseudoephedrine with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine and
one count of conspiracy.
*Stephanie D. Crites, 23, of Old
Fields, was charged with one count
of attempting to operate a clandestine drug laboratory, one count
of possession of pseudoephedrine
with the intent to manufacture
methamphetamine and one count
of conspiracy.
According to court documents,
MPD and Hardy County Sheriff’s
Deputies executed a search warrant on a home in the 500-block
of Winchester Avenue. Tanner
and Sherman were allegedly present when the search warrant was
executed. Crites arrived while the
search was taking place. Tanner, would not give a written
statement to police, but allegedly
admitted to making methamphetamine for six months.
Continued on page 8
Photo by Carl Holcomb
Winter’s Wrath Continues
It started snowing Wednesday evening
around 7 p.m. and didn’t stop until sometime
after 9 p.m. on Thursday and not until the
county received nearly two feet of snow. The
mid-February nor’easter closed Hardy County government and most businesses Thursday
and Friday. The storm added another Snow
Day to a school calendar already in a deficit. Many people in the county had a five-day
weekend because Monday was President’s
Day, a federal holiday.
The West Virginia Division of Highways
Hardy County facility had primary roads
cleared and secondary roads passable by Fri-
day morning. To add insult to injury, another three to
four inches of the white stuff fell Saturday
morning. After a few days of chilly weather, forecasters predict a warm-up with temperatures expected to reach 60 by the end of the week.
Photo by Jean Flanagan
Sparse Attendance at Ambulance Authority Annual Meeting
By Jean A. Flanagan
Moorefield Examiner
Only three people, including
this reporter, attended the Hardy County Emergency Ambulance Authority Annual Meeting
held Wednesday, Feb. 12. The annual meeting, as required by the
organization’s bylaws, was held in
conjunction with the authority’s
regular monthly meeting. “I hope
this means people think we’re
on the right track,” said HCEAA
President Greg Greenwalt.
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The upcoming vote on a tax levy
to support the ambulance authority was discussed. A question will
appear on the May 13 Primary Ballot asking the voting public to approve an additional levy on their
property tax bills to support ambulance service in Hardy County. It was suggested the HCEAA
provide information to the public
about the status of ambulance service in the county. “Unlike the school bond levy,
which required a simple majority
to pass, this levy will require 60
percent of the vote to pass,” Greenwalt said. “The (HCEAA) board
can provide factual information
about the ambulance service. We
cannot take a stand, yea or nay on
the issue.”
Greenwalt said members of the
board will be happy to attend civic
organizations to provide information and answer questions.
Emergency Medical Technician
George Crump asked if the levy
doesn’t pass, will the fee remain
in place. Crump has volunteered
his services to Hardy County for
several years and currently volunteers with the Wardensville Rescue
Squad. In September, the Hardy County Commission voted to impose a
$10 per month ambulance fee on
all residents of Hardy County. “We don’t know what the threejudge panel will decide,” Greenwalt said. “The county commission
does not have enough money in
the general fund to support ambulance service. It is my understanding if the levy doesn’t pass, the fee
will be reinstated in July.”
A civil case is pending requesting that a three-judge panel remove two of the three commissioners and nullify the Emergency
Ambulance Fee Ordinance, as well
as nullify the purchase of the rescue squad building in Baker. That
hearing is scheduled for March 17,
18 and 19 in Hardy County.
“I appreciate everything you’re
doing,” said Crump. “It is an uphill
battle, but I think we’re getting our
head above water.”
Jay R. Fraley, general manager
of Fraley Ambulance Service, said
he was grateful for the HCEAA.
“We had one of our fleet break
down and we were able to borrow
one,” he said.
Fraley asked that people who
want to pay their ambulance fee to
take it to the courthouse and not to
Fraley’s facility. Although he did not have a total of the funds available from the
ambulance fee, Greenwalt said approximately one-third of all invoices mailed had been paid. “There are still some stipulaContinued on page 8
Number of County Special Education Students Declined
By Jean A. Flanagan
Moorefield Examiner
Students classified as Learning Disabled
lack capability in one area of learning and
should be performing on average in other
areas, according to Timothy Woodward, director of Student Support Services for Hardy County Public Schools. “However, what
I’m finding is the expectations are lower, different for the LD students,” he said.
Woodward presented information to the
Hardy County Board of Education on Monday, Feb. 10. He is currently gathering information on all LD students and is closely
monitoring a few. “The majority of the students being monitored are showing growth,”
he said.
Woodward presented changes he has initiated regarding the screening of students
for Special Education services. The changes
have resulted in a decline in the number of
students classified as Special Ed, thanks in
part to School Psychologist Ashley Riggleman.
“She is probably the best I’ve ever seen,”
he said. “She really enjoys working with atrisk children.
“We have made some changes in forms.
The testing procedures are taking longer
because we are getting more information. It
has reduced the rate of children that qualify
as special ed. We are truly isolating the children who need services.”
As a result, the rate of eligibility of special
education students has declined.
“With a population of 2,200 students, 340
Special Ed is way too high,” he said. “Some
are simply delayed, not disabled.”
Woodward said he would like to initiate a
more comprehensive assessment of children
who are referred for Special Education services.
“I would like to see a revamp of the Functional Behavior Assessment,” Woodward
said. “I would like a FBA team at every
school, trained to collect data and make recommendations to the SAT (Student Assistance Team). They would collect two weeks’
worth of data from observation and put an
“After the students take the Wettest, they
don’t do anything,” Vice President Loy Kesner said. The Wettest is the West Virginia
comprehensive standardized test administered to grades 3 through 11 in mid-May.
“Some teachers are sending work home,”
said BOE member Nancy Hahn.
“The problem with that is they don’t
have
their books,” Whitecotton said. “Wade
Proposed Calendar Changes
(MES
Principal Armentrout) opened school
The board decided not to make any calendar changes because of a forecasted winter so people who could get there could get
storm that was expected to impact schools books. He had 100 people in the library and
later in the week. Students are not sched- computer lab.”
The consensus of the board was to not
uled to attend school on Friday because of
an instructional day for teachers and Mon- make any changes in the school calendar.
day is a federal holiday.
“We could convert a half-day on Friday, Other Business
•The board approved a contract with the
but there’s a chance we will have to call off
school on Friday,” Superintendent Barbara Hardy County Rural Development Authority to purchase property adjacent to MooreWhitecotton said.
“We have missed a total of 13 days and field High School. The cost is $140,000 and
if you count Thursday, that’s 14. We had six will be repaid within three years.
•The board approved the State Fire MarOS days (out of school), so we’re eight days
in the hole. We could add minutes to the day shal’s inspection report for all facilities in
Continued on page 5
to make them up.”
interventionist in place.”
Woodward said weather delayed a professional development day in which teachers would have been given some pointers on
teaching multiple small groups. “We have
teachers who are successful and can show
other teachers how it’s done,” he said.
2 - MOOREFIELD (WV) EXAMINER, Wednesday, February 19, 2014
And There’s
More Bad
West Virginia continues to have public officials doing wrong.
The good side is that they are being both caught and prosecuted.
A former Smithers Volunteer Fire Chief will spend up to 10
years in prison for embezzling from the department. Prosecutors
say he took thousands of dollars from the fire department’s account and used the money for personal expenses.
In Mingo County a magistrate was charged with illegally registering a felon to vote in last year’s election. The former chief
magistrate later pleaded guilty to voter registration fraud in federal court. He faces 5 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Released on bond since his plea, the former magistrate violated the
conditions of his release and was arrested again, this time, because of involvement in illegal drug activity.
Also in Mingo County - a former circuit judge pleaded guilty
for his role in a scheme to violate the constitutional rights of an
individual to cover up evidence of illegal drug use by the murdered county sheriff. He faces up to 10 years in prison...the prosecuting attorney pleaded guilty in connection with a conspiracy to
deprive a resident of his constitutional rights. He faces a year in
prison...a former county commissioner pleaded guilty in a scheme
to illegal extortion. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
Three complaints have been filed against a circuit judge in
Randolph County who admitted to a relationship with a suspended county employee. Both were married.
A Kanawha County Family Court Judge was facing a battery
charge following an incident at a Charleston hospital. He was
charged with battery on health care providers and emergency
medical service personnel.
A Monongalia County sheriff’s deputy charged with domestic
battery resigned as part of his plea agreement with prosecutors.
A former assistant fire chief in Madison (Boone County) has
been charged with embezzlement. Media outlets report he is accused of making personal purchases with volunteer fire company’s credit card.
A former Ripley police officer has been sentenced to one year
and one day in prison after pleading guilty to possession of child
pornography.
The former Clay County sheriff who was charged with hacking
into his ex-wife’s work computer in the magistrate court was sentenced to probation and fined $1,000.
The Berkeley County Sheriff’s Department is conducting a
criminal investigation of firearms missing from its evidence room.
The WV Supreme Court has suspended a former Randolph
County prosecutor’s law license for three years for violating professional rules of conduct in two criminal cases.
This brings us to mid-February. We’ll continue to keep an eye
on reports from around the state.
News Briefs
West Virginia ranks among the
country’s top 10 natural gas producing states. From 2011 to 2012,
West Virginia boosted its natural
gas production by 146 billion cubic
feet (Bcf) of additional marketed
gas, according to a report from the
U.S. Energy Information Administration. The 37 percent increase
bumped the state from 11th to the
top 10 in 2012. **********
The state Division of Natural
Resources has a new brochure
available on reptile and amphibian regulations. The brochure
can be found on the DNR’s home
page by clicking on the publications image under regulations at
www.wvdnr.gov/wf. Paper copies
are available in limited quantities
at DNR district offices, the state
headquarters in South Charleston
and the Elkins Operations Center.
The brochure covers toads, frogs,
salamanders, lizards, snakes and
turtles.
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The 13th Annual WV Fishing, Hunting and Outdoor Sports
Show will be in Morgantown on
March 1 and 2. The largest outdoor sports show in norther West
Virginia features over 140 vendors and thousands of products
and services. Hunting and fishing
seminars are available. For more
information, call 304-983-3388 or
visit http://www.wvoutdoorsportsshow.com.
Opinion
Dear Editor,
Like many people who live in
the country I get my water from a
drilled well. This means that I have
to have a pressure tank to send the
water to my house. These tanks
are often inside a small building
us country folk call a well house.
Mine is very small, smaller than
some dog houses I have seen. It
has room for the well casing, tank
and water pipes and that is all. It
is unheated and despite being well
insulated, in really cold weather
the pipes can freeze. To prevent
this when the temperature drops
below 25 degrees I burn a 100 watt
incandescent light bulb in it. This
My squirrel feeder hangs about
six feet off the ground in a maple
tree in Big House’s front yard. Ten
or fifteen feet from big bird feeder,
I can keep an eye on them both as I
sit writing or reading, sipping Chai
Spice tea at dining room window.
It’s a snowy day, snow birds and
squirrels feeding industriously.
I think the “snow birds” are Juncos. They seem to fit the picture
I got when I typed ‘little gray and
white snow birds’ into Google on
my computer. I wonder if they
are the snow birds Anne Murray
sang about years ago. They seem
like happy little birds flitting about
on snow, in bushes and especially
pecking around in and under my
feeder.
Bird feeder holds plain old commercial bird seed, cracked grains
and sunflower seeds. I’ve seen one
cardinal and one woodpecker so
far today, rest Juncos. Last year
squirrels bothered it until I mounted a conical chicken feeder lid on
its pole beneath. I’m not sure if
lid stymied squirrels or if they just
preferred their own feeder I hung
nearby about the same time.
Squirrel feeder, an old heavy
wire egg basket, left over from
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the days long ago when we range
raised breeder turkeys and hand
gathered eggs in baskets before
cleaning and packing. Basket’s
hung by an old piece of rusty dog
chain with a swivel snap, handle
pulled up close to a lower limb.
Squirrel feed consists of good hard
dried walnuts.
I gathered them this past fall.
Hulled and stored in five gallon
buckets, I dole them out by the
gallon can. Squirrels do the quality checks when they pick out next
meal. Still they seem to prefer to
forage for their own under Big
House’s attendant Black Walnut
trees except when snow is on.
Big gray squirrel ran down
from his nesting area beyond Big
House’s garden. Ran right up
to, at least within ten feet of the
feeder maple. Stopped, faunched
Fifteen Years Ago
February 24, 1999
The amount of poultry litter
used to fertilize farmland in the
Potomac Headwaters had reached
its limits in most of the counties according to a study by the Potomac
Headwaters Resource Alliance.
In another story the WV Farm
Bureau said the study was misleading and that environmental groups
would use it to campaign for more
pollution controls against the poultry industry.
Hardynet warned Internet customers to watch for online investment fraud.
Edna Catherine Wilson, 80,
Wardensville, died Feb. 15... Mildred Rinker Flynn, 80, Littlestown,
PA, died Feb. 11... Keith W. Crites,
Millersville, MD, died Feb. 17...
Orville Dean Delawder, 78, Mathias, died Feb. 15...Lancy W. Hammon, 89, Kirby, died Feb. 16.
Carol Agnew and David Ludwig
were married Feb. 13.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Harper, a son, Adam Paul.
The Lady Jackets defeated
Notre Dame 59-50 and Union 8027 and lost to Petersburg...Lady
Cougars lost to Harman 62-39
and Tygarts Valley 62-50...MHS
beat Tygarts Valley 87-65 and lost
to Notre Dame...East Hardy beat
Tygarts Valley 66-64 and Union 5856.
Enough Already!
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So this year I put a 60-watt bulb
in. When it got to about down
around zero, my water froze up.
Sixty watt bulb just doesn’t do
the job. I put in a 250-watt heat
bulb and within an hour I had water. Of course it uses a lot more
energy than a 100-watt bulb so I
have been thinking about other
options.
I could let the water run, but
during a prolonged cold spell
that would not be good for my
septic system and would cause
more wear and tear on my pump,
and would still be using electricity. I could build a bigger well
house that would have room for
an electric heater. But the environmentalists would not be happy
with that. Trees would have to
be cut down to supply the wood
and I would still be using electricity. But the real problem is that it
would cost me hundreds of dollars
which I’m not about to spend.
So I have decided to just keep
using the heat light bulb. I look
at it this way: cost of heat light
bulb; $3.19; cost to burn it; pennies a day, being able to thumb my
nose at the government and the Al
Gore crowd every time I plug it in;
priceless.
Woodrow Simmons
Fort Run
around, ran back to another Maple twenty feet away, climbed it,
flitted around up there a while, ran
out on a flimsy limb and jumped
a gap to an even flimsier branch
in the feeder tree. A torturous
route down through feeder maple’s branches to my feeder. He
(she) dropped in, sorted out a nut
to his liking, and back up the tree
he went. Out onto another flimsy
branch, jumped another gap into
a big sugar berry, found a suitable
high perch and proceeded to cut
his nut.
Why? He’d been within ten
feet horizontal, six feet vertical
from those walnuts, but chose to
reverse course, climb a remote
tree, jump a dangerous gap to
food, then jump another gap to his
“dining room”. Was he just happy
to be alive and able to still climb
and jump, or was their some motivation simply beyond my understanding. Crazy Squirrel.
Moments later, another. Smaller, a fox Squirrel. Ran straight toward the feeder maple. Stopped
short at a lilac bush and climbed
through it. Five feet further another bush. He climbed through
that, twisting and turning. Three
feet further he hit the maple, a
quick run up to the basket and
then he sat in it while he picked
out and began cutting .
A small black dot in the field
across the highway, over toward
Doghouse. Moving dot. Running
in circles dot. Binoculars. Skunk.
Broad daylight running in tight
circles in an open field on top the
crusted snow. Occasionally he’d
fall, either break through or just
slip, I guess. I watched off and on
for a half hour. Still circling.
I got out my 12 gauge. Better
not. Within sight of passing cars
on highway. Be my luck some
SPCA or skunk hugger would be
passing and see me. Days of simply eliminating a possible problem
like a rabid skunk are gone. What
do skunk huggers and hungry environment lawyers care about cows
and new calves exposed to rabies.
These days got to worry about losing the farm to mindless do-gooders rather than eliminating a possible danger to both man and beast.
It’s about time to go back to
Doghouse to reload my fire. I’ll
have to pass through barnyard
where skunk is likely holed up.
Better take my shotgun. Ugh.
Kenneth Delawder, a daughter,
Candice Jeanette...to Mr. and
Mrs. Warren Duliere, a son, Jermon Emir.
Wardensville defeated Mosby
Academy 96-54...Mathias defeated Moorefield 68-38 and Mosby
Academy
103-45...Moorefield
beat Piedmont 60-56.
Hilton.
Moorefield defeated Ridgeley
61-53 and lost to Keyser 54-51.
My Unbased Opinion
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The WV Strawberry Festival is
looking for fresh strawberries to
stock a new “Strawberry Market”
during the annual festival scheduled for May 10-18 in Buckhannon. Local berries have not been
available for some years, but the
increased use of high and low tunnel makes fresh berries a more
practical proposition. For more
information, call Buddy Davidson
at the WV Department of Agriculture at 304-558-3708 or 304541-5932.
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AAA Fuel Gauge says the average price last week for a gallon of
regular unleaded gas in this area
jumped nearly five cents to $3.427.
The national average dropped
slightly to $3.31. In a departure
from recent years, national gas
prices have been largely flat to begin 2014. This can be attributed in
part to cold temperatures keeping
drivers off of roads but also to the
absence of the looming production concerns overseas or regional
refinery issues that have propelled
retail gasoline prices higher out
of the gate the last several years.
Across West Virginia prices
ranged from a high of $3.564 at
Clarksburg to a low of $3.284 at Thirty Years Ago
Huntington. In Hardy County, Week of February 22, 1984
gas prices continued for the 20th
West Virginia poultry producers
week at $3.49.
had
begun preventive measures to
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assure that avian influenza did not
attack flocks.
Moorefield’s elected officials
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provided enough heat to prevent
freezing down to well below zero
temperatures. Worked fine for 20
years.
But several years ago, our government at the urging of environmentalists who said it would save
the planet and the manufacturers
of incandescent bulbs who want
to sell us florescent bulbs that are
much more expensive and that
doesn’t give off as much light or
heat banned the manufacture or
importation of incandescent light
bulbs. They are doing it in steps.
First it was 100 watt and 75 watt
bulbs. This year it is 60 watt and
40 watt ones.
Whenever educators talk about
a new concept we have a tendency
to back away. We’ve lived through
new math several times, no walls,
shorter classes, longer classes,
and just about anything else you
can imagine. Down in Kentucky
an education professor at UK has
developed something called “design thinking” which is supposed to
keep students and teachers more
engaged. This concept includes
busing students to a college campus to take classes and the bus is
equipped with Wi-Fi. It also offers
shorter class blocks. We thought
there were problems in many
school districts with students not
graduating with the basic foundation they need. Why take college
classes while still in high school?
Graduate them early - if they can
pass the fundamentals - and get
discussed the flood control project
in South Moorefield and a rewrite
of the trailer ordinance.
Larry’s Barber Shop opened for
business in Hawse Plaza. Larry
Snyder was owner and operator.
Edith Pratt Coddington, 78,
died Feb. 17 in Keyser...Susan
Elizabeth Strawderman, 89, Lost
City, died Feb. 20...Homer Cleveland Conrad, 85, Winchester, died
Feb. 17.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Stump, a daughter, Devin Rae...
to Mr. and Mrs. Steve Robinette, a
son, Ryan Adam...to Mr. and Mrs.
Julian Riggleman, a son, Jay Eric.
Moorefield lost to Franklin
42-30...East Hardy defeated the
School for the Deaf 69-62.
Forty-five Years Ago
February 19, 1969
The Mathias Ruritan was one of
ten clubs nationally to win a Blue
Ribbon Award.
West Virginia’s first public television station, WWVU-TV, went
on the air in Morgantown.
A public meeting was announced to launch plans to secure
a medical clinic.
Virgil Lee Poland, 77, Baltimore, died Feb. 13...Arthur Ours,
55, Akron, OH, died Feb. 14...the
infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Elias G. Anderson, Stephens City,
died Feb. 13.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Shears, a son...to Sp/5 and Mrs.
them out of the high school environment. But be sure they can
read, comprehend what they read,
pass science and do basic math. A
little phys ed and music wouldn’t
hurt. And if they haven’t mastered
these, then don’t offer college
courses until they do.
Mother Nature
The nine county area affected by
the chemical spill into a Kanawha
Valley water system had, by Jan.
30, cost the state $890,000 just in
providing bottled water. The affected water company had put out
$132,000 for water in bottles or
tankers. We keep wondering why
the chemical storage company isn’t
paying for this drinking water or at
least their insurance company.
Can Keep
Sixty Years Ago
February 24, 1954
Competing in the Sanders
School American Legion Oratorical contest were Evelyn Jones,
Shirley Newman, Cecil Payne, Eloise Redmon, John R. Scott and
Dolly Moats.
Serving in Korea were Pfc.
George W. Hedrick, 2nd Lt. Mortimer W. Gamble and Pfc. Arnice
H. Whetzel.
MHS students who participated in a Valentine Dance floor
show were Carol Bowman and
Carmen Gamble singing “You’re
Just in Love”, Clyde See singing
“Hey Joe”, and a quartet of Allen
Bean, Wesley Shanholtzer, Leslie
Barr and Vernon Webster singing
“Five Foot Two” and “Heart of My
Heart”.
Lorenzo Fillmore Sindy, 70,
died Feb. 16...Verdie Foltz Ritchie,
84, Needmore, died Jan. 30...Aina
Moyers May, 64, died Jan. 26 in
California.
Betty Jean Lohr and Pvt. Don
Schott Beebe were married Jan.
30... Georgia Ely and David Sloan
Baker were married Feb. 6.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Reynolds, a daughter...to Mr. and
Mrs. Irvin Puffenberger, a daughter...to Mr. and Mrs. Darl Shipe,
a son, Wendell Lory...to Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Moore, a son, Robert
OK, so the mannequins used to
display women’s clothing are getting a makeover. Here’s a paragraph from the story itself because
no one would believe it if we wrote
the same thing. “Wings Beachwear’s mannequins in Miami sport
flower tattoos like some of the
women who shop there. The mannequins at American Apparel’s
downtown New York City store
have pubic hair peeking through
their lingerie. And at David’s
Bridal, mannequins soon will get
thicker waists, saggier breasts and
back fat to mimic a more realistic shape.” Oh, for Pete’s sake!
These are plaster or plastic figurines with no expression faces. We
surely hope the majority of women
don’t have hopes of looking like
them - either before or after the
“makeover”. It’s bad enough when
the live models look like escapees
from a concentration camp, but
Seventy-five Years Ago
February 22, 1939
The official verdict of the coroner’s jury at the inquest into the
death of Lee Shoemaker was
death by gunshot at the hands
of officers who were justified in
shooting to protect their own lives.
Engineers for the Hardy County
Light and Power Association project said work would be completed
within sixty days.
M. B. Thomas and Ralph Ours
purchased the Hardy Motor Company from H. S. Pownell.
Captain Garrett Oliver Van Meter died Feb. 14...Lee Shoemaker,
29, Lost City, died Feb. 13...Josephine Eursula Crites had died at
Rig...Earl Wayne Teets, 18-month
old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton
Teets, died at Mathias.
Helen Evens and Julian Lipps
were married Jan. 7...Mary Elizabeth Mathias and Claude Swanson
Wittig were married Feb. 18.
Ninety Years Ago
February 21, 1924
The Mathias community was afflicted with whooping cough and
chicken pox.
James Teets had purchased a
Ford touring car.
Michael Funk and family had
moved to their new home near
Mt. Olive.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. John
Coby, a son...to Mr. and Mrs. Olie
Southerly, a son...to Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Jenkins, a son...to Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Shaver, a daughter.
maybe we should be glad that the
store owners are beginning to acknowledge that most women don’t
look like either the models or the
mannequins.
The Rest of Winter for Herself
If you have an open day on Saturday and the weather permits, you
might want to head for Blackwater
Falls State Park. It’s the Cardboard and Duct Tape Sled Racing
event beginning at 11 a.m. Contestants build a sled which will hold
a person (or persons) using only
cardboard (can be corrugated)
and duct tape and which must be
able to descend the sledding hill at
Blackwater Falls. It should be fun
and creative, and there are awards
for best design, top speed and team
spirit. If you want to know more,
go online to www.blackwaterfalls.
com/special.htm.
MOOREFIELD (WV) EXAMINER, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 3
News
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Tri-County CVB Going to Travel and
Adventure Show in Washington DC
By Jean A. Flanagan
Moorefield Examiner
In an effort to promote travel
in the Hardy, Grant and Pendleton counties, the Convention
and Visitors Bureaus have partnered to attend the Washington
D.C. Travel and Adventure Show
for the second year. The Seneca
Rocks Discovery Center is also a
contributor.
The 2014 Washington D.C.
Travel and Adventure Show will
be held on Saturday, Feb. 22 and
Sunday, Feb. 23 at the Walter E.
Washington Convention Center. Beth Dolan, executive director
of the Hardy County CVB, Janet
Burgoyne of the Pendleton County CVB and Hanna Weaver of the
Grant County CVB will distribute packets of information about
things to do and places to go in the
tri-county area.
“People who live in Washington,
D.C. are only two hours away,”
Dolan said. “They might only consider the Jefferson-Berkley-Morgan county area when they think
of West Virginia. They don’t know
what we have to offer.”
Last year, more than 20,000
people attended the Travel and
Adventure Show. “The people who come to the
show are cyclists, hikers and outdoor adventurers,” Dolan said.
“It’s our job to introduce them to
what’s available in our three counties.”
The Tri-County CVBs have cre-
ated a brochure that highlights the
areas’ major attractions and lists
hotels, cabins, restaurants as well
as the hiking, biking, boating and
shopping opportunities. “We will give away recyclable
bags stuffed with our Tri-County
CVB brochure, each individual
county’s brochure and our Ride
the High Five and Hills of Blue
and Gray brochures.”
Response will be monitored
by an increased interest in each
county’s web site after the show.
In addition, Dolan said the
CVBs will utilize iCapture, an
iPad application that can collect
names, e-mail addresses and telephone numbers to direct-market
newsletters and special events announcements.
Show-goers who provide that
information will be entered into
a drawing for a two-night stay in
Lost River, a horseback-riding adventure for two, a round of golf
for two and other prizes. According to 2012 numbers,
tourism is a $5.1 billion industry
for West Virginia. “It is the number two industry in the state,”
Dolan said.
In Hardy County, tourism accounts for 240 jobs and annual
earnings of $3.9 million. Tourism
accounts for $22.3 million in direct
spending in the county. “There’s a lot to see and do in
the tri-county area,” Dolan said.
“We’re going to make sure people
who come to the Travel and Adventure Show know about them.”
The Tri-County CVBs created a special brochure to highlight the areas’ activities and accommodations.
Strawberry Growers Wanted for Festival in May
Fresh, local strawberries are
needed for this year’s West Virginia Strawberry Festival to stock a
new “Strawberry Market” planned
for this year’s event.
The Strawberry Festival board,
the City of Buckhannon and the
West Virginia Department of Agriculture (WVDA) are working
cooperatively with private farmers
to have local berries for sale at a
retail tent on Main Street adjacent
to the Courthouse. Plans are to
have the market open on Friday
and Saturday of the festival, which
is scheduled for May 10-18, 2014.
“This great festival is an excellent opportunity for local farmers
to benefit from the visitors that
pour into Upshur County each
May,” said Commissioner of Ag-
riculture Walt Helmick. “I believe
that festival-goers are more than
willing to pay a premium for fresh,
local berries. But like the other
tremendous food-related opportunities in our state, we need more
growers to become involved.”
He added that the increasing
prevalence and use of high and
low tunnels - low-cost, unheated greenhouse-type structures makes fresh berries in mid-May a
more practical proposition than in
past years.
In past decades, local farmers
produced enough berries for the
festival and for export. One undated historical report in the archives
of the Upshur County Historical
Society notes that more than 1,500
gallons of berries were shipped to
Pittsburgh. It also said that farmers would be supplying cherries,
raspberries and currants later in
the season.
He also said that some people
who are interested in growing for
the festival may not be able to
have fruit this year because most
varieties take more than a year to
produce good yields.
“Regardless, we want to get the
ball rolling on this project, which
is an initiative for the economic future of our state. It’s been a
long time since local berries were
widely available at the West Virginia Strawberry Festival. I believe
if festival-goers get a taste of berries this year, they will demand
them next year and in the years to
come.”
From Sen. Williams Desk
The remaining weeks at the legislature are the most busy as we
consider legislation that has passed
out of committee and consider legislation that has been passed in the
House and moved to the Senate. In
this session so far, the Senate has
introduced 547 bills and has passed
45 bills that moved to the House
for further consideration.
One bill that the Senate passed
last week is Senate Bill 458, which
relates to circuit court fees. This
bill would increase civil court fees
from $155 to $200. The $45 difference would go into the Fund for
Civil Legal Services for Low-Income Persons. The additional fees
wouldn’t apply in family court.
Last week the House passed
House Bill 4283, and it will now
be considered in the Senate. This
bill increases the minimum wage
in two increments, by $1.50. After
January 2015, the minimum wage
would increase to $8.00 an hour.
After January 2016, it would be
raised to $8.75 an hour. West Virginia has not raised its minimum
wage since 2008 and supporters
of the bill feel that a raise in minimum wage is necessary to help the
people of West Virginia rise above
the poverty line. Opponents to the
bill argue that raising the minimum
wage won’t allow small businesses
By Sen.
Bob
Williams
to employ as many people as before. I want to know how my constituents feel so, please contact me
with support or concerns of raising
the minimum wage. I will keep you
informed of the bill’s progress as it
moves through committee in the
Senate.
It was my pleasure to work with
Robert Brosh from West Virginia Wesleyan for the week as my
Frazier-Singleton Intern. Robert
was here to learn the workings of
the legislature and I hope he had
a productive week. He was able
to research Senate Resolution 20,
dealing with the support of the legislature for the development of innovative industries and presented
the resolution to the Senate Economic Development Committee.
The resolution passed the committee unanimously after his presentation.
This week we honored several
individuals from the 14th District
with the “History Heros” award
from the Division of Culture and
History. Those honored included
Barbara Banister from Rowlesburg, T.J. Coleman from Piedmont, Susan M. Hardesty from
Kingwood, Alexandra Jebbia from
Wheeling who worked on the archives of the Arthurdale Heritage
Museum and Barbara A. Smith
from Philippi. Thanks to each of
these award recipients for the work
that they do to help preserve the
rich history of West Virginia.
I am honored to serve the 14th
District and I will continue to fight
for the interests of my constituents and of West Virginia . If you
should have any questions or comments regarding any issues or bills
before the legislature please feel
free to contact me. To write me, my
address is Senator Bob Williams,
State Capitol, Building 1, Room
223-W, Charleston, WV 25305.
Or you may call me at (304) 3577995 or email to bob.williams@
wvsenate.gov. I encourage all my
constituents to remain active and
become part of the legislative process.
Strawberry King Larry Woodford (kneeling) poses in his sizable strawberry field with his family and
Extension Agent Norvin Bowyer in 1960.
Photo courtesy of the Upshur County Historical Society.
Legislative Roundup
It’s no secret that estimated
state revenues for the 2014-2015
budget year beginning July 1, 2014,
are about $100 million less than
the operating budget recommended by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin. But
legislative leaders made it clear
here last week they don’t want to
raise taxes.
House Finance Chairman Brent
Boggs, D-Braxton, said during a
break in the House floor session
last week that “everything is on the
table.” He even mentioned that
some have suggested a tax increase
on cigarettes.
He said, however, that the state’s
Rainy Day Fund has sufficient reserves that could be used to help
balance the FY2015 state budget
without any tax hikes. And while
the current gap between anticipated revenues and the recommended budget expenditures is still unresolved, lawmakers have already
hinted they may come up with a
combination of some reductions in
anticipated spending coupled with
money from the Rainy Day Fund.
Delegate Jim Morgan, D-Cabell, introduced HAB4456 last
week that would increase the
state’s consumer sales tax from six
percent to seven percent but there
seems to be little or no interest in
that approach from members of
the House Finance Committee
where that bill has been assigned.
Meanwhile, the House Health
Committee recommended a bill
last Wednesday evening to regulate above-ground chemical storage tanks that would also require
water utilities to submit plans to
deal with possible contaminations
like last month’s Elk River chemical spill.
But it is far different from SB373
that passed the State Senate in
late January, according to Dele-
By
Tom
Miller
Press Net
Reporter
gate Don Perdue, D-Wayne, who
is chairman of the committee. It
must still be approved by both the
House Judiciary Committee and
the House Finance Committee,
however, before it could come up
for a vote by the entire 100 members of the House of Delegates.
The Health Committee in the
House creates a new section of
code requiring the Department of
Environmental Protection to compile and maintain a list of all potential water contaminants--not just
contaminants from above-ground
storage tanks--within about 25
miles of public water sources.
Meanwhile, state tax collections
exceeding expectations for the first
time this budget year hardly made
a dent in West Virginia’s current
revenue shortfall. Collections
were about $73 million less than
anticipated during the first seven
months of the 2013-2014 budget
year that ends June 30, according to Deputy Revenue Secretary
Mark Muchow.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced a $33 million spending reduction last month in the face of an
$81.5 million shortfall which some
officials insisted was actually closer
to $66 million thanks to so-called
“calendar quirks.”
Collections for severance taxes--those associated with production of natural gas, coal and other
resources--were up 7.2 percent
compared to this time last year,
Muchow said. But that’s still not
enough to exceed collection estimates by the end of the budget
year, he added.
In other legislative developments last week:
— The House of Delegates
passed a bill to increase the state’s
minimum wage from $7.25 to
$8.75 by 2016. The roll call vote
on HB4283 was 89-5 with Republicans Troy Andes, R-Putnam; Daryl
Cowles, R-Morgan; Marty Gearheart, R-Mercer; Larry Kump, RBerkeley; and John Overington, RBerkeley, the only votes against it.
— House members also voted
48-48 that blocked a discharge motion to bring a bill to ban abortions
of fetuses after 20 weeks gestation (HB2364) to the House floor,
a move that House Speaker Tim
Miley, D-Harrision, described as
“pandering” to those attending a
right-to-life rally by West Virginians for Life last Tuesday.
— The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced SB6 — legislation that would require people
to get a doctor’s prescription before they could buy cold medications containing pseudoephedrine,
a key-meth making ingredient
— and Senate leaders expect the
full Senate to pass the bill. But
they are less certain the House of
Delegates members will support
the legislation. — Members of the House Committee on Agriculture endorsed
HB4273 that allow non-farmers
to own a cow or stake in a cow for
consuming the animal’s unpasteurized milk. The sale of unpasteurized milk is illegal in West Virginia
although family farms may privately consume the milk raw.
4 - MOOREFIELD (WV) EXAMINER, Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Obituaries
STANLEY LEE (RICK) SEABRIGHT II
Stanley Lee Seabright II (Rick)
68, of Spencer, W.Va., formerly of
Winchester, Va., passed away on
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 following a courageous battle with
cancer at the Hubbard Hospice
House in Charleston, W.Va.
Rick was born August 11,
1945 in Winchester, Va., and was
the son of the late Stanley L.
Seabright and Mary Seabright of
Winchester, Va. Rick’s current
home was in Spencer, W.Va. with
his living angel Martha Jayne Atkinson, to whom he was engaged.
Rick served in the US Navy
during the Vietnam era from
1964 until 1968 at which time he
joined the Metropolitan Police
DC where he worked until 1975
in the capacity of patrolman, investigator, and motorcycle patrol
officer. From 1976 until 1986 he
joined the Frederick County Va.
Sheriff’s Office and worked in
the capacity of deputy sheriff and
Capt. of Investigations. He left the
sheriff’s office and worked for the
Winchester Police Department
from 1986 until 1987 as an investigator. He returned to the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office as
the Capt. of Investigations in 1987
STEPHEN E. MOWERY
and at the time of his retirement
in 2002 he had reached the rank
of Major and was the chief deputy.
He was a member of Amity Christian Church in Grantsboro, N.C.
and attended the Peniel Church in
Spencer, W.Va. Rick was an avid
hunter and fisherman and love
his mountains and out of doors.
Jesus Christ was his savior and he
looked forward to the gift of everlasting life.
He is survived by one daughter
Brenda Seabright-Deel of Stephen City, Va.; one granddaughter, Brittany Deel; two brothers,
Gary and Denny Seabright; and a
sister, Pam Seabright-Orndorff, all
of Winchester, Va.
A Celebration of Life service
was held Saturday, February 15,
2014 at the Faith Mission Church,
Wardensville, W.Va. with Rev.
Robert Eckman officiating. Inurnment will be private at a later date.
Memorial contributions may be
made to American Cancer Society, 2654 Valley Ave, Winchester,
VA 22601 or your local Hospice
organization.
Arrangements were under the
direction of the Loy-Giffin Funeral Home in Wardensville, W.Va.
Stephen Earl Mowery, age 68 of Pine Trail Drive, Moorefield,
WV, passed away Wednesday
evening, February 12, 2014 at his
residence. Born March 10, 1945 in
Hardy Co., WV, he was the son of
the late Hattie Belle Mowery.
Surviving is his wife of 47 years,
Emma Jean (Hose) Mowery; a
son, Paul Mowery, Sr. of Baker,
WV; four daughters, Nancy J.
Layfield of Delmar, DE, Christina Hedrick of Timberville, VA,
Vanissa Funk of Moorefield, WV
and Trista Sions of Moorefield,
WV; two brothers, William Mow-
Publisher Seeks
Stories from
Local Old Timers
Hometown Memories Publishing Company intends to save a big
slice of local history before it’s lost
forever.
Karen Garvey, Senior Editor at
Hometown Memories Publishing,
is asking local old-timers to share
their memories for a living history
book. She invites anyone over age
60 with yarns about the “good old
days” in West Virginia’s Eastern
Panhandle and also Northwestern
Maryland to write them down and
mail them to her for possible publication in the book. The hardcovnity to network across the state,” er coffee table book will contain
Remick told the Charleston Ga- tales of bygone years from people
zette. “When you start looking at who actually lived them.
To encourage participation,
the economic impact it becomes
Garvey
is offering a $250 award for
very significant.”
One in five of the more than the most appealing story. There
10,000 West Virginians diagnosed will also be three $100 runner-up
with cancer each year leave the awards and a cash award for best
state to receive care, the study picture.
“I’m not looking for genealogy,”
said. It estimated that about $360
million is spent in other states for says Garvey. “What we want to
save are true stories about things
West Virginians’ cancer care.
“The fact of the matter is hav- that once were commonplace but
ing access to clinical trials is part are virtually unknown to today’s
of cancer care. It’s state-of-the-art generation. The contributor’s decare,” Remick said. “A lot of pa- scendants will love them for it. Life
tients in West Virginia have other today is not what it used to be..
“For example, any old-timer
(health) issues, you’re losing addicould
tell an interesting tale about
tional revenue.”
things like wringer washing maSeveral state medical centers
chines, downtown cowboy movies
are partnering with the new neton Saturday, radio drama prowork, including the Mary Babb
grams, feed sack dresses or old
Randolph Cancer Center, Beckfashioned outhouses.”
ley Oncology Associates, Berkeley
Garvey explains, “Stories like
Continued on page 7
these are not only great fun to
W.Va. Cancer
Trials Network to
Launch in Spring
(AP) - A statewide cancer clinical trials network scheduled to
launch in the spring is expected to
improve West Virginians’ access to
advanced treatments.
The West Virginia Cancer Clinical Trials Network would broaden
access for patients to cancer related clinical trials. It also would
unite government agencies, academic institutions, civic groups
and health care organizations in
a concentrated effort, said Scot
Remick, director of the Mary
Babb Cancer Center in Morgantown, who will serve as the network’s director.
A recent study by the West Virginia University College of Business and Economics said the network would generate an estimated
$11 million in new economic activity and hundreds of jobs in its first
year.
“There’s unlimited opportu-
ery of Romney, WV and Russell
Mowery, Sr. of Moorefield, WV;
a sister, Diana Koontz of Moorefield, WV; ten grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.
A Memorial Service was held 2
p.m. Sunday, February 16, 2014 at
the Fraley Funeral Home Chapel,
107 Washington St., with Pastor
Ron Rogers officiating.
Condolences to the family may
be left at Mr. Mowery’s obituary at
www.fraleyfuneralhome.com .
Arrangements are under the
direction of the Fraley Funeral
Home.
read, especially for old-timers, but
they’re usually left out of the official history books. I hope some of
these books will still be around in
200 years so that people will know
that old-timers were more than
a name or a faded picture. But
that we were real people with real
lives.”
Especially wanted for the book
are stories that involve humor,
odd, unusual, frightening or mysterious events, romance stories
(“How I Met My Spouse”), local
myths and legends and ghost tales.
The deadline for story submission
is April 30, 2014.
Garvey requests that anyone
interested in submitting material
for the book phone her toll free,
at 877-491-8802 for instructions or
visit the web site www.hometownmemoriesonline.com.
Hometown Memories, LLC is
a North Carolina Company that is
dedicated to providing books that
preserve the spirit, character, and
memory of a time that will never
be seen again. The people who appear in them are from all walks of
life. Their experiences are so unusual and varied that it is impossible to categorize them. You’ll find
humor, adventure, romance, hardship, and even a few ghost stories
in a Hometown Memories book.
The company has produced over
70 titles and there are currently
over 97,000 copies of their living
history books in circulation.
February is American Heart Month
February 2014 marks the 50th
anniversary for American Heart
Month. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson, a heart attack survivor himself, proclaimed February
as American Heart Month. Heart
disease was and still is, the leading killer of Americans each year
with about 600,000 Americans dying each year from Heart Disease
which is 1 out of 4. Being aware
and taking precautions to reduce
your risk of Heart Disease is the
best way to do your part in recognizing American Heart Month.
Knowing the signs and symptoms of a heart attack is crucial.
Listed below are some of the signs
and symptoms to look for in a
heart attack as according to The
American Heart Association:
In women:
• Uncomfortable pressure,
squeezing, fullness or pain in the
center of your chest. It lasts more
than a few minutes, or goes away
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Feb. 24-28, 2014
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Nutrition Sites
Monday, Feb. 24 - Salmon, veggies, pickled beets, baked apples,
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Tuesday, Feb. 25 - Sauerkraut &
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Thursday, Feb. 27 -Beef pot
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Monday, Feb. 24 Tuesday, Feb. 25 - Senior Shopping,1:00
Wednesday, Feb. 26 Thursday, Feb. 27 - Bowling,
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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 304-5302256 and the van will pick you up.
Please call by 10 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 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 Part D: Anyone
needing help with Medicare Part
D, call Arline at 304-530-2256.
Monday - Friday, 8 - 4.
•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
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, Food Lion, and the Moorefield Examiner. Donations are
greatly appreciated. Have a safe
and happy week
The Eastern Panhandle EITC
(Earned Income Tax Credit) Coalition is pleased to announce
an open house at the MountainHeart office in Petersburg. The
open house is to help raise awareness of the VITA program and the
Earned Income Tax Credit. The
VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) program, created by the
Internal Revenue Service, has
partnered with non-profit agencies throughout the country to
establish income tax preparation
sites. These tax preparation sites
are available to individuals and
families at no cost, and are staffed
by volunteers who are trained and
certified by the IRS. The goal of
this event is to make people aware
of the VITA program, as well as
the Earned Income Tax Credit or
other credits that taxpayers may
be eligible to receive.
The open house will take place
on Friday, Feb. 28, 10 a.m. – 3
p.m., at the Petersburg MountainHeart office. Eastern Panhandle
EITC Coalition members will be
on hand to discuss EITC, prepare
returns or schedule appointments
for tax preparation, and refreshments will also be served. Those
who may be interested are invited
to visit at MountainHeart-Petersburg, 93 South Grove Street, Suite
1, Petersburg. Call 304-257-9375
for information.
Anyone interested in learning
more about the Eastern Panhandle EITC Coalition is encouraged
to contact Shawn Haines, Coalition Manager, at 304-582-1255 or
email shaines@mountainheartwv.
org. The Coalition is always looking for new members and volunteers.
MountainHeart
Hosts Open House
For VITA Program
MOOREFIELD (WV) EXAMINER, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 5
Social
WVU Announces Dean’s Sites Graduates Basic Training
And President’s List
Below are listed the students
named on West Virginia Universtiy’s Dean’s List(*) and President’s List for the Fall 2013 semester.
To qualify for the Dean’s List,
they have to have earned a 3.5
grade point average or higher in 12
credit hours of graded courses with
no incompletes or withdrawals
To qualify for the President’s
List, they completed 12 hours of
credits or more of graded classes
and had a perfect 4.0 grade point
average with no incompletes.
Tiffany Benjamin
Wardensville
Direct Admit Business
* Michelle Biser
Moorefield
Agricultural & Extension Ed
* Kaitlyn Boone
Moorefield
Pre-Political Science
Andrew Boswell
Moorefield
Physical Ed - Teacher Ed
* Brittany Bush
Moorefield
Multidisciplinary Studies
Noah Carr
Moorefield
Direct Admit Business
Shannon Combs
Moorefield
General Admit Business
* Jesse Cook
Lost River
Mathematics
* Terra Fawley
Moorefield
Direct Admit Journalism Prg
* Shawna Fitzwater
Wardensville
Accounting
* Kolby Foltz
Mathias
Biochemistry
Alicia Greenwalt
Moorefield
Business Management
Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Travis D. Sites
graduated from basic military
training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio,
Mathias
Sociology and Anthropology, Texas.
The airman completed an
Women’s and Gender Studies
intensive, eight-week program
that included training in mili* Samantha Melniczenko
tary discipline and studies, Air
Moorefield
Force core values, physical fitPre-Pharmacy
ness, and basic warfare prin ciples and skills.
* Devon Orndorff
Airmen who complete basic
Wardensville
training
earn four credits toPhysical Ed - Teacher Ed
* Britany Perkins
Mathias
Political Science
* Kelly Shoemaker
Wardensville
Psychology
* Casey Showman
Mathias
Biology
* Crystal Simmons
Moorefield
Physical Ed - Teacher Ed
Katheryn Stickley
Fisher
Pre-Elementary Education
Angela Mathias
Judges Needed for Social Studies Fair
The RESA 8 Regional Social Studies Fair will be held on
March 29, at Musselman High
School in Inwood. In order for
this fair to work, we need community members to volunteer to
be judges for the student projects.
Prospective judges do not need
a social studies background. We
are looking for responsible adults
who are willing to give something
back to the community. This
event is not possible without vol-
unteers from our community. It
is a very good experience for our
students. The winners will go to
the State Social Studies Fair to
represent the Eastern Panhandle.
Please consider being a judge
and feel free to share this with
anyone whom you feel would be
interested. We need enough volunteer judges to evaluate more
than 175 projects at the Regional Social Studies Fair. Training
for the judges will start at 9:00
am with the judging beginning
at 10:00 am. Depending on the
number of judges and projects,
the fair will run until approximately 3:30 pm. To volunteer to
be a judge, please visit the RESA
8 website at www.resa8.org and
click on Regional Social Studies Fair in the Announcements
section to register. Fair information and judging information are
available on the website.
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
Sunday February 23
11:00 am – 3:00 pm (snow date Saturday March 1 at 4 p.m.)
Old Fashion Ham & Dumplin Dinner
Also includes: Fried Ham, Potatoes, Green Beans, Cole Slaw,
Applesauce, Rolls, Desert & Drink.
Adults $10 • Children 5–10 $5 • Children under 5 are Free!
Capon Springs Fire Hall off route 259 onto route 16 Capon Springs Road
Benefit: Capon Springs Vol. Fire & Rescue
For more information call: 304-433-0167
PUBLIC
EMBARRASSMENT
Nothing Says Happy Birthday Like
Happy
Sweet 16!
DILLON
Love Mom
and Dad
Moorefield Examiner offers these size birthday and in
memoriam ads at a great low price.
Actual Sizes
Tax Included
Larger sizes subject to
regular price
1x3 ad
$15.00
2x2 ad
$20.00
science degree through the
Community College of the Air
Force.
Sites is the son of Janet
Warner and Danny Sites, both
of Moorefield.
He is a 2008 graduate of
Moorefield High School. He
earned a bachelor’s degree in
2012 from Shepherd University, Shepherdstown.
Community Calendar of Events
Capon Springs Vol. Fire & Rescue
ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET
2x3 ad
$25.00
ward an associate in applied
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.
********
Wardensville Lions Club Storytime, 10 a.m., Wardensville Library.
Every Wednesday Night
AA meeting, 7:30 p.m., Lost
River United Methodist Church
For more information, call 304897-6187.
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 Wednesday of each month,
Grant County Senior Center,
Petersburg, 6:00 p.m. For more
information call 304-749-7288 or
304-434-7075.
Every Fourth Wednesday
The WV Dept. of Veterans Assistance will visit Grant Co. Senior
Center, 111 Virginia Ave., Petersburg from 10 a.m. until noon.
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 Church, Grant St., Petersburg,
WV. For information call Gary at
304-530-4957.
**********
Friendly
Franklin
Family
Group for parents, spouses and
family members whose lives are
impacted by a loved ones misuse
of substances (alcohol or drugs)
meets at 7:00 p.m. at Faith Lutheran Church, 102 Maple Ave.,
Franklin, WV. For more information contact Shelby 304-249-5538.
Every Saturday
AA Meeting, 10:00 a.m., Lost
River Grill, Rt. 259.
********
AA Meeting, 8:00 p.m., Grove
St. United Methodist Church, Petersburg.
Hunters
Harvest
1,013 Fall
Turkeys
Preliminary figures for the West
Virginia 2013 fall turkey hunting
season show a harvest of 1,013 turkeys, according to Curtis I. Taylor,
chief of the Division of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Section.
The 2013 statewide harvest was 20
percent lower than 2012 and 12 percent below the five-year average.
Only District 2 in the Eastern
Panhandle showed an increase (29
percent) in harvest while the other
districts experienced declines. The
decline in harvest occurred despite
more counties being open for fall
hunting than in 2012.
“Fall wild turkey harvests are
highly influenced by hunter participation, annual turkey poult recruitment, and hard mast conditions,”
said Taylor. “Turkey brood observations this past summer were down
slightly from 2012 and considerably below the five-year average.
This was expected due to the high
amount of rainfall in June and July
which resulted in lower poult survival.”
Top counties for 2013 were Preston (77), Monroe (71), Randolph
(69), Greenbrier (58) and Pocahontas (55). Hardy County had 32 turkeys taken in 2013. This is a slight
increase from last year, when 30
were reported.
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Hardy County Schools. Operations
Manager Steve Williams reported
on measures being taken to correct
violations. None were significant.
The next meeting of the Hardy
County Board of Education will be
held on Monday, March 3 at East
Hardy Early Middle School. A
public hearing regarding the 201415 SAchool Calendar will be held
at 5 p.m. The Board of Education
Meeting will begin at 6 p.m. The
public is encouraged to attend.
For the Lord is good; His
mercy is everlasting, And
His truth endures to
all generations.
PSALM 100:5 (NKJV)
6 - MOOREFIELD (WV) EXAMINER, Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Business
Family Preservation Services to
Receive Trauma-Informed Care Training
Providence Human Services
(PHS) and Family Preservation
Services of West Virginia, Inc.
(FPS) is excited to announce a
partnership with the National
Council for Behavioral Health.
PHS will be hosting a learning
community with the National
Council to enable individual PHS
organizations to become trauma
informed providers. This intensive effort will support otheir efforts as an organization to move
all of them towards being more
trauma-informed.
Geri Fox, BUMFS 2013 Burlington Campus Employee of the year,
Most individuals seeking pubenjoys one of her awards (a handcrafted bench made by board lic behavioral health services and
member Tom Grafton). Also pictured are Michael Price, CEO and many other public services, such
Sandra Stump, Executive Assistant to the CEO.
as homeless and domestic violence
services, have histories of physical
and sexual abuse and other types
of trauma-inducing experiences.
Burlington Campus 2013
Employee of the Year Announced
Geri Fox, therapist for Burlington United Methodist Family
Services, Inc. was selected by the
management team as the Burlington Campus 2013 employee of the
year. Fox earned her Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work from
Ohio State University with a specialty in Geriatrics.
After moving to West Virginia with her husband, Fox started
working for Burlington. She has
more than 20 years of experience in social work with a license
in West Virginia and Maryland.
Having worked with children and
the elderly, she enjoys seeing people change and progress.
A proud mother of two, she is
equipped with a good sense of
humor. Fox believes that she may
have missed her true calling as a
standup comedian. She also loves
to dress up in costumes for special occasions. In her spare time,
Fox loves to sew, quilt, cook and
travel.
Michael Price, President and CEO; Crystal Haggerty and Mia
VanSant, V.P. Community Based Services for Burlington United
Methodist Family Services.
Burlington United
Methodist Family
Services C.B.S.
Employee of the Year
Crystal Haggerty, Foster Care
Treatment Coordinator for Burlington United Methodist Family
Services, Inc. (BUMFS) was selected by the management team
as the Community Based Service
2013 Employee of the Year.
A graduate of Frostburg State
University with a degree in Social
Work, Haggerty completed her internship with Burlington and continued to work for the agency’s foster care unit until August 2007.
After spending several years
working outside the foster care
field, Haggerty returned to Burlington in 2009. She wanted to
devote more time to her family
and families in need. She knew
that working for a family centered
agency was the only way to do
both.
Haggerty spends her day attending Multi-disciplinary Team Meetings, advocating for her clients in
court, referring clients to available
services as well as coordinating
and supervising visitations for children and foster families.
These experiences often lead to
mental health and co-occurring
disorders such as chronic health
conditions, substance abuse, eating disorders, and HIV/AIDS, as
well as contact with the criminal
justice system.
The National Council’s trauma-informed learning community
model is based on the Seven Domains of Trauma Informed Care
Implementation. They will work
together to assess the organizations and make significant changes over the course of a nine month
period using performance monitoring, best implementation practices and create sustainable plans
for moving forward.
The national learning community will be led by Cheryl Sharp,
senior advisor for trauma-in-
ma informed organization. PHS is
committed to becoming a Trauma
Informed Organization and a key
partner in enhancing Trauma Informed Systems of Care across the
country and abroad.
Providence Service Corporation in partnership with National
Council for Behavioral Health is
honored to participate in our first
trauma-informed care learning
community. As they work together with other like-minded organizations throughout the country,
they’ll create a state of the art
trauma-informed system of care
within the communities.
Family Preservation Services of
West Virginia, Inc. has been operating in Hardy County for more
than 10 years. They are located at
315 S. Main St.
Allegheny Bancshares Announces
Third Quarter Results
Allegheny Bancshares, Inc.,
the parent company of Pendleton
Community Bank, is pleased to
announce third quarter 2013 net
income of $763,000 or $0.89 per
share. This represents a 12.7 percent increase from third quarter
2012 income of $677,000 or $0.78
per share.
For the first nine months of
2013, Allegheny had net income
of $2,003,000, which is a 3.6 percent increase from the net income of $1,953,000 earned the
first nine months of 2012. Earnings per share for the same period increased from $2.24 to $2.33
and Return on Average Assets
(ROAA) for the first 9 months
was 1.02 percent and the Return
on Average Equity (ROAE) was
8.60 percent. This compares to
a ROAA of 1.01 percent and a
ROAE of 8.58 percent for the
same period of 2012.
Assets increased 1.57 percent
from December 31, 2012 to September 30, 2013 and on that date,
totaled $266,351,000. Shareholders’ Equity at the end of the quarter totaled $31,456,000.
W.A. (Bill) Loving, President and CEO, indicated he was
pleased with the first nine month’s
performance.
“We are continuing to see improvement in the economy; and,
as a result, a slight improvement
in loan demand in the various sectors,” Loving said. “This is a welcomed event, as this new business
opportunity, has allowed us to
better offset normal principal pay
downs and the ever present competitive factor, thus allowing us
to maintain a healthy net interest
margin. The continued improvement in the economy and our continued focus on credit quality has
also set the stage for stabilization
in loan quality. Consequently,
we have decreased the amount of
expense previously set aside as a
reserve for loan loss. We believe
that the current level of monthly
allocation to the loan loss reserve
is adequate for the remainder of
2013; and, as we look into 2014,
we will be evaluating our portfolio, in relationship to current economic conditions, to determine
the appropriate allocation
“The combination of a strong
net interest margin, lower reserves, and continued operating
efficiencies is the driver of the improvement in quarter over quarter
and year to date 2013 earnings.
“We appreciate the ongoing
support of our customers and
shareholders, as we continue to
navigate the present economy
which continues to be rattled by
slow growth, despite the historic low interest environment de-
signed to stimulate growth in the
economy. We look forward to
2014 and beyond, as we strive to
be the preferred provider of community based final products in the
markets we serve. We will also
continue to invest in the future of
banking to ensure we provide the
products tomorrow’s customers
desire, while keeping grounded to
the preferences of today’s customers”
Pendleton Community Bank,
an independent community bank
since 1925, currently has five fullservice financial centers located in
the West Virginia communities of
Franklin, Moorefield, Marlinton,
Petersburg, and in the Virginia
community of Harrisonburg. Allegheny Mortgage Company, a
division of Pendleton Community
Bank, originates residential mortgage loans and is headquartered
in Franklin.
Summit Community Bank Announces
Patricia Owens as Chief Banking Officer
Summit Community Bank, a
subsidiary of Summit Financial
Group, Inc., announced banking
veteran Patricia (Patty) Owens as
its Chief Banking Officer. Ms. Owens brings nearly 32 years of banking experience to her position.
She joined Summit in 2007 and
has previously served as the Area
Manager of Retail Banking overseeing a total of eleven branches
in Virginia and West Virginia.
A native of Manassas, Virginia,
Ms. Owens attended George Mason University and is a graduate
of the CBA and BAI’s Graduate
School of Retail Bank Management in 2008. She and her husband currently reside in Manassas
Park, Va.
“We are proud to promote Patty to this position. Her knowledge
and diverse background make her
a natural fit to this position and
we are pleased to have her on our
team,” said Charles Maddy, President and CEO of Summit Financial Group. “Patty is passionate
about retail banking and we appreciate her continued effort in
developing and delivering Service
Beyond Expectations.”
“I am delighted to continue my
career at Summit,” Owens said.
“In this new position, I look forward to continuing to develop our
retail team in making Summit the
premier community bank in its
markets. Summit has many talented individuals and I am honored
to be part of the outstanding community banking tradition it has developed over the past 129 years.”
Summit Financial Group, Inc.
is a $1.39 billion financial holding company headquartered in
Moorefield, West Virginia. Summit provides community banking
services primarily in the Eastern
Panhandle and South Central re-
Pilgrim’s Pride Dec. and Jan. Team Members Announced
Cheshire Named December Team Member
formed services with the National
Council. PHS is honored to have
Dr. Allison Sampson-Jackson, VP
of Clinical Operations, Eastern
Division, invited to partner and
act as the Providence University
faculty lead with Cheryl Sharp to
provide technical assistance to the
Providence teams.
PHS is committed to taking 15
teams through the National Council’s Trauma Informed Learning
Community process in 2014. Beginning in 2015, and moving forward, each year, the Corporate
University of Providence (CUP)
and Dr. Sampson-Jackson will engage additional teams within PHS
using the National Council Model
to participate in Trauma Informed
Learning Communities as part of
PHS’s investment to being a trau-
Auvil Named January Team Member
gions of West Virginia and the
Northern and Shenandoah Valley regions of Virginia, through
its bank subsidiary, Summit Community Bank, Inc., which operates
fifteen banking locations. Summit also operates Summit Insurance Services, LLC in Moorefield,
W.Va. and Leesburg, Va.
Pilgrim’s Pride to
Host Investor Day
Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation will
host an investor and analyst day to
share insight on the company’s
progress from the inception of its
strategy and to highlight the next
stage in its evolution. The event
will be held at the Harvard Club
located at 35 West 44th Street
in New York City on Thursday,
March 13, beginning with lunch
at 12 p.m. ET, and is expected to
conclude at approximately 4:30
p.m. ET. Bill Lovette, President and
Chief Executive Officer, Fabio
Sandri, Chief Financial Officer,
and other members of Pilgrim’s
senior management team will
present at the Investor Day.
Interested investors and analysts are requested to RSVP to attend the Investor Day by replying
to Rosemary Geelan in the Investor Relations department at Pilgrim’s Pride either via telephone
at 970-506-8192 or by e-mail at: rosemary.geelan@pilgrims.
com. RSVPs are required due to
space limitations. Additional details may be found under “Events”
within the Investor Relations section of our website at www.pilgrims.com. Pilgrim’s employs approximately 37,500 people and operates
chicken processing plants and prepared-foods facilities in 12 states,
Puerto Rico and Mexico. The
Company’s primary distribution is
through retailers and foodservice
distributors. For more information, please
visit www.pilgrims.com.
Southern States Supports FFA
The cashier at Southern States
might ask you to part with an extra
dollar this month. But don’t worry. It’s not inflation on the rise. It’s
for a good cause.
Southern States is supporting
the National FFA Organization by
selling FFA emblems for $1. The
campaign takes place February 19
– March 24, 2014.
“We are deeply appreciative
of Southern States and their asEric Zuber, Supervisor and Roger Auvil
sistance to raise financial support
Roger Auvil has been honored do any job needed and done corTheresa Burgess, Supervisor and Charles Cheshire
for FFA and heighten community
as the January “Team Member of rectly. He is very dependable and awareness about our organizaCharles Cheshire has been hon- improvements on his attendance the Month”. Mr. Auvil works in safety conscious.”
tion,” said Molly Ball, president
ored as the December 2013 “Team and is an exceptional team worker the Cold Storage department on
The “Team Member of the of the National FFA Foundation.
Member of the Month” for the who will go out of his way to help night shift and has worked for the
Month” is a program that has been “Funds raised through the sale
Pilgrim’s Moorefield fresh plant. his co-workers. Charles has a great company since March 2012.
implemented to recognize em- of the FFA emblem at Southern
Mr. Cheshire works in the Giblet
Roger’s supervisor, Eric Zuber,
attitude with everyone around him
ployees for their outstanding merit States stores will support FFA at
Packing department on day shift
commented, “Roger has great atthe local, state and national level
and knows how to perform any
and has worked for the company
tendance habits. He is always will- and work ethic. Employees in the and ensure that we’re able to conjob in the department. He is very ing to lend a hand to co-workers program have exhibited outstandsince January 2008.
tinue to develop students’ leader “Charles is a wonderful em- safety oriented and notifies man- and volunteers to work with other ing work characteristics in the cat- ship, growth and career success
ployee,” said Theresa Burgess, his agement of any potential safety shifts if needed. Roger is always egories of attendance, teamwork, potential.”
Southern States is a supportsupervisor. “He has shown great issues.”
cheerful and I can count on him to attitude and job performance.
er of FFA and is proud to be the
sponsor of the “I’m Supporting
FFA” fundraiser, said Thomas R.
Scribner, president and CEO of
Southern States. “Every dollar collected will benefit FFA members
across the area. Southern States
has a rich heritage of working with
FFA and hopes the public will assist with the project by supporting
the effort and contributing a dollar for a personalized paper FFA
emblem.”
After you buy an emblem, you
can sign your name on it or even
the name of a child you care
about. The emblems will then be
displayed in the store for all to see.
Proceeds are split between the local FFA chapter, the state FFA association and the National FFA
Foundation.
To buy a paper emblem, visit a
participating Southern States Cooperative near you.
MOOREFIELD (WV) EXAMINER, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 7
Library Windows
FOL Meetings
The Friends of the Library meet
every 2nd Monday of each month
at 4pm, except in August and December. All meetings are open to
the public and anyone interested
is welcome to attend.
New DVDs
Iron Man 3 (PG-13) – When
Tony Stark/Iron Man finds his entire world reduced to rubble, he
must use all his ingenuity to survive, destroy his enemy, and somehow protect those he loves. But a
soul-searching question haunts
him: Does the man make the suit,
or does the suit make the man?
The Great Gatsby (PG-13) – A
would-be writer Nick Carraway
leaves the Midwest and comes to
New York City in the spring of
1922, chasing his own American
Dream.
White House Down (PG-13)
– While on a tour of the White
House with his young daughter,
a Capitol policeman springs into
action to save his child and protect the President from a heavily
armed group of paramilitary invaders.
Star Trek: Into Darkness (PG13) – When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they
find that an unstoppable force of
terror from within their own or-
ganization has detonated the fleet
and everything it stands for, leaving the world in a state of crisis.
World War Z (PG-13) – Gerry
Lane travels the globe in an effort
to eliminate the zombie pandemic
that is endangering the existence
of humanity.
New Fiction & Mysteries
Private L.A. (Private; 6) by
James Patterson (Reg. Print, Lg.
Print, Audiobook) – Thom and
Jennifer Harlow are the perfect
couple, with three perfect children. When they disappear without a word, facts are hard to find.
They live behind such a high wall
of security and image control that
even world-renowned Private Investigator Jack Morgan can’t get
to the truth. But as Jack keeps
probing, secrets sprout thick and
fast--and the world’s golden couple may emerge as hiding behind
a world of desperation and deception that the wildest reality show
couldn’t begin to unveil.
Killer (Alex Delaware; 29) by
Jonathan Kellerman (Reg. Print,
Lg. Print, Audiobook) – Well-used
to elevated emotions, psychologist
Alex Delaware shrugs off a joking death threat from beautiful
Beverly Hills physician Constance
Sykes, whose attempt to secure
legal custody of her baby niece is
thwarted by Alex’s forthright report to the court. Alex plays down
the threat until LAPD’s Milo Sturgis rushes to his side with the
shocking word on the street that a
hit’s been taken out on him.
The Winter People by Jennifer
McMahon – West Hall, Vermont,
has always been a town of strange
disappearances and old legends.
The most mysterious is that of
Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908,
was found dead in the field behind her house just months after
the tragic death of her daughter, Gertie. Now, in present day,
nineteen-year-old Ruthie lives in
Sara’s farmhouse with her mother, Alice, and her younger sister,
Fawn. Alice has always insisted
that they live off the grid, a decision that suddenly proves perilous when Ruthie wakes up one
morning to find that Alice has
vanished without a trace. Searching for clues, she is startled to find
a copy of Sara Harrison Shea’s
diary hidden beneath the floorboards of her mother’s bedroom.
As Ruthie gets sucked deeper into
the mystery of Sara’s fate, she discovers that she’s not the only person who’s desperately looking for
someone that they’ve lost. But she
may be the only one who can stop
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The Counterfeit Agent (John
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After I’m Gone by Laura
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for some extra cash, is investigating the murder of his mistress.
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The Forever Girl by Alexander McCall Smith – The story of
childhood playmates Thursday
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star-crossed love affair.
The Martian by Andy Weir –
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Moving Target (Ali Reynolds;
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spans continents to solve a cold
case murder and to figure out who
wants a young juvenile offender
dead.
ture groom?
The Good Luck of Right Now by
Matthew Quick – When his mother dies, 38-year-old Bartholomew
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in his mother’s underwear drawer
that causes him to write a series
of highly intimate letters to actor
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Wildwood Creek by Lisa Wingate – While working as a costuming assistant on a docudrama, Allie
Kirkland has discovered strange
connections between herself and
a teacher who disappeared a century ago in the legendary frontier
settlement of Wildwood. Is history
about to repeat itself?
The Wedding Bees by SarahKate Lynch – Every spring Sugar
Wallace coaxes her sleepy honeybee queen out of the hive and lets
her crawl around a treasured old
map. Wherever the queen stops
is their next destination, and this
year it’s New York City. Sugar sets
up her honeybees on the balcony
of an East Village walk-up and
then--as she’s done everywhere
since leaving South Carolina--she
gets to know her neighbors.
The Bear by Claire Cameron –
A young girl must fend for herself
and her little brother after a brutal
bear attack.
It Had to Be You by Susan May
Warren – When a man and woman meet, tensions are high as each
pulls the other into a world they
want but think they don’t deserve.
Minding Molly (Courtships of
Lancaster County; 3) by Leslie
Gould – Molly Zook’s latest attempt to control her fate backfires. Will she finally learn to trust
God with her life--and with her fu-
New Non-Fiction & Bios
HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Jonathan
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The Big Picture: 11 Laws That
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Health and Safety Tips for Cold Weather
Think
Healthy
By Dr. U.
Otome
Have you ever had a frozen finger tips? I have experienced a nearfrostbite event. My fingertips were
numb, heavy and ice cold. I felt a
burning sensation when I tried to
warm them up using hot water and
that was not fun. This winter season is still in full gear and its effects
can be harmful if left unchecked.
The American Academy of Pe-
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diatrics provide valuable tips for
the winter. Clothing is of great
importance. Dress warm which
may require layers of clothing and
ensure head coverage with hat or
mitten as well as thick gloves to
keep hands warm. Don’t forget
warm boots. Hypothermia (when
the body temperature drops below
normal causing shivers, sluggishness and clumsiness) and frostbite
(freezing of the skin and underlying tissue causing numbness, burning sensation, pale discoloration of
skin and sometimes blisters) can
occur with prolonged exposure to
cold without proper clothing or
with wet clothes. Call 911 immediately if you suspect hypothermia.
While waiting for assistance, take
the person indoors, remove any
wet clothing and wrap him in warm
blankets/clothes. If you note frostbite, DO NOT RUB THE FROZEN AREA!! Take the person
indoors, place the frostbitten area
in warm water, not hot water. You
may use a warm cloth on the nose,
ears or lips. Give warm drink and
after few minutes, dry and cover
him with clothing.
The snow gives the opportunity for fun filled outdoor activities
such as ice skating, sledding, snowboarding, skiing as well as snowmobiling. Children should always
wear their helmets and be under
supervision of a responsible adult.
Nose bleeds are a common occurrence with the dry cold weather
but this can be minimized by using
saline nose drop or Vaseline.
For licensed drivers, be mindful of the black ice on the road and
drive with undivided attention.
Remember to use your seatbelt always when in the car.
Stay warm!
Dr. Otome is a peditrician with the
E. A. Hawse Health System and can
be reached at the Potomac Valley
Medical Center in Moorefield.
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St. Mary’s Hospital in Huntington
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The network will look to partners, philanthropy and the state
oncology association for funding
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grants, fundraising and potential
additional funding from partners.
“This needs to be West Virginiafocused, West Virginia-centered,’’
Remick said. “It’s about keeping
people closer to home for contemporary care”
He said West Virginia’s network
is being modeled around the University of New Mexico’s trial network.
2014 Tri-County Fair Schedules
Junior Livestock Weigh-ins
Any 4-H or FFA member who is
enrolled in a Market Animal project and wants to show at the 2014
Tri-County Fair is required by fair
rules to bring their animals for the
mandatory weigh-in on the following dates:
• Market Steer—Saturday,
March 15, 2014 9 a.m.—2 p.m.
• Market Hog—Saturday, May
10, 2014 8 a.m. –Noon
• Market Lamb and Market
Goat—Friday, June 6, 2014 5
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2014 9 a.m. –Noon
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a gauge for each animal’s growth.
The weigh-in is to help member’s
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All weigh-ins will be at the TriCounty Fair Fairgrounds, Petersburg.
A 4-H or FFA member does not
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but is his responsibility to see animal is there on the designated day
and time.
2014 entry form will be given at
respectively weigh-in and is member’s responsibility to return to
Tri-County Fair by July 1, 2014.
For additional information
call your WV County Extension
Agent, FFA advisor or 304-5382278.
Market Steer Weigh-In Only—
If weather condition are “bad” on
above date weigh-in will be cancelled for that day and make-up
day will be Saturday, March 22nd.
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26 -August 2.
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8 - MOOREFIELD (WV) EXAMINER, Wednesday, February 19, 2014
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.
Feb. 19, 1872: The Glenville
Branch of the State Normal
School, now Glenville State College, was established by an act of
the legislature. The first session
of the college opened on January
14, 1873, in the old Gilmer County
courthouse.
Feb. 19, 1908: Orval Elijah
Brown was born near Lizemores
in Clay County. Brown, a freespirited individual, gained notoriety during the Great Depression
as the ‘‘Clay County Wild Man’’
known for his untamed physical
appearance that included a flowing beard and the wearing of little
more than a self-made loincloth.
Feb. 19, 1943: Author Homer
Hickam was born in Coalwood,
McDowell County. Hickam’s second book, Rocket Boys: A Memoir (1998), became a runaway
bestseller and the basis for the
popular film October Sky.
Feb. 20, 1875: The West Virginia Legislature approved a bill
to move the state capital back to
Wheeling.
Feb. 20, 1995: The West Virginia Legislature voted to make the
Golden Delicious apple the official state fruit.
Feb. 21, 1940: Former Governor Gaston Caperton was born
in Charleston. Caperton defeated
Arch Moore to become the state’s
31st governor.
Feb. 22, 1927: Longtime Agriculture Commissioner Gus R.
Douglass was born in Mason
County. Douglass, a Democrat,
was first elected commissioner of
agriculture in 1964.
Feb. 23, 1867: Lincoln County
was formed from Boone, Cabell,
Kanawha, and Putnam counties.
The county was named for Abraham Lincoln.
Feb. 23, 1905: The first USS
West Virginia was commissioned.
The armored cruiser was renamed
the USS Huntington in 1916 to
allow the transfer of the original
name to a newly authorized battleship.
Feb. 23, 1945: Fairmont native
“Woody” Williams distinguished
himself during the Battle of Iwo
Jima by neutralizing seven concrete pillboxes. This act of heroism earned Williams the Medal of
Honor.
Feb. 24, 1918: Judge Kenneth
Keller ‘‘K. K.’’ Hall was born at
Greenview, Boone County. Hall
spent 47 years on the state and
federal benches.
Feb. 25, 1911: Newspaperman
Jim Comstock was born in Richwood. In 1957, he founded the
West Virginia Hillbilly, a weekly
newspaper that circulated both inside and outside the state.
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.
Resident Complaints Result
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Sherman allegedly admitted to
purchasing pseudo ephedrine and
other supplies to manufacture
methamphetamine.
Crites allegedly admitted to
helping manufacture and purchasing methamphetamine.
• Rebecca L. Riggleman, 53 of
Moorefield was charged with one
count of attempting to operate a
clandestine drug laboratory and
one count of conspiracy.
• Albert R. Dean Jr., 29 of Romney, was charged with one count of
attempting to operate a clandestine drug laboratory and one count
of conspiracy
• Jody R. Williamson, 32, of
Fisher, was charged with one count
of attempting to operate a clandestine drug laboratory and one count
of conspiracy.
• Brandon A. Kline, 23, of
Moorefield was charged with one
count of attempting to operate a
clandestine drug laboratory and
one count of conspiracy.
• Sylvia A. Unger, 68, of Moorefield was charged with one count
of attempting to operate a clandestine drug laboratory and one count
of conspiracy.
According to court documents,
in July 2013, the Moorefield Police Department received information from various members of the
to provide a better education for
public that Unger and others were
their students.
allegedly operating a clandestine
West Virginia is among six drug laboratory in an outbuilding
states and the District of Colum- on Poplar Street. MPD received
permission from the property ownbia that are receiving grants. The
er to search the outbuildings and
grants total $38 million.
as a result, found items allegedly
US Grant to Assist W.Va. Schools
(AP) - U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has announced
a grant totaling $3.1 million to help
West Virginia turn around some of
its lowest-achieving schools.
The so-called school improvement grants are aimed at assisting
school districts that demonstrate
the greatest need for the funds, as
well as a commitment to raise student achievement.
Duncan said the funding represents a “tremendous opportunity”
for persistently struggling schools
associated with the manufacture of
methamphetamine. Conversations
between police and one of the suspects led to the arrest of the others.
The police report notes that Unger was the caregiver for the owner
of the property. In addition, the following people were indicted on Feb. 2 and arraigned on Feb. 11:
• Ashley N. Rexrode, 23, of
Moorefield, was charged with two
counts of delivery of a Schedule II
controlled substance. Court documents show West
Virginia State Police observed
Rexrode allegedly sell Percocet to
a confidential informant on June
5, 2012 at the Moorefield Sheetz
store and on June 19, 2012 at
Brighton Park. • Kyle L. Ours, 24, of Wardensville, was charged with one count
of breaking and entering, one
count of petit larceny and one
count of conspiracy.
According to court documents,
West Virginia State Police received a complaint of a breaking
and entering at Fox’s Pizza Den in
Wardensville on Nov. 17, 2012. On
Aug. 12, 2013, Wardensville Police
arrested Ours for petit larceny at
the 7-11 in Wardensville. Ours was
questioned about the breaking and
entering at Fox’s and Ours allegedly admitted he and another individual committed the crime.
• Jeffrey A. Brennan, 21, of Petersburg, was charged with one
count of malicious assault of a
child near a school. According to court documents,
Moorefield Police received a call
about an assault that occurred the
night before. The juvenile victim
said he was allegedly assaulted
by Brennan at a Moorefield High
School football game.
• William T. Price, 47, of Moorefield, was charged with two counts
of malicious assault.
Court
documents
indicate
Moorefield Police received a call
for a traumatic injury on Nov. 8,
2013. Upon arriving, MPD found
the victim bleeding from a head
wound. Later, the victim gave a
statement to police alleging Price
hit her twice with an ashtray. Price
allegedly told police he had an
argument with the victim, then
blacked out and couldn’t remember anything.
• Allen L. Crites, 63, of Moorefield, was charged with one count
of obtaining property in return for
a worthless check. According to court documents,
Crites presented a check for
$44,413.44 to a local business for
merchandise in May 2013. In early
June, the manager of the business
contacted Moorefield Police Department.
When MPD contacted Crites
and explained the severity of the
writing a worthless check, Crites
allegedly said he would take care
of the situation. On June 10, the
merchant again contacted MPD to
press charges against Crites.
All of those indicted pleaded not
guilty. The first pretrial hearing is
scheduled for Monday, Feb. 24.
All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. open. tive duty. Greenwalt thanked Fraley for installing the striping. The
unit needs lights and sirens which
will be donated by the Hardy
County Sheriff’s Department.
• The HCEAA will apply for a
grant to purchase two additional
heart monitors. Heart monitors are
required for the vehicles to be classified as Advanced Life Support. The next meeting of the HCEAA
will be held on Wednesday, March
12. Meetings are held at the RRT
Building, across from the 911 Center on Emergency Drive in Moorefield. The public is invited to attend.
Sparse Attendance at Ambulance Authority
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tions of the ordinance that haven’t
been met,” he said. “We are having
a terrible time with rental properties. The landlords can’t even keep
it straight.”
Initially, landlords were required to collect the ambulance
fee from their tenants and remit it
to the county. In January, several
landlords appealed to the commission to provide names of tenants
to the county so the tenants could
be billed directly. The commission
agreed. Now, it seems, the land-
lords are having difficulty providing those names and addresses. Call Volume and Payment
Hardy County 911 Center Director Paul Lewis said total EMS
call volume was approximately 190
in January. At the January meeting, the HCEAA voted to pay each
of the three ambulance services
$20 per call to offset some of their
expenses. Greenwalt said he would like to
wait until the outcome of the court
case before deciding to extend the
per-call payment on a long term
basis.
A motion was made, seconded
and approved to extend the percall payment until the next meeting. It is scheduled for March 12.
In its original budget, the
HCEAA allocated $100 per call to
each of the three ambulance companies. License Renewal
In preparation for the upcoming
West Virginia license renewal inspection next month, the HCEAA
has instituted a service agreement
on medical waste disposal. Board member Dave Pratt is
working to obtain a service agree-
ment for the HCEAA heart monitors. Greenwalt said he is in conversation with Dr. Carmen Rexrode
to act as Medical Director. The
original license listed Dr. Jerry
Hahn as medical director. Other Business
• Treasurer Tim Ramsey reported there was $86,198.91 in the
treasury.
• Dave Pratt suggested the
HCEAA sell three IV pumps and
four ventilators. The HCEAA acDirectors Reinstated
Four members of the HCEAA quired them when they purchased
board whose terms expired this used ambulances. They are only
month were reinstated by the necessary for critical care vehicles.
County Commission. Alex San- Pratt said he knew an organizatana, Ron Crites, Mary Fishel and tion that is interested in purchasDave Pratt will serve three-year ing them.
• The new chase unit is in the
terms. Grady Bradfield requested
he not be reappointed. His seat is process of being prepared for ac-
Sports
B
Section
Examiner
February 19, 2014
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Mountain Lions Snowball Moorefield
Story & Photos
By Carl Holcomb
Moorefield Examiner
Tucker County took a flurry of shots to start the
storm of a 19-0 run en route to a 64-43 victory, but the
Yellow Jackets weathered the onslaught to some degree bringing it down to single digits by half-time before the Mountain Lions pounced again last Wednesday.
“I told them the way we played in the second quarter, that’s the Moorefield team I’ve known us to be
early on in the year,” Moorefield Coach Pat McGregor commented.
“We kind of lost it for three games. We’re finally
getting ready to come back out of it. It’s a good time
to start playing better.The 19-point start, those things
have to go away. We played them a two point ball
game the rest of the way. We did make a couple runs
with them. I was pleased with our effort for three quarters, but our first quarter was horrible. The kids finally showed their hustle tonight. When you play Tom’s
[Gutshall] teams, if you don’t hustle it will be a long
night for you. You have to claw and scrap the whole
time or they are going to put it on you because they
execute. They never stop playing hard. That is Tucker
County Basketball, they play hard for four quarters. I
love playing them, I’m glad after the 19-0 start that we
woke up and started playing them. If we can continue
to build on those three quarters, we’ll be okay.”
The game started with a pass from Tucker County’s
Austin Zirk to Ian Nichols for a layup.
Derek Zirk stole the ball and dished to Mitchell
Mason who completed an old-fashioned three point
play.
Mason, Nichols, and Owen Evans scored within a
two minute span to extend the lead to 12-0.
Moorefield’s first point came on a free throw by
Dakota Vetter at the 2:06 mark to make it 19-1.
The Mountain Lions walked, then Moorefield’s
Dylan George made a good pass across the paint to
Vetter who drew a foul and netted both free throws.
The Yellow Jackets’ Aaron Cole stole the ball and
was fouled going up by Derek Zirk and calmly sank
both foul shots.
Tucker County (13-2) led 19-5 entering the second
quarter.
Moorefield’s Tyler Smith drew two defenders penetrating the paint and dished underneath to Cole for
a basket.
After a pair of foul shots by Nichols, Cole hit a
jumper along the baseline.
The Mountain Lions answered with a 3-pointer by
Landon Dillard.
Moorefield’s Austin Williams made a solid pass to
Cole who drew a foul while scoring a basket and made
extra hoop.
After a double foul and a jump ball, Evans was
called for goaltending when trying to tip-in a miss by
Nichols.
Williams drilled a 3-pointer with 3:04 left in the first
half to make it a 27-15 game.
The Yellow Jackets sandwiched field goals from Cole
got some athletic seniors and that makes a difference.
He doesn’t even have a senior.Our kids thought they
were tough. At times we executed well, then we would
do stupid stuff. I wasn’t too pleased with that. We
started off real well, then laxed off. When you are up
19-0, you’ve got to take it to somebody. We’ve got to
have that killer instinct.”
Moorefield started the second half with Cole drawing a third foul by Derek Zirk.
George got an offensive carom, then threw to Smith
who in turn found Vetter inside for a 30-23 score at
7:44.
The momentum looked good for a moment, then
the Mountain Lions got two consecutive field goals by
Nichols and Mason.
There was a series of fouls over the next couple of
minutes with a pair of free throws the only points coming for either team.
After a walk by the Yellow Jackets, Vetter blocked
a shot.
Moorefield’s Caleb Kite drove to the basket on the
ensuing possession and Mason was a little late getting
in position as collision occurred and a blocking foul
was assessed.
Kite made one of two free throws, then Nichols got
the rebound and passed to Austin Zirk who nailed a
3-pointer at 3:27, 39-27.
Moorefield (4-11) netted a shot in the paint a minute and a half later as Smith found Cole.
Nichols added a jumper as the Mountain Lions carried a 43-29 advantage into the fourth quarter.
Tucker County scored the first seven points of the
fourth quarter including a three point play by Austin
Zirk after a steal by Evans.
Moorefield got on the board with an inbound pass
by Williams to Smith for a 3-pointer at 6:29.
The Yellow Jackets started to press, then faded
back on defense.
Evans tired to get a ricochet rebound, but his save
went directly to Williams who dished to Tanner Carr
for a basket.
Evans made a jumper, then Cole responded with
a trifecta.
Derek Zirk made four free throws within 30 seconds and the Yellow Jackets missed two attempts.
Smith netted two foul shots at the 2:55 mark for a
58-39 score.
A minute later, Vetter got a defensive rebound and
passed to Smith who drove inside for a basket.
Williams added a jumper at 1:10 for a 60-43 score.
Cole stole the ball and passed to Williams who got
blocked by Nichols.
Tucker County’s Zachary Armstrong made an oldfashioned three point play after getting a defensive
Moorefield’s Caleb Kite was met with resistance by Tucker County’s Mitchell Mason on the way to the rebound.
After a free throw by Austin Zirk, Evans interceptbasket and a blocking foul was called during last Wednesday’s game at the Hive.
ed a pass to end the game.
Cole scored a game-high 20 points in the loss for
Moorefield.
around a shot by Tucker County’s Chase Alkire for a 30- within single digits at half-time, 30-21.
Smith contributed eight points, while Williams added
19 score with 35 seconds left.
“We played well at times,” Tucker County Coach
seven.
George grabbed a defensive rebound, then passed Tom Gutshall stated.
Tucker County was led in scoring by Nichols with 16
to Smith who alertly found Williams who made a short
“Moorefield played tough, they played a lot harder
Continued on page 2B
range jumper with four seconds on the clock to pull than the last time. Mac had them ready to play. We’ve
JacketMania Duo Wins Solo Home Tri-Match
Moorefield’s Sam Kesner got a tight hold for a pin against
Hampshire County’s Adam Barnes during last Tuesday’s
home match at Moorefield Intermediate School.
Story & Photos
By Carl Holcomb
Moorefield Examiner
Moorefield Wrestling held its first and only home match last Tuesday,
a tri-match against Frankfort and Hampshire County and the buzz of
JacketMania couldn’t be stopped.
The JacketMania Duo, 2013 state tournament representatives for
Moorefield, consists of sophomore Wil Schoonover and junior Sam
Kesner.
The tri-match was held at the Moorefield Intermediate School.
“It was good for us, too bad it was on the girls’ senior night or we
would have had more students here. They both wrestled well. I expect
for both to win,” Moorefield Coach Larry Schoonover remarked.
“We have the flu bug, that’s why everyone is out sick. Sam [Kesner]
is getting over it, so I told him to go out there and wrestle quick so he
doesn’t run out of energy. He did exactly what I told him. I’m thankful
to have a home match and thankful to Frankfort and Hampshire County
for coming to do it. We had a good time and everyone got some good
matches in. It is really good for Wil [Schoonover] as a sophomore in the
182-lb. class being undefeated at 30-0. We have some tough guys coming
Continued on page 3B
Field of Snow
Time to trade snowballs for baseballs: Baseball fans in Moorefield are waiting for this snow to melt.
Yellow Jacket Field had a new type of turf courtesy of Mother Nature.
2B - MOOREFIELD (WV) EXAMINER, Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Mountain Lions
Continued from page 1B
markers, followed by Austin Zirk with 13, and and Mason with 12.
This was the second meeting of the week between these two squads as the
Mountain Lions also won at home 85-46 on Monday.
Austin Zirk paced Tucker County with 23 points in that contest, followed
by Ian Nichols with 17, and Mitchell Mason with 14.
Moorefield was led by Austin Williams with 20 points, followed by Aaron
Cole with 12.
Moorefield’s Aaron Cole launched a shot over Tucker County’s Ian Nichols and Mitchell Mason.
PenMar-WV Semi
Pro Baseball
League Meeting
The PenMar-WV Semi Pro
Baseball League will hold a meeting on Sunday February 23rd at
the Riverside YMCA at 5pm for
coaches and league officials.
The PenMar League was founded in 1949, which is comprised for
summer baseball players of High
School and all above ages, 85% of
the league is made up of former
and existing college players.
The wooden bat league composed of four Teams in 2013,
Tristate Titans, Oakland Oaks,
Cumberland Orioles and the West
Virginia Powerhouse.
Possible new teams this season
will be the Cumberland Rockies,
Potomac Pirates, Salisbury and
Moorefield.
The league is still seeking possibilities in Frostburg, Mount Savage, Keyser, Romney, Petersburg,
Bedford and any surrounding areas.
Allegany County hosted the
2013 Maryland Semi Pro Championship series last year.
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up we haven’t seen, but they haven’t seen us.”
Schoonover dominated both matches to bolster
his undefeated record to 30-0, while Kesner stung his
opponents to improve to 23-7 on the year.
These matches had to wait as Hampshire County
and Frankfort battled it out on the mats with the Trojans emerging victorious 42-36.
Frankfort 182-lb. grappler Braxton Lewis defeated
Hampshire County’s Tyler Stewart with a pin in 34
seconds.
One highlight of the night was two exhibition bouts
between Hampshire County teammates.
The Moorefield fans were ready to see the future
state contenders battle and the time finally came.
The 170-lb. bout featured Moorefield’s Sam Kesner against Frankfort’s Josh Sutphin.
Kesner got an early takedown on Sutphin and put
him in a three-quarters hold for a pin in the first period with 27 seconds left.
“It didn’t matter who I wrestled, I just go out there
to wrestle to win,” Moorefield grappler Sam Kesner
noted.
“It was great [home match]. I haven’t had a home
match and I don’t think we had one last year. All I
did was put him down and put him in three-quarters, that is my signature move. I held him there and
pulled back on the mat. It is impossible to get out of
it once I get in tight.”
The 182-lb. weight class pitted the state’s second ranked grappler Wil Schoonover of Moorefield
against Frankfort’s Braxton Lewis who also qualified
for states last year.
Schoonover waited for the right moment in the
first period, then grabbed Lewis’ legs and lifted him
up for a takedown.
After going out of bounds wrestling, Schoonover
got a second takedown.
Lewis managed one escape in each period.
Schoonover added one takedown in the second
period, then two more in the third period for a 10-3
decision victory.
Kesner faced Hampshire County’s Adam Barnes
and was assessed an early penalty on a hold.
Both wrestlers grabbed each other’s heads for the
beginning of the match for some time.
There was stoppage time as Barnes needed to
wrap tape around his forehead due to bleeding.
Kesner made a shooting attempt at Barnes’ legs
but didn’t get the takedown.
Kesner got Barnes on the mat in the second period
and garnered the pin at 3:13.
Schoonover garnered a pin at the 1:30 mark (30
seconds left) in the first period against Hampshire
County’s Tyler Stewart.
Schoonover grabbed his waist and lifted him up
and over to the floor and earned near fall points before getting the final pin.
As a squad, the Yellow Jackets only had Schoonover
and Kesner competing since Joey Reyes and Tanner
George were out sick.
Hampshire County won 60-12 as a team over
Moorefield and Frankfort won 60-9.
The Yellow Jackets had a snowy trip to Grafton
last Saturday.
The Region II Wrestling Tournament is at Frankfort this weekend.
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strength lifting Hampshire County’s Tyler
Stewart up and twisting him over for a takedown.
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2/6/14
MEN’S SCRATCH GAME:
244-Jeremy Funkhouser 194-David Bennett 185-Doug Hose
MEN’S SCRATCH SERIES:
602-Jeremy Funkhouser 463Doug Hose 442-Mark Norwood
MEN’S HANDICAP GAME:
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426-Chris
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183-Carla
Heavner
177-Kristin Bailey
WOMEN’S
HANDICAP
SERIES: 513-Carla Heavner
507-Kristin Bailey
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MEN’S SCRATCH GAME:
247-Bob Hammons 209-Phillip
Crews 207-Ricky Parsons
MEN’S SCRATCH SERIES:
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Conrad 530-Lou Mazzeo
MEN’S HANDICAP GAME:
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256-Lou
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304-496-7777
U.S. Rt. 220
Moorefield, WV 26836
304-538-7066
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16x80 MOBILE HOME 3BR,
2BA, setup on rented lot near
Moorefield. Call 304-851-2300 or
304-851-2000. tfn
FOR SALE
HOUSES
FOR RENT
MOBILE HOMES
I HAVE for rent clean mobile
homes in Misty Terrace, at lower
prices than anywhere else. Call
Leslie Romero at 304-851-2222.tfn
2 and 3 BEDROOM MOBILE
homes for rent. Call 304-851-2300
or 304-851-2000. 2/22
FOR RENT
HOUSES
2BR, 1BA, CABIN on Trout Run
Road. 3 miles from Wardensville.
$485. per month, includes trash.
Deposit required. 703-938-7469. tfn
FABULOUS 3BR,3BA A-frame
home in great subdivision, furnished with wonderful views.
$1,200 plus utilities. For more information call 304-530-3100. tfn
2BR HOUSE IN Baker area. 304897-5813. tfn
OLD FARM house in the country.
2 Bedroom, shower bath and large
yard. 3 miles East of Moorefield
near Corridor H. Interior redone,
new paint and floor covering. City
water. $650 per month rent. Call
Bob at 304-851-7069cell or 304434-2388. tfn
BANK- OWNED HOMES. Free
list with pictures of the most-upto- date Bank Foreclosures and
Bank Owned homes for sale. Limited time offer. Request your free
list by calling my 24-Hr Free Recorded Message Hotline at: 1-800265-8407, ext. 1203 or visit www.
jakesforeclosurelist.com.
The
American Real Estate Co. (304)
788-8100. tfn
5 BEDROOM, 3 bath house with
GREAT DEAL on house in
barn and pasture. 3 miles south of
Moorefield on Mountain View
Moorefield on Rt.220. Call 304Drive. Call 304-358-2423.
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851-0444. $1200 per month. 2/22
NICE RENTAL! House for rent,
FOR SALE
located within city limits, 3 bedFARM EQUIPMENT
room, 2 bath, with yard, $750/
KUBOTA, GEHL, BushHog, and month . Call Ray 304-647-5027. Befco. 15 Kubota Cab tractors in 2/22
stock. See Woodstock Equipment 4 BEDROOMS, 2 bath house loCompany for Sales, Parts, and Ser- cated on Walnut Bottom Road. 6
vice. Woodstock VA. Call 540-459- miles from Moorefield. $650 plus
3233. tfn deposit. Call 304-434-2077. 2/22
Now Taking Applications
Yellowbud Place: 1 BR garden apartments, 2 &
3 BR town homes. Rent includes water, trash and
sewer. 1BR: $450.00. 2BR: $475.00 & 3BR: $575.00.
Many amenities include: dishwasher, stove, refrigerator
& garbage disposal. Laundry room on site and tot lot
for children. Security deposit equals 1 months rent.
Call 304-538-7082
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
Emily Anderson, Sales Agent
Office 304-874-3030 • Toll Free 1-877-293-3643
E-MAIL: [email protected]
WEBSITE: www.highlandtrace.com
1 BEDROOM, 1 bath for rent.
$575.00 per month. Call 703-9018446. Available March 1. 3/12
3 BEDROOM, 2 bath house 3
miles on Rt. 55 from Moorefield.
$600 per month plus security deposit. Call 304-538-2523. 2/21
STORAGE
*OLD FIELDS Storage* (Units
5x10) (10x10) (10x20). Located 4.5
Miles on Rt. 220 North of Moorefield. Call 304-530-3300, 304-5382346 or evenings 304-538-6785.tfn
WANTED
TO BUY
FOR RENT
APARTMENTS
JOY SENIOR apartments. Income based elderly housing.
HUD approved. Adjacent
to Senior Center. Potomac
Valley Transit available. Phone:
304-257-5494 or 304-400-3428. 2/26
OVERLOOK APARTMENTS,
in Petersburg, WV for elderly, 62
years of age or older, handicapped
or disabled regardless of age has
apartments available December 1.
Rent is based on 30% of adjusted
annual income. Equal Housing
Opportunity, Equal Opportunity
Provider, and Handicapped accessible. Please contact 304-822-6045,
TTY/TDD 800-982-8771. 2/26
3 BEDROOM, one bath apartment available for rent on the first
of March. All utilities included,
with washer and dryer hookup
along with central air . Off Street
parking available. Located on
Main Street in Moorefield. First
month’s rent with security deposit is required. Please call or text
Luke at 304-668-9506 or email at
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[email protected]. FOR RENT
WANTED TO buy firewood in
dump truck loads. Call 304-7497329. 2/22
WANTED
TO DO
*PAINTING ROOFS* 24 years
experience. Houses, Interior,
house roofs, barn roofs, church
roofs, poultry house roofs, outbuildings, mobile homes, fences,
staining log homes, businesses,
pressure washing. Call Ronald
Kimble, 304-358-7208.
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COMPUTER REPAIR – remove viruses, format (wipe clean)
hard drive, reinstall windows and
programs. $65.00. Also replace
cracked laptop screens and motherboards. House calls $25.00 304851-6852. 4/12
CAREGIVER FOR the elderly.
Eight years experience. If interested call 304-851-6539. 2/26
[email protected]
for adults, children, and families
in Grant, Hardy, & Pendleton
Counties. Masters Degree in human service field (psychology,
therapy, social work, etc.). Send
resume: FPS of WV, 315 S. Main
St., Moorefield, WV 26836; Fax:
304-538-3028; email: lweltonsee@
provcorp.com. FPS of WV is an
EEO employer. 2/22
THE WEST Virginia Schools
for the Deaf and Blind are currently accepting applications for
the following positions for the
2014-2015 school year: Director
of Special Education, Admissions
and Attendance--Administration;
Secretary II--Elementary School
for the Deaf; Agricultural Education Teacher--Secondary School
for the Deaf; Art Teacher--Campus Wide; English/Language Arts
Teacher--School for the Deaf; Library Aide/Aide II-IV--Schools for
the Deaf; Mathematics Teacher-School for the Blind; Mathematics Teacher--School for the Deaf;
Science Teacher for the Deaf. For
full job descriptions, application
forms or additional information
call 304-822-4820, email [email protected] or visit http://
wvsdb2.state.k12.wv.us. If interested in any of the positions listed,
please submit an applications for
each job classification that you
would like to be considered for
to : Sondra McKenery, Director
of Personnel, WVSDB, 301 East
Main Street, Romney, WV 26757,
by Tuesday, February 25, 2014, at
4:00pm. Lynn Boyer, Ph.D., Superintendent. Equal Opportunity
Employer. 3/1
SUMMER SEASONAL position with the Monongahela National Forest as a Park Aid at the
Seneca Rocks Discovery Center staffing the information desk,
stocking brochures and items for
sale, and performing indoor and
outdoor janitorial duties. Duty
station: Seneca Rocks, WV Pay
scale: GS-3 ($12.07/hr). To apply:
HELP
WANTED
THERAPIST TO provide inhome and community based assessments and therapy services
PHARMACY TECHNICIANS
Moorefield, WV
Looking for a new career
with room for advancement?
We are currently accepting applications for two
pharmacy technicians in the Moorefield, WV area.
At CVS we have an in-depth training program to
develop the skills required to become a
nationally certified technician. This position
requires you to have excellent customer services
skills, a flexible schedule and an eagerness to
learn new tasks.
Please call Ed Metheny at 304-538-2356.
REQUIREMENTS:
Customer Service Skills • Telephone Etiquette
Flexible Schedule to include nights and weekends
Cashier Duties • Data Entry, keyboard or typing skills
Pleasant personality • Work in a Team Atmosphere
Sense of Urgency
NEW!
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Baker Rocks
Accounting Service
304-538-2830
6559 US Hwy 220 S
Moorefield, WV
•INSURANCE
•AIR CONDITIONING & HEATING CONTRACTORS
•ANIMAL HOSPITAL
•ELECTRICAL
•HOME IMPROVEMENT
HOME IMPROVEMENT
Loften Builders
304-530-7224 (SBAH)
5201 US Rt 220 S
Moorefield, WV 26836
[email protected]
www.southbranchanimalhospital.com
Sales,
Installation,
& Service of
304-530-5400
Emergency
Generators
Sales &
Installation
Kenneth & Denise Dove, Owners
License #WV037343
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Precision
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Jim Teter, Owner
Cell# 304-257-8882
Owner Jeff Saville
Licensed & Insured WV041077
MOOREFIELD EXAMINER
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Call 540-746-3361 or
Cell 1-304-358-7830
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States or the state of West Virginia for an employer or employment agency to print or circulate or cause to be printed or to use in any
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304-538-6677
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Furnaces
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Moorefield, WV 26836
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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 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, amilial 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.
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log onto www.usajobs.gov. Search
for vacancy announcement: 14
TEMP110921-012304LS-DT. For
more information, email Kevin at
[email protected] or call(304)
567-2827x12. Applications are due
by midnight1/20/14. 2/22
SUMMER SEASONAL position with the Monongahela National Forest as a Park Ranger at
the Seneca Rocks Discovery Center, assisting with center operations, including maintenance inventory and stock of interpretive
items, staffing the information
desk, and performing indoor and
outdoor janitorial duties. Duty
Station: Seneca Rocks, WV. Pay
scale:GS-5 9$15.15/hr.). To apply: log on to www.usajobs.gov.
Search for vacancy announcement:
14-TEMP110921-012276LS-dt.
For more information, email Kevin
at [email protected] or call (304567-2827x12. Applications are due
by midnight 2/20/14. 2/22
EGG GATHERS needed in the
Fisher area. Couples preferred.
Call 304-434-2638 leave message.
2/22
EACHS HEAD Start has the following position available: Substitute Teacher for Hardy, Hamp-
shire, Grant or Pendleton counties.
Qualifications: A Baccalaureate
in Early Childhood Education required. Experience teaching preschool age children preferred. For
wage information please call the
administrative office at the number
listed below. Applications need to
be submitted complete by February 121, 2014. Applications may
be obtained from/submitted to:
EACHS Head Start, Administrative Office, 112 Beans Lane, Suite
102, Moorefield, WV 26836, 304530-5511, between the hours of
8am-3:30pm. 2/19
FULL TIME Class A, CDL driver.
2 years+ experience. Dedicated
lane. JKC Transport, Inc. 170 5th
Street, Broadway, VA. 22815.
540-896-8800. 2/26.
NOTICE
SEPTIC TANKS Pumped M & M
Septic Service. Call 304-257-3191. tfn
KING AND Queen Pageant.
March 2nd Moorefield. $15 entry fees. 304-263-1499 or [email protected]. 3/1
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT
OF TRANSPORTATION
Division of Highways
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Bids will be received electronically by the West Virginia Department of Transportation,
Division of Highways through the Bid Express Bidding Service (www.bidx.com) and by
the sealed proposals (only when prequalification is waived) being received at its office in
Building 5, Room A-748, 1900 Kanawha Boulevard East, Charleston, West Virginia until
April 15, 2014 at 10:00 A.M.(Eastern Standard Time). The bids will be downloaded and/or
opened and publicly thereafter for the construction of the following project (s):
-----------------------------------Call: 003
Contract: 1329005
State Project: S316-259-1.98 SEC 00
Federal Project: STP-0259(186)D
Description:
RESURFACING
Mattie Snyder Rd-Halterman Hollow/Resurface
Midpoint
COUNTY: HARDY
DBE GOAL: 2% OF CONTRACT BID AMOUNT. BIDDER MUST PROVIDE WRITTEN
ASSURANCE OF MEETING GOAL ON FORM IN PROPOSAL
-----------------------------------Proposals will be received from prequalified and West Virginia licensed contractors
only except that on Federal-Aid Projects a contractors’ license is not required at time of
bid, but will be required before work can begin. Registration is required with the Department of Administration, Division of Purchasing, in accordance with Chapter 5A, Article 3,
Section 12 of the West Virginia Code. All contractors submitting bids on project (s) must
include one of the following forms properly executed with each proposal: Proposal Guaranty Bond, Cashier’s Check, or Certified Check for $500.00 or 5% of total bid, whichever
is greater.
*These are projects on which any contractor with a Category “W” Prequalification
Rating may be eligible to bid.
The West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways reserves the
right to defer, delay or postpone the date for receiving and publicly opening proposals
for any project designated in this advertisement, without the necessity of renewing such
advertisement. All bidders holding valid bidding proposals will be notified of such deferment, delay or postponement and the date that proposals will be received and publicly
opened.
The West Virginia Department of Transportation, Division of Highways hereby notifies
all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this
advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit
bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of
race, color, religion, sex or national origin in consideration for an award.
WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Division of Highways,
Gregory L. Bailey, P.E.,
Deputy State Highway Engineer - Programming and Planning
2/12, 2/19 2c
PUBLIC SALE OF AUTOMOBILES
OPEN BIDS
Pursuant to the appropriate provisions of the West Virginia Uniform Commercial Code,
the undersigned Capon Valley Bank, a secured creditor, will sell at Public Sale to the
highest bidder on:
MARCH 1, 2014
10:00 AM
At 2 West Main Street, Wardensville, WV, the following repossessed vehicles:
YEAR & MAKE
2004 DODGE
2006 HYUNDAI
1996 HONDA
1998 JEEP
2002 FORD
Office: 304-788-8100
Tim Brinkman: 301-707-0616
Jake VanMeter: 304-813-5445
Allie Crawford: 301-707-9391
Moorefield, WV – BRICK HEARTH! Enjoy
evenings by the fire in the large family
room. Built in 2005, this Brick & Siding 3
BR 3 BA Split Foyer home will provide the
new owners w/years of maintenance free
living. Central A/C & attached 2 car garage
all on a large wooded estate.
Just $134,900
Petersburg, WV - LOG HOME WITH VIEWS!
Magnificent windows and woodwork from
floor to ceiling. Space to spread your wings
on 2.43 ac. Nice stone-work and patio in
rear, plus paved driveway & 2-car garage w/
workshop. Central A/C w/ Heat Pump and
gas FP insert make for easy, low
maintenance living. Loft area makes great
office. Reduced $254,900
Moorefield, WV – A BEAUTIFUL SLICE of
Almost Heaven, WV! Mostly wooded 40
acre parcel on High Knob, within a
mountain top recreational subdivision.
Several building sites, easy access, and it
can be further divided. Great vacation
getaway, future investment, future homesite, lots of possibilities. $104,900
Tim Brinkman, Broker
MODEL
DURANGO
AZERA
CIVIC
G. CHEROKEE
EXPLORER VEHICLE SERIAL NUMBER
1D4HB48D64F199427
KMHFC46F86A034044
1HGEJ6577TL040589
1J4GZ58S4WC338638
1FMZU72E02UC97310
Open bids will be accepted up to the date and time of sale at Capon Valley Bank of
Wardensville, West Virginia, and same will be opened and announced prior to the commencement of the bidding on sale day. Capon Valley Bank reserves the right to: (1) reject
any or all bids and (2) continue the sale to any other time and place.
Anyone wishing to inspect any vehicle or equipment please contact WENDY MILLER
at (304) - 874-3531 Ext. 101. All bids should be forwarded to Wendy J. Miller, c/o Capon
Valley Bank, P.O. Box 119, Wardensville, WV 26851.
Bids must be received by 9:00 AM on SATURDAY MARCH 1, 2014. Terms of sale shall
be cash on day of sale.
2/19, 2/26 2c
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF HARDY
COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA
KEVIN DELLINGER,
Administrator of the Estate of
Marlene Yvonne See, deseased,
PLANTIFF
vs
CAROLYN REEL, BETTY MILLER, ANGELA CORDERO,BARBARA CRONISE,
NANCY STOWERS, DARRELL SEE,
DONNA MCKEE, TERRY SEE, ALLEN
SEE, JERRY SEE, DENNIS SEE, HENRY
ELSEA, STEVEN ELSEA, RUE J. BUSH
WILDMAN, RICHARD B. PARK, GENIE
“EUGENIA” PARK CLEAVER, GROVER
SEE, VIOLA KEMP, PHYLLIS WOLFE,
VIOLA CARR, ESTHER SEE CALHOUN,
SHELVY BOYD, SANDRA LOCKE, RONNIE COMBS, HARLAN COMBS, ROGER
COMBS, GARY COMBS, LARRY COMBS,
BOBBY RAY COMBS, MARY BETH
COMBS SHAVER, RETTA COMBS BUNTING, BETTY FLORES, BRENDA COMBS
SULSER, and The Unknown Heirs of Marlene Y. See, deceased,
Serving the Eastern Panhandle
DEFENDANTS.
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
The object of this civil action is to ascertain the identity of the intestate heirs of
Marlene See, deceased, and the ownership interest of each of the intestate heirs
at law of Marlene See, deceased, who died
without a Will, a resident of Wardensville,
Hardy County, West Virginia, on April 9,
2012, so that the Administrator may distribute monies which he currently holds in
his fiduciary account to each of them in the
amount to which they are legally entitled.
It also appearing by affidavit filed in
this action that the following persons are
nonresidents of the State of West Virginia:
Darrell See, Donna McKee, Terry See, Allen
See, Jerry See, Dennis See, Henry Elsea,
Steven Elsea, Rue J. Bush Wildman, Viola
Kemp, Shelvy Boyd, Sandra Locke, Ronnie Combs, Harlan Combs, Roger Combs,
Gary Combs, Larry Cmobs, Retta Combs
Bunting, Betty Flores, Esther See Calhoun,
Betty Miller, Angela Cordero, Barbara
Cronise, and Nancy Stowers; that there
may be persons other than those named
above as Defendants who are heirs of law
of Marlene Yvonne See and interested in
her Estate as distributes, whose names are
unknown and who are made Defendants
under the general description of unknown
Defendants, i.e. unknown heirs at law of
Marlene Yvonne See, deceased; and that
each of them can obtain a copy of said
complaint from Oscar M. Bean, the Plaintiff’s Attorney, at his office located at 116
Washington Street, Moorefield, WV 26836.
It is ordered that they do appear and
serve upon Oscar M. Bean, Plaintiff’s attorney, of Bean & Bean, Attorneys at Law,
whose address is 116 Washington Street,
P.O. Drawer 30, Moorefield, WV 26836,
an answer to or otherwise defense to the
Complaint heron filed on or before the 17th
day of March, 2014, which is not less than
thirty days from the first publication of this
Notice. Otherwise, judgement by default
may be taken against them at any time
thereafter.
A copy of said Complaint can be obtained from the undersigned Clerk at her
office located in the Courthouse of Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia.
Entered by the Clerk of the Circuit Clerk
of Hardy County, West Virginia, on this 6th
Day of February, 2014.
TESTE: Clerk of Said Court
By Deborah J. Hines
Her Deputy
2/12, 2/19, 2/26 3c
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
Pursuant to the authority vested in the
undersigned Richard A. Pill, Substitute
Trustee by Notice of Substitution of Trustee
which notice is of record in the Office of the
Clerk of the County of Commission of Hardy, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book 279
at Page 803 and by Deed of Trust dated
October 19, 2004, executed by Charles A.
Michaels and Diana J. Michaels to BB&T
Collateral Service Corporation, Trustee,
which deed of trust is of record in the Office
of the Clerk of Hardy County, West Virginia,
in Trust Deed Book 201 at Page 707, the
undersigned Substitute Trustee has been
requested, in writing, by the beneficiary of
said deed of trust to sell the real estate described below, as there has been a default
under the terms and conditions of said
deed of trust. Therefore, the undersigned
Substitute Trustee will sell the real estate
described in the Deed of Trust, at a public
auction on March 11, 2014 at 10:30 a.m.
to the highest bidder at the front door of
the Courthouse of said County of Hardy, in
Moorefield, West Virginia, which real estate
is more completely described as follows:
That certain parcel of real estate, together with all rights, improvements, privileges,
rights-of-way and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anyway pertaining, situate, lying and being in Moorefield District,
Hardy County, West Virginia, being more
particularly described as follows, to-wit:
Lot No. 351 Section 16 “Ashton Woods”,
as is more fully shown upon a Plat of Survey thereof, prepared by L & WEnterprises,
Inc., dated June 16, 2004, and recorded in
the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Hardy County, West Virginia, in
Plat Book 7, at Page 42.
TERMS OF SALE
1. Cash in hand paid on the day of sale.
2. The sale of the property will be made
subject to all matters having priority over
the deed of trust referred to herein including but not limited to any and all assessments and taxes against said property, all
prior liens, encumbrances, lease, restrictions, covenants, conditions, right of ways
and easements of any nature whatsoever.
3. The purchaser shall be responsible
for the payment of the transfer taxes imposed by West Virginia Code § 11-22-2.
4. The subject property will be sold in
“AS IS” condition. The Substitute Trustee
makes no representations and warranties
of any kind or character including, but not
limited to, the condition of the real estate or
the title to the real estate to be conveyed.
5. The Substitute Trustee shall be under
no duty to cause any existing tenant or
person occupying the subject property
to vacate said property.
6. The Substitute Trustee reserves the
right to adjourn the sale, for a time, or from
time to time, without further notice by announcement at the time and place of the
sale described above.
7. The beneficiary of the Deed of Trust
and holder of the note thereby secured
reserves the right to submit a bid for the
property at the sale, which bid may be in
the form of a credit bid.
8. The successful bidder will be required to execute a memorandum of sale
upon the acceptance of the successful
bid by the Substitute Trustee. The Substitute Trustee will deliver a trustee’s deed
to the purchaser without any covenant or
warranty (express or implied) in the form
prescribed by W.Va. Code § 38-1-6 upon
receipt of the purchase price in “good and
available funds”.
Given under my hand this 6th day of
February, 2014.
Richard A. Pill, Substitute Trustee
304-263-4971
[email protected]
2/19, 2/26 2c
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF HARDY
COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA
THAT BEING THE JUVENILE COURT OF
SAID COUNTY
IN RE:P.B. D.0.B.8/13/2013
TO: Unknown Father
David Weathers
Dominique
Jay Mills
NOTICE OF PENDING ACTION
14-JA-I
You are hereby notified of the above
styled action pending in the Circuit Court of
Hardy County, West Virginia, that can
result in the permanent termination of your
parental, custodial and/or guardianship
rights. Every child, parent, custodian and/
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
M175 – Home, 3br 1ba, front
& back porches, new roof, new
siding, new carport, excellent
location within walking distance
to high school, close hospital
and airport. Petersburg $96,000.
M172 – Immaculate Ranch
Home, 2780 sq.ft. finished,
4br 2ba, on 2.8 acres, easy
access, near S. Branch River
public access. Trough Rd, Moorefield. $210,000.
M176 – Immaculate home in nice
location at a reasonable price. This
home was redone five years ago
with new cabinets, new appliances
and new paint. Ready for new owners. Wardensville $135,000.
M163 – 3br Rambler on onehalf acre lot with 3-car
garage, close to town, easy
access.
Wardensville
$185,000.
M156 – Comfortable Cabin, 2br
1ba, on 10.5 acres, awesome
views, very peaceful, five
common areas. High Knob, Old
Fields. Reduced to $189,500.
(304) 538-2100
M134 – Warden Circle, 3br
2ba, with garage, on .49 acre
lot located minutes from
town, excellent views.
Wardensville $155,000.
M091 – LAKEFRONT HOME
on 1200 acre lake,on 2
acres,in upscale community.
Private dock & boat ramp. 3 br,
2.5 baths open floor plan
cathedral ceilings with upper level overlooking fireplace L.R.
and & lake. large glass windows on all sides and 3 porches
for lake views reduced $395,000
COMMERCIAL
M173 – Investors Dream—50,000 sq. ft. Commercial
Building on 2.4 acres, fronting on three city streets, numerous
opportunities here. Moorefield. REDUCED $100,000.
$398,000.
LOT & LAND
M174 – 4.15 acres, nice tract, well, septic & electric in place.
Mtn. Meadows S/D. Lost River St. Park Rd. REDUCED
$45,000.
M159 – 20.59 acres, wooded, near 4-lane, easy access.
Wardensville $66,000.
116 N. Main St., Moorefield, WV 26836
Lois Groves – BROKER
www.CentralRealtyWV.com
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or guardian has a right to counsel at every
stage in this proceeding.
This case is scheduled for Adjudicatory
Hearing before the Circuit Court of Hardy
County, West Virginia, on April 21, 2014 @
11:00 a.m. This Hearing will be held at the
Hardy County Courthouse, 204 Washington St., Moorefield, WV 26836.
You must appear at the Hearing set forth
above to protect and defend your interests.
You are also required by law to file an answer in this action before April 21, 2014.
Lary Garrett, a competent local attorney
has been appointed as your attorney in this
matter. He can be contacted at P.O. Box
510, Moorefield, WV 26836 or (304) 5382375; facsimile (304) 530-6807.
You can obtain a copy of the petition
filed in this matter and further information
about this case from the Hardy County
Circuit Clerk’s Office located at the Hardy
County Courthouse, 204 Washington St.,
Moorefield, WV 26836 or by calling their
office at (304) 530-0230 or facsimile (304)
530-0231.
Lucas J. See,
Prosecuting Attorney,
Counsel for Petitioner
Hardy County Courthouse
204 Washington St., Room 104
Moorefield, WV 26836
Phone: (304) 530-0200
Facsimile: (304) 530-0201
2/19, 2/26 2c
Request For Proposals
The Region VIII Solid Waste Authority (Region VIII SWA) is accepting sealed
proposals from interested vendors for site
preparation and construction of two (2) 40’
x 40’ x 18’ metal buildings (post framing allowed). One building will be constructed
at each of our solid waste transfer stations
located near Petersburg, WV and Romney,
WV. Proposals shall be submitted in accordance with the proposal instructions. The
proposal instructions are available by contacting the Region VIII SWA at (304) 2572644 or [email protected] The Region
VIII SWA reserves the right to reject any or
all proposals.
2/19, 2/26 2c
MEETING NOTICE
The Hardy County Board of Health will
Meet in regular session on Wednesday,
February 26th, 2014 at 7:00 PM in the Conference Room of the Hardy County Health
Department, 411 Spring Avenue, Moorefield, WV. A complete agenda will be available at above address three days Prior to
the meeting.
2/19, 2/26 2c
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
IN THE FAMILY COURT OF HARDY
COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA
IN THE MATTER OF
J.T.R.
Civil Action No. 14-FIG-1
THE OBJECT OF THIS SUIT IS: PETITION
FOR APPOINTMENT OF GUARDIAN
To the above named Respondent:
It appearing by affidavit in this action
that after diligence to determine the address of Tracy Gene Rice, residency is
unknown, it is hereby ordered that Tracy
Gene Rice served upon Luther Whetzel Jr.,
whose address is: 4941 Lower Arkansaw
Rd., Rio, WV 26755, an Answer, including
any related counterclaim or defense you
may have to the Petition for Appointment
of Guardian filed in this action, on or before
March 21, 2014. If you fail to do so, thereafter judgement, upon proper hearing and
trial, may be taken against you for the relief
demanded in the Petition.
A copy of said Petition can be obtained
from the undersigned Clerk at her office.
Entered by the Clerk of said Court on
this 10th day of February, 2014.
Kimberly Hartman
CLERK OF COURT
by Kelly Shockey, Deputy
2/19, 2/26 2c
IN THE FAMILY COURT OF HARDY
COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA
IN THE MARRIAGE OF
Malcolm S. Merry, Peitioner
VS. Domestic Action NO.: 14-D-20
Rhemie O. Barley, respondent
ORDER OF PUBLICATION
The object of the above entitled action is
for the Petitioner to obtain a divorce.
To the above named Respondent:
It appearing by affidavit in this action
that Rhemie O. Barley is a non-resident of
the State of West Virginia and the United
States and her whereabouts unknown, it
is ORDERED that Rhemie O. Barley serve
upon William H. Judy, III, Petitioner’s Attorney, whose address is Judy & Judy, Attorneys at Law, P.O. Box 636, Moorefield West
Virginia, an Answer, including any related
counterclaim or defense you may have to
the Petition for Divorce filed in this action
on or before the 5th day of April, 2014. If
you fail to do so, thereafter judgement,
upon proper hearing and trial, may be
taken against you for the relief demanded
in the petition.
A copy of said Petition can be obtained
from the undersigned Clerk at her office
located in Moorefield in said County and
State.
Entered by the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Hardy County, West Virginia, this the
10th day of February, 2014.
Kimberly Evans, Clerk
By: Deborah J. Hines, Deputy
2/19, 2/26 2c
6B - MOOREFIELD (WV) EXAMINER, Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Summit Financial Reports 4th Quarter and Full Year Results
Summit Financial Group, Inc.
reported fourth quarter 2013 net
income applicable to common
shares of $2.59 million, or $0.29
per diluted share, compared with
$1.91 million, or $0.22 per diluted
share, for the fourth quarter of
2012. Fourth quarter 2013 results,
as compared to the same period
in 2012, were positively impacted
primarily by a lower provision for
loan losses.
Excluding from fourth quarter
2013 (on a pre-tax basis) realized
securities gains of $124,000, gains
on sales of foreclosed properties
of $28,000, and write-downs of
foreclosed properties of $644,000,
and from fourth quarter 2012 realized securities gains of $103,000,
losses on sales of foreclosed properties of $94,000, charges for other-than temporary impairment
(“OTTI”) of securities of $76,000
and write-downs of foreclosed
properties of $748,000, fourth
quarter 2013 earnings would have
approximated $2.90 million, or
$0.32 per diluted share, compared
to $2.42 million, or $0.28 per diluted share, for the year-ago period.
For the full-year 2013, Summit
recorded net income applicable to
common shares of $7.29 million,
or $0.84 per diluted share, compared with $4.94 million, or $0.60
per diluted share, for 2012.
Excluding from the full-year
2013 (on a pre-tax basis) realized
securities gains of $240,000, losses on sales of foreclosed properties of $518,000, OTTI charges of
$118,000 and write-downs of foreclosed properties of $3.72 million,
and from the fullyear 2012 realized securities gains of $2.35 million, losses on sale of foreclosed
properties of $677,000, OTTI
charges of $451,000 and writedowns of foreclosed properties
of $6.86 million, earnings for the
full-year 2013 would have approximated $9.89 million, or $1.12 per
diluted share, compared to $8.49
million, or $0.97 per diluted share,
for 2012.
Highlights for Q4 2013 include:
• Best quarter’s earnings per diluted share since Q4 2008.
• Eleventh consecutive quarter
of positive quarterly earnings.
• Nonperforming assets declined for the eighth consecutive
quarter, reaching its lowest level
since Q4 2008.
• Net interest margin increased
9 basis points compared to Q3
2013 and 5 basis points compared
to the year-ago period.
• The provision for loan losses
remained unchanged compared to
the $1.00 million recorded in Q3
2013, and was less than half the
amount recorded in Q4 2012.
• Recorded charges to writedown foreclosed properties of
$644,000, compared to $654,000
in Q3 2013 and $748,000 in Q4
2012.
• Summit’s regulatory capital
ratios are at the highest levels in
thirteen years.
H. Charles Maddy, III, President and Chief Executive Officer
of Summit, commented, “We are
very pleased to report the past
quarter’s and year’s improved
earnings performance, increased
net interest margin, reductions in
the portfolio of problem assets
and strengthened capital levels.
Our problem assets remain our
top priority, and we are encouraged by the 23 percent reduction
in our nonperforming assets over
the past 12 months. However, dispositions of foreclosed properties
remain challenging -- particularly
with respect to commercial and
residential development properties. Further, our near term quarterly earnings could fluctuate as
foreclosed properties are re-appraised and adjusted to estimated
fair values on an ongoing basis,
but we anticipate such charges in
2014 will approximate or be less
than the amounts recorded in
2013.”
Total revenue for the fourth
quarter 2013, consisting of net
interest income and noninterest
income, was $12.9 million compared to $12.7 million for the
fourth quarter 2012. For the fullyear 2013, total revenue was $50.0
million compared to $52.7 million
for 2012.
Total revenue excluding realized securities gains of $124,000
was $12.8 million for fourth quarter 2013 compared to total revenue excluding realized securities gains of $103,000 and OTTI
of securities of $76,000 of $12.7
million for the same prior-year
quarter. For the full-year 2013, total revenue excluding these same
items was $49.9 million compared
to $50.8 million for the full-year
2012.
For the fourth quarter of 2013,
net interest income increased to
$10.0 million, compared to $9.9
million reported in the prior-year
fourth quarter and $9.5 million
reported in the linked quarter.
The net interest margin for fourth
quarter 2013 was 3.24 percent
compared to 3.15 percent for the
linked quarter, and 3.19 percent
for the year-ago quarter.
Noninterest income, consisting
primarily of insurance commissions from Summit’s insurance
agency subsidiary and service fee
income from community banking
activities, for fourth quarter 2013
was $2.9 million compared to $2.8
million for the comparable period
of 2012. Excluding realized securities gains and OTTI of securities,
noninterest income was $2.77 mil-
lion for fourth quarter 2013, compared to the $2.82 million reported for fourth quarter 2012.
The provision for loan losses
was $1.0 million for the fourth
quarter and linked quarter of 2013
compared to $2.5 million for the
year-ago quarter.
Noninterest expenses continue
to be well-controlled. Total noninterest expense increased 1.9% for
the quarter to $8.4 million from
the $8.3 million reported in fourth
quarter 2012. Excluding from
fourth quarter 2013 noninterest
expense (on a pre-tax basis) gains
on sales of foreclosed properties
of $28,000 and write-downs of
foreclosed properties of $644,000
and from fourth quarter 2012 losses on sales of foreclosed properties of $94,000 and write-downs of
foreclosed properties of $748,000,
noninterest expense would have
approximated $7.8 million for
fourth quarter 2013 compared
to $7.4 million for fourth quarter
2012.
Noninterest expense for the
full-year 2013 decreased 6.7%
compared to the full-year 2012.
Excluding from full-year 2013
noninterest expense (on a pre-tax
basis) losses on sales of foreclosed
properties of $518,000 and writedowns of foreclosed properties
of $3.7 million and from full-year
2012 losses on sales of foreclosed
properties of $677,000 and writedowns of foreclosed properties
of $6.9 million, noninterest expense would have approximated
$30.5 million for full-year 2013,
compared to $29.7 million for the
comparable period of 2012.
At December 31, 2013, total assets were $1.39 billion, a decrease
of $877,000, or 0.1 percent since
December 31, 2012. Total loans,
net of unearned fees and allowance for loan losses, were $937.1
million at December 31, 2013, almost unchanged from the $937.2
million reported at year end 2012.
At December 31, 2013, deposits were $1.00 billion, a decrease
of $23.3 million, or 2.3 percent,
since year end 2012. During 2013,
interest bearing checking deposits
grew $10.9 million, or 6.2 percent,
to $186.6 million, while time deposits decreased by $26.8 million,
or 4.8 percent. Long-term borrowings and subordinated debentures
declined by 16.6 percent since
year end 2012, as the Company
paid down $39.8 million in maturing borrowings during 2013.
As of December 31, 2013, nonperforming assets (“NPAs”), consisting of nonperforming loans,
foreclosed properties, and repossessed assets, were $72.3 million,
or 5.22 percent of assets. This
compares to $77.0 million, or 5.55
percent of assets at the linked
quarter, and $94.0 million, or 6.77
percent of assets at December 31,
2012.
Fourth quarter 2013 net loan
charge-offs were $1.4 million, or
0.58 percent of average loans annualized, while adding $1.0 million to the allowance for loan losses. The allowance for loan losses
stood at $12.7 million, or 1.33 percent of total loans at December
31, 2013, compared to 1.88 percent at December 31, 2012.
Shareholders’ equity was $111.1
million as of December 31, 2013
compared to $108.6 million at December 31, 2012.
Summit’s regulatory total riskbased capital ratio of 14.5 percent
at December 31, 2013, was unchanged compared to September
30, 2013, and increased compared
to 14.0 percent at December 31,
2012. The Company’s December
31, 2013 Tier 1 leverage capital
ratio of 8.9 percent is unchanged
from September 30, 2013 and up
nicely from 8.3 percent at December 30, 2012.
Summit’s depository institution, Summit Community Bank,
Inc., is well in excess of regulatory
requirements for a “well capitalized” institution at September 30,
2013. The Bank’s total risk-based
capital ratio was 15.7 percent at
December 31, 2013 compared
to 15.5 percent at September 30,
2013 and 15.0 percent at December 31, 2012, while its Tier 1 leverage capital ratio was unchanged
at 10.4 percent compared to September 30, 2013 and up from the
9.8% reported at December 31,
2012.
The Bank received regulatory
approval for and paid an upstream
dividend of $1.0 million during Q4
2013, representing the second
such dividend of the year. In 2013,
upstream dividends totaling $2.0
million were paid to Summit, representing the first such dividends
paid since 2008.
Total common shares outstanding as of December 31, 2013 were
7,451,022 compared to 7,425,472
shares as of December 31, 2012.
Summit Financial Group, Inc.
is a $1.39 billion financial holding company headquartered in
Moorefield, West Virginia. Summit provides community banking
services primarily in the Eastern
Panhandle and South Central regions of West Virginia and the
Northern and Shenandoah Valley regions of Virginia, through
its bank subsidiary, Summit Community Bank, Inc., which operates
15 banking locations. Summit also
operates Summit Insurance Services, LLC in Moorefield, West
Virginia and Leesburg, Virginia.
Applications Open for Reading Program W.Va. Saves $2.2 on Education Bulk Buys
(AP) - AmeriCorps is looking
for 500 mentors and community
coordinators for a summer program that helps 3,000 West Virginia children maintain and improve
reading skills.
Energy Express is an eight-week
program offered in rural and lowincome communities. It’s run by
AmeriCorps and the West Virgin-
ia University Extension Service. It
also provides children with good
nutrition.
Mentors are college or collegebound students willing to help
children study reading, writing, art
and drama. They also make family
visits and complete a community
service project.
Community coordinators re-
cruit volunteers, help raise awareness and involve family and community members in a child’s
learning.
For 300 hours of service, mentors and coordinators get an
$1,850 living allowance and a
$1,175 Segal AmeriCorps Education Award, good toward college
tuition or loans.
(AP) - The West Virginia Board
of Education says buying supplies
in bulk helped county school systems save more than $2.2 million
in 2013.
The board learned this week
that the state’s eight Regional
Education Service Agencies made
the savings possible through a co-
operative service agreement in
place since 2011.
The agreement allows counties
to buy instructional supplies and
school-related necessities such as
custodial supplies at a bulk rate.
The agreement also allowed
counties to purchase more than
$8.1 million in items such as ath-
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MOOREFIELD (WV) EXAMINER, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 - 7B
Biking Blog: Cycling For The Football Fan - Part II
Courtesy of the Blue Ridge
Outdoors Magazine
Story By Curtis Winsor
[Previously] I wrote an article titled
“Cycling For The Football Fan – Part I”
comparing professional football players
and professional cyclists. But more important than any player, any team, or any record is the fan. The 12th man, the “tifosi,”
Fireman Fred, and the side-seat coaches
yelling at the TV. What would sport be
without an audience?
The pursuit of achievement can be a
quiet, solo, internal struggle to improve,
go faster, and climb higher, but the stage
upon which we attempt to validate our
work is a public one. In front of thousands
on the turf or on the pavement fans cheer,
chug beer, chant, dress up, heckle, and
well…drink more beer.
From tailgating to foam fingers and
rowdy shirtless men, again cycling and
football are not that dissimilar…
THE STADIUM
With a seating and standing room capacity of 105,000, AT&T Stadium, home
to the Dallas Cowboys, is the largest stadium by a landslide. America’s team plays
on artificial turf in a temperature controlled environment.
Cycling offers unique venue experiences that also draw massive crowds. Though
I have never competed in the Tour de
France, I have attended two editions;
while working for Gripped Films on Chasing Legends in 2009 and again for NBC
in 2011. The race is more than a race. It’s
an adventure, a national heritage, a parade, an excuse to party for a month, and
oh yeah… a bike race. With more than 12
million people in attendance, and reach
of 3.5 BILLION worldwide, the Tour
dwarfs our Super Bowl. Some sections
of the race, like the famous Alpe d’Huez
climb draws more than 1 million spectators alone!
Back stateside, while we don’t have a
100 year-old, month-long sporting event
that captures the entire world, we still
have many huge events of our own. Criteriums, or short downtown circuit races,
less than a mile in length, dominate the
calendar for many elite and professional
riders. Races like Athens Twilight, held in
Athens Georgia, draw more than 30,000
spectators! Stages of major US stage races
draw upwards of 200,000.
THE TAILGATE
Burgers, corn hole, and light beer are
the norm in parking lots around the nation on game day. Content to battle for
ladder ball top honors, some fans don’t
even go in to the stadium. Sitting in camping chairs in the beds of their F150s, fans
argue about who’s the best quarterback of
all time. It’s obviously Mark Sanchez. Just
kidding…sorry Jets fans.
But cycling fans take the tailgating to
whole new level. With road closures to accommodate racers, it can be tricky to get
on course as a fan. Some actually ride the
course themselves and wait. Many drive
campers, vans or wagons filled with overnight gear and park in a prime location,
often waiting more than 12 hours to get
a glimpse of their favorite riders speeding up the climb in front of them. Twelve
hours to party, play the same games football fans enjoy, paint the road with stars’
names, and….drink beer! On a mountain
pass, with tens of thousands of other fans,
instant friends are met and made.
THE BEER
By now you should have noticed a common theme: beer. While I have met few
cyclists who prefer Lime-a-Ritas (you
know who you are) and Bud Light , you’re
more likely to find a cyclist or cycling fan
seeking out local brews, craft brews, and
the $8 six pack over the $8 24 pack. Cycling inspired Fat Tire Ale made by new
Belgium Brewery, Pabst Blue Ribbon,
and anything from the microbrewery on
course. For me, I lean local – 3 Brothers
Brewery Rum Barrel Aged Dubbel (sponsors a bike race), Blue Mountain Brewery
Rockfish Wheat, and Devils Backbone Vienna Lager (sponsors multiple races and a
club team.)
AND FINALLY….THE FAN HIMSELF
(AND HERSELF)
Football fans and cycling fans differ the
most in their interactions with the athletes. The closest most football fans will
ever get to meeting their favorites is from
the 40th row. The average Joe, lifting at
the gym wouldn’t work-in with an All-Pro
linebacker either.
Cycling offers interaction in both racing and training. Pro riders can spend upwards of 25hrs a week on training rides.
It’s not uncommon for pros and amateurs
to ride together one-on-one or on the local group rides. At events like Gran Fondos, where a challenging route is laid out
with specific timed sections, amateurs can
even race against pros. During races fans
cheer, bang on the boards, and slap boom
sticks. The deafening roar of our “12th
man” motivates us to ride faster, corner
harder and distracts us from the pain in
our legs.
Fans can even change the race dynamic. And no, not with some supposed lucky
ritual. Event announcers often ask crowd
members to contribute to the “Gamblers
Prime.” Over the course of a 90 minute
downtown circuit race, thousands of dollars are collected and at the announcers
discretion the bell is rung – the winner of
the next lap will take home the “Gamblers
Prime.” In the charge for the line, the race
is reset and a new outcome could be the
result.
In road races, especially those with
mountaintop finishes, costume clad super
fans make the race memorable. Without
barricades, fans are free to line the streets, run alongside and crowd the riders as they
climb. Like the Chief at the Washington
Redskins games, Fireman Fred of the
Jets, and the Packers Cheeseheads, cycling has its famous fans. Most notable is
El Diablo – Didi Senft, a german fan who
dresses as the devil and appears at the
biggest races in the world. National pride
costumes, the Borat thong (could do without), Elvis, and Sumo wrester suits among
many others are regular costumes donned
at a bike race.
In my 10 years racing, I have been lucky
enough to experience the sport from every aspect – as a promoter, as a coach,
as part of the media, as a racer and of
course as a fan. If there is anything I have
learned, it’s that neither can exist without
the other. The athletes may provide the
entertainment, but the fans give the performances meaning and help hold up the
stage on which we perform.
I will always be grateful for the support
of all those who have helped through the
years. My friends and family have been my
biggest supporters and “fans” throughout
the years.
Hardy County Basketball Roundup
February 15
Boys Basketball
Hardy 24-21 in the fourth quarter,
despite Michael Miller pouring in
14 points in the final frame including 3-pointers thrice.
Ricky Robinson added five pints
in the fourth quarter.
Michael Miller scored a gamehigh 20 points for East Hardy, followed by Robinson with nine points,
plus Hahn and Hunter Miller contributed eight markers apiece.
Tucker Cain led the Lumberjacks
with 18 points, followed by Triston
Kocher with 16, Trey Streets 13,
Jack Wells 12, and Joey Preat 11.
The WVHIT MVP of the game
was East Hardy’s Michael Miller
and Valley Wetzel’s Triston Kocher.
W.Va. Hometown Invitational
Tournament 15th Place Game
Valley Wetzel 76, East Hardy 58
The Cougars kept the game close
in the first half, but the Lumberjacks
held a 36-29 advantage at half-time.
East Hardy’s Hunter Miller netted eight second quarter points to
help the margin plus Tim Hahn
and Michael Miller added six points
each in the first half.
Valley Wetzel’s Tucker Cain garnered ten points in the first half and
teammates Trey Streets and Jack
Wells drilled two 3-pointers apiece
in the second quarter.
The Lumberjacks edged East February 11
Girls Basketball
Tucker County 68,
Moorefield 24
Moorefield kept the game tight
in the first quarter only down 1610, then the Lady Mountain Lions
leapt ahead to a 36-15 half-time advantage.
Tucker County kept the scoring
onslaught going in the second half
with a 32-9 output.
Stephanie Betler and Madison
Mullenax paced the Lady Mountain Lions with 12 points apiece, followed by Bekah Simmons with 10.
Moorefield was guided by seniors
Beth Cook with 12 points, followed
by Kellie Bedell with six and Kelsey
Hines with four during senior night.
Pendleton County 43
East Hardy 35
February 10
Boys Basketball
East Hardy 66
Tygarts Valley 65 OT
The Cougars rallied from a 28-21
half-time deficit to take a late lead,
but the Bulldogs’ Ben Sycafoose hit
a 3-pointer to force overtime and
East Hardy survived for the win.
“It was a barn-burner,” East Hardy Coach Chris Hahn noted.
East Hardy took a 9-7 edge after
the first period behind six points in
that frame by Tim Hahn including
a trey.
Tygarts Valley countered in the
second quarter 21-12 as Jace Kyle
scored nine of those points.
It was a struggle at the free throw
line in the second period for the
Cougars hitting 3-of-11.
East Hardy’s Michael Miller
turned up the heat in the Den during the third quarter scoring 12
points including two trifectas for a
19-15 edge and Hahn added six, but
the Bulldogs still led 43-40 behind
seven points by Kyle.
In the fourth period, Miler added
seven points and Ricky Robinson
contributed five for a 15-12 advantage, but Sycafoose hit the buzzerbeater 3-pointer to breath new life
into the Bulldogs.
Kyle and Sycafoose hit 3-pointers
in the extra frame plus Tyler Shiflett
and Caleb Riggleman added field
goals to keep it close.
The Cougars got overtime scoring from Bryce Strawderman with
four points, Miller with two free
throws, Hunter Miller with three
points (1 FT), and Robinson with
two free throws to garner the win.
Michael Miller scored a gamehigh 25 points, followed by Tim
Hahn with 16, and Ricky Robinson
with 11.
Jace Kyle led Tygarts Valley with
24 points, followed by Tyler Shiflett
with 10.
Tucker County 85
Moorefield 46
The Mountain Lions had trouble
shaking off the Yellow Jackets in the
first quarter with only a 19-11 lead,
but outscored Moorefield 51-22 in
the middle two quarters.
Austin Zirk was dominate from
3-point range (5) including three in
the first quarter and one in each of
the next two quarters to guide Tucker County with 23 points.
Moorefield showed its precision
from the perimeter as Austin Williams netted five 3-pointers including two apiece in the last two quarters to lead the Yellow Jackets with
20 points.
Aaron Cole contributed 12 points
including five consecutive free
throws in the first quarter.
Tucker County had three other
players in double figures: Ian Nichols 17, Mitchell Mason 14, and Derek Zirk 11.
February 8
Moorefield Wrestling
Keyser Kiwanis Tournament
Schoonover won via pin in the
first period against Keyser :56,
Meadow Brook 1:40, and Hampshire County 1:56, plus a second period fall against Martinsburg at 2:36.
Moorefield junior Sam Kesner
went 4-1 and now holds a 21-7 overall record.
Kesner won in falls during the
first period against Martinsburg
1:03, Hampshire County 1:12, and
Meadow Brook :59, but lost in an
11-1 major decision to Keyser’s
Cody Rodeheaver.
Moorefield sophomore Joseph
Reyes went 0-5 and has a 7-22 record.
Moorefield sophomore Tanner
George is 7-15 overall, but didn’t
compete at Keyser.
February 7
Boys Basketball
Petersburg 69
Moorefield 19
Petersburg cruised to a 37-7 halftime advantage, while the Yellow
Jackets felt the chill not being able
to break the ice with all quarters in
single digits (3, 4, 8, 4).
The Vikings were led by Brian
George with 19 points, followed by
Grant Shanholtz with 14, and Marshall Wratchford with 10.
Moorefield’s top scorer was Caleb Kite with five points, while Tyler
Smith and Austin Williams added
three markers apiece.
February 6
Girls Basketball
Pocahontas County 83
Moorefield 32
February 5
Moorefield sophomore Wil Boys Basketball
Schoonover won all five matches to
Tucker County 83
improve to 28-0 on the season.
East Hardy 20
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somebody you know qualifies for the program,
contact your local Moorefield office at 304-538-2098.
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Moorefield, WV 26836
(304) 538-2098
Notice to Allegheny Power
Customers with Rights-of-Way
Across Their Property
During the severe weather that occurred on February
5, 2014 it was necessary for Potomac Edison to
perform emergency line clearing on portions of its
electric line rights-of-way located in Hardy County.
The work is limited to the cutting of trees and brush
necessary to restore safe and reliable electric service
to our customers. Over the next several weeks, you
may notice Potomac Edison crews or contractors
working in your area inspecting lines and performing
additional storm related line clearing. Properties
affected by the emergency are located throughout the
Hardy County area. For more information, contact:
Potomac Edison, Phone: 1-800-686-0011.
8B - MOOREFIELD (WV) EXAMINER, Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Wrath and Beauty
February 13, 2014 Storm
Photos by Carl Holcomb and Jean Flanagan
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