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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1997
Page
6
Daily Telegraph Lifestyles writer Kathy Kish suggests refreshing social greetings beyond the common How are you phrases. She proposes original exchanges, compliments, or trivia based openings to spark conversations, imitate Seinfeld style banter, and potentially raise everyday conversation quality and knowledge.
Artists invited to submit to the 11th West Virginia Watercolor Society State Show at Glenville State College with $1,500 in awards. entries due Sept 10. Also notices for Renaissance festival acts at Camp Washington Carver on Oct 18 with pay and lodging. Virginia Commission grants deadlines Sept 2 Oct 1 and Sept 15 for various artist fellowships and projects.
Interior designer Doris Clements offers practical dorm living advice to brighten small spaces. Emphasize task lighting with quality lamps, use mirrors to enlarge rooms, and add warmth with color. Create affordable window valances from sheets and coordinate fabrics for a cohesive look.
Eileen McClelland surveys dorm essentials from beds and mattresses to storage and lighting. Rebecca Simmons notes advice from JC Penney Catalog's Pattie Shaw on planning, roommate talks, and decorative ideas to energize small spaces.
The Virginia Travel Guide for Persons with Disabilities expands accessibility options across state sites with symbols showing wheelchair parking, lowered drinking fountains, accessible phones, TTY, and other aids. Supported by 75,000 from the Virginia Tourism Corporation and openings from Union Camp, Opening Door Inc. publishes listings of parks, museums, and attractions with handicapped facilities.
The book titled Persons with Disabilities, published by Opening Door Inc., catalogues handicap accessible fishing sites dialysis centers and dialysis hours across Virginia along with accessible vehicles rental wheelchair services and handicap friendly public transport. It notes Barter Theatre Abingdon offers signing interpreters and script copies and King’s Dominion hosts Deaf Awareness Day.
Kathy answers reader questions from Bluefield Daily Telegraph readers. The letter asks if a memorial is planned for Medal of Honor recipient Junior Spurrier and notes no monument or street name exists in Bluefield. It also confirms a $5 yard sale permit valid for four sales and discusses street signs for yard sales.
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