Youth risk behavior task force formed in Princeton
A Princeton Education Summit on December 6 launches a Youth Risk Behavior Task Force to address Mercer County youth issues including delinquency teen pregnancy and substance abuse. Officials say the goal is to assess services gaps and craft a strategic plan with youth forums and professional collaboration.
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Community Connection Inc
Shannon Atwell
Mercer
County Technical Education Center
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Atwell
Dress code violations hit four Tazewell schools
Four Tazewell County schools Richlands High Graham Middle Tazewell Middle and Richlands Middle modified a district dress code banning backpacks in class, prompting school board attention. Hodock notes board must approve changes. some schools limit backpacks to seventh period. no issues reported at Graham High Pocahontas or Tazewell High.
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Graham Middle
Tazewell Middle
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Pocahontas
Jan White
Tom Witten
Witten
Gooch Elected President Of Mercer County CVB
Laura Gooch, manager of the Bluefield Automobile Club, was elected president of the Mercer County Convention and Visitors Board for 2001. The slate includes Thelma Shumate as vice president George Lanton treasurer Dreama Harper secretary and members Jane Ferguson Betty Goins Debbie Trent Beverly Saunders Stuart McGehee Jim Copenhaver McGonagle Joe Coburn Doourg i Freeman Charlotte Sacre Libby Caudle and Minast C Meachum. Meachum is praised for past two years as Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce president and Executive Director Beverly Wellman notes 2000 was busy with shows in Columbus Charlotte Toronto and Brushfork Armory plus Mercer County designation.
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George Lanton
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Jane Ferguson
Betty Goins
Debbie Trent
Beverly Saunders
Stuart McGehee
Jim Copenhaver
McGonagle
Joe Coburn
Doourg@i Freeman
Charlotte Sacre
Libby Caudle
Minast C Meachum
Meachum
Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce
Beverly Wellman
Mercer County
CVB
Columbus
Ohio
Charlotte
N.C
Toronto
Canada
Brushfork Armory
Business and Community Blending Together
Barbara Hawkins reports Princeton Mercer County Chamber of Commerce sets 2001 theme Business and Community Blending Together at the annual banquet. New president Jim McMillan honors retiring Elizabeth Osborne and outlines plans including local expansions and the Spring Auto Cross and Fall Motor Sports Weekend.
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Garden Oak
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Wal-Mart
Mercer County
McMillan
Bill Sherwood
Jacinda Smith
From storyteller to leading man in Birthmark film
Jerry Vencill of Thompson Valley in Tazewell County takes the lead male role in the independent TV film Birthmark shot recently in North Carolina. He also narrates and previously appeared in The River and Primal Fear in smaller roles. The movie adapts Dorris Betts’s This is the Only Time I’ll Tell It, about a baby saved from an abusive father and raised by her rescuer in the 1930s Piedmont.
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Vencill
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Hollywood
Vencll
Dorris Betts
Nancy Norton
Piedmont
Coley
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