Neighborhood Watch Christmas Dinner and 1991 Officers Election
Blacklick Friends of the Neighborhood Watch will hold their Christmas dinner Saturday Dec 17 at 6 30 p.m. at Frank and Dottie Warren's home followed by the annual officers election for 1991. For information call Dottie Warren 425 7870 Garland Larue 425 0408 or D M Howell 425 9150. Acme Markets and Bluefield Union Mission offer Christmas food baskets Friday Dec 21 from 9 a m to noon at local markets and missions. tickets available at Tazewell Union Mission Riverside Drive and Welch Union Mission Elkhorn Street. Bluefield Mission tickets already distributed.
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Blacklick
Blacklick Neighborhood Watch
Frank and
Dottie Warren
Garland Larue
D.M. Howell
Tazewell
Acme
Bluefield
Christmas In Dixie musical at Richlands High School
Rich lands Mrs. Marilyn Morris Cedar Bluff Elementary students present Christmas In Dixie at Richlands High School on Tuesday Dec 18 at 7 p.m. Students should arrive by 6 45 p.m. The program doubles as December PTA meeting and welcomes all attendees. ABC stores in Virginia will run 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve with normal hours on New Year's Eve. state ABC stores closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. offices closed Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day.
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Richlands
Marilyn Morris
Cedar Bluff
Dixie
Richlands High School
Richmond
ABC
Virginia Department of Alcholic Beverage Control
Wade Choir to Perform Twice This Week
Wade Elementary School choir performs Monday December 17 at 12 30 p m in the private dining room of Bluefield Regional Medical Center. On Wednesday December 19 they sing in the school cafeteria dedicating songs to military forces in Saudi Arabia.
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Bluefield
Wade
Bluefield Regional Medical Center
Saudi Arabia
WJLS FM Opens Six County Holiday Food Drive
Beckley West Virginia radio station 99.5 WJLS FM is running a holiday food drive across Raleigh Fayette Greenbrier Wyoming Summers and Mercer counties. Listeners are asked to donate nonperishable food by placing boxes or cans in designated store boxes. Community action groups will collect and distribute the donations. For details call Bob West during business hours at 253-7311.
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Beckley
99.5
Wjls FM
West Virginia
Raleigh
Fayette
Greenbrier
Wyoming
Summers
Mercer
Bob West
Looking back five years and more in West Virginia and Welch
A 1980 Salvation Army drive aided about 1500 Princeton area residents with Christmas relief items including food and new and used toys for children. Lt Grice outlined the plan as each family receiving canned goods and each listed child getting a new toy.
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Princeton Area
Salvation Army
Santa Claus
Grice
Princeton Salvation Army
Westar Coal worker recalls fatal West Virginia mine death
Randall Dotson testified about Feb 22 when Elbert Efford Price Jr. was killed in Westar No 1 mine as the Nichols Owens voluntary manslaughter trial entered its second day. Dotson described cutting toward the number seven entry and hearing a loud thunk as a rockfall occurred.
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Grundy
Westar Coal Company
Bradshaw
W.va
Nichols
Billy Joe Nichols
Troy Ernest Owens
Price
Randall Dotson
Dotson
Owens
Christmas dinner treat planned by local firm
Wytheville and Bland Counties residents receive a free turkey dinner December 16 at Spiller Elementary School from 11 30 a m to 6 p m. General Injectables Vaccines Inc funds and organizes the event with Santa, gifts, clothes, and toys from area donors. The New River Valley Community College Gospel Ensemble and volunteers provide entertainment as the GIV Benevolent Fund marks its second year.
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Wytheville
General Injectables Vaccines, Inc
Bland
Spiller
Ann Bowen
GIV Employee Benevolent Fund
Santa Claus
Bowen
New River Valley Community College Gospel Ensemble
Rapp Basham Lead Local Campaign Spending
Mercer County Commission race sees Republican John Rapp top spending with 11 809 98 total expenditures and Basham at 11 365 59. Rapp reports personal expenses and several small contributions from locals in the final weeks, while Basham lists late contributions as the campaign winds down.
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Princeton
Mercer County County Commission
John Rapp
Terry Basham
Rapp
John Perry
Basham
James Mills
Bob Southern
Elva Southern
Margaret Bailey
Otis Mann
Jean D. Beasley
Paul Davis
H.D. Harvey
James H. McClees
Fred A. Bolton
James H. Sarver
Pension fears grip Princeton miners pensioners demand action
Nearly 200 United Mine Workers pensioners and dependents gathered at the Memorial Building to protest shortfalls and alleged mismanagement of the 1950 and 1974 pension funds. They cited an $88 million deficit in the pension hospital plan and $237 million taken as seed money, plus a federal lawsuit. International representatives promised a December 3 meeting, then postponed to January 3, as pensioners urged accountability.
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Princeton
United Mine Worker
Memorial Building
UMW
B.P. Lewallen
UMW International
Junior Cordle
Pension
Lewallen
International
Disabled rights advocate heads to NADDC meeting in Washington
Bluewell activist Aaron Poff, a longtime advocate for the disabled, will join NADDC delegates in Washington, D C, January 17 to 19 to press for ADA related regulations. He links ADA to civil rights and stresses need for nationwide rules to ensure accessibility and inclusion.
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Bluewell
Aaron Poff
Association of Developmental Disabilities Councils
NADDC
Washington, D.C
Poff
George Bush
Feds
Utah
Handicaps Unlimited
Princeton
Handicaps Unlimited of
West Virginia
West Virginia Developmental Disabilities Planing Council
West Virginia Advocate
Board Train
West Virginia State Independent Living Council
Avalanche of Kool-Aid drives support for overseas troops
Operation Kool-Aid fans a Mercer County effort to ship 34,000 drink mix packages to soldiers in Saudi Arabia. Major Raymond E. McKinney reports three days into the drive, with schools and local grocers collecting and a strong lead among grade schools. A school competition awards a plaque and prize to the top fundraiser, while drop-off sites are listed across county stores.
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Princeton
Raymond E. McKinney
Mercer County
McKinney
Bailey
Kros
Allens
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Snyder
Westar
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Lexington
Snowbird
Hawaii
Barrier Reef
Fred Parker
Ray Bragg
Claude Blankenship
James Harrison
Ted Mattern
Major McKinney
Grants
Westgate Acme
Deskins
New River Foodland
Big A Warehouse
Wardens
L&n Market
Lashmeet
Naliow
David Barker
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