Severe winter freeze grips Great Plains and Rockies
Arctic air and blowing snow shut out warmth from the Great Plains to the East Coast. Temperatures plunged well below zero with wind chills around 60 below, breaking records in multiple states. AAA reports about 1,500 car-start calls while Dixie towns thaw from a snowstorm.
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Associated Press
Great Plains
Rockies
Rich May
National Weather Service
Bismarck
N.C
United States
Great Falls
Mont
Havre
Mason City
Iowa
Sioux City
Waterloo
Minneapolis
International Falls
Minn
Ken Mohr
American Automobile Association
AAA
Mohr
Omaha
Neb
la Cross
Wis
Weather Service
Walter Dray
Milwaukee
South
Turkeys Undergo Blood Tests Near Rockingham Farm
State agriculture department technicians began blood testing thousands of turkeys within three miles of a Rockingham County farm where 11,000 birds were culled after avian flu exposure. The last of the exposed birds were destroyed Saturday morning, according to state veterinarian Dr. George B. Estes.
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Harrisonburg
State Agriculture Department
Rockingham County
George B. Estes
Lap Robes Distributed by RSVP Volunteers
Eight members of the Re tired Senior Volunteer Program of Mercer Summers and Monroe Counties distributed 32 lap robes to patients at the Bluefield MultiCare Center. RSVP Coordinator Eleanor Rowand announced Saturday that the project continues the energy program started in October 1980 and seeks volunteers to teach low cost energy conservation methods. Volunteers donate time to make robes for wheelchairs beds homes and hospitals. Donors include Mary Farmer Ollie Vance Mary Geho Odessa Mann Evalena Hollingsworth Ida Rexroad Sadie Anderson Juanita Pritchett Edith Anderson Ruth Webb Hattie Wilkins Mary Crockett Nannie Hairston Kathryn Simpson Gartheia Johnson Melver Napier Eva Brown.
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Mercer
Summers
Monroe Counties
Bluefield
Eleanor Rowand
RSVP
Robes
Mary Farmer
Ollie Vance
Mary Geho
Odessa Mann
Evalena Hollingsworth
Ida Rexroad
Sadie Anderson
Juanita Pritchett
Edith Anderson
Ruth Webb
Hattie Wilkins
Mary Crockett
Nannie Hairston
Katheryn Simpson
Gartheia Johnson
Melver Napier
Eva Brown
Buchanan Elementary Needs Water Filtering System
Buchanan County Assistant School Superintendent Robert Gillespie says Big Rock Elementary will need a water filtering system possibly up to 100000 dollars. The system size depends on condition and problem severity after iron and acid in the water caused orange red color and pipe holes. A new 350 foot well was drilled but grey to near black water recurred this fall due to air in plumbing. Beeson Beeson will analyze samples while officials await results.
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Wany Vergeaph O
Grundy
Big Rock
Buchanan County
Robert Gillespie
Gillespie
Marcum Keene
Jarrell Presley
Beeson & Beeson
Abbingdon
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Dixie
Mississippi
Louisiana
Janet Anderson
Southwestern Electric Power Co
Shreveport
Arkansas Power & Light Co
Gulf of Mexico
Colorado
Civil Air Patrol
Air Force
Fairplay
Colo
Denver
Hector
Fargo
Northwest Airlines
Kurt Anderson
Salt Lake City
Turkeys
Turkey
Kelvinator
Au Corors
Sylvania
Warwick Furniture
Raleigh
W.va
Universal Life Insurance
Joe Hartzog
Rey
Atari
Texas Instruments
Sas
Jcpenney
Mercer Mall
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