Raritans brighten holidays in Lashmeet Matoaka
The Lashmeet Raritan Club and local volunteers provide clothing toys and warmth to 75 children, up from 25 last year, with ages and sizes coordinated by teachers at Lashmeet Matoaka School. Shirts pants coats hats boots socks and underwear are distributed along with a toy or two.
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Matoaka
Lashmeet
Gale Shrewsbury
Shrewsbury
Lashmeet-Matoaka School
Angie Foley
Bill Archer
Barcher
Brandon Blanton
Dalton Ramsey
Lashmeet- Matoaka
Book on Bluefield eye surgeon blends hunting memories
Dr Elliott Blaydes, famed ophthalmologist, promotes Dogs Fields and Friends at Hearthside Books in Bluefield. He recalls hunting dogs locating birds, a flood crossing near Bland County and a Jeep purchase after an accident, with proceeds to Mercer County Animal Shelter.
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Bluefield
Elliott Blaydes
Blaydes
Hearthside Books
Jim Nelson
Anita
Jamie
Walter Burton
Bland County
Tazewell County
Walker Creek
Burton
Princeton
Mercer County Animal Shelter
Harold Brewster
New Orleans
Buffalo
N.Y
Kansas City
Morehead City
N.C
Tazewell
Mercer County
Chris Dalton
Clinch River
Cedar Bluff
Rich Borkowski
Unified
Pittsburgh
Willowton
Kellysville
Virginia
West Virginia
Glen Lyn
Louise B. Leslie
Terry W. Mullins
Arcadia Publishing
Bluefield, Va
Leslie
Mullins
Arcadia
Burke’s
Eco friendly options for burning in fireplaces
Earth Talk notes wood smoke harms health and air quality with emissions like carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxides. It recommends alternatives such as wood pellets burned in a pellet stove or pellet fireplace insert, or a gas insert using propane or piped gas, while cautioning inserts heat less area than freestanding stoves.
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Emily Eidenier
Durham
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection
Children’s Health Environmental Coalition
CHEC
Children's Health Environmental Coalition
I Do Again authors with local ties reach national attention
Jeff and Cheryl Scruggs, Bluefield area natives, published I Do Again about marriage, faith, and redemption. The couple, now based in Plano, Texas, will be interviewed on NBC Today on December 29. They lead Hope Matters Marriage Ministries and travel nationwide offering counseling and testimony.
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Luefield
Jeff
Cheryl Scruggs
Scruggs
WaterBrook Press
Jeff Scruggs
Thurman
Peggy Scruggs
Bluefield
Bluefield High School
Hugh O’brien
Hoby
West Virginia Wesleyan College
U.S
Ken Heckler
D-W.va
Texas
OshKosh B’gosh
Plano
Dallas
Cheryl
Hope Matters Marriage Ministries
Peggy
Thurman Scruggs
First Baptist Church
David
Sam
Sue
Bluefield Hardware
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Eric DiNovo
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Getty Images
Norfolk
Norfolk Southern
Pocahontas
Amy Flick
Flick
Bill Carper
Episcopal
Jesus
Christ Church
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