Early office closing and holiday obituary options
Monday Bluefield Daily Telegraph offices will shut at 3 p.m. to allow staff to visit families for Christmas. Obituaries accepted by phone, in person, or fax until 5 p.m. Today. Gas prices nationwide fell about 5.79 cents over two weeks, biggest drop since the Persian Gulf crisis began, with regular unleaded and premium rates listed. A York Pa. couple welcomed triplets Thomas Angele Brittany born Dec. 14 at York Hospital eight weeks early, weight details provided, mother’s fertility drug noted. triplets remained in hospital through February.
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Trilby Lundberg
Iraq
Kuwait
Piggs
Thomas
Angele
Brittany
Lottie Pi
York
Angela
White Hall
Tazewell County Authority Meeting and Senior Employment Programs
On Thursday December 27 at 5 30 p m the Tazewell County Public Service Authority will meet in the conference room at the County Administration Building Free training and employment services are offered through the Senior Community Service Employment Program and the Job Training Partnership Act Program run by the Southeastern West Virginia Area Agency on Aging at 701 Mercer Street Princeton Contact Box 1432 Princeton WV 24740 or call 425 1147 for more information.
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Tazewell County Administration
Southeastern West Virginia
Agency On Aging
Mercer St
Princeton
Christmas Eve Weather Outlook Brisk Cold and Snow Flurries
The National Weather Service foresees early snow flurries on Christmas Eve with a breezy cold day. Highs in the low 30s and northwest winds 10 to 20 mph. Tonight becomes mostly clear and much colder with lows from 0 to 5 degrees.
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National Weather Service
Navy Mourns 21 Drowned After Ferry Capsize
Sailors aboard the USS Saratoga paid homage to 21 comrades lost when an Israeli ferry capsized. About 1,200 crew members attended the memorial. 20 white caps and one chief petty officer's hat marked the dead. Israeli divers recovered 20 bodies, one remains missing. The bodies were flown to Dover AFB, Delaware, for arrival Monday.
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Dover Air Force Base
Delaware
Father Son Team Serves in Mideast With U S Forces
John Laczkowski 18 and his father Charles serve as a truck driving unit in the 131st Transportation Co. of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard. Stationed near the Kuwaiti border in northern Saudi Arabia, they transport ammunition to U S forces as Iraqi forces mass. The two share fishing trips in the Persian Gulf and describe the dangers of desert roads versus jeep routes, with the son hopeful yet ready if war comes.
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Saudi Arabia
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Charles Laczkowski
Mount Carmel
131St Transportation Co
Pennsylvania Army National Guard
Laczkowski
Dorothy
Pennsylvania
Saudi
Bluefield reservists activated for Desert Shield duty
About 700 West Virginia National Guardsmen are returning from training in three states for holiday leave as 300 Bluefield and Grafton reservists learn they will report January 3 for up to 180 days of Operation Desert Shield. The 304th MP Unit heads to Fort A.P. Hill Virginia and the 363rd MP Unit to Fort Pickett Virginia.
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Bluefield
Grafton
U.S. Army Reserve
West Vienia
U.S
Iraq
Kuwait
Paul Rots
99Th Army Reserve Command
Pittsburgh
Rots
Fort A.P. Hill
Richmond
Fort Pickett
Santa to attend Tree party in Bluefield
Local residents fund a Bluefield Tree party for children who hold tickets to the Bluefield Recreation Center. The event features a musical program by Cecil Surratt and Don Whitt, Santa arrives at 12:30 p.m., and gifts are distributed to ticket holders after the program.
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Bluefield
Bluefield Recreation Center
Theor
Cecil Surratt
Don Whitt
Santa
Youth Center
Maggie Coppage
Gifts of love reach Tazewell area children in need
About $30,000 worth of gifts were delivered to roughly 100 K–5 students at North Tazewell and Rivermont elementary schools. Central Piedmont College Foundation and Charlotte Association of Realtors funded the effort, coordinated by Don Chapman with William Woodall, delivering bicycles and a mattress with box springs and a note saying I Love You from Santa.
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Tazewell Va
North Tazewell
Rivermont
William Woodall
Central Piedmont College Foundation
Charlotte Association of Realtors
North Carolina
Fts
Don Chapman
Santa
Pauline Woodall
Claudine Lockhart
Tazewell Chamber of Commerce
Woodalls
Troutville
Children in Crisis. West Virginia poverty report released
A two year task force report from the West Virginia Department of Human Resources titled Children in Crisis states no progress in improving poor children's plight. It cites half of babies born in poverty, one in six born to teen mothers, lack of early prenatal care for a quarter, rising child abuse and neglect for fourteen straight years, and about 3000 children living away from home due to abuse or neglect. The series notes national, state, and local parallels with high poverty rates.
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West Virginia
West Virginia Human Resources Association
Perils of poverty threaten West Virginia's future
A two year study by the West Virginia Human Resources Association warns poverty endangers the state's future. It stresses education health care home environment and social training as key to turning children into productive adults. Major changes are urged including a public commitment to address child poverty.
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West Virginia Human Resources Association
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