Discovery camp sparks hands on science for kids
Bluefield Science Center hosts Discovery Camp with rocket building and launch activities in the parking lot. Campers craft pop bottle rockets using two liter and twenty ounce bottles, glue fins, add parachutes, and apply pressure with a bicycle pump. Civil Air Patrol volunteers explain balance thrust and design impacts while children test weight variations to affect lift.
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Discovery Camp
Jessica Crotty
Bluefield
Science Center
Science Center of
West Virginia
Janet Walls
Ricky Cordill
Civil Air Patrol
John McBride
Tony Amborn
Mariah Farley
Serena
Bluefield Area
Tyler Lester
Princeton
Walker chosen as president of King Coal Highway Authority
Former Bluefield mayor Nelson Walker was selected to serve as president of the King Coal Highway I-73/74 Authority at the annual meeting. The 15 member body includes county appointees from McDowell Mingo Mercer Wyoming and Wayne with ex officio state agency members. Walker, a Hunting ton native now in sales with Best Properties, will lead as the authority advances the Bluefield Williamson corridor and related interchanges with completion expected at the Ammar interchange in November.
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Nelson Walker
Walker
Huntington
University of Tennessee
Institute of Organizational Management
University of Georgia
U.S. Air Force
Best Properties
Nelson
Authority
Mike Mitchem
K.A. Ammar Jr
Jeff Lusk
Wyoming County
Dave Akers
Mingo County
James Booten
Wayne County
Charles Justice
Gordon Lambert
McDowell County
McDowell
Mingo
Mercer
Wyoming
Wayne
Mitchem
K.A. Ammar
John Nash
U.S
Norfolk Southern
Williamson
Kenova
Charleston
Giles County woman injured after hiking trail fall
A Giles County woman was seriously injured Friday when she fell on a Jefferson National Forest hiking trail at the Glades. Rescue crews stabilized her and evacuated her by four wheeler before airlifting to Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
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Giles County
Pembroke
Jefferson National Forest
Steve Davis
Davis
Giles County Rescue Advance
Life Guard Ten
Roanoke Memorial Hospital
Roanoke Memorial
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