Maggie Allison Leads Gary Area Center Plan Fight
Gary resident Maggie Allison drives a campaign to convert the old Gary High School into a Park Recreation and Education center. She aims to gain school building donation, land gift from Pocahontas Land Co, and fundraising including a potential Stevie Wonder concert to support a multiuse facility with gym, theater, arcade, cafeteria, gardens, and playground while facing long mine layoffs and tight finances.
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Gary
Magdalene
Maggie
Allison
Leon
Alpheus
Gary High School
McDowell County Board of Education
PRE
Park, Recreation and Education), Inc
Pocahontas Land Company
Hodge
Charles
Goosens
Robert
U.S. Steel
UMW
McDowell County
Toms Mountain
Stevie Wonder
Maggie Allison
Stevie
Fund push for Y Center off to good start
Bluefield YM-YWCA fundraising drive aims to raise 150000 with part directed to past due bills. Five days into a three week campaign officials report 11746 in hand and pledges. 10000 from a local anonymous donor. The center, 23 years old, employs six full time staff and several part time workers with modest wages.
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Bluefield
Ym-Ywca
Corky Sarver
YMCA
Sarver
The
College Avenue
Katie Gray
Helen Farley
YWCA
Lindsey Grubb
Friends of the Y
Bluefield Community Hospital
Bible Council
Cove Creek
Tazewell County
Durrette Nominated Top of 1985 Virginia GOP Ticket
In Norfolk on Saturday Wyatt Durrette and Del. Buster O'Brien were named to the top and bottom of Virginia Republicans 1985 ticket. Lt Governor hopeful John Chichester led early on first ballot with 1271 votes while Marshall Coleman trailed. Durrette predicted victory while downplaying his chances in the general election. A large crowd celebrated as Durrette accepted, pledging conservative leadership and unity for Virginia.
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Norfolk
Wyatt Durrette
del. W.R
Buster
O’brien
John Chichester
Fredericksburg
Durrette
Chichester
Marshall Coleman
McLean
Richard Viguerie
del. A.R
Pete’’ Giesen
Waynesboro
Maurice Dawkins
Arlington
Coleman
Viguerie
Chesterfield County
Fairfax
Virginia
Gerald Baliles
Baliles
Richmond
Virginia Beach
Gloucester
Winston Mathews
Mathews
Dawkins
J. Smith Ferebee
Mills Godwin
Godwin
Stanford Parris
John Dalton
U.S
Paul Trible
Tom Bliley
Frank Wolf
Cheryn
Norfolk United
Commonwealth
Mercer County Reports No Measles Cases in 1984
Mercer County recorded no measles cases in 1984 and as of April 18 no active infections. Public health officials credit a prior re immunization drive and strict school-entry vaccination rules for maintaining zero cases. Health experts note vaccine improvements reduce outbreaks and urge older records be checked for possible re immunization.
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Bob Pepalis
Daily Telegraph
Mercer County
Mona Blackwell
Mercer Health Center
National Center For Disease Control
Northeast
Midwest
Mercer
Thomas E. Richardson
Bluefield Pediatrics
Blackwell
West Virginia
Moore urges ARC grant for WV Virginia tourist center
Governor Arch Moore said he recommended a $125,000 Appalachian Regional Commission grant to the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce for a West Virginia Virginia Tourist Information Center at Rocky Gap Virginia near Interstate 77. The center, funded by ARC Jobs and Private Investment Program, aims to promote tourism in West Virginia especially the southern region.
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Charleston
Arch Moore
Appalachian Regional Commission
ARC
Greater Bluefield
Bluefield teacher chosen for national Shakespeare institute
Bluefield High School English teacher Bob Harrison, 37, is one of 40 teachers selected from 450 applicants nationwide to attend the Teaching Shakespeare Institute in Washington, D C. The four week program at Folger Library, run by NEH, will feature lectures and instruction on four plays with stipends and travel paid. Harrison will develop teaching units for his school and will gain ideas from scholars and theatre professionals.
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Bluefield
National Teaching Shakespeare Institute
Washington, D.C
Bob Harrison
Bluefield School
Folger Shakespearean Library
Washington
National Endowment For Humanities
U.S
Harrison
Shakespeare Institute
National Council of Teachers of English
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Garret
Princeton
Glenwood Junior High
Stafford Drive
Fred Brown
Moore
BHS
Harvard
American Universities
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