Ogre Latvia mayor sees Four Seasons Country in awe
Edvins Bartkevics the 41 year old mayor of Ogre Latvia says the city is not as modern yet joins US study programs to learn how to upgrade its roads water and heating. He notes Latvia gained independence in 1991 and Ogre sits between forests and two rivers in the country center.
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Ogre
Latvia
Four Seasons
Edvins Bartkevics
Baltic Sea
Russian Empire
Barkevics
West Virginia
United States
Toledo
Ohio
Washington, D.C
Center For International Understanding
Bluefield State College
Bartkevics
Orge
Daugava
Mercer County Bookmobile and Community Notices
Mercer County Bookmobile schedules list stops at Old Flat Top School Camp Creek Post Office and Superstop Mall today with times from 10 to 1 30. Additional routes run Tuesday Wednesday Thursday at specified locales. Community notices include Bloodmobile June 30 at Matoaka Elementary, self defense classes starting June 13, and various lodge club meetings and health programs in Bluefield area.
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Mercer County
Craft Memorial Library
Old Flat Top
Camp Creek
Superstop Mall
Princeton Child Development Center
Southern Highlands
Kellysville
Pleasant Valley
Village Green
Mobile Home Park
Concord Methodist Church
Athens
Junction Express
Serena
Avondale Mobile Home Park
Green Acres
Shawnee Mobile Home Park
Matoaka
Kegley Mobile Home Park
White Oak Mobile Home Park
Red Cross
Bluefield
Service volunteers sought for Princeton pantry work
Tender Mercies Ministries at 540 Mercer Street seeks volunteers for the food pantry with hours 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m. Call Rev. Ken Hilling at 425-2557 during hours or 487-9090 evenings.
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Princeton
Tender Mercies
Tender Mercies Ministries
Mercer Street
Ken Hilling
Buchanan Supervisors Back Levisa River Heritage Bid
Buchanan County supports Headwaters in nominating the Levisa River for the American Heritage Rivers project. Headwaters, formed by Jerry and Laura Elkins, aims to protect Buchanan County environment through civic partnerships, hoping designation boosts tourism and regional development.
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Grundy
Buchanan County Board of Supervisors
Buchanan County
Headwaters
Levisa River
Jerry
Laura Elkins
Consol Coal Corporation
American Heritage Rivers Project
Clinton
America
Levise
Union soldier honored for helping blacks in Virginia
Captain Charles S. Schaeffer, Civil War veteran and preacher, settled in the New River Valley and helped newly emancipated slaves. In Christiansburg a bust was unveiled at Schaeffer Memorial Baptist Church, marking his legacy. Artist Larry Bechtel donated the clay bust bronzed for the ceremony. Schaeffer led the Freedmen's Bureau in 1866 and founded 29 black churches across several counties.
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Christiansburg
Charles S. Schaeffer
New River Valley
Schaeffer
Burns Phillips
Phillips
Blacksburg
Larry Bechtel
Roanoke Times
Bechtel
Freedmen’s Bureau
Montgomery
Pulaski
Giles, Wythe, Campbell
Pittsylvania
Floyd
Botetourt
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St. Luke’s Hospital
Ricky Mitchell
Air Force
Ricky D. Mitchell
Mers
Vernon L. Mitchell
Kadena Air Base
Okinawa City
Okinawa
Japan
Bluefield & Princeton
HealthSouth
Southern Hills Rehabilitation Hospital
Twelfth St
Richard Meadows
Judy Meadows
Memphis
Tiffany Hamlet
Tiffany L. Hamlet
Fort Leonard Wood
Waynesville
Sandra L. Hamlet
James W. Cecil Jr
Tazewell
Bluefield High School
Buchanan
Levisa
Resthaven Memorial Park
Trish Jones
EK Ue
Electrolux
Tom Bowen
Warrenizing Cleaners
Bluewell
Welch
Curio
Dad
Cash Jones Furniture
Bluefield Ave
Public Service Commission OF
Charleston
Public Service Commission OF West Virginia
Appalachian Power Company
Dba
American Electric Power
Commission
Government of Electric Utilities
Electric Rules
Huntington
Lewisburg
Logan
Point Pleasant
Williamson
Beckley
Poll Cordon
Todd Corden
Lane
Estedt the Company
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