Fairmont Claims Founding Father’s Day Ahead of Spokane
Fairmont West Virginia promotes its 1908 observance as the first Father’s Day, citing Harold Goff and church records. Spokane’s Sonora Smart Dodd is cited by Ted Kaufman as launching the national movement in 1910, with Wilson’s 1916 proclamation later referenced by local boosters.
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Fairmont
Washington
Father's Day Council
Harold Goff
Central United Methodist Church
Goff
Kaufman
Mike Archer
Spokane Chamber of Commerce
Woodrow Wilson
Dodd
Archer
Charles Clayton
Con
Williams Memorial
Grafton
Concord College Receives 50000 Gift For Scholarships And Chair
Concord College founder James Barbery reports a 50000 donation from the George M Cruise Charitable Foundation to fund scholarships and an endowed Chair of Economic Development as part of the Quest for Excellence campaign. About 30000 goes to the scholarship fund with 20000 matching state Eminent Scholars funds.
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Athens
Concord College
George M. Cruise
Concord
Jerry Beasley
Beasley
Heart of Concord
Doug Machesney
Machesney
Eminent Scholars Trust Fund
West Virginia
Stine Theatre to Stage Honey in the Rock June 20
West Virginia based Stine Theatre presents a special performance of Honey in the Rock at Cliffside Theatre Grandview State Park on June 20. Admission is half-price five dollars for adults and two fifty for children tax not included. Reservations available at 1-800-666-9142 or 253-8313.
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Theatre West Virginia
W.va
Cliffside Theatre
Grandview State Park
Organizational meeting for gifted program parents June 21
An organizational meeting for parents of gifted or highly capable students is scheduled for June 21 at 7 p.m. in the Acme Store community room in Richlands Virginia. The group will affiliate with the Virginia Association for the Education of the Gifted. For information call Rev Richard Stone or Mrs Stone at 703-881-8619.
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Acme
Richlands
Virginia Association For the Education of the Gifted
VAEG
Richard Stone
Stone
Chambers to Head Concord College Student Body
Michael Chambers of Renick began his term as president of the Concord College student body at the end of the spring term. A senior Commercial Art Advertising major, he was elected in April and contributes cartoons to The Concordian. He is a Greenbrier East High School graduate, son of Drs. John and Nancy Chambers.
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Michael Chambers
Renick
Concord College
the Concordian
Greenbrier East
Drs
John
Nancy Chambers
Chili Cookoff Sponsored by Bluefield Bank at SummerFest
The Great American Chili Cookoff presented by The Flat Top National Bank of Bluefield and K-Lite 101 kicks off SummerFest 90. The Chili Con Carnival starts at 9 a.m. Saturday June 30 at Princeton High School.
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Flat Top National Bank of Bluefield
K-Lite 101
Princeton High School
News Editorial Contacts and Staff Referral Note
A fragmented note lists editor contact details and internal referrals. It mentions editor David Red and Tamron Patt, with a partial phone number 297-8474. Likely an internal pointer to assign or route press inquiries to specific staff.
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Contractor starts dump cleanup at illegal Fayette site
Fayette Station West Virginia the Solid Waste Section of the Division of Natural Resources has awarded its first private sector contract to Carpenter Reclamation of Sissonville for a 65000 cleanup of an illegal dump near the New River in Fayette County. Work began after the Division opened a Highway road from Ames Heights Road to Fayette Station which had been closed due to dumping. Randy Huffman heads the Pollution Prevention and Open Dumps Program and says this is the first such privatized cleanup and the largest single site expenditure to date.
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Fayette Station
Division of Natural Resources
West Virginia
Carpenter Reclamation
Sissonville
Fayette County
New River
Division of Highways
Ames Heights
Randy Huffman
DNR
Huffman
FHA changes could harm housing market in West Virginia
National Association of Realtors spokesman Littleton Dryden warns proposed FHA reforms may raise closing costs and curb purchases by 35 000 to 70 000 cash poor buyers nationwide, hitting West Virginia hard amid a regional housing slowdown. He argues the fund shift and higher costs could deter first time and middle income buyers. Dryden continues a Mid Atlantic tour to oppose the changes and reassure lenders about market stability.
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National Association of Realtors
West Virginia
Littleton
Liz” Dryden
Delaware
Association
Federal Housing Administration
Dryden
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Mid-Atlantic
FHA
Kanawha Valley
Revenue up 6.7 percent at Colonial Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg reports 1989 revenue at 119.4 million with 1.17 million visitors, down from 1.201 million in 1988, while admissions revenue rose about 0.5 million despite lower attendance. Hotel and restaurant revenue totaled 65 million. The foundation received 14.7 million in grants and gifts, 7.5 million used for operations. Colonial Williamsburg earned 3.9 million in revenue, up 11.4 percent from 1988.
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Foundation
Williamsbur
Jim Bradley
Bradley
O the Foundation
O Colonial Williamsburg
Car Tractor-Trailer Crash Kills Fairmont Man
A northbound I-79 crash near Fairmont left Clarksburg man Robert Dale Bartlett Jr. dead after his car crossed the median and struck a tractor-trailer driven by Roger L. Wimmer of Bluefield. Bartlett, 23, was a Fairmont State College student. Wimmer was uninjured. no charges were filed.
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Fairmont
Clarksburg
Robert Dale Bartlett Jr
Fairmont State College
Michael Taylor
Bartlett
Camerra
Roger L. Wimmer
Bluefield
Taylor
Wimmer
Seventh grader funds lavish teacher thank you gesture
Kevin Long, a seventh grader at Tuckahoe Middle School in Richmond, spent nearly 400 dollars on steak lunches and limousine rides to treat eight teachers at summer's end. He earned the money mowing, yard work, and babysitting, aiming to repay his parents and share with others.
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Richmond
Kevin Long
Kevin
Tuckahoe Middle School
Candace Long
Donna Llewellyn
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Colonial Williamsburg
Williamsburg
Colonial the Foundation
Mrs. Long
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