Welfare to Work changes seen shaping future job aid
Barbara Hawkins reports on West Virginia Welfare to Work revamp driven by 52 recommendations from caseworkers and advocates. The reforms expand home visits, family assessments, and post placement follow ups to prevent abrupt job losses and better prepare recipients for long term employment in a scarce job market.
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Charleston
West Virginia
Bureau For Children and Families
Jason Najmulski
State Department of Health and Human Resources
Jason
DHHR
Princeton
Cluefield Daily Telegraph Staff Roster
News Editor is state editor and sports editor Samantha Perry leads. Thomas A Colley serves as executive editor with managing editor and city county editor Charles Owens. Copy editor is Andy Patton with Jess as writer. The quote questions worldly gain versus spiritual loss.
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Barbara Hawkins
The
Daily Telegraph
Charles Owens
Andy Patton
Jess
West Virginia health report urges lifestyle changes
The state released last week a life and death health report on West Virginians showing births fell short of deaths in 2001 with 7,000 fewer residents, 38 counties losing population, and leading killers including heart disease, cancer, and lung disease accounting for 60 percent of deaths. It highlights high smoking rates, prenatal smoking, obesity, accidents among ages 1-44, and a call for diet, exercise, and quit smoking to improve futures and revive the Mountaineer spirit.
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West
West Virginia
March of Dimes Walk America at Glenwood a success
March of Dimes thanks community for Walk America held May 3 at Glenwood Recreational Park. Over 80 walkers completed a three mile route, raising over $20,000 with support from Princeton Community Hospital Flowers Baking Company The Medicine Shoppe and The Mayflower among many sponsors.
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America
Glenwood Recreational Park
Princeton Community Hospital
Flowers Baking Company
W.va
Medicine Shoppe
Tazewell County Outdoor Day grounded by business and volunteers
Elizabeth A Bennett thanks many volunteers and sponsors for the 2nd Annual Kids in the Outdoors Day at Lake Witten on May 10. The event drew 828 attendees. prizes included tackle boxes, poles, and fishing kits. Local officials, businesses, and agencies provided funding, prizes, food, prizes, and educational stations.
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Tazewell Soil and Water Conservation District Board
Tazewell County
Lake Witten
Tazewell County Board of Supervisors
Jim Durham
Jim Jones
Earl Griffith
Donnie Lowe
Bill Rasnick
Tazewell Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Directors
Tazewell County 4- H Programs
Joe Musick
H & W Sporting Goods
Ron’s Quick Stop
North Tazewell
Wal-mart
Bluefield
Bud’s
Adria
Cies
Jim Steele
Virginia Department of Forestry
Joyce Buchanan
Tazewell Soil and Water Conservation District
John Blankenship
Tazewell County Animal Shelter
Curtis Breeding
Clinch Mountain Longboards
National Wild Turkey Federation
Roy Jewell
Marcus Jewell
Lake Witten Park Ranger
Mike Bennett
Rhody Keith
Foster Horn
Robert Lowe
Clinch Mountain Longbeards
Sargent Dennis Austin
Washington County
Virginia Department of Game
Rosie Lowe
Lenden Thompson
Patti Neel
H.S. Caudill
Thompson Valley Fire Department
Hurst Scott Funeral Home
Tazewell
Artesian 3300
A & S Port- A
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Fred Boothe
Bureau For Children
Cluefield Daily Telegraph
Samantha Perry
Thomas A. Colley
Randy Deason
Lis
Qood
March of Dimes
Applebee’s
MCNB
Princeton Rotary Club
Kroger
Bluefield W.va
Subway
Bluewell
Papa John’s Pizza
Pepsi Bottling Group
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Frito Lay
Holiday Inn Bluefield
First Community Bank
Princeton Gymnastics & Dance Academy
Chris Gore
Princeton Public Library
Star 95
Glenwood-Green Valley Volunteer Fire Department
the Little Opry
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