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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1997
Page
2
A 14 year old boy on Clarke Street collided head on with a Volkswagen Golf driven by Billy Carson 40 of Bluefield Va while riding downhill. The youth was listed in stable condition Sunday. Carson was cited for driving suspended.
On today’s calendar at 6 p.m. the East River Regional Widowed Persons group gathers at College Avenue Baptist Church Bluefield for a carry-in dinner. At 7 p.m. Buchanan General Hospital hosts a cancer support group organizational meeting in the fifth floor dining room. For details contact Erma May RN oncology coordinator at 5409351471. Weather.
Today's highs in the mid 80s with mostly sunny skies. Tonight mostly clear with lows in the lower 60s. Powerball drawing listed with numbers 6 11 20 29 45 and a 43 Powerball, no winner. WV sold three $100,000 tickets and an $8 million estimated jackpot for Wednesday.
Natalie Yazdani of Graham High School has received 320,577 in college scholarships from more than a dozen colleges and sources. She plans to attend Virginia Commonwealth University to pursue medicine and pediatrics, inspired by a Parade magazine story and guided by her parents.
Princeton Mercer Chamber of Commerce leader George Santon notes SummerFest drew about 20 000 attendees, with four years of planning paying off. Officials cite rain threats but say crowds remain large, praising the Beatles tribute and Best Darn Chili Around Cook-Off for top entertainment value.
Betty the German shepherd from Beckley Police Department and Daggie the Doberman highlighted Augusta K-9 Services Public Dog Demonstration at SummerFest. The dogs demonstrated protection tracking and drug locat ion with Betty biting an aggressor and Daggie sniffing marijuana as trainers and four other dogs performed. Red Wolf, a high level personal protection dog owned by Ann Smith, also featured.
Major Howard Corky Dillon, a U S Air Force F 15E pilot and physician, grew up in poverty on Premier Mountain and MacDowell County. After Welch High School class of 1975, he rose to pilot warplanes, then earned medical degree in 1993 and completed residency in 1995 becoming one of nine fighter pilot physicians in the Air Force.
State health officials release the 1998 HIV Prevention Plan and invite written public comment July 7 to 18. Epidemiologist Loretta Haddy stresses HIV and AIDS are in nearly all counties and urges testing, partner status awareness, and broad participation to curb the virus.
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