Banners Go Up as Athens Bids Visitors Welcome
Athens launches a civic banner project with red and blue signs reading Welcome to Athens and A Town for All Seasons. Volunteers install hardware on large power poles after fundraising from Bluestone Travelers, WV Parks Authority, and local groups. The effort aims for July Fourth visibility and banners should last seven years.
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Athens
West Virginia
Benjean Rapp
Appalachian Power Company
Dwight Palmer
Robert Brattis
Town Hall
Dove Signs
Princeton
Rapp
Jim French
Bluestone Travelers and Convention Bureau
West Virginia Parkways Authority
Athens- Concord Town Social Committee
Concord College
Town of Athens
One Valley Bank
Athens Women’s Club
State Street
Vermilion Street
Kentucky's Kerns wins regional bus rodeo contest
Sixty five drivers from three states competed in Bluefield West Virginia for the Southern Regional School Bus Safety Rodeo. Kentucky's Roger A. Kerns won with high marks on obstacle courses pre trip checks and safety knowledge.
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Bluefield
Bluefield City Park
West Virginia
Kentucky
Alabama
Mitchell Stadium
Ruth Hatfield
Kanawha
Hatfield
Community notices and events in multiple towns
GlenWood Park Auxiliary seeks donations for Good-as-New Sale on Oct 14 including clothing furniture and household items. Princeton offices closed for Fourth of July. garbage pickup adjusted. Sun Valley Ruritan Club hosts Truckload Auction Sale July 1 at Sun Valley Elementary School with proceeds to the club. Bluewell Kroger hosts church bake sale. Celebration in the Park set for 6 p.m. July on Graham Rec Park with multiple acts. Blue Gray Chapter 628 meets July 6 in Princeton Memorial Building. Giles Arts and Crafts Guild presents 17th Annual Show and Sale July 4 in Narrows Town Park. New River Parkway Authority to meet July 10 at Raleigh County Library. Red Cross Bloodmobile at Bluefield Youth Center July 6 from noon to 6 p.m.
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Glenwood
GlenWood Park
Serona
Sun Valley Ruritan Club
Sun Valley Elementary School
Raritan Club
Route 20
Athens
Pipestein State Park
Giles
Narrows
Giles Arts and Crafts Guild
PCH donates property to Princeton fitness center project
Princeton Community Hospital directors vote unanimously to donate a six acre Twelfth Street Extension tract to the PCH Foundation for the Princeton Health and Fitness Center. HCCRA rules prevent PCH from acting as guarantor on loans. The fundraising drive passes $1.6 million with two new $100,000 gifts.
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PCH
Princeton
Princeton Community Hospital
Twelfth Street
Princeton Health and Fitness Center
PCH Foundation
Kirk Story
Earth Camp fuels eighth summer at Appalachian Folk Life Center
Mercer and Summers County youths join the Earth Camp at the Appalachian Folk Life Center for a two week day camp from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Each day includes reading writing math and science with a focus on stress free learning. About 24 campers were expected but 38 attended the first week as volunteers and grants from KelloggRESA and the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Church support the program.
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Margaret Persinger
Jed Choate
Alex Aldridge
Appalachian Folk Life Center
Pipestem
Mercer
Summers County
Jeanette Justice
Nancy Aldridge
United States
Illinois
Justice
Earth Camp
Ens
Bethaney McHugh
Susan Weiss
Melinda Shrader
Johannah Justice
Johannah
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Tony Barber
Kentucky’s
Kerns
Roger A. Kerns
Paula S. McCrary
Aaron Mitchem
W.va
Rick Keener
Alice Foster
Clifford Sims
Allen R. Pickett
Jimmy Lacy
Howard Heaton
Paul
Rick” Blake
Kanawha County
Foster
Mercer County
City of
Bluewell
the Montcalm
Church of God
W.C.G
Kroger’s
Graham
The
Greenes
Flame of Fire
Singing Taylors
Patrick Trio
Dillons
Heavenly Express
Vietnam Veterans of America
Memorial Building
New River Parkway Authority
Beckley
Raleigh County Public Library
Bloodmobile
American Red Cross
Stadium Drive
Tony Barbery
Barbara Hawkins
Daily Telegraph
BY Romano
Sten Oo
Mark A. Romano General Contractor
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