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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 2001
Page
9
Tender Mercies is supported entirely by the Princeton Ministerial Association churches in the area and by other area churches along with local businesses and individuals. Rebecca Carter, Capital Improvement Committee Chairperson.
Tender Mercies Ministries of Princeton launches a $150,000 fundraising drive to retire a $75,000 debt, buy two vehicles for $50,000, fund $23,000 for property improvements, and establish a $2,000 maintenance fund. Donations to the Capital Improvement Fund go to Becky Carter at 1008 Henry St Princeton WV 24740. Voluntary staff and church support back the effort as the center at 4001 West Main St Princeton distributes mostly free food, with some purchases from Mountaineer Food Bank. Since 1996 the group has helped over 73,000 people.
An $80 million regional jail system plan is moving forward in eight Southwest Virginia counties with jails in Abingdon Washington County Duffield and Haysi. The three facilities would hold 780 beds and be within a 30 minute drive of each county seat. Each participating locality would hold a public hearing and appoint two members plus a sheriff to the regional authority with Washington County facing about 15 million in debt liability for a replacement facility.
Four Seasons Country kicks off a year long literacy campaign led by the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce. Daily Telegraph executive editor Tom Colley chairs, with plans for Mercer and Tazewell County Reading Bee projects and a statewide literacy day festival in Bluefield. Mentors will be assigned to individuals to aid literacy efforts.
The literacy committee outlines aims for the year including separate Reading Bee projects for Mercer County and Tazewell County schools in West Virginia. It proposes a 1M personal mentoring program and a Reading Volunteer Program along with a review of local and area Mercer and Tazewell literacy groups and establishing book receptacles by service clubs in the area.
Residents and teachers prepare for a March 5 open house at Bluefield Princeton Montcalm and PikeView high schools from 4 to 7 p.m. to learn about the proposed 21.9 million school bond. A $500 prize drawing by the Daily Telegraph will reward attendees who sign up for the prize drawing. The bond would be repaid over 15 years and voting on the measure is scheduled for Saturday March 10 with local polling places and paper ballots.
Michael Mussalow, volunteer tutor at Abbs Valley Boissevain Elementary and Pocahontas High School, converted a gifted student’s struggles into honor roll progress and expanded a community tutoring program. He partners with Bonnie Purdue Debra Mussalow Sister Rose, under the supervision of Don Hodock Tom Brewster and Robert Steele, aiming to pilot the project countywide.
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