City weighs options to trim Bluefield budget costs
Bluefield officials at a budget workshop for the 1997-98 year report expenses rising in recreation garbage fire and police. The proposed budget is 5 860 068 with 5 815 918 current. City manager notes 178 workers in 1980 down to 165 now and cites Mitchell Stadium upkeep over 100 000 yearly as a major recreation cost.
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Cliff Pannell
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Charlie Cromer
Couple Dies in Kanawha Flooded Home After Loss of Battle
In Sissonville near Charleston floodwaters trapped a trailer home where Guy Pritt, 67, died after a long cancer struggle. His wife Jean, 57, died hours later of heart failure as neighbors moved the body. The pair shared a 16 year marriage, support for each other during illness, and community charity work. Guy was a WWII Navy veteran and longtime worker at True Temper.
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Sandra Leach
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Debbie Ford
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Pancake breakfasts planned by Lions clubs on Saturday
The Athens Lions Club hosts an 8 am to noon pancake breakfast at Anderson Hall Concord United Methodist Church 109 Vermillion St adults 350 children 2 proceeds aid sight conservation All day breakfast in North Tazewell 6 am to 4 pm at Four Way Lions Den Walnut St tickets 3 for adults 2 for children proceeds fund eyesight conservation and community projects In Princeton Free Enterprise students to discuss fraud at Mercer County Commission on Aging 10 to 11 am call 425 7111 Bluefield STARLAB planetarium event set for March 8 at the Science Center during Super Science Saturday
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Concord United Methodist Church
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North Tazewell
Princeton
Mercer County Commission On Aging
Lightning strikes transformer cuts Bluefield power briefly
AEP reported about 735 customers in South Bluefield lost power after a 1 38 p m lightning strike toppled a transformer at North and Union Streets. Power was back by 2 p m with no further AEP problems. weather outages affected roughly 600 customers in the Rainelle area.
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Miss SVCC Pageant Entry Forms Open in Richlands
Entry forms for the Miss SVCC pageant are available until Friday in Room B 152 Buchanan Hall at Southwest Virginia Community College. The pageant is set for Saturday March 15 at 6 p.m. in the Richlands High School auditorium with proceeds funding the Center for Health and Community Development. For more information contact Pauline Taylor at 540 964 7619.
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Southwest Virginia Community College
Richlands High School
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