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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1997
Page
3
Entertainment brief notes Sharon Stone appearing at the Look film feature. The piece hints at her performance and public interest in how she carries the role, with emphasis on star power and box office appeal.
A Mercer County calendar lists a special Board of Education session in Princeton for student disciplinary action. It also notes Bluefield State College choir, a Vietnam ex-prisoners group meeting in Lebanon, a bridal fair in Princeton, Vienna Brass concert at Bluefield, and a Virginia Black Lung Association dinner. Weather: today partly cloudy with highs near 40, tonight upper 20s. Powerball spike to about 22 million with several $100,000 winners.
West Virginia faces funding uncertainties for the I-73/74 project as ISTEA funds and routing remain unresolved. Secretary Fred VanKirk told Mercer County officials that federal backing is in question, with Rep. Rahall and Rep. Shuster pushing for favorable support. VanKirk expects a summer to early fall decision on location and timing, while figures on available funds vary between 19 and 43 million.
Weary evacuees first glimpse flood ruin in Pirin Ky as trailers lie on their sides and roads fill with muck. National Guard bulldozers clear crumpled houses and wreckage along the Licking River while residents fear lost homes and friends.
The Bramwell minister Rev. Clark Pelouchet left Bramwell Thursday to join disaster relief efforts in the Ohio River Valley. He will assess needs in Milton and Sissonville as the Kanawha and other rivers remain high. A follow up meeting led by the Red Cross and state churches is planned for March 20 and 21 at the Kanawha City Union Hall to coordinate services.
Bluefield Virginia reports the College Plaza Shopping Center area including Wal-Mart Sam's Club Four Seasons Restaurant Ryan's and others generates more than 80 million in annual gross sales. Town officials push for a new clover leaf on the C Jefferson Stafford Bypass to improve access as VDOT prepares for a pre allocation hearing in Abingdon March 11.
Princeton resident Martha Draper, severely injured in a February 20 car crash near Mt. Airy, writes that she can feed herself and brush her teeth, feeling grateful for small abilities as friends in Mercer County receive her message of love and resilience.
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