Postal service joins fight against breast cancer in Bluefield
The Bluefield West Virginia Post Office marks Breast Cancer Awareness Day with a Find the Fight Find the Cure observance. USPS notes the semipostal Breast Cancer Research stamp began July 29 1998 and will end July 29 2000 raising funds for cancer research. Local postmaster Bill Akers urges buying stamp books with 1.40 per book aiding research and invites customers to use stamps for Mother’s Day mailouts. Publicity partners offer free advertising through May 19 2000 to participating businesses.
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Food drive time Food now United Way backs national effort
The United Way of the Virginias teams with the National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive for Saturday May 13. Now in its eighth year, the drive stocks food banks locally and nationwide with non-perishable items placed by mailboxes for collection. Pictured are Danny Smith, Debbie Byrd, and Bill Akers at the Bluefield postal service.
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United Way of the Virginias
Debbie Byrd
Bluefield Postal Service
Bill Akers
Bluefield
Virginia governor and NAACP seek common ground on confederate proclamations
State NAACP leaders said they will not call for boycotts or protests as they continue talks with Gov. Jim Gilmore over Confederate History Month proclamations. The two sides described a warm, constructive meeting and agreed to more formal discussions with minority groups to resolve the issue with minimal pain.
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NAACP
Jim Gilmore
Gilmore
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Virginia
Salim Khalfani
Khalfani
Confederacy
Glenwood park gains improvements from local donations
Barbara Hawkins reports Glenwood-Princeton area groups fund handicapped restrooms at the park dining hall and install a new heating and cooling system in exchange for use of kitchen facilities while PCH finishes its own kitchen. Bluefield Area Foundation member Doris Kantor presented the grant to Park Chairman Brownie Clark and Superintendent Greg Pruitt on May 2.
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Glenwood Park
Bluefield Area Foundation
Princeton Community Hospital
PCH
Doris Sue Kantor
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Brownie Clark
Greg Pruitt
Clark
Dan Dunmyer
Jeanne Schmaus
Michele Stalnaker
Dunmyer
Mary Alice Kaufman
Betty Thompson
Carol Bailey
Bo Bowman
Richard Flanigan
Shirley Harvey
John Puckett
Frances Spencer
Deborah Griffith
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