Obituaries Continued from A-2
Services planned in Bluewell Keen Mountain and Bluefield for Lonnie Dotson Aileen Heilman Clair De Cousin Woods and Gladys Goss Joyce with burials and internments at local memorial parks and cemeteries following funeral home chapels in Virginia and West Virginia.
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A.m
Cravens-Shires
Bluewell
Woodlawn Memorial Park
Lonnie Dotson
G.H. Sinkford
Richardson Funeral Home
Bluefield
Restlawn Memorial Gardens
Littlesburg Road
Gladys Goss Joyce
Singleton Funeral Service
Cedar Bluff
Greenhills Memory Gardens
Claypool Hill
Coal rally debates fate of industry under federal pressure
Day two of the 2000 Coal Rally at Fincastle Country Club featured Governor hopefuls and industry figures debating federal challenges to coal. Callaghan faulted environmentalists and federal bureaucrats while urging wise decisions. Underwood pledged support and highlighted coal's importance in road building and development. Castle stressed the broad impact of the stream buffer zone rule and mountaintop removal concerns. Bill Reid urged leaders to rally behind coal amid regulatory pressures.
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Federal Environmental Protection Oncy
Callaghan
DEP
Bob Wise
Underwood
Castle
Bill Reid
EIMCO
Reid
Fincastle Country Club
Water project brings clean drinking water to Gratton area
Sen. Phillip Puckett and Delegate Jackie Stump praised a Gratton water project that includes 16,200 feet of six inch lines, a 250000 gallon storage tank, two pump stations and a master meter. The plan, funded by the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, offers 0 percent interest loans totaling 1.4 million and a 1.7 million grant with a June 29 2001 completion and tap fees set at 350 to connect until then. Local officials expect improved fire protection and economic development while residents may pay the lower fee before completion.
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Tazewell County
Phillip Puckett
D-Russell
38Th
Jackie Stump
Duchanan
Smith Ridge
Commonwealth
Stump
Gratton
Virginia Department of Health
New
Spencer
Doctors push to curb painkiller abuse in West Virginia
Lawmakers hear from Beatty and U.S. Attorney Betts about rampant pill use driving addiction. They cite oxycodone sale at 40 dollars a tablet, doctor shopping, foreign prescriptions, and a strained drug-enforcement effort with five agents in the southern district. Bowman urges reform after interims.
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Aunn Beatty
Beatty
U.S
Rebecca Betts
West Virginia
Betts
Ann Sen
Edwin Bowman
D Hancock
Romania
Viagara
Weirton
Smith led Thomson West Virginia Virginia and chaired Bluefield Chamber
Virginia Press Services profiles Smith an influential community leader who held executive roles across multiple papers and organizations. In 1998 he chaired and led the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce after rising through sales and marketing to become editor publisher and later president and CEO of Thomson West Virginia Virginia. He hails from Gadsden Alabama and is married with six children. The South Georgia Marketing Group comprises twelve publications including Americus Times Recorder Cordele Dispatch and Valdosta Daily Times plus several weeklies and online services.
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Virginia Press Services
Smith
Greater
Thomson West Virginia
UMWA Fish Fry Aims to Push Coal Act Health Care
In Castlewood Virginia the UMWA Freedom Fighters and District 20 host their Fifth Annual Fish Fry at the Russell County Fairgrounds. Key speakers include Cecil Roberts Carlo Tarley Rick Boucher Charles Robb John Warner Phillip PuckettWilliam Wampler Bud Phillips Terry Kilgore Jackie Stump Joe Johnson John Tate Jay Katzen and others. The event honors extending health care for retired miners and widows amid ongoing efforts to preserve the Coal Act and health guarantees.
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Castlewood
United Mine Workers of America Freedom Fighters
District 20
Russell County Fairgrounds
UMWA
Cecil Roberts
Carlo Tarley
U.S
Rick Boucher
D-Va
Charles Robb
John Warner
Phillip Puckett
William Wampler
Bud Phillips
Terry Kilgore
Jackie Stump
Joe Johnson
John Tate
Jay Katzen
John Stewart
Daryl Dewberry
Sec
Tres
Gary Pickett
Daycare licensing clash sparks zoning dispute in town
In Tazewell a controversy arose after Stephanie Fox advertised a state licensed daycare from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. alleging a business license was required. The zoning officer notified Fox of violations while she works to obtain a license, complicated by the home-based setting and 13 licensed in-home daycares already in town.
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Stephanie Fox
Wood
Fox
Tazewell
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the Havens
New Hope Road
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House of Representatives
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Bluefield Regional Medical Center
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Blue Ridge Hearing and Balance Clinic
BRMC
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