Tunnelton High School Food Service Class Trains Girls
A new food service program at Tunnelton High School trains 11 girls in waitressing pastry work and kitchen operations under teacher Mary Dawson. Students study institutional management, use modern equipment, and follow federal sanitation rules, with field trips planned to Oakland Maryland Hopemont Hospital and Hazelton grist mill.
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Mildred Lindley
Food Service
Tunnelton High School
Mary Dawson
Oakland
Dawson
Hopemont State Hospital
Hazelton
Preston County High School
Cheryl Burnham
New Food Service
County lass wins honors in twirling
Peggy Rhodes, junior majorette at Tunnelton High School, earned multiple prizes at the Apple Blossom Twirling Meet in Winchester Virginia including third place in Military Costume seventh in Best Appearance first in Beginners Basic Strut fourth in Advanced Basic Strut and fourth in Fancy Strut. Her instructor is Theodore Weaver of Morgantown. Previously she placed fifth in Best Appearing Military at a February 14 meet in Zanesville Ohio.
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Tunnelton
Peggy Rhodes
Tunnelton High School
Winchester
Carl Rhodes
Theodore Weaver
Morgantown
Weaver
Peggy
Zanesville, Ohio
Tunnelton Residents Drink Iron Free Water First Time
For the first time ever 350 Tunnelton residents can draw water free of iron impurities. Nearby Denver residents will gain access around July 1 as the town nears completion of a major municipal improvement.
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Tunnelton
Denver
4 H club awards and community updates in Masontown
Midway Getters 4 H members completed projects with assistants named George and Audry Kennan, Dave Brown, Martha Outright, Maelen Smith, Joe and Sam Beard, Robert Ennis Jr., Donna Hart, Mary and Betty Biondi, Terry Christopher, Peggy and Wyatt Livengood. Home projects honored Bradley Zinn, Carolyn Long, Carlie Huffman, Rodley Nedrow, William and Robert Hess, Harry Hawkins, Donna and Bonnie Biondi, Harry Shrout, Charles Ridgeway. Rehearsals for a Kingwood talent show are planned. Missionary Rev Norman Brom will speak Sunday at 6 30 p m in the Youth Center after a fellowship dinner. Mrs Paul Radabaugh led a Community Services discussion at the Masontown Home Makers Club meeting. Discussions covered citizen roles in services and welfare costs, with woolen and velvet patchwork skirts and plastic baskets highlighted. Tygart Lodge hosts area meeting May 20. Water projects in Denver and Tunnelton are 80 percent complete, financed by FHA for 149 500 total. Tunnelton and Denver receive 50 000 loan and 48 500 grant for pipes, booster station, and storage tank benefiting 60 families. J Kenton Lambert praised these small towns for FHA collaboration to improve rural living. Bailey Barnes is contractor.
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Masontown
Midway Getters 4-H
George
Audry Kennan
Dave Brown
Martha Outright
Maelen Smith
Joe
Sam Beard
Robert Ennis Jr
Donna Hart
Mary
Betty Biondi
Terry Christopher
Peggy
Wyatt Livengood
Bradley Zinn
Carolyn Long
Carlie Huffman
Rodley Nedrow
William
Robert Hess
Harry Hawkins
Donna
Bonnie Biondi
Harry Shrout
Charles Ridgeway
Kingwood
Norman Brom
Paul Radabaugh
Masontown Homemakers Club
Opal Allen
Tygart Lodge
Denver
Farmers Home Administration
Tunnelton
Corder Mayle
J. Kenton Lambert
FHA
Bailey Barnes
Terra Alta ward meetings set for nominating council candidates
Terra Alta residents will attend ward meetings at 7 30 p m Tuesday to nominate candidates for mayor recorder and town council. Meetings occur at Irene s Restaurant Town Hall fire hall and Terra Alta Elementary School with current officers listed including Mayor Howard Metheny and Recorder Gerry Smith.
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Terra Alta
Preston County
Irene’s
Town Hall
Fire Hall
Howard Metheny
Gerry Smith
Charles Feather
Elmer Strawser
L. W. Collins
William Taylor
County Jail Installs Door Monitoring Device
Preston County Court authorized purchase and installation last November for an electronic monitoring device at the Preston County jail. The system indicates whether jail doors are open or ajar, enhancing security at the facility in Kingwood.
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Kingwood
Preston County
Preston County Court
Lions paint school gym in blue and gold
Tunnelton Lions Club completes a gym mural featuring projected county tournament pictures and large basketball player and cheerleader figures. Thanks to Coach Williams and Bobby Whetsell and other Lions members for the effort. Family Week events and PTA benefit games noted with various local participants and prizes.
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Mary Miller
Tunnelton
Lions Club
Lion
Gerald Cline
Lions
Coach Williams
Bobby Whetsell
Mike Wachner
Ronnie Phillips
Buck Bowmar
Harold
Tunnelton High names 10-week honor roll and top straight A students
Principal Gerald Cline released Tunnelton High School's third 10 week honor roll listing 68 names. Seven students earned straight A averages: Janice Martin Debra Miller Diane Miller Martha Rhodes Barbara Plum. Other honorees include seniors juniors sophomores freshmen eighth and seventh graders.
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Tunnelton
Gerald Cline
Tunnelton High School
Janice Martin
Debra Miller
Diane Miller
Martha Rhodes
Debra Williams
Jane Bowmar
Barbara Plum
Peggy Bolyard
Donna Burnham
Debra Maier
Barbara Martin
Debbie Wiles
Nancy Wiles
Donnie Casseday
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Bonnie Bolyard
Tunnelton High
4-H Club
By Martha Dixon
James Stone
Morgantown Hospital
Ins
Citizens
Wiles
Gary Bolyard
Duwaine Metheny
Stanley Wiles
Ronnie McGinnis
Tunnelton United Methodist Church
Tunnelton Pta Room
Alfreda Bayless
Sue Cline
Maxine Warnick
Pauline Poland
Barbara Whetsell
Mareena Bolyard
Ann Johnson
Kay Shannon
Betty Metheny
Hilda Hahn
Rachel Zinn
Wanda McCloud
Mr. Bayless
Wayne Miller
Ira Frame
Donald Baker
Webelos
Roger Lee Kisamore
Neil Kisamore
Reedsville
Roger
Webelo
John Castle, Randy Garretts
Roger Harris
Jane Goff
Loretta Harris
Melodie Jones
Pam Trout
Doug Rosier
Karen Adams
Diane Falk
Peggy Haskiell
Patty King
Connie Minor
Peggy Sanders
Sharon Wolfe
Walter Grime
Dale Wolfe
Debra Bolyard
Cheryl Metheny
Melinda Poland
Becky Rosier
Patsy Schmidt
Brenda Weaver
William Adams
Donald Johnson
Rick Rhodes
Gary Shaver
Sam Spahr
Barbara Bolyard
Sheila Hahn
Teresa Layton
Greg Bolyard
Robert Layton
Roger Metheny
Sheridan Sanders
Mike Whetsell
Bryan Williams
Nancy Baylor
Nancy Bowmar
Stormy Huffman
Ethel Johnson
Esther Menear
Joyce
Preston Motors, Inc
East Main Street
W. VA
Ere
Walt Rokow
B & O Freight Yards
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