West Virginia welfare offers broad family and children services
The West Virginia Department of Welfare outlines extensive services for families and children. The Family and Children Unit provides foster and day care, protective services, counseling, and help for unmarried parents, with eligibility for any child in the state regardless of income.
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West Virginia Department of Welfare
Ann Swinkola
Dominion Post
Welfare Department
Helen Miller
Marion-Monongalia County
Stream-cleaning projects in Monongalia and Preston Counties
Creeks and rivers in Monongalia and Preston Counties will be trimmed of trash this summer as about 80 youths under the Governor's Summer Work Program begin cleanup work Tuesday. The seven week program targets Dent's Run Dunkard Creek Cheat Lake and other streams with coordination by Asel Kennedy and Paul Watson. Equipment shortages and water levels on the Cheat River may delay some tasks while a landfill site and mine sites are arranged for debris.
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Monongalia
Preston
Asel Kennedy
Dent’s Run
Dunkard Creek
Peddlar Run
Dolls Run
Davis Run
Cheat Lake
Kennedy
Preston County
Paul Watson
Big Sandy
Clifton Mills
Bruceton Mills
Little Sandy
Raccoon Creek
Big Buffalo Creek
Salt Lick Creek
Bull Run
Birds Creek
Watson
Cheat River
Pringle Run
Romwesburg
Monongalia County
Christopher Coal
Weirton
State Department of Highways
State
DOH
Department of Natural Resources
Fairmont
Morgantown High School
Kingwood High School
Health Department
Department of Naturalesources
Recreation agency expands Chestnut Ridge Camp plans
Chestnut Ridge Camp in Monongalia County adds a third week of regular camp for ages 6-14 with July 22 28 July 29 August 4 and August 5 11. A new sports camp for ages 13-18 runs after the three weeks offering swimming canoeing softball volleyball and handball led by John Stewart. Pre registration is required with fees 15 28 40 and 20 for the weeks. enrollment targets 100 regular campers and 60 for sports camp.
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John Blosser
Dominion Post
Chestnut Ridge Camp
Ridge
van Anderson
Monongalia County Recreation Commission
John Stewart
West Virginia University
West Point
Anderson
New Pedestrian Crossing Plan Aims to End Jay Walking
In Morgantown a new walk signal system will limit crossings to designated intersections and times. Palmer says it will ease current street conflicts at Walnut and High while noting possible removal of mid block crosswalks and urging cautious crossing until completion.
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Morgantown
Palmer
Walnut
High Streets
Rowlesburg Considers High School Consolidation Plan
The board plans two meetings early this week on consolidating Rowlesburg High with Terra Alta and Aurora at Terra Alta. Last year Rowlesburg residents favored Ringwood Valley instead due to travel time and highway access. An 8 p.m. PTO meeting in Rowlesburg and a Tuesday board-session at the park will discuss the proposal.
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Rowlesburg High School
Terra Alta
Aurora
Rowlesburg
Ringwood Valley
Park
Hospital births and discharge updates across Morgantown area
In Monongalia General and Preston Memorial there was a daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Carl Albright at 6 36 p m. Discharges include Delmar Walls Laura Perkins and many others. Greene Memorial reports two newborns a son at 7 49 a m and a son at 12 10 a m along with various medical and surgical admissions and discharges.
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Monongalia General
Carl Albright
Heritage Place
Anthony Livengood
Bruceton Mills
Delmar Walls
Belinda Mankinn
Jerry Boyce
Laura Perkins
Cynthia Vaglienci
Jay Johnson
Frances Pulice
Guido DeBardi
Evelyn Dalton
Mae Robertson
Iretta Luzier
Shirley Carr
Margaret Sponaugle
Linda McDonald
Lisa Shafer
Harry Hizer III
James Lanham
Eloise Sell
Muriel Fletcher
Monongalia General Downtown Division
Laura Mock
Dellslow
Sue Rogers
Morgantown
Pauline Luzader
Rosa Lorusso
Oliver Roderick
Louise Haller
Max Salucci
Betty Casseday
Angeline Collins
Preston Memorial
Bernard Waybright
Rowlesburg
Nancy Dailey
Kingwood
Gary Leonard
Katharine Pegley
Masontown
Zora Murray
Newbury
Lillian Tarkington
Alice Bundorf
William True
Dennis Debesham
Waynesburg
Frank Krempasky
Carmichaels
Linda Rush
Bernice Johnston
Ninevah
Lewis Brooks
Emma McClelland
Mike Gatti, Jr
Joseph Balaban
Fred Yeager
Emma Cross
Virginia Paul
John Ross
Margaret Conner
Emma Wolff
Thomas Inghram
Kimberley Foley
George Bane
Troubleshooter removes cluttering toys from stairs at apartment complex
The troubleshooter says overnight toys left on the outside stairway were removed after storage holds. Toys are in storage for pickup. He notes a playground is unavailable while a recreation area is under construction and suggests legal counsel if residents object. He also questions off duty policemen directing bank traffic.
Dent's Run cleanup in doubt amid planning delays
Westover and Granville face a month of coordinated planning to size a sewage elimination system for Dent's Run. Officials doubt the June 30 plan deadline and even Dec 31, 1974 completion is unlikely despite federal and state involvement. The project spans local to federal agencies and includes coal company filtering work.
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Westover
Dent
Granville
State Department of Natural Resources
Environmental Protection Agency
ARC
Mountaineers For Rural Progress
Area Clean Streams Project
Consolidation Coal
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Chestnut Ridge
United Fund
City Police Department
Kremlin
Daily Worker
Soviet Union
Bureau of Records
United States
Satan
Christ
John
America
G.L.A
Uts
Lipton Instant
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