Charleston Gazette back issues from June 2000:
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Jun 01, 2000 ... FATHER'S DAY A community Father's Day celebration is set for 5 p.m. June 17 atthe Chelyan United Methodist Church picnic shelter in Chelayn. Therewill be food, games and prizes. For more ...
Neighbors
Jun 01, 2000 ... Shawna Reness Livesay recently graduated from Alice Lloyd Collegein Pippa Passes, Ky. with a bachelor's degree in elementaryeducation, with an emphasis on teaching grades kindergarten throughthird. She also was on the dean's list. Livesay is a 1996 graduateof East Bank High School. ...
Swimming pools have changes in store
Jun 01, 2000 ... Swimming pools in Glasgow and Montgomery have changes in storethis year for those who frequent the water on hot days. TheCharleston Family YMCA will take over management of the MontgomeryCity Pool this summer as part of a program to bring the YMCA to theMontgomery area, said Greg ...
Water Ways adding speed to facilities
Jun 01, 2000; ... METRO STAFF Water Ways of Boone County will soon have something that willsatisfy the Dale Earnhardts and Jeff Gordons that reside in all ofus. They're installing a go-kart track for the upcoming summerseason. The track, slated for completion on Memorial Day weekend,won't open ...
Scholarships available
Jun 01, 2000 ... The Charleston Family YMCA, in partnership with Riverside HighSchool Community Education, will conduct a Summer Day Camp atRiverside High School in Belle. Summer Day Camp is a full-dayprogram for ages 6 to 13 years old. It will be available for sixweeks beginning June 19 and running ...
First Boone scholar since 1985
Jun 01, 2000; ... METRO STAFF Hannah Johnson of Seth is the first to tell you that she is"always up for new experiences." For this Sherman High Schoolstudent, the past two years have been a whirlwind tour ofscholarship offers and participation in summer camps for youngleaders. This year, ...
Glenville State lists Kanawha honor roll students
Jun 01, 2000 ... The following students from Kanawha County made the fall semestervice president's honor roll at Glenville State College: Freshmaneducation major Sarah Pomeroy Freshman education major Charlise Davis Junior education major Anita Foster Senior land ...
Library news
Jun 01, 2000 ... Charleston Library 343-4646 Beginner's Internet Thursday, June 8, 7 - 8:30 p.m. Get connected and learn to search the Internet. Previous mouseexperience is helpful. Adults Registration required. Summer Reading Club Kickoff Saturday, June 10, 10 a.m. - 2 ...
Applications available for Safety Council scholarships
Jun 01, 2000 ... Applications are available for the West Virginia Safety Council's2000 Collegiate Scholarship Award Program for full-time studentspursuing bachelor's degrees in safety, occupational health orenvironmental studies. To be eligible, a student must meet all ofthe following ...
Metro Band releases schedule
Jun 01, 2000 ... The Charleston Metro Band will perform on the following dates inJune: 6 p.m. Sunday, June 4: Symphony ...
Annual Street Fair scheduled for June 17
Jun 01, 2000 ... Instead of the normal flow of Saturday traffic, Capitol Streetfrom Virginia Street to Quarrier Street will be filled with a widevariety of free family activities on June 17. The Kanawha CountyPublic Library system's Second Annual Street Fair will be held bothin and outside Charleston ...
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Jun 01, 2000 ... Free garden seeds ... Seeds are available from the Upper KanawhaValley Improvement Council, a subsidiary of Multi-CAP. Vegetableplants also are available for low-income families. For moreinformation, call 949-6077. The office is located at 12404 MacCorkleAve., Chesapeake, in the ...
Off the wall: ; It's all in the name
Jun 01, 2000; ... We're having a bit of a dilemma around our house. Carly wants apet. I have to admit we're not much of a pet family. It's not thatwe don't like them; it's just that we've always had someone littlearound the house who already needed a lot of attention. It would bedifficult to potty train ...
Accord perennially second-best-selling passenger car
Jun 01, 2000; ... Whenever I drive up to my office in some flashy new car thatrepresents my test drive of the week, my co-workers swarm around andwant to go for a spin. That happened, of course, when I had theHummer, the Prowler, the Viper, the Audi TT, the new VolkswagenBeetle, even the giant Ford ...
Ordained minister started out as church janitor
Jun 01, 2000; ... METRO STAFF After 50 years as an ordained minister, he calls Billy Graham adear friend, looks back on dining with President Jimmy Carter in theWhite House, and names countless dignitaries and celebrities he'smet as he traveled the world. But the Rev. William "Bill" Ellisgrew up ...
Peebles Department Store manager a people person
Jun 01, 2000; ... METROSTAFF Bill Javins likes people, feels at home on the sales floor atPeebles Department Store and he has a boat. Those three factors areimportant in his success - and staying power - at Peebles, whichused to be a Watson's Department Store, which used to be an A.W.Cox's ...
Ablaze Online Web Development and Design opens in St. Albans
Jun 01, 2000; ... METRO STAFF A new service in the Kanawha Valley is blazing a path to thefuture via the information superhighway. Ablaze Online WebDevelopment and Design in St. Albans offers a range of services on aone-on-one basis. Owner Anthony Romeo - not to be confused with theTony Romeo who ...
Central Elementary students rewarded for reading
Jun 01, 2000; ... METRO STAFF Paul Poe, "as in Edgar Allan," pulled up in front of CentralElementary School in a black Cadillac limousine. His mission: Totake a group of seven students to a local restaurant for lunch. The high society ride to a free lunch was the students' rewardfor being the ...
FARM FAIR
Jun 01, 2000 ... "Fun for the Whole Brood" is scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, June3 at the WV Tack & Feed Store located off Corridor G at thebeginning of Davis Creek Road. This event, designed for children,will educate them in the various aspects of farm animal and petcare, nutrition and management. The ...
Neighbors
Jun 01, 2000 ... Marine First Lieutenant Brian S. Nelson received his firstpersonal award, the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, whileserving as Supply Officer and Platoon Commander, MEU Service SupportGroup 26. Nelson's Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Paul A.Brygidier, made the surprise ...
Tech Center awards scholarships
Jun 01, 2000 ... Tech Center Employees Federal Credit Union in South Charlestonhas announced the winners of its sixth annual Dollars 4 Scholarscontest. Ann Hansgate and Lindsay Kruska will each receive $1,000to help them fund their college education. The scholarship criteria are based on the ...
Lions seek host families for two Japanese girls
Jun 01, 2000 ... Lions District Youth Exchange Chairwoman Jerri McMillon hasannounced that West Virginia Lions are in search of host familiesfor two remaining Japanese students for summer stays starting in mid-July. The girls will come here through the WV Lions Youth ExchangeProgram. They are sponsored ...
Adopt a pet
Jun 01, 2000 ... Meet Chief, a 7-month-old neutered male German shepherd-mix, andPrincess, a 3-year-old spayed female cat. Chief has a nicetemperament and would make an excellent outside dog. Princess has a"sweet" personality and would make a nice pet, according to animalshelter officials. Chief ...
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Jun 01, 2000 ... Basketball camp ... The Buster Miles basketball camp will be heldJune 19-23 at the Nitro Community Center. The camp is for boys andgirls who will be in the first through fourth grades in the fall.The cost is $50. For more information, call 722-3188. MorganKitchen ... The St. Albans ...
Clubs
Jun 01, 2000 ... Trail club ... The Kanawha Trail Club meets at 9:30 a.m.Saturdays and 1:30 p.m. Sundays at the Stonewall Station Post Officeparking lot, Ohio and Randolph streets, Charleston, for hikesthroughout the area and state. For more information, log on towww.wvtrails.org. Kordsmen ... The ...
Dragon's Den: ; Graduating columnist bids goodbye
Jun 01, 2000; ... I have no witty repartee this week, or a long list of studentswho've done spectacular things (although, believe me, they exist).No, this week is different. This will be my final column as thewriter of the Dragon's Den, and so I'm going to be totally selfishand devote this last piece of ...
Religion
Jun 01, 2000 ... Concert ... The Greens will present a concert, "Evening ofPraise," at 7 p.m. Sunday, June 4 at First Church of the Nazarene,South Charleston, located at Kentucky and Walnut streets. There isno admission. A freewill offering will be taken. The Greens began ingospel music 21 years ago ....
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Jun 01, 2000 ... Children who want to have some fun and keep their reading skillssharp should check out the Summer Reading Club available at allKanawha County Public Libraries. The program begins June 10 andends July 29. Packed full of free programs, great reading and otherrewarding activities, the ...
Lakota dancer honors race unity Friday
Jun 01, 2000 ... A free concert celebrating racial harmony and diversity,featuring renowned Lakota Sioux flutist and hoop dancer Kevin Locke,will be presented at 2 p.m. Friday at the Cultural Center Theater inthe West Virginia State Capitol Complex, Charleston. Locke, atireless promoter of indigenous ...
Boxer remembers career
Jun 01, 2000; ... METRO STAFF Boxing is known as the sweet science, but there was nothing atall graceful about one of Dennis Street's pugilistic exploits. "This guy I boxed," explained Street, "he had sinus trouble. Well, Iopened it [sinuses] up and that old yellow stuff went ...
Duncans hope to revive Camp of the Hills
Jun 01, 2000; ... METRO STAFF Tim Duncan knew right from the start that Camp of the Hills wasthe perfect place for his family's next mission. "We were comingdown to Beckley for a wedding and arranged to see the camp and talkwith the board of directors," said Tim Duncan, a Daytona Beach,Fla., ...
School uses newspaper as a teaching tool
Jun 01, 2000; ... METRO STAFF Teresa Pickens and Mary Wells found a great teaching tool fortheir kindergarten class this year at Bridge Elementary School. It'sthe newspaper. (For the record, because it worked so well for them,they called and asked us to write about it.) Pickens and Wells ...
Neighbors
Jun 01, 2000 ... David Michl Lowe, the son of David and Kim Lowe and a 2000graduate of Sissonville High School, was given the award foroutstanding Christian leadership at the graduating classbaccalaureate on May 18. The award, sponsored by the Christian YouthFellowship at Sissonville High, is presented ...
Planners endorse shelter-in-place
Jun 01, 2000 ... The Kanawha Putnam Emergency Planning Committee has asked areabusinesses to adopt shelter-in-place policies to protect employeesin office buildings in case of daytime chemical emergencies. "Manypeople in the Valley know how to shelter-in-place at home because ofthe publicity over the ...
Religion
Jun 01, 2000 ... Church birthday ... Citywide Church will celebrate its birthdayat 6 p.m. June 11 (Pentecost Sunday) at the Capital Theater indowntown Charleston. 5 p.m. - Prayer for the City; 6 p.m. - HistoricGathering. Featured will be Citywide Mass Choir, Worship Leader'sWorship Team and Pastor Phil ...
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Jun 01, 2000 ... Sale ... Belle Woman's Club will present a parking lot sale andhot dog sale from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot atWholesale Transmissions, 406 Dupont Ave., Belle. Proceeds willsupport the club's activities. Summer play ... The summerplayground program at the Elk River ...
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Jun 01, 2000 ... Volunteer ... The Skyview Garden Club is seeking communityvolunteers to mow grass once or twice this summer at the Knollwoodplayground. This is an excellent opportunity for students to earncommunity service credits. For information, call 345-8091. Burialgrounds ... The Sissonville ...
THE WAY WE WERE ... THE WAY WE ARE: ; On lasting love ...
Jun 01, 2000; ... "She is fair to see and sweet, Dainty from her head to feet, Modest, as her blushing shows, Happy, as her smiles disclose, And the young man at her side Nervously attempts to hide Underneath a visage grim That the fuss is bothering ...
Putnam Profiles: ; Bingo a favorite among Regency Place residents
Jun 01, 2000; ... METRO STAFF Lucille Hansford forgot her Buddha, but she won anyway. During a recent bingo game at Regency Place, an assisted living/personal care home in Scott Depot, residents sat in the game room asnurse Danette Clendenin called out the numbers. "B-24!" Hansford, a ...
Putnam musings: ; Compassion in uniform
Jun 01, 2000; ... Sometimes rules can be broken and benefits ensue. Some of us in aU.S. Army unit in the Netherlands did just that during World War II.We used government-issue gasoline to help a farm family thresh theirbarley. But we did get permission from our commanding officer. Well,almost ... Our ...
Blowing Bubbles: ; Uncensored filth
Jun 01, 2000; ... The annual international convention of a professional guild towhich I belong was recently held in Boston. I went. Those oldenough will remember Boston as the place where a staid localcensorship group used to review art, magazines, books, movies andthe like to make a determination ...
Off The Wall: ; A time to remember and celebrate
Jun 01, 2000; ... Memorial Day comes at kind of an odd time of the year. Instead ofdecorating graves, many of us take short vacations - first weekendof the summer vacation season. Maybe life has become such a hassle,we need that break. My parents and my husband's parents called itDecoration Day - a time ...
Neighbors
Jun 01, 2000 ... Putnam County Technical Center Auto Technology students JoeLester and Jerry Larch will represent the school at the 2000 Ford/AAA Student Auto Skills competition in June in Washington, D.C. Theywon the right to compete at the national level by winning a regionalcompetition May 17 in South ...
Putnam in Review
Jun 01, 2000; ... Woman charged in infant's death at Nitro-area daycare center Partway through her first day on a new job, Sonja Holstein wascalled away to learn that her 7-month-old daughter had died in aNitro-area child care home. Paula Nelson, 32, was arraigned May 25on a first-degree murder ...
Church activities
Jun 01, 2000 ... Singing convention ... The monthly Tri-County (Kanawha-Putnam-Jackson) Singers Gospel Singing Convention will be held at 7 p.m.Saturday, June 3 at Fisher Memorial Church, a half-mile on DuddenRoad off the Goldtown exit of Interstate 77. The 2000 "Lasting Hope"songbook will be used. All ...
Touch of Life: ; E-mail brings comparison of the sexes
Jun 01, 2000; ... Yes, I goofed! Nothing new! I missed my column last week. Sorry.As those of you who have read this regularly know I was in Houston,Texas, for exactly one month. I had completed a number of columnsfor both the Sunday Putnam and Wednesday Putnam and West Metros andsimply overlooked May 24 ....
Yesteryears: ; New acquaintances
Jun 01, 2000; ... I had a very interesting phone call recently concerning thearticle "Yesteryears." The call came not from someone from my past,but a new acquaintance, Mrs. Harold Summers (wife of the PutnamCounty Clerk). Our conversation went something like this: "Are you the Kenny that writes the ...
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Jun 01, 2000 ... Ballet ... Michelle Raider, director and founder of thechildren's ballet company River City Youth Ballet Ensemble, willpresent the Brown Bag lunch art lecture "Gracing the Stage: Tales ofthe Ballet," at noon June 14 at Museum in the Community. She willtalk about ballet's origins in ...
Cooking for you
Jun 01, 2000; ... This is the time of year that we begin to think about picnics andcooking out. With that in mind, here are two delicious recipes thatwould be perfect for that outdoor feast. The first is for aMarinated Slaw. This is really easy to do and will keep several daysin the refrigerator. You can ...
Upward Bound program to sponsor summer food services
Jun 01, 2000 ... The Upward Bound Program at West Virginia State College willsponsor a food service this summer without discrimination to allparticipants regardless of race, color, handicap, gender, age ornational origin. According to program guidelines, if a child is amember of a food stamp household ...
What to see...Where to go
Jun 01, 2000 ... June 9 George Jones and guest Cledus T. Judd will appear at theCharleston Municipal Auditorium at 8 p.m. Tickets are $32.50 eachand are available at the Charleston Civic Center box office or anyarea Ticketmaster outlet. They may be charged by phone by calling342-5757 in the ...
Juveniles implicated in Eleanor school fire
Jun 01, 2000; ... rustymarks@wvgazette.com Putnam County authorities expect to charge three juveniles asearly as this morning with setting fire to George Washington MiddleSchool in Eleanor this past weekend. Prosecuting Attorney MarkSorsaia said he expects to file second-degree arson charges ...
Weston fire defendants won't face death penalty: ; Parents of dead children scheduled for trial
Jun 01, 2000; ... larrym@wvgazette.com Three Weston parents face trials in September and Novemberfollowing a judge's Wednesday ruling which dismisses the deathpenalty count from the federal case alleging they torched theirhouse with their five children inside in order to collect insurancemoney. ...
Phone bills may be on way down: ; FCC approves elimination of 'access fee'
Jun 01, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - All telephone customers are expected to see savingson their July long-distance bills under a dramatic overhaul devisedby the industry and adopted Wednesday by the Federal CommunicationsCommission. The commission cut by $3.2 billion the "access fees"that local phone ...
Jury clears Beard in Rainbow killings
Jun 01, 2000; ... tomsearls@wvgazette.com SUTTON - A teary-eyed Jake Beard hugged his wife and whispered"Thank you" in her ear after a jury declared him not guiltyWednesday in the Rainbow Family murder trial. It took the BraxtonCounty jurors less than three hours to acquit Beard of the 1980double ...
More than $51,000 given to summer camps for kids
Jun 01, 2000 ... Twenty-three summer camps have received grants totaling more than$51,000 - money given by contributors to the Send-A-Child-To-CampFund. The Gazette Charities board recently approved grants rangingfrom $150 to $7,000 to be distributed to the camps. The money is tobe used for camping ...
Armed man holds 29 children, 3 teachers in Luxembourg
Jun 01, 2000; ... WASSERBILLIG, Luxembourg - A man armed with a grenade, pistol andknife held 29 children and three teachers at a preschool earlyThursday. He had released eight children earlier and demanded aplane to Libya. Thirty-seven children, none older than 7, weretaken hostage in mid-afternoon ...
Bush may 'erase doubts,' delay: ; looming execution for DNA tests
Jun 01, 2000; ... HOUSTON - Gov. George W. Bush, who recently advocated DNA testingto "erase any doubts" from some death penalty cases, said Wednesdayhe would probably delay the looming execution of a convicted killerwhose attorneys are fighting for new DNA tests. The governor, whohas never made such a ...
Pro-death: ; Executing prisoners
Jun 01, 2000; ... TEXAS Gov. George W. Bush says he only kills people who deserveit. Last week, in response to Catholic protests against his state'shigh rate of executions, Bush said: "I don't believe we've executeda single innocent person." He strongly supports the death penalty. Bush's state ...
Blacks commit hate crimes, too
Jun 01, 2000; ... I have no tears to shed for Terrence McCray and Ledel Lawrence.On Friday, a jury in Jacksonville, Fla., ruled that these two youngblack men - 19 and 21 years old, respectively - were part of a mobthat last summer beat to death a mentally disabled man named GregoryGriffith. Because ...
Readers' forum
Jun 01, 2000 ... Rant vs. Folio was erroneous Editor: This is in response to Denise Giardina's diatribe on May 19. I'llfocus on two erroneous points in her misguided attempt to garner thesupport of the West Virginia electorate. She claimed that myfather, Bernard Folio, is a ...
Nation ?: ; Vatican's U.N. role
Jun 01, 2000; ... AS IF THERE already weren't enough issues in the 2000presidential campaign, another has been added: the U.N. status ofthe Vatican. The Roman Catholic Church headquarters - a 108-acrecompound legally separate from Italy - is considered a country bythe United Nations. It is designated a ...
Hypocrisy: ; Accept China, hurt Cuba?
Jun 01, 2000; ... LET'S see if we've got this straight: Free trade with China willhelp "export American values," paving the path for the end ofcommunism in that nation. That's according to House Republican WhipTom DeLay, R-Texas. However, free trade with Cuba can't be allowedbecause that would be ...
Police make more arrests in $1.5 million safe heist
Jun 01, 2000; ... HAGERSTOWN, Md. - Six people have been charged so far withsharing more than $1.5 million in cash and valuables stolen from aPennsylvania man's safe, and more arrests are likely. "Before theend of the week, we should have this wrapped up," Pennsylvania StateTrooper Matthew Gordon said ...
Man may be ruled unfit to stand trial in stabbing death
Jun 01, 2000; ... schnaars@wvgazette.com A Kanawha Circuit judge will decide by Monday whether to commit aSissonville man to a mental hospital for stabbing a local taxidriver to death last June. Ronald Daniel Asbury, 41, was set to goto trial on a murder charge Tuesday morning in the stabbing death ...