Charleston Gazette back issues from December 2000:
Business monthly
Dec 01, 2000; ... When businesses are shopping around for new places to locate,what are some of the intangibles that can sway their decision? Taxbreaks? Infrastructure? Rafting? "When people are considering going into a community, it'seducation, recreation and entertainment," said Linda West, ...
Business monthly
Dec 01, 2000 ... The Charleston Gazette has won 13 national awards this year. Thediverse collection includes writing honors for deadline as well asnon-deadline writing, feature stories, editorials and investigativereporting. The newspaper also received awards for headline writingand cartooning. The ...
Business monthly: ; Woman sets up model day care center
Dec 01, 2000; ... Rachel Welsh left West Virginia University this year with a jobleading a dot.com start-up and a vision to create a model day carecenter in her hometown of Spencer. With connections like SiliconValley success story Linda Hahner and West Virginia success storyBarbara Harmon-Schamberger ...
Business monthly
Dec 01, 2000 ... Given West Virginia's vast wealth of natural resources, the stateshould be the Saudi Arabia of North America. But because ournatural resources and associated means of production havehistorically been constrained by absentee corporate ownership and aneducation system that produces an ...
Business monthly
Dec 01, 2000 ... In August the West Virginia State Rehabilitation Council inInstitute received its new member appointments from Gov. CecilUnderwood. The new appointments are: Jane Burdette of Parkersburg tobe reappointed, Teresa Conway of Charleston, Deborah Mitchem ofPrinceton, Rebecca Lake of ...
Business monthly
Dec 01, 2000; ... Are leaders born or are they made? This question has been debatedfor many years and the consensus is both. Some leaders are born,while most leaders are made through diligent hard work, study andexperience. In the new millennium, true leaders must be awakened toaction because of ...
Local woman practicing at Greenbrier Vision Center
Dec 01, 2000; ... The action on the football gridiron was fuzzy, even for acheerleader patrolling the sidelines. Then, Lynn Engle's worldopened up in a whole new array of vivid colors and clarity, and acareer came into focus, too. "In junior high, the first time I got contact lenses, the worldwas ...
Business monthly
Dec 01, 2000 ... Decades ago, in another country, I once watched an acquaintancelose about $3,000 in the space of 10 minutes or so, playingroulette. He was principal of the American school in thisimpoverished country; his paycheck would probably have entitled himto be called "middle-middle class". The ...
Business monthly
Dec 01, 2000 ... Names and faces in business ACCOUNTING Arnett & Foster has announced that Doug Holden has passed theCertified Valuation Analyst exam and Christopher S. Nice has passedthe Certified Information Systems Analyst exam. Susan P. Wheelerhas been named senior manager and Bryan ...
Post it...
Dec 01, 2000 ... CHRISTMAS BAZAAR West Virginia University Institute of Technology will have itsannual Christmas Bazaar from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 7 in the TechCenter Ballroom. Crafters wanting to participate should call 442-1048. CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION The Davis Creek Church of the ...
Storyteller visits Elkview, Glasgow
Dec 01, 2000; ... METRO STAFF Storyteller Bill Hairston likes to spin tales about growing up inLick Skillet, a small town near Strawberry Road in St. Albans. Heknew the shoeshine man whose wife took care of him and his finances,until the day he needed his pants hemmed for a job ...
Candle makers expand to national business
Dec 01, 2000; ... METRO STAFF From a basement to a two-car garage to two 7,000-square-footbuildings, EvanScent in Gauley Bridge has grown fast manufacturingslow-burning scented candles. "We're shipping all over the nation,"said Brandie Evans, one of the founders of the business. "We havesales ...
Personal coach turns love of horses, people into business
Dec 01, 2000; ... METRO STAFF Whether one of her clients is working toward a job change,pitching that winning account or grooming their prized quarter horsefor a big show, Marilyn Bonnett knows there is one thing most up-and-coming champions have in common - a drive to succeed. "Peoplewho are ...
Glasgow business offers movies and meals
Dec 01, 2000; ... METRO STAFF At the Video Village in Glasgow, you can rent a movie and thensit down for a meal. After 14 years in Cabin Creek, Sheena Tottenand her husband, Richard, moved their video rental business toGlasgow in July 1999. In September of that year, they added a new twist to ...
B-Team Cougars grab runner-up
Dec 01, 2000; ... Metro photo Campbells Creek Cougar player Tyler Long finds room around theend before being nailed by St. Albans Lil' Dragon player ...
Sherman Elementary School announces honor roll
Dec 01, 2000 ... The following Sherman Elementary School students are on the honorroll for the first nine weeks of the school year: Sixth grade: Tiffany Adkins, Nicole Atkins, Sunceri Burke, Perry Changes, JoeyChristian, Courtney Coon, Britney Cooper, Carrie Dotson, JeremyEstep, John Gore, ...
Bulletin Board
Dec 01, 2000 ... ART Artwork by Jon Shumway is on display at West Virginia UniversityInstitute of Technology through Nov. 30 in the Pierce Gallery atConley Hall. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday throughFriday and by appointment. Call 442-3257 for more information. OWENS ILLINOIS ...
Clubs
Dec 01, 2000 ... East Bank Garden Club ... The East Bank Garden Club meets everyfourth Thursday each month at 7 p.m. September through April. Formore information, call Meredith Livesay at 595-3101 (work) or 595-1283 (home) or Betty McConihay at 595-4288 (home). VFW 5269 ... TheVeterans of Foreign Wars ...
Champions
Dec 01, 2000 ... The Belle Bulldogs B Team is the Eastern Division champion of theChemical Valley Midget Football League. The team finished 8-0 forthe season. Team members are, first row: Ely Beitz, MichaelThompson, Taylor Hickman, Balma Lyles, Derrick Ash, Matt Spencer,Cody Downey; second row: ...
Religion
Dec 01, 2000 ... Radio show ... Abundant Life Ministries invites the public tohear their radio show, "Appointed Time," at 1:30 p.m. every Sundayon WOKU 1080 AM from Hurricane. Abundant Life Ministries, located at4877 Big Tyler Road, Cross Lanes, conducts services at 10:30 a.m.and 6 p.m. Sunday and at 7 ...
Library news: ; How many shoplifting days left till Christmas?
Dec 01, 2000 ... The following programs will close out the month of November atthe Kanawha County Public Library in Charleston. Moon & Stars QuiltDisplay Month of November The Moon and Stars Quilters, a Charleston-based organization ofmore than 70 members, will provide a display of quilts of ...
How many shoplifting days left till Christmas ?: ; Mountain Echoes
Dec 01, 2000; ... I was driving down a lonely road about seven or eight miles fromthe main highway when a tire blew out on my car. It was rather lateand it looked as if a storm was coming, so I went up a little lanewhere I had seen a light in the window. I gently knocked at the doorand a nice lady spoke ...
Reunions
Dec 01, 2000 ... Capital High 1991: Seeking graduates for the 10th-year reunion.Jenny Fisher, 727-6310 or e-mail chsclass91@hotmail.com. CharlestonHigh 1950s: CHS 1950-59 monthly alumni breakfast, 9 a.m., lastSaturday of the month, Humphrey's Pine Room, 1600 Bigley Ave.,Charleston. Lola Samples, ...
Chesapeake Elementary School announces honor roll
Dec 01, 2000 ... The following Chesapeake Elementary School students are on thehonor roll for the first nine weeks of the school year: Principal'slist Fourth grade: Ashley Deem, Jonathan Hill, Michael Hudson, DavidPerdue, Justin Seacrist, Brittany Shelton, Adam Tucker and ...
Cans for the community
Dec 01, 2000 ... The Riverside High School Student Council collected more than 300cans of food and $200 as part of a community service project.Council members collected the cans from students who used them ...
Make A Difference Day serves community: ; Volunteers help out Upper Kanawha Valley
Dec 01, 2000 ... AmeriCorps Volunteers In Service to America, YouthBuildparticipants and AmeriCorps USA members teamed up to serve theircommunity during Make A Difference Day on Oct. 28. Sponsored by theSouthern Appalachian Labor School in Beards Fork, AmeriCorps VISTAmade a difference by sponsoring a ...
Adopt-a-pet
Dec 01, 2000 ... Meet George, a 9-year-old male mixed-breed dog, and Roy, a 6-month-old male cat. George is a friendly dog and would make anexcellent pet. Roy also has a nice temperament, and he prefers to beoutdoors. Roy and George are staying at the Kanawha-Charleston HumaneAssociation Shelter ...
FAMILY
Dec 01, 2000 ... Early Learner's The Charleston Family YMCA is accepting applications for itsEarly Learner's Preschool Program for ages 3 to 5 weekdays from 8a.m. to noon on a flexible schedule. The Y offers a safe learningenvironment including kindergarten preparation skills, peersocialization ...
Casual dress doesn't have to lead to overly casual manners, Californians say
Dec 01, 2000; ... If co-workers are choosing to play the role of bully, some blamethe costume for the play - the office dress code - claiming it'scausing offices to become as casual and unstructured as that of aplayground. On the Central Coast of California, long a bastion ofthe Friday casual mentality, ...
Author challenges you to create a passion plan
Dec 01, 2000; ... What author Stephen Covey did to promote effective habits,Richard Chang hopes to do to build passion in people's lives. Passion, he says, is the fuel that drives all performance. And it'sexactly what individuals and corporations are searching for afteryears of restructuring and rapid ...
Station wagons staging a comeback
Dec 01, 2000; ... The station wagon, a form of automotive life once thought to beheading for extinction, is staging a comeback these days withversions being offered in the United States by a diverse selectionof car makers: from budget models by Daewoo and Suzuki to luxury andperformance offerings by the ...
Covenant House helps families cope with bills: ; GAZETTE CHARITIES CHRISTMAS FUND
Dec 01, 2000; ... susanwilliams@wvgazette.com In the basement where the family of six lived, a major waterproblem caused the floor to start rotting. The building's ownerrefused to fix the floor. Ada Davis (the names have been changedfor this story) had just brought her 8-year-old daughter home ...
CAMC is still 3 hospitals: ; No expansions set for 2001 in budget
Dec 01, 2000; ... "There is not a way financially to implement the plan. Andthere's no reason to think that will change anytime in the nearfuture." David Ramsey, CAMC CEO mleonard@wvgazette.com Except for new names and new administrators, Charleston AreaMedical Center's three hospitals will stay ...
Gateway triggers stock drop: ; PC maker's warning about holiday sales leads to braid sell-off
Dec 01, 2000; ... NEW YORK - Wall Street recoiled with fear over corporate earningsand the economy Thursday, with the Nasdaq composite index sinking atone point to less than 50 percent of its closing high for the year. The tailspin, triggered by PC maker Gateway's warning ofdisappointing holiday sales, ...
Ballots journey to Fla. capital: ; Gore fights in 2 courts ; Bush allies want lawmakers to pick electors; Thursday's highlights
Dec 01, 2000; ... In the courts - In the U.S. Supreme Court, lawyers for Texas Gov. George W.Bush argued that the Florida Legislature has the power to name thestate's presidential electors. Lawyers for Vice President Al Goresaid the Legislature had no such authority. - In the Florida Supreme ...
Ballots journey to Fla. capital: ; Gore fights in 2 courts ; Bush allies want lawmakers to pick electors
Dec 01, 2000; ... Al Gore's lawyers battled for his political survival in theFlorida and U.S. supreme courts Thursday, pleading against delayingfresh vote recounts "even one day" as a half-million ballots sped byrental truck to Tallahassee. GOP lawmakers jockeyed in the statecapital to award the ...
COLLEGE 101: ; W.Va. gets bad grades for higher ed
Dec 01, 2000; ... tara@wvgazette.com West Virginia is tied with Louisiana for the worst overall highereducation system, a first-of-its-kind nationwide study reportedThursday. However, the most interesting statistics - as far as WestVirginia politics goes - come from Georgia. That state fathered ...
Ex-nuclear scientist threw tapes away, source says
Dec 01, 2000; ... ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Scientist Wen Ho Lee says he discarded 17computer tapes full of nuclear weapons data at Los Alamos NationalLaboratory, according to a source familiar with the case. FBIagents are combing the muddy, snowy Los Alamos County landfill wherelab trash is buried, saying the ...
Endeavour lifts off with solar wings for space station
Dec 01, 2000; ... CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Endeavour blasted offThursday night carrying five astronauts and giant solar wings forthe international space station. The shuttle rose promptly from itsseaside pad at 10:06 p.m. in a brilliant blaze of light that turnednight into day for miles ...
State briefs
Dec 01, 2000 ... Building owner liable in collapse, jury finds BECKLEY - A Raleigh County jury on Thursday found a Clevelandcompany liable in the 1998 collapse of a Kroger store roof thatinjured several employees. Jurors deliberated about an hour beforereturning their verdict against HC&W in ...
Instant runoff could end voting agony
Dec 01, 2000; ... LET'S face it: There is no clear winner in the race forpresident, no matter what comes out of the U.S. Supreme Courtarguments today. This election was, in essence, a tie. VicePresident Al Gore won the popular vote by a mere 0.3 percent. Ifthe Florida vote count holds, Texas Gov. George ...
Readers' forum
Dec 01, 2000 ... Maverick part of American Dream Editor: When the editors of The Charleston Gazette scold us by saying,"Don't forget: The election nightmare could have been avoided ..."(Potpourri, Nov. 13), perhaps it is they who are forgetful. Theyhave forgotten that we live in a country ...
Patronage: ; Clifford off to bad start
Dec 01, 2000; ... ONE of the first things Mike Clifford did as Kanawha Countyprosecutor-elect was announce that he will hire his politicalbenefactor's wife as his administrative assistant and personneldirector. Bad, bad, bad. Denise Tucker may well be qualified for the job, but her hiringlooks ...
Showdown: ; Gore won Florida ?
Dec 01, 2000; ... TODAY could be a "moment of truth" in the incredible boggle overthe 2000 presidential election. The U.S. Supreme Court officiallywill step into the Florida nightmare, hearing 90 minutes of oralarguments on George W. Bush's attempt to block further recounting ofvotes. Of the nine ...
PEIA: ; State must lower subsidy
Dec 01, 2000; ... WEST Virginia's Public Employees Insurance Agency "is the bestprogram in the country" in terms of the percentage of costs it picksup for beneficiaries, according to PEIA Director Robert Ayers. PEIAcovers 90 percent of medical costs for its 211,000 enrollees. In thepoorest state in the ...
Sludge spill an act of God, company says
Dec 01, 2000; ... INEZ, Ky. - Attorneys claim in court documents that the spill of250 million gallons of coal sludge in rural eastern Kentucky was anact of God. Martin County Coal Corp. President Dennis Hatfieldassured Martin County residents during five public meetings that heunderstood there would be ...
'Daily Show' to take poke at Jefferson
Dec 01, 2000; ... As portraits go, this TV view of the Kanawha County town ofJefferson is closer to a Bizarro comic book than a Norman Rockwellclassic. So much the better for cable channel Comedy Central, whichwill have a little fun at the expense of the town known for its X-rated clubs, motels that rent ...
Police briefs
Dec 01, 2000 ... South Charleston officer on leave during inquiry A South Charleston police officer has been placed onadministrative leave, pending an investigation into a weekendincident, according to Chief J.C. Miller. G.W. Williamson wasplaced on leave Tuesday, and will remain on leave during ...
Court briefs
Dec 01, 2000; ... Man going to prison for shooting drug dealer A Charleston man who was on probation for shooting a rival drugdealer to death will go to prison for one to five years. Thomas"Fonzie" Brown, 20, shot Shawn Brown outside an East WashingtonStreet home in November 1995. The two were not ...
W.Va. AIDS diagnoses decreasing
Dec 01, 2000; ... The number of West Virginians diagnosed with AIDS appears to bedropping after the peaks of the mid-1990s, according to state healthrecords. Through June of this year, a total of 1,036 stateresidents had been diagnosed with AIDS since state health officialsbegan compiling records in ...
Rape case witness lied under police threat, she says
Dec 01, 2000; ... sfinn@wvgazette.com A key witness in a 1995 rape trial said she lied when sheimplicated Kevin L. Cart for the crime, and that a Hurricane policeofficer threatened to send her to the state Industrial Home forYouth in Salem unless she testified against Cart. Amy Lucas took thestand ...
AT&T selling its wireless business
Dec 01, 2000; ... NEW YORK - AT&T Corp. is selling 16 percent of its wirelessbusiness for $9.8 billion to NTT DoCoMo, Japan's top mobile phonecompany, giving AT&T new funds and a savvy partner in the drive todeliver mobile Internet services. The widely expected dealannounced Thursday gives ...
Consumers' incomes and spending down
Dec 01, 2000; ... WASHINGTON - Consumer spending rose in October at the weakestpace in six months, while Americans' incomes actually declined forthe first time in nearly two years, the government reportedThursday, providing fresh evidence that the economy is shifting intoa lower gear. The Commerce ...
Norfolk Southern to offer voluntary early retirement
Dec 01, 2000; ... NORFOLK, Va. - Norfolk Southern Corp. said Wednesday it isoffering voluntary early retirement to certain nonunion employees asit continues to take steps to reduce operating expenses and increaseefficiency. The company estimates that 870 employees, or 18 percentof its 5,000 nonunion ...
W.Va. receives more than most with federal money
Dec 01, 2000; ... West Virginia is receiving more for its federal dollar than allbut two other states, getting $1.74 back for every $1 in federaltaxes its residents pay. Only New Mexico and Montana receive ahigher rate of return on their federal tax dollars, according to astudy released recently by the ...
Neighbors oppose prison in Pence Springs
Dec 01, 2000; ... BECKLEY - Neighbors of a proposed private prison in Pence Springsare opposed to the project, in part because they had previously beentold a golf course would be built on the site. About 130 peopleattended a public hearing Tuesday sponsored by the state RegionalJail and Correctional ...
Ballot position prompts Marion vote challenge
Dec 01, 2000; ... FAIRMONT - Former Fairmont Mayor Gregory T. Hinton is contestinghis loss in the race for one of the county's two circuit judgeships.Hinton says voters couldn't readily find his name on Marion County'spaper ballot because it was illegally designed. Last week, Hinton notified David ...
Dad's pension won't cover child support
Dec 01, 2000; ... susanwilliams@wvgazette.com As he sorts through old pay stubs and flips through his file ofcourt orders, Tom Meadows cannot understand why he is ordered to payout more child support than he receives each month from his pension.Meadows is a divorced father of two children, now 19 ...
Three W.Va. tickets win $100,000
Dec 01, 2000; ... Although no one in West Virginia hit Wednesday night's $131million Powerball jackpot, three ticket holders in the state are$100,000 richer. Twenty-four tickets in 12 states, including WestVirginia, matched the first five numbers, but missed the Powerballto win $100,000 each. Only one ...
Somebody won it
Dec 01, 2000; ... ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Fourteen workers at the Sandia nuclearweapons lab will see their bank accounts mushroom: They won a $131million lottery jackpot. Duane Carr, one of the people who pitchedin $10 each for the Powerball tickets, was skeptical when one of theothers called to drop the ...
Wise offers options to fund scholarships
Dec 01, 2000; ... Gov.-elect Bob Wise says if lawmakers don't want to use videopoker money to fund a merit-based scholarship program, the moneycould come from the state lottery, investment of tobacco settlementfunds or a foundation. Wise said repeatedly during his campaignthat he would fund the Promise ...
Inseparable couple dies on the same day
Dec 01, 2000; ... DENVER - They met at a concert when she was just a teen-ager, andthey were married in 1973. Inseparable for more than a quartercentury, they had worked side by side at a Postal Service mailsorting operation. Shortly after midnight Saturday, Mary Siens, 45,was driving to her second job ...
Clarification
Dec 01, 2000 ... A story in Thursday's Gazette gave conflicting information aboutwhen a provisional license expires for the Kanawha Home forChildren, a juvenile detention center in Dunbar. The ...
Corrections
Dec 01, 2000 ... An item in Monday's Gazette about a project to memorialize thelate Sen. Jennings Randolph, D-W.Va., contained two errors. Thestory said the sponsor, the Agribusiness Council, is seeking statemoney for a Randolph statue, but director Nicholas Hollis says hisgroup merely is asking the ...
World
Dec 01, 2000 ... Amsterdam 56 49 Cldy Athens 62 54 Cldy Beijing 45 31 Cldy Berlin 56 42 Cldy Bermuda 74 65 Cldy Cairo 65 55 Rain Calgary 27 10 Cldy Dublin 54 40 Rain Hong Kong 81 68 Cldy Jerusalem 63 48 Rain London 58 43 ...