The Gilmer County Family Resource Network will be sending a team of up to 8 people from the county to training at Brushy Fork Annual Institute in Berea, Kentucky, September 15-17, 2010.
Registration, lodging and travel are covered by the Flex-E grant and Benedum Foundation scholarships.
Visit the Brushy Fork Annual Institute website to see a detailed description of what tracks are available at www.brushyfork.org.
Contact the FRN if you would like to attend and why and how your attendance will benefit the community.
Not everyone who applies will be able to attend on the limited number of scholarships available.
Call 304.462.7545 or email at”gcfrn@yahoo.com” for more information.
TechNews: FBI Details Worst Social Networking Cyber Crime Problems
According to FBI, the following are some the most serious social networking cybercrimes:
Phishing
Phishing attacks on social networking site users come in various formats, including: messages within the social networking site either from strangers or compromised friend accounts; links or videos within a social networking site profile claiming to lead to something harmless that turns out to be harmful; or e-mails sent to users claiming to be from the social networking site itself. Social networking site users fall victim to the schemes due to the higher level of trust typically displayed while using those sites. Users often accept into their private sites people that they do not actually know, or sometimes fail altogether to properly set privacy settings on their profile. Social networking sites, as well as corporate websites in general, provide criminals with enormous amounts of information to send official looking documents and send them to individual targets who have shown interest in specific subjects. The personal and detailed nature of the information erodes the victim’s sense of caution, leading them to open the malicious email.
Data Mining
Cyber thieves use data mining on social networking sites as a way to extract sensitive information about their victims. This can be done by criminal actors on either a large or small scale. For example, in a large-scale data mining scheme, a cyber criminal may send out a “getting to know you quiz” to a large list of social networking site users. While the answers to these questions do not appear to be malicious on the surface, they often mimic the same questions that are asked by financial institutions or e-mail account providers when an individual has forgotten their password. Thus, an e-mail address and the answers to the quiz questions can provide the cyber criminal with the tools to enter your bank account, e-mail account, or credit card in order to transfer money or siphon your account. Small-scale data mining may also be easy for cyber criminals if social networking site users have not properly guarded their profile or access to sensitive information. Indeed, some networking applications encourage users to post whether or not they are on vacation, simultaneously letting burglars know when nobody is home.
Cyber Underground
The cyber underground is a pervasive market governed by rules and logic that closely mimic those of the legitimate business world, including a unique language, a set of expectations about its members’ conduct, and a system of stratification based on knowledge and skill, activities, and reputation. One of the ways that cyber criminals communicate within the cyber underground is on website forums. It is on these forums that cyber criminals buy and sell login credentials (such as those for e-mail, social networking sites, or financial accounts); where they buy and sell phishing kits, malicious software, access to botnets; and victim social security numbers, credit cards, and other sensitive information. These criminals are increasingly professionalized, organized, and have unique or specialized skills.
Beyond Cyber Crime
Valuable information can be inadvertently exposed by military or government personnel via their social networking site profile. In a recently publicized case, an individual created a fake profile on multiple social networking sites posing as an attractive female intelligence analyst and extended friend requests to government contractors, military and other government personnel. Many of the friend requests were accepted, even though the profile was of a fictitious person. According to press accounts, the deception provided its creator with access to a fair amount of sensitive data, including a picture from a soldier taken on patrol in Afghanistan that contained embedded data identifying his exact location. The person who created the fake social networking sites, when asked what he was trying to prove, responded: “The first thing was the issue of trust and how easily it is given. The second thing was to show how much different information gets leaked out through various networks.“ He also noted that although some individuals recognized the sites as fake, they had no central place to warn others about the perceived fraud, helping to ensure 300 connections in a month.
The FBI’s director, Robert Mueller this week told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the FBI’s response to growing cyber crime threats begins with its cyber squads in each of the FBI’s 56 field offices with more than 1,000 specially trained agents, analysts, and digital forensic examiners. “The FBI has also led the development of the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, which now includes 17 intelligence and law enforcement partners working side-by-side to identify the source of national security threats and significant Internet schemes. In support of victims of Internet crime, the FBI has expanded the IC3, which continues to receive, track, and refer for prosecution the ever-increasing wave of Internet crimes, from child exploitation to fraud,“ he stated.
Motorists who regularly travel Interstate 64 to and from Charleston have watched the interstate bridge slowly take shape across the Kanawha River between South Charleston and Dunbar for the last two years.
This week, some will get to actually drive on the new span as a limited opening occurs.
Built on the new “cantalever” design, none of the bridge piers touch the waters of he river below
Beginning Saturday morning, vehicles heading eastbound from Dunbar to South Charleston wishing to get off at MacCorkle Avenue will be able to access the new structure.
The limited opening will allow construction crews to finish the final phase of the bridge which will eventually carry all eastbound traffic for I-64 in the area. The final phase includes tying the new bridge into the existing interstate. The official opening of the span to normal traffic is expected sometime in October.
The I-64 Bridge stretching from Dunbar to South Charleston
across the Kanawha River is more than 3,000 feet long
The span is an engineering marvel and the only one of its kind in the United States. It’s received several awards and accolades for the design, which crossed the river without putting anything in the water and giving passing boat traffic plenty of clearance.
The magnificent span was not without tragedy though, Construction Foreman Jon Beatty was killed during the early stages of the bridge construction when one of the forms used to build a support tower came unrigged from it’s moorings and landed on him. Inside the hollow interior of the bridge, near the support tower where he died, workers placed a bronze marker to pay tribute to Beatty.
MacCorkle Avenue in South Charleston
Motorists will notice a twist in the bridge as they drive across the new span.
It goes from an 8% cross slope in one direction to an 8-percent in the other direction. It does exactly that, it twists one way then banks back the other way, but it’s a much better alignment than the existing bridge and should allow for a lot safer travel through this area.
The cavernous interior of the bridge will be accessed only by
highway personell for inspection work in the future
Once complete, the DOH will turn its attention to the existing bridge which will carry westbound I-64 traffic.
Officials expect to do considerable refurbishing to the existing span in the coming months.
BURNSVILLE – The lake is at summer pool and clear. Fishing is good. Bass are in about 10-15 feet of water. Try early mornings and late evening for the best action. Sunfish and crappie have been caught around cover with small jigs and live bait, and reports of nice flathead catfish being caught as well. For more information call Corps of Engineers at 304.853.2398.
STONECOAL LAKE – The lake is at summer pool and clear. Fishing is great. Bass are in about 10-15 feet of water. Try early mornings and late evening for the best action. Sunfish and crappie have been caught around cover using minnows and live bait. Summer bluegill fishing is getting good. Try live bait in shallow water (1-2 feet). A few trout are still being caught on spinners.
STONEWALL JACKSON – The lake is at summer pool and clear. Fishing is good. Bass are active and in about 10-12 feet of water. Try early mornings and late evening for the best action. Sunfish and crappie have been caught around cover with small jigs and live bait. Before heading to the lake please contact Corps of Engineers at 304.269.7463.
SUMMERSVILLE – The lake is at summer pool and clear. Bass are in about 15-20 feet of water. Try early mornings and late evening for the best action. Sunfish and crappie have been caught around cover. Try the upper end of the lake for walleye. Trout were stocked in the tailwaters on June 21 by helicopter. If you are looking for a back country trout fishing experience hike down in and enjoy. For more information call Corps of Engineers at 304.872.5809.
SUTTON – The lake is at summer pool and clear. Fishing is good. Try early mornings and late evening for the best action. Bass are still in about 20-25 feet of water and hitting plastic baits. Crappie and bluegill have also been caught around standing timber with small jigs and live bait. The tailwaters are normal and clear. Some trout are still being caught. Before heading to the lake please call Corps of Engineers at 304.765.2705.
TYGART LAKE – The lake is near the summer level. Walleye have been caught during the day in the 30 to 50-feet depths where the water temperature is around 70 degrees. Smallmouth bass can be caught using crank baits or tube jigs along the shoreline. Look for white bass at the head of coves or the upper part of the lake. Fish for crappies in the fish shelters between the boat ramps at the marina. Start fishing for walleye at dark when they move into shallow water to feed.
There are lots of trout and walleye in the tailwater. Walleye fishing is best during higher flows (1,500 to 5,000 cubic feet per second) and trout fishing is best at low flows (less than 1,000 cubic feet per second). Call the Corps of Engineers telephone hotline at 304.265.5953 for daily lake and tailwater conditions.
CHEAT LAKE – White bass schools can be seen breaking the surface throughout the lake. Cast crank baits, spoons, or jigs for fast action. The easiest way to fish the lake for all species is drifting along the shoreline with a night crawler or minnow on a hook with a couple of split shot at a depth of 10 to 15 feet. Cast small rooster-tail spinners for large bluegills and pumpkinseed sunfish in downed trees along the shoreline. Channel catfish can be caught throughout the lake but are particularly numerous upstream of Mt. Chateau. Cheat Lake has been one of the top lakes for bass fishing tournament success for the past 5 years. The embayments at the Cheat Lake Park are good areas for bank fishermen to catch sunfish and largemouth bass.
Try the tailwater fishing pier for sauger, smallmouth bass, walleye and white bass. Jigs with minnows or 3-inch power grubs are the best baits. White or chartreuse are good colors. Start fishing at dark when sauger and walleye begin feeding. The pier is located entirely in West Virginia about 25 minutes from Morgantown and is lighted for night fishing and is handicapped accessible.
MONONGAHELA RIVER – The water temperature is 80-82 degrees. Flows are low but fishing continues to be good during the day for smallmouth bass in the lock and dam tailwaters. The best fishing success for sauger and walleye is during low light conditions at dawn and dusk. Sauger, smallmouth bass, walleye, and white bass are always attracted to the currents in the tailwaters. Jigs with minnows are the best baits right now. Channel and flathead catfish are abundant throughout the river. Carp are being caught from shore at the Ruby H.M. Park and at the Star City ramp. Troll large crank baits for muskies anywhere on the river.
Elk River – Numerous reports of bass and muskie caught during the cooler parts of the day from the dam to the mouth in Charleston. Try soft plastics, buzz baits, spinnerbaits, and various crawfish imitating lures. Live bait is also a good choice if artificial prove to be ineffective. Turn rocks over along the river’s edge, or use a small seine to gather crawfish and hellgrammites. Large drum and channel catfish can also be taken this way, cast slightly ahead of cruising fish using light line and minimal weight with the live offering, then hang – on! The WVDNR is conducting a muskie study on the Elk River currently. If an angler keeps a muskie with what appears to be a metal tag on the dorsal fin, please contact the district office in Pt. Pleasant immediately (304.675.0871). We would like to gather information (total length = tip of snout to maximum length with the tail fin lobes squeezed together, location of capture, tag number) from the tagged fish. Flyers have been placed at put-ins, and in small tackle/convenient stores along the Elk River in Braxton, Clay, and Kanawha counties. Your participation is much appreciated.
CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
Water levels are high and milky. July is a great time to introduce a child to fishing. The weather is nice and fish are very active. If you are looking for a place to go please check the fishing regulations and the WVDNR website for a list of public access or call your local WVDNR district office for some advice and a place to take a youngster fishing. Always use sun block and drink plenty of fluids when out on the water. If going alone, always tell someone where you are going and when you will return.
WEST-CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
Summer is an excellent time to fish Ohio River tailwaters. Anglers fishing below the Belleville and Willow Island dams are catching white bass, hybrid striped bass, and a few other species. Lead headed jigs with twister tails (white or chartreuse), which are fished along the bottom, are the lure of choice. Clever anglers are tipping their jig hooks with minnows or shad. Best spots to fish these areas include eddies and back-current sections, and anywhere that river flows are unusual. Schools of hybrid striped bass will periodically move up to the surface to ambush prey, so keep a look out for this activity. When this activity is seen, agitator bobbers fished with rubber minnow imitations or fresh bait fished with surf casting equipment, generally provides the best result. Fresh bait (small skipjack) can be caught from these areas using “Sabiki” rigs.
Elsewhere on the Ohio River fishing for catfish has been good. Channel catfish anglers should use nightcrawlers, chicken liver, or prepared catfish type baits. Live fish should be used for flatheads. Good fishing sites for catfish include deep areas along islands and tributary mouths.
Fishing has been good for largemouth bass in area lakes. Spinner baits, rubber worms, crank baits, and surface lures are producing bass in areas of good cover. Good choices for area lakes include Mountwood in Wood County, Conaway Run in Tyler, Charles Fork in Roane, North Bend Lake in Ritchie County, and Elk Fork, Woodrum and O’Brien lakes in Jackson County. Best fishing times will be early in the morning and during the evening hours. These lakes can also supply good bluegill fishing. F or these sunfish use trout magnets or spinners, small jigs, or small worms. Fishing for 8-12 inch sized largemouth bass at Woodrum Lake in Jackson County has also been quite good.
Summer is a good time to fish for channel catfish in area lakes and streams. Chicken livers, nightcrawlers, and prepared catfish baits work well. Remember fishing at night is generally better than fishing during the day for catfish in the summer.
Local musky streams should be fishable this weekend. Summer musky anglers use large Crankbaits or jerk baits and best spots are usually around fallen trees or riffle areas. Fishing has been quite good this year for musky along Middle Island Creek, the Little Kanawha river, and on the Hughes River and its forks.
Public Service Commission Consumer Advocate Wants Frontier Investigation
The WV’s public utility watchdog has joined FiberNet in asking the state Public Service Commission to reopen its decision to approve Frontier Communication Corporation’s purchase of Verizon’s landline network in West Virginia.
In a letter filed with the commission Thursday, the PSC’s Consumer Advocate Division didn’t state a reason for the request—only that it agrees with FiberNet that the PSC investigate Frontier’s operating system.
Last week, FiberNet, which uses Frontier’s landline network, alleged that Frontier’s operating system was causing numerous problems for customers.
Frontier has until Friday to file a response with the PSC.
On July 01, 2010, Frontier took over more than 600,000 telephone access lines from Verizon in West Virginia.
The West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles is delaying a new electronic temporary license program in response to dealers’ criticisms.
The program initially was scheduled to begin August 31, 2010. Now it has been postponed until March 31, 2011.
Dealers now mail or hand deliver vehicle registration information to the DMV. The new program would require dealers to enter that information into a DMV database. Temporary tags would be printed at the dealership.
Dealers say the new system could force them to hire more workers and inconvenience customers. They also say some small dealers could be forced out of business.
A dealer said, “This is serious. The old system is working fine. But now they’re saying, you’re mandated. You have to do this.”
Small dealers say, “dealerships that sell fewer than 30 vehicles a month should be exempt.”
“The new system is going to force the smaller dealers to go out of business,“ a small dealer said. “They might not have a computer-savvy person on staff. It’s like you’re asking an electrician to do a plumbers’ job, but they’re not a plumber.“
DMV plans to offer dealers a second option that would require only a fax machine and a printer. Dealers could print temporary tags at their dealerships and file the paperwork the traditional way.
“They could do everything else manually,“ DMV said. “We’re adjusting the program. Our goal is that all dealers will say this is a great system.“
The system would save DMV the cost of printing temporary cardboard tags and allow law enforcement agencies to trace a temporary tag number to determine who owns the vehicle.
The West Virginia Auto and Truck Dealers Association said their group supports the electronic transfer records, “but this has to be done right, and this program is not right.“
Dealers plan to meet with DMV officials on August 04, 2010.
Health Insurance Companies’ Threat to Refuse Coverage for Children Is Shameful and Will Not Stand
Senator Jay Rockefeller released the following statement on Thursday regarding the recent news that some health insurance companies have threatened to stop issuing new individual insurance policies that cover children under 19 with pre-existing conditions.
“Some health insurance companies worked from day one to block the passage of health reform with strong consumer protections for American families. Now, since they couldn’t stop health reform, they are sparing no expense to lobby for ways to weaken implementation of the law to their advantage – and this week, their scheme continues to the detriment of children. These efforts are shameful and they will not stand,” said Rockefeller. “By threatening to stop issuing new policies to children with pre-existing conditions – because they might not then be able to make as much of a profit on those children – health insurers are once again showing their true colors.”
Rockefeller continued, “It is bad enough that some health insurance companies continue to blatantly put profits before people, but now they are deliberately using children as political pawns in their attempts to weaken health reform. It just doesn’t get any lower than that.”
“I want the health insurance companies to hear me loud and clear – I will never stop fighting you each step of the way to stop your deplorable actions that hurt children.”
Background:
Senator Rockefeller has dedicated his entire career to protecting children and making sure they have all of the resources and protections they need. Rockefeller is honored to serve West Virginia families as Chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, where he secured inclusion of an important provision in the health reform bill that would immediately eliminate all pre-existing condition exclusions for children under age 19. This provision is based on legislation he reintroduced in 2009 – the Pre-existing Conditions Patient Protection Act (S. 623).
On Wednesday, to ensure the coverage of children and address some health insurance companies’ concerns, the Administration clarified that there will be an open enrollment period for children with pre-existing conditions who are currently uninsured – and that they won’t “hesitate to issue regulations if insurance companies unfairly limit access to insurance for children who need it most.” The Administration also clearly stated that benefits to children from the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) will not be affected.
An Administration fact sheet with questions and answers on Enrollment of Children Under 19 Under the New Policy That Prohibits Pre-Existing Condition Exclusions is availableH E R E.
Gilmer County High School Sports Physicals Make-Up Day
The Sports Physicals for the Gilmer County High School will be at the School-Based Health Clinic located inside Gilmer County High School on Monday, August 02, 2010 from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM.
No student can participate in any WVSSAC school sport without a sports physical.
Parents must complete the physical form and sign the consent before a physical can be performed.
Any student presenting without a signed consent will not be seen.
All insurances will be billed but co-pays /deductibles will be waived.
Please bring copy of insurance card.
Call Minnie Hamilton Health System, Glenville office at 304.462.7322 to schedule an appointment.
Forms can be picked up at Go-Mart, Pizza Hut and Rite Aid in Glenville.
West Fork Conservation District Supervisors Meeting – 08.03.10
The West Fork Conservation District Board of Supervisors monthly meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 at the Snowbird Park, Doddridge County, WV .
The meeting starts at 9:00 AM.
Contact Dinah Hannah, Administrative Officer, at 304.627.2160 for further information.
The West Fork Conservation District in West Virginia is comprised of the following four (4) counties located in the northern-central portion of the state:
• Doddridge County
• Gilmer County
• Harrison County
• Lewis County
For the steak:
1/3 cup olive oil
1/3 cup balsamic vinegar
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon black peppercorns
4 cloves garlic
1-1/4 pounds sirloin steak, trimmed of fat and very thinly sliced
For the polenta:
18-ounce tube prepared polenta
2 tablespoons olive oil
Salt and ground black pepper
Garlic powder
For the sour cream:
1 cup sour cream
1 shallot, finely minced
1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh chives
Directions:
In a blender, combine the oil, vinegar, salt, peppercorns and garlic.
Puree until smooth, then pour into a stainless steel or other nonreactive bowl.
Add the steak, mixing gently to coat, then refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, cut the polenta into 8 slices.
Use a pastry brush to lightly coat both sides of each slice with oil.
Sprinkle both sides of each slice with a bit of salt, pepper and garlic powder.
Set aside until the steak is ready to grill.
In a small bowl, whisk together the sour cream, shallot and chives.
Set aside.
Heat the grill to medium-high.
Coat the racks with cooking spray or oil.
Grill the polenta slices for 3 minutes per side, or until bold grill marks appear.
Use a spatula to carefully transfer the slices to serving plates.
Grill the steak for 1 minute per side.
Mound 1 or 2 slices on top of each polenta round.
Top each with a dollop of sour cream.
• 1866 The Coldwater Oil and Coal Producing Company was incorporated in West Virginia by the following: Henry C. Lewis, Philo C. Crippen, Harvey Robinson, David Thomson, John Kint, Albert Chandler, Robert F. Mockridge, Julius S. Barber, and George H. White, all of Coldwater, MI. The company’s purpose was to purchase property and mine coal, oil, and other extractive minerals in Wirt County and Ritchie County.
• 1959 Oil industry pioneer Michael L. Benedum died in Pittsburgh, where he was buried, at the age of 90.
• 1981 Division of Natural Resources Commissioner David Callaghan disputed claims by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that water in thirty-four West Virginia cities was unsafe to drink.
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: The right side of my nose is totally blocked, and the left side is getting there.
If I walk at all fast, I have to breathe through my mouth.
I don’t like seeing doctors, but I figured I had put this off for too long.
The doctor says I have nasal polyps, and he has referred me to an ear, nose and throat doctor for removal.
How does a person get nasal polyps?
Are they the same as colon polyps?
Is there treatment other than surgery? - H.O.
ANSWER: Polyps are soft, pea-size growths that spring from the lining tissue of many organs, including the colon and the nose.
Nose polyps are gray to white and are filled with a gelatinous material.
They can be induced by chronic sinus infections, allergies, aspirin sensitivity and asthma.
More often than not, none of those is present in a polyp patient.
The polyps just grew.
Unlike colon polyps, nasal polyps are rarely, if ever, a precursor to cancer.
A young woman once wrote to me, saying her mother had a nasal polyp that became cancerous.
I believe that her mother was diagnosed as having a nasal polyp, but in truth it was most likely, from the start, a nasal cancer, a very rare kind of cancer.
Large nasal polyps can obstruct the flow of air through the nose completely.
They also can produce a runny nose.
You can mention to the ear, nose and throat doctor your reluctance to have surgery.
Cortisone sprays like Flonase, Rhinocort or Nasarel can shrink polyps, but they often return after the spray is discontinued.
Polyp surgery isn’t as daunting as you might imagine.
Eyesores in Glenville – River Street
Based on reports used by druggies and law violators - Doors always open
Abandoned? Not Occupied - Who IS the owner?
Gilmer County Commission, City of Glenville, Health Department, and Law Enforcement, Owner(s), How about it?
If you care, Let’s cleanup our community
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How mean people can be! Those from Jesus’ home town couldn’t believe such a gifted and impressive person could be from one of themselves. Indeed, how can a carpenter be God?
Lord, help us to open our eyes and hearts.
Touch us so that we can see the greatness of our Father’s ways.
May we reach out—in our prayer and in our activities—to all the neglected and pre-judged ones in our world (the useless old, the wastrel young, the greedy refugee, the selfish brother).
Lord, these beloved are your gift to us.
May we find in them the unmeasurable span of your great love and the inspiring challenge of your presence.
Michael Allen Clevenger
Age 24, of 314 Rowgh Lane Camden passed away on Sunday, July 25, 2010 in Weston due to an automobile accident.
He was born in Warren, Ohio on May 02, 1986 and raised in Lewis County: son of Kevin and Deborah Kirkpatrick of Camden, WV, maternal grandmother: Reta Simones and paternal grandfather: Lester Lowther.
Michael is also survived by two brothers: Richard Lowther and Brandon Marple, three sisters: Crystal, Amber and Angela Kirkpatrick, and two nieces and five nephews.
He was also survived by his fiancé: Traci Clark, aunts, uncles and cousins, who loved him. Mr. Clevenger was preceded in death by Grandma Judy Lowther, two uncles: John and Denny Kirkpatrick and one aunt: Jeanie Lorentz.
Michael worked for Viking Pools.
He loved to hunt, fish, ride four-wheelers and camping. He will be missed by family and friends.
Family and friends will be received at the Hardman-Paletti Funeral Home 730 N. Main Avenue Weston on Friday, July 30, 2010 from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM.
Funeral services will be held on Friday at 1:00 PM from the Hardman-Paletti Funeral Home chapel.
Interment will follow services in the Snyder Cemetery of Gilmer County.
Hardman-Paletti Funeral Home of Weston is in charge of arrangements for Michael Allen Clevenger.
Today is Friday, July 30, the 211th day of 2010. There are 154 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 30, 1945, during World War II, the Portland class heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis, which had just delivered components for the atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima, was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine; only 316 out of some 1,200 men survived the sinking and shark-infested waters.
On this date:
In 1792, the French national anthem “La Marseillaise”, by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris by troops arriving from Marseille.
In 1864, during the Civil War, Union forces tried to take Petersburg, Va., by exploding a gunpowder-filled mine under Confederate defense lines; the attack failed.
In 1918, poet Joyce Kilmer, a sergeant in the 165th US Infantry Regiment, was killed during the Second Battle of the Marne in World War I. (Kilmer is perhaps best remembered for his poem “Trees.“)
In 1932, the Summer Olympic Games opened in Los Angeles.
In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill creating a women’s auxiliary agency in the Navy known as “Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service”—WAVES for short.
In 1960, the recently founded American Football League saw its first pre-season game, in which the Boston Patriots defeated the host Buffalo Bills 28-7.
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Medicare bill, which went into effect the following year.
In 1975, former Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa disappeared in suburban Detroit; although presumed dead, his remains have never been found.
In 1980, Israel’s Knesset passed a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state. The Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu became independent of joint British-French rule.
In 1990, British Conservative Party lawmaker Ian Gow was killed in a bombing claimed by the Irish Republican Army.
Ten years ago:
• President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela won a fresh six-year term in a landslide re-election.
Five years ago:
• President George W. Bush was pronounced “fit for duty” after a checkup that showed that the 59-year-old commander-in-chief, an avid mountain bike rider, had lost eight pounds since his last physical exam in December 2004.
One year ago:
• Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the Cambridge, Mass. officer who arrested him for disorderly conduct at his home, Sgt. James Crowley, had beers with President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden at White House to discuss the dispute that unleashed a furor over racial profiling in America.
Frontier Union Workers Complain About Mandatory Overtime
Verizon’s transfer of millions of DSL and landline customers to Frontier Communications has not gone smoothly so far.
Unsurprisingly Frontier is seeing more difficulty in markets Verizon neglected for years (like West Virginia).
Frontier’s trying their best to stay ahead of the problem(s), but appears to be running into complaints by union workers about the fact they’re requiring mandatory overtime to address Verizon’s neglected infrastructure and repair backlog:
An anonymous e-mailer wrote the Daily Mail to say that some employees are overstressed, including some older workers “who are having a very difficult time coping with 70-hour weeks, especially those who work outside in this unbearable heat.”Frontier employees are willing to help the company succeed, but this is not the way to proceed,“ the e-mailer wrote. “It is alienating employees and showing a total lack of respect for their mental and physical well-being. Their family lives are suffering and the company doesn’t seem to care at all.“
From the article, union workers seem to be complaining that Frontier’s declaring their Verizon migration an emergency in order to require mandatory paid overtime, a classification Verizon only used in physical disasters. Of course many of these same workers were concerned that they wouldn’t have jobs at all not that long ago, and this overtime may help ensure that Frontier’s deal with Verizon doesn’t wind up like Verizon’s deals with Hawaiian Telcom and Fairpoint Communications.
The online Urban Dictionary gives three definitions for this ancient jive phrase: first, similar to saying, “It’s all good,” or “everything is going according to plan;” second, similar to “it is what it is;” and third, from the teachings of the Nation of Islam, “comes from the Supreme Alphabet, a system of interpreting text and finding deeper meaning. ‘E’-Meaning ‘Equality’, to knowledge your knowledge, you will deal equally with everything within your cipher, which gives birth to wisdom that is showing and proving.” Okay.
ecalling the use of the phrase by hip jazz musicians in the 1960s, I had always assumed it meant a Buddhist sense of the radical interconnection among all phenomena. Here in brave new 2010, that’s the definition that still makes the most sense to me. Take the exploded BP oil rig off the Louisiana coast. Things in the Gulf are definitely not all good, and certainly not going according to plan. Resigned acceptance of the status quo, “It is what it is,” won’t cut it either, as an entire generation of fishermen in four or five states wait to see if they will lose their livelihoods. As for a wisdom that shows and proves, I think we need a wisdom, even at the risk of simplification, that reaches for a new level of connection between apparently separate events.
On a small planet, everything is everything. Back in the 1970s, with oil prices spiking, lines lengthening at the gas pumps, and President Carter moralizing disagreeably on TV about a fundamental need to change our profligate ways, the visionary futurist Amory Lovins advocated for a “soft energy path”—cutting our dependence on foreign energy by putting solar panels on our roofs and decentralizing our whole energy system. The corporate powers-that-be would have none of it, even to the degree that Mr. Reagan pointedly took down the solar panels that Carter had installed on the White House roof.
Carter himself had articulated a doctrine of protecting by military means if necessary “our” oil sources in the Gulf (that other Gulf, over there—but it doesn’t matter, because everything is everything, it’s all one ocean). The size and scope of our bases in places like Saudi Arabia, site of Islam’s most holy shrines, engendered a horrific pushback—Osama bin Laden and 9/11. In the mother of all vicious circles, this justified a strong U.S. military presence anywhere and everywhere on the globe, for an indefinitely extended time, because terrorists can take root anywhere near or far. Supporting all this military activity without a draft required the Pentagon to contract out more and more support services, up to and including providing intelligence and security, to civilian businesses. Paying for the involvement of all these people in two separate but related wars, wars that seem to be equally about terror and fossil fuels—everything is everything—left us with a debt crisis that will last for generations. And it spurred investment banks to invest in the failure of mortgages rather than in the success of projects like the Pickens plan—building wind towers in the Midwest that would put people to work, lighten our carbon footprint, and lessen the need for a heavy U.S. presence in the oil-rich Middle East.
The power and reach of corporate culture, especially its fossil-fuel segment, (the reach extends deep into our Supreme Court, who ruled that money is free speech and corporations must remain free to speak) ensured that Lovins’s soft path would continue to be a road not taken. Instead, with the global oil supply peaking, companies like British Petroleum had to reach miles down onto the sea floor for their oil, in a stretch of technological prowess equal in risk to going to the moon. They promised that what now has happened couldn’t possibly happen, convincing even Obama, until disaster struck, that more deep water offshore drilling could be part of a safe integrated energy program.
The circle of interconnection between terrorism and war and oil sketched out all too briefly here is almost complete. It lacks only one segment to be an adequate descriptor of the ties between everything and everything else—what it lacks is you and me, the ones who drive the cars and turn the thermostats that burn the gas that comes from the Saudi oil protected by our military in one Gulf, or the oil too riskily attained in the other Gulf.
It is our own ethics, our buying power, our involvement, our votes, our holding great powers accountable, that is the only possible key to redressing the present dysfunctional imbalances—imbalances between impersonal corporate power and the well-being of shrimpers and shrimp in the one interconnected ocean; imbalances between our getting and our spending, imbalances between the human and the living system without which the human cannot survive. Because everything is everything. And that ain’t no jive.
Opens Friday, July 30, 2010 | Runtime: 1 hr. 50 min. PG-13 - Sequences of crude and sexual content, some partial nudity and language and sexual content
Tim (Paul Rudd) a rising executive works for a boss who hosts a monthly event in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Though he declines the invitation at first, Tim changes his mind when he meets Barry (Steve Carell), a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice. The scheme backfires when Barry’s blundering good intentions send Tim’s life into a downward spiral, threatening a major business deal and possibly scuttling Tim’s engagement to his fiancée.
Cast: Steve Carell, Paul Rudd, Stephanie Szostak, Zach Galifianakis Director: Jay Roach Genres: Comedy of Manners Comedy
Cats & Dogs: Revenge of Kitty Galore 3D
Opens Friday, July 30, 2010 | Runtime: 1 hr. 22 min. PG - Animal action and humor
The epic struggle for control of planet Earth continues in this sequel to the 2001 comedy that had pet owners all across the world looking at their house pets in a whole new light. Chris O’Donnell and 30 Rock’s Jack McBrayer head up the cast of the production, with scripting duties being handled by Brother Bear’s Ron J. Friedman and Steve Bencich.
Cast: Alec Baldwin, Chris O’Donnell, Michael Clarke Duncan Director: Brad Peyton Genres: Comedy
Charlie St. Cloud
Opens Friday, July 30, 2010 | Runtime: 1 hr. 49 min. PG-13 - Language including some sexual references, an intense accident scene and some sensuality
CHARLIE ST. CLOUD is based on an acclaimed novel and follows a young man and accomplished sailor, Charlie St. Cloud (Zac Efron), who survives an accident that lets him see the world in a unique way. Charlie has the adoration of his mother Claire (Oscar® winner Kim Basinger) and little brother Sam (newcomer Charlie Tahan), as well as a college scholarship that will lead him far from his sleepy Pacific Northwest hometown. But his bright future is cut short when a tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it.
Cast: Zac Efron, Kim Basinger, Amanda Crew, Donal Logue, Ray Liotta Director: Burr Steers Genres: Romantic DramaDrama
UPCOMING RELEASES (Dates Subject to Change) August 06: The Other Guys, Step Up 3D August 13: Eat Pray Love, Expendables, Scott Pilgrim V. The World August 20: Lottery Ticket, Nanny Mcphee Returns, Takers August 27: Piranha 3D, The Last Exorcism, Going The Distance September 01: The American September 03: Born To Be A Star, Machete September 10: Resident Evil Afterlife 3D September 17: Adjustment Bureau, Easy A, The Town September 24: Eagle Of The Ninth, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, You Again, Legend Of The Guardians October 01: Alpha And Omega, Let Me In, Social Network October 08: Life As We Know It, Secretariat October 15: Jackass 3-D, Red October 22: Paranormal Activity II, Saw VII 3D October 29: My Soul To Take November 05: Due Date, Megamind November 12: Unstoppable November 19: Harry Potter And Deathly Hallows (Part One In 3D); Next Three Days November 24: Burlesque, Faster, Love And Other Drugs, Red Dawn December 10: Chronicles Of Narnia: Voyage Of The Drawn Treader December 17: How Do You Know, Tron: Legacy, Yogi Bear December 24: Gulliver’s Travels, Little Fockers, True Grit
The average price for a gallon of self-serve, regular unleaded gasoline in West Virginia rose 1.7 cents this week.
The current price at the pump is $2.749 a gallon.
According to AAA’s Fuel Gauge, oil prices opened at $78.98 a barrel and managed to rise as high as $79.35 on the NYMEX, before closing at $78.90 Monday, July 26, 2010.
Several factors influenced the upward pricing trend during this past week. The dollar suffered a substantial hit on Thursday—declining by about 1%, a number that is considered a large move in the equity markets. This prompted increased crude buying as did the emergence of Tropical Storm Bonnie, the second named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. As Bonnie moved towards the Gulf, some traders were anticipating the possibility of a disruption in refining operations and decided to do some “just-in-case” buying in the event of a subsequent increase in oil prices. Ultimately, Bonnie fizzled on Saturday without any serious impact on Gulf operations.
Other market fundamentals are also just as likely to keep prices in the $70-$80 per barrel range. Late last week, the Federal Highway Administration released data showing that vehicle miles traveled in the U.S. had posted only a 0.1 percent increase compared to May of last year. This is a significant indicator of overall demand weakness since May is traditionally the beginning of the summer driving season.
High crude inventories, weak demand numbers, and little evidence to suggest a robust long-term economic recovery are all contributing to the relative stability of prices. With these conditions in place, the traditional increases we have witnessed during previous summer driving seasons appear unlikely. Today, the national retail average for a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline is $2.742, down 1.3 cents from this time last month.
This week’s average prices: West Virginia Average = $2.749
Average price during the week of July 20, 2010 = $2.732
Average price during the week of July 28, 2009 = $2.556
Ingredients:
1 pound pork tenderloin, trimmed of fat
1 cup orange juice
1 cup chopped onions
1 green pepper, diced
1 sweet red pepper, diced
1 teaspoon cornstarch
2 tablespoons frozen apple juice concentrate, thawed
2 teaspoons minced garlic
1/2 teaspoon ground red pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup minced scallions
Directions:
Cut the pork crosswise into 16 slices.
Place the slices, several at a time, between 2 sheets of wax paper.
Using a meat mallet, pound to 1/4” thickness.
Coat a 10” no-stick skillet with no-stick spray and place over medium-high heat until hot.
Add enough pork slices to cover the pan.
Cook for 3 minutes.
Turn and cook for 3 minutes, or until browned.
Transfer the pork to a plate; cover to keep warm.
Repeat until all the pork is cooked.
Add the orange juice to the skillet.
Bring to a boil, scraping to loosen any browned bits from the bottom.
Add the onions, green peppers, and sweet red peppers.
Cook, stirring, for 5 minutes, or until the vegetables soften.
Place the cornstarch in a small bowl.
Add the apple juice concentrate and stir until smooth.
Add the garlic, ground red pepper, cumin, and salt.
Add to the skillet.
Cook, stirring, for 3 minutes, or until the sauce thickens.
Serve over the pork.
Sprinkle with the scallions.
DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am pregnant for the first time, and my husband and I are quite happy about it.
We’ve been trying to have a child for three years.
At my last checkup, my blood pressure was high.
My doctor also checked my urine, and she found protein in it.
She wants me to come back in a week, and suggested I might have to be hospitalized.
What is this all about? - K.K.
ANSWER: High blood pressure that develops during pregnancy is a danger to both the infant and the mother.
The combination of protein in the urine with high blood pressure is called preeclampsia.
This most often occurs after the 20th week of pregnancy and requires careful monitoring.
What was your pressure reading?
Mild preeclampsia is a blood pressure of 140 over 90 and a protein loss in the urine of 300 mg a day.
Severe preeclampsia is a blood pressure of 160/110 or higher with a urine protein loss of 5,000 mg a day.
Protein in the urine indicates that the kidneys are taking a beating from the elevated pressure.
What to do depends on the height of the pressure and the amount of protein in the urine.
I suspect you have mild preeclampsia or the doctor would not have put off treatment.
Delivery is the cure for preeclampsia.
If delivery isn’t an option, then blood pressure medicines reduce the chances of a woman suffering a stroke, a possible complication of preeclampsia.
At one time, all pregnant women with preeclampsia were put on bed rest.
For mild cases, the need for strict bed rest can be relaxed.
However, if the pressure or protein loss is high, hospitalization is required.
First pregnancies are when most preeclampsia occurs.
Your doctor is keeping a close eye on you.
Such monitoring almost always results in a healthy infant and mother.
• 1757 Captain Thomas Waggoner was ordered to Fort Buttermilk near present-day Moorefield, Hardy County, to protect residents from potential Indian attacks.
• 1896 State Democratic supporters of a national gold standard met in Wheeling, led by Zachary Taylor Vinson and Henry Simms of Huntington; Randolph Stalnaker of Wheeling, and John A. Robinson of Pattersons Creek. This convention marked a split from the state Democratic mainstream supporters of William Jennings Bryan for president.
• 1903 Mother Jones arrived at Oyster Bay, the home of President Theodore Roosevelt, in a march from Philadelphia to demand action on child labor laws.
• 1915 The first 4-H camp session was held in Randolph County. The camp lasted until July 31.
• 1928 Wayne County experienced severe flooding.
• 1976 WITB - FM radio went on the air at Salem College, Salem, Harrison County.
• 1980 William B. Grove was introduced as the new United Methodist Bishop of West Virginia.
• 1981 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) designated Charleston as one of the thirty-four worst metropolitan areas in the country for toxic chemical pollution.
• 1985 WJYP - FM went on the air, the first FM radio station in South Charleston, and the sister station to WSCW - AM.
Mr. Hough, you are a liar, a coward, and a thief! You need to review the court record on the matter of 05-F-8 and turn to page 157. And if you fail to act another charge and another federal complaint will be made against you by the end of this business day.
Line 12 HOUGH: What share do you own in the property?
Line 13 R RAFFERTY: I believe that’s 1/6th
The title opinion brought forth in the civil action of Cecil Leon Ramsey II vs. Roanna Arbuckle Rafferty – firmly brings forth the fact that she owned 1/72 and that is it!
Also, if you check the court record Rafferty gave TWO completely conflicting reports to the Sheriff who illegally shut down my timber operation and stole four loads.
You will need to arrange for my attorney to interview all the members of the jury in this case and place yourself under arrest for being involved in a conspiracy to commit perjury causing great harm to another person.
I call for the Gilmer County Commission to immediately suspend Gerald B Hough.
Citizens of Gilmer County if this self important Gilmer County Commission does not act then, I recommend that we make moves to have them all replaced at once by any means possible.
By an expensive title opinion, born from this civil action a perjury in a Gilmer County Court case was revealed and proved by documents and fact.
When that perjury results in a wrongful conviction, and money is paid for that perjury, then a conspiracy can be concluded and misconduct of our Gilmer County Prosecutor is once again evident.
WHERE IS YOUR ANSWER GERALD B HOUGH?
This court case proved your wrongdoing and it proved Rafferty committed a crime.
Are you going to hold her accountable, or do you just protect your false witnesses?
Someone broke the law and made a fool out of you at the same time, but you see in Gilmer County that is how it is - if you are one of them it is cool to break the law - if you are out favor you are going to jail even if you are innocent!!
PROVES WITH COURT RECORD that false testimony was given in circuit court Also Judge Facemire, convinced the jury that we only owned 1/6 and 1/9 when we PAID TAXES on 3/6 which is a matter of record.
Hough did not do his homework- Facemire promoted false facts.
The judge is supposed to sit there and listen with no bias. But that did not happen!!
Hough did not do his homework and it cost me a few hundred thousand dollars
We want an answer Hough- You are as guilty as Rafferty for paying her to lie on the stand.
Give us an answer! What you did was a crime Hough and the citizens want an answer!
YOUR ARE CAUGHT HOUGH by the OUTCOME of this civil action. PROOF!!
Don’t know who is sending or taking the pictures of the trashy places in Glenville but you sure are getting some good ones.
A lot more out there though. Would be curious to see who owns that property that is For Sale.
Don’t figure they will come forth though and disclose their identity.
I don’t think if it were me, I would want to let people know that I let something like that get to the place it is now. Wow, I doubt they could give it away the way it looks and where it is located, let alone expect money for it.
Where is their pride? The Glenville Volunteer Fire Dept. could use these kind of places to train new firefighters, and give additional training to our already dedicated Volunteer Firefighters and rid the town and citizens of the rubbish and trash all at the same time.
If the owners do not want to pay to clean up this mess maybe the Fire Dept. would consider doing a controlled burn, they could bill the owners or our Town Council and the money be used for the Firehouse.
If the owner does not pay the Fire Dept. for cleaning the mess, fine or jail them or both. Just a thought.
There are several places on up River Street that they might get also. The yard beside the Church was mowed, yaaaa, improvement but more to be done. Junk cars and porch still piled up, but I guess one step at a time. The Church people will just have to close their eyes when attending Church, and the neighbors and people just driving by close your eyes..
Maybe someday we will get a surprise and it will be done.
The two houses by Jack’s Septic, pathetic. One even has a sign hanging that says chicken dinners $5.00. Did anyone ever find out who owned these houses?
The old Church property beside the auto shop is owned by Doug Cottrill. Where are you on cleaning this mess up? I wonder if they have very many Formal Complaints being filled out.???
Does it mean if there is not very many complaints filled out that nothing will be done? We the people should not have to file complaints. If the Gilmer County Commissioners, law enforcement, Health Dept. City Council, Mayor, done their jobs and opened their eyes they would see what a mess our town and County is in and take care of the problem.
Our county deserves better than this.
“In the case of Cecil Leon Ramsey II vs. Roanna Arbuckle Rafferty”
Roanna Rafferty perjured herself in a circuit court case –OVER THIS VERY SAME PROPERTY) in which Judge Facemire presided over. A court case in which I was charged with THREE felony charges and beat all three in court, due to the fact I should have never been charged in the first place. The false arrest cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses (since the matter went all the way to the United States Supreme Court in Washington DC) AND LOSS OF WAGES!! It cost me my new radio show since I was arrested on false charges trying to report to my new cumulus broadcasting work station and KBED 102.9FM afternoon drive show 2-7pm
Roanna lied in court and said she owned 1/6 of the property in question and the jury was convinced of that by Gerald B Hough Gilmer County Prosecutor. It’s all a matter of court record and I have that next to me on my desk.
Actually Roanna Arbuckle Rafferty” had sold that 1/6 to her brother Roger Rafferty when he settled over a civil action accusing him a forging his mother Virginia Rafferty’s will years prior and was in full knowledge she no longer owned it when she appeared in court.
Roanna won the judgment of the 1/6 in the legal action and promptly sold it to Roger for $18,000 cash. My mother was awarded a gas well, but it was never put in our name and Lois Rafferty sold it, even though we owned it legally. That is called a fraudulent conveyance, but yet nothing was done when the criminal complaint was taken to the Sheriff Mickey Metz and the matter was brought to the attention of the prosecuting attorney for Gilmer County.
If during the trial the judge or the prosecutor could have added to 6 they would have discovered that there was a discrepancy in the amount of property everyone testified that they owned, and this matter was included in my recent federal complaint that was reviewed and accepted by an Asst US Attorney.
Actually according to a title opinion that Mr. Ramsey paid for it was determined that Roanna Rafferty only owned 1/72 of the property not 1/6. There were a total of 3/72 that were overlooked and it was determined my grandfather bought the property years ago and left 1/72 to each of his children, in which Roanna was included.
Ramsey paid a great deal of money for that title opinion and was most likely a cost greater than what the 1/72 was worth.
Rafferty also lied about the $1,000 dollars we sent her that she denied receiving from the sale of timber. We had the receipts and showed them in court and she was immediately caught in a lie, yet nothing was done.
A character in my latest book is based on Cecil Leon Ramsey the second who I feel is someone to look up to in the community, and someone that sets a good example about what living a clean wholesome life in West Virginia is truly all about, mixed with honest business relations, and down home consideration for other citizens.
The cost Mr Ramsey has endured just to prove the facts in the case far exceed the value of the property at dispute in this civil action.
What I want to know is where is the Justice in the Gilmer County Court system?
Judge Facemire knows who Roanna Rafferty is, since I am sure he recalls her testimony from a court case in which he has had to defend himself before the Judicial Investigation Commission for misconduct. I doubt that he has forgotten that, since the judges testimony in the matter is still at issue and was recently mentioned in my federal complaint.
If Rafferty is allowed to receive no punishment for perjury involving the amount of property owned which has been determined by this very civil action, then doesn’t that send a message to the public that it is OK to lie in a Gilmer County Court room regarding information referring to ownership of property? And that there will be absolutely no punishment for that false testimony just as long as Gerald B Hough is the prosecutor ?
The gas well that we received in a civil judgment, was sold by Lois Rafferty, but even though a complaint was filed with Sheriff Metz at 1pm on December the 28th 2007 –no action what –so –ever was taken by Sheriff Metz.
Justice in Gilmer County seems to be determined by who you know, and who you are and not actual facts- I have proved myself to be extremely unpopular since I cost the state 750, 000 or more to fight me in two state courts and three federal courts.
I want an answer and I want MR GERALD B HOUGH to explain to all of Gilmer County WHY, if you are caught in false testimony, that there is no consequence for that crime.
Roanna Rafferty was paid 700 dollars by Hough and Gilmer County to bring forward the false testimony.
I would think the county would want it’s money back and to punish Rafferty for the false testimony and making them look bad. But, that is not how it works up on the hill in Gilmer County.
The WV DOH did not allow trees to be planted on that site. The Glenville State College Environmental Organization did want to restore that site but was unable to. The WV DOH viewed the trees as a maintenance problem.
I had a desire to start my own organization, however I did not have enough amount of money to do this. Thank heaven my colleague recommended to utilize the loans. So I received the financial loan and realized my dream.
I agree. It looks to me the commissioners are just passing the buck and making it more difficult for concerned citizens. Or maybe they don’t have the guts to take the position to clean the county. They just want to say to the violators, “if it weren’t because of ‘….’, we would not be here bothering you about this.” What a crock. Or maybe they don’t want to take a position against themselves and their friends who own some of these properties. Or perhaps they are just blind to see and need someone to tell them. Which is it?
Just seen in the weekly paper that we the citizens of Gilmer County can fill out a Formal Complaint Form in the County Clerk’s Office for the neglected, fire hazards and unsafe properties in our County that we want to file a complaint against.
WHAT?
This is all thanks to our County Commission meeting where amendments were made to its Unsafe Buildings and Lands Ordinance.
First of all, I do not think that we as citizens should have to file a complaint. It is a given fact, that the town of Glenville, and all surrounding roads out, are open to anyone that travels this area and can be seen by anyone who has their eyes open.
A complaint form should not be necessary if the ones in authority were doing their jobs in the first place.
They would see it and do something about it without our telling them. People does not have or want to take the time to try to find a parking place at the Court House to go to the Clerk’s Office to fill out this form.
If you get a lot of names and complaints does this mean the problem will be solved or just a few, it will be forgotten?
It is nearly impossible to find a place to park because the College students that do not want to walk on the hill park in the Court House lot. Give that student/vehicle a first offense ticket, and on the second offense tow the vehicle and charge for the towing.
If it happens a third time confiscate the vehicle for 30 days. There are ways to remedy this. Second, a person who signs that complaint form with name address and phone number opens the door to danger and possibly harm to them or their family and home.
Am I right when I say that the records with the complaint forms are open to the public in the County Clerk’s Office? Not a good idea. Having to sign a Formal Complaint Form to get the problem taken care of is STUPID. Officials do your job!!! Anyone agree with this?
I would have loved to have heard that tape, obviously you did, and that is why she was convicted, because the taped evidence proved beyond a doubt there was “INTENT”
That was what nailed her then.
Without the phone recording, the case would have been weak.
The son should have just told the guy to get out of his pod, and made it known there was a conflict, thus saving his mothers career.
I believe the original charges involved conspiracy to intimidate a witness. Carolyn also was aware what was in the envelope because you can hear she and her son laughing about thir clever plot on the recording from the jail. Some things really are as simple as they appear
You sound very informed on this topic Louise, and it is great to have this type of a mainstream forum to discuss important issues.
I am confused about one issue in this case, and maybe someone can clear it up for me.
The son that was in jail, actually had a right to view all court documents pertaining to his case. If there was an issue with information given to the police, then, that persons name should have been redacted. It should have stated. Confidential informant number so and so stated such and such.
So, therefore, I am confused as to who really is at fault. If the defendant had a right to the documents, and they were delivered sealed from his attorney, then it should not matter who the person was that delivered the documents.
It was the taped conversation with a known drug dealer (the son) that brought about the warrant, so it is my believe, the charges are incorrect.
If there was a conspiracy to get the son, (the defendant) documents he was entitled to, then where is the crime?
The jail should have never had those two in the same pod and that situation could have been worked out by a five minute conversation with the shift commander.
Someone dropped the ball.
This is just another chapter In “The Perils Of Carolyn”. With her family’s feeling of entitlement
why on earth should she take responsibility for her actions when she can pass the blame to someone else? Although I find it rather curios that it took her all this time to think of a way to try to dodge her crimes and make a bit of spending cash too.
Thanks you for doing this feature…such is long overdue. Truth be told, some of the worst eyesores in town are owned by some pretty so-called important people. If the college really wants to attract students to this town, they need to focus on housing IN town, and not be involved in the building of exclusive places like Rivers View…who even ever sees that? But everyone coming to this town sees the deplorable condition of much of our housing. Also, it would be nice if city officials themselves drove around the community from time to time to assess conditions of everything….that is if they can get by on some of the streets that have tree limbs growing so far out they hit your car.
Mr Whitehead, I feel that the conduct at Military Funerals (or any funeral) has a lot more to do with conflicting with the mores of society than the constitution. However, the only recourse to the civilized is through the law. I understand and for the most part agree with your points but please understand my outrage toward those who have no respect for a grieving family. A funeral is not the place for Westboro’s members to voice their beliefs and the conduct should not have to be tolerated. I do not believe it should take a constitutional amendment but perhaps state laws regarding harassment should be revisited. There has to be a way to end the torment of citizens who have already paid the ultimate price for their country.
I think it is a good idea of publishing pictures of the dilapidated buildings, houses with junk and trash in yards and stacked to the ceiling on porches, high grass, and old junk cars.
It is so disgusting, and embarrassing to know that some people in our county live like this.
The Health Dept. should do something along with the law officials, Mayor and County Commissioners.
This is not only disgusting but a health hazard to the people who live in and around these trashy places.
Can you imagine the rats, bugs, snakes and other critters in those places, not to mention the diseases that can be gotten from such filth?
The sad thing is some children have to endure this type of environment.
Sad that we are allowing this by not stepping up to the plate and complaining until action is taken by our elected officials.
Someone needs to take action and get this problem taken care of ASAP.
If they do not clean the messes up, do one, some, or all of the following: pull their drivers licenses, fine them, put them in jail, publish their names and addresses in paper, take pictures of the junk holes and put them in the media.
Something is better than nothing.
Mayor, County Commissioners, law officials, Health Dept. please do something.
Where are you when you are needed?
Shame on you for not taking control of the situation.
I agree with Bobbi Hern.If Mr and Mrs S stop their work in Cedarville there will no more Cedarville Days.We drive along way every year to see old friends and familyand have great time so I hope they will cont’d to keep up the good work.Hang in there Mrs S some people would like to be in your shoes.
A donation should be just that, a donation. I was not asked for a donation, but gave one freely as I and my family have enjoyed the fireworks show for years. Anyone who has been to the fireworks knows that donations have always been take up, even by some whom I believe are doing the complaining now.
I do not believe any one was asked to leave for not giving a donation. If that were the case, there would not have been nearly as many there to watch as there was. I do not know how much was taken in by donations and I am sure many donated freely as well.
The attitude a person perceives coming from others is usually what they give off in the first place. I wonder if when some were asked for a donation what their attitude was, and if they were rude, maybe that is what they perceived they got back. Just a thought…..
I think everyone is getting off track and ignoring the original question: Should she have forced the people to pay for the fireworks which was not advertised as such?
I think these supporters of Mrs. S should answer it
There would be no Cedarville Community Assoc. if not for Mrs. S. It was her vision from the very start. She mows for hours not for her benefit, but for the upkeep of the community, because some don’t see the need to keep things looking nice themselves. I don’t know of a harder working person. I am proud to call her my friend as I hope she is to call me hers.
I believe some need to take a long look in the mirror before casting stones at others. “People is glass houses…“ GOD knows I am not perfect and I do not claim to be. None of us are. I hope and pray that the person who started this will take a long look at their reasons behind this and not keep trying to tear this small community apart. You have to be a good neighbor to have a good neighbor. I have lived in or near Cedarville my whole life, too. I guess my memories of who always created problems is different than others. Just goes to show that no two people see things in the same way.
A West Virginian looking at this from a Neutral point of view:
It is a shame for the WV legislature to allow Capito running for two federal offices at the same time.
It is not hard to see the objective of some republicans in this case.
They aren’t sure whether Capito can beat Governor Manchin for Byrd’s unexpired term, so they want to allow her to have her pie and eat it too.
Isn’t this a flawed reasoning?
Running for U.S. House and U.S. Senate at the same time?
Is it because Republican Party accepting the most obvious problem - they have no one else?
Wouldn’t Capito be disallowing another good Republican from running for one of these two offices?
If Capito insists on running for both, wouldn’t she prevent another Republican from winning and serving WV?
I think Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito should only choose one or the other office and cease this absurdity of possibly running for both.
Wouldn’t this be the right thing to do whether the candidate is Democrat or Republican?
The people of WV are tired of these games and want leaders, not self-servers, running for office and now offices.
One office should be more than enough for anyone. Shouldn’t it?
G. Dave Ramezan
I am glad to see that the internet age is still being used to tell lies and slander people who are trying to do good for their communities.I was once told never to believe what you read and only half on what you see.The article about Mr.S is not as it seems.If the person placing the article is so pure and heaven sent why don’t they become more civically involve with their community instead of pick a fight like the cowardly school yard bully of past.And don’t use the excuse of Mrs s because personally I am tried of your excuses.
JWL,
Yes, it begins with “S” and has three syllables and 4 vowels. Ask any member of the Cedarville community, past or present, and they will tell you who she is. She’s the Mayor! and only business ‘woman’ in C-ville. I’m sure every community has one but she really is one of a kind. No friends, so you can see her any evening finding something to do, ie. mowing grass (especially the properties that are not hers so she can lay claim to and control them)!
Really sad…..
Believe me, every small community has a Mrs. S., (too bad it’s not a Mrs. C., as in “Happy Days”...But there is always some one to stir the pot and they aren’t happy until they have drama! They thrive on it, Ignore them, they are like children ..But, this is like The Wheel of Fortune to the rest of us, can we at least know how many vowels are in her name? Is S. the first or last name? Sort of interesting…Our community had the same great thing going every year with a different theme, children & their families had a great time for years, it just took one women and then her “Klan” took it from there, and ruint it for the whole community, with lies and rumors. Sometimes we wonder why..But like I said, I do belive, like there is always one in the family , there is always one in a community that can’t stand to have a good time without DRAMA. Ours was and is Mrs. W. (and just 2 vowels).
It is good to see one mess cleaned up in the city that being the burned-out house in Brooklyn that should have been done months ago.
The pictures say it was the joint effort of Gilmer County Commission and the City.
Does that mean that maybe they will do the same with the other places that people have complained about recently, such as the house beside the Catholic Church, trashy trailers and houses in Brooklyn and other places as well?
I seriously doubt it. For some unknown reason they and our law officials do not want to bother with this type of thing.
Can anyone explain this to me???
Why do they not want to give citations for this?
Too much trouble maybe?
Or when they do give tickets the offenders are not made to pay their fines, why?
I bet the offenders get a real kick out of knowing they will not be forced to clean up their place or be forced to pay the fines.
This being a College town I would think they would want to show some pride in our community to draw people.
Not very impressive if you ask me. All four roads leading out of Glenville have many eyesores that need cleaned up.
County Commissioners, Mayor and Glenville City Council, law enforcement and the people who trash their places, please do something to correct this matter and clean up our County.
We the people of this county deserve some answers and most of all ACTION on this issue.
When nothing is done by the law, they are just as guilty as the one who does the trashing.
Well actually, if you want to get technical—If you check the figures, actual data that is available—about 70% of all people incarcerated in WV jails and prisons are there for non violent or non-violent property related crimes—crimes that can in no way be considered crimes against mankind. Also there are many people that should not be in jail at all because they are innocent—then there are the people that are claiming to be victims of CREATED CRIMES, crimes that were not crimes at all but somebody was arrested and held, even though later, the facts substantiate that no crime occurred.
I like your answer very much!!
Thanks,
Very snappy comment there sport!
I hope some of us have been able to identify another problem, just by reading that comment.
We have been thought 1+1 = 2. But not in politics:
Do you remember Heather Manchin Bresch situation at WVU?
An expensive investigation that found the Governor’s daughter to have not fulfilled the requirements for her MBA despite her insistence to the contrary.
That whole mess was during the short administration of Manchin’s good friend, ex-WVU President Mike Garrison.
When Garrison was put into office without anything like the qualifications of most university presidents, faculty, alumni, and the press all decried the Democratic partisan politics that put Garrison in this position.
Of course, the worst fears were realized, a little over a year into Garrison’s term, when the Garrison Administration appeared to be helping Governor’s daughter obtain a graduate degree without doing all the work.
Do you remember who was the head of the WVU Board of Governors in that affair?
A man named Steve Goodwin, one of the principals of the famed Goodwin family.
Goodwin did his best to help Garrison retain his position, but nothing could keep Garrison from taking the fall over the worst scandal in modern WVU history.
Now Governor Manchin has rewarded Steve Goodwin for all the many services rendered his family by giving the late Ripley lawyer’s son, Carte, the position of being U.S. Senator for a few months.
Carte’s aunt, Kay Goodwin, is also Manchin’s Secretary of the Arts and Education!
That’s just the problem!! Attorney’s are running the state of WV…
For some reason the governor does not think anyone is a leader ...unless they are a member of the WV Bar!!
We NEED leaders that are NOT attorney’s and have NEVER been an attorney!!
Myself, out of the many I have become acquainted with and gotten to know, there are only a few Lawyers I like—and less than that are honest!!
Attorney’s in West Virginia cover for each other, even when they know that another has done wrong!!
But, if we are going to appoint an attorney why can’t we appoint someone that, really truly will be a representative of the people. Someone who it would go against their very being to be dishonest—and someone we could all trust with our life and that is Jefferson Triplett from Elkins!
If we have to have an attorney for a leader, lets make the proper choice from the start.
This is absolutely disgusting what courts have done. It is awful anymore how filthy language has become common in anything you watch. You can hardly sit down and watch anything without bad language and references to sexual enhancements anymore.
Well, I have to say it’s also 2.85 in Jane Lew and Clarksburg now. But how is that possible if gas and oil prices are dropping??
I think the State Attorney General really needs to crack down on these stations that price fix!!
Where is the justice??????????
Capitalism and the free market don’t exist when it comes to necessities!!!
, there is always one in a community that can’t stand to have a good time without DRAMA. Ours was and is Mrs. W. (and just 2 vowels).