Higher Ed Panel Oks Tuition Increases across West Virginia
Students at most colleges and universities across West Virginia will pay more in tuition and fees this coming school year.
The Higher Education Policy Commission approved a long list of increases Friday in South Charleston.
They range from as little as 1.8% to as much as 19.2%, depending on whether they’re for residents or non-residents, and undergraduate or graduate students.
For resident undergraduates, the increases range from as little as 3% at Fairmont State University to as high as 9.5% at Concord University and Glenville State College.
In the middle are: Shepherd University, 6.1%; Bluefield State College, 6.8%; West Liberty University, 7.9%; and West Virginia State University, 8%.
Marshall University is raising tuition 6.9% but didn’t need commission approval.
High Water Delays Blennerhassett Island Opening Until May 10, 2011
Blennerhassett Island will open for the summer season on Tuesday May 10, 2011.
“The island was scheduled for opening on May 01, but recent spring rain has caused high waters on the Ohio River,” said Lori Armstrong, Group Tour Coordinator. “The Island Belle sternwheeler can’t land and unload visitors with the current river conditions. We know visitors and groups planning visits May 01 – 09 will be disappointed, but it is safety first when it comes to operation of the sternwheeler and the wellbeing of its passengers.”
The landing area for the loading and unloading of sternwheeler passengers is currently not accessible. However, the Blennerhassett Mansion and other structures on Blennerhassett Island are unaffected by recent rains. “We anticipate that by May 10, everything will return to normal, the grounds crew will have completed preparations for visitors, and we’ll have a great summer greeting guests at Blennerhassett Island,” said Armstrong.
Blennerhassett Island is located near Parkersburg on the Ohio River.
The state park maintains and operates the island, Island Belle Sternwheeler, and the Museum of Regional History in downtown Parkersburg.
Trips to the island depart from Civitan Park in Belpre, OH, as the water front is being developed in Parkersburg where transport has traditionally occurred.
For more information about Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park, events and hours of operation visit www.blennerhassettislandstatepark.com or call 304.420.4800
WVIAC Softball Tournament - Day 2 Recap
Charleston 1, Seton Hill 0 (SHU eliminated)
Charleston rebounded from an extra-inning loss to West Virginia State to eliminate Seton Hill Friday morning by a 1-0 score.
Sydney Finley walked and stole second base. She then scampered home after two wild pitches for the game’s only run, coming in the sixth frame.
Finley and Ashlea Wallace had UC’s only two hits of the game. Stefanie Rossman posted a complete-game shutout. She struck out 10 and scattered five hits in the win.
SHU had five players earn a hit in the game. Caitlyn Kamalich tossed three innings of work as did Lyndsey Nusser.
Concord 7, Alderson-Broaddus 3 (A-B eliminated)
Concord broke open a tight game in the sixth with five runs en route to a 7-3 victory in an elimination game Friday morning.
Becca Gleason led the way with her three-for-three performance and two RBI for CU. Sheila Davies and Casey Ord also had two RBI apiece while Ericka Davies notched one in the win.
A-B was guided by Brittany Meadows’ two-for-four performace and two RBI. Heather Vestal accounted for the squad’s other RBI.
Tamara Smith went the distance for CU in the circle.
Glenville State 18, Wheeling Jesuit 10 (WJU eliminated)
Glenville State scored 10 runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to overcome an 8-1 deficit en route to an 18-10 win over Wheeling Jesuit.
GSC launched three home runs in the 10-run frame after WJU had seemingly broke open the contest with four runs of its own in the top of the fifth.
The teams combined for 28 runs on 33 hits.
Ohio Valley 5, Davis & Elkins 3 (D&E eliminated)
Ohio Valley used a five-run seventh inning to defeat Davis & Elkins by a 5-3 count in an elimination game Friday.
D&E got on the board in the fifth when Crabtree plated two on a single, moving ahead of OVU 3-0.
In the seventh, OVU got runners on second and third with nobody out and Graham singled them both home, pulling the team within one. Rushton tied the contest with an RBI double. Shepley then belted the go-ahead two-run homer for what turned out to be the final runs of the game.
Glenville State 3, Concord 1 (CU eliminated)
Glenville State used early offense and held on with solid pitching in the 3-1 victory over Concord in an elimination game Friday.
GSC plated a run in the first and two in the second for the early 3-11 lead. The squad then allowed just one runner on base in each of the last three frames in the win.
Lacey Williams put GSC up 1-0 with an RBI in the first. Carly Caldon scored what turned out to be the game-winning run for the Pioneers.
Gilmer County Board of Education Special Meeting Saturday - 04.30.11
SPECIAL BOARD MEETING
GILMER COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION
GLENVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA
SATURDAY – APRIL 30, 2011, 9:00 AM
GILMER COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL LIBRARY
NEW SUPERINTENDENT CANDIDATES INTERVIEW
G-Comm™: When Dictators Fall, Who Rises?
One month before the invasion of Iraq, Riah Abu el-Assal, a Palestinian and the Anglican bishop of Jerusalem at the time, warned Tony Blair, “You will be responsible for emptying Iraq, the homeland of Abraham, of Christians.“
The bishop proved a prophet. “After almost 2,000 years,“ writes the Financial Times, “Iraqi Christians now openly contemplate extinction. Some of their prelates even counsel flight.“
The secular despot Saddam Hussein protected the Christians. But the U.S. liberation brought on their greatest calamity since the time of Christ. Scores of thousands of those Iraqi Christians fleeing terrorism and persecution after 2003 made their way to Syria, where they received sanctuary from President Bashar Assad.
Now, as the FT and Washington Post report, the Christians of Syria, whose forebears have lived there since the time of Christ, are facing a pogrom should the Damascus regime fall.
Christians are 10 percent of Syria’s population, successful and closely allied to the minority Alawite regime of the Assad family. Said one Beirut observer, “Their fear is that if the regime falls to the Sunni majority, they will be put up against the same wall as the Alawites.“
For decades, notes the Post, the Assad regime “has protected Christian interests by enforcing its strictly secular program and by curbing the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood.“
Bashar’s father, Hafez al-Assad, slaughtered perhaps 20,000 followers of the brotherhood after they began a campaign of bombings and terror and attempted an uprising in Hama in 1982. Hafez al-Assad rolled up his artillery and leveled the city.
Observing the toll of dead protesters—more than 100 this past weekend, more than 200 overall, the work of police, snipers and agents of the regime—it is hard to summon up any sympathy for Bashar Assad. And if his regime were to fall, that would eliminate a patron of Hamas and Hezbollah and a close ally of Iran in the Arab world.
But before he embraces the Syrian revolution, President Barack Obama ought to consider, as President George W. Bush did not, what happens to Arab Christians when a long-repressed Muslim majority comes to power.
In Iraq, liberated Shiites used their newfound freedom to cleanse Baghdad of Sunnis while al-Qaida arrived and went straight after the Christians. In Syria, it would be a Sunni majority rising if Bashar and the Alawites were to fall.
What would that mean for Syria’s Christians, for peace, for us?
Since 1973, even when clashes have occurred and wars have been fought in Lebanon between Israelis and Syria or its proxies, the Assad government has maintained the truce on the Golan Heights.
Would a Sunni-dominated Syria do the same?
~~ By Pat Buchanan ~~
NATIONAL and Local FEEDER & STOCKER CATTLE SUMMARY - WEEK ENDING 04.29.2011
RECEIPTS: Auctions Direct Video/Internet Total
This Week 172,400 40,600 56,000 269,000
Last Week 222,200 43,600 4,700 270,500
Last Year 260,700 60,800 63,700 385,200
Compared to last week, diminishing supplies of yearling feeder cattle sold steady to 3.00 higher in the auctions - while direct trade areas were steady to 1.00 lower.
Sharp losses on both Live and Feeder Cattle futures contracts pressured the market, but cash prices held their ground and the industry expects the availability of yearling feeders to be extremely tight for the next couple months.
The spring yearling run in the Southern Plains is presumed to be mostly already over, as parched wheat pastures that will not yield a crop have become available for grazing but have matured early and are too tough to chew.
Feedlot buyers crowded into salebarns where load-lots of yearlings were featured this week and lit-a-fire back under the feeder market, while country sales were more closely tied to the Board.
Calf sales were unevenly steady in the Plains and the Midwest, but Southeastern calf markets were 1.00-5.00 lower.
Auction receipts were light this past week with heavy rains and dangerous flooding affecting major production areas in eastern Oklahoma and southern Missouri.
The Tulsa Stockyards, Joplin Regional Stockyards, and the Ozarks Regional Stockyard in West Plains, Missouri combined for less than 2400 head of feeder cattle, compared to over 10,500 head the same week last year.
This year’s El Nino disruption seems to have shifted severe weather patterns in the southern half of the United States several hundred miles to the east with desert dryness from eastern New Mexico to western Oklahoma, while tornado alley has stretched across the more densely populated Southeast and caused staggering life loss in its path.
It just doesn’t seem fair that folks in the Texas Panhandle have seen less than 2 inches of moisture since September and the Acorn Belt of southern Missouri gets over a foot of rain in less than a week.
Fed cattle sold mostly 2.00 lower from 116.00-117.00 with many hedged feeders pulling cattle early and more than happy to stick an extra 4.00 of premium basis in their pockets, based from the June Live CME contracts.
Most cattlemen remain bullish despite recent market setbacks and don’t want to be left short of cattle if another record-breaking run develops, or simply if projected futures prices are fully realized.
New crop fall calves currently dominate calf offerings (which has hampered the lightweight market) but stocker buyers are still on the lookout for old crop grazers.
The Bassett, NE Livestock Auction sold a string of calf-weight yearlings at price levels reminiscent of several weeks ago.
Over 100 head of 480 lb top quality old crop steers brought 183.50, with a 200 head draft weighing 535 lbs dropping the gavel at 175.00.
This week’s reported auction volume included 51% over 600 lbs and 46% heifers.
Auction Receipts: 172,400 Last Week: 222,200 Last Year: 260,700
Buckhannon Livestock, Buckhannon, WV
Weighted Average Report for Wednesday April 27, 2011
Cattle Receipts:80 Total Head: 125
Slaughter cows made up 33% of the offering, slaughter bulls 1%,
replacement cows 11%, other cows 5%, and feeders 50%.
The feeder supply included 40% steers, 50% heifers, and 10% bulls.
Near 30% of the run weighed over 600 lbs.
Feeder Steers Medium and Large 1
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
1 585-585 585 115.00 115.00 RWF
1 1265-1265 1265 70.00 70.00 Exotic
Small 1
1 685-685 685 95.00 95.00
Medium and Large 2
2 245-245 245 135.00 135.00
1 395-395 395 111.00 111.00 RWF
1 430-430 430 129.00 129.00
1 715-715 715 110.00 110.00
Holstein Medium and Large 2 - 3
1 635-635 635 100.00 100.00
1 735-735 735 93.00 93.00
Holstein Medium and Large 3
3 348-348 348 95.00 95.00
3 472-472 472 89.00 89.00
Feeder Heifers Medium and Large 1
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
1 210-210 210 110.00 110.00
1 275-275 275 120.00 120.00
1 515-515 515 110.00 110.00
Medium and Large 2
2 300-300 300 120.00 120.00
4 350-385 359 118.00-120.00 118.54
2 420-425 423 115.00-125.00 119.97
2 465-480 473 105.00-114.00 109.43
1 465-465 465 105.00 105.00 RWF
1 510-510 510 112.50 112.50
1 630-630 630 110.00 110.00
4 624-624 624 91.00 91.00 RWF
Feeder Bulls Small 1
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
1 580-580 580 102.00 102.00
Medium and Large 2
1 575-575 575 107.50 107.50
1 640-640 640 110.00 110.00
1 730-730 730 104.00 104.00 Yearlings
Bred Cows Medium and Large 1 - 2 Middle Aged
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
2 940-985 963 750.00-760.00 755.12 Per Head 1-3 Months Bred
1 1200-1200 1200 860.00 860.00 Per Head 1-3 Months Bred
4 900-1175 994 730.00-775.00 761.07 Per Head 4-6 Months Bred
1 1100-1100 1100 790.00 790.00 Per Head 7-9 Months Bred
1 1235-1235 1235 975.00 975.00 Per Head 7-9 Months Bred
Slaughter Cows Breaker 70-80% Lean
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
2 1465-1485 1475 72.00-73.23 72.61
1 1515-1515 1515 78.00 78.00 High Dressing
Boner 80-85% Lean
2 1065-1210 1138 66.00-66.25 66.13
2 1380-1385 1383 73.50-77.50 75.50 High Dressing
2 1455-1465 1460 67.25-69.75 68.50
1 1490-1490 1490 77.50 77.50 High Dressing
Lean 85-90% Lean
2 790-790 790 75.00-77.50 76.25 High Dressing
5 870-1325 1051 63.00-67.00 64.60
5 910-1130 1055 70.00-83.00 73.80 High Dressing
4 925-1050 963 50.00-63.50 56.17 Low Dressing
Heiferettes
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
3 720-790 763 70.00-79.00 73.42
1 910-910 910 72.00 72.00
Slaughter Bulls Yield Grade 1-2
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
1 1890-1890 1890 93.50 93.50 High Dressing
ow/calf pairs
Head 9
Age 2-8 / Calf 250lb or under L/M 1 1140.00-1310.00
Age 2-8 / Calf 250lb or under L/M 2 875.00-1140.00
Baby Calves Returned to the farm
Head 3 Beef Dairy
Newborn 55.00 33.00
100-150lbs
150-250lbs
Weston Livestock, Weston, WV
Weighted Average Report for Saturday April 23, 2011
Cattle Receipts: 309
Slaughter cows made up 10% of the offering, slaughter bulls 9%,
replacement cows 14%, and feeders 67%.
The feeder supply included 47% steers, 30% heifers, and 22% bulls.
Near 35% of the run weighed over 600 lbs.
Feeder Steers Medium and Large 1
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
2 352-352 352 130.00 130.00 Exotic
2 417-417 417 137.00 137.00 RWF
6 468-498 483 137.50-138.00 137.76
2 452-452 452 136.00 136.00 Exotic
8 527-527 527 148.00 148.00
4 514-514 514 144.00 144.00 Exotic
6 550-568 556 133.00-141.00 135.72 Exotic
8 600-625 622 137.00-145.00 144.04
15 660-678 672 130.00-139.00 137.10
1 680-680 680 125.00 125.00 RWF
9 731-731 731 130.00 130.00
1 785-785 785 107.00 107.00
Medium and Large 2
1 295-295 295 107.50 107.50 RWF
2 505-505 505 112.50 112.50
1 630-630 630 100.00 100.00 RWF
Medium and Large 3
1 270-270 270 80.00 80.00
Holstein Medium and Large 3
1 515-515 515 80.00 80.00
Feeder Heifers Medium and Large 1
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
1 245-245 245 113.00 113.00 Exotic
14 368-378 373 122.50-127.50 126.43
3 390-390 390 136.00 136.00 RWF
2 433-433 433 132.50 132.50
3 443-443 443 145.00 145.00 RWF
6 460-475 465 142.00-143.00 142.66
5 532-532 532 127.00 127.00
3 647-647 647 126.00 126.00
3 677-677 677 127.00 127.00
2 835-835 835 94.00 94.00
Medium and Large 2
1 220-220 220 106.00 106.00
2 280-285 283 102.50-106.00 104.27
Feeder Bulls Medium and Large 1
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
1 235-235 235 120.00 120.00
1 310-310 310 135.00 135.00
2 353-353 353 121.00 121.00
1 415-415 415 130.00 130.00
1 410-410 410 115.00 115.00 RWF
1 455-455 455 120.00 120.00
1 495-495 495 120.00 120.00 RWF
4 505-535 523 120.00-133.00 127.41
1 545-545 545 95.00 95.00 Exotic
2 580-590 585 120.00-129.00 124.46
1 570-570 570 106.00 106.00 Exotic
1 575-575 575 100.00 100.00 Yearlings
6 605-645 627 113.00-128.00 123.82
2 655-670 663 117.00-127.00 121.94
1 700-700 700 91.00 91.00 Yearlings
Medium and Large 2
1 330-330 330 90.00 90.00 RWF
1 465-465 465 117.50 117.50
1 520-520 520 80.00 80.00 RWF
3 550-567 561 118.00-122.50 121.03
Medium and Large 3
1 295-295 295 92.50 92.50
Bred Cows Medium and Large 1 - 2 Young
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
4 970-1115 1043 735.00-800.00 768.68 Per Head 1-3 Months Bred
2 1080-1140 1110 825.00-900.00 861.49 Per Head 4-6 Months Bred
1 1050-1050 1050 940.00 940.00 Per Head 7-9 Months Bred
Medium and Large 1 - 2 Middle Aged
1 1130-1130 1130 750.00 750.00 Per Head 1-3 Months Bred
1 1200-1200 1200 750.00 750.00 Per Head 1-3 Months Bred
3 1010-1140 1070 625.00-825.00 717.68 Per Head 4-6 Months Bred
1 1200-1200 1200 950.00 950.00 Per Head 4-6 Months Bred
2 1210-1300 1255 885.00-1050.00 970.46 Per Head 7-9 Months Bred
Medium and Large 1 - 2 Aged
2 1245-1340 1293 700.00-850.00 772.24 Per Head 7-9 Months Bred
Slaughter Cows Breaker 70-80% Lean
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
1 1520-1520 1520 70.00 70.00
2 1495-1685 1590 71.00-85.50 77.82 High Dressing
Boner 80-85% Lean
8 1140-1370 1240 68.00-73.00 70.58
5 940-1255 1089 74.00-76.00 74.89 High Dressing
3 1435-1695 1552 68.50-73.50 70.91
2 1415-1545 1480 73.50-77.50 75.59 High Dressing
Lean 85-90% Lean
1 1025-1025 1025 67.50 67.50
1 1235-1235 1235 64.00 64.00 Low Dressing
Slaughter Bulls Yield Grade 1-2
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
1 1370-1370 1370 89.00 89.00
2 1300-1425 1363 80.00-81.50 80.72 Low Dressing
14 1570-2135 1831 84.00-92.00 89.43
3 1730-1890 1787 96.25-97.00 96.58 High Dressing
1 1595-1595 1595 79.25 79.25 Low Dressing
Cow Calf Pairs, # head 13
Ages 2-8 calf under 250 lb calf over 250 lb
L&M 1 825.00-1200.00 1300.00-1400.00
L&M 2 550.00-750.00
Bulls by head, # head 6
below 1000 lb 950.00-1275.00
100 & up 900.00-1150.00
Slaughter and Feeder pigs
Feeder pigs, # head 6 95.00
Slaughter and Feeder lambs
feeders, # head 8
90-125 lbs 200.00
75-90 172.50-195.00
45-60 241.00
Jackson County Regional Livestock Market, Ripley, WV
Weighted Average Report for Saturday April 23, 2011
Cattle Receipts: 181
Slaughter cows made up 12% of the offering, slaughter bulls 4%,
replacement cows 22%, and feeders 63%.
The feeder supply included 19% steers, 62% heifers, and 18% bulls.
Near 23% of the run weighed over 600 lbs.
Feeder Steers Medium and Large 1
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
2 335-345 340 134.00-155.00 144.65
3 410-410 410 161.00 161.00
2 482-482 482 145.00 145.00
1 460-460 460 125.00 125.00 Fleshy
2 505-540 523 134.00-135.00 134.48
4 573-590 577 125.00-137.00 133.93
6 600-611 607 125.00-127.00 126.34
1 670-670 670 123.00 123.00
1 780-780 780 100.00 100.00
Feeder Heifers Medium and Large 1
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
1 220-220 220 145.00 145.00
1 285-285 285 135.00 135.00
2 310-345 328 133.00-135.00 133.95
8 350-385 366 121.00-141.00 133.40
9 415-421 420 137.00-140.00 137.33
12 452-476 467 130.00-151.00 137.33
13 500-548 532 124.00-134.00 129.36
14 565-580 570 124.50-136.00 127.58
7 605-645 632 111.00-129.00 122.21
1 675-675 675 111.00 111.00
Medium and Large 2
1 580-580 580 107.00 107.00
2 615-645 630 95.00-109.00 101.83
Feeder Bulls Medium and Large 1
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
1 350-350 350 145.00 145.00
4 455-495 475 140.00-145.00 142.39
6 535-543 542 134.00-460.00 187.66
7 625-646 635 116.00-125.00 120.66
Small 1
1 510-510 510 83.00 83.00
Medium and Large 2
1 495-495 495 129.00 129.00
1 635-635 635 101.00 101.00
Bred Cows Medium and Large 1 - 2 Young
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
2 1015-1120 1068 850.00-900.00 873.77 Per Head 4-6 Months Bred
11 1250-1400 1386 999.00-1375.00 1352.46 Per Head 7-9 Months Bred
Medium and Large 1 - 2 Middle Aged
6 1045-1180 1118 875.00-1100.00 972.35 Per Head 4-6 Months Bred
5 1240-1285 1264 960.00-1100.00 1028.88 Per Head 4-6 Months Bred
1 1135-1135 1135 900.00 900.00 Per Head 7-9 Months Bred
5 1265-1265 1265 999.00-1000.00 1000.00 Per Head 7-9 Months Bred
Medium and Large 1 - 2 Aged
1 1125-1125 1125 850.00 850.00 Per Head 1-3 Months Bred
2 825-860 843 650.00-700.00 674.48 Per Head 4-6 Months Bred
5 920-1135 1054 585.00-760.00 686.03 Per Head 4-6 Months Bred
1 960-960 960 700.00 700.00 Per Head 7-9 Months Bred
Slaughter Cows Breaker 70-80% Lean
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
2 1195-1370 1283 73.50-75.00 74.30
1 1090-1090 1090 70.50 70.50 High Dressing
1 1450-1450 1450 74.50 74.50 High Dressing
Boner 80-85% Lean
1 735-735 735 74.00 74.00 High Dressing
10 945-1375 1165 62.50-82.00 71.19
3 1225-1275 1248 76.00-84.00 80.69 High Dressing
1 1090-1090 1090 57.00 57.00 Low Dressing
1 1660-1660 1660 72.00 72.00 High Dressing
Lean 85-90% Lean
1 735-735 735 41.00 41.00 Low Dressing
Slaughter Bulls Yield Grade 1-2
Head Wt Range Avg Wt Price Range Avg Price
2 1220-1275 1248 83.50-85.00 84.27
1 1225-1225 1225 79.00 79.00 Low Dressing
1 1630-1630 1630 84.50 84.50
3 1765-2265 1942 90.00-92.00 91.22 High Dressing
Baby Calves
Head
24 25.00-290.00
Cow Calf Pairs
Head
24 610.00-1410.00
Market Hogs
Head
5 57.00-69.00
Revival: The Oil Creek United Methodist Church
The Oil Creek United Methodist Church will hold its Spring Revival Friday-Saturday, April 29-May 01, 2011.
Services will start at 7:00 PM each night.
There will be different speakers and singers each night.
The church is located off the Oil Creek Road on the Red Lick Road, Roanoke, WV.
Come join us.
Everyone is welcome.
For more information, you can call Shelia at 304.452.8289, Raymond at 304.853.9078 or Peggy at 304.853.9016.
Bon Appétit: Frisee with Bacon and Gorgonzola Cheese
Ingredients:
6 slices bacon
2-4 tablespoons Gorgonzola cheese or other creamy blue cheese
2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
6 cups cleaned frisee (3-4 heads)
Directions:
Cut the bacon into thin strips or lardons.
Put them in a large skillet and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the fat is rendered and the bacon crisp, about 7 minutes.
Meanwhile, smear the cheese on the bottom of a salad bowl.
Pour the warm bacon fat with the lardons over the cheese in the salad bowl.
Let the cheese melt for a minute or so in the warm fat.
Add a tablespoon of the vinegar, mixing it with the cheese and bacon fat.
Season the dressing with a little salt and a lot of black pepper.
Tear the frisee into manageable pieces and adding it to the bowl and mixing it with the dressing, a little at a time.
When all the frisee has been added, taste the salad and adjust the seasoning with salt, pepper and vinegar.
Daily G-Eye™ : 04.30.11
Normantown, WV
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Stargazing - 04.30.11
Venus, the “morning star,“ lines up to the right of the Moon about 40 minutes or so before sunrise tomorrow.
Fainter Mercury is to the lower left of Venus, with Jupiter farther along the same line.
Binoculars will help you find them.
More Moon and Venus
There’s a bit of a traffic jam in the eastern dawn sky over the next few days. Four of the five planets that are visible to the unaided eye are packed together within a few degrees of each other. In fact, you could easily cover up the whole bunch of them with the palm of your hand held at arm’s length. Unfortunately, though, only one of the four is easy to pick out. The others are much tougher to find—especially from the northern half of the country, where the planets rise at a shallower angle.
The easy one is Venus, the “morning star.“ Tomorrow, it’s to the right of the Moon about 40 minutes or so before sunrise.
The other three planets trickle off to the lower left of Venus. Mercury is the closest to Venus. It looks like a fairly bright star, but you may need binoculars to see it. And a little farther to the lower right are Jupiter and Mars, standing almost side by side. Jupiter is the brighter of the two, but you’ll need help to find both planets.
This configuration will change day by day. On May 10th, Venus and Jupiter will stand side by side. They’re the two brightest objects in the night sky after the Moon, so it’ll be a good show. After that, they’ll quickly separate. Venus and Mercury will drop back toward the Sun, while Jupiter and Mars move away from the Sun. Jupiter will race into better view in a hurry, while Mars lingers in the sunlight; it won’t pull into the pre-dawn darkness until well into the summer.
G-MM™: Meditation Moment - 04.30.11
‘He is risen! I have seen him! Come! Look! See! Hurry up!’
Can you imagine Mary of Magdala’s joy and excitement at meeting the risen Lord?
Her heart must have been bursting.
How she must have run to share the good news, expecting that her fellow disciples would be amazed, and cease their mourning and weeping.
Oh, to be the bearer of such good news!
How must the neophytes—those adults and children who are baptised into the church during the Easter Vigil, the night of nights—be feeling this week?
Full of the joy of the good news they carry within them to share excitedly with the world.
During this Easter season, are we like Mary of Magdala and the neophytes, bursting with happiness?
Surely we have nothing in common with these disciples, this Octave of Easter, who doubted that Christ was present with them.
We know his presence, here and now.
Acts 4:13-21. I praise you, Lord, for you have answered me—Ps 117(118):1, 14-21. Mark 16:9-15.
04.30.11
Today - April 30, yyyy
Today is Saturday, April 30, the 120th day of 2011. There are 245 days left in the year.
Thought for Today: “Love demands infinitely less than friendship.“ — George Jean Nathan, American author and critic (1882-1958).
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 30, 1911, a fire broke out in Bangor, Maine, destroying much of the downtown area before it was brought under control the next morning. Two deaths were blamed on the blaze.
On this date:
In A.D. 311, shortly before his death, Roman Emperor Galerius issued his Edict of Toleration ending persecution of Christians.
In 1789, George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States.
In 1803, the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for 60 million francs, the equivalent of about $15 million.
In 1812, Louisiana became the 18th state of the Union.
In 1900, engineer John Luther “Casey” Jones of the Illinois Central Railroad died in a train wreck near Vaughan, Miss., after staying at the controls in a successful effort to save the passengers.
In 1939, the New York World’s Fair officially opened with a ceremony that included an address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In 1945, as Russian troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.
In 1958, the American Association of Retired Persons (later simply AARP) was founded in Washington, D.C.
In 1968, New York City police forcibly removed student demonstrators occupying five buildings at Columbia University.
In 1973, President Richard M. Nixon announced the resignations of top aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean.
Ten years ago:
• California businessman Dennis Tito arrived at the international space station aboard a Russian spacecraft.
• Federal intern Chandra Levy (SHAHN’-druh LEE’-vee) was last seen at a health club near her apartment in Washington, D.C. (Levy’s body was found in a Washington park in May 2002; a suspect, Ingmar Guandique, was later convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to 60 years in prison.)
Five years ago:
• Thousands of people joined celebrities and lawmakers at a rally on the National Mall in Washington, urging the Bush administration and Congress to help end genocide in Sudan’s Darfur (dar-FOOR’) region.
One year ago:
• Heavy winds and high tides complicated efforts to hold back oil from a blown-out BP-operated rig that threatened to coat bird and marine life in the Gulf of Mexico; President Barack Obama halted any new offshore projects pending safeguards to prevent more explosions like the one that unleashed the spill.
Today’s Birthdays:
Actress Cloris Leachman is 85
Singer Willie Nelson is 78
Actor Gary Collins is 73
Actor Burt Young is 71
Singer Bobby Vee is 68
Movie director Allan Arkush is 63
Actor Perry King is 63
Singer Merrill Osmond is 58
Movie director Jane Campion is 57
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is 52
Actor Paul Gross is 52
Basketball Hall of Famer Isiah Thomas is 50
Country musician Robert Reynolds (The Mavericks) is 49
Actor Adrian Pasdar is 46. Rapper Turbo B (Snap) is 44
Rock musician Clark Vogeler is 42
Rhythm-and-blues singer Chris “Choc” Dalyrimple (Soul For Real) is 40
Rock musician Chris Henderson (3 Doors Down) is 40
Country singer Carolyn Dawn Johnson is 40
Actress Lisa Dean Ryan is 39
Rhythm-and-blues singer Akon is 38
Rhythm-and-blues singer Jeff Timmons (98 Degrees) is 38
Actor Johnny Galecki is 36
Singer-musician Cole Deggs (Cole Deggs and the Lonesome) is 35
Actor Kunal Nayyar is 30
Rapper Lloyd Banks is 29
Actress Kirsten Dunst is 29
Country singer Tyler Wilkinson (The Wilkinsons) is 27
Actress Dianna Agron is 25
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National Drug Take-Back Day - April 30, 2011
We all know that prescription drug abuse is a problem in our communities. Turn on the television or read a newspaper and chances are you’ll find stories chronicling the impact of substance abuse in both personal and financial loss. According to statistics from the WV Prevention Resource Network, drug overdoses were the leading cause of death in WV for adults under the age of 45. These rates were the highest in the country. Teens are often drawn to abusing prescription drugs over other “street” drugs because they perceive prescriptions to be “safer.”
Financially, West Virginia taxpayers have spent millions of dollars on issues related to people with drug and alcohol problems. In 2008 alone, “over $330 million dollars was consumed to address alcohol and drug involved offenses,” according to a study by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). If this trend continues on its present course, costs could reach approximately $500 million in 2017.
Based on statistics such as these, the problem of decreasing substance abuse in our area seems overwhelming. However, there are simple steps that each of us can take to make the problem just a little better. One such step is not sharing prescription medications with friends or family members. People often share their prescriptions in an effort to help a loved one, never realizing how dangerous it can be. Many people also don’t realize that sharing prescription drugs is illegal in the state of West Virginia.
Another simple step we can all take is properly disposing of our unused prescription drugs and other medications. When these drugs are buried, thrown into the trash, or flushed down the toilet, they can contaminate our drinking water. Once these chemicals enter our drinking water system, they cannot be removed through most normal filtration processes.
Not sharing prescription drugs with others as well as disposing of those drugs properly helps to keep both our loved ones and environment safe. Taking part in the National Drug Take-Back Day is one way to accomplish both. In partnership with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and our local WV State Police detachment, the Gilmer County Family Resource Network (FRN) is promoting the DEA’s National Drug Take-Back Day. This event gives the public an opportunity to safely dispose of prescription drugs that could potentially be harmful to others and to the environment. While the take-back is a national event, you can participate locally.
Gilmer County’s State Police detachment is the local site that people in the county and surrounding area can utilize to dispose of unwanted or dangerous prescription drugs. The take-back will be held at the barracks from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Other sites around the state can be found on the DEA website at www.dea.gov under the National Take-Back Initiative.
For more information on this event in Gilmer County, contact the local WV State Police at 304.462.7101 or Kelley Cain at the Gilmer County FRN at 304.462.7545.
Kelley Cain, Project Coordinator
Gilmer County Substance Abuse Prevention Program
Phone: 304.462.7545
RESA 7 Names Winners of Math Field Day
More than 500 students, teachers and parents attended the Regional Math Field Day on March 5 at East Fairmont High School.
The field day was sponsored by the Regional Education Service Agency (RESA 7).
Participating students from the 12 northcentral West Virginia counties served by RESA 7 were challenged in several math-related activities, including a written examination, mental math activities, relays, and estimation activities, which were both computational and physical in nature.
According to RESA 7 Executive Director Gabriel J. Devono, all activities were selected according to the basic philosophy that “mathematics is truly an exciting and challenging field of study.“
Students who won their grade level competition, fourth through ninth grades, and the top 10 senior high school winners will represent RESA 7 at the West Virginia State Math Field Day. The field day will be Saturday at Marshall University in Huntington, where events will be similar.
Winners in the RESA 7 competition were as follows:
Fourth grade: Griffin Miller, first, Frank Liu, second from Monongalia County; Xavier Evans, third, David Walker, first alternate from Harrison County; and Oliverio Boone, second alternate from Marion County.
Fifth grade: Hunter Moore, first, Russell Reddecliff, first alternate from Harrison County; Junior Noss, second, from Preston County; Joey Backus, third from Randolph County; and Keith Skaggs, second alternate from Taylor County.
Sixth grade: Danny Guo, first, Cathy Li, second, Robert Warner, third from Monongalia County; Jacob Earle, first alternate from Randolph County; and Nicholas Barlow, second alternate from Preston County.
Seventh grade: Sidd Subra, first, Sahn Kim, third, Raymond Liu, first alternate from Monongalia County; Hannah Hall, second from Lewis County; and Sarah Reneau, second alternate from Taylor County.
Eighth grade: Stephen Chen, first, Sita Sunil, second from Monongalia County; Connor Garrett, third from Marion County; Taylor Jennings, first alternate from Preston County; and Mitchell Winkie, second alternate from Harrison County.
Ninth grade: Ben Taylor, first, Alex Lai, second, Daniel Pan, third from Monongalia County; Jared Bartrug, first alternate and Elliot Herberger, second alternate from Marion County.
Senior High: Andrew Maloney, Michelle Ma, Shiv Sunil, Stewart Lynch, Jennifer Yu, Samet Demircan, Allissa Sun, Tommy Liu, Kelly Liu from Monongalia County; Pranav Jain and Nathaniel Tenney from Marion County; Chang Wang and Courtney Whipkey from Harrison County; Maggie Jones and Olivia Rycroft from Randolph; Justin Rock from Upshur County; Laken Moore from Gilmer County and Shane Catlett from Preston County.
Team winners include Monongalia, Marion, Randolph and Gilmer counties.
RESA 7 is headquartered in Clarksburg and provides educational enhancement resources for students, teachers and the public in Barbour, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Marion, Monongalia, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, Tucker and Upshur counties.
Charleston: Gazette Relays – Friday, Saturday
Track teams from 45 high schools in West Virginia and one from Ohio will take part in the Charleston Gazette-Friends of Coal Relays starting at 4:00 PM Friday, April 29, 2011 at Laidley Field in Charleston.
In the Class A action will be boys and girls squads from Calhoun County, Gilmer County, Valley and Williamson, as well as the boys’ team from Mount Hope.
Also in Class A boys field, No. 2 Doddridge County will battle No. 4 Charleston Catholic, No. 5 Buffalo and No. 8 Pocahontas County. On the girls side, No. 2 Doddridge will contend with No. 4 Charleston Catholic and No. 7 South Harrison.
In the Class AA boys field, No. 5 Point Pleasant and No. 6 Tyler Consolidated should provide an interesting battle for first, and they’ll have to deal with Philip Barbour and Scott, who are tied in seventh place in the rankings.
On the AA girls side, No. 3 Tyler Consolidated will battle No. 4 Wayne, No. 5 Philip Barbour, No. 7 Berkeley Springs and No. 8 Shady Spring.
Other Class AA squads include boys and girls teams from Braxton County, Ironton (Ohio), Oak Hill, PikeView, Roane County and Sherman, as well as the boys team from Westside and girls squads from Poca and Sissonville.
In the Class AAA boys field, eight of the top 10 teams will take part in the relays. Top-seeded Jefferson will send out 30 runners for the meet, but will have to contend with several top teams, including No. 3 Cabell Midland, No. 4 Winfield, No. 5 Hurricane and No. 10 South Charleston.
On the AAA girls side, No. 1 Buckhannon-Upshur will battle with No. 3 Elkins, No. 4 Morgantown, No. 5 Jefferson, No. 7 Hurricane and No. 8 Winfield.
Other Class AAA squads include boys and girls teams from Bridgeport, Capital, George Washington, Greenbrier East, Hampshire, Huntington, Lincoln County, Nicholas County, St. Albans and University, as well as girls teams from Nitro and Ripley.
Rosedale: Family Fun Day – 05.01.11
There will be a family fun day at Rosedale Park, in Rosedale WV on Sunday, May 01, 2011 starting at 2:00 PM.
This event is free and everyone is encouraged to come.
There will be Food, Games/Puppet Shows, Live Animals, Clowns, Balloons and much more.
WVIAC Softball Tournament Day 1 Recap
Glenville State 5, Ohio Valley 4 (8 innings)
Glenville State rallied from a 4-3 deficit with two runs in the bottom of the eighth inning, securing a 5-4 victory over Ohio Valley in the first game of the WVIAC Tournament.
Brittney Handley led the way with three hits and scored two runs in the victory. Kayleigh Huck and Lacey Williams each drove in a pair of runs in the win while Carly Caldon had one.
Donna O’Bryant guided Ohio Valley with three RBI, two of which came in the fifth inning on a two-run round-tripper. Kelsey Graham drove in a run in the loss.
Jessica Fedor tossed six innings of relief to pick up the victory. She gave up two runs, neither of which were earned.
Charleston 5, Concord 1
Stephanie Rossman tossed a complete game and the Charleston Golden Eagles scored four runs in the first inning, giving Rossman her 22nd victory of the season. UC tacked on a single run in the bottom of the second for a 5-0 lead, which was good enough for the win.
Concord recorded its only run of the contest in the top of the fifth after a University of Charleston fielding error to set the final score at 5-1. Sierra Curley led all hitters in the contest with a 3-for-4 performance, while Charleston’s leading hitter Logan Tretick followed at 2-for-4 with an RBI and run scored.
Leadoff hitter Rachael Mack paced the Mountain Lions with a 1-for-2 game with the lone RBI for Concord.
Davis & Elkins 11, Wheeling Jesuit 2 (5 innings)
After two early runs by Wheeling Jesuit, Davis & Elkins responded with 11 runs spread over three innings to take an 11-2 victory in the first round.
Bridget Ours went two-for-three in the win, recording six RBI in the game, including a home run. Devony Pugh, Carissa Dunn and Jennifer Kennon each tallied one RBI. Kennon was three-for-four in the game.
D&E scored five in the third, two in the fourth and four in the fifth to end the game with the mercy rule.
For WJU, Jaime Donato plated two hits as did Stacey Spicer. Donato and Olivia Wamsley each scored a run for the designated visitors.
Alanna Jones went the distance in the win, giving up two runs on five hits. She struck out nine and walked just one.
Alderson-Broaddus 5, Seton Hill 4
Down to its last out, Alderson-Broaddus responded with three runs in the top of the seventh and held on for a 5-4 come-from-behind victory over Seton Hill in the first round.
A-B was led by Mary Mayer’s two RBI. Brittany Meadows and Karrissa Ezell each had one. Emily Pritt led the team with a three-for-four effort from the plate and 10 putouts.
SHU was guided by Liz Piekut’s two RBI. Caitlyn Kamalich notched one. Lisa Kaczynski accounted for two of the team’s five hits.
Ali Neace came in and tossed an inning of scoreless relief for the win.
Fairmont State 2, Glenville State 1
Chelsea Simon’s two-run double in the bottom of the seventh inning gave Fairmont State a 2-1 victory over Glenville State.
GSC scored the game’s first run in the sixth off Kayleigh Huck’s solo round-tripper.
With two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Simon came through with the game-winning hit.
Chelsea Cobb went the distance, giving up five hits and striking out five.
West Virginia Wesleyan 5, Alderson-Broaddus 1
Kashilia Young plated two runs while Dana Goguen and Elizabeth Derrick each notched one in West Virginia Wesleyan’s 5-1 win over Alderson-Broaddus.
Alex Whisner scored twice and went two-for-three for the Bobcats.
Mary Mayer posted A-B’s lone run of the game in the second inning with a solo home run. Brittany Meadows and Mayer each had a team-high two hits.
Hillary Perez-Ashley tossed a complete game, giving up just five hits and striking out six in the win.
Shepherd 9, Davis & Elkins 2
Davis & Elkins grabbed an early 2-0 lead but Shepherd responded with nine unanswered runs in the 9-2 victory.
Shepherd was led by ace Nichole Pitcock, who turned in a three-hit, two run performance in the circle. She helped her own cause by driving in three runs by getting three hits in four at bats. Cammie Orlando drove in two for the victors while Bianca Biondillo totaled two hits and was plated twice.
D&E’s Alanna Jones drove in the team’s run while Bridget Ours and Britne Bacca each crossed home.
West Virginia State 8, Charleston 6 (8 innings)
It took two days to complete, but West Virginia State came back from a four-run deficit in the bottom of the eighth to defeat Charleston 8-6.
The Yellow Jackets used two home runs in their last at bat to account for all but one run in the six-run frame, including a walk-off three-run round tripper by Margaret Osborne.
Logan Tretick notched two of the team’s RBI while going two-for-three from the plate.
Kelsey Lorraine went the distance, giving up six runs on seven hits, but only four were earned. Stephanie Rossman took the loss, giving up eight runs but only allowing two earned. She fanned eight in the contest.
WV Scholar Semi-Finalists Announced
West Virginia Wesleyan University has announced the 20 semi-finalists for the West Virginia Scholar Program.
The high school students are candidates to receive a full, four-year scholarship from WVWC, valued at $125,000.
The next step in the process includes interview of each semi-finalist and his or her parents.
Of the 20 semi-finalists, 12 will move on to become finalists.
The semi-finalists, in alphabetical order, are:
- Alexa Antill, of Bridgeport High School
- Elaine Ashman, of Roane County High School
- Kelsey Bartlett, of Philip Barbour High School
- Kara Cobun, of Preston High School
- Zachary Dillard, of Richwood High School
- Joshua Fisher, of Winfield High School
- Megan Justice, of Summers County High School
- Danielle Martin, of Buffalo High School
- Victoria Mason, of Wheeling Park High School
- Abigail McClung, of Fairmont Senior High School
- Asa Nichols, of St. Marys High School
- Samantha Parkins, of Poca High School
- Sarah Phillips, of Shady Spring High School
- Angela Pittinger, of Washington High School
- Corey Rhodes, of Petersburg High School
- Ashley Short, of Webster County High School
- Mark Stewart, of Hurricane High School
- Madalin Teter, of Elkins High School
- Wesley Wright, of Cabell Midland High School
- Shane Yeater, of Doddridge County High School
WVIAC Track & Field Preview
The 2011 West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WVIAC) Track & Field portion of the Championships will be held this Friday, April 29, 2011 and Saturday, April 30, 2011 at Wheeling Jesuit University starting at 11:00 AM on Friday.
The Multi-event portion of the meet concluded on April 22, 2011 in Glenville, WV hosted by Glenville State College.
In one of the best finishes ever in the men’s decathlon two competitors, Seton Hill’s Josh Fouse and Wheeling Jesuit’s Craig Neiswanger, found themselves tied and a third, defending champion Cuylor Edgell of WV Wesleyan, 221 points down with 1500m remaining.
With an event record-setting time of 4:26.68, Edgell came back to capture the WVIAC men’s decathlon for the second year by a margin of two points (6389) while Fouse finished second (6387) and Craig Neiswanger finished third (6381).
Each of the top three set a personal goal themselves as they each hit an NCAA provisional mark in the decathlon.
WV Wesleyan’s Ashli Knotts captured the WVIAC heptathlon crown with a score of 4306 points, setting a new WVIAC meet record. Erin Beattie, last year’s defending champion, finished second with 4286 points and WV Wesleyan’s Nikki Emborski finished third with 3963 points.
Seton Hill University sets at top of the men’s rankings this year looking to grab it’s first WVIAC crown with their 4 NCAA Provisional Qualifiers Josh Fouse, Josh Wilks, Duane Parker, and Tyler McIntosh leading the way.
WV Wesleyan will try and defends its 2010 title with their 3 NCAA Provisional Qualifiers Barry Franklin Cuylor Edgell, and Zane Zebrasky. “This should be one of the tightest competitions for the men’s title this season,” says the veteran Meet Director Chris Kreger.
But don’t count out Concord, Wheeling Jesuit or Glenville State College.
Concord’s RJ Anderson is an indoor NCAA Provisional Qualifier and Wheeling’s Craig Neiswanger recent qualified in the decathlon for the NCAAs.
Glenville’s throwers and sprinters will also try and mix things up making it
anyones title to win.
On the women’s side WV Wesleyan will seek their 20th women’s title and their 9th straight as they look to hold off the fast growing Seton Hill Griffins.
The women’s competition will see 6 NCAA National qualifiers that will be chasing after WVIAC individual titles and hopes of leading their titles to a WVIAC crown.
Concord’s Shawnee Carnett current as automatically qualified for the 800m ranking her 3rd in the nation.
Other NCAA Provisional Qualifiers are WV Wesleyan’s Morganne Bennett, Megan Zayas and Ashli Knotts, Seton Hill’s Calsie Boyd, and Wheeling Jesuit’s Megan Pratt in two events.
Several athletes are in the running for this year’s Field Athlete of the Year, and Track Athlete of the Year honors.
Each athletes earns points based on the performance list, NCAA marks and points earned in the meet.
Here are some of the athletes competing for the individual titles which will be determined after the NCAA Outdoor Championships (follow the WVIAC website as the season continues):
Men’s Field Athlete of the Year:
Josh Fouse —Seton Hill, Cuylor Edgell – WV Wesleyan, Tyler McIntosh —Seton Hill, Duane Parker —Seton Hill, Nate Janusey —Seton Hill, Craig Neiswanger– Wheeling Jesuit, Matty Porter—Glenville, Aron Kurzinski—Seton Hill
Men’s Track Athlete of the Year:
Josh Wilks—Seton Hill, RJ Anderson—Concord
Women’s Field Athlete of the Year:
Ashli Knotts—WV Wesleyan, Erin Beattie—Seton Hill, Megan Pratt—Wheeling Jesuit, Cindy Hillberry—Glenville, Emily Taylor—Wheeling Jesuit
Women’s Track Athlete of the Year:
Shawnee Carnett—Concord, Megan Zayas—WV Wesleyan, Morgan Bennett—WV Wesleyan
$561,033 in Funding To Help West Virginia Seniors
Senator Jay Rockefeller today announced $561,003 in funding to the West Virginia State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to help Medicare beneficiaries, and those who care for them, receive the most up to date information and counseling about their Medicare benefits and choices.
“Health reform created a number of new Medicare options for seniors – such as prescription drug rebates, free annual wellness visits and new preventative benefits,” said Senator Rockefeller, Chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care. “So, it is more important than ever for West Virginia seniors to know which options best meet their health care needs. As more than 27,000 baby boomers in West Virginia will become eligible for Medicare this year and with nearly 380,000 seniors already in the program, this money is necessary to provide seniors with critical counseling and support services to help them choose the Medicare plans that are right for them.”
Background:
The State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) is a national program that offers one-on-one counseling and assistance to people with Medicare and their families. Through federal grants directed to states, SHIPs provide free counseling and assistance via telephone and face-to-face interactive sessions, public education presentations and programs, and media activities.
VVV: Food Distribution - Saturday - 04.30.11
On Saturday, April 30, 2011, Visions, Vessels, and Victory, Inc. will be giving out food at Appcon on WV Highway 5E in Glenville from 10:00 AM until 12:00 PM for ALL people signed up for the VVV Pantry in Gilmer County.
Do not arrive early.
Do not block roadways, driveways and/or parking lots.
G-Comm: War Hawk or Deficit Hawk? You Cannot Be Both
“If voting made any difference, it would be illegal,” according the late Philip Berrigan. This satiric comment seems especially relevant during our present military and economic crisis.
President Obama proposes reasonable remedies, but fails to follow through on them, while Republicans issue counter proposals that are bound to make things worse.
“If it was not clear before, it is obvious now,” according to the New York Times editorial (April 19), that the Republican party “is fully engaged in a project to dismantle the foundations of the New Deal and the Great Society, and to liberate business and the rich from the inconveniences of oversight and taxes.”
Why do we refuse to recognize the economic consequences of our failed policies, or to halt the Bush/Obama war on Afghanistan? According to a U.S. Army lieutenant, “no one benefits from this war… Only the CEOs and executive officers of war-profiteering corporations find satisfactory returns on their investments.”
Some Americans, including politicians, profit from wasteful military expenditures and corporate greed, while 17% of the population remains permanently impoverished. Millions support laying waste to Kandahar, while New Orleans and Detroit deteriorate.
“The remains of villages destroyed by our bombs, the dead killed from our munitions, leave us, too, with bloody hands,” as Chris Hedges has said. “We can build a new ethic only when we face our complicity in the cycle of violence and terror.”
Flaunting our military power around the globe, we resort to brute force and economic domination.
Must we, as a people, squander our wealth and our young people in wars of conquest and intervention, financing 1,000 military bases around the world, funding corrupt dictatorships, and imposing “democracy” on countries whether they want it or not?
Going along to get along, Democrats and Republicans support policies that justify torture, undermine the right of habeas corpus, destabilize unions, abandon our once-admired educational system, and neglect our own people.
Dismantling a war culture that has undermined democratic governance, and cultivating a peace culture, mean promoting cooperative rather than domination models - locally, nationally, and internationally. Why not?
Initial steps in this direction require our (1) reducing the military budget, larger than all military budgets in the world combined; (2) abolishing tax breaks for the filthy rich and the multinational corporations; (3) reviving community self-reliance to reduce our dependence on agribusiness and foreign fuel.
Over the past fifty years, creeping militarism and unchallenged corporate greed have undermined our institutions one by one. Preferring comfort and complacency to confrontation, people who should know better, including academics and intellectuals, are silent, while members of the media frequently serve as a public relations agents for the Pentagon and legislators pretending to be “war hawks and deficit hawks” at the same time.
Voting for the right, as Henry David Thoreau said, is not doing anything for the right. Since the founding of the U.S., an active citizenry has succeeded in eradicating slavery, liberating women, upholding human rights, and organizing workers by taking risks essential to cultivating a peace culture.
Nonviolent people power helped to remedy previous crises, to uphold justice and to de-escalate violence. Congress may eventually get around to voting on these issues, but by that time the hard work will have been accomplished by all of us joining to force them to do so.
In commenting on public issues, one wants to be balanced and useful, as well as to retain integrity and to be honest about the present state of affairs. Our present crisis, as in the 1920s or 30s or 60s, appears to require ordinary people resorting to demonstrations, sit-ins, and strikes, to sustain democratic governance and values that are dear to informed citizens.
~~ Michael True, Emeritus Professor, Assumption College, is Vice-president, Center for Nonviolent Solutions, Worcester, Massachusetts ~~
G-Comm: The Arts Must Be Part of 21st Century Learning
“What a tragedy it would be if we lived in a world where music was not taught to children.”
That is a statement made not by an educator or a musician but Norman Schwarzkopf, a rugged man who rose to the ranks of general in the U.S. Army, a man who often has said that during the first Gulf War, it was music that brought him great peace of mind.
Like Schwarzkopf, we, too, believe it would be a tragedy if music and other arts were not taught in West Virginia schools. Our children must study the arts to become well-rounded adults and successful in the 21st century.
Today’s competitive global economy demands imaginative, resilient thinkers who can design and produce new ideas, new services and products. Well-taught arts courses are where creativity, flexibility, innovation, understanding and empathy are consistently required and refined.
In West Virginia, our 21st century learning plan called “Global21: Students deserve it. The world demands it.,” allows students to enhance their creativity through problem-solving, critical-thinking, technology literacy, and other performance skills.
Global21 is one way we are working to make sure every student across West Virginia has access to arts-rich educational opportunities. Dance, music, visual art and theater all involve skills that are essential to the education of the whole child. Research clearly tells us that an arts-rich education is closely aligned to gains in math and reading, and improves cognitive ability, critical thinking and verbal skills.
More than 50 percent of West Virginia students live in poverty and a large percentage of those students suffer from chronic stress that interferes with concentration. Arts learning can improve not only concentration, but also motivation, confidence and teamwork. Through expansion of a strong arts program in each and every school in West Virginia, we will be better able to close the achievement gap that has left many children behind.
As we work together in this complex world to develop good kids who do great work, we must make sure the arts are valued and supported.
You can exercise your support on April 29 by attending the West Virginia Department of Education’s Fifth Annual Arts Alive celebration at the Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences in Charleston. Our schools are full of talented students who will showcase the benefits of their arts education. The lobby showcase begins at 6:30 PM, followed by the mainstage performance at 7 PM. The event is free and open to the public. Tickets are available from the Clay Center at 304.561.3500.
The signature event will feature performances and the visual arts as well as instrumental and vocal music, dance and theater from students statewide.
Ernest Boyer, former president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching said, “The arts are, above all, the special language of children, who, even before they learn to speak, respond intuitively to dance, music and color.”
I hope you will share in this special language by joining me and others in support of West Virginia’s student artists and attend Arts Alive on April 29.
~~ By Jorea M. Marple, Ed.D. - WV State Superintendent of Schools, overseeing West Virginia’s Public schools ~~
Fishing Report - 04.28.11
BEECH FORK
The reservoir level is at summer pool and the water is muddy. For more information call the Beech Fork Corps of Engineers office at 304.525.4831. Bass and crappie fishing should begin to heat up as the water continues to warm up. Try jigging around submerged trees for both black and white crappie. Channel catfish can be caught throughout the lake on chicken livers and cut-bait. Hybrid-striped bass and white bass can be found chasing school of shad in the lower lake and Miller’s fork Arm.
BLUESTONE
The lake is currently at summer pool and milky so fishing is fair, however, once it begins to drop and clear, fishing will pick up. Spring is here and the fish are moving and feeding in preparation for spawning. Crappie may be found near any structure such as downed trees or brush piles. They will be hitting small minnows or doll flies. Bass may be caught off rocky points and around downed trees using live bait and artificial such as spinnerbaits and plastic worms. Anglers should look for points that have some cover such as stumps, logs, or weed beds. Try slow rolling a spinnerbait, bumping off the stumps. Some hybrid striped bass may be caught using large minnows. Anglers should try spots such as the mouth of Indian Creek or up the Bluestone Arm as these fish, even though mostly infertile, still make mock spawning runs upstream. Smallmouth bass are being caught in the tailwaters. Successful anglers are using tube jigs in pumpkinseed or motor oil colors. Anglers should be careful wading and wear your personal flotation devices.
BURNSVILLE
The lake is at summer pool. Fishing is improving. The water temperature in the lake is on the rise. Bass are starting to feed and moving into shallow water to spawn. Most are being caught in and around cover. Bluegill and crappie are also starting to hit live bait. Trout were stocked in the tailwaters on April 14. For more information call Corps of Engineers at 304.853.2398.
EAST LYNN
The reservoir is at summer pool with muddy water being reported. The water temperatures is 60 degrees. For more information call the Corps of Engineers recorded message at 304.849.9861. Bass fishing has been fairly good with several fish over 2 lbs. reported in a recent tournament. Musky will most likely be located in the head of lakes as they usually migrate upstream during the spawning season. Crappie fishing will be heating up near fallen trees and fish attractors. Channel catfish and flatheads are abundant in the lake and can be caught with a variety of baits. Walleye and saugeye will be following schools of shad.
R.D. BAILEY
The lake is currently at summer pool and clear. Fishing is good. Fish are beginning to move and feed in preparation for the upcoming spawning season. Crappie will spawn around standing timber and brush piles and will hit small minnows. For artificials, use doll flies in white and yellow. Spotted bass are hitting plastic jigs in crawfish colors. The spotted bass will be found along the rocky drops with points with downed trees another good spot to try. Remember to fish slowly! Hybrid striped bass will be making a mock spawning run up stream in April so anglers may want to concentrate their efforts in the upper lake. The trout stocked in the tailwaters are providing good fishing. Best baits are corn, salmon eggs and small jigs.
STONECOAL LAKE
The lake is at summer pool. Fishing is improving. The water temperatures in the lakes are on the rise. Bass are starting to feed and moving into shallow water to spawn. Most are being caught in and around cover. Bluegill and crappie are also starting to hit live bait and jigs. Reports of a few nice walleye being caught.
STONEWALL JACKSON
The lake is at summer pool and milky. Fishing is improving. The water temperature in the lake is on the rise. Bass are starting to feed and moving into shallow water to spawn. Most are being caught in and around cover. Bluegill and crappie are also starting to hit live bait. Trout were stocked in the tailwaters on April 14. Before heading to the lake please call Corps of Engineers at 304.269.7463.
SUMMERSVILLE
The lake is at summer pool. Fishing is improving. The water temperature in the lake is on the rise. Bass are starting to feed and moving into shallow water to spawn. Most are being caught in and around cover. Bluegill and crappie are also starting to hit live bait. A few walleye are being caught at the mouth of McKee’s Creek. Trout were stocked in the tailwaters on April 20. If you are looking for a back country trout fishing experience, hike down in the tailwaters and enjoy. For more information call Corps of Engineers at 304.872.5809.
SUTTON
The lake is at summer pool. Fishing is improving. The water temperature in the lake is on the rise. Bass are starting to feed and moving into shallow to spawn. Most are being caught in and around cover. Bluegill and crappie are also starting to hit live bait. The tailwaters are high and milky. Trout were stocked in the tailwaters on April 14. Before heading to the lake please call Corps of Engineers at 304.765.2705.
TYGART LAKE
The lake level is 10 to 20 feet above the summer level and all boat ramps are closed. Try fishing the waterfowl marsh located on the west side of US Route 119 for large sunfish.
High flows have resulted in plenty of walleyes moving throughout the dam to the tailwater. The only fishing possibility is fishing right against the shore because of the high flows. Walleyes can be caught during these high flows. Walleye fishing is best at flows above 1,500 cfs and trout fishing below 1,500 cfs. The tailwater temperature is 52 degrees. Call the Corps of Engineers telephone hotline at 304.265.5953 for the current lake elevation and tailwater conditions.
NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA
OHIO RIVER
(New Cumberland, Pike Island and Hannibal pools and tailwaters): The river is still high again this week. During high water conditions, some fish will move up against the bank and can still be caught in the slack water along the shore or in the mouths of tributaries. Don’t let high water conditions keep you from fishing.
MONONGAHELA RIVER
The river is high again but water temperatures are 55 to 60 degrees. During high water conditions, some fish will move up against the bank and can still be caught in the slack water along the shore. The mouths of tributaries can also be productive during high river levels. The shoreline below the Morgantown Lock on the Westover side of the river can be good for saugers during high water. Large muskies are also caught at this time of year throughout the river.
CHEAT LAKE
Water levels do not fluctuate drastically at Cheat Lake since it is not a flood control lake. Therefore, fishing is not significantly affected by high water conditions. The two embayments by the Cheat Lake Park may be the best place to fish during these recent periods of high rainfall. Water temperatures will be warmer than in the main lake and sunfish and largemouth bass will be more active than in the main lake. The Cheat Lake Park is a convenient place for shoreline anglers. The summer pool elevation will be maintained starting May 1 and the lake will only fluctuate two feet until November 1. The winter ramp at Cheat Lake Park will be closed and the Sunset Beach ramp will be in service.
Recent high discharges will have caused more fish to move up to the dam from the Monongahela River. Try the tailwater fishing pier for walleye, saugers, and many other species.
EASTERN PANHANDLE
South Branch and Cacapon Rivers
Flows in most streams and rivers throughout the eastern panhandle are still high but the water has cleared in most streams. Water temperatures have increased to the 60’s and smallmouth bass are feeding. Many smallmouth bass in the South Branch have been tagged as part of a fish movement and fish health study, so if you catch a tagged fish, please clip off the tag and return it to DNR for a reward.
The 2011 spring trout stocking season is underway and many streams are receiving weekly trout stockings through May. Check the 2011 fishing regulations to determine if your favorite water receives weekly trout stocking. A new fishing guide is now available for the Eastern panhandle which includes a steam map. The new fishing guides can be obtained free of charge from any of our district offices. Up-to-date information regarding trout stocking can be found by calling the hunting and fishing hotline at 304.558.3399.
Shenandoah River
The flows in the Shenandoah River are high. It will be a great time to catch big smallmouth bass and walleye as the flows return to normal. Smallmouth bass and walleye will be moving into the riffle areas at the head of pools and should be biting.
North Branch River
The flows in the North Branch are currently between 1,000 and 1,500 cfs and will remain there throughout the weekend. The next whitewater event for the North Branch will be this weekend so wade fishing may be difficult.
Small Impoundments
Bass, bluegill and catfish are biting in small impoundments. Many small impoundments are receiving bi-weekly trout stocking and trout up to 8 pounds have been caught. Check the new 2011 fishing regulations to determine which impoundments will be stocked.
New Creek Lake (Dam 14) has been drained to conduct required safety repairs. This is a great time to fish in New Creek since fish from the lake migrated downstream. New Creek Lake is expected to be refilled late this fall if construction proceeds as planned.
Jennings Randolph Lake
Jennings Randolph Lake level is currently at conservation pool. Both WV and MD ramps are open for the season. Don’t forget you can buy a season boat launch pass for Jennings Randolph Lake and the pass is honored at both the MD and WV ramps. Some anglers are starting to catch legal sized walleye. Jennings Randolph Lake has a dedicated phone line for up-to-date recreational information 304.355.2890.
Mt. Storm Lake
Anglers at Mt. Storm should target striped bass and walleye. Anglers have been doing well catching both bass and walleye. Fish can be caught throughout the lake but many anglers do well fishing with chicken livers near the discharges. Recent fishing tournaments caught both smallmouth and largemouth bass. Crankbaits and plastic have both been effective.
CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
Water levels are normal and clear. April is a great month to fish with the temperatures on the rise. If you are looking for a place to go, please check the fishing regulations and the WVDNR website for a list of public access sites or call your local WVDNR district office for some advice and a place to fish. Lots of trout were stocked the past few weeks, Cherry, Shavers Fork, Williams and Buckhannon River by rail. Just to name a few. Remember to buy your 2011 fishing license. If going alone, always tell someone where you are going and when you will return.
SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA
Trout stockings are in full gear now so anglers are encouraged to get their fill of trout fishing before the waters become too warm. Anglers should check this year’s fishing regulations to see which waters will be stocked. For a more up-to-date list, please call the hotline at 304.558.3399. The New and Greenbrier rivers are high and milky and unfishable at present. Some of our lakes remain clear year round and lake anglers can find some excellent bass and bluegill fishing at Plum Orchard Lake. Best baits are plastic worms fished slowly along the bottom; spinnerbaits are also good choices for the bass while the bluegill will take small jigs, red worms, or other small live baits.
SOUTHWESTERN WEST VIRGINIA
Lower Ohio and Kanawha Rivers
High water will make fishing along the navigable rivers and their locks tricky. Fish may be stacked in areas of slack water at this time and as the rivers come back down they will be hungry. Try small jigs with minnows or white grubs, shad darts, or shad imitating lures.
Guyandotte, Coal, Poca, Elk, and Mud Rivers
As the recent high waters recede, fish will be hungry as the water warms up. Sauger and walleye will be actively feeding. Big smallmouth and largemouth are also starting to become more active as the water warms. Jigs with minnows or grubs are almost always good baits to try.
Small Impoundments
Trout fishing will be good in most small impoundments at this time due to recent stockings. Check the Daily Trout Stocking report for the latest updates at 304.558.3399. Largemouth bass, bluegill and catfish will also begin actively feeding as the water warms.
Reservoirs
Fishing in area reservoirs is good right now. Conditions are close to optimal for many preferred gamefish. Try to pick up any trash you might see and keep things clear for the next anglers, and be safe!
WEST-CENTRAL WEST VIRGINIA
Trout have been stocked into several lakes throughout the area. These include Tracy Lake and Pennsboro Water Supply Reservoir in Ritchie County, Mountwood Park Lake in Wood County, Rollins Lake and Turkey Run Lake in Jackson County, Mile Tree Lake in Roane County, Cedar Creek State Park Ponds in Gilmer County, and Conaway Run Lake in Tyler County. Trout anglers can use a variety of baits including small worms, mealworms, salmon eggs, cheese, or trout power bait. Small spinners, joe type flies, and trout magnets also work well, for anglers casting the shoreline or fishing from boats. Trolling these small lures is also affective.
This is an excellent time to fish Ohio River Tail-waters. Anglers fishing below the Belleville dam are catching sauger, walleye, and a few other species. Lead headed jigs with twister tails (white or chartreuses), which are fished along the bottom, are the lure of choice. Clever anglers are tipping their jig hooks with minnows. Fishing for white bass can be quite good this time of year and medium-sized white spinners work well. Crappie can also be found in Ohio River tailwaters. These fish are generally suspended and jigs should be counted-down to find the correct depth to fish. Best spots to fish these areas include eddies and back-current sections, and anywhere that river flows are unusual.
Fishing for largemouth bass in area lakes has been very good. Slowly fished rubber worms or jig-and-pig combos, and spinner baits are good terminal tackle choices. Area lakes with good angling opportunities include Mountwood in Wood County, Conaway Run in Tyler County, Charles Fork in Roane County, North Bend Lake in Ritchie County, and Elk Fork lakes in Jackson County.
Musky streams are not expected to be fishable this weekend. Those interested in trying their luck with muskies in a lake should try North Bend Lake.
~~ Trout Stockings ~~
April 28, 2011
• Anthony Creek
• Brandywine Lake
• Brushy Fork Lake
• Hopkins Fork
• New Creek
• North Fork of Lunice Creek
• North Fork of Patterson Creek
• North Fork of South Branch (C&R)
• Paw Paw Creek
• Pond Fork
• Spruce Knob Lake
• Whiteday Creek
April 27, 2011
• Blackwater River
• Buffalo Creek (Logan)
• Bullskin Run
• Burnsville Tailwaters
• Cacapon Park Lake
• Camp Creek
• Cranberry River
• East River
• Evitts Run
• Gandy Creek
• Laurel Fork (Randolph)
• Middle Creek
• Mill Creek of Opequon Creek
• Opequon Creek
• Rocky Marsh Run
• South Fork of Cherry River
• South Fork of Cranberry River
• South Mill Creek Lake
• Stonewall Jackson Tailwaters
• Summit Lake
• Sutton Tailwaters
April 26, 2011
• Bear Rocks Lake
• East Fork Greenbrier River
• Glady Fork
• Horseshoe Run
• Little River East Fork Greenbrier River
• Little River West Fork Greenbrier River
• Red Creek
• Shavers Fork (Bemis)
• Shavers Fork (lower)
• Shavers Fork (upper)
• West Fork Greenbrier River
• Wheeling Creek
April 25, 2011
• Buckhannon River
• Kimsey Run Lake
• Laurel Creek of New River
• Left Fork of Right Fork of Buckhannon River
• Mill Creek of New River
• R.D. Bailey Tailwaters
• South Branch (Franklin)
• Teter Creek Lake
• Williams River
April 22, 2011
SPECIAL NOTE: ALL REPAIRS ARE COMPLETED AND THE WILLIAMS RIVER ROAD IS NOW OPEN.
• Curtisville Lake
• East Fork Greenbrier River
• Gandy Creek
• Laurel Fork (Randolph)
• Little River East Fork Greenbrier River
• Little River West Fork Greenbrier River
• North Fork of Cherry River
• Potts Creek
• Spruce Knob Lake
• Summit Lake
• Trout Run
• Waites Run
• Warden Lake
• West Fork Greenbrier River
• Williams River
~~ Stream Conditions ~~
| NORTHERN |
Levels |
Conditions |
| Ohio River (Wheeling) |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| Fish Creek |
|
|
High |
|
|
Muddy |
| Fishing Creek |
|
|
High |
|
|
Muddy |
| Big Sandy (Preston) |
|
|
High |
|
|
Muddy |
| Monongahela River |
|
|
High |
|
|
Muddy |
| Buckhannon River |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Wheeling Creek |
|
|
High |
|
Milky |
|
| Buffalo Creek |
|
|
High |
|
|
Muddy |
| Blackwater River |
|
|
High |
|
|
Muddy |
| |
| EASTERN PANHANDLE |
Levels |
Conditions |
| S. Branch (Potomac) |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| S. Branch (Smoke Hole) |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Shenandoah River |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Patterson Creek |
|
|
High |
|
Milky |
|
| N. Fork S. Branch |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Cacapon River |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Back Creek |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Opequon Creek |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Lost River |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| |
| CENTRAL |
Levels |
Conditions |
| Elk (Sutton) |
|
|
High |
|
Milky |
|
| Little Kanawha |
|
|
High |
|
Milky |
|
| Elk (Clay) |
|
|
High |
|
Milky |
|
| West Fork River |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Gauley River |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Cranberry River |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Cherry River |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Cherry River (N. Fork) |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Cherry River (S. Fork) |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Williams River |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Knapps River |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Greenbrier (E&W Forks) |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Little River |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Shavers Fork |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Buckhannon River |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Holly River |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Elk River (Webster) |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| Elk River (Back Fork) |
|
|
High |
Clear |
|
|
| |
| SOUTHERN |
Levels |
Conditions |
| New River (Hinton) |
|
|
High |
|
Milky |
|
| Greenbrier (Hinton) |
|
|
High |
|
Milky |
|
| Greenbrier (Ronceverte) |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| Anthony Creek |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| Big Creek |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| Meadow River |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| Turkey Creek |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| Potts Creek |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| Second Creek |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| Pinnacle Creek |
|
Normal |
|
|
Milky |
|
| Horse Creek Lake |
|
Normal |
|
|
Milky |
|
| Big Huff Creek |
|
Normal |
|
|
Milky |
|
| Indian Creek |
|
Normal |
|
|
Milky |
|
| Glade Creek (New River) |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| Marsh Fork |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| New River (Gauley) |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| Glade Creek (Man) |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| Camp Creek |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| East River |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| Fork Creek |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| Dry Fork Creek |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| Berwind Lake |
|
Normal |
|
Clear |
|
|
| |
| WESTERN & SOUTHWESTERN |
Levels |
Conditions |
| Little Kanawha River |
|
|
High |
|
|
Muddy |
| Ohio River |
|
|
High |
|
|
Muddy |
| Hughes River |
|
|
High |
|
|
Muddy |
U.S.A.: A Visual History of Colonial Land-Grabs
Fundraiser: Jewelry and Longaberger Basket Bingo - This Sunday
Stan and Paula Mazzagotte
Jewelry and Longaberger Basket Bingo
When: May 01, 2011
Where: Gilmer County Senior Center
Time: 1:00 PM (Doors open 12:00 Noon)
20 games for $20.00 Donation
Door prizes/raffle, 50/50 drawing
Additional bingo cards available.
Great food, great prizes and lots of fun.
Get tickets at the door or call Pam at 304.462.8024
Stan Mazzagotte will have other jewelry for sale as he is going out of business sale due to health reasons.
Bon Appétit: Crunchy Fish Nuggets with Curried-Mustard Dipping Sauce
Ingredients:
1/4 cup buttermilk
3/4 teaspoon salt, divided
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper, divided
1-1/4 pounds haddock or cod fillets, cut into 1-inch by 2-inch pieces
1 cup panko (Japanese-style) breadcrumbs
1 tablespoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons coarse-grained mustard
2 teaspoons curry powder
Directions:
Place a rack in the top third of the oven.
Heat the oven to 425 degrees.
Set a wire rack on a baking sheet and coat it with cooking spray.
In a large bowl, whisk together the buttermilk, 1/2 teaspoon of the salt and 1/4 teaspoon of the pepper.
Add the fish nuggets and turn to coat evenly.
In a shallow bowl or pie plate, combine the panko, chili powder, cumin and garlic powder.
Dredge the fish nuggets, 2 or 3 at a time, through the breadcrumb mixture, coating all sides evenly.
Arrange the fish nuggets on the prepared rack set over the baking sheet.
Coat evenly with cooking spray on all sides.
Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until the panko coating is golden brown and crisp and the fish is opaque at the center.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl whisk together the honey, mustard, curry powder, the remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt and the remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
Serve the fish nuggets with the curried mustard dipping sauce.
Daily G-Eye : 04.29.11
Greyson with Uncle Colin’s Baby Ducks
Normantown, WV - 04.24.11
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Stargazing - 04.29.11
The planet Venus and the Moon stand due east about 30 or 40 minutes before sunrise, low in the sky, with Venus directly below the Moon.
Venus is the brilliant “morning star.“
Moon and Venus
If you have to get up early tomorrow, you have our condolences. But if you step outside at just the right time, Mother Nature offers up a beautiful consolation: the Moon and the “morning star” shining through the colorful twilight.
That “star” isn’t really a star at all, though—it’s Venus, our closest planetary neighbor. It’s the brightest object in the night sky after the Moon, so you just can’t miss it.
Actually, Venus isn’t always our closest neighbor. No planet ever passes closer than Venus does—just 27 million miles. But as Earth and Venus follow their separate orbits around the Sun, the distance between them varies by quite a bit. So at times, Mercury and even Mars can be closer than Venus is.
Venus is nearing its greatest distance from us as its orbit carries the planet to the other side of the Sun. In August, it’ll line up behind the Sun, so it’ll be at its farthest—about 160 million miles.
Right now, Mercury is only about half that distance. And in fact, it huddles quite close to Venus in the sky now. It’s a little bit lower, though, so it’s hard to pluck from the glow of early twilight—you probably need binoculars to find it.
You shouldn’t have any trouble with Venus and the Moon, though. They’re due east about 30 or 40 minutes before sunrise, low in the sky, with Venus directly below the Moon.
We’ll have more about this morning lineup—plus several other planets that are nearby—tomorrow.
G-MM™: Meditation Moment - 04.29.11
Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and the same with the fish.
In the last of the seven signs—miracles—recorded in John’s Gospel, we find the risen Jesus by the lakeside where he had invited his first disciples to follow him.
Thanks to his intervention, after a fruitless evening’s fishing, seven of them secure in an unbroken net a great catch.
Like the two disciples at Emmaus, they recognise both him and their mission in this sign and in the intimate meal at daybreak that accompanies it.
After these highly symbolic events, Jesus’ words in the supper discourse, ‘Without me you can do nothing’ (John 15:5), must surely have taken on a new meaning for them.
Aware of how extravagant God is in our regard, there will be many times when, with the beloved disciple, we will be moved to say from a grateful heart, ‘It is the Lord.’
Acts 4:1-12. The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone—Ps 117(118):1-2, 4, 22-27. John 21:1-14.
Terri R. Pettry (nee Wilfong)
Terri R. Pettry (nee Wilfong)
Age 50 of Brooklyn, OH; beloved wife of Dennis A.; loving mother of Jessica and Justin; loving daughter of Claudette and Freeman Wilfong, of Brooklyn, (formerly of Gilmer County); dear sister of Gary Wilfong (Karen) of Williamstown, WV; half brother, Larry (Ruth) of Glenville, WV; niece, aunt and friend of many.
Passed away on Monday, April 25, 2011.
Cremation by Busch Crematory.
Arrangements for a memorial service will be made at a later date.
Bessie Evelyn Cooper
Bessie Evelyn Cooper
Age 94, formerly of Weston, passed away quietly in her sleep early on Easter Sunday, April 24, 2011, at Arbor Village Rehab and Nursing Center, Wildwood, FL.
She was born April 07, 1917, in Sharonville, Ohio, daughter of the late Walker and Bessie Davidson.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Samuel F. Cooper, on April 22, 1979; and by her siblings Hugh (Ella) Davidson, Gwen (Gerald) Moore, Ruth (Arch) Enoch, Carl (Lucy) Davidson, and infant brother Howard.
She is survived by two sons, Fred H. Cooper and wife Linda of Summerfield, FL, and Steven B. Cooper and wife Debby of Uniontown, PA; and also by grandchildren, Debra McCarthy and husband Dennis of Chesapeake, VA, Trent Cooper and wife Leslie of Virginia Beach, VA, and Travis Cooper and wife Krisi of Coraopolis, PA; great-grandchildren, Bodie and Bailey Cooper of Virginia Beach, VA; nieces, Patty Weaver (Joseph) of Morgantown, Judy Shuttlesworth (Larry) of Graham, NC, Mary Alice Ebert (Don) of Weston, Janice Light (Richard) of Jane Lew; and nephew, Don Enoch (Betty) of Weston.
Evelyn was a lifetime member of the Kenova, WV Chapter of Eastern Star, and a past member of the VFW Auxillary, as well as a member of St. Matthews United Methodist Church, Weston.
She was a wonderful wife, mother, and homemaker, and was previously employed at Gregg Grocery, Kyers neighborhood store, and a local box plant. An avid supporter of youth sports, she faithfully attended all baseball, basketball, and football games when her two sons were playing.
A celebration of life memorial service will be held at a later date, and interment will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Garden, Weston, where she will be brought back home to be with loved ones and friends.
Dorothy F. Adams
Dorothy F. Adams
Age 77, of Salem went home to be with her Lord on Saturday, April 23, 2011.
Dorothy was born at Salem April 9, 1934 a daughter of the late Paul and Dessie Brown Clevenger. On April 27, 1953 she married Harlin “Gene” Adams, who preceded her in death on April 22, 2010.
She loved quilting, working with her flowers, doing puzzle books, bingo, playing cards, cooking and taking care of her family. She was a member of the Mt. Olive Church at Salem and was a life member of the V.F.W. Auxiliary.
Surviving are two daughters; Lucinda “Cindy” Kelley and Sherry Flanagan, both of Salem and three sons; Eugene M. “Morris” Adams and Charles “Chuck” Adams, both of Salem, and Robert J. and wife Shelia Adams, Morgantown. Surviving are four sisters; Janie Spencer, Peggy Hall and husband Pat, Nancy Knight and husband Jonesie, all of Smithville and Judy Bishop and husband Don, Delbarton, four brothers, Edward Clevenger, West Union, Charles “Bunker” Clevenger, New Milton, David Clevenger, and wife Judy, Elyria, OH, Danny Clevenger and wife Mary Lou, Smithville, three brothers-in-law, Leonard Anderson, CN, Dusty Rhode, CO, George Henry, OH, six grandchildren, Stephen Kelley and fiancé Stephanie Mayle, Robert and Crystal Kelley, Morrisa and Tad Robinson, Amber Adams, Andrew Adams and Mallory Adams, ten great grandchildren, Bryant, Taylor, Tristan, Isaiah, Ethan, Caydan, Emma, Sidni, Riley and Kaylee Rose. Dorothy was preceded in death by her husband, parents, four sisters, Helen Anderson, Mary Rhode, Bette McMillian, Louise Henry, an infant daughter, Jackie, a grandson, Joe Flanagan and son- in- law, Danny Flanagan.
Friends were received from 1:00-8:00 PM on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 and from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM, the hour of the service on Wednesday, April 27, 2011 at the Harbert Funeral Home, 287 W. Main St., Salem. Rev. Roger Fontaine will conduct the service.
Burial followed in the Salem I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
The family suggests that memorial contributions may be made to the Salem Veterans Memorial Park, in care of Salem Area Chamber of Commerce or to American Diabetes Assoc. Harbert Funeral Home is privileged to serve the Adams family.
Pauline Quickle
Pauline Quickle
Age 81 of Sutton, died peacefully on April 21, 2011 at her home.
She was born in Flatwoods, WV December 11, 1929 to Oral Benson and Sadie May Nutt Lake.
Pauline was a mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and a homemaker and avid quilter.
She was preceded in death by his parents, and husband David “Sammy” Quickle and brothers Henry and Jack Lake.
Pauline is survived by her daughters; Joe Ann Hamner (Burton), Lenora Norman (Dirk) all of Sutton, and Patty Menefee (Mark) of Fairmont. Grandchildren, David Criss (Christina) , Michael Criss (Christina A.) , Paula Veltre ( Matthew), Samuel Norman (Melissa), Joseph Norman, Michelle Norman, Tammy Hayes (Rodney), Treena Stout, Patty (James) Sniffin, Sherry Hamner and Burton Hamner, Jr., great-grandchildren Patience, Elijah and Ethan Veltre, Caitlyn Norman, Kelsey Stout, Tyler Hayes, Jared and Aaryanna Criss, Timothy Richardson, Jr., and Casey Hamner.
Graveside services were Tuesday, April 26 at 1:00 PM in Crites Mt. Cemetery.
Friends called Monday from 6:00-8:00 PM at Greene-Robertson Funeral Home, Sutton, WV.
Arley Metheney
Arley Metheney
Age 86 of Nebo, WV passed away April 27, 2011 at his home.
He was born at Nebo a son of the late Ezra and Verna Sharp Metheney.
He was a former pipeline construction worker and farmer.
Surviving are 8 sons, Darris (Jobby) Metheney of Creston OH, Dale (Tinker) Metheney and Tim Metheney both of Nebo, James, Troxel, Doy and Gene (Bub) Metheney all of Chloe WV, and Roy Metheney of Big Otter WV; 3 daughters, Euthleen Jarvis and Tama Jarvis both of Chloe, and Louise Boggs of Nebo; a sister, Jessie Starcher of Nebo; 27 grandchildren, 39 great grandchildren, and 4 great-great grandchildren.
In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by his wife, Mamie Tanner Metheney; 3 brothers, Frank, Woodrow (Red) and Tom Metheney; 1 sister, Erma Barnes; and 2 granddaughters.
Friends may call at the family residence from 5:00 to 9:00 PM today - Friday, April 29.
Burial will be in the Metheney Cemetery.
Stump Funeral Home of Arnoldsburg is in charge of arrangements.
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