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Festival raises money for pilot dogs

Photos by Jolene Craig Marge Packer of Lancaster, Ohio, poses with her Pilot Dog Becky, a 6-year-old black Laborador Retriever, at the Lions Club Dog Days Festival in Belpre’s Civitan Park Saturday. Packer received Becky five years ago through the Zone 7 Lions Clubs.
August 1, 2010

BELPRE — Community members and their dogs came out to Civitan Park Saturday for the sixth annual Lions Club Dog Days Festival.

“Our goal is to raise enough money to purchase a Pilot Dog for a visually impaired person in our local Lions district,” said Stan Starling of the Chester Hill Lions Club.

Starling, who is also on the Pilot Dogs Inc. board of directors, said the area Lions Clubs have raised enough money to purchase six Pilot Dogs in the past five years.

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Homecoming queen crowned

August 1, 2010

PARKERSBURG — The judges had their work cut out for them Saturday evening during the 2010 Miss Parkersburg Homecoming Festival Teen and Queen Pageant at West Virginia University at Parkersburg.

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Wood approaches universal pre-k

August 1, 2010

PARKERSBURG — Wood County Schools continues to grow its prekindergarten programs in an effort to reach universal enrollment by 2013.

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Giving back to its workers

August 1, 2010

MINERAL WELLS — About 3,000 union members and their families from throughout West Virginia gathered for food, fun and entertainment Saturday at the West Virginia Laborers’ Training Center on Tracewell Road at Mineral Well.

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