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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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Mon, July 26, 2010 @ 4:39PM
A couple of weeks ago I realized that what I had dreaded for the upcoming 2010-2011 television season was true: I will be missing the premiere of every single show I watch and enjoy. It didn't hit me until finale week, but I planned my trip to England so it is ensured I will miss the season openers of Glee, Grey's Anatomy, Bones and Community. I know that I can catch them in reruns and online when I get back, but, still. It's the fact that I will be a week behind on these shows and have to run like heck to catch up after my return. Sophia, the lovely friend she is, suggested the three of us spend an evening in our London hotel and download these shows while eating takeout and enjoying beer. While this is a wonderful offer, I declined. While I love Glee and really want to know what happens in Grey's Anatomy, if I'm in London, I'm going to be enjoying Lond.
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"Batwoman: Elegy"
Wed, July 28, 2010 @ 11:36AM
The character of Batwoman got some discussion as of late as being one of the few openly gay characters in the DC Universe. In "Batwoman: Elegy," (DC Comics, $24.99) her origins are discovered during battle with a crime syndicate that worships crime itself. The story, written by Eisner Award-winning writer Greg Rucka and gorgeously illustrated by J.H. Williams III, follows Kate Kane, a pretty red-haired woman who is trying to balance both sides of her life - as a crime fighter and her personal life. When the girl she is dating dumps her because she is never available, Kate returns to her solitary ways, turning her attentions to only fighting crime with the help of her military colonel father. A criminal group called the Religion of Crime has tried to kill Kate/Batwoman in a previous adventure, and there is a new leader arriving in Gotham City. Kate sets out to put a stop to them and to find out why they are seemingly obsessed with he.
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Look out for the yellow barrel
Fri, July 23, 2010 @ 3:16PM
Driving in the region has proven to be a bit of a challenge. There are construction cones everywhere. The passage of the economic stimulus bill in 2009 means that road construction projects are taking places everywhere. Some were planned years ago, some, it would appear were added at the last minute. Ohio, for instance, has closed nearly all rest stops along Interstates 77 and 70 as they work to rehab them all at the same time. For the traveling public it means waiting for the next state or searching out a rest room in the nearest McDonalds. Westbound traffic on I70 has had to deal with the tunnel at Wheeling being closed for what seems like years now. Right now they have to also contend with the repaving of the I70 bypass, reducing what had been four traffic lanes through the congested area, to just one lane.
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Storm the Bastille
Mon, July 26, 2010 @ 8:52AM
Unbelievable! Every member of the administration and city council of the Los Angeles, Calif., suburb of Bell should be removed from office for utter incompetence and extreme greed ... all at the taxpayers' expense. City council has fired its city manager, assistant city manager and police chief after it became known the city manager's annual salary was $787,637, the assistant city manager's was $376,288 and the police chief made $457,000, which is $150,000 a year more than the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. All the over-paid positions came to light from an investigative series by the Los Angeles Times., which termed the three posts the highest paid in the United States. Without the newspaper's delving into the payroll cvia public record law, the little 2-square-mile suburb undoubtedly still would be paying the outrageous salaries.
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