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Young quilters offer dazzling patterns
Fair Folks and Facts
TAKING TOP HONORS ... Julie Holbrook, daughter of Troy and Judylee Holbrook of Lewisburg, took the blue ribbon in the first-time quilt division at the State Fair. Julia’s quilt was labeled Snails Trail and had a burgundy border. There were too many other colors to count. Julie gets her quilting talents honestly. Her mom is a juried quilter at Tamarack. A stately scarecrow, decked out in a long gown, white gloves and jewelry and carrying a basket filled with corn and black birds was a winner for Amanda Hunter of Renick. I liked the little poem which the scarecrow carried. It read: “Life begins in a garden, making memories as it grows.”
Colton Bostic of White Sulphur Springs won a blue ribbon with a beaded necklace accented with a buck deer while Meghan Mabe of Ronceverte used rose, pink, lime green and purple beads for her award winning necklace. Celeste Cantees of Athens caught a sassy toad sitting on what appeared to be a stone slab and won a first place award in photography in the natural color division. A beach scene with sea gulls aloft won a top award in photography for Stephen Zack of Shady Spring while a handknitted men’s sweater went blue for Anne Caldwell of Princeton. I gathered a jury of folks to determine the unusual color of sweater to no avail. It’s just green. Mary Holesapple of Pickway was a double winner with both her dark and light honey taking a top prize.
ON GOVERNOR’S DAY ... Which traditionally is Thursday at each State Fair, winners of the Candy Fit for a First Lady competition and the Governor’s Cookie Basket made special presentations in the grandstand.
Entering the best candy was Joann Estep of Jolo, while the cookies presented to Gov. Joe Manchin were baked by Brooke Jackson of Christiansburg, Va.
HERE’S HOPING ... That Gene Worlledge of Mount Lookout will be doing some old fashioned whittling in the West Virginia Building today.
I came on Gene by chance and was interested in his old-fashioned hobby. He told me that he has been whittling, or carving, which is the modern term, for 35 years. His wood of choice is holly because it has interlocking grains which make it stronger.
The objects he whittles are very small and intricate including a small girl in a swing and a surveyor. He also has a piece which depicts two men in a game of poker and one is cheating. Self-taught, Gene says he spends about 200 hours on one of his carvings. His wife, Natalie, accompanied him to the State Fair. It’s a neat demonstration!
DON’T FORGET ... A first for the State Fair, the riding lawn mower races, are set for today on the track in the grandstand. They should be interesting to watch!
A GOOD DAD ... When Cheryl Gum, candy maker at The Greenbrier, was short some peaches for her culinary demonstrations in the West Virginia Building on Friday, her dad, Edgar Hull, gave her some of his. And they were delicious!
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- Tentative agreement reached between Appalachian Regional Healthcare and the United Steelworkers of America A tentative collective bargaining agreement between Appalachian Regional Healthcare and the United Steelworkers of America was reached Wednesday for more than 2,300 ARH employees represented by the USW in eastern Kentucky and southern West Virginia.
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Greenbrier to host Fun Fest and Egg Hunt
The Greenbrier will host its first Community Children’s Easter Fun Fest and Egg Hunt for children ages 3-12 March 28.
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Bluestone Wildlife Area cleaning up from flood
Very little flooding was reported along the New River near Bluestone Dam Saturday, but in other locations the river overflowed its banks and caused considerable damage, including in the Bluestone Wildlife Management Area, officials said.
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W.Va. gets $72 million in school construction bonds
West Virginia is getting more than $72 million in federal bonds for public schools.
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Officials seek federal declaration for flood recovery
Gov. Joe Manchin, Sen. Jay Rockefeller and Congressman Nick Rahall have sent requests to the president for a federal disaster declaration for Greenbrier, Mercer, Summers, Fayette, Kanawha and Raleigh counties in the wake of last weekend’s flooding.
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SCHOOL CLOSINGS and DELAYS
Click HERE to go to the West Virginia Department of Education with up-to-date school closings and delays by county.
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Flood recovery continues
Southern West Virginia residents continued to mop up floodwaters and shovel sludge Monday, working to clean out their homes and rebuild their lives.
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Flood recovery continues
Southern West Virginia residents continued to put the pieces of their homes and lives back together Tuesday as recovery from last weekend’s severe flooding continued.
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Calendar — Thursday, March 18, 2010
today's events
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Two injured in ambulance crash
Two Greenbrier County ambulance service employees were injured Wednesday, one seriously, when their ambulance struck two trees, Lewisburg police said.
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