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Calendar, July 2, 2009
Southern Conservation District, monthly board meeting will be 9:45 a.m., July 8 at Southern Conservation District Building, 463 Ragland Road, Beckley, normal business, agenda posted at SCD office.
Beckley office of the American Red Cross Baby-sitter’s Training Classes, for youth ages 11-15, today and also July 14, 30, and Aug. 6 and 13. For course fee, which includes handbook, interactive CD-ROM, and first aid kit, or to register, call 304-255-1508.
NABER meeting, 6 p.m., Mount Zion Baptist Church. For more information call Lloyd at 304-252-7133.
Support group for parents with children who have ADD/ADHD, 6 p.m., CAC Building, 411 Temple St., Hinton. Food and baby-sitting provided.
Community Improvement Association, East Beckley meeting, 6 p.m., Piney Oakes School. Call 304-253-1496 or 304-256-4630.
Crab Orchard-MacArthur Lions Club, 7 p.m., Crab Orchard Baptist Church, social room.
Hope for Chronic Pain, 6 to 8 p.m., American Legion, Fayetteville, solutions for fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue, answers for allergic asthma, IBS, TMJ/TMD, and related autoimmune and neurodegenerative conditions.
Kiwanis Club of Beckley, noon, Moose Lodge, New River Drive, Beckley.
Free Breakfast Bingo, Chick-Fil-A, Beckley Galleria, 1300 N. Eisenhower Drive, 9 a.m., a time to spend with your friends, along with great prizes.
Project Graduation for Independence High School, 6 p.m., Pizza Palace, Crab Orchard.
Narcotics Anonymous meeting, St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Kelly Avenue; 6:30 p.m. Call Mike, 304-574-1329, or Craig, 304-465-1570; also 7 p.m., Pineville Presbyterian Church, River Drive, Pineville; Wellness Center, 221 Temple St., Hinton, 7 to 8 p.m. call 304-466-3916.
TOPS WV No. 442, Naoma meeting, 5:30 to 7 p.m., Sundial Assembly of God Church. Call 304-854-2063 or 304-854-0759.
Divorced, Breakups, Can’t Cope Support Group meeting, 7 p.m., Hope Landing Apartments, Mount Hope. Call 304-877-3855.
Free beginner’s line dance class, 7 to 8:30 p.m., Mullens Opportunity Center (old Mullens Grade School), today and Tuesday.
Overeaters Anonymous meeting, noon, United Methodist Temple, Beckley. Fellowship, no fees, no weigh-ins, no diets. Call Tim 304-890-3833 (local number).
Gambler’s Anonymous, 7 p.m., Rainelle First Baptist Church, 309 Seventh St.
Freedom Area of Narcotics Anonymous meeting, Beckley Fellowship Home, 201 Woodlawn Ave., Beckley, 7:30 p.m.; First Presbyterian Church, Duhring and Tazewell streets, Bluefield, 7:30 p.m.; Tool Box, 111 Earwood St., Beckley, noon; St. Andrews Episcopal Church, Kelly Avenue, Oak Hill, 6:30 p.m. Call 1-800-766-4442.
AA meetings, Beckley, Fellowship Home, 201 Woodlawn Ave., 7:30 a.m., 304-253-8384; Beckley Noon Group, Presbyterian Church, 203 S. Kanawha St., noon, 304-253-4898, 304-255-6813; Beckley, Freedom From Bondage Group, St. Stephens Church, 200 Virginia St., 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., 304-573-0655; Montgomery Survivors’ meeting, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, 7:30 p.m., 304-442-2117, 304-779-9341; Summerlee, 237 Summerlee Road, noon, 304-465-8007 or 304-574-0963.
Alanon Family Group, 8 p.m., Ascension Episcopal Church, Fifth and Temple streets, Hinton.
Alateen, 8 p.m., St. Stephens Episcopal Church, Virginia Street, Beckley, teen-age family members of alcoholics and ages 6-13.
Baby Closet open, noon to 3 p.m., today and tomorrow, REACHH, Family Resource Center. Call 304-466-2226.
Bingo, 5 p.m., raffle, 6:30 p.m., early bird, 7 p.m., old Stoco Junior High School gym, Coal City, sponsored by the Coal City Colts.
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Data indicates McDowell is unhealthiest county in W.Va.
The health divide in West Virginia isn’t just a matter of the insured and the uninsured or the wealthy and the poor. It’s also a question of north and south.
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PSD gets funds for Lanark sewer system
A public sewage system should be complete come December for residents in the Lanark area, officials say.
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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 31.
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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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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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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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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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Data indicates McDowell is unhealthiest county in W.Va.


