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! f" i o. H f TON NE IVS H, ,me of ctile°'W°'[°00a:'W;ter00°'Festival Volume 96 No. 43 Hinton, WeSt Virginia Tuesday Feb. 9, 1999 40 Cents Death Takes Area Artist Senate Approves Heritage River Resolution ThState Senate, last week, approved a Senate Resolu.on ._on four strategic eas: Ecmic Revitalization, Hisrie recognizing and supportinglocal efforts to prepare an action and Cultural Preservation, Training and Educat,on, and plan that would rekindle the economy of communities Protecting Natural Resources. Hannah, fifth from the left, is shown above receiving the resolution from Anderson and located along the New River. In Summers County about 100 are involved in developing the plan for the New River American Heritage River Initiative. Once completed, and approved, the action plan will be used to assist a "Federal Navigator" in locating federal money to put the plan to work, according to Ed Hannah, Vice Present of American Heritage River, New River Community Partners. Hannah, who is also President of the Summers County Chamber of Commerce, and Ralph Wilson, President of Main Street Hinton and member of the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, were in Charleston last Tuesday for the ceremony and reading of the resolution on the Senate Floor, Hannah said. "Senator Leonard Anderson is responsible for this," Hannah said. 'Ie has been a tremendous help to us." The plan, w(Lch is still in primitive stages of development, will focus Senate President, Earl Ray Tomblin while Ralph Wilson and other state senators look on. Shown (L to R) are: Senators William R. WoOten, Raleigh Co.; Walt Helmick, Pocahontas Co.; Robert Dittmar, Jackson Co.; Jeffery Kessler, Marshall Co.; Hannah, Senator Anderson, Summers Co.; Senator Tomblin, Logan Co.; Wilson, Senators Homer Ball, Mercer Co.; Mike Ross, Randolph Co.; Larry Edgell, Wetzel Co.; Michael Oliverio, Monongalia Co.; William Sharp, Lewis Co.; and, Shirley Love, Fayette Co. Heritage River Taskforce The general meeting of the New River Heritage River Taskforce met Thursday, Feb. 4, at the Summers County Wellness Center in Hinten. The meeting was the first general meeting since the four working committees (Natural Resources, History and Culture, Economic Development and Training and Education) began development of projects and programs to summit to the overall local action plan for the American Heritage River initiative. Each committee gave a report and presented projects and programs they felt should be part of the Summers County work plan. Craig White, New River Community Partners Coordinator, participated in the meeting and afterwards said, "Summers County has clearly taken the lead in West Virginia in this Historic opportunity by responding so enthusiastically to AHRI's call to action. This kind of community-based effort is what the program is all about, developing projects you want, and being able to tap into the federal resources needed to make them happen." As the local work plan is being developed from the committee reports, the working committees will continue to meet as they refine projects and develop additional programs. The next general meeting is scheduled for Feb. 25, at 7 pm in the Wellness Center. The Historic and Cultural preservation committee will meet Thurs., Feb. 11, 5:30 pm at the Wellness Center. The Natural Resources Committee will attend the Watershed Scopeing meeting for upper New River to be held Feb. 11 in the Activities Building at Bluestone State Park. The next committee meeting is scheduled for Feb. 18. Anyone interested in attending or joining a committee is welcome. If you need more information call Ed Hannah, 466-0691 or 466-3142. Get Paid: Census 2000 There is a way for you for be paid for helping your neighborhood, community, city or state. Every ten years the U. S. Federal Government takes a count or census of every person in the country. The government distributes more than 180 billion dollars every year based on the number of people counted in each community. You can help your community get its fair share of the money and be paid while you do it. The U. S. Census Bureau needs to hire people to go out and check the addresses. Those addresses will be used later to mail out Census forms that everyone will need to fill out and mail back. If you or anyone you know would like to be hired as an "enumerator," a person who checks the addresses, you can call this toll free number: 1-888-325- 7773. Thousands oenumerators will be DAVID LEE SPRINGSTON David Lee Springston, 78, of Forest Hill, died Friday, Feb. 5, 1999, at his home with his daughter by his side. His passion in life was his art. He was basically self-taught and known to carry a sketch book wherever he went. Upon his retirement he achieved statewide celebrity as an aplltd wadrcdoti; winning several prizes, and was an active member of the West Virginia Watercolor Society. His sensitive landscapes adorn the walls of corporate offices and private collections throughout the United States. Born June 28, 1920, he was the son of the late Charles Albert Springston and Alice Taylor Springston. Mr. Springston began his professional career as a business leader after his tour of duty in World Dave Springston War II, where he achieved the rank of captain in the Army Air Corps. He rose from a small engineering firm in Fairmont to the presidency of two companies, Taylor-Stiles in Cleveland and Envirotech Coal Services in Beckley. He was a member of the AIME and SME for more than 45 years and was an active member of Rotary, serving as its president for several terms. He was active in the Summers County Chamber of Commerce, American Foundation for the Blind, the local public broadcasting network, and sat on the board of many charitable institutions. He was preceded in death by his wife, Constance Reed Springston; and two brothers, Albert Lyn "Skipper" Springston and William Preston Springston. Survivors include two daughters, Susan Spicknall of Cleveland, Ohio, and Marcia Springston-Jennings of Forest Hill, a sister, Elizabeth Brewer of Richmond, Ind.; a brother, O. Nell Springsten of Columbus, Ohio; three granddaughters; four great-grandchildren; and all those he came in contact with. Memorial services wilt be I p. m. Wednesday at United Methodist Chttrch, Forvgt Hill. Th service will be informal, ts evished; and- anyone who wishes to say a few words may do so. In lieu of flowers, donations of sympathy may be made to the West Virginia Watercolor Society, c/o Betty Cox, 912 Echo Valley, Glen Dale, W. V. 26028; Beckley Art Group, 600 Johnstown Road, Beckiey, WV 25801; Three Rivers Art Council, P. O. Box, Hinton, WV 25951; or Greenbrier Valley Hospice, Lewisburg. Arrangements by Pivont Funeral Home, Hinton. RECALL ANNOUNCED The Summers County Health may include fever, headache, nausea Dept. has received notification from and/or vomiting. The majority of the W. VA. Bureau of Public Health/ people with healthy immune Environmental Health Dept. of a systems may only show signs of a recall of products possible fever or flu-like illness. contaminated with Listeria Products involved in this recall, monocytogones, according to the U. S. Dept. of Stephen Trail with the Summers Agriculture include, "All ready-to- County Health Dept. stated, eat consumer packaged products in "Listeria is a bacterial disease that distribution as follows: Borman can cause many health problems for Franks, Spartan Franks, Tops newborn infants, pregnant women, Franks, Always Safe Franks, VTflson the elderly and those with a Franks, Piggly Wiggly Franks, decreased or a weakened immune Gunnoes Franks, Fairgrounds system. It is possible for pregnant Franks, Best Franks, Colonial women with Listeria to transmit the Franks, Nepco Franks, Hannaford infection to their unborn fetus. This Franks, Wilson Farm Franks, Big can then lead to a stillborn infant, Uns Franks, Carter Franks, Iowa an infant born with a blood disease, Gold Franks, Herrud Franks, Corn or an infant that develops King Franks, Winn Dixie Franks, meningitis soon after birth." Schnucks Franks, Flavor King Symptoms associated with the Franks, ThornApple Valley Franks. Listeria monocytogenes bacteria Continued on page 6 needed to record addresses in W. VA ................. In addition, clerks, crew leaders and supervisors will be needed to staff local Census Offices. Current economic conditions will not make it easy to fill all the positions. "Based on our experience in the rural areas of the state, we are mounting a more extensive hiring campaign for the urban areas," said Joette Mumford, Census Recruiter. "The entire census operation is based on the work we do right now gathering addresses. So with the unemployment rate so low, we are ally going to be counting on the folks in W. VA. to help us." Census data is used to determine federal legislative districts as well as countless business marketing plans and federal and state dollars. Working with the Census Bureau is an excellent way to be paid for helping your unity. Compton Participates In Wellness Program House Health and Human Resources Chair, Mary Pearl Compton, D-Monroe, is shown above participating in the "Pathways to Wellness. n This event gave the general public the opportunity to receive tree health care screening.