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(Continuing the Hinton Daily News & The Weekend Leader)
of "W. Va. Water Festival"
Volume 113 No. 47
Hinton, West Virginia Tuesday Aparil 5, 2016
50 Cents
Narconon Freedom Center
SMS
State Police Barracks
Two new community-based
corrections programs are bringing
a fresh, clean look to downtown
Hinton and surrounding areas
these days.
The Summers County Day
Report Program, funded by federal
grants with a small match from
county government, has been in
operation for just over 2 ½ years.
Helping more than 150 offenders
get their lives back on track, this
program is showing remarkable
success with only 5% of Day Report
participants re-offending.
Adult Drug Court which began in
September 2014, is a state funded
program administered through
and issues had to be addressed,"
notes Adult Drug Court Probation
Officer Jennifer McMeekin, %ut
they are now strong and growing in
the right direction."
McMeekin and other day
report staff members provide the
supervision, treatment classes,
individual therapy, community
service projects, screening,
and drug testing for all home
confinement, general day report,
and drug court participants. "We
also provide in-home supervision,
including frequent home visits,
and inspections, for all Adult Drug
Court participants," she adds.
The local REACHH office joins in
the WV Supreme Court probation to provide trainingin parenting and
offices.
The Drug Court Program
provides intensive treatment for
people who became involved in the
court system due to drug addiction
issues. All participants, who must
have no history of violent crime or
sexual offenses, undergo a rigorous
program of counseling and regular
drug testing. This program currently
has 14 active participants, many of
whom are now gainfully employed
for the first time in their lives.
'Tnese programs were slow to
start, problems had to be solved,
life skills, and Summers County
Library offers GED education and
testing.
Both programs emphasize
community service and developing
a good work ethic, and they have
provided the labor for many
community groups. Completed and
ongoing projects include:
New coats of interior and exterior
paint for WV State Police barracks
Painting at Summers County
Middle School and Jumping Bran h
Elementary School
Painting and cleanup at
Summers County High School for
state football playoffs
Cleanup and helping restore
the caboose at John Henry Park in
Talcott
Cleanup at Hilldale Ruritan
Community Park
Cleanup and ongoing
maintenance at Summers County
Courthouse, Memorial Building,
Health Department, and Annex
Assisting in projects at Hinton
Water Plant
Hinton Railroad Repot
Restoration
Staffing Hinton Railroad
Museum during Railroad Days
Shoveling snow for elderly
residents and churches
Cleanup and seasonal
maintenance at 4H Camp
'~he first priority of these
programs is public safety .and
providing a safe community for
the citizens of Summers County,"
McMeekinsays."Oursecondpriority
is to rehabilitate and reintegrate
people as viable, productive, active
members of our community. We are
truly starting to prove that these
methods work better, and cost less,
than long-term prison sentences
with no treatment or process for
successful reintegration."
Issues Warning on
Fentanyl-Laced Heroin
With an alarming increase
in heroin overdoses, Narconon
Freedom Center has issued a
warning to loved ones regarding
fentanyl-laced heroin and its
dangerous effects, in an effort to
end the stigma of drug addiction
and help more addicts receive the
help they need.
Narconon Freedom Center is
urgently warning anyone that is
struggling with heroin addiction or
knows someone struggling to seek
help immediately.
A large amount of the current
heroin being sold across the United
States is being laced with fentanyl
making it 100 times more potent
and lethal.
Heroin can be found as black
tar or off-white powder, but when
laced with fentanyl the drug looks
exactly the same, which means you
do not know if you are potentially
getting a lethal dose of heroin laced
with fentanyl or not.
There have been cities reporting
twenty-four or more overdose
deaths in a single day, along with
Chicago reporting seventy-four
overdoses in seventy-two hours
back in October.
This steep increase in overdose
deaths is due to the lethal
combination of the drugs and is
tearing entire communities apart
The current outbreak has put
law enforcement and government
agencies on high alert, as they
witness an alarming increase in
fentanyl related deaths across the
country.
Even more alarming is that it
is not just first time users being
effected, but everyone that uses the
laced heroin is potentially at risk of
an overdose or death.
With the National Institute
on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reporting
an extraordinarily high increase
of heroin overdoses over the past
few years, the epidemic is only
spreading into more homes each
and every day.
The total number of deaths from
heroin skyrocketed to over 10,000
individuals in 2014 and continues
to soar.
Narconon Freedom Center is
issuing this warning to not only
warn individuals across the nation
about the potentially lethal heroin,
but to aid in ending the stigma of
addiction.
Together we c an conquer addiction
and educate our communities to
assist in bringing light to addiction
and rehabilitation.
To help a love one struggling with
heroin, call one of our addiction
specialists today at 877-639-2909.
About Narconon Freedom
Center
Narconon Freedom Center
is a non-profit drug and alcohol
rehabilitation program, which is
located in Albion, Michigan.
The program has been helping
those struggling with addiction for
nearly 50 years. As a holistic drug
rehab, the progr
am focuses on healing the mind,
body and spirit. The drug and
alcohol rehabilitation facility also
provides drug prevention education
to schools and community outreach
programs.
HRSA awards $5,809,290 to support families in
West Virginia through the voluntary home visiting program
The Health Resources and
Services Administration (HRSA)
announced approximately
$5,809,290in funding to West
V~rg~ia to support the Maternal,
~t, and Early ChildhoodHome
Visiting Program (Federal Home
Visiting Program). Nationally, $345
million in funding was awarded to
55 states, territories, and nonprofit
organizations.
These funds allow grantees to
continue to expand voluntary,
evidence-based home visiting
services to women during
pregnancy, and to parents with
young children up to kindergarten
entry.
"Evidence-based federal home
visiting programs help children
get off to a better, healthier start,"
said HRSA Acting Administrator
Jim Macrae. "Today's awards allow
West Virginia and states around
the nation to support local agencies
in providing home visiting services
that meet the needs of families in
their own communities."
The home visiting program
provides support for preventive
health and prenatal practices such
as helping mothers find suitable
prenatal care, improve their diets,
and reduce use of tobacco, alcohol,
and illegal substances.
The Federal Home Visiting
Program serves almost 40 percent of
U.S. counties with high rates of low
birth weight infants, teen births,
families living in poverty or infant
mortality. More than 2.3 million
home visits have been conducted
through the Federal Home Visiting
Program, serving parents and
children in 825 counties in all 50
states, the District of Col mbia, and
five territories. Nearly 80 percent
of families participating in the
program had household incomes at
or below 100 percent of the Federal
Poverty Level.
"The Federal Home Visiting
Program helps parents connect with
services and resources and improve
the skills they need to ensure their
children are physically, socially
and emotionally healthy and ready
to learn," said HRSA Associate
Administrator for the Maternal
and Child Health Bureau, Michael
Lu, MD, MPH. "In these voluntary
programs, trained nurses, social
workers, early childhood educa~.,r.~,
or other trained professionals meet
regularly with expectant parents
or families with young children
in their homes, building strong,
positive relationships with families
who want and need support."
Administered by HRSA,
in close partnershipwith the
Administration for Children
and Families, the Federal Home
Visiting Program is part of
President Obama's Early Learning
Initiative, focusing on both high-
quality infant and toddler care
through Early Head Start-Child
Care Partnerships and universal
Pre-K to improve the essential
foundations in early childhood for
future healthy development and
well-being.
For more information on HRSA's
Home Visiting Program, visit
http://mchb.hrsa.gov/programs/
homevisiting.
A Summers County middle
school coach has been suspended
in connection with a report of an
inappropriate relationship with a
student.
Schools Superintendent Vicki
Hinerman said in a press release
an incident involving coach James
"Rick" Isaac was reported on March
13, investigated by the State Police
and no charges were filed.
'~rhis incident was thoroughly
investigated by the West Virginia
State Police-- Hinton Detachment,"
she said. '~Vhile Mr. Isaac's
conduct did not rise to the level of
criminal charges, an inappropriate
relationship was identified.
Mr. Isaac has been suspended
from his coaching position pending '
further action by the Summers
County Board of Education.
The name of the minor female is
being withheld."
Finance
Forced to
Plan
c Cuts
Left with no other recourse,
the Public Employees Insurance
Agency Finance Board has adopted
two plan proposals, one being a
worst-case-scenario that assumes
the Legislature fails to properly
fund the program and enacts $120
million in benefit reductions.
"Unfortunately for the 233,000
PEIA plan participants, political
gamesmanship within the
Republican-led Legislature has
taken precedence over responsible
governing," said WV AFL-CIO
Secretary-Treasurer Josh Sword,
who is a member of the PEIA
Finance Board.
"We've heard over and over again
from the legislative leadership that
they had a plan to address this
crisis, but here we are on the eve of
open enrollment for the next PEIA
plan year, weeks after the end of
the legislative session, and there is
no compromise, no agreement and
no solution."
"- Elaine Harris, the state's
interr, ational representative for
'the Communications Workers
~of America and a vice president
With the West Virginia AFL-CIO
who also sits on the PEIA Finance
Board, noted that PEIA's budget
has remained unchanged for the
past five years, despite the fact
that more than 3,600 more new
employees have been added to the
program while medical and drug
costs are increasing by, 1 average
of 6 percent per year.
Last year the PE!A board cut
over $40 million in benefits. The
agency has had to spend down
its reserve fund, which is now
depleted.
"this is a problem legislators
have known about for months.
The Republican leadership has not
provided a concrete plan for how
to deal with it, while at the same
time rejecting several proposals by
members of the minority party and
Governor Tomblin to raise sufficient
revenue," Harris said.
'~l'hese cuts will be devastating
to our public employees, but absent
any action by the Legislature, we
will have no choice but to move
forward with them."
Fred Albert, a teacher for the
past 25 years and local president of
AFT-Kanawha, has said the benefit
cuts and out-of-pocket increases
amount to a pay cut for public
employees and retirees, who are
going to be saddled with thousands
in higher premiums, deductibles,
copays and prescriptions costs.
"I'm tired of this being used as
a political football," Albert said.
"This could have been resolved,
and should have been resolved,
during the regular session, but it
was not."
The alternative plan, similar
to the one the board approved
in January, includes less drastic
benefit reductions but assumes a
$43.5 million in additional general
revenue funds, which Governor
Tomblin has worked into his
proposed budget by raising the
tobacco tax.
The governor continues to press
legislative leaders to adopt a fiscally
sound budget.
'~rhe Republican legislative
leaders talk a good game about
finding a solution.
Now it's time for them to act,
and fully fund PEIA," Sword said.
c, my° issiona,'y B, 3,tisr Churcr,
This week's Summers County Church is from 1942, submitted by Donna Brewster with photo by
Vicky Maddy.
The following article was taken
from The History of Summers
County West Virginia 1984 on page
120.
The Methodist Episcopal Church
of Tempa, West Virginia, was
founded July 9, 1914.
The property was deeded by P.
O. Berkley and Lille Berkley his
wife.
The first pastor was Rev. Luther
Price. It was abandoned by the
Methodist Episcopal Church in
1932.
On April 19, 1942 a council was
called to the Temp'a Church for the
purpose of organizing a Baptist
Class.
The council was called to order
by Rev. G. W. Kesler. Rev. Walter
Wyant was appointed moderator.
Homer C. Ballengee temporary
clerk.
Rev. Larry Dodd moved to go
ahead with the organization. It was
seconded by Rev. Paul Richmond.
The council agreed to organize a
Baptist Class. Then the covenant
was read by Rev. Walter Wyant,
which was approved by the
Church.
The following Churches were
represented at the council.
Clayton: Rev. M. M. Ballengee,
Kyle Ballengee, H mer C.
Ballengee, N. E. Fink.
Girffith Creek: A. F. Dodd, Owen
Thomas, Rev. Larry Dodd, J. A.
Wenger.
Beech Run: Rev. K. P. Richmond,
Lacy Ratliff.
Ramp: Rev. G.W. Kesler
Freedom: W.B. Hicks, Jessie
Cales, Bill Allen.
The council moved to adjourn,
and the Church was called to order
by Rev. Walter Wyant.
The Church appointed J. T. and
Robert Richmond as Deacons, Delia
Richmond as clerk. Rev. Claude
Buckland .was called as the first
pastor.
The present Church was erected
in 1961, and is presently call the
Tempa Missionary Baptist Church.
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