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:' The West Virginia Division of
Rehabilitation Services (DRS)
invites West Virginia artists with
disabilities to enter the 2016 West
Virginia Diversifying Perspectives
Art Contest and Exhibition. This
third annual event will feature
original artwork created by people
with disabilities.
To enter, you must be at least 18
years old, be a West Virginia
resident and have a disability. There
is no entry fee.
"This annual event has been a
huge success," said DRS Director
Donna Ashworth. "It is such a great
opportunity to showcase the creative
and diverse abilities and
contributions of people with
disabilities. The event also serves as
an important tool to promote
National Disability Employment
Awareness Month in West Virginia
during the month of October."
, All entry materials and artwork
may be submitted starting June 1
and must be received no later than
June 30, 2016. Complete submission
guidelines and an entry form are
available at www.wvdrs.org.
A juried artist will select the
winning entries based on criteria
including originality, imagination,
visual interest, presentation and
skillful use of materials.
The awards include:
Grand Exhibitor- The winning
artwork selected as the Grand and History are both agencies within
Exhibitor will be incorporated into the West Virginia Department of
and prominently featured in a poster Aducation and the Arts.
promoting National Disability DRS is the state agency
Employment Awareness Month, responsible for the federal vocational
which is celebrated annually in rehabilitation program in West
October• The poster will be Virginia. Each year, DRS helps
distributed to businesses thousands of West Virginia residents
throughout West Virginia and will with disabilities meet their
include an image of the winning employment goals by providing
artwork, a biographical statement individualized work-related
about the artist and his or her counseling, training, job placement
disability, a photograph of the artist and other vocational rehabilitation
and the annual National Disability services through its 30 field offices
Employment Awareness Month across the state.
theme established by the U.S. The Division of Cluture and
Departrnent of Labor's Office of History brings together the past,
Disability Employment Policy. present and future through
DRS will also purchase the programs and serices focusing on
artwork selected as the Grand archives and history, arts, historic
Exhibitor (at a maximum cost of preservation and museums.
$1,000). Held each October, National
Awards of Excellence - Up to three Disability Employment Awareness
$ 100 awards. These are not Month is a national campaign that
purchase awards, raises awareness about disability
The 2016 exhibition will open employment issues and celebrates
Wednesday Sept• 7, at the Culture the many any and varied
Center in Charleston and will contributors of America's workers
remain on display through Nov. 5, with disabilities•
2016• For more information on the
DRS proudly presents this Diversifying Perspectives Art
contest and exhibition in Contest and Exhibition, including
partnership with the West Viriginia rules and entry guidelines, vist
Office of the Secretary of Education www.wvdrs.org or call 1-800-642-
and the Arts and the West Virginia 8207•
Division of Cluture and History•
DRS and the Division of Culture
BUS TRIPS
Greenbrier Valley Sr. Circle is
sponsoring the following bus trips
for 2016. June 1st to Wohlfahrt Haus
Dinner Theatre to see "Country
Roads" A tribute to country music
and it stars past and present. June
15th, 16th,17th to Tangier Island,
Chesapeake Bay cruise and
Rappahannoc River cruise. July
20th Barter Theatre to see "Momma
Mia" A romantic musical comedy.
Aug. 25th to Wohlfahrt Haus Dinner
Theatre to see "Joseph and the
Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" A
Biblical-based musical parable. Oct.
6th to the Potomac Eagle Train. A 3
Hour train ride through beautiful
bald eagle country. Nov. 2nd tO ~ '~
Wohlfahrt Haus Dinner Theatre to "~ V+" "\" ;
see "A Wohlfahrt Hans Christmas
Show"•
If your are interested in these
trips please call Barbara Gibson at
304520-4115. If you are interested
in becoming a Senior Circle member
please call Kim Estep at 304-647-
6079. Greenbrier Valley Medical
Center is owned in part by
physicians.
New Advances In
Allow Patients To
(NAPS)--Shirley Goodman, a
60-year-old mother and grand-
mother from Jacksonville,
Florida, recently experienced a
"warning stroke" called a tran-
sient ischemic attack that was
diagnosed through a magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) scan.
She has also suffered from heart
problems for years. To address
her heart condition, her doctor
recommended an implantable car-
dioverter defibrillator (ICD) to
continuously monitor her heart
rate and deliver an electrical
shock to correct a life-threatening
heart rhythm, if needed• Given
her history, there was a high like-
lihood that she would need
another MRI in the future•
Until recently, Shirley would
not have been able to benefit from
both an ICD and an MRI scan.
Thanks to recent advancements in
MRI-conditional heart devices,
Shirley received an ICD that is
approved for use with MRI scans•
One of the fastest-growing
imaging techniques, approxi-
mately 28 million MRI scans are
performed every year in the
:United States• MRI technology
has evolved into an essential tool
for the diagnosis of life-threaten-
ing conditions such as stroke, can-
cer, Alzheimer's disease, and mus-
cle, bone and joint pain.
Unlike other diagnostic imag-
ing tests, MRI scans offer several
unique advantages, including:
• Greater detail in examining
soft tissue (cartilage, muscles and
tendons)•
*No radiation exposure• MRIs
do not use potentially harmful
ionizing radiation•
• MRIs evaluate bone health•
One of the few imaging tools that
can see through bone, MRI is
helpful in detecting bone cancer
and bone loss.
Despite the evolution of MRI
technology, thousands of patients
living with certain heart condi-
tions requiring an implantable
cardiac device have not been able
to undergo this important diag-
Implantable
Get Lifesaving
MRI technology is an essential
tool for diagnosing many medical
conditions.
nostic test. In fact, the U.S. Food
& Drug Administration warns
against patients with heart
devices undergoing MRI scans
because of potential interactions
between the magnetic field and
device function, which could be
harmful to patients• In the past,
this has posed a critical problem
because approximately 40-75 per-
cent of heart device patients like
Shirley will need an MRI scan at
some point during the lifetime of
their heart device.
Fortunately, there are now
implantable heart devices that
allow patients to receive these
critically important MRI scans,
while providing a valuable treat-
ment for conditions such as atrial
fibrillation and heart failure•
These devices include:
*Pacemakers treat patients
with bradycardia, a slow or irreg-
ular heartbeat, usually lower than
60 beats per minute. At this rate,
the heart is not able to pump
enough oxygen-rich blood to the
body. As a result, patients may
feel dizzy, have a lack of energy or
shortness of breath, or even expe-
rience fainting spells• A pace-
maker helps by sending tiny elec-
trical pulses to the heart to
increase the heart rate and
restore the heart's rhythm.
• Implantable Cardioverter
Defibrillators (ICDs) treat sudden
cardiac arrest (SCA) and other
dangerously fast and potentially
life-threatening heart rates• SCA
occurs when the heart beats so
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SCHOOL REUNION
Our West End/Riverview School This is a weekly publication of the Zamias With Kroger Will review•
Reunion is set for May 13, 14, 15, Summers County Council on Aging Your Medicine At 11:00 a.m. Bingo
2016. We have heard from many of Inc., 120 Second Ave., Hinton. At 10:15 a.m.
our classmates but we still need Funded in part by the WV Bureau Friday, April 8, Baked Fish
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Heart Devices +
MRI Scans
fast that it cannot effectively
pump blood to the body and brain+
If left untreated, SCA can lead to
death• An ICD helps to monitor
the heart and will deliver a life-
saving therapy to restore a nor=
mal heartbeat. ?
*Cardiac Resynchronization
Therapy Defibrillators (CRToDs)
help treat patients with heart faili
ure by helping the lower chamber~
of the heart beat in a synchro,
nized rhythm. For patients with
heart failure, the heart's pumping
ability is compromised, and the
electrical impulses that contract
the heart's lower chambers may
be impaired. Heart failure
patients may experience syrup,
toms that include shortness of
breath, fatigue, and swelling of
the feet and ankles. A CRT-D not
only helps to improve the pump:
ing efficiency of the heart, leading
to symptom reduction and
improved quality of life for
patients, but can also detect and
treat dangerously fast heart
rhythms, if needed.
• Insertable Cardiac Monitors
(ICMs) continuously monitor and
record the heart's rhythms to help
diagnose conditions such as
bradycardia and atrial fibrilla-
tion, a fast and irregular quiver:
ing in the heart's upper chambers
that can lead to strokes if lef¢
untreated• Some ICMs can moni:
tor heart rhythms for up to three,
years.
"The defibrillator gives us th~
assurance to know if she need~
medical help, there is hope she,
can survive," said Shirley's hus~
band, Jesse, following her devic~
implant procedure. "It calms my,
fears some. And if she needs a~
MRI, she will be able to get it."
If you, a friend or a loved one is:
evaluating a recommendation~
from a doctor to receive an~
implantable heart device, ask~
your doctor if it has been~
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ISSUE: The Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Position
The current budget of the Prosecuting Attorney's office in Summers County is
not sufficient to support the employment of a full-time Assistant Prosecuting
Attorney. With neighboring Monroe County in the same judicial circuit and with
similar budgetary constraints, it therefore makes sense for those two counties to
share an assistant prosecuting attorney. Under such an arrangement, the attorney
hired as an assistant prosecuting attorney works half-time for each county's
prosecuting attorney with each county contributing half the funding for salary and
benefits for the position.
The current Prosecuting Attorneys of Summers County (Amy Mann) and
Monroe County (Justin St. Clair) worked out just such an arrangement for a
shared Assistant Prosecuting Attorney. By that cooperative action on the part of
the two county prosecutors and the two county commissions, the services of a full-
time, shared assistant prosecutor were made available to the two counties.
The issue now confronting Summers County is the unraveling of that joint
employment arrangement. The problem is that the attorney jointly hired by the
counties is no longer employed by Monroe County. That leaves Summers County
without Monroe County financial support for the position (more than $42,000/year)
and now only able to offer part-time employment. If Monroe County makes other
arrangements for the hiring of a new assistant prosecutor prior to January 1, 2017,
the newly elected Summers County Prosecutor may not have the opportunity to
reestablish that joint employment arrangement with Monroe Count.
I believe the reestablishment of the joint Summers/Monroe Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney position should be a top priority for the new Prosecutor in
Summers County. Whatever the circumstances of the cessation of Monroe County
employment of the former jointly-employed Assistant Prosecutor, it is important
to address any unresolved issues and move forward with that mutually-
advantageous cooperation between the counties.
In order to address this issue on a non-partisan basis, I am therefore proposing
that immediately after the May 10 Primary the Republican nominee for
Prosecuting Attorney and myself, as the Democratic nominee (I am unopposed in
the Democratic Primary), make a joint offer to meet with both Monroe County
Prosecutor St. Clair and Summers County Prosecutor Mann to discuss
reestablishment of the joint employment arrangement between the counties of the
position of Assistant Prosecuting Attorney.
If necessary, I will address this issue on my own. But action on this important
matter will be much more effective if it is by joint action of both the Democratic
and Republican nominees for Summers County Prosecuting Attorney.
I therefore call on each of the other candidates for Prosecutor to commit
themselves, if nominated in the May 10 Republican Primary Election, to a joint
effort with me to reestablish the Summers/Monroe Assistant Prosecutor position.
Questions or comments? Contact me at (304) 994-0792 or by emaii to
j ameswmeneely@gmail.com.
Political ad paid for by Candidate
Jim McNeely
Democrat for Prosecuting Attorney