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• Volume 97 No. 9 Hinton, West Virginia Tuesday June 15, 1999
Work Plans Developing For
American Heritage River
The Summers County American
Heritage River Task Force met
Thursday in a general meeting to
bring together committee work
plans and the development of the
final Summers County Work Plan
that will eventually be part of the
Watershed Work Plan for New River.
The meeting was conducted by
Craig White, Watershed Facilitator,
River Navigator Ben Borda and New
River Community Partners
Exectitive Director Patrick Woodie
• also participated in the meeting, as
committees discussed projects in
categories of Natural Resources,
Economic Development, History and
Culture, and Training and
Education.
The Summers County Chamber
0f Commerce is leading the initiative
and will participate in the
development of the West Virginia
Work Plan.
Seven counties along the New
and Greenbrier Rivers are involved,
and the work plans submitted from
i tse counties will be consolidated
into a plan for the section of the New
.
i
River Watershed in West Virginia.
According to Ed Hannah,
President of the Chamber and Vice
President of New River Community
Partners, a WV-Tech EDA grant was
awarded the Chamber to assist in
developing this plan.
The Chamber will contract with
New River Community Partners for
staff, office facilities, regional and
state meetings and production of the
finalized West Virginia Plan.
The final state organizing
meeting for the New River American
Heritage River Plan will be held
Thursday, June 17, 7 pm at the
Pence Springs Hotel.
This meeting will give the
coordinators and partners involved
in similar projects in other counties
a chance to meet and discuss
projects and help organize projects
into the state work plan.
A similar meeting for the entire
watershed will be held Tuesday, July
6, 7 pm in Edwards Hall, New River
Community College in Dublin
Virginia. All twenty-one counties in
the New River Watershed will be
represented.
Police Investigating
Shooting Death
By Fred Long
The outcome of an investigation
into a shooting that resulted in the
death of a Hinton man last week
could take as long as a month,
Hinton Police Chief Tim Adkius said
Cemetery Restoration Project
The Esquire cemetery restoration
project would like to thank the
following volunteers who have
contributed over 900 hours of their
time to restore the cemetery and
bring the project to the present stage
of completion.
Carl Williams, Danny Galloway,
Mike Harshaw, Ken Harshaw, Brian
Boyle, James Leftridge Jr., Rafael
Jackson, Scott Jackson, Cruz
Galloway (our youngest volunteer),
Everette Crawford, Melvin Adkins,
Kevin Gross, Robin Crawford, The
Maintenance Men at the Board of
Education, Eddie Pack, Eddie Oney,
Vicki Caul, Paula Jackson, Wayne
Caul and anyone we might have
unintentionally forgotten.
We would also like to thank: The
Hinton and Talcott Fire
Departments, The Shamma's and
Davi Medley for loaning us tools.
,'The project would also like to
tlfank the following contributors for
their generosity:
:Henry Kinley, Everette Crawford,
Paula Jackson, Vicki Caul, Carl
Wlliams, Brian Boyle, Mack Mann
Jr., Danny Galloway, Kenneth
Harshaw, Mike Harshaw, Ellen
Haynes, Buzzy Hellems, American
Legion Post # 51, Frances Crawford
and Wayna Caul.
:The following is the Financial
Summary to date:
From the beginning date of the
project on 4/10/99 until 4/29/99 when
we received our first contribution
the expenses were contributed by
the volunteers themselves. This
continues since costs are building
faster then contributions at this
time. The Contributions from 4/29/
99 to 5/23/99 have totaled $310. We
have made expenditures of $ 680 for
the following items; Gas, Oils,
Volunteer Lunches On Site, Railroad
Ties, Ice, Tool Handles (to replace
broken ones) and Files for
Sharpening. The balance in the fund
on 5/23/99 is $120.50. Bills due $80.
Work is continuing on our goal of
clearing the entire cemetery of the
overgrowth and dead trees. It is far
Support Group
Fibromyalgia Support Group will
meet Friday, June lath., at 6 p. m.
at the Summers County Community
Wellness Center, at 221 Temple St.
'The speaker this month will be
Debbie Hypes, founding president of
IFREE, (International Foundation
for Research and Education on
Excitotoxins, Inc. Mrs. Hypes also
reeearched and put together the
booklet on The Food Plan, pain-free
living and how to do it. Debbie is
xtremely informative and educated
n Fibromy.lagia.
• ": Members are urged to attend this
meeting. New members are always
welcome.
• from complete. We hav on
the jobs of filling graves, resetting
gravestones and identifying
unmarked graves, as work proceeds
on clearing. Progress is slow but
steady. We would like to emphasize
that no one has been paid in this
project. All monetary contributions
are spent on the needs of the project
by consensus of the volunteers.
Our present needs are; more tools
to work with, repair and
maintenance of existing tools, some
seed money and more volunteers for
the tools. More money would also
help to continue the project. We
hope you will share in the pride the
volunteers are feeling as we begin
to see the results of our labor
towards our goal to do honor to our
ancestors.
All contributions have been and
will be deeply appreciated in our
efforts to preserve our heritage.
Please direct all contributions to
Wayne Caul or Everette Crawford.
yesterday. "I want to make sure I
do everything possible to collect all
the evidence at the crime scene" to
determine what happened.
Theodore "Butch" Haskins, a
member of the Summers County
Volunteer Fire Dept. and Rescue
Squad, died from a fatal gunshot
wound inflicted at his home at 132
State St. last Tuesday night.
Poli.rponded to the ooting
at 10:26 pro, Adkins said, and found
that Haskins, 49, had been shot in
the top left front area of his head
with a .357 Magnum. He was alive
at the scene and airlifted to Roanoke
Memorial Hospital where he died
the following day.
No arrests have been made and,
although Adkins confirmed that
Haskins was not alone at the time
of the shooting, he declined to say
who, or how many were with him;
however, the investigation is being
conducted as if it were a homicide,
he said.
Adkins and city officer O. J. Lilly
are heading up the investigation,
along with the assistance of the
State Police, and have spent at least
200 hours collecting evidence that
has been sent to the crime lab in
Charleston, he said. "Right now we
are waiting for the results to come
back. These things take time. We
haven't ruled anything out."
40 Cents,
Band Performing Here Sat.
Karen Vuranch (shown above standing
center) and the Blue/Gray Band, a bluegrass
group that tells the history of West Virginia
through story and song, will perform here
twice, Saturday, for the 3rd annual West
Virginia Day Celebration. After carefully
each member dressed in apparel of the
period. The show recently featured at
Tamarack will be the same show performed
here under a 20 x 40 canopy behind the
Hinton Post Office that morning between
10:30 and II:30. "We are delighted at the idea
researching the history of the state and its of doing that show |n Hinton,', Vuranch said.
music, the group developed ashow that is The second show will be a dance at 8 pm for
entirely devoted to the Civil War era, with all that wish to attend.
County Seeking Flood Relief Money
The County Commission is
working with conservation agencies
to repair stream damage and remove
debris caused by the May 18 flash
flooding of Pipestem Creek,
Commission President Lonnie
Mullins said.
The commissioners have
contacted the Natural Resources
Conservation Service and Southern
Soil Conservation District to learn
if the area qualified for damage
relief.
A reported five to six inches of
rain fall in a two-hour period sent a
wall of water down the creek and
across property ripping out trees,
bridges and destroying property.
Officials estimate $140,000 would
be required to stabilize the creek and
National Public Radio Visits Hinton
activity through the New River Gorge.
Adams and his crew interviewed several
former C & O employees. Pictured from left
to right are Howard Cashwell, R. L.
McDowell, Noah Adams, John E. Richmond,
E; L. Cobb, Debra Schifrin, Assistant
Producer of "All Things Considered," Henry
Noel, D. G. Edwards, kneeling Bill Deputy,
Recording Engineer for NPR, C. W. Redes
and Dorothy Jean Boley. Also interviewed
but not pictured was Tom Clinebell, Carl
Vest, and Jack Ashley.
Dorothy Jean Boley, Director of the Hinton
Railroad Mtmeum, is shown on the far right
welcoming well known radio personality
Noah Adams, host of the critically acclaimed
"All Things Considered" program which is
broadcast each evening on the Washington
D.C. based National Public Radio. Boley said
she had been eontacted personally by Mr.
Adams who expressed that he would be
to the area to eOLdUCt resemrch for a
story bets produeing to be aired on NPR
based on the railroad and steam train
money is available through the Mullins said he is working with
emergency watershed protection state legislators to obtain funding
program; however money is also for this cleanup.
needed to remove debris that "We are exploring all avenues" for
washed onto private property, money, he said.
Guilty Plea Entered
to Drug Charge
A Talcott man has entered a
guilty plea to distribution of
marijuana before a U. S. District
Judge in Charleston.
Charles Steven Brunty, 36, was
arrested on Feb. 25 near Lewisburg
after purchasing 30 pounds of
marijuana from an undercover
officer for $21,000 in cash.
Sentencing is set for Aug. 16 and
Brunty faces up to five years in
prison and a $250,000 fine.
Brunty entered the guilty plea
before U. S. District Judge Robert
C. Chambers on June 7.
The West Virginia State Police
Bureau of Criminal Investigation
conducted the investigation.
Mathews Honored with
Public Service Award
Sylvia M. Mathews, daughter of
Cleo and Dr. William Mathews, of
Hinton, will receive the Robert C.
Byrd Distinguished Public Service
Award from the West Virginia
Society of Washington, D.C., it was
announced today.
Sylvia is Deputy Director of the
Office of Management and Budget,
former Deputy Chief of State to the
President of the United States and
a native of Hinton.
The award will be presented by
Honorable U. S. Senator Robert C.
Byrd,Thursday, during a luncheon
held that day in the Russell Senate
Caucus building in Washington,
D.C.
The West Virginia Congressional
Delegation consists of Senator
Robert C. Byrd, Senator John D.
Rockefeller IV, Congressman Nick J.
Rahall If, Congressman Alan B.
Mollohan, and Congressman Robert
E. Wise.
Hinton Moose Hall is Site for
Disaster Preparedness Training
Mr. Ron Berry, administrator of
the Hinton Moose Lodge located at
415 2nd Ave. has made
arrangements to use the hall as a
meeting place to discuss Disaster
Preparedness and Training
opportunities.
Linda Feolo of the American Red
Cress, East Mountain Chapter, has
been invited to come and address
friends, neighbors and community
leaders on Monday, June 21 at 7:30
pm. There will be an open discussion
to answer any questions.
Linda travels and assist in the
recovery and clean up efforts of
devastated communities after areas
have met with either a natural or
man made disaster. She has 10 years
experience.
ARer a catastrophe community
members want to volunteer but
there is no time to train individuals
because the Red Cross and other
agencies are busy trying to assist
victims. To be most effective in
aiding residents a well thought out
plan should be in place.
If interested in taking an active
role in aiding your community, your
families, even possibly saving lives
plan on attending this meeting.
Preparation can save lives, homes
and businesses. Noone is too young
or too old to participate and everyone
is invited to attend. Refreshments
will be served after the meeting.