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News 1"-... 00O03 Lighthouse Beams
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The Spring 2003 Season of full beginning with a swimm" g "p
activites for the "Lighthouse Beams and our annual VBS. Stay tuned to
(youth group of the Pence Springs this paper to road all about it, OR...
I have heard various comments
around town about how long and
how much time and money has been
spent in planning the scenic
parkway. In a few years it will be 2
decades that this has been studied
and bandied about. I want to toll
you about another project that has
been in the study stages for quite
some time. In fact it has been 71
years now since this project was first
proposed. Now that's what I call
some serious planning! If we spend
another 29 years it will make an
even century of that good old-
fashioned planning on this one.
Back in 1932 when plans were
first being proposed for the Veterans
Memorial Building John Faulconer,
then the editor of the Hinton Daily
News and a few other people
proposed that this community
needed a swimming pool.
The original proposal for the
Memorial Building was to include an
indoor swimming pool and a
gymnasium. The Memorial
Building plans changed a few times
and the thoughts of a pool inside
were abandoned with discussion of
putting it outside in the Courthouse
Park instead.
Courthouse Park?
The older folks will remember
that there were trees and benches
and a park behind the present
courthouse and when the Post Office
expanded a good portion of the park
was sacrificed to progress?
In the June 14,1946 edition of the
Hinton Daily News in the Town
Crier Column by Henry Kinney he
points out an interesting tale. It
seems the Police were summoned
because two suspicious gentlemen
were seen "lurking about behind
the Courthouse. When the police
came it turned out that it was John
Faulconer and Henry Kinney who
were doing some rough measuring
trying to fit a pool and some tennis
courts into the park plans. J.K.
Dawson the YMCA secretary had
stopped by the Hinton News Office
that day and reminded them that
the swimming pool plans were
stalled.
Two years before this "lurking
incident" J. K. Dawson had been
oven to Clifton Forge and seen the
poo|tl{at was built in their park.
According to Henry Kinney in the
June 14,1946 column John Falconer
"had just been reading somewhere
about a little California town quite
a bit smaller than Hinten, which had
gone to work and built itself a pool.
With everybody pitching in, scraping
up the materials here and the labor
there, the thing was done a
N'idiculously small cost."
There was more to the plans then
just a pool. I again quote the same
Town Crier column. "It contemplates
laying a broad concrete walk along
one side of the pool, encircled by a
curb which could be used for roller
skating in summer and ice skating
in the winter." This image for
Hinton would have made a nice
Norman Rockwell Painting. Instead
we are still planning away 57 years
after these proposals.
There is further mention in the
same column about a preacher
Smith from Scott's Run a small town
outside Morgantown who had
established a community center for
kids and who was pictured in a new
issue of Time Magazine with him
next to the community pool they had
built. Henry Kinney concludes his
column with prophetic words that
explain how worthy projects such as
a community pool can remain in
planning stages for 7 decades. "The
obvious conclusion is that these
things can be done. They're being
done on every hand every day. The
only thing that holds us back is our
unwillingness to start and our
willingness to be discouraged by
"obstacles.
So hero we are folks beginning the
summer of 2003; 71 years aRer the
community swimming pool proposal
and our kids are still being denied
the wholesome fun this could bring
because we ignore the basic problem
of youth recreation as a local
government. Instead our local
governments shiR youth recreation
to the private sector and leaves it up
to local charitable service
organizations, local businesses, and
community volunteers to provide
these services.
In a May 16, 1946 Hinton Daily
News Edition of the Town Crier
column there is more discussion on
the why there is a need for youth
recreation and about two differing
views, in the community about how
to handle delinquency. I quote from
the column "There seems to be two
schools of thought about how
delinquent children should be
handled and before the war we had
a clash of those two schools. The
Department of Public Assistance
hired Mrs. Ellen Taylor a woman of
a great deal of experience. Her idea
of rehabilitating delinquent children
was to use a modern amount of
leniency, reason with them, give
them the right kind of supervised
recreation, keep in touch with them,
try to see that their home
.environment was good and in cases
where it wasn't put them in foster
homes where they would get the
right environment. Above all she felt
they should be kept out ofjails away
from contact with adult criminals."
Chief Humprheys pointed out
that there were about 200 kids who
gave the police trouble and he is
quoted as saying =And mostly its
because the kids have nowhere to go
at night and nothing to occupy their
time." The Chief however felt that
a night in jail might solve the
problem. He did not believe in Mrs.
Taylor's philosophy. We have the
advantage of hindsight now on these
issues but have we learned
anything? First there is a problem
associated with kids having too
much leniency and freedom that
contributes to kids being different
these daysP Certainly there is a loss
of respect for their elders. Many of
us older folks had a spanking or two
and some of us came out all right.
But by in large strict punishment
has a high price attached to it
because it can turn good kids bad.
The United States of America has
the largest jail population of any
country in the world. This approach
is not working either. Crime, drug
use and particularly violence has
risen during this get tough and jail
them era of our nations history.
Simply put you can't jail every
delinquent and call yourself a
civilized society.
But in Chief Humphreys' own
words he puts his finger right on the
problem here in Hinton. It's about
the kids having nothing to do. One
thing that has proven effective over
the years is that if kids are given
things to do and they are with caring
adults many of them escapes the
pitfalls. Forget the arguments about
using the rod, or jailing them or
about being too easy on them etc.
Focus on this point about providing
something for them to do. This
works and it is incumbent on our
government to provide this service
for the youth.
The truth here is the 71 years of
planning for a swimming pool is a
fine example of just how inadequate
our community has been in
providing youth recreation on a scale
that might create solutions. During
this past 71 years of no swimming•
pool I wonder how many kids might
have been saved and sacrificed to the
dark side, as Star War's Darth Vader
would say. These lost youths are our
failure as community because we are
just planning away and we fail to be
proactive enough. Lip service and
tossing pennies at the problem of the
lack of youth recreation is a monster
that should ride our backs in the
form of guilt. It's time for the County
and City and the School System to
join together and act now.
Senior Farmer's
Market Program
The Senior Farmer's Market
Program has been expanded this
year to cover all 55 counties of West
Virginia," Commissioner Gus R.
Douglas has announced. Thanks to
funding provided by the United
Stated Department of Agriculture,
we can now expand this program
and provide West Virginia Grown
fresh fruits and vegetables to more
than 35,000 Seniors.
• Summers County Council on
Aging will be distributing to eligible
seniors who meet the income
guidelines of 185% of the poverty
level. Each eligible senior will
receive 10, $2.00 vouchers to be used
for the purchase of fresh fruits and
vegetables at any of the state's
approved farmers markets/stands.
Eligible participants can sign up
for the vouchers beginning July
15,16,17th at the senior center. For
more information on the Senior
Farmer's Market Nutrition Program
you can contact the Jeannie
Halloran at the Summers County
Senior Center at 466-4019, or the
West Virginia Department of
Agriculture at 304/466-2210.
HOURS
MONDAY - SATURDAY 7 AM TO 7 PM
SUNDAY CLOSED
SUMMERS COUNTY
COUNCIL ON AGING
BOARD MEETING
JULY 8th.
Agenda
Call to Order.
Prayer.
Minutes.
Financial Report.
Director's Report.
Old Business.
New Business.
Open Agenda.
Community Church) began with an
egg hunt on April 19th. at I:00 p.m.
at our church with 52 people
attending.
Upon arrival Leota Cantley fixed
each hunter a loot .bag for their
prizes.
The eggs were hidden earlier by
Kassi Hedrick and Betty Garten and
just as soon as everyone arrived the
hunt was on.
Numerous prizes were won
throughout the hunts for finding the
most, getting lucky eggs and for
finding notes in the eggs indicating
that a certain prize was won.
Jordan Cales won the Easter
basket full of goodies because her
loot bag had a cross on it. Between
the hunts, Mark Persinger had a
lesson for the children until the eggs
were ro-hidden. Then aRerward our
Pastor, Roger Persinger had the
blessing and we enjoyed our hot
dogs. (From Country Reads Store)
along with our other goodies that
were provided by those present. To
close the events of the day, one of our
Morns, Tara Carter had an egg
coloring session and an egg relay
both of which was a lot of fun.
Mother's Day was celebrated by
the giving of gifts to the following
Mothers: The Oldest: Mrs. Naomi
Ryan. The Youngest: Tara Carter;
The Mom having the most children
was Susie Jolliffee and the Morn who
had the lucky number on her flower
cut-out (that all Mom's received
upon arrival): Debbie Leedom #7.
Chrissy Leedom came home from
Marshall Univ. as a surprise to her
Morn so she served as presented for
the Women's Fellowship. The
younger girls handed out the gifts
for her. All of the ladies present
received pens & bookmarkers
following the worship service.
Our annual graduate picnic was
once again held inside due to rain
on 5/17 at 5 P.M. Around 55 people
gathered to honor our 2003
graduates which are: Nathan
Hedrick, Sarah Nelson, James
Harvey, and a visitor Chad Burdette
along with those unable to attend,
Shenandoah Cochran, Emily
Mounts and Jason Persinger.
Pastor Roger had the blessing
and a hamburger/hot dog picnic
cooked by Nova Keatley and the
extras brought by those present was
enjoyed by all.
A special Bobcat cake was created
by Erin Willey (Kake Kroations) and
a Graduate's hat was made with
each name on individual streamers
to make the tassel was created by
Renee Kounse.
Bibles were presented to the
graduates from the Women's
Christian Fellowship group by
Pastor Roger Persinger following a
talk directed to them as they begin
their adult lives. The service
concluded with prayer by Bob Cales,
Extra touches to the church
flower garden were done for the
occasion by Bruce & Bertie Grubb.
Father's Day was celebrated by
honoring the following Fathers: The
Oldest, Mr. Melvin Shelton, The
Youngest: John Parkin and he also
won the giR for The Most Children
(3). The Lucky Number winner was
Mr. Jessie Arthur. Each dad was
given a number as he arrived, by
Womens group President, Nova
Keatley.
Kassi Hedrick presented the gifts
for the group and she road a poem
about a Father and his Flag in honor
of Flag Day and Father's Day.
Talena Walker, Breanna Allen
and Shelley Miller assisted by
handing out the gifts. This will bring
our Spring activities to a close.
Our summer calendar is pretty
better yet, if you don't have a home
church you are welcome to join us
at any time.
The church is located on Rt. #3
beside the Pence Springs Hotel.
Energy Express
Kicks Off Summer
Program
By JR Sisson
Energy Express kicked off
another summer at Hinton Area
Elementary School on 23 June and
will continue thru 1 August. Forty
local children are enrolled in the
program that provides nutritious
meals and educational activities for
children entering the first through
sixth grades. Energy Express was
started to combat the problem that
some children fall behind their peers
during the summer months. This
program helps to encourage children
to road and continue to exercise their
mind while receiving two nutritional
meals a day. Results from the
previous years indicate that Energy
Express does indeed help children
to improve their test scores after the
program.
College students serve as mentors
during the six-week program. Each
mentor has the same group of eight
children that they work with
everyday. These mentors are
members of the AmeriCorps
program and have received training
in creating a print-rich environment,
facilitating, non-competitive
recreation, and must help complete
a community service project.
Serving as mentors this summer are
Allison Ball, Jennifer Brown, Matt
Durnan, Jarod Hartwell, and Paige
Willey. Also serving on the staff are
JR Sisson, Volunteer Coordinator,
and Cathy Richmond, Site
Coordinator.
During the six-week program,
volunteers are always welcome to
assist in many ways. Avolunteer can
read to a child, help with art
projects, or do a number of other
i tasks at the site to assist the
,nentors and the children. If you are
interosted in volunteering, contact
JR Sisson at 466-6024. Energy
Express is sponsored by the WVU
Extension Service and AmeriCorps.
SUMMERS CO. WV.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The Summers Co., WV. Historical
Society will meet on Tues., July 8th.
at the Dairy Queen near Hinton at
4:30 p.m. for dinner on your own and
a business meeting at 5:30 p.m.
Publishing of the Cemetery Book
wil be discussed. Please remember
the deadline for submitting material
to be used is July 1st.
DEDICATION CEREMONY
July 5th. at 2 PM a Dedication
Ceremony will be held in Alderson,
WV., for the Alderson Depot
Museum in the newly renovated
C&O/CSX Depot now owned by the
town. Everyone is invited.
The Museum will contain
Railroad and Alderson Memorabilia.
One room will contain a Gallery with
local art and craRs for sale.
HOSPICE
Hospice of Southern West
Virginia Grief Support Group meets
on the 4th. Tuesday of each month
at The Summers COunty
Community Wellness Center, 221
Temple St., Hinton from 1 to 3 pro.
For additional information please
call: 1-800-900-6404 or 255-6404.
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PETIT JURY
July, 2003 Term.
Summers County Clrcmt Court
Dorothy M. Adkins" Wend), D. Adkins, I.,eslie Ann Ayen, Marvin L. Basham,
Steven K. Bennett, Rieky D. Blevins" Debrina Berthia Bower, Gather E.
Bu¢kland, James R. Cal¢s, Robert W. Cales, Jackie E. Conner, Vickey 1,
Cook, Marilyn E. Cooper, Richard E. Crisp, Kenneth L. Crook, Charles Lee
Davis, Courtney Beth Davis Lyons, Dennis Edward Dick, Earl R. Dodd, Jr.,
Tammy Sue Doyle, Norval H. Dunbar, Kipp O. Ferr James T.
Filmimmons" Keith A. Frank, Billy D. Gill, Gary IL Gill, Cindy K. Goddard,
Elizabeth Ann Gore, Kenneth L. Gore, Bryan D. Gwinn, Darrell H. Gwinn,
Austin Kcith Handy, Margaret C. Hank, Charles F. Harford, Barbara C. Harris,
Kathy Sue Harvey, Paul C. Herman, Margaret A. Howell, Kimberly K.
Huffinan, Melissa Dawne Jacobs" Charles B. Johnson, Nora Trivett Keaton,
Larry D. Kincaid, Marcia B. Leiteh, Carla A. Leslie, Bobby M. Lilly, Joseph
Brandon Lilly, Terry L. Lilly, Mildred Martin, Stewart A. McGraw, Danny R.
Meador, Monroe B. Meadows, Charles S. Oxley, Larry D. Pack, Susan B.
Pack, Shirley Agn Parker, Linda Lee Porterfield, Christy Dawn Richmond,
Gregory E. Rogers, Rebecca G. Ryan, Gary L. Sears, Cathy Lynn Short,
Timmy G. Smith, Charles F. Spangler, Delia D. Tachado, Charles A.
Thompson, Shawnna M. Toth, Patricia A. Underwood, Kimberly D. Waddcll,
Mclissa E. Walls, Bonnie S. Ward, Robert D. Whirr, Robert N. Wills
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MA'VI'IE JEAN COOPER
Circuit Clerk
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LIBRARY GOLF
TOURNAMENT
New Date for Friends of the
Library Golf Tournament: Sunday
July 13th., at 1:00 P.M. at the
Willowwood Golf Course. Call
Willowwood at 466-3220 or the
Library at 466-4490 for details.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MEETING
The Summers County Council on
Aging, Inc. Board of Directors
meeting will be held on July 8, 2003
at 10:00 AM. This is an open
meeting.
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SEARS FAMILY REUNION
Sears Family Reunion will be
held July 3rd., 11 A.M. at Pipestem
State Park Shelter A, Pipestem, WV.
Meats, drinks, plates, cups and
utensils will be furnished. Please
bring a Covered Dish.
There will be door prizes, games
and, of course, our Annual Auction.
Don't forget to bring items for the
auction.
Tennis, swimming, golf,
basketball, horseshoes and other
recreation will be available for your
enjoyment. Your hostess' this year
will be Shirley and Connie. See you
in July.
Brian 9q00re
wishing You
Ver00 00lapp00 29rh.
We Love You Very Much!
Love
Your wife, Kathy and Jon Jon
Sponsored by the Summers
County Council on Aging
Join Us July ist, 6:oo - IO:OO p.m.
WiHowwood Countr)
Bar-bc-que Picnic
Dress: CountryWcstcrn
Cover Chargc:
$5.oo per couple $3.oo singles
No Alcohol
Transportation Provided
Call 466-4ox9 by July3
Music Providcd by: Jim !
Historic
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4th. of July
PORCH PICNIC
Sunday July 6, 11 a.m. thru 4 p.m.
Featuring
Southern Fried Chicken /BBQ Ribs
Grilled Hamburgers & Hot Dogs
Includes salad bar, various vegetables, soup bar, home-baked
bread and the famous homemade dessert bar.
$12.95 Adults
$5.95 Children 3 - up
Children 3 - under FREE
HAVE FAMILY COMING AND NO TIME TO COOK.)
Call or come by - we will prepare a
"PORCH PICNIC" TO GO
(If you need to go service for more than 8 people, please call ahcad)
304-445-2100
Located on Rt. 3 between Hinton & Alderson
On Hill above Flea Market
"'. Present this coupon to receive $2.00 off buffet for 2
Ask about our "Jump back to the 50's" lodging special
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