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35th Annual
West Virginia Water Festz'val
BATEAU
BOATS
HEIUHNING
The Bateaus are returning
to Summers County for the
1999 Water Festival. Free
rides on the New River with
narration of bateau history,
a frontier camp with soap
and candle making
demonstrations,
blacksmithing and frontier
cooking. Friday and
Saturday August 6 and 7,
Avis by Advance Auto Parts
10A. M. to Noon and 1 P.M.
to ??
Speeinl Fireworks For
Bluestone Dam's 50th
Anniversary Celebration
The Bluestone Dam's 50th
Anniversary Celebration will
conclude with Southern West
Virginia's most unique fireworks
display on Sat., Aug. 7 at 9:30
pm.
The pyrotechnic show will
make sure this event is on it.
Don't miss the opportunity to see
the extravaganza of colors and
spectacular shapes that this
commemorative fireworks
display offers.
You need to be below the Dam
feature special fireworks" set off to see the whole show. The
at the spillway to simulate water Concord Commanders will be
flowing down the spillway with playing forties music in the park
fireworks exploding above and below the Dam while everyone
over the Dam. is waiting for it to get dark
Whatever your schedule, enough for this spectacular show.
STERNWHEEL BOAT RACE
ON BLUESTONE LAKE
Participating in celebrating Bluestone Dam's fifty years
of operation, seven mini-sternwheel boats (three size
classes) will race on Bluestone Lake Saturday, August 7,
starting at 1 P.M. This will be the first time sternwheel
boats have raced on Bluestone Lake. The Spirit of
Charleston (above) is one of the larger boats and is 43
feet long, 12 feet wide and its wheel is 8 feet wide and 8
feet in diameter. Best places to view the races will be the
overlooks above the pit area on route 20.
H.A.E.K.I.D.S. Participate
In Bluestone Dam's 50th
Anniversaw Celebration
Hinton Area Elementary
Kids in Dramatic Studies
will present a narrative
version of"Annie, Jr." at
the Bluestone Dam 50th
Anniversary Celebration at
the park below the dam on
Saturday, August 7, at 5 P.M.
There will be a catfish
dinner after the show and
The Concord Commanders
will be playing forties
music ill the park below the
dam from 6 P.M. until time
for the fireworks
Aerial view of Bluestone Dam and environs, circa 1950.
Bluestone Dam
Anniversary Book
Celebrating the construction of
Bluestone Dam on New River, the
theme of this year's West Virginia
Water Festival, Fox Photographics
of Hintm is publishing Bluestone
Dam 50th Anniversary
Commemorative Album 1949-1999
by Professor Stephen D. Trail.
This deluxe hardcover book
contains documentary photographs
chronicling the construction of
Bluestone Dam beginning in 1942
through completion in 1952. A
history of events before and during
the Dam's construction is based
upon a filly-year-old essay written
by J. L. "Link Perry, who was
Summers County Superintendent of
Schoolsat the time, and upon news
paper and other published accounts
from the era.
Professor Trail's description of the
geology and geography of New River
and the New River Gorge provides
valuable reference material.
Additional photographs, both
inside and outside Bluestone Dam,
pay tribute to the design and
function of the edifice. Archival
photos of recreation on Bluestone
Lake, along with a map of Bluestone
State Park, a historic roster of
Project Managers and Rangers, and
facts about Bluestone Dam complete
the volume.
This Commemorative Album is
the first publication produced by
Vandalia Consultants of Hinton.
The book is dedicated to the men
who built Bluestone Dam. The text
and photographs will highlight
memories of many Summers County
residents who were employed in
Bluestone Dam Construction.
Copies of the book are available at
Big Four, Summers County Library,
Summers County Visitors Center,
and Fox Phographics.
The Bluestone Dam 50th
Anniversary Celebration will be on
Sat., Aug. 7, in conjunction with the
WVa. Water Festival. Activates
begin at 8 am at the Visitors Center
and Top of the Bluestone Dam which
includes a video of the Dam's
construction and tours of the Dam.
From 10 am to 3:45 pm a 50th
Anniversary Stamp Cancellation
will take place. Tours of Bluestone
Lake, aboard a mini-towboat, will
take place between 10 am and 6 pro.
A Clown and Magic Show is
scheduled for 3:30 pm on the Dam's
park grounds while the 50th
anniversary ceremony is scheduled
on the park grounds at 4 pro.
Summers County ARH
Announces Advanced
Mobile MRI Services
Summers County ARH Hospital,
through continuing efforts to
address needs identified through the
CIDM (Community Initiated
Decision-Making) process,
announced today that it will offer
magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
services on site through a new
partnership with InSight Health
Services Corp. (InSight).
Under the terms of the
agreement, InSight will provide a
GE 1.5 LX MRI with magnetic
resonance angiography (MRA)
capabilities. This new equipment
offers patients of Summers County
ARH Hospital access to the most
advanced imaging technology
available in today's healthcare
environment. The system features
new "short-bore design for
increased patient comfort.
The MRI unit will provide
services at Summers County ARH
Hospital on Tuesday mornings from
7:00 am to 12:00 pm. Physicians and
their patients may schedule
appointments by calling (304) 466-
2912.
"InSight is pleased to provide the
medical staff and patients of
County with access tQ
state-of-the-art imaging services,
said Kathy Denny, Area Manager for
InSight.
"Through our partnership,
Summers County can utilize the
same high technology services
available at university medical
centers in an extremely cost-
effective manner by sharing these
resources with their hospital
affiliates within the Appalachian
Regional Healthcare System."
"Our radiologists and medical
staff are excited about the ability to
offer patients this new diagnostic
tool, said Willis Bultje, President
and CO0 for Appalachian Regional
Healthcare. *The new MRI system
offers us the ability to rapidly
acquire high resolution images of
superior quality and fine detail
visualization. This translates into
greater diagnostic information and
a more thorough, comfortable and
convenient patient exam.
"InSight, headquartered in
Newport Beach, California, provides
diagnostic imaging and information,
treatment and related management
services. It serves managed care,
hospitals and other contractual
customers in 28 US states, including
five major US markets: California,
the Southwest, including a major
presence in Texas, the Midwest, the
Northeast and the Southeast.
....... Summers County ARH Hospital
is an affiliate of Appalachian
Regional Healthcare, Inc., a not for-
profit corporation with facilities in
Kentucky, West Virginia and
Virginia.
McCreery Project
Recognized at Multi-
State Conference
The McCreery Hotel Project was
one of three "case studies" for
revitalization along the New River
discussed during an American
Heritage River Conference for the
New River held late last month in
Virginia.
Many federal agencies were
represented at the conference
including the Executive Office of the
President of the United States.
United States Congressman Rick
Boucher, ninth district, Virginia,
sponsored the American Heritage
River Conference for New River,
Monday, July 26th at New River
Community College in Dublin,
Virginia.
Three case studies of the
"American Heritage River
Designation at Work were
presented.
The McCreery Hotel Project was
one of the three.
Ralph Wilson, President of
Mainstreet Hinton, gave the
presentation on the restoration of
the hotel and the proposed assisted
living project. He also discussed
economic development of Hinton
and the role the hotel revitalization
and other American Heritage River
programs will play.
A delegation from Summers
County led by Ed Hannah, New
River Community Partners Vice
President, attended the conference.
Events like the Executive
Signing Ceremony in Ashe County
North Carolina and Congressman
Boucher's Conference in Dublin,
give New River and the American
Heritage River Initiative very
positive recognition," Hannah said.
I have asked that the signing of
the Memorandum of Understanding
with the federal government take
place in Summers County. We've
invited Vice President Gore to
attend the ceremony and we're
presently working out the details
with his office.
The American Heritage Rivers
New River Work Plan was also
unveiled and distributed at the
Conference.
It is a listing of over three
hundred economic, environmental,
educational, historic, cultural, and
agricultural projects. Some of these
programs are designed to address
specific local, needs and
opportunities, while others take a
regional approach, and several
multi-state prceots cover the entire
watershed.
Copies of the short version are
now in the Summers County Library
and available in a limited quantity
from the Summers County Chamber
of Commerce.
EcoTheater's Countdown
1999 Summer Season
Winding down the 1999 Summer
Performance series at Pipestem
State Fark, EcoTheater will be
presenting its last two seasonal
shows at the amphitheater on
August 5 and 26.
The 8:00 pm performance
features Martha Asbury, Lucy Bell,
and Lori Ann Butler in "Company
Stores," "Letter to Daddy," Pales
from Trout, "Miss Florence/
"Patti, "Church Lady, The Dead
Man," "You Have to Kiss a Lot of
Frogs," and other scenes from the
locale.
Covering the time frame of from
the Civil War era to the t990s, these
oral-history based scenes are
reflective of real fives well, except
for a tale otwo that may be thrown
in for good measure.
In June 1998 and 1999, The
State Journal referred to
EceTheater as one of fifty-five great
things about West Virginia.
Rain or shine, come to Pipestem
on August 5 and 26 for an evening
mix of humor, tragedy, and jnst plain
old fashioned fun.
$3.00 adults / $1.50 six to 16 and
under six admitted free.