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i ..... Harvey Reunion Held SCHOOL MENUS
H Week of Sept. 15th. thru 19th.
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i Mon. Sept. 15th. Break{ast
The descendants of Austin Delvin Lilly ofBeckley, WV; Frank fajitas w/salsa, choice of Cereal,
Ballard Harvey and his wife, Mary. and Pevo. Harvev of D_rv Fork, VA; vriety 100% juice, Variety cold
Ann Ellison Harvey,_ met at_the Herman Ho H___arwv nfDAnil, WVw V: milk. ,
** Summers County 4-H Camp on June Daniel, Ona, Nathaniel, Naomi, and Tues. Sept. 16th. Sausage
, 21 for their ...... annual family reunion. Stenhanie Harvev of Sandw'. llle, biscuit, Variety 100% juice, Variety
In addlhon to West Virglma, there WV; Glenna Saunders and Juanita cold milk,
My last two commentaries have losing a subsequent Civil Service were people in attendance from Smith ofBeckley, WV; Pauline and Wed. Sept. 17th. Choice ol
ruffled a few feathers. I have drawn
some criticism and also some praise
for speaking out. This is natural.
First I want to go on the record here
and say that I do not question Sheriff
Wheeler's motives for attacking the
drug problem with the resources of
his office. There is no question that
our community has a drug problem
and it is thejob of the police to deal
with that problem. Further on a
personal note Garry has provided
help to my own family and I remain
thankful to this day for that help. It
caused much internal conflict for me
to even come out and point out what
I felt to be profiling in the incident
about the searching of the four
young black men across from the
2nd Ave Grocery because of the
personal respect I have for him as a
mail.
President Harry Truman said
=The buck stops here!" He was
speaking about the chain of
command. He was saying that
because he was the boss he was the
top dog in the chain of command and
he was responsible for the actions
of those under him. This is
democracy, elected officials need to
hear the criticism about policy and
Hinton isn't any different. In my
capacity as Legal Redress
Committee Representative in
Summers County for the NAACP I
come into contact with complaints
about Civil Rights abuse. In recent
years the leaders of our local
minority community have not
stopped up to the plate and taken
on the issues concerning Civil Rights
either.
We have to be honest here when
the police wage drug war; you can't
expect acts of war not to have
consequences. It creates blowback.
A more simple analogy is ifI hit you,
then one can usually expect that you
will hit me back. That is the nature
of war. It is my opposition to the drug
war as a way to combat drug use;
and, not any advocacy of drug use
that leads me to speak out.
As an advocate for Civil Rights I
submit that there has never been
another time in our nations history
like it isrmw whenour Civil Rights
have coquet, udev'heir greatest
attack. I believe it was Abraham
Lincoln who said. "We are
proceeding with knowledge, with
deliberation, with intention, to set
up a new policy which is confessedly
hostile; and in doing so we seek
justification not in an attempt to
elevate the policy to the level of the
ideals, but in an attempt to pull
down the ideals to the level of the
policy." I think this was said during
the Lincoln / Douglas debates. But
it sure fits the problem we have now.
Let me explain.
I presented a case in last week's
column that the Drug War is failing
in its mission to stop drugs. I
concluded that it is making as many
poblems as it is solving. This is
particularly with respect to honoring
the Civil Rights our forefathers set
fo.rth in the Constitution and that
many have laid down their lives to
protect. These Civil Rights then are
the ideal that Lincoln referred to
that he said we should be
endeavoring to elevate the policies
to. The Policy that is lowering the
ideal presently is 'the Drug War
because it is filled with inequities
and the minorities are feeling the
brunt of those problems. In last
weeks commentary I listed the
statistics showing that 4 times as
many white people use drugs as
minorities and yet our prison
population consists of about two
thirds minorities.
Let me apply the statistics and
simplify it with this analogy. There
are 2b' drug users and dealers in a
small town. 16 of them are White
and 4 are Black or Latino. The drug
war starts, some get away with it,
• some use lawyers to get off or get
probation, some get convicted. In the
end 1 of the 16 White people wind
up in jail and 2 of the 4 Blacks or
Latinos do. Remember ALL of them
were breaking the law. This is why
I feel that it is important to weigh
issues about profiling. The truth is
if you are white you can thank your
lucky stars, but if you're black this
war is brought to you in living color.
Don't forget that around here our
entire police force has been white for
decades. If you don't think prejudice
has something to do with unequal
policy then you need to get your head
out of the clouds?
I bring up these issues about
racism and profiling and about the
=buck stops here" for a reason. The
alleged racial comments on the
rumor mill that are flying around
are not the only allegations about
Deputy Worley.
Allegations are circulating about
him being fired from his last job and
Hearing related to the firing being
improper. He has sued Mercer
County, and the Mercer County
Sheriff's Dept., because he
maintains his innocence and he
asserts he was wrongfully
terminated. The court currently
seals the records. A person has a
right to privacy about their work
record. But lets face it, this is the
country and that rumor mill sure
spreads the word around. The
rumors that are circulating is based
on a Aug. 18, 1999 letter to Worley
from Mercer County Sheriff Harold
Buckner. In this letter of
termination, Buckner accuses
Deputy Worley of stealing $4,800 of
confiscated money, that another
deputy said he planted evidence,
that he kept drug evidence in his
desk instead of an evidence locker
and that he did not file proper
reports. How could h9 have been
hired for a job here if he was fired
for something like that? If these
rumors are true and these are the
reasons he was fired it taints him
as a witness for the state. That
specter was raised in a Court
proceeding here regarding confusion
about his legal residence.
If the ultimate legal proceedings
exonerate him, then he should have
been considered for a job after that.
People are fired everyday and that
becomes part of their job record. Ask
10 folks ]f they were properly fired
and you will be lucky to get one to
admit they were. If they put this on
their job application for a new job
they will likely not be hired for a
position. What is the real story? The
problem I see is that at this point,
even a Civil Lawsuit doesn't mean
he will win or that it will provide any
public exoneration if he does.
Settlements are reached without
any admission of wrongdoing all the
time. Short of Mercer County giving
him public exoneration the way I see
it, whatever the reasons were why
he was fired are currently part of his
job record and these problems have
landed in Summers County?
The Sheriff's Department is an
elected public office. Ultimately
public office has to conduct its
business so that it doesn't even 10ok
like something is wrong. With all
the rumors circulating it is
damaging the office credibility. It
would not be the first time an elected
official was put between the rock
and a hard place and forced to
explain issues to the public like the
conduct of those under him in the
chain of command. The rock is
protecting the Civil Rights of Deputy
Worley and the Sheriff's Office
reputation. The hard place is
squelching the rumors if they are
untrue.
AS an advocate for Civil Rights I
submit that we have to respect
Deputy Worley's Civil Rights. We
also have to protect the Civil Rights
of the young Black men. You can't
stand on the ideal for a deputy and
then lower it for the young black
men who were searched during the
incident I talked about last week. We
are all "Created Equal" under law
and we are to be "Presumed
Innocent." If we protect a deputy
and extend the blanket of "innocent
until proven guilty" to him
concerning rights to privacy and
suspicions about his prior job record.
Then we must be consistent and
presume the innocence of the four
young Black men who were searched
as well. We must extend this ideal
to them to protect their rights under
the Fourth Amendment to the
Constitution. The old saying applies
"you can't have it both ways!" Fair
is fair.
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The shortest war ever
recorded lasted only 38 min-
utes--Britsin vs. Zanzibar in
1896. Britain won.
RIGHT TO LIFE
Summers County Right To Life
meets at the Wellness Center,
downtown Hinton, at 7:00 pro. The
meetings are held on the 3rd
Monday of each month.
Anyone interested in working for
the protection of the unborn are
invited to attend.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Alcoholics Anonymous meetings
Tues., Thurs. and Sat. at 8:00 pm at
Ascension Episcopal Church, corner
of 5th and Temple St.
Tennessee, Virginia, Maryland,
Ohio, Florida, Utah, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, and perhaps another
state or two that we failed to notice
on the list.
The reunion was opened in the
usual manner with several
introductory remarks. Recognition
was given to Alton and Blanche
Thompson and also Ronald and
Virginia Thompson for being the
longest married (over 60 years)
couples present. Dion Minter and
Jessica Barnach were asked to stand
as they were to be married on June
28. Oris Harvey and Cassie Harvey
Murphy each at 91 were the oldest
living descendants present. It" was
noted that Faye Harvey Workman
had passed away on September 6,
2002, just one day past her 99th
birthday and that Dolly Harvey
Pack (age 96) is the oldest living
descendant of Austin and Mary Ann
Harvey.
During the memorial service
several names were mentioned of
those family members who have
passed away since last year's
reunion. The following names were
called: Minnie Harvey Perdue, Faye
Harvey Workman, Jean Harvey,
Anel Harvey Bennett,
John Fletcher Harvey, Donald
Meador, David Meadows, Opal
Harvey, Thlma Harvey Simpkins,
Ruby Walthall Lacy, Steve Harvey
son of Youell and Mary Harvey, and
there were possibly others that we
failed to list.
In a discussion among some of the
group present, Mary Ann Ellison
Harvey's ancestry was discussed in
some detail. Although she was born
in Henry County, Indiana, her
parents were native of the Hans
Creek and Orchard area of what is
Monroe County, West Virginia. Her
parents, Isaac and Emily Lively
Ellison, went to Indiana like
numerous other Monroe countians,
but unlike most they returned to
Mercer County before the 1850
census and later moved to Fayette
County where Isaac was a miller in
the Paint Creek section and where
he and Emily both expired before the
end of the 19th century. Isaac was
born and reared on Hans Creek and
was a son of John and Fanny
Cummings Ellison and a grandson
of John(Sr.) and Frances Paul
Ellison and a great-grandson o£
James and Anr English Ellison•
Isaac's wife, Emily Lively Ellison,
was a daughter of Joseph and Mary
"Polly" Pack Lively and a
granddaughter of Cottrell Lively
and Samuel Pack.
AS usual quite a few people did
not sign the register of attendance
and as a consequence the following
list is at best incomplete• The
following were present: Charles
King and Peggy D. Harvey, Jr., of
Kingsport, TN; Joe and Sylvia
Gilbert Ryder of Portsmouth VA;
Mildred Lewis of Baltimore, MD;
Vivian and Victor Link of Newport,
VA; Dennis and Phyllis Porter of
Staunton, VA; Harold and Evelyn
Harvey of Richmond, VA; Lloyd
Harvey of Nimitz, WV; Mason
Barton of Sinks Grove, WV; John
Harvey ofRainelle, WV; Vernon and
Lottie Harvey of Gallipolis, OH;
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Ruehl Meadows of Jumping Branch,
WV; Jim and Nancy Harvey, Youell
and Mary Harvey all of Titusville,
FL; Myrtle Harvey and Janet
Richmond of Hinton, WV; Jessica
Banach of Blacksburg, VA; Shirley
and Dion Minter of Vinton, VA;
James and Mary Caldwell of
Coudersport, PA; Gary, Harriet, and
Mary Pardue of Bluefield, VA;
Marilyn Harvey Carroll of
Peterstown, WV; Becky Wheeler of
Forest Hill, WV, Jim and. Joyce
Miller and Tommy Harvey of Forest
Hill, WV; Medeta Watts of Justice,
WV; Louise Carpenter of Orange
Park, FL; Ronald and Virginia
Thompson of Sandyville, WV;
Audrey Harvey of Roanoke, VA;
Wallace, Betty, and Sally Pritchett
of Verona, VA; Jack and Agness
Harvey of Hinton, WV; Athalene
and Doyle Tilton of Dublin, VA;
Richard and Becky Whitacre of
Roanoke, VA; Alton and Blanche
Thompson ofMaxwelton, WV; Glen
and Ruth Harvey of Forest, VA;
Paul and Irene Davis, of
Christiansburg, VA; Phyllis and
Sandra Comer of Princeton, WV;
John and Wanda Murphy and John
Murphy, Jr. all of Forest, VA;
Delores McArthur of St. Augustine,
FL;
Jeff and Sommer Harvey Carter
of Beaver, WV; Cassie Harvey
Murphy of Rocky Mount, VA;
Charles W. Harvey of Princeton, WV;
Marsha Basham of Jumping
Branch, WV; Judy and J. D. Parker
of Huntington, WV; Danny
Mansfield of Nimitz, WV; Basil
Adkins ofDaniels, WV; Louise Lilly,
Jack Harvey, and Bill Thompson of
Nimitz, WV; Gary Meadows of
Yorktown, VA; Velmer Adkins of
Norton, OH; Rita Muriel Deninger
of Hinton, WV; Roger Adkins of
Springfield, OH; Douglas Wayne
Harvey and Nellie V. Harvey of
Hinton, WV; Mary Lou Withrow
and Louise McCutcheon of
Sissonville, WV;
WARD T. and Frances Harvey
and Clinton Mason of Prince George,
VA; Angle Adkins of Meadow Creek,
WV; Oris and Piney Harvey of Foist
Hill, WV; Lyn, Mary, :Id a ]et;nd
Satndel Mirler of'Cool Rdgd, WV;
Beatrice Lester of Princeton, WV;
Jessica Murphy of Forest, VA;
Sharon Harvey Freeman of Park,
Utah; Jay, Lisa, Dwight, and
Maggie Carbaugh of Newport, VA;
Ritchie Blevins of Huntington, WV;
Raymond Harvey of Nimitz, WV.;
Corey Harvey of Raleigh, N.C.
Our next reunion is scheduled for
the third Saturday in June (June 19)
in 2004 at the Summers County 4-
H Camp.
Adam Robert Alvis
Celebrates 1st.
Birthday
Adam Robert Alvis celebrates his
first birthday on September 16th.
Adam is the son of Tonja and Randy
Alvis of Princeton.
Adam's maternal grandparents
Cereal, Granola Bar, Variety 100%
juice, Variety cold milk.
Thurs. Sept. 18th. Sunbeam
glazed donuts, Cheese toast, Variety
100% juice, Variety cold milk.
Fri. Sept. 19tk Choice of cereal,
Waffles w/syrup, Variety 100%jufce,
Variety cold milk. "
LUNCH
Mon. Sept. 15th. Crearh'ed
chicken over fat fluffy whole wheat
biscuit, Fresh made coleslaw,
Scalloped potatoes, Applesauce,
Peanut butter bar, Variety cold milk,
Water Available. Milkshakes @ SMS
& SCHS.
Tues. Sept. 16th. Chunky
chocolate chip cookie, Fish sandwich
are Rosemary and Roger Gill of on whole wheat bun, Corn cobblers,
Hinton. Baked beans, Juicy juicy grapes,
Adam's paternal grandparent is Variety cold milk. Water Available.
Elizabeth Alvis of Athens. Wed. Sept. 17tk Beefy beef roni,
"Happy Birthday, Adam" Love, FrenCh Italian Bread, Pea Salid,
Grandma and Grandpa Gill,
Grandma Alvis.
HEAD START
Summers County Head Start is
looking for children ages 3-5 from
income eligible families. Head Start
believes all children can benefit from
the educational, health, and social
services the program provides.
Families of children with disabilities
are encouraged to apply.
For more information , contact
Gall Ronat at 466-6016.
Banana, Variety cold milk, Water
Available. '.
Thurs. Sept. 18th. Stacked hh
ham & cheese sandwich 'w/
trimmings, Chunky fresh potato
salad, Super duper trail mix, 100%
fruit roll ups, Variety cold milk.
Water Available. "
Fri. Sept. 19tl Finger lickin
checken strips & dip, Broccoli spehrs
on bed of brown seasoned rice, Hot
wheat roll, Fresh apple, Variety ld
milk. Water Available.
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