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Wood County (WV) at the DNC
 Walt Auvil |
Hillary Clinton at the DNC 8-26-08Wed, August 27, 2008 @ 9:37AM 8-26-08 - What may have been the most important speech of the Democratic national Convention was received warmly by the WV Delegation, including Senator Jay Rockefeller, his grandson and his wife. Hillary Clinton urged her supporters to back Obama and end the Republican mis-rule of the last 8 years. She spoke at the end of a long evening which included a speech to the convention by WV Governor Joe Manchin which was very well received as well. I give the best line line of the evening to Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer (sp?) Who recalled former Texas Governor Anne Richards’ famous line about the first President Bush: "He was born on third base and thought he hit a triple." Schweitzer said this President Bush was born on third (referring to the Clinton budget surplus, peace abroad, etc) and stole 2nd base! Afterward the WV law firm Jackson & Kelly hosted a party for the WV Delegation.
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Methods of Distraction
 Jolene Craig |
Music for the massesFri, August 22, 2008 @ 10:08AM I have been a music reviewer nearly as long as I have been a reporter. This means I have a load of CDs that are pretty bad. The reason is simply because in the early days of my career, I had a pretty unlimited supply of music sent to my college. New and established artists' new CDs would be shipped by the cart load to the newspaper office and, as the only CD reviewer on campus, I was handed boxes to lug back to the dorms and I kept what I wanted and what no one else wanted. I was more than happy when I came to this office and was given the freedom to review what I want without need of keeping anything. But, with this large collection, it's difficult to keep track of the music I love. CDs I have fallen for have been lost. Between loaning them out (I like to share what I enjoy with friends) and going from car to car, music I enjoy has disappeared. Their memory lives on with the empty cases shoved under my bed and hidden in storage bins in the attic.
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Runners to Your Mark...
 Hilary Heinzman |
What an Amazing Race!Fri, August 22, 2008 @ 2:07PM What an awesome weekend for the half marathon. The weather was picture perfect, the competition was fierce, and everyone seemed to run or walk great races. I had a wonderful time coordinating the race this summer. I got to work with a great group of committee members and volunteers who take great pride in the half marathon and two-mile race. This race wouldn’t be possible without the help of the community and the various sponsors. I’m not sure if many people were aware, but I got to ride in the lead truck. It was such a feeling of accomplishment to see all of the runners take off and fill Juliana Street. Everything I’ve been working on all summer finally fell into place and ran smoothly.
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Business Savvy
 Rachel Lane |
OlympicsTue, August 12, 2008 @ 12:29PM I've been watching the summer Olympics on television - I always forget how much fun the sports are until I start watching them. Several times, the Beijing sky, in all it's smoggy glory has been shown. I have heard that many people are wearing masks to limit their exposure. It seems to me that it would be a great location to make some money -"Finest medical masks available. Allows you to take a deep breath and not worry! Guaranteed to stop everything but oxygen!" Hopefully, no one is being scammed because they did not take a mask over with them but I would expect several vendors to have masks for sale at incredibly high prices. May be I should have purchased stock in a medical mask making company before the Olympics started. Oh well. Too late now.
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Mancini's Commentaries
 Jess Mancini |
Dogs going hereWed, August 27, 2008 @ 8:44AM I've gotten several inquiries about where the dogs from the Whispering Oaks Kennel are going. They're going to these places, according to the Humane Society of Parkersburg: Washington Animal Rescue league; Virginia Beach SPCA; Dachshund Rescue of North America Danville Area SPCA; Best Friends (for dogs with special needs); North Shore Animal league; The Sterile Feral; Ohio Federation of Humane Societies including Capital Area Humane Society, Cleveland Animal Protective League, Allen County Humane Society, Delaware County Humane Society, Cincinnati Society Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the Humane Society of Greater Dayton; Luv 4K9s; Citizens for Humane Action; Lucky Star Cavalier Rescue/English Toy Rescue; Society for Improvement of the Coalition of Stray Animals; Purebred Rescue of Ohio; A Forever Home. A hundred dogs have been placed with an animal rescue group from Missouri.
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Books of Summer
 Amy Mendenhall |
Author Book SigningMon, August 25, 2008 @ 10:46AM Local author Patsy Evans Pittman will be signing her book, "Blood Kin & Other Strangers," a collection of Appalachian stories and poems, from 1-4 p.m. Saturday at the local Borders store. You can find out more about the book at www.publisherpage.com.
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Five minutes in a Verbal Tsunami
 Jody Murphy |
Should a sex offender be allowed to play high school footballThu, August 21, 2008 @ 8:52AM Should a sex offender be allowed to play high school football? That's the question Vemillion Ohio officials are asking. A 17-year-old who admitted to gross sexual imposition - he (drunkenly) had sex with a girl who was passed out - wants to play high school football. The decision to keep the student off the team is solely in the district's hands. The Ohio High School Athletic Association does not have a policy for student-athletes with criminal records. There is no mention as to whether the kid is a star player. Though he and his family are being sued by the girl, who has since graduated. My hope is they tell the kid no. My bet: the kid is in pads and on the field by kickoff.
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An Elk River Boy made good
 Dave Payne |
Now that's poetryWed, August 20, 2008 @ 9:21AM I have this old hardback book that's about a hundred years old now, Robert Service's "Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses." For years, I have carried it with me on many fishing trips and itás a great deer-camp read. When it's painfully hot, reading "The Cremation of Sam Magee" either makes you feel cold inside, or resigns you to the fact that the heat is much better than the Yukon chill that froze the bones of Sam Magee. My first exposure to Service was as a kid at the soil and water conservation camp in Cedar Lakes. One of the adult leaders could recite it from memory and he did by the campfire every year. Service wasn't an adventurer like Jack London, although he wanted to be. He left his job as a bank teller in Scotland to move to Canada seeking some excitement. He wound up working as a bank teller in Canada, but his poems made him a fortune.
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It's your internet
 Art Smith |
Race info, photos available on the WebSat, August 23, 2008 @ 7:33AM Last week the streets of Parkersburg were filled with more than 1,500 runners taking part in the News and Sentinel Races. What a day. Perfect weather helped make the day perfect for racing. More than a 1,000 volunteers helped make the day perfect for runners. A lot of information from the races ends up on the web. Results are posted both on our site and that of our timer. Thousands of photos from the race can be found on our Web site. Our photo sharing site CU is a great spot find photos of yourself running in either the half marathon or two-mile race. If you attended the kids races on Sunday, you may also find photos of your children running. Use the links to view results and photos. Remember, the 2009 Half Marathon is less than year away, so when you get done looking at photos. Go run.
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Editor's Log
 Jim Smith |
Football here againTue, August 26, 2008 @ 10:17AM High School football season begins in West Virginia Friday night and The News and Sentinel has added a new feature to our Web site to help in covering the games. Blurbs about the ongoing games will be posted on our Web site at halftimes and will be updated at the end of the game. The halftime highlight, we hope, will prove useful and valuable to our readers. Drop me or sports editor Dave Poe a line about your thoughts on the halftime highlights.
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