Features

Dunfee Honored for Her Live Healthy, Live Well Programming

HERSHEY, Pa. — Lorrissa Dunfee, Family and Consumer Sciences educator at the Ohio State University Extension Belmont County, was honored recently at the National Extension Association for Family and Consumer Sciences’ 85th annual session, whose theme was “Nurturing the Richness of Lifelong Learning.” She was a member of the Live Healthy, Live Well team that received the First Place National and First Place Central Region NEAFCS Innovation in Programming Award at the conference held Sept. 30-Oct. 3, in Hershey, Pennsylvania. In receiving the award, Dunfee was ...

Central Students to Collect Food This Saturday

WHEELING—Students, faculty and staff will take to the streets of Wheeling today to distribute bags for the 49th annual CCHS Canned Food Drive. The “signature bags” are brown paper bags with distinctive flyers attached. Pick-up for the drive is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 7 beginning at 10 a.m. A host of volunteers will hit the streets again, this time to pick up the sacks that people have generously left out. The event benefits the Catholic Charities 18th Street Center and is the largest single food drive in the state of West Virginia. The items collected are used to stock ...

Artworks Around Town Features Works by Susan Dorsch

Editor’s Note: Each month, Artworks Around Town will tell us about its member artists. This week will feature artist Susan Dorsch. WHEELING —Artworks Around Town member artist Susan Dorsch is a native of West Virginia currently living in Wheeling. Her talents cross over many lines and ...

Enchanted Breakfast Tickets Available

WHEELING — Tickets are on sale now for the first Enchanted Winter Breakfast to benefit the Winter Freeze Shelter operated by Youth Services System. The event takes place from 9-11 a.m. Dec. 14 at Generations Pub, 338 National Road. Guests young and old are invited to dress in costume and ...

Special Activities

Advent Procession St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, 1410 Chapline St., Wheeling, will present an Advent Procession of Lessons and Carols at 4 p.m. today, featuring Benjamin Britten’s “Ceremony of Carols.” A festive wassail reception will take place in the parish hall after the service. The event is open to the public. Free-will donations will be accepted for St. Matthew’s music ministry. Church Women United Church Women United will meet at First Christian Church, 1343 National Road, Wheeling, at noon Friday. There is a charge for the luncheon; reservations are to be made ...

Dedication of Gold Star Memorial Marker Held

NEW CUMBERLAND — Early in October, the New Cumberland Garden Club did something that has never been done in West Virginia before. Under the leadership of their President, George Hines, they installed and dedicated the first ever Gold Star Family Memorial Marker. In the George Hines ...