By DEREK REDD The Rev. Jake Steele, pastor of Christ United Methodist Church in Wheeling, sees his role as a shepherd for a community of people. Any good shepherd wants to grow the flock. And that is what Steele has been trying to do, drawing more people to the congregation and to the ...
WHEELING – A gratifying career can be forged through service to people in the community who are in need, and when that effort helps those who served our country, the rewards are worthy of a salute. In 2010, Jeremy Harrison and his wife, Susan, co-founded Helping Heroes – a center for ...
By DEREK REDD Maestro John Devlin, the music director and conductor of the Wheeling Symphony Orchestra, loves the fact that the position he holds in Wheeling exists at all. Very few communities of Wheeling’s size can claim as successful and as robust of an orchestra as the Friendly City ...
FLUSHING – Kristina Estle, 36, is a public historian, director of the Underground Railroad Museum in Flushing, assistant director at the Bellaire Public Library, president of the History Detectives of Belmont County and treasurer of the Belmont County NAACP. She has put a focus on civics ...
By SHELLEY HANSON WHEELING – Vincent DeGeorge, 34, has lived and worked in a few different cities, but he decided to make Wheeling his home because of its problems and its potential. DeGeorge is director of operations for Grow Ohio Valley and is also the organization’s Wheeling Food ...
WHEELING – In recent years, Chef Adam Luiso has made a name for himself in the Ohio Valley, – an area that in his eyes has just the right ingredients to be a great place not only to raise a family, but also to start a small business. A native of Pittsburgh, Luiso has tantalized the ...
