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When Petersburg resident Otis
Sites decided to make a donation to the new Grant
County Performing Arts Center, he elected to go
with something he knew all about.
That was a couple of top-quality
AERUS commercial vaccum cleaners. He's shown here
presenting the donated items to arts center
committee member Phyllis Cole.
Sites has been in the vaccum
cleaner sales and service business for as long as
anyone can remember. The two new vacuums will be
used at the center, which is moving toward a
mid-summer opening date.
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Fair, WELD again sponsoring Tri-County Fair Star
contest
The Tri-County Fair and Radio Station
WELD will again sponsor the "Tri-County Fair Star" contest
this year.
This contest is open to vocalists from
Grant, Hardy and Pendleton counties. There will be three
categories: solos - age 12 to 21, solos - over 21 and duets,
any age.
The contest will be limited to the first
10 entries in each group.
A $10 entry fee will be charged for each
category and the contestants will each receive a free
Tri-County Fair Star T-shirt.
A preliminary contest is scheduled
Saturday, June 21, at 7 p.m. at the fairgrounds in
Petersburg.
Finals are scheduled Wednesday night of
fair week, Aug. 6, starting at 8 p.m. or immediately
following the parade. There will be special entertainment
at each event.
For entry forms, call 434-2473, 851-1266
or e-mail tricountyfair@hotmail.com.
"Wild and Wonderful" coming to a highway sign
near you
West Virginia Division of Highways crews
are changing the lettering on the state's highway welcome
signs from "Open for Business" to "Wild and Wonderful,"
according to state Department of Transportation Secretary
Paul Mattox.
The change makes official last October's
vote by 49,000 West Virginians who overwhelmingly chose
the slogan to adorn the state's roadway entrance signs.
The first signs to be completed are on
the Silver Bridge in Mason County and on the three bridges
over the Ohio River in Cabell County: the 17th Street Bridge
along US 52, the East Huntington Bridge along WV 106 and the
6th Street Bridge along WV 527. These four bridges are the
first of the 27 major entry signs to replace the slogan to
"Wild and Wonderful" and are expected to be completed by
Memorial Day, weather permitting.
For these large signs, the previous
lettering will be removed and replaced with the new slogan.
The "Welcome to West Virginia" portion on the top of the
sign remains &endash; only the slogan at the bottom is being
replaced.
Changes to the roughly 80 smaller
"welcome" signs along other state entry points are scheduled
to be complete by the end of June.
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