Community News

The United Way of the Eastern Panhandle's 2006 campaign has raised $1.4 million, the most United Way dollars ever raised in the Eastern Panhandle. "This is truly a milestone for the United Way movement locally," stated Teresa McCabe, President of the United way of the Eastern Panhandle. This recent accomplishment follows a successful merger of the United way of Berkeley and Morgan Counties and the United Way of Jefferson County in July of 2006.

If you need to rent a vehicle, there's now an Enterprise Rent-a-Car location in Berkeley Springs. Enterprise Rent-a-Car is located at 2976 Valley Road in the same building as Herb's Quality Used Cars and Trucks. The business opened on February 1.

An upcoming Morgan Community Concert Band performance will feature the original music of local composer Irving "Pete" Preston Nesmith. The performance is scheduled for Thursday, May 17 at 7:30 p.m. at the Berkeley Springs High School auditorium. The concert is free to the public.

The Concert Band's performance will mark the 120th anniversary of the first town band to play in Morgan County. It will honor Nesmith on the 40th anniversary of his death.

Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Adam T. Carder has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

During the six weeks of traning, the airman studied the Air Force mission, organization, and military customs and courtesies; performed drill and ceremony marches, and received physical training, rifle marksmanship, field training exercises, and special training in human relations.

Community Alternatives To Violence of the Common Purpose of the Panhandle maintains that programs for batterers are a critical part of the solution to ending domestic violence. Women are the most common victims of domestic violence. The majority of batterers are men. Domestic violence is a crime.

Community Alternatives To Violence provides licensed intervention programs for area men and women who are batterers. The agency's vision is a violence-free community. Their mission is "to provide healthy alternatives to violent behavior by educating the community about family violence." The program's primary goal is victim safety, said executive director Carolyn Zdziera.

While the medical community is still unraveling the mystery of what causes Alzheimer's disease and how best to treat it, one thing is a certainty – the disease lays a heavy burden on family members and friends caring for loved ones.

State health statistics show that nearly 42,000 West Virginians have Alzheimer's disease, that 70% of those with the disease live at home, and that family and friends provide almost 75% of homecare for their loved ones with Alzheimer's.

CLARK

Jim and Jessica Clark, of Berkeley Springs, announce the birth of their son, Daniel Michael Clark, on April 6, 2007, weighing 8 lbs. 1.2 ozs., at City Hospital, Martinsburg. Maternal grandparents are Scott and Mary Crawford of Hedgesville. Paternal grandparents are Steve and Sharon Clark of Berkeley Springs. Maternal great grandparents are Bill and Thelma Crawford, Hedgesville, and Richard and Thelma Wood of Glengary. Paternal great grandparents are Earnest and Ruth Clark of Berkeley Springs and Charles and Helen Canady of Fayettsville.

The Morgan County Health Department recently had a poster contest in honor of Public Health Awareness Week. The poster had to reflect threat preparedness/disaster preparedness. The children who participated were in grades Kindergarten through second grade and this contest was open for all Morgan County children. The children captured floods, fires, tornadoes and hurricanes in their posters.

Kindergarten- first place, CJ Feather, second, Daniel Hardin, third, Hunter Bobo, all of Greenwood School.

Nearly two years in the making, a comprehensive road map of Morgan County is now available for sale at the Chamber of Commerce office, announced Beth Curtin, Chamber executive director. All publicly maintained roads are shown on the map although all named roads, both publicly and privately maintained are listed in the index. Every named subdivision is marked on the map, and there are separate maps of Berkeley Springs, Paw Paw and Great Cacapon.

"After the road naming project, the old maps were out of date," said Curtin. "We expect there to be a big demand for these maps. Scarcely a day goes by that someone is not in the Chamber office looking for a road map," she said. Ten thousand maps were printed by International Mapping of Ellicott City, Md.