WIDE AWAKE: If you're up and at 'em as the saying goes, join the Downtown Huntington Partners at 8:30 a.m. today at Pullman Plaza Hotel. Huntington Police Chief Skip Holbrook speaks.
REUNION: McClarity School reunion begins at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 24, at McClarity Church, near Branchland, W.Va. Those attending may bring a covered dish. Call Emma Jeffers Adkins, 304-736-9367.
WINNERS: Five individuals -- Dottie Ross, Mike Smith, Ryan Aschemeier and John Jessen, all of Ashland, and Homer Carter of Kenova -- each won $1,000 during the annual spring gala at Ashland's Paramount Arts Center. Lloyd Hall of Pikeville, Ky., took the $10,000 prize; while Pat John of Ashland, claimed the $20,000 grand prize.
VOLUNTEERS: What would we do without volunteers -- we need them, everyone. Seven were recognized during the recent 10th annual volunteer celebration at Jeffrey George Comfort House. Linda Turner, Dotty Stacks and Patty Dickson were honored as "Women of the Decade;" Kay Freeman, "Ever Faithful" volunteer of year; Gay Bird, "Dedication and Diligence;" Linda Layman, "Compassion;" and Rhonda Smalley, Cabell Midland High music director, "Jazz Knights" performance at February's annual sweetheart celebration. Betty Wooten and Doris Williams, who have passed away, were remembered. Jo Fulks is the newest volunteer, which makes it "look out time" since she's the second "Jo" working at the house -- Jo Fannin is executive director.
LUCKY 13: Count it lucky? It was 11:07 a.m. May 13, 40 years ago when Tina Lynn was born to Bill and Sally Johnson of Salt Rock. She is wife of Stan Coniff and mother of twin sons, Matthew and Mark Mathley of Barboursville. Tina is the nurse of Dr. Jason Hudak at United Health Professionals.
MARCH ON: Marshall University's Fife and Drum Corps performs Saturday, May 17, at the annual Drummer's Call Muster in Colonial Williamsburg, Va. Marshall students also appear at Busch Gardens and in Richmond at the John Marshall House during the tour. The live webcast performance begins at 12:30 p.m. at www.history.org/drummerscall/. The creation of the corps was inspired by two MU alumnae, Lutricia Tampa Fields and Jennifer Raczok Bailey, who now perform with the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps in Washington.
O-G-N-I-B: That's bingo spelled backwards but the callers for April games at The Woodlands Retirement Community were not calling numbers that way. They were Willa Slack, Marie Scheff, Isabel Spindel, Peggy Wild, Maybelle Messinger and Paul Humphreys.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Mark Riley, Ella Grace Edwards, Wilda Baker, Barbara Washington, Kelly Rutherford, Harrison Brown, Patrick Lipscomb, Jane Napier, June Davis, Deanna Jo Bruce, Rita Rice, Laura Rowsey, Beverley Kimbler, Pam Holland, Josh Hall, Diana Belcher, Jimmy Brown, Maybelle Messinger, Alexandria Ambrose and Tielar James Cremeans turns 1. Boots Hardesty, a Midland Meadows resident, also blows the birthday horn, as does Gordon Rutherford, pastor at Olive Missionary Baptist Church.
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES: Bob and Elna Lawrence, Mary and John Thomas, Christopher and Charlann McKenna. Woody and Jennifer Wood (number 15).
FRIDAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Caelan Dawson, Bryson Scott Frasher, Donna Kiser, Jackie Rutherford, Linda Adkins celebrates number 52, Karen Pruitt, Dru Frazier, Derek Kinsey, Linda Dobbs, Paul Spaulding, Jeanette Stewart, Sheila Byrd, Peachie Turner, Hannah Rose Wisinsky, Cathy Nichols, Marianna Sexton, Gary Martin turns 50 plus 5 (55).
FRIDAY'S ANNIVERSARIES: Sam and Amy Huntz (1998). It's number 10 for Mark and Dee Dee Boley, Rich and Katrina Mailloux.
CHUCKLE: A farmer runs into the pastor of his church after missing a Sunday service. "I'm sorry I missed you this morning," the pastor says. "Well, Rev'rund," the farmer says, "I had some hay to put up. I figured it was better to sit on a bale of hay thinking about God than to sit in church thinking about hay."
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