News in brief: Rides to polls offered for disabled

Rides to polls offered for disabled

HUNTINGTON -- Mountain State Centers for Independent Living in Huntington is offering individuals with disabilities a ride to the polls on May 13 so they can vote.

Based on the 2000 US Census, there are over 21,000 people with disabilities living in Cabell County.

Mountain State Centers for Independent Living will be providing free accessible transportation to people with disabilities in Cabell County who would like to vote on Election Day.

Voters seeking transportation should call Mountain State Centers for Independent Living at 304-525-3324. Staff will be available to take calls from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. to arrange transportation.

More information on Election 2008, visit www.mtstcil.org.

Cabell Huntington adding parking

HUNTINGTON -- Cabell Huntington Hospital will add more than 50 parking spaces for patients and visitors with upcoming changes to campus parking areas.

Beginning Monday, May 12, hospital officials will reconfigure the parking lot between Medical Center Drive and the hospital's main entrance driveway to add parking spaces.

Patients and visitors will continue to enter the Cabell Huntington Hospital campus through the main entrance off Hal Greer Boulevard and then enter the reserved patient and visitor parking at the security gatehouse. Covered patient and visitor parking is also available at the emergency department entrance of the North Patient Tower and underneath that area just off of Hospital Avenue.

Parking at Cabell Huntington Hospital is free and includes valet service. It is available at the Marshall University Medical Center entrance and the Cabell Huntington Hospital entrance from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

St. Mary's nursing graduation set for today

HUNTINGTON -- Graduation for St. Mary's School of Nursing Class of 2008 is scheduled to take place at 7 p.m. today at Highlawn Baptist Church.

Eighty-two graduates are expected to receive certificates during the pinning ceremony.

The students have completed two years of instruction at the school of nursing. Most already have jobs waiting for them in the nursing field because of the nursing shortage here and nationwide, according to information from St. Mary's Medical Center.

The program will include a candle lighting ceremony.