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The Charleston Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) and the World’s Championship Chili Cookoff (WCCC) local organizing committee, led by George Manahan, donated $5,000 from the event’s proceeds to HospiceCare of West Virginia. Held in October of this year, the World’s Championship Chili Cookoff was a three-day event that welcomed chili cooks from around the world…
The name John Martin may not ring a bell. But his work will. If you’re a tried-and-true Mountaineer, you live and breathe one of his proudest works everyday – the Flying WV logo, the official symbol of West Virginia University. From his native Kansas, Martin traveled to Morgantown for the Dec. 1 football game between…
Blackwater Falls State Park activities include Christmas and holiday activities for overnight park guests and day visitors. Activities organized at the Tucker County destination to round out 2012 include: Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012 “Brunch with Santa” Meet Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus and a couple of elves from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Blackwater Lodge…
West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Director Frank Jezioro has presented a check to the Mountaineer Food Bank representing $70,000 raised during the sixth annual Governor’s One Shot Deer Hunt, held in October 2012. The money will go to the Hunters Helping the Hungry Program (HHH), administered by WVDNR, to distribute venison to needy families…
Fearful of their country’s ongoing civil war, a Syrian mother and son have gained asylum in the United States, thanks to West Virginia University College of Law students and professors. The clients, who prefer to remain anonymous, endured harassment and lived in a dangerous part of the country, where “bullets whizzed by their home” at…
West Virginia University’s College of Business and Economics received an in-kind gift valued at more than $245,000 from the Microsoft Corporation. The gift was given through the Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance program, and consists of two kinds of accounting software plus annual support for that software. “This generous gift from Microsoft will be very beneficial…