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Wednesday, August 5, 2020 • VOLUME 129 • NUMBER 33 ONE SECTION • 12 PAGES • $1.25 Fuhr Named Big Opening for Big Blue West New Interim Virginia Dean of Community To Give Engagement Residents And Absentee Partnerships Ballot At Eastern Voting Option for General Photos by Carl Holcomb The challenge was met for a minimum number of teenagers attending the Big Blue Wardensville grand opening causing chairman Election Steve Shook to have his jeans transformed into jorts by volunteers Bryce Tharp and Sky Spell. All West Virginia voters will By Carl Holcomb Shook remarked about the grand dedication as the Big Blue Youth Big Blue Wardensville is a col- have the option to use an absen- Moorefield Examiner Dr. Thomas Fuhr opening. Center held its grand opening in laborative effort between com- tee ballot in the November general The vision to have a center for Wardensville last Saturday with a munity members, churches and election due to concerns with the “It’s been a long time coming area youth was conceptualized count of 26 teenagers bolstering the East Hardy Fellowship of Eastern West Virginia Com- coronavirus pandemic, Secretary and it is finally here,” Big Blue over two years ago and finally 60 community members for the Christian Athletes to provide a munity and Technical College has of State Mac Warner said. Wardensville Chairman Steve came to fruition with faith and ribbon cutting ceremony. hired Dr. Thomas (Tom) Fuhr as Continued on page 7 Warner said in a statement that the Interim Dean of Community Continued on page 5 Engagement and Partnerships. As the chief workforce education and community partnerships officer, Dr. Fuhr will be respon- sible for the development and Sewing Seeds of Doubt implementation of instructional systems, credit and non-credit instructional programs, and services in support of employers, economic development professionals, and WVDA Urges Public to Not life-long learning. Dr. Fuhr has over 35 years of experience in higher education academic administration with em- Plant Foreign Seed Packets phasis on lifelong, extended and distance learning. He has worked The West Virginia Department seeds could be invasive, intro- plant them if they are in a sealed in community colleges, private of Agriculture (WVDA) released duce diseases to local plants or package and do not open the and four-year public institutions in the following statement regarding be harmful to livestock. We are sealed package. Keep the seeds Maryland, Pennsylvania, and New unsolicited seeds: working with the USDA to deter- and packaging and contact the York State, and has three years ed- “Like other states, we have mine the proper recourse for such WVDA,” Leonhardt said. ucational consulting and research been made aware of reports from seeds,” said Commissioner of Ag- experience in the for-profit sec- people in West Virginia that have riculture Kent Leonhardt. For more information or to tor, and over 15 years of part-time received seeds in the mail that “If you have received seeds report unsolicited seeds, contact Continued on page 3 they did not order. Unsolicited from another country, do not 304-558-2226. Something to Fawn Over in the Wild DNR Accepting Applications for South Branch WMA Dove Hunt Hunters who wish to participate in the controlled mourning dove hunt at South Branch Wildlife Management Area must submit an application by midnight on Aug. 7. Hunters may apply at the WVDNR District 2 headquarters in Romney or request an application by calling the Wildlife Resources Section at 304-822-3551. Successful applicants will be notified by mail before Sept. 1. On the first two days of the mourning dove season (Sept. 1-2), hunt- ing is by permit only. Hunters who are chosen in the lottery drawing will be randomly assigned a day to hunt, given a shooting station for one day, free of charge and will be allowed to bring two guests. A map showing location of shooting stations will be included with notifica- tion of successful drawing. No permits will be necessary to hunt doves after Sept. 2. The South Branch WMA is located at the upper end of what is known as the Trough section of the South Branch River in Hardy Photo by Jean Flanagan County. For more information about the mourning dove season, A fawn grazes in a yard in Baker last week. This is the season for the young deer, and motorists are reminded to be on the lookout for download a copy of the 2020-21 West Virginia Migratory Bird Hunt- them as they cross roadways. ing Regulations. 2 - MOOREFIELD (WV) EXAMINER, Wednesday, August 5, 2020 Opinion From Other Editors’ Desks… Letters to the Editor To the Editor, if we don’t want a lot of West Vir- possible lifelong disabilities. A One of the most prominent I want to thank David Heishman ginians to become terribly ill and short time before I wrote this let- no-mask performance artists is The price of for again writing about wearing possibly die. ter, it was reported that 2012 re- Congressman Louis Gohmert (R- masks to help prevent the spread For too many conservatives, not publican presidential candidate TX). Gohmert has been very re- of the corona virus. Dave is writing wearing masks is a kind of ma- Herman Cain died of COVID 19. sistant to mask wearing. Gohmert with deep honesty about, frankly, cho performance art. This “art” is He may well have contracted the and some of his fellow republi- our failures what a hassle masks are, and also causing the spread of a disease that disease at Trump’s Tulsa, Okla. can congressman have used their with evident sadness that it is nec- has killed more than 150,000 of rally where people were encour- time in congressional hearings to While adult-aged Americans are sorting out their essary. Mask wearing is necessary our fellow Americans since March, aged to pack together and not to call Democrats sissies for wearing if we want to keep caseloads in and hospitalized many more than wear masks, and Cain didn’t. Per- masks. Gohmert has been meeting stances on wearing masks, political parties, racial his- West Virginia low. It is necessary that with very serious illness and formance art. Continued on page 3 tory and monuments, our country’s children are bear- ing the brunt of our disarray. In cities like Chicago and Atlanta, multiple children have been murdered in the last three weeks in a wave My Unbased Opinion of shootings. These killings beget more killings in ret- By David O. Heishman ribution. Families grieve over and over. It is far easier to pull down or spray paint an histori- A news story wife, Phoebe, and when farming changed. Our place I chalk up loss of quail to loss Tea Berries over where my Dog- cal monument and fill a public highway with with pro- I discussed. Governor of West was what I call a “patch farm.” of working family farms. No more house cabin is now. They may still testors than it is to tackle the violence that robs com- Virginia, Jim Justice, has initiated Patch farms were family farms patch farms. Fences have been be there, but I haven’t eaten or a five year plan to restock Bob- which raised a variety of crops and torn out to make larger fields to even recognized any for several munities of their children. White Quail in West Virginia. Ap- livestock. Grains were necessary to be worked by larger machinery years. parently the Governor is an avid feed all manner of livestock rather in less time. Brush hogs and 2,4- We need people who are willing and able to defend Lastly, is my loss of hearing or Quail hunter and wants the tasty than farm families. Working and D herbicide have cleaned fence America’s children, drive drug and gang subcultures birds prevalent in our state again. riding horses got good hay, oats rows and brushy borders. In Hardy the scarcity of Whip-Poor-Wills out of neighborhoods, and do the long, hard work of I remember my father sitting and corn. Butchering hogs fattened County, I, as a working land sur- the reason I almost never hear building a capable next generation. Their work is of- on the old well porch out front of on most small grains, wheat, bar- veyor, helped change old farms them any more? Folks tell me Big House on summer evenings, ley and corn most prevalent. Our from patches raising small grains they hear their distinctive night ten invisible. These people sometimes wear clergy col- whistling quail calls. Sometimes sheep ate oats, corn, and best hay to smaller lots which grew homes calls occasionally, but not like they lars, sometimes badges, sometimes nothing to identify he’d get answers from two or three we had, particularly when lambing. for more families. used to. I remember seeing small directions at once. Two or three them. Farm’s flock of poultry gobbled up When fence rows got torn up or points of eye reflected light in back coveys meant maybe eighteen or whatever small grains were handy cleaned out, Sassafras went too. country roads I traveled with Pap twenty birds all within sound of plus most food scraps from our ta- It’s been years since I’ve seen a Defenders and builders are embedded in each com- making night time veterinary vis- munity. They know their neighborhoods, whether that whistle. I’ve seen quail land in ble and Mom’s kitchen. Sassafras tree around here. Those our driveway right out in front of Our farm was divided by fences summer evenings when I hunted its.

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