Community News

There was a fundraiser on July 21 for Zachary Roach, a 11-month-old Berkeley Springs boy in need of major medical care. The fundraiser, held at the American Legion Post 60 Home, Berkeley Springs was to help defray some of the medical cost.

The American Legion Auxiliary Unit 60 members participated in the fundraising with other people in the community by donating items for the dinner and other functions held during the evening. Rachel Gray and Darlene Shives, Unit 60's Banquet Committee, cooked the entire meal with Erica Dods, Debbie Fox, Linda Kerr, Vickie Luttrell and Sherrill Proffitt helping as needed in the kitchen and serving the dinner.

Girl Scouts of Shawnee Council, Inc. announces the 2007 Women of Distinction who will be honored at the 2007 Women of Distinction luncheon on Wednesday, September 26 at the Holiday Inn in Martinsburg.

Three women from the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia have been chosen to receive this year's honor: Maria Lorensen, editor-in-chief of The Martinsburg Journal in Martinsburg; Barbara Pichot, retired certified public accountant from Kearneysville; and Laura Smith, president of the Morgan County Board of Education.

Clarence Jordan (1912-1969), creator of the "Cotton Patch" Gospel, had a dream of communal loving based on Christian beliefs of the first century church of all things being in common. He began the Koinonia Farm, an experiment in Christian communitarianism in 1942 near Americus, Georgia. Clarence and Florence Jordan and another couple bought a 400 acre farm and began cultivating crops. Eventually 60 people, black and white, resided on the farm sharing their personal resources as a statement of their surrender to God. The common goods were distributed as needed. Jordan believed Americans had become too materialistic, evolving into additions and greed.

Because Jordan believed in racial inclusivity and equality, they became the target of violent attacks by local segregationists and were boycotted by white-owned businesses.

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The Tri-State Big Band is carrying on the tradition of the Big Band Era by recreating the sounds of the 1940s and early 1950s with a few pop songs of recent years thrown in. The band has been in existence since 1988 and was the brain child of Bernie Wolf, the band's director and trumpet player. He dreamed of a community stage band and over the years it grew into a much larger venture, that now has 26 members.

Town of Bath Council meetings will now be held the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Council voted unanimously to change the meeting day at the July 16 meeting.

Dr. Lynn Hiles has been around preachers and churches for a large portion of his life. The Morgan County native is the son of Jack and Shirley Hiles, who have led the local Word of Deliverance church on Winchester Grade Road since 1977. His sister is the Associate Pastor of that church. His wife's father was an evangelist, as is Hiles' brother. His two sons are already following in that same path.

But even though the life of an evangelist is one he knows well, Hiles himself was surprised when his ministry led him to a dinner with President Bush last month.

James B. Miller, Broker of Coldwell Banker Premier Homes in Berkeley Springs, announces that Don Schultheis, Jr. has joined the sales staff. This gives the Coldwell Banker team a total of 11 real estate agents and three support staff.

Schultheis is originally from Glen Burnie, Md. He and his family moved to Berkeley Springs in 1998. He and his wife of 20 years wanted to move to "the country" to raise their three children. He states that they all love this area and call it home. "Quality country living counts for us."

Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito announced that Chris Strovel is her new field representative for the Eastern Panhandle.

"Chris has lived and worked in the Eastern Panhandle for nearly 20 years. He has a unique understanding of the area that will be a valuable service for my office as well as those living in the Panhandle," Capito said.