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Applause to the community getting involved to support a local family who lost their home and all their possessions in a house fire. Amber Channell and three of her friends have organized an auction that will benefit Joe and Sue Blankenship. The couple, along with their grandson, Joey Satterfield, lost their Kings Run Road home to a house fire on Feb. 4. Channell and her group are organizing the benefit auction, which will take place at 5 p.m. on March 16 at the Beverly Volunteer Fire Department. The group is seeking to collect donations from local businesses to be auctioned off at the event. They are also currently accepting monetary donations for the Blankenship family. Along with items that will be up for bid, the event will also feature raffles and concessions during the event.
Applause to Lydia Jones, who has been elected president of the Mountain State Forest Festival Board of Directors. Jones served as an Assistant to the Queen's Department in 2009 and 2010, and was appointed as Director of the Queen's Department in 2011, serving in that capacity for three years. She was appointed Director General in 2015 and joined the Board of Directors in 2017. She served as Vice-President in 2022 and 2023. She was also a princess in the 2003 Mountain State Forest Festival. Good luck to her and all the volunteers who work throughout the year to make the Forest Festival such a special event.
Applause to Sen. Shelley Moore Capito for helping provide a federal grant that will create a new Randolph County Housing Authority program to help the homeless. The RCHA will receive $260,564 in federal grant funding, which will be used in the start-up of the Outreach in North Central West Virginia program. The outreach effort will provide aid, services and job training to help homeless individuals in the area. RCHA Executive Director Graham Godwin told The Inter-Mountain the program will seek to "prepare people to go out and be on their own … to get people on the best foot forward."
Applause to the Randolph County Humane Society's annual fundraising dinner -- known as Spay-ghetti -- which will be offered Feb. 24 at the Phil Gainer Community Center in Elkins.. It will be the 12th annual edition of the popular event, featuring spaghetti and meatballs prepared by the St. Patrick's Guild of Coalton. The dinner is scheduled to run from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., and dine-in or take-out dinners will be available. The annual Spay-ghetti Dinner has become a popular event among area residents over the years, and officials are hoping for another big turnout at this year's fundraiser.