April 16, 2010: Mother’s Day is coming very soon. Gillum House Bed & Breakfast is just 22 miles from both the Anna Jarvis House and the Mother’s Day Shrine (same distance, slightly different route). In 2009, the West Virginia Association of Museums visited the Anna Jarvis House in Webster and the Mother’s Day Shrine in [...]
April 11, 2010: Mother’s Day is just around the corner! Winter seemed as if it would never end and here we are, Easter has come and gone and Mother’s Day is less than a month away! The Gillum House Bed & Breakast is located just 22 miles from the Anna Jarvis House – Birthplace of [...]
April 4, 2010: It is Spring!! I know it is SPRING!! I saw my first RAMP sign last week. I received my first notification of a Ramp Dinner. In my part of West Virginia, it is not the calendar, not the end of snow, nor the beginning of Daylight Savings time that tell one it [...]
March 16, 2010: The Air Force is coming! The Air Force is coming! We have a special reason for celebrating the fact the United States Air Force Band and the Singing Sergeants are coming to Shinnston on April 25 – it is our 35th wedding anniversary. Emma Patterson, Shinnston’s Office Supervisor has been working on [...]
March 6, 2010: The Shinnston Development Authority supplied the volunteers to be the vendors for Fairmont Federal Credit Union’s presentation of Mad City Money on March 3 at Lincoln High School. We arrived at 7:30 A.M. to set up tables with our “merchandise” and receive our instructions – checks had to be filled out correctly [...]
February 27, 2010: The snow has done us in again! Today’s class – The 7 Habits of Effective People was rescheduled. Call Emma at City Hall (8:30 AM to 4:30 PM Monday thru Friday) 304-592-5631 to get the most current information or to sign up if it will now fit into your schedule. (Don’t tell anyone, [...]
February 10, 2010: Updated Information!!! The City of Shinnston received a Flex-E grant to bring a series of training classes to Shinnston rather than Shinnston going elsewhere. These classes are excellent. All classes are on Saturdays to avoid clashing with normal work schedules. Contact Emma at Shinnston City Hall 304-592-5631 to reserve a place in [...]
January 29, 2010: Today my friend Reuben Perdue of radio station WAJR-FM did his first “Reuben on the Road” broadcast and it was in Weston. I went to be in the audience. It was an informative trip for me. Reuben interviewed the Mayor of Weston and she talked about the Glass Museum among other things. [...]
January 20, 2010: Tired of being in the house? Want to learn something new? Well Shinnston is the place to do just that! Lowe Public Library is offering basic knitting classes Wednesday evenings at 6:30 PM. Bring a pair of #7 or #8 knitting needles and a skein of yarn. No prior knitting knowledge needed [...]
December 6, 2009: Yesterday we had snow! Big fluffy flakes of snow created a blanket of white for our Christmas Parade and Concert. Thanks to the help of City workers “Elmo” and Dustin the Christmas tree at the junction of WV Rt 131 and US Rt 19 got its Christmas adornment. The festive baskets on [...]
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November 8, 2009:On Friday, November 6 I had the privilege to attend a West Virginia Humanities Program at the Bice-Ferguson Memorial Museum in Shinnston. The program was Becky Park portraying Colonel Ruby Bradley in the year 1958 shortly after she received her “Bird” Colonel rank. She was Colonel Bradley and it was 1958. She spoke [...]
October 17, 2009: November is a month that West Virginia honors Veterans. I received the following message from Maxine Weser, Director of the Bice-Ferguson Memorial Museum in Shinnston: On Friday November 6th, we will have a West Virginia Humanities program at 7 pm. The portrayal will be of Col. Ruby Bradley of Spencer, WV…the most decorated [...]
October 6, 2009: Veteran’s Day is just over a month away and plans need to be made – including reservations. 9 West Virginia and 1 Ohio bed & breakfasts are joining Gillum House to say, Thank you for your Service! On the night of November 10, 2009 (so the Vets are onsite for the Veteran’s Day [...]
September 25, 2009: Frontier Days is literally in my front yard! As it is every year, the Skee Ball game is directly in front of my front porch. The street to my driveway is blocked off for pedestrian traffic only with the Kiddie Rides across the street from our side yard and the Big Kid [...]
August 28. 2009: There have been a lot of questions about the Miss Frontier Days Pageant so I am going to post some of the rules. Full rules and entry forms are available at City Hall 40 Main Street, Shinnston. The deadline for entry is September 18, 2009. There is also a Junior Miss Frontier Days [...]
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