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Festival of Nations set
for Saturday in Weirton
WEIRTON -- The 10th-annual Festival of Nations will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Weirton Millsop Community Center.
Sponsored by the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center, the family-friendly event will feature music, dances, costumes, foods and pastries. Admission is free.
Dr. J.K. Luthra, a museum board member, is festival chairman. Kalpana Gupta is festival coordinator.
Performers will represent India, Ukraine, China, the United States, Greece, Philippines, Italy and Japan. The food and pastry vendors, as well as the displays, will showcase the early American frontier, African American, Greece, India, Philippines, United States, Hungary, Norway and Poland.
Brilliant Lions Club
fundraiser under way
BRILLIANT -- At the March 1 meeting, Brilliant Lions Club members received bags of unshelled peanuts, with a certificate for a free appetizer from Texas Roadhouse, as part of the club fundraiser under way.
Esther and Lamont McCoy are chairmen of the fundraiser.
President Ralph Nickoson presided at the meeting where prayer was offered by Glenn Dennis.
In followup to a discussion held at the club's last meeting, John Goosman, Wells Township trustee, said memory trees along some of the village streets would not be removed but some would need trimmed.
The club voted to support a township levy on the ballot. Member Susan Nolan, Buckeye North Elementary School principal, announced some school functions being held and praised the Blue Team for its help. Door prize winners were Ron Brandfass, Dennis and McCoy.
Fish fry set for Friday
at Toronto American Legion
TORONTO -- The Toronto American Legion Post 86 is holding a fish fry from noon to 6 p.m. Friday. It is open to the public. Carry-outs will be available. There also is a DJ and karaoke from 8 p.m. until midnight. The post is located at 415 Market St. The phone number is (740) 537-9317.
Precision Ag & Sprayer Tech
Workshop in Harrison County
CADIZ -- Ohio State University Extension is offering a workshop for local producers that will cover current topics in the field of precision agriculture as well as provide an opportunity for producers to have their sprayer equipment calibrated before the planting season begins.
Answers to questions regarding guidance systems, satellite data uses, and sprayer technology, calibration and applications to get the most from a crop will be offered through the Precision Ag and Sprayer Tech Workshop. It will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 29 the Harrison County Fairgrounds.
Guest speakers include John Fulton, precision agriculture specialist, and Erdal Ozkan, agricultural engineer for the College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences at OSU. Workshop attendees are encouraged to bring their sprayer equipment in for calibration.
The program schedule includes: 10 a.m., "Using Precision Ag Technology and Data for a Farm;" 11:30 a.m., "Sprayer Tech and Applications;" noon, lunch; and 12:30 p.m., "Sprayer Calibration."
There is no cost for this event, but pre-registration is required. Contact the OSU Extension at (740) 264-2212 or send an e-mail to lyon.194@osu.edu. The event is sponsored by Farm Credit Mid-America and D&J Sales and Service.
Fish fest set for Friday at
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church
STEUBENVILLE -- Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 300 S. Fourth St., will hold a fish fest from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday. It is open to the public.
The meal is $11 and includes plaki fish, rice pilaf and green beans. Drinks and pastries are sold separately. Patrons can dine in or get take-out.
The phone number is (740) 282-9835.
Country Friends announce
weekend entertainment lineup
COLLIERS -- Country Friends will host the Neon Knights featuring Larry Santee, George Kokos and George Kokos Jr. on Friday at the Memorial Hall located at 67 Police Lodge Road, Colliers.
Rob Freshour's Moonlite Special will perform on Saturday.
At Friday's event, the names of four winners will be drawn from 50-50 tickets with each receiving a $50 check for a favorite charity.
The doors open at 6 p.m., the program starts at 7 p.m., and the hall closes at 10 p.m. for both events. There is a $5 cover charge per person on dance nights.
Monday is open mic with the doors opening at 4 p.m., the meal being served at 5 p.m. and open mic running from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. There is no cover charge on Mondays, but donations are appreciated.
Country Friends Foundation Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting Christian friendship and brotherly love through music. All proceeds go to charity. For information on Country Friends or for cancellations, call (304) 479-1270, (304) 748-2816 or (304) 797-0122. For a monthly schedule e-mail owlcinder@yahoo.com.
Fidelis Gamma Chapter ADK
plans for upcoming events
WEIRTON -- The Fidelis Gamma chapter of the West Virginia Alpha Delta Kappa International Honorary Teachers Sorority met at Williams Country Club on March 1.
The room was decorated for St. Patrick's Day, with Carolyn Allison and Jerry DeFilippo serving as hostesses. Allison presided during the meeting and lit the memory candle.
Devotions were presented by Pat Accettolo. Minutes were read by Bonnie Queses, the financial report was shared by Allison, and Lisa Subrick read the correspondence.
Accettolo reported she sent photographs to the state altruistic chair for the Seven Pearl and Sapphire Sister awards given to the chapter during the year.
The scholarship committee reported the chapter's scholarship will be awarded to a Brooke High School student this year. DeFilippo conducted a question-answer session on Alpha Delta Kappa facts.
Members were reminded of the state convention on April 20-22 in Huntington,W.Va. and the Southeast Regional Conference to be held in Baltimore in July. Members were asked to vote on delegates to the state convention. The group's next meeting will be on April 5 at the country club, when new officers will be elected and a member reinstatement ceremony will be held.
'Glass Castle' author to speak
at West Liberty University
WEST LIBERTY -- Best-selling author Jeannette Walls, who wrote the memoir, "The Glass Castle," will be the guest lecturer at West Liberty University's Hughes Lecture on March 22.
Free and open to the public, the lecture will be held at 7 p.m. at College Hall, with a book signing and reception to follow in the Boyle Conference Center.
"We are excited to present Jeannette Walls to our students and the community and we encourage the public to join us for the Hughes Lecture this spring," said William Scott Hanna, an English professor at WLU.
In "The Glass Castle," Walls details her life growing up in extreme poverty and her emergence from it. The memoir was named one of Amazon's top 10 books of the decade and was the inspiration for a movie of the same name starring Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts and Brie Larson as Jeannette.
She also is author of two other best-sellers, "The Silver Star" and "Half Broke Horses." The latter was named one of the 10 best books of 2009 by the New York Times Book Review.
Through her lecture Walls will take audiences on her resilient journey in the pursuit of authenticity, revealing the power of courage and determination, and reveal bittersweet anecdotes that exemplify the rewards that come from confronting challenges.
Born in Phoenix, Walls describes her nomadic childhood and time spent in Welch, W.Va., her father's hometown. After moving to New York at age 17, she went on to graduate from Barnard College and become a New York journalist.
She now resides in rural Virginia, with her husband, writer John Taylor.
Begun in the 1970s, the Hughes Lecture Series are named for Raymond Grove Hughes, an English professor at WLU for 40 years who didn't allow the effects of polio to keep him from being an active member of the college community.
Crocheting group to meet
Wednesday at Brooke Library
WELLSBURG -- The Brooke County Public Library's crocheting group will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday.
The group is for adults, beginners through experts, with help available to those who need it.
Attendees should bring their own supplies and projects. Call (304) 737-1551 to register for the free group.