As a part of our Women of Estevan special, the Mercury spoke to Melodye Pierson, Estevan s biggest fan, about her love for the city and the ways she chose to show this love. Melodye s parents met during the Second World War, when her father, born at the Taylorton mine, was overseas. He brought his young wife, who was six months pregnant, from England and they settled in his hometown. Estevan wasn t as developed back then, but the family stayed to make it better for themselves and their children. There wasn t much in Estevan then, and I always said to (my mom), I m surprised you didn t get back on the train. And, and she said, I loved him. It couldn t be any simpler than that, recalled Melodye.
The incurable blood cancer claimed the life of Brian McLaughlin.
His sister, Amy McLaughlin, launched The Art of Moving Mountains and turned to half a dozen iconic West Virginia artists â Rob Cleland, Ian Bode, Charly Hamilton, Jeff Pierson, Paula Clendenin and Kayleigh Phillips.
Each month a different artist and T-shirt design will be featured on the website, theartofmovingmountains.com, with 100% of the proceeds going directly to cancer research.
For more information on multiple myeloma, on the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, and on Brian McLaughlin, visit the theartofmovingmountains.com online, on Facebook and on Instagram.
news 4 today continues at 5:00 a.m. presidential pressure this morning. president obama weighs in on anthony weiner, and the congressman will face his wife, who has now returned from an overseas trip. good morning to you. i m joe krebs. and i m eun yang. welcome to news 4 today for this tuesday, june 14th, 2011. we re going to take a live look outside. it s 5:01. we re all going aah, ooh, beautiful sky, beautiful air. you feel so great out there. the moon was so beautiful this morning when we came in too. going to be a nearly full moon tonight too. we ll have an opportunity of seeing that. before then, we ll have some clouds rolling in. now, though, off to a clear start. good morning. i m tom kierein. we re down cool again into the 50s in much of virginia and maryland. and in west virginia it s in the 40s in many locations, closer to washington. prince george s county, low 60s. mid-60s in washington and right by the bay. montgomery, arlington, fairfax counties, no
no individual user account was hacked, and the incident was more inconvenient than anything else. still they re reviewing all of the sites hosted on senate.gov. our time is 4:31. looks like we re going to have another day that could only be called a schweet. it was gorgeous yesterday. we had a lot of smiling faces. the area parks were packed with toddlers climbing on all the equipment and having fun, and the bike trails and hiker trails were packed with those that had the opportunity to have the day off. another day today with low humidity, and we ll have cool temperatures. right now starting off in the 50s in many of the rural areas of maryland and virginia, closer to washington, near 60 in fairf fairfax, arlington, montgomery, prince george s counties right now near the mid-60s. it s upper 60s in washington. mid-60s right near the bay. it s dipped into the 50s parts of the eastern shore. it s down in the 40s this morning in a few locations in west virginia and western
going to take a little while longer. back to you, eun. megan mcgrath live in bethesda. thanks for the update, megan. let s go to danella sealock with a look at traffic. maybe not going to do that right now. we ll check with tom. danella is here with a look at traffic. she can tell us what the rest of the traffic looks like since things on old georgetown seem to be improving. let s start out with metro. we have a problem on metro on the blue line between franconia springfield and van doren. it s going to cause you delays in both directions. there s a problem with the track outside of franconia, so the trains are sharing the same track in that area. again, a delay on the blue line. as far as the marc train and the vre, we re looking pretty good. here s 270. we still have traffic, major congestion on 270 as you re heading south in urbana. it s going to be blocked for you from route 80 all the way to route 95 here. here s a look at 270 and middlebrook road. look at that. no