CHRISTIAN â People from across the region are mourning the loss of charity leader Priscella Cline Smith, who died Wednesday, April 21, after she was struck by a vehicle.
Cline Smith, along with her husband, Mike Smith, was owner of the Paradise Island campground at Christian, located along W.Va. 80 between Man and Gilbert. The two purchased the property in 1992. Every month over the past seven years, they have operated the Miracle Island Unlimited Food Pantry on the property with Cline Smith serving as executive director.
It is estimated the pantry has given out more than 145,000 food boxes, with an average of about 7,000 per month. On the third Wednesday of every month during distribution, vehicles often stretch out all the way onto W.Va. 80.
LOGAN â The square of the West Virginia State Building in downtown Logan was filled with local residents Friday evening for a drug addiction and awareness event centered on religion.
The event, which was called D.A.R.E. to Care, was similar in nature to the community worship events held in the same location each Monday. One of its organizers, Asia McCants, said she hopes to offer the events each Friday and Monday from now on.
McCants, along with others including Hanna Wooten and Marti Dolin, collaborated with the Logan County Prevention Coalition for Fridayâs gathering.
âWe do it on Mondays, and one of the preachers came to me and said, âI think you would be perfect to start doing it on Fridays,â and I went to the Dollar Tree to get stuff for the homeless for that Monday, and I ran into a woman who was passing out, and she started praying, and the Lord asked me to see what was going on with her, and I did, and she just wanted to get in rehab and she wanted