Feb 4, 2021
In lieu of its traditional large-scale in-person Annual Meeting, the Parkersburg Area Community Foundation & Regional Affiliates recently held its Annual Meeting virtually Jan. 15 which featured a “State of the State” address from its Executive Director, Judy Sjostedt Ritchie.
Sjostedt Ritchie noted that 2021 marked the 22nd Annual Meeting that she has had the privilege of conducting. The PACF’s grantmaking capacity has grown significantly over its history. In 1964, one year after the PACF’s founding, the Foundation awarded $2,000 in community grants.
By contrast, at the end of its 2020 fiscal year, the PACF awarded $2.9 million in grants and scholarships.
“As a public charity, anything and everything that the PACF can do is directly to the credit of the generous local citizens who support it,” said Sjostedt Ritchie.
30 Famous People You Didn t Know Were College Athletes
By Sophia Crisafulli, Stacker News
On 2/1/21 at 8:00 PM EST
The level of fame afforded to celebrities and college athletes can, at times, seem quite comparable. At schools like the University of Florida or Ohio State where sports reign supreme and tailgates are the hottest event of the semester, the young men and women whose athletic abilities have earned them a spot on the team are campus stars. This setup, of course, also comes with complications.
The lack of payment to young athletes who bring in buckets of money for their respective schools is a consistent point of contention: 65 schools of the 2,078 with athletic programs brought in $7.6 billion in college sports-related revenue in 2018, according to a March 2019 report from U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, called Madness, Inc. Meanwhile, college quarterbacks are often followed by unwanted student paparazzi. For some college athletes, walking ac
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Glenville State College student authors publish environmental essays
GLENVILLE, WV – The Glenville State College (GSC) Department of Language and Literature has announced the publication of
A Rational Species: Essays on the Environment. The book is a collaborative work created by students in Melissa Gish’s Spring 2020 semester Research Writing course. The students conducted research on a variety of environmental topics, wrote essays, and submitted their work for publication. Dr. Rico Gazal, Professor of Forestry in the Department of Land Resources, wrote an introduction for the book. Gish, an Associate Professor of English at GSC, produced the book and submitted it for publication in both paperback and e-book formats.
ebevins@newsandsentinel.com Wood County Schools nurse Antoinette Nottingham, left, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Parkersburg South High School teacher Steve Grasser during the first round of employee vaccinations Thursday morning at Parkersburg High School. (Photo Provided) Wood County Schools nurse Marilyn Schreckengost measures out a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine during a round of employee vaccinations Thursday morning at Parkersburg High School. The initial round of vaccinations was targeted at Wood County Schools employees age 50 and older. (Photo Provided)
Wood County Schools nurse Antoinette Nottingham, left, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Parkersburg South High School teacher Steve Grasser during the first round of employee vaccinations Thursday morning at Parkersburg High School. (Photo Provided)