BELPRE Some changes are in the works behind the scenes for the Belpre Homecoming Festival.
The Belpre Area Chamber of Commerce has announced plans for the launch of a new community-based Belpre Homecoming Committee.
The goal is to continue the long tradition of the summer event plus add enhanced community involvement and activities to attract visitors to the grounds of Civitan Park in Belpre, according to Nancy Miller, president of the Chamber Board of Directors.
With restrictions on community gatherings resulting in canceling of the event in 2020, Chamber leadership is undertaking a strategic planning process focusing on the Homecoming event, with the intent to bring the festival to the community as soon as possible with new ideas and a community-based leadership team, Miller said.
Zoning could help us love our neighbors
By Frank Boersema, Mary De Ridder, Mary Johnson, Nancy Miller, Pam Nordhof, Beverley Rannow, Kris Van Engen, June Veldheer, Al Ver Schure, Kristin Slater, Lou and Mary Ann Wagenveld, and Ron Wolthuis
Holland Bread for the World
As members of Holland Bread for the World, a Christian anti-hunger advocacy team, we are watching with concern as Holland grapples with its inadequate stock of affordable housing. While one can easily see that households with high housing costs have less money for food, the case of homelessness leads to less obvious connections to hunger.
Many homeless people rent a place to sleep in someone else’s home. For simplicity, we will use the term “couch surfer” to refer to a person or family making do with such an arrangement. Couch surfers do not necessarily have access to a kitchen. If they do, they do not necessarily have access to cupboard space or a refrigerator. If they do have access to such storage space an
Loh Leaving Bloomsbury Amid Restructuring By Jim Milliot |
Bloomsbury has restructured the consumer division of Bloomsbury USA.
Under the realignment, v-p and publishing director Cindy Loh, along with two other employees, will leave the publisher. Adrienne Vaughan, Bloomsbury USA executive director and chief operating officer, will assume the publishing director duties.With the restructuring, Loh’s direct editorial reports Nancy Miller, associate publisher and editorial director; Liese Mayer, adult fiction editorial director; and Mary Kate Castellani, children s editorial director will report to Vaughan.
In a statement, Vaughan thanked Loh for her efforts in moving Bloomsbury’s adult fiction in a new direction and for “leading the children’s division through the development of major bestselling and award-winning authors including Sarah J. Maas, Brigid Kemmerer and Renée Watson.” Vaughan added that she plans to build on Bloomsbury’s foundation “to
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A Williamsburg-area teenager who for no apparent reason allegedly stabbed a hospice nurse visiting his home last April will be tried for attempted murder and two counts of aggravated assault in adult criminal court, according to a decision late last week by Blair County President Judge Elizabeth A. Doyle.
On Jan. 5, the judge presided over a hearing in which a clinical psychologist from Allentown and a forensic psychiatrist from Philadelphia presented opposing views as to whether 16-year-old Michael Douglas Watson of Stone Row Drive could be rehabilitated by the time he becomes 21, the age at which he would no longer be under the supervision of the