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Employees at Memorial Health Systems and Sistersville General Hospital collected donated gifts and other support to children and organizations in Sistersville, Middlebourne, Paden City and St. Marys. (Photo Provided)
MARIETTA Even as the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a toll on health systems and their workforce across the country, Memorial Health Systems in Marietta and its employees have continued to go beyond the call of duty to support local communities, according to Jennifer Offenberger, associate vice president of Service Excellence.
This year, Memorial Health System and employees at Sistersville General Hospital sponsored gifts for 23 children from families across Sistersville, Middlebourne, Paden City and St. Marys, Offenberger said.
A Walk Down Main Street in Paden City
By Staff | Dec 23, 2020
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The citizens of Paden City don’t need to travel far to get in the holiday spirit. As far as decorations are concerned the city’s Main Street surely offers enough to help anyone feel the joy of the season and forget some of the troubles of the year. Volunteers of the Paden City Museum have been busy readying the large display windows of the Museum building with scenes of the season. Each window offers a different diorama from a nighttime flight of Santa and his reindeer bounding over a shoppe below, to a Christmas tree with gifts beneath and a depiction of Christmas morning from the past complete with a stand-up Victrola-style record player and games from the 1950’s to the 1980’s that are sure to bring back memories to the old and older alike as well as fascinate the young.
Light It Up!
By Ed Parsons - Editor | Dec 16, 2020
I have always enjoyed decorating for Christmas. One of the great thrills of the Holy season is watching the transformation of local communities from plain old street and porch lights to the hanging of lights on electric poles and the addition of yard decorations and house brightenings. As a youngster growing up on the West side of Cleveland, it became a tradition at my Grandmother’s house on West 127th, to hang a lighted wreath on the front door. That along with the fresh cut Christmas tree covered in lights, ornaments and thousands of artificial icicles was the beginning of the Christmas season.