ebevins@newsandsentinel.com A fund title “Ciara’s Grace” was recently created by Boxers Bed and Biscuits in honor of Ciara Petri, a former employee who recently passed from cancer. This fund will help people whose pets are in life and death situations. (Photo Provided) Ciara Petri was an employee at Boxers Bed and Biscuits who recently passed from cancer. Her final wishes were to help animals so a fund was set up in her honor to help people pay for veterinary costs for their pets in life or death situations. (Photo Provided) Deanna “DeeDee” Rosalie Carver Parkersburg City Attorney Joe Santer, right, is applauded by Councilmen Zach Stanley, front, and Jeff Fox and City Clerk Connie Shaffer during Tuesday’s council meeting, Santer’s last after serving as city attorney since 1998. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
ebevins@newsandsentinel.com Debris from a pair of demolished houses is loaded into a truck by Empire Builders on Wednesday in the 700 block of 13th Street in Parkersburg. (Photo by Evan Bevins) Cleanup continued Wednesday following the emergency demolition of two fire-damaged houses in the 700 block of 13th Street in Parkersburg. (Photo by Evan Bevins) A crumbling section of hill and broken pieces of a retaining wall are shown next to a staircase leading to 703 13th St. on Wednesday morning. The house was one of two torn down in emergency demolition authorized by Parkersburg’s city engineer after a Tuesday morning fire. (Photo by Evan Bevins)