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WV Caring to hold annual Camp Caring

West Virginia Caring is holding its 28th Annual Camp Caring Saturday at Chestnut Ridge Park, 10 miles east of Morgantown.  Camp Caring is a free, one-day grief and loss camp for children and the adult in their life.    Since 1996, West Virginia Caring has held a grief and loss camp to support children in West Virginia who has lost a loved one. It provides the child an opportunity to spend a day with other children who have also experienced the death of a loved one.   This one-day camp is free and is open to ages 6–14. Campers discover that they can live ...

How I made my daughter’s weekday birthday special

It’s my daughter’s birthday this week and I can’t believe she is 6.   I have always heard people say that time flies and that your kids will grow up in a blink of an eye, and man is that true.   On one hand it feels like I just had her yesterday and then on the other hand I barely remember life without her.   Her birthday fell in the middle of the week, so we decided to have her birthday party a few days late so it could be  on the weekend. But we wanted make sure that we still made her feel special on her actual birthday.   This is how we ...

Old Stone House to host book fair July 20

Looking for some reading opportunities for your children?   A PaperPie Book Fair will be  from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.  July 20 at the Old Stone House Gift Shop.  Sponsored by Service League of Morgantown, this event is held annually each summer.   Choose from books for children from Usborne Publishing and Kane Miller Books, as well as Learning Wrap-Ups (educational manipulatives) and SmartLab Toys (maker of steam-based toys and games).   Mexican God’s Eye yarn weaving will also be available as a free hands-on craft activity for kids. Children may ...

Vacant Greenmont house burns Thursday

A vacant residence at 629 Pennsylvania Avenue in the Greenmont neighborhood of Morgantown caught fire early Thursday morning, requiring firefighters to respond.  According to the Morgantown Fire Department, when firefighters arrived on scene, they reported heavy smoke was showing from the first and second floors of the building and eventually flames could be seen.  To extinguish the fire, MFD said crews turned their hoses on the house and made an aggressive interior attack on the empty structure. The structure was searched and no injuries were ...

Funding for shelter takeover in place, unofficially

MORGANTOWN — Nothing is finalized, but it appears as if the funding needed to finance Catholic Charities’ administrative takeover of the Bartlett House triage shelter in Hazel’s House of Hope is unofficially in place.  During a July 2 presentation to Morgantown City Council, ...

WIC Kitchen: Cool summer salads to help beat the heat

Summer is supposed to be hot but this one has been a bit of a doozy so far.   At Monongalia County Health Department’s Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program, we recommend drinking a lot of water on a regular basis for a variety of reasons, including to aid with digestion ...