■ NEWS HOTLINE: 304-255-4400 ■ TO SUBSCRIBE: CALL 304-255-4444 or 800-950-0250 THE REGISTER HERALD Sunday, September 29, 2013 Beckley, West Virginia ◆ Single copy: $1.50 Volume 134 Number 102 INSIDE TODAY WEATHER Couple honored for dedication to dance and community people will be able to find at least some level of coverage for $100 or less per month, after But low premiums have a trade-off: They could lead to big out-of-pocket expenses lat- er when medical bills exceed the amount that insurers con- Some information to help you get started. ■ HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL state official overseeing it says enrolling the average uninsured person will be a “This is a federal law, and it is the responsibility of the feds to fulfill this mission,” F. BRIAN FERGUSON/THE REGISTER-HERALD Elijah M. Green, 2, of Lester works a six-string during Saturday’s School of Harmony Creative Kids Festival in Daniels. MORE PHOTOS, 2C Creative community By Brandi Underwood REGISTER-HERALD REPORTER Hay rides were rolling and imagi- nations were roused at Saturday’s third annual Creative Kids Festival at the School of Harmony in Beaver. The football field behind the for- mer school was transformed into an interactive community of hands-on booths, with activities ranging from creating take-home works of art, pressing fresh apple cider, walking through a story book, bracelet mak- ing and more. Lacy Treadway, event coordina- tor and School of Harmony instruc- tor, said this year’s festival was the biggest yet, as more than 300 kids and family members mingled among the vendors throughout the afternoon. “They all love the animals,” Treadway said. “There isn’t a bounce house. We wanted activities to be hands-on and let kids use their own imagination to create and have fun.” No one was missing a bounce house with all of the other exciting things going on. Notes rang out over the commo- tion from the “instrument petting zoo,” an interactive display of vary- ing instruments that kids could touch, pick up and take a turn play- ing, all with the goal of getting youths more exposed to the arts. One of the most popular events of the day was the interactive story book exhibit, featuring Scruffy the Scarecrow of “Scruffy’s Big Search.” It was written on a whim by local author Laura LyAn Meadows for her church kids at Faith Baptist Church, in Rupert. She decided to submit the book to be published and it was picked up overnight. “The story shares the gospel with kids in an entertaining way,” she said. On site was a group of life-size and hand-painted interactive scenes from the book, including a PHOTO COURTESY OF TIM TILLEY Jerry and Sherry Rose champion dance and bringing opportunities to dancers in southern West Virginia. See SPIRIT, 8A See CREATIVE, 8A Affordable Care Act marketplace ready Health care exchange Q&A Perfect Harmony Jerry and Sherry Rose win 2103 Spirit of Beckley Award Kids let imaginations run free at School of Harmony festival $225 WVU UPSETS OKLAHOMA STATE IN COUPONS LOOK FOR Riveting tales of local Rosies
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Volume 134Number 102
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CALENDAR . . . . . . . 7A
CLASSIFIED . . . . 4C-8C
COMICS. . . . . . INSIDE
DEAR ABBY . . . . . . 7E
DEATHS . . . . . . . . . 5A
HISTORY. . . . . . . . . 4E
HOROSCOPES . . . . . 8E
NEWS OF RECORD . 8A
OPINION . . . . . . . . . 4A
SPORTS . . . . . . 1D-8D
STATE & REGION . . 3A
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By Wendy HoldrenREGISTER-HERALD REPORTER
Two Beckleyans with an undying loveof dance and passion for their communi-ty are being honored with the 2013Spirit of Beckley Award.
Jerry and Sherry Rose have dedicatedtheir lives to dance and bringing oppor-tunities to dancers in southern WestVirginia through their Beckley DanceTheatre.
“It’s so wonderful to know that peopleappreciate the work you’ve done,” Jerrysaid. “It sort of gives credibility to thelast 50 years of what we’ve devoted ourlives to, and that’s to bringing opportu-nities for young people here and expos-ing our area to the dances and perform-ances that people in metropolitan areashave all the time.”
Jerry and Sherry were both born andraised in Beckley, both graduates ofWoodrow Wilson High School and Beck-ley College.
Jerry’s father instilled a love of dance
Couple honoredfor dedicationto dance andcommunity
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Starting Tuesday, people in West Virginia who current-ly have no health insurancecan sign up for coverage undera health care exchange — a state and federal partner-ship.
Coverage will kick in Jan. 1,2014, and the U.S. Depart-ment of Health and HumanServices predicts that six in 10
people will be able to find atleast some level of coverage for$100 or less per month, aftertax credits.
But low premiums have atrade-off: They could lead tobig out-of-pocket expenses lat-er when medical bills exceedthe amount that insurers con-sider reasonable.
ON PAGE 6A: Some informationto help you get started.
W.Va. official: Feds failed to explain insurance law■ HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL
By Vicki SmithASSOCIATED PRESS
West Virginia is ready tolaunch a health insurancemarketplace born of the Af-fordable Care Act, but a
state official overseeing itsays enrolling the averageuninsured person will be achallenge because the feder-al government has failed toadequately explain what’shappening.
While the technical sys-tems should function as de-signed, “low public under-standing” could hindersignups, said Jeremiah Sam-ples, assistant secretary forthe state Department ofHealth and Human Re-sources.
“This is a federal law, andit is the responsibility of thefeds to fulfill this mission,”he wrote in an e-mail to TheAssociated Press, “and forthe most part, this effort hasbeen a failure.”
Private and nonprofit or-ganizations are ramping upoutreach efforts, and Sam-ples said that should help in-crease awareness during theopen enrollment period,which starts Tuesday.
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Elijah M. Green, 2, of Lester works a six-string during Saturday’s School of Harmony Creative Kids Festival in Daniels.MORE PHOTOS, 2C
Hay rides were rolling and imagi-nations were roused at Saturday’sthird annual Creative Kids Festivalat the School of Harmony inBeaver.
The football field behind the for-mer school was transformed into aninteractive community of hands-onbooths, with activities ranging fromcreating take-home works of art,pressing fresh apple cider, walkingthrough a story book, bracelet mak-ing and more.
Lacy Treadway, event coordina-tor and School of Harmony instruc-tor, said this year’s festival was the
biggest yet, as more than 300 kidsand family members mingledamong the vendors throughout theafternoon.
“They all love the animals,”Treadway said. “There isn’t abounce house. We wanted activitiesto be hands-on and let kids usetheir own imagination to create andhave fun.”
No one was missing a bouncehouse with all of the other excitingthings going on.
Notes rang out over the commo-tion from the “instrument pettingzoo,” an interactive display of vary-ing instruments that kids couldtouch, pick up and take a turn play-ing, all with the goal of getting
youths more exposed to the arts. One of the most popular events of
the day was the interactive storybook exhibit, featuring Scruffy theScarecrow of “Scruffy’s Big Search.”
It was written on a whim by localauthor Laura LyAn Meadows forher church kids at Faith BaptistChurch, in Rupert. She decided tosubmit the book to be publishedand it was picked up overnight.
“The story shares the gospel withkids in an entertaining way,” shesaid.
On site was a group of life-sizeand hand-painted interactivescenes from the book, including a
PHOTO COURTESY OF TIM TILLEY
Jerry and Sherry Rose champion danceand bringing opportunities to dancers insouthern West Virginia.
See INSURANCE, 6A
See SPIRIT, 8A
See CREATIVE, 8A
Affordable Care Actmarketplace ready to go in state, but ‘lowpublic understanding’could hinder signups
Health care exchange Q&A
Perfect Harmony
Jerry and Sherry Rose win2103 Spirit of Beckley Award
Kids let imaginations run free at School of Harmony festival
$225WVU UPSETS
OKLAHOMASTATE IN COUPONS
LOOK FORRivetingtales of
local Rosies
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Dennis Daniel gets a chili sample from McBee’s Irish Pub andRestaurant’s chef Rocky Goodell at Chili Night in Uptown Saturday.
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Cpl. Morgan Bragg, of Beckley Police Department, works with domestic vio-lence issues and was recently appointed to the Governor’s West Virginia Do-mestic Violence Fatality Review team.
Beckley Police officer’s domestic violence work has statewide impact
■ RALEIGH COUNTY STOP TEAM
By Jessica FarrishREGISTER-HERALD REPORTER
As National Domestic Vi-olence Awareness Monthcontinues, one local policedetective will be continuinglife as usual.
But for Cpl. MorganBragg, 28, of Beckley Po-lice Department, and forvictims of domestic vio-lence, the detective’s workis anything but the norm.
Bragg, who began hiscareer at BPD in 2008,
was a domestic violence of-ficer for the city for twoyears. Although he recent-ly stepped out of that posi-tion, his work with domes-tic violence is continuingto impact the city and thestate.
Bragg is a member ofthe Raleigh County STOPTeam (Family ViolenceTask Force), which is be-ing awarded the 2013 U.S.Attorney’s Law Enforce-ment and Victim Assis-tance Award.
He was recently ap-pointed to the Governor’sWest Virginia DomesticViolence Fatality Reviewteam, a Charleston-basedgroup that reviews domes-tic fatalities from acrossthe state and works onprevention.
Bragg was one of severalofficials from the area toreceive an Incite Hopeaward Saturday, given bythe Women’s Resource
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BECKLEY BLASTS OFF
Rocket Boys and Chili Night light up the townFestival encourageskids’ interest in scienceBy Cody NeffREGISTER-HERALD REPORTER
FWOOOOOOSH! Rock-ets sprayed off of theirlaunch pads Saturday atthe second annual RocketBoys Festival in Beckley infront of a cheering crowd.
One of the original RocketBoys says the event is agreat chance to inspire chil-dren.
“The goal of the festival isto allow us to come togethereach year and participate inother events and promotethe major idea behind theRocket Boys’ story and thatis education and the impor-tance of education,” RocketBoy Billy Rose said.
“Our lives and how weovercame difficulties ineach of our lives can serveas something that kids cantake away and apply totheir lives. These kidsshould be able to say, ‘If Iget an education, I can getout of whatever situation Imight be in.’
“As a result of going toschools and speaking to stu-dents ..., we tend to inspirethem to do a better job ofbeing a a good student.Maybe they all would havegone on and done all of thisanyway, but I like to feelthat we had a part in doingthat and inspiring them togo on and to go to college toreplicate what we’ve donein our lives.”
Another of the originalRocket Boys says the oldversion of the festival raninto a few problems in itsformer home of Coalwoodbefore it eventually had tostop.
“Coalwood is very difficultto find,” Roy Lee Cooke
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ABOVE:“October Sky” actor
Chris Owen, left, fires the rocket of
Virginia Tech student Renee Spangler, right.
Owen portrayed originalRocket Boy Quentin
Wilson in the movie.
RIGHT:Brittany Drake holds
Erik Daniels as they enjoythe rocket launches Saturday during the
Rocket Boys Festival atthe Beckley Exhibition
Coal Mine.
People bring their specialtiesfor a spicy cook-off UptownBy Cody NeffREGISTER-HERALD REPORTER
Things were really cookingSaturday in Uptown Beckley.Crowds made their waythrough the streets in an ef-fort to try the chili of 42 differ-ent cooks at the 23rd annualChili Night
According to those who wereat the festival in the begin-ning, the event has grownquite a bit.
“It started out in a parkinglot where the federal buildingis now,” Beckley Renaissancedirector Jill Moorefield said.“It was the very first year andwe had 400 people. It wasn’t acook-off. It was just selling oneperson’s chili and raising mon-ey. The money that we raisedfrom this event funds all of theevents throughout the year,along with some sponsors.”
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Deb Evans, of Beckley, enjoysa chili sample in Uptown Beckley, where throngs of people crowded the streets,left, in search of a spicy concoction.
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CHARLESTON — A cen-tral figure in the federal cor-ruption investigation in Min-go County wants his guiltyplea to drug charges dis-missed.
The Charleston Gazette re-ports that George ReubenWhite of Delbarton will makethe appeal Tuesday beforeCircuit Judge John Cum-mings. The office of Boone
County Prosecuting AttorneyKeith Randolph confirmedthe scheduled appearance.
Cummings released Whitefrom Huttonsville Correction-al Center on Nov. 15 until hecould consider White’s peti-tion.
Former Circuit JudgeMichael Thornsbury sen-tenced White in May to up to15 years in prison. Whitepleaded guilty on April 8 to
delivery of oxycodone andpossession of oxycodone andmorphine with an attempt todeliver.
Federal prosecutors sayseveral former Mingo Countyofficials hatched a scheme toprotect former Sheriff EugeneCrum from revelations he’dbought drugs from White.
Prosecutors say Crum hadWhite arrested instead ofpaying him $3,000 for cam-
paign materials. White thenwent to federal agents andtold them about allegedlyproviding Crum with pills.
To silence White, county offi-cials allegedly offered him adeal. If he switched to an attor-ney who was favored by Crumand Thornsbury, he would get alighter sentence, according tofederal prosecutors.
Oak Hill volunteer plans tripto EcuadorBy Wendy HoldrenREGISTER-HERALD REPORTER
Tia Coleman, a 23-year-oldfrom Oak Hill, is planning amissions trip to Ecuador thissummer to help children inneed.
“I’m going to work with‘street children.’ They callthem ‘street children’ be-cause they don’t have the op-portunity to go to school,”Coleman said.
“They work the streetswith their parents 365 daysa year, and some start work-ing as early as 3 years old.”
She said she plans tospend a month there with anorganization called Interna-tional Volunteer HQ. Thisorganization provides these“street children” with activi-ties, art projects, singing,dancing and games to allowthem to just be kids for achange, Coleman said.
Coleman’s love of traveland love of volunteering in-spired the idea for her trip toEcuador.
“I stayed in Spain for amonth and I loved it. I justfelt like I wanted to do workwhile I travel, to get to seethe community and helpthem out. I also love workingwith children.”
She recently graduatedfrom Marshall Universitywith her bachelor’s degree inpsychology. She said she’ssaving money to go to gradu-ate school at West VirginiaUniversity and she plans tofurther her education in the
Outdoor use permitgranted forMontwellPark eatery
Key figure in federal probe in Mingo due in court
By Tina AlveyREGISTER-HERALD REPORTER
Satisfied with developers’answers to their concerns,Lewisburg City Council mem-bers unanimously agreed togrant a conditional use permitfor outdoor consumption offood and beverages at arestaurant expected to opensoon in Montwell Park.
City officials had tabled thepermit request when it firstappeared on the agenda in Oc-tober. None of the developersattended that council session,and in their absence, membersof Lewisburg’s governing bodyraised a number of questionsabout the ownership of thepark and the proximity of therestaurant’s outdoor diningspace to a proposed teen centeron the property.
According to Mayor JohnManchester, nearly half ofNov. 19’s 2.25-hour meetingwas consumed by a presenta-tion by attorney/developer JoeLovett and a question-and-an-swer session among the devel-opers and council members.
Manchester said Lovett al-layed council’s concerns re-garding outdoor consumptionof alcohol by presenting a mapof the park and walking coun-cil members through the pro-posed access points for therestaurant and the teen cen-ter.
“We could see the spatialseparation of the teen centerand the entrance to the restau-rant,” Manchester noted.
The teen center is plannedfor the basement of therestaurant structure, which islocated in a log lodge buildingthat previously served as theregistration and office area,restaurant and bar in thenow-defunct Ft. SavannahInn complex.
Developers hope to have thefront room of the refurbishedlog building ready to open as a
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Volunteers go full throttle fixing donated bikes for Mac’s Toy Fund. Cara MacAulay,from left, and Thomas Kozer, both of Beckley, work on a kids’ bike as part of their confir-mation from St. Francis de Sales as chief organizer Arnold Bolen, of Boy Scout Troop 103,center, and volunteer Walter Winant lend their expertise Saturday.
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Tia Coleman plans to spenda month volunteering inEcuador with InternationalVolunteer HQ. This organiza-tion provides children with ac-tivities, art projects, singing,dancing and games. Colemanis looking for donations ofsupplies and funds.
By Cody Neff REGISTER-HERALD REPORTER
With Christmas coming up fast,locals are rolling up their sleevesso little ones will have the chanceto roll out of the holidays with abicycle from Mac’s Toy Fund.
“The BeckleyBoard of Real-tors is doing abike drive,” BBRC o m m u n i t yservice chairmanPaige Tipanesaid. “We’vebeen taking updonations overat ERA. Theyhave a big space
so we’ve kind of been dumpingthem off over there. We have abouta dozen over there so far.
“We also have an event at Buf-falo Wild Wings on the 9th. Peoplecan come out and eat and 15 per-cent of their meal goes towardnew bicycle purchases for Mac’s
Bolen, left, and Winant begin wheeling in donat-ed bikes Saturday morning at the Beckley-RaleighCounty Convention Center. It is Bolen’s 15th year ofcollecting and repairing bikes for Mac’s Toy Fund.
MAC’S TOY FUND
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Rolling out
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Volunteers work on bikes big and small to make surethere are enough wheels forthe distribution party Dec. 21
Want to help?Send donations to:Mac’s Toy FundP.O. Box 2398Beckley, WV 25802List of donors, donation sites, 3A
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