The Cabell Standard, October 22, 2013

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Sports See page 8 & 16

The day their lives nearly crashed Greg and Barbara Barringer smile a little bigger after surviving the Cheat Mountain Salamander train collision. Two train tickets sit on the table by them.

Thankful to be Alive

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l Volume 115 l Issue 42

Music Thrives at Milton Middle

By Justin Waybright justin@thecabellstandard.com

CULLODEN - Greg Barringer sees a fast-moving object dart across the tracks in front of the train he's riding on. The passenger looks to his left and sees a fully-loaded logging truck racing toward him. "He's going to hit us!...He's going to hit us!" he screams. ...Ka-plumph! The truck plows into the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad excursion train. Logs pierce through windows at the rear of a car near the passenger. A cloud of dust hovers over the carnage of what used to be the Cheat Mountain Salamander. Train cars lie on their sides. Glass and debris are everywhere. Destruction and turmoil overtake a section of track near the Cheat Bridge crossing of U.S. 250 in eastern West Virginia. Barringer checks on his wife and friends. All are alive. All are well. Fewer than 50 feet separate Barringer from the point of impact. The Culloden resident climbs

A Boost for the Band - Milton Middle School students receive a $30,000 grant from VH1 Save the Music Foundation and the West Virginia Department of Culture and Agriculture.

By Justin Waybright justin@thecabellstandard.com

MILTON - It's a new day for the Milton Middle School Band and

By Amanda White For The Cabell Standard

PHONE: (304) 743-6731 FAX: (304) 562-6214

twelve new clarinets, eight new flutes, eight new trumpets and a variety of percussion instruments in the hands of excited students. Happiness was written on the face of Brenda Graves.

"This is just beyond words," the band director said. "We've doubled our sixth grade band already." SEE MUSIC ON PAGE 5

Culloden Elementary School receives top honor

SEE ALIVE ON PAGE 7

HOW TO REACH US

VH1 Save the Music Foundation and theWestVirginia Department of Culture and History has made it all possible. A $30,000 grant from the organization put three new alto saxes,

Culloden Elementary School is Cabell County’s only West Virginia School of Excellence this year, making the distinguished list with six other elementary schools in the state. The process to become a school of excellence is voluntary and includes a 35-page application and site visit. To be eligible to apply, an elementary school must have an attendance rate of at least 93 per-

cent as well as WESTEST 2 results for reading/language arts and mathematics at 50 percent or above. Debbie Smith, principal of Culloden Elementary School, said she took the application to her staff to decide whether or not to pursue it. She said they were enthusiastic from the beginning. “We had a core team who met in the evenings and some Saturdays,” she said during the Oct. 15 Cabell County school board meetSEE SCHOOL ON PAGE 5

Culloden Elementary School was one of seven elementary schools recognized as a West Virginia School of Excellence. The school will begin a $7.5 million dollar renovation to the front of the building in the coming months.

Inside This Week: HALLOWEEN HAPPENINGS - PAGE 2 CHH AUXILIARY & VOLUNTEERS - PAGE 7 SCHOOL NEWS - PAGE 9

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