Tuesday, September 25, 2012
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Work begins on new Barboursville Ambulance Station
Cabell Midland Knights edges Highlanders 14-13 By Bishop Nash
By Jack Bailey jackbailey@theputnamstandard.com
BARBOURSVILLE – Several dozen city and county officials turned out for a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, Sept. 21, for a new ambulance station in Barboursville. The new station, located on Riverview Drive in Barboursville, will be the eighth ambulance station in Cabell County. “This is a great day for Barboursville,” said Cabell County Commission President Nancy Cartmill. “We have been trying to build this for a couple of years.” Cartmill, the former mayor of Barboursville, said that once the new station is complete, the county should be well covered by ambulance service. County Commissioner Bob Bailey said that last year, Cabell County Emergency Medical Services responded to 2,200 calls in the Barboursville area from ambulance stations in other areas of the county. “That is why this station is so important to the people in this area,” Bailey said. “This is a wonderful thing.” With a station in Barboursville, SEE STATION ON PAGE 4
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HUNTINGTON- It was that once in a blue moon opportunity that players, students, fans and sports writers drool over. The stars had aligned promising a storybook match-up: undefeated cross-county rivals tied #1 in West Virginia battling for supremacy, pride and The Shield. It is with unbelievable rarity that a contest of this potential magnitude lives up to its billing. This one did. Cabell Midland escaped Bob Sang Stadium with The Shield and a victory Friday as the Knights edged the Huntington Highlanders 14-13 in a bonafide Cabell County clash of the titans. “Huntington played a great game and lived up to everything that we thought,” said Cabell Midland head coach Luke
Knights' QB, Theodore Pettit, hands off to Kasey Thomas. Photo by Jim Parsons Salmons, “They're going to win a lot of football games.” The yearly hype of the contest was explosively inflated in 2012
when it became clear both sides would entered the night undefeated and splitting #1 in the state.
But to appropriately quote the 1986 film Highlander, there can be only one. “It was a great atmosphere for high school football and just to be apart of that is a great feeling,” Salmons said, “It's a great thing for both communities.” The night began slow for both offenses. Not that any one side was particularly sluggish, but the defenses were firing on all cylinders early and each never gave up. The Highlanders slowly crept into Midland territory midway through the first, but the Knights defense rose up in a huge way forcing Huntington running back Brandon Morrison to fumble at the Cabell Midland 2 yard line. Huntington's defense made their own big plays on defense when they forced Midland runSEE KNIGHTS ON PAGE 6
Dinner gives Media ‘heads up’ on upcoming Pumpkin Festival By Trudy Black trudyblack@thecabellstandard.com
Every year, just a few weeks before the West Virginia Pumpkin Festival kicks in to full gear, representatives from different media outlets gather for the annual WV Pumpkin Festival Media Dinner. The dinner, held at the Milton Baptist Church fellowship building, offers members of the media – newspaper, television and radio - a preview of upcoming events and entertainment, as well as basic information on the festival. With a wide variety of foods from which to choose, including many dishes with pumpkin as an ingredient – the ‘harvest’ was
Several folks “volunteered” to participate in the annual Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest at the 2012 Media Dinner. plentiful! The cooks did a tremendous job! And anyone who left hungry… had no one to
blame but themselves! Pumpkin Festival President Bill Kelley welcomed everyone in
attendance and asked for all those who have served or are currently serving in the Military to stand and be recognized for all that they do for our country. Celebrating its 27th year, the Pumpkin Festival will be recognizing those in the military, as The Wall That Heals is due to arrive in Milton on Tuesday, October 2nd to be displayed at the Pumpkin Festival October 4-7. This half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. with more than 58,000 names is 250 feet long and 6 feet tall. All military, active and Veterans, will be given free admission to the Pumpkin Festival, as a small token of thanks for all that our military do. The traveling exSEE DINNER ON PAGE 5
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