MEETINGS: League of Women Voters sponsors a candidates meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, at Cabell County Public Library. West Virginia Legislature candidates are invited to attend and participate.
FUNDRAISER: A "Fiesta Latina!" fundraiser is from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, at Our Lady of Fatima Parish. Live Latin music is provided from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. Basket raffle, pinata raffle and face painting are also offered. Tickets prior to the event are $9 and $4 ages 10 and younger, includes food, drink and dessert, available at parish office, or $10 and $5 ages 10 and younger at the door. Adults menu features steak and chicken fajita tacos, rice and beans, sides and tamales. Kids menu includes pizza and chips. Sponsors are Tequila Grill, Tortilla Factory, El Colonial Mexican Restaurant, Casa Grande Mexican Restaurant and Tenampa's Mexican Restaurant.
PRAYERS: The Rev. John Niles, pastor of Enslow Park Presbyterian Church from 1996 to 2007, is undergoing some health issues. His wife, Helen, is recuperating, so to speak, from a former condition. Let this Christian couple know they are being thought of and prayed for by mailing a card to 205 Wesleyan Drive, McAdenville, NC 28101.
FILM: Cabell County Family Resource Network, Cabell County Student Empowerment Team and Marshall University host a screening of "Paper Tigers" from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 25, at Marshall University Memorial Student Center Room BE5 and at MU's Mid-Ohio Valley Center, Point Pleasant, W.Va.
TRIP: For a rather 'big' birthday in August, I celebrated with five family members in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. I had never been on vacation with my great-nephew, Oakley Bowyer, son of Justin Bowyer and Stephanie Adkins, who also shared the joy. The presence of sister, Jeannie Grieco and mother completed the blessing. It was a joy seeing Oakley's excitement when seeing the cabin and participating in things he never imagined.
SHOW: The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" is presented at 10 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, at Ritter Park Amphitheater. Come dressed as favorite character for the costume contest. Concessions are available. Tickets are $5; participation packs are $10.
ATTORNEY: J. Jarrod Jordan was recently welcomed to law firm of Lamp, Bartram, Levy, Trautwein and Perry PLLC. The Huntington native received his J.D. from West Virginia University College of Law in 2007 and graduated magna cum laude from Marshall University with a bachelor of business administration with emphasis in economics in 2003. He most recently was a partner at Anspach Law and attorney with Huddleston Bolen LLP.
ART: Juried Tri-State Arts Association members sell oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and more during Art in the Park from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 30, at Ritter Park, 8th Street and 13th Avenue. Admission is free.
NAMED: Cindy Collins makes Huntington headlines in two ways - she was recently named general manager of the Big Sandy Superstore Arena and is the first Huntington native to hold this position. She was chief operations officer of Paramount Arts Center 14 years and general manager of SMG's Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center in Pikeville since 2014. Kaleena Johnson, serving as interim general manager at the arena, was named to assistant general manager. Congratulations, ladies, on these accomplishments.
SINGER/SONGWRITER: Vince Gill performs for the Kentucky Music Trail Series at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at Ashland's Paramount Arts Center. If tickets are still available, the cost ranges from $25 to $125.
FUNKAFEST: The one-day music festival highlighting funk, jam, electronic, reggae, jazz and other styles of music is from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at Ritter Park Amphitheater. Tickets are $15.
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Eliza Mae Hughes is only 1, Kelvin Loren Bell still in single digits at 7, Charlie Fletcher, Abby Chaffins, Lisa Hibbard-Fraley, Toni Collins, Cindy Jackson, Joyce Rose, Tom Knopp, Ginny Spradley, Don Ball, Kevin Clark, Kathryn Harris, Tenney Crockett, Rachel Polen, Jean Mays, Isaac Herndon.
CHUCKLE: An old train on a secluded railroad was chugging slowly through the countryside when it suddenly came to a dead stop. There was only one passenger in the car, a salesman riding the line for the first time. He asked the conductor why they had stopped. The conductor said, "There's nothing to worry about, sir. There's a cow on the track." In about 10 minutes, the train got under way again, but after chugging along for a few more miles, it again came to a halt. "There's a temporary delay," the conductor said. "We'll continue shortly." The frustrated salesman asked, "What's the problem now? Did we catch up to that cow again?"
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