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Special Activities

Poetry Reading

Marshall County native Jacob Strautmann, along with his partner Valerie Duff, will give a poetry reading from 7-9 p.m. Wednesday at the First State Capitol Building in Wheeling, hosted by Wheeling Heritage.

Many of Strautmann’s poems feature Marshall and Ohio counties. His poems have appeared in Salamander Magazine, The Boston Globe, AGNI Online, The Appalachian Journal, Solstice, Jam Tarts, Quiddity (where he was awarded an editor’s prize in poetry), and most recently The Harlequin. He is a contributing editor for Salamander Magazine. An alumnus of Wheeling Jesuit University, he teaches creative writing at Boston University. He is also the managing director of Boston Playwrights’ Theatre.

Duff is the author of the collection “To The New World” (Salmon Poetry, 2010), shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize (Queen’s University, Belfast). Her poems have appeared in The Common, Solstice, AGNI, The Antioch Review, Verse, The Prague Revue and elsewhere, and her reviews have been published in Harvard Review and The Boston Book Review. Former managing editor of AGNI and poetry editor of Salamander, she has received an individual artist grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and was the 2015 Poetry Fellow at the Writers’ Room of Boston.

Preservation Alliance

The South Wheeling Preservation Alliance will meet at 7:15 p.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran Church, with guest speaker Brian Wilson, the newly installed Ward 3 councilman. He will give a report on the workings of the new city council and listen to the concerns of ward residents. Ward 3 includes East Wheeling, Center Wheeling, South Wheeling and Mozart.

The south Wheeling Preservation Neighborhood Watch meets at 6:30 p.m. prior to the alliance.

Ohio County CEOS

The July meeting of the Ohio County Community Educational Outreach Service club, which was to take place Monday, has been canceled.

Greater Wheeling AARP

Greater Wheeling Area chapter 824 of AARP will hold a luncheon meeting at Wheeling Park’s White Palace at 11:15 a.m. Thursday. Reservations for members are required for the luncheon and can be made by calling Eunice Lohr, 304-242-9452. Today is the deadline. Members who have made reservations and need to cancel must call Lohr today or they will be charged for the luncheon.

Bill Blazier, chapter president, will preside at a business meeting. Entertainment will be provided by David Melovac, a musician featuring songs accompanied by his accordion. This will be the chapter’s 45th anniversary.

The project is the veterans hospitals. Items suggested are socks, undershirts, underwear in large sizes, shampoo, toothbrushes, toothpaste, lotion, combs, puzzle books, slippers and anything else appropriate.

Wayne Cunningham will share plans for a bus ride to Altoona, Pa., where travelers will board a train to visit Benzel Pretzel Factory and Boyer Candy Co. plus other stops.

Vendors will set up displays and present door prizes.

Movie and Craft

A movie and a craft will take place at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Follansbee Branch of the Brooke County Public Library. The movie is “Allegiant,” rated PG-13. The craft is create-your-own faction necklace or key chain.

Call the circulation desk at 304-527-0860 to reserve a seat and popcorn.

Book Club

The Brooke County Public Library book club will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday to discuss the book “All I Want” by Jill Shalvis.  The August book is “Tale of Two Cities/Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens . The book club is free and open to the public.

Library Program

Local children’s book author and West Virginia’s poet laureate Marc Harshman will entertain all ages at the Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library and the Benwood-McMechen Public Library this week.

At 11 a.m. Tuesday, Harshman will tell stories at Moundsville library, 700 Fifth St. He will be at Benwood-McMechen, 201 Marshall St., McMechen, at 1:30 p.m. The featured story will be from Harshman’s newest children’s picture book, titled “One Big Family,” released earlier this year by Eerdmans Books For Young Readers. These events are free and open to the public.

These free programs are supported by the Evan G. Roberts Trust through BB&T, and by the Robert Baker Family. A limited selection of Harshman’s books will be available for sale and signing following the storytelling.

For more information, call the Moundsville library at 304-845-6911, or the Benwood-McMechen Library at 304-232-9720.

Summer Reading

The Brooke County Public Library will hold a Team Read Training Camp with Stories, Exercise and Fun every Tuesday during July for the “On Your Mark, Get Set, Read!” summer reading program. This Tuesday’s programs are Pool Noodle Fun and Exercise with Cindy. The program begins at noon. All participants will receive a free team T-shirt.

Registration is required; call the circulation desk, 304-737-1551.

NAMI

NAMI of Greater Wheeling will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Ohio Valley Medical Center cafeteria, conference room B.

Patti Young and Elaine McLeskey will share national NAMI conference information. The annual rummage and bake sale will take place Sept. 9-10. The first NAMI of Greater Wheeling Walk will be at 10 a.m. Oct. 22 at Wheeling Park Schwertfeger Shelter. The theme is “Stomp out Stigma.” For sponsorship and registration forms, visit www.namiwheeling.org or find NAMI Wheeling on         Facebook.

For information, call Amy Gamble, director, 304-281-4494.

Puppet Show

Stevens Puppets will present “Aladdin” at the Moundsville-Marshall County Public Library, 700 Fifth St., at 11 a.m. Thursday. It is free and open to the public.

Cabbage Roll Dinner

Warwood United Methodist Church, 1438 Warwood Ave., Wheeling, will hold Ike Sparks’ cabbage roll dinner from 4:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesday. Take-out orders are available without beverage. The dinner will precede a Toe-Tappin’ Tuesday concert in Garden Park featuring the 40+ Band.

Spaghetti Dinner

A spaghetti dinner will take place from 4-7 p.m. Saturday at First Christian Church, 1343 National Road, Wheeling. Take-outs available.

Lunch With Books

James Thom, bestselling author of “Follow the River,” will be at Lunch With Books at the Ohio County Public Library, 52 16th St., Wheeling, at noon Tuesday to discuss his new historical novel, “Fire in the Water.”

In the new novel, Paddy Quinn, a Harper’s Weekly correspondent covering Abraham Lincoln’s burial in Illinois, boards the doomed steamboat Sultana to go up river and write Lincoln’s elegy. He is soon witness to the horror of the worst maritime disaster in American history.

The Sultana disaster has a strong Wheeling connection. Among the survivors were Wheeling natives Henry Foster, George Loy, James McKendry, Theophilas Richardson, George Smith and Zachary Taylor Woodyard. Wheeling natives who did not survive included William Crudas, Alexander Manners and Allen Stephens.

Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Attendees may bring a bag lunch; complimentary beverages are provided.

Field Trip

John Boilegh, an anthropologist with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, will conduct a visit to Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex in Moundsville Thursday. The event is free and the open to the public.

Those interested in participating may meet at the Belmont County Victorian Mansion Museum, 532 N. Chestnut St., Barnesville, by 9 a.m. to form a car pool. Participants also can meet the group at the Mound at 10 a.m.

Time permitting, other visits will include the Cockayne Farmstead in Glen Dale or a visit to Fairchance archeological site. There is no charge for admission to the Mound Museum but donations are accepted.

The event is Boilegh’s third program with the Belmont County Historical Society. For reservations, call 740-425-2228.

Summer Reading

The summer reading program at the St. Clairsville Public Library, 108 W. Main St., includes a book club discussion of “What She Knew” for adults at 6 p.m. Wednesday.

A cake decorating contest for teens will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday.

Children’s events will be offered for preschoolers at 1 p.m. Wednesday and for elementary students at 1 p.m. Thursday.

Taize

Sister Carol Hannig, CSJ, will serve as facilitator for a Taize prayer service at Mount St. Joseph Chapel, 137 Mount St. Joseph Road, Wheeling, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday. Free-will donations are accepted.

CPR Class

A Family and Friends CPR Anytime class, sponsored by Wheeling Hospital, will be offered at the Howard Long Wellness Center at 11 a.m.      Friday.

This free program is for people who do not need a course completion card to satisfy a work requirement. It is not a certification course. For more information and to register, call 304-243-3932.

Rummage Sale

A rummage sale will take place at St. Alphonsus Parish Hall, 2111 Market St., Wheeling, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 6.

Compiled by Linda Comins and Betsy Bethel

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