You might want to mark your calendar for Sept. 17 as on that date there will be at least four events taking place in Marshall County at Glen Dale, Moundsville, Grand Vue Park, and the Palace of Gold.

The event in Glen Dale will be the first annual World War II History Day at the Cockayne Farmstead put on by the Marshall County Historical Society. This event has been in making for three years, and will provide numerous viewings. There will be re-enactors, hometown interpreters, military vehicles, local veterans from different wars who will be telling their stories, children’s activities, speakers on Victory Gardens, War on the Homefront, the Marx Toy Factory and more.

There will also be a Rosie the Riveter Look-a-Like contest. There will have a poster set up against the Cockayne house and contestants will have their picture taken there for judging.

The event, which will be from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m., will be in partnership with Earl Francis American Legion Post No. 3, Moundsville, the Moundsville Honor Guard, WV Humanities and the Rae Baker Family.

In Moundsville, the Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex will be holding Fossil Day from noon until 4 p.m. Sept. 17 at the Museum.

The event will include fossil identification by Ronald McDowell of the West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey; at 2 p.m., Lecture on “Fossils of West Virginia: What You Didn’t Know” by E. Ray Garton of Prehistoric Planet.

There will be an outreach display with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

The attraction at Prabhupada’s Palace of Gold will be that of a “Festival Of Colors.” The event will include live music, dance, food colors, from noon until 6 p.m. This will be the first such festival in four years.

Tickets can be obtained via www.festivalofcolors.us

Grand Vue Park and the Moundsville Cruisers’ Car Club will be presenting the Grand Vue Park Car Show sponsored by Bleifus Tire.

There will be 30 trophies awarded, along with 50 dash plaques, door prizes, a Chinese auction, a 50/50 raffle, along with food available by Vue Bar & Grill. Proceeds will benefit the Kids to Grand Vue fund under the Grand Vue Park Foundation.

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A number of matters were addressed by the Marshall County Board of Education at its meeting this past week. They were:

Employment of teachers:

Stacy L. Lightner, teacher of Kindergarten at McNinch Primary.

Mitchel J. Burkett, teacher of Spanish/Virtual Proctor at Moundsville Middle. Also, Holly R. Pettit, FCCLA advisor at Cameron High.

Randi Jo Chavanak as Special Education Aide/Autism Mentor at Central Elementary.

Emily R. Hickman as Bus Operator, 59-13 Fish Creek.

A bus change being that of Deborah F. Brown from Bus Operator, 59-13 Wolf Run/Clouston to Bus Operator, Route 50 Dry Ridge/Route 891/250.

Mentors for the 2022-23 school year being:

Cheyanne R. Bender, Cameron High Match; Lara E. Himrod, Central Elementary and Glen Dale Elementary-both with Multi-categorical with Autism; Jonna L. Kuskey, John Marshall-English; Joshua E. Gary-John Marshall, Multi-category with Autism; Kari K. Clark, John Marshall-Science; and David Allender, Sherrard-CTE.

Coaching assignments:

Cameron High-Jenny R. Magers, assistant Cross-Country; Derek Martin, assistant track; Amanda D. Francis, varsity assistant volleyball; and Sharon K. Brown, Middle School Cheerleader coach.

Sherrard Middle-Nichole L. Hess, volunteer volleyball coach.

Also, at the school board meeting Superintendent Shelby Haines, on the behalf of the board members and school personnel, presented to Susie Baker a plaque for her work in obtaining and distribution of items for use by students throughout the county.

This marked the 22th year that Baker has been involved in this undertaking. This year there were more than 1,400 students who received numerous items.

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At 7 p.m. Sunday, the first community High School Youth Program at Glen Dale United Methodist Church will be held. The group will meet each Sunday evening at the church to play games, listen to guest speakers and enjoy live music.

The group also anticipates doing outreach programs in several different forms throughout Marshall County.

All area high school youth are welcome to be a part of this program.

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Speaking of the Glen Dale UMC, it has a new pastor, Jonathan Moon. He and wife, Jenna, are parents of two sons, JJ, age 5, and Jacob, 10 months.

For the past four years they have been located in Charleston where Pastor Moon was one of four ministers at Christ UMC, and previous to that he was the pastor of two churches in McHenry.

His father served as a U.S. Army Chaplain for 31 years.

The Moon’s met while they were attending Wesley Theological Seminary as they each pursued careers in military chaplaincy: Jon in the Air Force and Jenna in the Army.

For Jenna it is back home as she grew up in Mt. Olivet.

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The annual Dungeon of Horrors at the former West Virginia Penitentiary will be getting underway later this month, and will continue through the weekends of October.

This attraction is expected to bring more than 10,000 people to Moundsville.

Tom Stiles, who heads the MEDC, states that many new attractions have been purchased for the event.