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Touchstone Helps To Boost West Virginia's Technology Landscape

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For a long time, West Virginia leaders have said that, in order for the state to grow and thrive, it must embrace and continue to advance in the technology field. The next step in that process happened this Friday in Triadelphia. Touchstone Advanced Components, located on Middle Creek Road in Triadelphia, cut the ribbon Friday on a new 12,500-square-foot manufacturing facility. This new facility will allow the company to expand its operations in using C-foam, a coal byproduct created by Touchstone about 20 years ago to create tools, molds and parts needed in the aerospace ...

Safe Haven Baby Boxes Important For Community

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There are some things in life that we hope are never used, but we’re much better off as a community that the option is there. Such is the case with the latest Safe Haven Baby Box that was blessed this past week at the headquarters of the Wheeling Fire Department. Safe Haven Baby Boxes allow a struggling mother wishing to surrender a child do so anonymously in a temperature-controlled and alarmed box. That box also will alert first responders, who will come and check that the child isn’t suffering any health issues. This is the second Baby Box at a Wheeling fire station, the ...

Consider Being An Organ Donor

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As flags climbed flagpoles at hospitals throughout the Ohio Valley this week, the message was clear — organ donation is one of the most important decisions one can make for others. The “Donate Life” flags are flying in celebration of National Donate Life Awareness Month, a reminder of the need for organ donors across the country. In the Ohio Valley, guest speakers offered examples of how organ donation can change lives for the better. They talked about their family members who have been donor organ recipients and the years those gifts have given them to spend more time with their ...

Solid Energy Plan Needed

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State senators have plenty of work to do — for their constituents, they must remember — and among those tasks is understanding Ohio’s energy landscape and the demands we are placing on our power grid. Public Utilities Commission of Ohio Chair Jenifer French spoke to the body recently about the benefits of shorter regulatory timelines, noting that last year the commission signed off on 2,000 megawatts of behind-the-meter power (standalone power serving a facility) and 2,755 megawatts of traditional gas-generating facilities. She told the committee, “This is more gas-fired ...

Dancing Wheels A Great Event

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Those who dance often talk about the joy they feel when participating in the art ­— the freedom and the beauty of expression. There are some in the community who, due to different disabilities, may not believe they can join in that joy. At Easterseals Rehabilitation Center this week, there was an event that smashed through that belief and showed people that anyone can be a dancer. Dancing Wheels, a nationally recognized physically-integrated dance company that unites performers with and without disabilities, again held a movement class in Wheeling, in collaboration with Easterseals ...

Time For A Clean-Up

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Spring is here and it is a time for renewal. Part of that renewal can be in and around your home. Have a bunch of stuff that you just need to get rid of? The City of Wheeling his helping with that by holding several Spring Cleanup days around the city. Dumpsters are located on those days at areas around Wheeling for landfill-appropriate refuse. The containers will be at the following places on the following days. - April 10 - Former Dog Pound, Industrial Drive & Peninsula Street, Fulton - April 17 - Former Wheeling-Penn Closure, 19th Street, East Wheeling - April 24 - ...