When you hear of plastic surgery, what do you think of? A Hollywood star trying to delay the effects of aging? People who want to change the size of their stomachs, breasts, or other body parts because they see it done so easily on TV? Those are common images of plastic surgery, but what about the...
When CROP began in 1947 (under the wing of Church World Service, which was founded in 1946), CROP was an acronym for the Christian Rural Overseas Program. Its primary mission was to help Midwest farm families to share their grain with hungry neighbors in post-World War II Europe and Asia. Today, rather than thinking of...
Rotarian Lisa Poland will talk to us about the children’s preventive dental care program at WVU Health Sciences Center Eastern Division. Perhaps she’ll also use Buzz to demonstrate root canal techniques without anesthesia. Last Week The only downside to having exchange students is that they inevitably leave and go back home. Mora Garay, our exchange student from...
This week we will have the pleasure of listening to our exchange student from Argentina, Mora Garay, while enjoying our desserts at the Purple Iris. Mora will be telling us about her past year as an exchange student with our club. Mora is from Corrientes, Argentina, which is in the northeast corner of Argentina. As part...
Pastoral Care and Counseling, as offered though the Tri-County Pastoral Counseling Service, is a valuable instrument by which the church remains relevant to the human needs of our world today. Pastoral Counseling is an essential means by which the church is helped to be a lifesaving station and not a club…a hospital and a garden of...
The West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind were established by an Act of the Legislature on March 3, 1870. The School for the Deaf and the School for the Blind offer comprehensive educational programs for hearing impaired and visually impaired students respectively. There is also a unit for deaf, blind and multihandicapped children....
The Mission of the Benedum Foundation is to encourage human development in West Virginia and Southwestern Pennsylvania through strategically placed charitable resources. The following principles guide the Foundation’s grants programs in those regions: To honor Michael and Sarah Benedum’s belief in “helping people help themselves,” and seek opportunities to cultivate the creativity of people and communities. To nurture leadership...
The Martinsburg-Berkeley County Convention and Visitor Bureau (CVB) is a not-for-profit membership organization that works to develop our communities through travel and tourism. This week Laura Gassler will tell us more about this organization and what it is doing. Last Week John Antonik, director of New Media for WVU sports, spoke to us mainly about the football...
It can’t be easy being director of New Media for WVU sports. There are six different websites as well as social media such as Twitter and Facebook that you have to coordinate. There are 17 different sports you have to publicize. Add to that the fact that WVU is in the Big 12 with no...
A choir (also known as chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. A body of singers who perform together as a group is called a choir or chorus. The former term is very often applied to groups affiliated with...