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More than just an advertisement SSSSSSSSSSSttttttttttiiiiiiiiiilllllllllllllllllll Frell FFFFFFFFFFrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeee!eeeeeee!!!!!!!!!! Stil Inside Inside Pittsburgh Zoo daytrip Area crime wave Pages 10-11 INNformer Pages 6-7 Publication of The Wells Inn Volume 2, No. 12 The Wells Inn, 316 Charles St. Sistersville, WV 26175 June 19, 2015 PCDA seeks $1.8M for industrial park By Lea Ann Butcher Those in attendance were Cork Bowen, Joelshould l ist the Industrial Park with them. Fol- PADEN CITY — This ’s yitcentel devopmau- Davis, Clyde Hochstrasser, Scott Northcraft, lowing her departure from the meeting, the Ken Stead and Richard Wright. Absent werboard ve oted to list the more than 200,000 thority has officially decided to sell its indus- Kim Frum, Susie Henthorn, Tom Martin, Doug trial park. Many of the members in attendance square-foot property with the company. Patterson and B.B. Chanda Spragg, treasurer, has at the June 8 meeting agreed that the authority k d e ill lar b wo P as s strial u d e n I“Th - d - ,” ai s Bo s i resigned to spend more time with her family. should not be landlords but should concentrate wen, PCDA president. The facility is divided into on bringing in more business and developKaingthy Osovich of Harvey Goodman Realtofoursr sectio ns with separate utilities and has 10 other properties. gave a presentation detailing why the PCDA Continued on page 15 Ferry Board Sistersville couple killed in Florida collision takes over docks Five adults, including two Sistersville resi- From staff reports dents, were killed SISTERSVILLE -- The Sisters- Tuesday afternoon in a ville City Council unanimously head-on collision in voted Monday, June 8, to assign northern Florida. control and management of both Daniel P. Eden Jr, 29, the Transient Dock and historic and Brandy R. Eden, Sistersville Yacht Club docks to 24, both of Sistersville, the Sistersville Ferry Board. were killed in the two- This move comes as the Ferry car crash that also Board is actively working to set claimed the lives of up a Port Authority to operate the three other adults and ferry and promote economic de- critically injured two velopment and tourism along the children. Sistersville and Tyler County The accident occurred river front. about 3 p.m. Tuesday, The Yacht Club docks, also June 16, on a two-lane known as Maxwell Memorial road near Camp Docks, are located at the bottom Blanding in Clay of Charles Street and date back to Continued on page 4 the heyday of Sistersville, when the social elite of the city would dock their runabouts and house- boats on the river. Avian flu affecting egg, turkey prices Continued on page 5 By Charles Winslow If the sickness is detected then the entire flock has to be quarantined and destroyed to prevent sick birds onsumers nationwide are discovering that the INDEX C from entering the food chain or giving the virus a cost of eggs, chicken and turkey are on the rise. chance to mutate. Familiar Face: The culprit? An avian-flu outbreak in the Midwest that “The ASDUis eltivyac ingorkwon a accine,” vil-W Bonnie Henthorn 3 has infected flocks of fowl and forced the slaughter of Teen Bonnie & Clyde 6 nearly 50 million chickens, turkeys and ducks since De- liams said during a recent interview with the INN- cember 2014. The virus has been detected in 21 states. former. He added that while there is a vaccine cur- Crime Briefs 7 rently aiable, l av it ’ tdoesn at ch m e th s i ru v er y v ell w huCkie’s c a C r 8 Most of the affected flocks have been in Iowa, the top and chicken farmers oppose using it for fear that it will commercial egg-producing state, and Minnesota, the hurt their export market. Pittsburgh Zoo daytrip 10 top-turkey producing state in the country. s iamWill al so id sa er s m onsu c don’t e hav to y r or w Event calendar 12 The disease is very virulent, with close to a 100 per- about the turkey they purchase from their local super- cent fatality rate among infected birds, according to WVNCC grant 14 markets. Turkeys are inspected for antibiotics and the Help wanted ads 15-16 Keith Williams, vice president of communications and virus before being processed. marketing for the National Turkey Federation. Continued on page 4
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