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Still Free! More than just an advertisement Inside Inside Events In-home services for seniors Pages 8-11 INNformer Page 4 Publication of The Wells Inn Volume 4, No. 5 The Wells Inn, 316 Charles St. Sistersville, WV 26175 March 9, 2017 Paden City resident Paden City turns hobby into Council moves full-time business forward with ‘CHOOSE A JOB YOU LOVE, $4 municipal AND YOU WILL NEVER HAVE TO WORK fee increase A DAY IN YOUR LIFE’– Confucious From staff reports By Charles Winslow PADEN CITY – Paden City Council PADEN CITY – When people talk about marbles made in unanimously approved March 6 the sec- ond reading of an ordinance that will Paden City they usually refer to Marble King, the well- known manufacturer of mass-produced small glass balls raise municipal fees $4 across the board used in games and commercial applications. for residential, commercial and indus- Strother, a self-taught Paden City native, began by tinkering trial properties. But there is another, and much smaller, marble-maker in The increase will go into effect May 1. town. with wooden marbles and then, in December 2013, started experimenting with making glass ones using the lamp, or Since June of last year, Steven Strother II, owner of Serenity The council also agreed to hold a budget gas torch, method. He starts his creations by working with Glass Arts, has been making specialty marbles full time and, meeting at 6 p.m. March 14 to review the glass rods of different colors and heating them to between like his larger industrial neighbor, has seen his product $714,566 General Fund. shipped overseas. But while Marble King makes and ships 2,500 and 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit to get them to melt. Also, to date, the city has received six their product by the millions, Strother is happy with the 900 Using a technique he perfected through hundreds of hours of trial and error, Strother is able to shape the molten liquid applications for the position of police specialty marbles that comprises his entire year’s worth of chief, including two with backgrounds in production. into surprisingly intricate three-dimensional designs within law enforcement. The position became the glass spheres, which range in size from 1 inch to 1.5 vacant upon the Feb. 28 retirement o The 39-year-old has been able to take his hobby and make f a full-time business out of it. inches in diameter. Bob Postlethwait. Applications will be He estimates each marble, depending on the complexity of accepted through March 31, 2017. “I was working at the drywall plant and making marbles in the design, takes between 30 and 40 minutes from the small The next regular council meeting will be my spare time and discovered that I could make a living,” Monday, April 3, at 7 p.m. he explained. Continued on page 6 Wheeling Sistersville FD’s Hospital steps ambulance up to acquire service to offer SGH memberships SISTERSVILLE – “Starting April 15 the By Charles Winslow proposal states they will continue to op- Sistersville Fire Department’s Ambu- day operations of the hospital. Those negotiations failed to produce an agree- lance Service will begin offering a new SISTERSVILLE – The final chapter in erate SGH and its affiliate operations annual subscription service,” Deena ment and May abruptly departed SGH for a minimum of one year after the the nearly year long saga marking the in October. Glover, the department’s EMS director, end of city ownership of the Sistersville closing of the transaction. announced. General Hospital is now being written The hospital, which the city of Sis- “As we work with SGH staff, our goal The subscription, modeled after similar and is expected to have a fairly happy tersville has owned since 1952 and cur- will be to bolster and augment existing Air Evac and Wetzel County EMS pro- ending for Sistersville after all. rently operates as a department of the medical services and add new ones to grams, will be available for a $30 annual ensure excellent care for your patients,” city, has been facing an increasingly un- During a special meeting of the Sis- household membership fee and is in- certain future due to the rapidly chang- Ronald Violi, Wheeling Hospital’s tersville City Council Monday, Febru- tended to help reduce a patient’s out-of- CEO, said in a prepared statement. ing nature of the healthcare industry ary 27, the council voted unanimously pocket expenses. and declining reimbursements. If the to accept a proposal presented by “On behalf of our Wheeling Hospital hospital should close while still under Wheeling Hospital. The council then “This is for people with some type of family, I am very pleased that you have direct city ownership, all of its debts authorized the newly reconstituted health insurance. What their insurance placed your trust in our ability to en- Building Commission to negotiate final hance SGH’s long-term commitment to and liabilities would create a potentially does not pay will be written off,” Glover details. catastrophic financial crisis for the mu- explained. “No insurance? If they pur- providing its patients with the highest nicipality and its residents. chase a membership, I will write off 30 possible level of quality care,” Violi Under the deal, with a potential paper percent of their bill as long as they pay said. While the negotiations are in the due- value of over $5.5 million, Wheeling for the rest of it.” Hospital has proposed to acquire all of diligence phase, Wheeling’s proposal “I feel very confident that they will provides for a discretionary line of the assets of Sistersville General Hos- The membership will cover any emer- keep running the hospital after the year credit of up to $1 million to Sis- pital and assume all of the health care gency calls the new Sistersville Fire De- is up,” Sistersville Mayor Bill Rice said. tersville’s Building Commission to facility’s obligations, allowing for the partment’s Ambulance Service is cover any cash flow issues that may city to get out from under the hospital’s The future of Sistersville General has dispatched on, as well as patient trans- been up in the air since last March when arise. The line of credit is to be secured fers from Sistersville General Hospital debt and potentially substantial finan- by deeds of trust and assignments of to regional hospitals, such as Parkers- cial liabilities. then CEO John May announced the leases and rents of the properties used hospital administration had been in ne- by SGH. burg, Marietta and Morgantown. Wheeling is expected to keep the hos- gotiations with WVU Medicine, West Glover cautioned that members may pital and its Emergency Department Virginia University’s affiliated health open, at least in the near term, as their Sistersville General’s ambulance serv- Continued on page 5 system, to have them take over day-to- Continued on page 13 INDEX In-home services for seniors 4 Layla Williamson 7 How to get a job 12-13 Manchin in DC 2 Regional roundup 5 Events 8-11 2017 Legislative roundup Column: Model trains 3 Flooding in Tyler County 6 Classified ads 11 Bill tracker 14-15
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