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The speakers were 1st District U.S. Rep. David B. McKinley, Norm Bailey of the West Virginia Department of Agriculture and Dwayne O'Dell of the West Virginia Farm Bureau. Rocky Peck was master of ceremonies.
A U.S. senator from West Virginia will be at a career fair Wednesday at West Virginia University at Parkersburg and participate in the ribbon cutting of a new addiction treatment center in Parkersburg. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is among the hosts of The Mid-Ohio Valley Career Fair to be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The fair will be hosted by Manchin, WorkForce WV, the Chamber of Commerce of the Mid-Ohio Valley, the Workforce Development Board Mid-Ohio Valley, West Virginia Department of Veterans Assistance and Results Radio.
Hino Motors Manufacturing announced Wednesday it plans on expanding operations in Wood County, with plans centered around the purchase of the former Cold Water Creek distribution center in Mineral Wells and reconfiguration into a truck production facility. Hino, which is owned by Toyota Motor Corp., will make a $100 million investment to the 962,000-square foot facility in hopes of making it operational by early 2019.
Park officials hosted a tour Wednesday for representatives of Addiction Recovery Care of Louisa, Ky, The tour also was attended by state delegates and senators, a representative from the West Virginia Attorney General, a representative of U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and others. Pressley Ridge recently announced it will cease operations at the White Oak facility by the end of January.
A Waverly woman will be sharing her story and the story of other cancer patients and survivors during the annual American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Leadership Summit and Lobby Day with federal officials on Sept. 13 in Washington, D.C. Lesa Hunter, of Waverly, will be among more than 700 cancer patients, survivors, volunteers and staff from across the country working on advocacy efforts to ask Congress to take specific steps to make cancer a national priority and help end a disease that still kills 1,600 people a day in the U.S. Hunter volunteers as the ASC CAN lead advocate for the Wood County area, often working through the ACS Cancer Resource Center at Camden Clark Medical Center in Parkersburg.