Amanda & Chris Morgan, sons Jimmy & Andrew

Amber Efaw, Randy Ramsey, Asher

2 new alternates for Lights Committee

Amanda Morgan and Amber Efaw are new alternates for Susan Staron Sanders’ Charge of the Lights Brigade, as I call the Monongah Christmas Lights committee.

Amber is a North Marion High graduate whose family once lived in Mannington. She is engaged to Randy Ramsey from Idamay, who did two tours in  Iraq and Afaganistan with the Air Force. They have an 18-month old son, Asher.

Amanda is a 1998 North Marion grad.  She moved from Mods Run near Rachel to Monongah in 2015. She is married to Chris Morgan. They met at Wal-Mart.  Amanda worked at Wal-Mart for 14 years before switching to the Office of Global Affairs at West Virginia University. Chris still works at Wal-Mart. Their sons are Jimmy, 16, and Andrew, 6.

Monongah’s Christmas Lights Committee, responsible for 21 holiday brighteners beaming down from town street lights, had its first 2018 meeting March 24 at Susan’s home on Thomas Street, only two doors down from my parents’ rental when I still was in diapers before Johnny and Lena Futten Olesky bought the Church Street home from Consol Coal that Angela and Mary Raymond were renting (because it had indoor plumbing – halleluah! – and the Thomas Street rent only had a two-holer outhouse.

Mayor Greg Vandetta gave permission for the Angel of Thomas Street and her energetic friends to add 5 more Christmas street lights, for a total of 26! And Susan didn’t begin her lights campaign till 2015!

The Mothers Day Craft Show for May 5 in the town hall will be another opportunity to raise funds for the street lights

The committee’s current lineup:

President - Susan Sanders, Class of 1971.

Vice President - Shelly Yankie, 2002 North Marion grad.

Treasurer - Linda McCullough.

Secretary - Kitty Morrison, Class of 1968.

 

Alternates - Josh Scritchfield, North Marion grad; Breanna Stewart, Bill McCullough, Amanda Morgan, Amber Efaw.