Chelsea McCann, who moved to Monongah
with husband Benjamin McCann in 2018, is the new angel and secretary of the
Monongah Christmas Lights Committee that put 61 street lights in the town for
holiday cheer and are fundraising to add more lights.
Chelsea and Ben live in the Bridge
Street home they own next door to Ann DeMary Eates, Class of 1945, widow of Joe
Eates, also Class of 1945, and the godparents of my son, John Larry Olesky.
They met via an online dating service (see, sometimes they work!) when Chelsea
was living in Cumberland, Maryland and Ben was residing in Fairmont. They were
married in August 2016 and Ben lured Chelsea to Almost Heaven.
Chelsea and Ben have a son, Quinn,
who is 2 years old.
Chelsea grew up in Matthews,
Virginia, “a very small coastal town” as she describes it accurately since is
has a population of 569 even though the 3-centuries-old is the county seat of
Matthews County, Virginia and its residents frolic on Bethel Beach. She
graduated from Matthews High School and got a medical health associates degree
from private owned West Virginia Junior College, which has campuses in
Morgantown and Charleston and was founded in 1892.
She has worked in animal shelter
medicine and management, nursing home Certified Nursing Attendant, retail
management, grant writing and overall management. Monongah Mayor Johnboy Palmer
and Town Councilwoman Susan Staron Sanders, Class of 1971, the Angel of Thomas
Street and a Four States coal miner’s daughter who calls her Lights Committee
members her Angels, are effusive with their praise of her work in Monongah.
Chelsea also designed the amazing
poster for the Christmas in July Craft Show at 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, July 31
in the Monongah Town Hall not far from Chelsea’s Bridge Street home. The event
will include raffles, food, craft vendors galore, baked good and door prizes.
My mouth is watering just thinking
about it. Maybe you should show up and dig in!
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