Former Monongah Junior High teacher Jack Anderson passes away

Jack Sandy Anderson, who spent many of his 31 years as a Marion County teacher at Monongah Junior High, passed away Sunday, July 26 at his Lumberport home.

Jack Anderson

Mr. Anderson’s obituary:

Jack Sandy Anderson, noted historian, author and educator died unexpectedly at the age of 83 on Sunday, July 26, 2015 at his home in Lumberport.

Jack Sandy Anderson was born April 28, 1932 in the home of his grandmother, Cora Martin Sandy, at Pine Bluff. It was from her and other relatives that he came to his love of history. He was preceded in death by his parents, Russell Lowell Anderson and Pearle Sandy Anderson, three step-brothers: Burton Russell, William Lowell and Robert Johnson Anderson, and one step-sister: Kathryn Jane Anderson.

He grew up in Harrison County and attended Pine Bluff and Wyatt schools, finishing high school at Shinnston where he graduated as the class Secretary and Salutatorian. After graduating from Fairmont State he received government grants to study the advanced sciences at Bethany College, Jackson State University and Northeastern University. Marion County schools benefited as he spent 31 years teaching beginning in 1955.

He has always had a special love for local history, engendered by his grandmother and other relatives, particularly the area of his birth and family roots. In his lifetime he was well acquainted with past West Fork Valley historians Nettie Bartlett Cooper, Harvey W. Harmer, W. Guy Tetrick, Glenn Lough, John Findlayson and Harvey Fortney. At the age of 15 he was attending meetings of the Marion County Historical Society and became president of that organization in 1967. In 1970 the society sponsored the formation of the Prickett’s Fort Memorial Foundation. David H. Jones was president and he served as vice-president. Together they and William J. Wilcox traveled to Charleston to petition Gov. Arch Moore for state funds needed to complete the fort’s construction. Marion County continues to benefit from their efforts.

Jack was also an original board member of the Harrison County West Virginia Historical Society. In 1967 he worked to raise funds for the purchase of the Amy Roberts Vance House which serves as the society’s headquarters and museum to this day. Through his efforts the society was able to acquire many objects, manuscripts and historic photos in its collection.

All was not study however and he got great enjoyment collecting antiques. His interest was captured by stamps, coins, historical and military memorabilia and glassware. He enjoyed cooking and compiled 7 cookbooks to help fundraising efforts in his community and church where he also played piano for 30 years.

Jack Sandy Anderson has been a leading historian in Harrison and Marion County and has authored many historical articles published in newspapers, magazines and books. Beginning in 1960 he wrote and published Ramblings, a book devoted to Shinnston area history followed by Other Days.

In 2014 he worked with the Harrison Country West Virginia Historical Society to republish Granville Davisson Hall’s Old Gold, and a collection of his articles on Harrison County titled Out of the Past, Harrison County History Vignettes.

On Tuesday, July 21st, Jack worked to finish the final edits of his collection of Marion County history articles titled, Glimpses of the Past, Marion County History Vignettes. It was his wish to live to see it to its completion and be able to present copies to his friends. Additionally, Jack made provisions through the Harrison County Historical Society to keep his works in print for future generations, such was his love of our heritage.

To those who knew him, Jack was a friend and mentor. He was young in spirit, always ready to lend a helping hand whether it was to speak or offer a seasoned word of advice and wit. His encyclopedic knowledge and perspective made him a master story teller. He was a one of a kind treasure whose absence is sorely felt.

He was active in a number of historical and ancestral-patriotic organizations: past president of the Marion County Historical Society, past president of the Harrison County Historical Society, organizing president of the Shinnston Historical Association, past state president of the Sons of the Revolution, past state president of the Huguenot Society, and co-founder and first vice president of the Pricketts Fort Memorial Foundation. He was a member of the George Rogers Clark Chapter, Sons of the American Revolution and the West Virginia Historical Society. He was founder and past commander of the Military Order of Foreign Wars in West Virginia. His biography can be found in The Hereditary Register of the United States of America, Personalities of the South, Outstanding West Virginians, and The West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia.

Jack is survived by his sister Patricia (Patty) Sampson and her husband Roy, his niece Janie Hardesty and her husband Butch; 6 nephews Roy Lee Sampson; Jamie and his wife Liz Sampson; Jeffrey Sampson and companion Wendy; Tracie Sampson and fiancé Tracey all of Lumberport; Arthur Anderson and his wife Leena of South Portland Maine; William Anderson also of South Portland Maine; 18 nieces and nephews; 24 great-nieces and nephews and one great-great-great, niece Jordan Hanna; and one special niece “Maddie” who shared the love of the Chinese Restaurant in Fairmont with Jack.

Friends will be received at the Harmer Funeral Home, 300 Pike St., Shinnston on Thursday, July 30th from 4-6 pm. A celebration of Jack’s life will be conducted at 6:00 pm with Pastor Harry Holbert officiating. In lieu of flowers the family has asked for memorial contributions be made to the Harrison County Humane Society, at P.O. Box 4397 Clarksburg, WV 26302

A service of the Harmer Funeral Home, Shinnston.

August 17^th will be the first twin birthdays on our Monongah High Alumni birthdays list.

 

Earnest C Hayes and Chester E Hayes, both Class of 1965, arrived one after the other on that date.

Earnest lives in Colton, California, and Chet lives in Clarksburg.

 

Earnie is a 1979 San Bernadino Valley College graduate who has been married since 1995. He’s been retired for a handful of years.

 

Kim DeMary Clowers, Class of 1979, living in Red Bank with husband Earl Lee Clowers, starts the August parade of former Lions’ birthdays. The other children of Joe DeMary, a 1940s Monongah High graduate, and Laurelle Costello Hustead are

Jo-Jo DeMary, married to Yvonne King DeMary and living in Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee; Julie DeMary; and Joanne DeMary. 

 

If your name is not on this list, email John Olesky at jo4wvu@neo.rr.com  with your full name, including maiden name, your birthday date, your graduation year and your current hometown.

 

 

August

1 – Kim DeMary Clowers, Class of 1979

3 – (Agnes) Jean Larry DiLaura, Class of 1950

7 – Dorie Mike Whetsell, Monongah graduate

8 – Sandra Ashcraft, Class of 1964

9 – Paula Kerns Fazio, Class of 1979

12 – Angelo Catania, Class of 1943

16 – Debby Morrison Harden, Class of 1966

17 – Twins Earnest Hayes & Chester Hayes, both Class of 1965

18 – Jim McDaniel, Class of 1960

18 – John Fazio, Class of 1970

19 – Greg Postlethwait, Class of 1964

19 – Barbra Eller-Hanning, Monongah grad

20 – Irene Fazio Preolitti, Class of 1966

20 – Connie Warash, Class of 1975

29– Pat Meredith Wills, Class of 1950

30 – Beth Pritchard Brooks, Class of 1978

30 – David Harbert of Idamay, Farmington grad

 

September

 

1 – Claude Domico, Jr., Class of 1959

6 – Dave Domico of Monongah, Fairmont West grad married to Andrea Justice Domico

7 – Mary Louise Orsini, Class of 1948 (honorary)

7 – Phillis Tarley, North Marion grad from Idamay living in Fairmont

8 – Fred Moorehead, Class of 1964 

8 – Jackie Olesky Straight, Class of 1955

13 – Karen Manzo, Class of 1974

14 – Suzanne Barr Loss, Class of 1948

14 – Jim Shaver, Class of 1954

15 – Bettie Hensley Lowther, Class of 1948

17 – Patti DeMary Evans, Class of 1972

20 – Greg Patrick, Class of 1970

23 – Sally Wood Tarley, Class of 1959

24 – Joe Fazio, Class of 1974

25 – Marylee Hertzog Gwinn, Class of 1948

25 – Jim Davis, Class of 1964

26 – Nathaleen Cameon Oliverio, Class of 1948

27 -- Bonita Lavencheck Waybright, Class of 1968

29 – Dietta Harden Goush, Class of 1959

 

October

 

7 – Sherry McIntire, Class of 1975

8 – Valerie Vandetta Aldridge, Class of 1973

9 – Mary Frances Miller Myers, Class of 1951

11 – Felix Colisino, Class of 1947

11 – Jay Holman, Class of 1971

12 – Brenda Manzo, wife of Danny Manzo, Class of 1957

20 – Leona “Duckles” Davis Schooley, Class of 1953

21 – Dorman Keith Beckner, Class of 1942

21 – Ken Slovekosky, Gilmer County High Class of 1976.

26 – Lori Hawkins Ice, Fairmont East graduate living in Carolina

29 – Robert Boydoh, Class of 1956

31 – Patty Steele McCombs, Fairmont East graduate who lives in Monongah

 

November

1 – Tom Dean, Class of 1949

5 – John Olesky, Class of 1950

8 – Diana Pishner Walker

10 – Tony Orsini, Class of 1946

14 – Ann Marie Mascak Davis, Class of 1955

17 – John Todd Moats, North Marion Class of 1985

20—Hellen Snider Carpenter, Class of 1950               

20 – Kathryn Toothman Crim, Class of 1950

22 – Mike Ahouse, Class of 1968

23 -- Antheai Justice Turner, North Marion 1982

25 – Gerald Nelson Hartley, Class of 1955

28 – Danny Fullen, Class of 1961

29 – Dave Westfall, Marcia Westfall Michalski’s son

 

December

2 – Adam Michna, 1980 North Marion graduate

2 -- Mareia Wilmouth McDougal, Class of 1964

4 – Ronald Pearse, Class of 1961

4 – Jay Michalski, 1980 North Marion graduate

5 – Duane Harbert, Class of 1951

8 – Brenda Urban, Class of 1971

11 – Paulette Colanero O’Connor, Class of 1966

13 – Otis “Sarge” Shaver, Class of 1948

14 – Bev Morgan Colisino, Class of 1974

16 – Barbara Sweede, Class of 1956

16 – Shelvy Maze Cunningham, Class of 1964

16 – Henry Moore, husband of Beth Pritchard Moore, Class of 1975

18 – Bill Cameon, Class of 1960

20 – Mike Hess, Class of 1975

22 – Frances Wimer Miller, Class of 1951

23 – Jim Fullen

25 – Chris Shamrock Henning

27 – John Yokay III, son of John Yokay, Class of 1953

 

January

6 – Jeanette Barr Baczuk, Class of 1940

13 – Beatrice Salisbury Mills, Class of 1951

17 – Susan Colaneri Monell, Class of 1949

18 – Arlene Marteney Decker Edgell, Class of 1951

?? – Marie Bee Zwiegel, Class of 1951

18 – Bertha Pazdric Sullivan, Class of 1954

18 – Greg Vandetta, Monongah mayor, husband of Debbie Manzo Vandetta, Class of 1973

19 – Joe Martin, Class of 1957

19 – Joann Thompson, Class of 1962  

22 – Jo-Jo DeMary of Monongah, who lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee and is married to Yvonne King DeMary

24 – Marcia Michalski Westfall, Class of 1974

24 – Mark “Hooch” Aldridge, Class of 1973

29 – Kitty Ahouse Morrison, Class of 1968

 

February

1 – Debra Manzo Vandetta, Class of 1973

2 – Sylvia Edwards, Monongah grad living in Idamay

3 – Debbie Weaver Hurley, Monongah grad living in Monongah with husband Milton Hurley

3 – Rebecca Urish Anderson, Class of 1971

8 – Tom Fleming, Monongah grad living in Bridgeport

9 – Bob Nichols, Class of 1964

10 – Bonnie Nicholson Moats, Class of 1960

11—Linda Renay Hess Postlethwait, Class of 1968

15 – Jerry Koloskie, Class of 1975

17 – Larry “Danny” Eates, Class of 1970

18 – Mark Tarley, North Marion grad

20 – Harold Dean Kniceley, Class of 1960

21 – Eva Huey Jarvis, Class of 1975

24 – Mary Kelly, Monongah & North Marion

29 – Betty Sikinow Cunningham, Class of 1954

 

March

5 – Phil Colanero, Jr., Class of 1963

5 -- Doris Carpenter Rogers, Class of 1971

6 – Karen Fitzwater Pausch, Class of 1961

9 – Richie Basagic, Class of 1975 

9 – Brian Evans, Monongah graduate married to Patty DeMary Evans

11 – Benny C. Morgan, Class of 1948

15 – Donna Colvert Davis, Class of 1961, married to 1958 MHS grad Bill Davis

15 – Clarence William “Bill” Woods, Class of 1952

22 – David Haines, Class of 1964

25 – Sandy Cook, Class of 1959

25 – Richard Fitzwater, Monongah graduate

28 – Josephine Popovich Jones, Class of 1952

 

April

 

4 – Charlotte Walker Cahill, Class of 1954

5 – Bernie Fullen, Class of 1963

9 – Paula “P.J.” Hickman, North Marion 1983

11 – Leo Kubiet, Class of 1942

12 – Linda Sawyer Duckworth, Class of 1966

14 – Lyla Cosner Howell, Class of 1958

16 – Becky Shelosky Carvillano, Class of 1961  

30 – Shirley Knight Ritterhouse, Class of 1954

 

May

4 – Freddie Jane Colosino Villers, Class of 1964

5 – Frank Franze, Class of 1950

6 – Jerry Loss, Class of 1956

12 – Arlene Kitchin, main squeeze of Joe Martin, Class of 1957

14 – Donna Post Swiger, Class of 1955

14 – Mike Jurasko, Class of 1957

14 – Virginia Belle Littleton Curtis, Class of 1957

17 – Colette Stanley Melton, Class of 1970

20 – Linda Tomlinson Stevenski, Class of 1955

21 – June Paxton Rogers, Class of 1948

27 – Ed Graffius, Class of 1971

28 – Terri Orsini Saye, Class of 1972

29 – John Woods, Class of 1957

30 – Dave Westfall, Class of 1948  

 

June

1 – Parma Kay Fetty, Class of 1973

3 – Jim Birdsell, North Marion grad from Monongah; married to Angela

5 – Ann “Peaches” DeMary

7 – Kenneth Kincaid, Class of 1968

8 – John Koloskie, Jr., Class of 1944

8 – Pat Slovekosky Morris, Class of 1970

13 – C.L. “Roy” Parker II, North Marion Class of 1982

13 – Rick Morrison, son of Kitty Ahouse Morrison, Class of 1968  

14 – Pamela Morrison Bombardiere, Class of 1967

14 – Regina Levelle Humphrey, Class of 1973

14 – Regina McCoy Murphy, Class of 1973

17 – Delmas Gene Hartley, Class of 1979

17 – Dennis Jones, Class of 1954

20 – Shirley Ann Woods Merchant, Class of 1953

23 – Ramona Fullen Michalski, Class of 1949

23 – Kathryn Manuel Marshall, Class of 1960

23 – Ron Manzo, Monongah grad

23 – Frankie Vandetta, North Marion grad

 

July

3 – Susan Ahouse Schrader, Class of 1971

4 – Barbara Fleming Marsh, Class of 1947

5 – David Gowers, Class of 1971

5 – Bill Meredith, Class of 1957

7 – Alex Fazio Huff, North Marion 2005 grad

10 – Mary Fleming Toothman, Class of 1960

14 – Ted Nagel, Class of 1954

14 – Bentley Evans, Class of 1978

18 – Larry Zickefoose, Class of 1968

20 – Catherine Reckart Boyce, Class of 1973

21 – Robin Huffman Satterfield, Class of 1973  

16 – Jean Nagel Viglianco, Class of 1949

19 – Jane Pritchard Moore, Class of 1975

29 – Pete Basagic, Class of 1972

August is a busy month in Monongah.

Check this out:

SATURDAY, AUG. 8

Marion County Backpack & School Supplies at Marion County Election Center 9 am.

FRIDAY, AUG. 14

Town-Wide Yard Sale, 
parking lot by the pavilion, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
$5 setup fee.

SATURDAY, AUG. 15

8 a.m. -- The Miner’s Run (3.61miles)  at Rails to Trails.  Registration begins at 6 a.m. (yawn!).
7 a.m. -- Country Breakfast in the Town Hall.
10 a.m. Pinball Tournament in the Fire Dept Meeting Room.
Noon – Parade.

1 p.m. – Invocation, National Anthem sung by  
Maddie Nickerson,  Recognitions and
Little Miss Monongahfest
Baby Photo Contest winners announced.
1:30 p.m. -- Fire Department Water Battle by the River Point.

2 p.m. -- Kids Hour. Mr. Twister (balloons).
2:30 p.m. -- Water Slide by the River Point sponsored by the Monongah 4-H Club.
3 p.m. -- Maddi Nickerson concert.

3 p.m. -- Corn Hole Tournament at Murray Field. $10 team entry fee.

4 p.m. -- Thistle & Tweed folk duo concert.
5:30 p.m. -- Flop in the Slop. A Tug of War Contest at the River Point. $10 per person (5 per team needed).
6 p.m. -- The Gamblers oldies music concert.
7:00 p.m. -- Duck Race on the river. Watch from the Bridge.
8 p.m. --  Jenna Won’t Sing Band, more oldies music.
10 p.m. – Fireworks.

SUNDAY, AUG. 16

Annual Car Show. Parking Lot at the tent.
Registration starts at 11 a.m.; show begins at 1 p.m.

TUESDAY, AUG. 18
Reorganization of Neighborhood Watch Program, Monongah Town Hall @ 6:30 pm.

THURSDAY, AUG. 20
First day of School for Marion County.

When Don Pitman, Class of 1962, married wife Joan, he added a Mannington mob to his Monongah mob.

Proof: 80 showed up for the Pethtel Reunion in Mannington Park this month.

It’s not that there were no Pethtels at Monongah High, just that they were vastly out-numbered in Marion County by the Mannington Pethtels.

At Monongah High after Don’s graduation were:

Charles Pethtel, Class of 1966.

Bobby Pethtel, Class of 1968.

Prudence Jeanette Pethtel, Class of 1968.

Diane Dickens Pethtel, Class of 1972.

The children of the late Olive Jane Kniceley Hulderman of Idamay include Don, who lives in White Hall with Joan;  Sylvia Ann Hulderman Edwards, Class of 1967, married to Ed, who live in Idamay (Sylvia previously was married to Don Fitzwater, Class of 1966); Raymond "Bugs" Hulderman, Class of 1966, married to Lorraine Snider Hulderman, Class of 1966, who live on Swisher Hill; and Thomas Hulderman, Class of 1969, who lives with Jane Hulderman.

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Bob and his late wife, Pat, purchased their property on Grand Lake in Presque Isle, Michigan in 1989.

There was a 1964 double-wide trailer and a garage. They made do with that with embellishments until 2000, when they disposed of the trailer and built a 3-bedroom, 2-bath summer home with a deck 30 feet from the Grand Lake shore and trees everywhere.

The trees and the family grew. There’s daughter Judith and son Steven and Judith’s daughter and Steven’s three daughters and a son, all adopted and living in Michigan.

Bob’s sister, Evelyn Kasper Boggess, Class of 1953, lives with husband Okey Boggess, a retired coal miner, in the childhood Kasper home in Frogtown.

Frogtown is off U.S. 19 just before you head south up Swisher Hill. Bob (“Satch” in his Monongah High days) lives in South Lyon and Presque Isle, Michigan, depending on the time of year.

John visits Bob on Grand Lake every summer and Bob visits John in Tallmadge, Ohio for their journey to Mountaineer Field every autumn for a West Virginia University  football game, which Oct. 10 will be Oklahoma State.

Bob and John have been friends since first grade at Sts. Peter and Paul School in Monongah. They graduated from Monongah High together and attended Fairmont State together till John left for WVU for his final three years. Bob was a manager in Ford Motor Company’s training program and served in the Army in Germany.

Bob and John have exchanged the same two Christmas cards since 1955. The cards reveal the two families’ histories – births, marriages, deaths – because the names of all family members for each year are listed. It’s almost like a two-family Bible.

Neighborhood Watch may return to Monongah

Monongah may re-institute the Neighborhood Watch program that was dissolved.

Monongah Police Chief Rick Barnhart has organized a town hall meeting for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18 to discuss the watch program. He wants residents to show up and share their ideas.

While Monongah is safer than most towns, there are home invasions and having neighbors keep an eye out and phone Chief Barnhart to deal with it is a good idea.

Since Barnhart replaced Chris Veltri as police chief in August 2014, leaving his position as Salem police lieutenant, he’s taken a more aggressive role in helping Monongah residents.

A Dollar Store by any name would be sweet for Monongah, but . . .

The situation for when a Family Dollar Store pops up in Monongah on the old Huntington Bank property at Camden Avenue and Walnut Street is murkier than a political debate.

Monongah Town Recorder Patty Steele McCombs’ latest posting is that the Family Dollar development manager, a Mr. Kitzmiller, says that the Monongah and Farmington stores will be opened by February 2016.

It’s been a few years, or so it seems, since the bank property was razed. And Monongah is caught in a buzzsaw of national corporations.

Dollar Tree acquired Family Dollar in July for $9.2 billion. But the Federal Trade Commission required the enlarged Dollar Tree to sell 330 of the Family Dollar stores to Sycamore Partners, a private equity firm, in an attempt to prevent a monopoly among the super-discount retailers.

So the Monongah property, which has gone from Family Dollar to Dollar Tree, might become a tiny cog in the Sycamore Partners cog.

Mayor Greg Vandetta and other town officials are rightfully perturbed that anyone would lay the blame at their feet. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Wheelers and dealers in Matthews, North Carolina and Chesapeake, Virginia, are deciding what will happen in Monongah, and when, or if it ever will happen.

The only thing that Monongah citizens can do is wait for the money elks to stop locking horns before they decide the fate of the Monongah dollar store, by whatever name it winds up with.

If it does happen it will make the Running of the Bulls in Spain look like a stroll in the park.

Because “Dollar” is in the name of stores from different companies, here’s how it breaks down in Marion and Harrison counties:

Family Dollar: Fairhills Plaza, 609 Bellview Boulevard, Fairmont; 917 E. Park Avenue, Fairmont; 204 S. Pike Street, Shinnston.

Dollar General: 1228 Country Club Road, Fairmont; 4584 Freedom Highway, Worthington; Middletown Hall, White Hall; 218 Adams Street, Fairmont.

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West Virginia at heart of 10-year search for intelligent life beyond Earth

The Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Parkes Telescope in Australia are teaming up for a 10-year $100 million search for signs of intelligent life beyond Earth.

Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner is putting up the $100 million.

Tony Beasley, director of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which operates the Green Bank Telescope, calls it “the most powerful, comprehensive and intensive scientific search ever for signs of intelligent life in the Universe.”

Green Bank will get $2 million per year for 10 years to devote 20% of its annual observing time to searching a staggering number of stars and galaxies for signs of intelligent life via radio signals, including one million closest stars to Earth.

If a civilization based around one of the 1,000 nearest stars transmits to us with the power of common aircraft radar, the GBT and the Parkes Telescope could detect it.

The Green Bank Telescope, nearly three football fields long, is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope. I’ve been to Green Bank several times because I find the dozens of pieces of equipment searching the universe incessantly a fascinating project.

It’s in the National Radio Quiet Zone. You are unable to get any stations on your car radio while driving in that area. It is about 5 miles from Cass, the scenic railroad town, and Virginia is a few miles to the east.

Greg Patrick,  Jim Shaver and Jeff Rogers enjoyed Mustang Week 2015 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on July 14-18.

It’s the largest all-Mustang gathering in the country – nearly 3,000!!! Attendance is growing 10% or more EVERY year.

There’s racing on the Myrtle Beach dragstrip – Mustangs only, of course. Horry County Police and South Carolina Highway Patrol had extra officers patrolling the roads to be sure the daredevil driving was confined to the race track and didn’t spill over onto the Grand Strand.

They did cruise their Mustangs to Darlington Drag Strip, though.

Ordinary Ford Mustang drivers get to drivers got a chance to run laps around the oval and drift around the autocross course.

Writes an excited Greg, who made the trip with his Comp "O" Terminator, one of only 72 such convertible models made:

“Well, we are all back safe and I am thankful for a great week and being home safe and sound but a bit depressed that it's over already. Thanks Shaver and Rogers families for an awesome week! So much fun ! Great traveling friends. MW 2016 only 51 weeks to go.”

Jim Shaver, Class of 1954, chimed in:

“The good Lord above got us through another Mustang Week without a glitch and I am super thankful for that. Just want to thank Greg Patrick for another AWSOME Mustang Week. And Jeff Rogers and his wife. I’ve been blessed with the best people; wouldn't trade them for nothing!”

By the way, the woman in the photo montage with Greg is Jill Rannenberg Mazzoni, Greg’s former Miller Junior High student, who is a Fairmont West grad. Greg later shifted his teaching skills to Fairmont Catholic, which was St. Peter’s High School when I was going to Monongah High.

Even though he’s back in Monongah, Greg isn’t through showing off special cars. He’s running the Monongahfest Car Show Aug. 16.

The day before, on Saturday, Aug. 15 from 8 to 10 p.m., Greg’s Jenna Won’t Sing Band will perform as usual at the Monongahfest.

Band members are Greg, Class of 1970, Jim Pulice, Class of 1969, retired Monongah Middle School principal, Jim’s son Eric Pulice and Ron Yanero.

The Monongahfest schedule:

FRIDAY, AUG. 14

Town-Wide Yard Sale, 
parking lot by the pavilion, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
$5 setup fee.

SATURDAY, AUG. 15
8 a.m. -- The Miner’s Run (3.61miles)  at Rails to Trails.  Registration begins at 6 a.m. (yawn!).
7 a.m. -- Country Breakfast in the Town Hall.
10 a.m. Pinball Tournament in the Fire Dept Meeting Room.
Noon – Parade.

1 p.m. – Invocation, National Anthem sung by  
Maddie Nickerson,  Recognitions and
Little Miss Monongahfest
Baby Photo Contest winners announced.
1:30 p.m. -- Fire Department Water Battle by the River Point.

2 p.m. -- Kids Hour. Mr. Twister (balloons).
2:30 p.m. -- Water Slide by the River Point sponsored by the Monongah 4-H Club.
3 p.m. -- Maddi Nickerson concert.

3 p.m. -- Corn Hole Tournament at Murray Field. $10 team entry fee.

4 p.m. -- Thistle & Tweed folk duo concert.

5:30 p.m. -- Flop in the Slop. A Tug of War Contest at the River Point. $10 per person (5 per team needed).
6 p.m. -- The Gamblers oldies music concert.
7:00 p.m. -- Duck Race on the river. Watch from the Bridge.

8 p.m. --  Jenna Won’t Sing Band, more oldies music.

10 p.m. – Fireworks.

SUNDAY, AUG. 16

Annual Car Show. Parking Lot at the tent.
Registration starts at 11 a.m.; show begins at 1 p.m.