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This is the GUIDE PAGE MAGAZINE web text edition for
May 2018.
1Unless otherwise noted, all material is the property of
CWAB® (registered trademark), Incorporated.
Reproduction of audio, and or printed articles or
photos in the original printed issue may not be
reproduced or distributed in whole or in part without
prior written consent from the copyright holder.
1The GUIDE PAGE MAGAZINE is published monthly by:
CWAB® (registered trademark), Inc., 38 Washington
Avenue, Huntington, WV 25701.
Phone (304) 522-6991, Fax (304) 522-6924
e-mail: [email protected]
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Internet: www.cabellwayne.org or www.cwab.org
Cabell-Wayne Association of the Blind, Inc.
Executive Officers:
Joann Wallace - President
Vice President position will be filled at a later date
Leah Thompson - Secretary
Brenda Fletcher- Treasurer
Board Members: Laundle Powers, Wanda Annis,
Mike Fitzpatrick, Sue Canterbury, James O’Neil, Trish
Walker, and Mark Oldaker
Emeritus members: Ken Hicks, and Ernie Golder
Paul Slone, Executive Director
Jerry Crabtree, GUIDE PAGE editor
Major funding provided by the Teubert Foundation,
Cabell-Wayne Association of the Blind
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Mission and Vision Statements
OUR MISSION: Cabell-Wayne Association of the Blind
is committed to promoting and advocating the
economic, educational, and social welfare of the blind
and visually impaired of all ages so that they can
maintain a lifestyle comparable to other members of
society.
OUR VISION: CWAB® (registered trademark) will be
seen nationally as a model for organizations and
agencies that help blind and visually impaired persons
achieve maximum independence. CWAB® will be
known for timely and appropriate state-of-the-art
responses to the changing needs of consumers
throughout the Tri-State area and beyond.
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Cabell-Wayne Association of the Blind will be hosting
their annual Spring Rummage and Bake Sale, Thursday
and Friday, May 3ed and 4th, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. each
day. Great lunch specials available. YOU WON’T
BELIEVE THE BARGAINS! For pick-up of your items,
call 304-522-6991.
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Volume 29, Issue 5, May 2018
In this issue: Mission and Vision Statements, Spring
Rummage & Bake Sale, From the Director’s Desk, Trip
To Jenny Wiley, GUIDE PAGE “Narrator of the Month”,
Potting Party Time!, Eddy Adkins Passes, GUIDE PAGE
Audio Now A Podcast!, CD Audio Editions Now Have
Tracks, McClanahan Concert Coming!, Excerpts From,
“The Rock”, by Kermit Nance, Wednesday Recreation,
Support Groups, Wyngate Car Show, Activities
Calendar for 2018, Association Meeting Schedule,
CWAB® Services.
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ON THE COVER: Association Vice-President, Support
Group Leader, and Consumer Eddy Adkins.
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FROM THE DIRECTOR’s DESK
Hello Everyone!
Let me begin this month by thanking everyone who
made, sold, or bought Easter Eggs during our recent
sale. As expected, we sold out within two weeks! It is
teamwork like this that makes us so successful with all
our fund-raisers.
Speaking of fund-raisers, our next big event will be
the Spring Rummage and Bake sale! This sale will be
held Thursday, and Friday, May 3rd and 4th. If you
have items to donate, call the Services Division office,
we will be glad to make arrangements to pick your
items up. Make your plans to shop with us - YOU
WON’T BELIEVE THE BARGAINS!
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Other upcoming events will include the “Potting
Party”, Summer Picnic, and our trip to the Jenny Wiley
Theater. Come on out and join us for some great fun!
I would like to take this moment to congratulate
Ken Hicks and Ernie Golder on returning to our Board
of Directors as emeritus Members. The association
membership voted for their return to show their
gratitude to them for their guidence and hard work they
do for the blind and visually impaired of their
community. Again, congratulations Ken and Ernie!
It is with great saddness that I offer condolences to
the family of Eddy Adkins. Adkins, a longtime
consumer and board member, passed away Easter
weekend. His presence, energy, sense of humor, and
efforts with volunteering, will be greatly missed.
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We will be receiving two new shuttles in the near
future. With this in mind, I would like to remind
consumers and volunteers who regularly use
transportation, PLEASE DO NOT bring food or drink
onto these vehicles! You have no idea the havoc that
can be caused due to an accident with these items. Be
an adult and show some respect for your fellow
travelers
Until next time - remember, my door is always
OPEN!.
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This year’s Summer trip will be on Tuesday, June 19th
to the Jenny Wiley Ampitheatre, (in Prestonsburg, KY),
to attend the play, “Footloose!” You may bring a
sighted guide. There will be fifty seats available. Once
all seats are spoken for, a waiting list will be made.
The bus will depart the Services Division by 4 p.m.
We will return between 12 and 12:30 a.m. Dinner
served at the lodge.
If you sign up and DO NOT ATTEND this trip, you
will be REQUIRED to reimburse Cabell-Wayne for the
cost of your place on the trip.
To sign-up, call the Services Division at 304-522-
6991.
THERE IS A GRAPHIC OF A PASSENGER BUS WITH
THIS ARTICE.
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The GUIDE PAGE MAGAZINE’s “Narrator of the Month”
for April 2018, was Cabell-Wayne’s Media-Marketing
Manager Jerry Crabtree.
First, let me offer a big “THANK YOU”, to Paul
Slone and my co-workers for the very nice party
honoring my 20th anniversary with Cabell-Wayne! I
would also like to thank those consumers who
attended, and offer a special thank you to those who
presented me with cards and gifts. Your generosity is
greatly appreciated!
Later in this issue, you will read about something
of which I am especially proud - the availability of the
GUIDE PAGE MAGAZINE’s audio in podcast form!
Podcasting and podcasts are a popular form of
presenting audio material in a timely and regular
fashion. Coupled with the use of Apple’s iTunes and
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the Podcasting app, a wide variety of podcasts are
available on a variety of subjects. The biggest
advantage of having the GUIDE PAGE audio in podcast
form is portability. Now, you are no longer tied to your
audio CD, or your computer, for that matter! Since you
most likely will always have your smartphone at your
fingertips, then you will always have your GUIDE PAGE
audio with you! Neat!
Full details can be found on page 12.
To add, or modify your FREE subscription to the
GUIDE PAGE MAGAZINE, information on services,
volunteering, or planned giving, please reach out to our
Services Division office at 304-522-6991.
THERE IS ONE SMALL INSET PHOTO OF TAYLOR
EATON WITH THIS ARTICLE.
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POTTING PARTY TIME!
The party will be held Wednesday, May 9th at the
Activities Center. A light lunch and dessert will be
served. You must sign-up by Friday, May 4th to attend.
Call 304-522-6991 to schedule your transportation!
THERE IS A FULL-PAGE PHOTO OF CONSUMER MIKE
NUCE WITH THIS ARTICLE. Nuce, with his mobility
cane tucked under his left arm, is seen placing a
flowered plant inside a pot. The caption reads,
“PICTURED: Consumer Mike Nuce seats his flowers
during the 2017 Cabell-Wayne “Potting Party.”
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Association Vice-President, Support Group Leader,
Eddy Adkins Dies
The CWAB® community was recently stunned to learn
of the untimely death of association vice-president, and
support group leader Eddy Adkins.
Adkins, 63, of Huntington, was a staunch supporter
of Cabell-Wayne and was always ready and willing to
lend a hand wherever needed.
Eddy was a former board member, association
officer, and also was a regular attendee of the annual
“potting Party”, and was always lending a hand to
assist during both Spring and Fall rummage and bake
sales. He was a regular at bowling as well.
Transportation provider Gordon Bloss and Eddy
were great friends, having shared many hunting and
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fishing outings. Eddy had many other Cabell-Wayne
friends including staff members, and consumers.
Joann Wallace will assume the role of leader for
Eddy’s support group. A temporary vice-president will
soon be appointed. This person will serve in the post
until elections are held this coming October.
Staff, board, and consumers extend their deepest
sympathy to the Adkins family.
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JAMES EDDY ADKINS, 63, of Huntington, passed away
Friday, March 30, 2018, at Cabell Huntington Hospital.
Funeral services were conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday,
April 3, 2018, at Wallace Funeral Home & Chapel with
Pastor Mike Dillon officiating. Burial followed at Mt.
Vernon Cemetery, Wayne. He was born July 24, 1954, in
Huntington, a son of Glenna Mae Hazelette Adkins of
Huntington and the late Ottie Adkins Jr. He was
preceded in death by a brother, Danny Lee Adkins. He
was retired from Marshall University and was very
active with the Cabell-Wayne Association of the Blind.
In addition to his mother, he is survived by two sisters,
Hilda Ferguson and Charlotte Ann Roush; three nieces,
Chrissy Ferguson, Kathy Jo Ferguson and Amy Dawn
Francis; one nephew, Isaac Ray Williams; a great niece,
Tori Lynn Ferrell; and a cousin, Rose Marie Gray.
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Visitation was one hour prior to the service at Wallace
Funeral Home, Barboursville. In lieu of flowers,
contributions may be made to Cabell-Wayne
Association of the Blind.
Online condolences may be expressed to the
family at: www.timeformemory.com/wallace.
Published in The Herald-Dispatch on Apr. 2, 2018
THERE IS A SMALL INSET PHOTO OF ADKINS WITH
THIS ARTICLE. The photo is a cropped version of the
issue cover page, which shows Adkins sitting on a
leather recliner. He is wearing his “signature” blue-
tinted glasses, a CWAB® shirt and ballcap. He has his
legs crossed, (not seen), and his chin is resting on his
fingers.
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Going “digital”, brings the ability to take an audio or
video file and transfer it actoss multiple platforms:
internet, computer, smartphone, etc. This digitization
makes sharing entertainment files simpler, more
convenient, and also provides an opportunity to share
material to a wider audience.
Since creating our website,
(www.cwab.org/cabellwayne.org), and the development
of our audio CD, Cabell-Wayne Association of the
Blind’s advancement from audio tape has made the
narrative of the GUIDE PAGE MAGAZINE more widely
available, and easily accessible. It’s only natural that a
progression of change be inevitible.
Beginning with the March 2018 issue of the
magazine’s audio edition, a “podcast” issue has been
made available.
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A “Podcast” is defined as, “a digital audio file
made available on the Internet for downloading to a
computer or mobile device, typically available as a
series, new installments of which can be received by
subscribers automatically.”
Accessing these issues is simple. You must have
iTunes installed on your computer, or have the iTunes
or Podcast apps installed on your smartphone.
Log into the iTunes store with your Apple ID and
pasword. (The iTunes program looks like the image in
Figure A). In the upper right-hand corner of iTunes,
type, “Guide Page Magazine”. Press <ENTER>. You
will be presented with a second screen showing several
entries. Since “GUIDE PAGE MAGAZINE” also includes
the word, “GUIDE”, there might be other podcasts
included in that search.
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From this second screen you will see a large image
of the cover of a recent magazine, click it. On the
following screen, on the left side you will find the word,
“Subscribe”. Click that. You will be presented with a
message stating by clicking “Subscribe” again, you will
automatically recieve future episodes when they are
made available. (See Figure B).
This new delivery system for the GUIDE PAGE
MAGAZINE is not meant for a substitute for your
monthly CD, rather it is an alternate method of getting
your audio.
Questions, contact the Services Division at 304-
522-6991.
THERE ARE TWO PHOTOS WITH THIS ARTICLE –
BOTH PHOTOS ARE A SCREENSHOT OF ITUNES. The
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first photo shows iTunes main page. The caption
reads, “FIGURE A: This is the iTunes user interface
window. Your podcast, when subscribed, will appear in
the “Library” section.” The second photo, also a
screenshot, is of a “podcast” screen. Its caption reads,
“FIGURE B: This is the podcast selection window. It is
from here where you can play individual podcasts, as
well as subscribe to a podcast.”
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CD Audio Editions Now Have Tracks
Recent iquiries have led to changes in the audio CD
edition. It is now “track-selectable”. This means you
now have the ability to skip a segment, or go back to
replay a particular story. If you have a CD player with
visual indicators, you will see the total time for the
entire audio edition, plus a number for how many
tracks, or stories there are Those stories could be 30
or more in any given audio edition.
Thanks to Wanda Annis for her request and input on
behalf of the association, this significient change will
greatly increase the flexibility of maneuvering through
the audio CD.
The GUIDE PAGE audio edition can also be placed onto
a thumb drive, (at the consumer’s request, and
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expense). This thumb drive can be used in most, if not
all current-day computers.
If you have any questions, PLEASE direct them to any
staff member. It will get re-directed for the right
answer. If you rather, ask Wanda Annis, or your
association president Joann Wallace.
To subscribe to any format of the GUIDE PAGE
MAGAZINE, contact the Services Division office at 304-
522-6991.
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Cabell-Wayne Association of the Blind will again
present the McClanahan Memorial Concert on Friday,
July 6th from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Paul R. Slone Activities
Center, (located at 63 West 3rd Ave., across from Taylor
Metal). Plenty of food, dun, and a silent auction. For
more details, call 304-522-6991!
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This month’s installment of “The Rock” will conclude
with a final chapters, an Epilogue, and some thoughts
from the author, Kermit Nance.
XX. New Face in School ---
Louista Smith appeared at the school early in her
eighth grade year. She had transferred from a school
in Gallia County that no one had heard of, not even Mr.
Downs. She immediately became the center of
everyone’s attention. The kids at school became so
absorbed with her that they even stopped calling the
teacher “Mr. Ups” behind his back!
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They figured out that she was an average student,
never making the best grade nor the worst on any test
given to her and the other four eighth graders in the
school. She dressed better than most of the girls. That
fact alone made her the object of envy in the school.
But her overriding trait was not her grades or her
wardrobe. Unfortunately, it was her face! She had a
sharp nose that drooped down over her upper lip and a
long bony chin that jutted outward. In fact, she could
have been a poster child for the American Witches
Association had there been such a thing. The poor
dear was undeniably homely.
Some of the boys almost immediately began bullying
her on the playground, accusing her of riding to school
on a broom among other cruelties. Mr. Downs put a
stop to that by paddling five boys one day right after
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lunch hour when Louista reported the bullying to him.
The paddlings were carried out in front of the whole
school to be both a punishment to the guilty culprits
and a warning to any more would-be offenders.
However, she had one redeeming quality…her
generosity! She happily shared her ample paper bag
lunches with a growing number of the girls. Sometimes,
she was known to lend quarters or half-dollars to needy
girls. While doing this, she also let it be known that she
was about like most other thirteen-year-old girls! She
desperately wanted a boyfriend!
But none of the older boys were interested in having
anything to do with “Miss Witch” as they called her
when out of hearing range of Mr. Downs or Louista.
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Most had gone so far as to make a pact among
themselves to not even talk to her unless they just had
to regarding school matters.
On the playground her flirtatious glances at attractive
boys near her age were met with averted eyes and
turned backs. Louista watched with fascination and
increasing jealousy as some of the couples who “liked”
one another either ducked behind the big Rock by the
creek or sneaked into the nearby brush for a couple
stolen minutes to satisfy their growing desires for the
sensual pleasures of the flesh caused by their raging
adolescent hormones! Oh, how she longed to be the
object of some cute guy’s desire! But no one ever
approached her with such scandalous ideas.
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Increasingly despairing, a plan began to incubate
within her. She would spread the word amongst the
older girls that she would actually pay money to any
boy, sixth grade or older, who would be willing to kiss
her! Yes, that’s what she would do! Now to figure out
how much she would pay was the next task. Five
dollars…ten…twenty? Money was not a problem for
Louista! Her family, unlike the other school families,
was very well-to-do. Twenty! Yes, that would be the
sum she would pay! Surely, one of the boys would yield
to that much temtation!
Word spread like wildfire through the small school
population at noon hour the next day. Small groupings
of excited girls clumped around the playground talking
only in hushed whispers. Clusters of boys could be
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seen, also whispering, with heads shaking left to right
in over exaggerated motions of absolute negativity! Mr.
Downs had never seen anything like this, and, oddest
of all, no one was coming forward with any information!
It continued the next day and Mr. Downs began to be
fearful for his own safety. There had been several
grumblings against his teaching methods in the last
couple months.
Then, as suddenly as it began, all the small groups of
whisperers stopped on the next day. What Mr. Downs
did not know was what had happened after school the
day before on the road just west of the Rock. So
absorbed with his own paper work, he had not noticed
that nearly all of the students had gone west after
school yesterday afternoon, even the ones who lived
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east! Poor Mr. Downs was not the brightest bulb in
Teacher Land.
Someone had finally succumbed to the temptation of
twenty dollars! Leo Olsen had never seen twenty
dollars in his whole life. He had resisted at first, but
then told his teasing friends “I don’t care how ugly she
is! I gotta have that money!”
So they had all met down the creek about a quarter-mile
past the Rock to watch the spectacle of Louista’s first
kiss. “Well, git on with it, you two! I gotta git home and
do chores!” someone yelled from the back of the small
crowd. Louista had already moved to the center of the
group and appeared nervous but eager. Leo came
forward more slowly.
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“Where’s the money?” he asked suspiciously.
“Hazel has it!” Louista answered, motioning to a
classmate. “You’ll get it after the kiss…and it better be
a real kiss, not a peck on the cheek…or you don’t get it!
One thing though, you can’t put your tongue in my
mouth…just a good kiss on my lips…about a minute
long!” She had been told by older girls at her former
school that if a boy put his tongue in her mouth that
she might get pregnant, and she wanted to take no
chances.
Slowly, the pair moved into an awkward embrace. Leo
shut his eyes and tilted the wrong way, bumping noses
in the process, but then their lips finally met and
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Louista locked onto him tightly and rolled her head in a
slightly circular motion.
“Thirty seconds, Leo! Yuh got thirty more, or ye don’t
git the money!” Hazel yelled. Nervous laughter came
from the gathered group of excited adolescents, faces
shining with fascination, more at the twenty dollar bill
than the scene before them!
Hazel kept looking at the pocket watch she carried.
Mercifully, for Leo, she finally called out “Ok, the
minute’s up! I guess ye git the money.” Reluctantly,
Louista released Leo and moved back toward Hazel
who was handing her the twenty- dollar bill. The
somewhat dazed looking Leo snatched the money,
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stuffed it into his overalls, said nothing, turned away,
and broke into a full run, heading east and home.
“Is that all?” someone called. Slowly, the crowd began
moving toward their respective homes, chattering
about the after- school spectacle. No one had ever
seen anything quite like it! Leo refused to talk about it
the next day. Louista said very little, surprisingly, and
she still looked longingly at the few couples who held
hands on the Rock. A very few attended high school
the next year, but Louista’s family moved back to Gallia
County.
The kids who witnessed the event talked about it for
years. Rumors were started about Leo. Some said he
had taken to washing out his mouth regularly, even
with soap! However, others said he went to the county
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fair that summer and spent most of the twenty dollars
on buying kisses from the pretty lady in the kissing
booth!
Ahh…a twenty-dollar kiss…the stuff of which legends
are made!
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XXI.Looking Back, Hoping Onward ---
Carl Wells slowly and unsteadily made his way,
supporting himself with his cane, from his car parked
on the unpaved county road to the graveled entrance of
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the old school building, then turned into the lower
section of the grounds where the Rock lay. His wife,
Betty, stayed by the car. She knew he wanted to be
alone a few minutes, alone on the Rock…alone with the
Rock…alone with God. She knew that her husband
looked at the Rock as a symbol of the Holy Trinity,
strong, unchanging, steadfast, unmovable, unyielding.
She knew, as did Carl, that this would be his last trip.
Carl Wells was dying. The doctors had said three
months…maybe. He had acquired tuberculosis in a
German POW camp during the recent war, and the
treatments after had had no effect. Hope had been
abandoned by the doctors and by Carl and Betty.
Struggling for every breath, he pressed on doggedly
toward the Rock. Realizing his efforts would probably
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only make things worse, he had decided to make this
little trip anyway. He also wanted to stop and see his
boyhood friend Dee Wilson who had a little house on
the same road. Finally getting to the Rock, he leaned
against the lower part before easing into a sitting
position there at the bottom. There was no strength left
to climb any higher.
He stared across the creek and field to the far hill and
tried to take it all in. The peaceful scene before him was
in stark contrast to what he had gone through
overseas. A cacophony of sounds reached across the
few hills between him and the river valley. Train sounds
from both the Ohio and Kentucky sides of the river, the
rumble and screech of big metal wheels on strong
metal rails…the lonesome wailing of the steam engine
whistles that reached out and touched men’s souls like
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few other sounds could…the occasional bellow from
riverboats navigating up and down the river…all were
welcome to his ears. They were in stark contrast to his
battlefield memories of the blast of guns, bombs
exploding, clanking tanks, and the sound he hated
most…the agony of men dying.
He had been captured while on reconnaissance patrol
in Italy. He thought of the long, crowded train ride north
into Germany, the filthy conditions of the camp, too
little to eat…all of it. A sudden cough wracked his body,
and he spat out the bloody contents of his mouth into
the gently flowing water below which carried away the
ugly red bubbles. Quickly putting those thoughts aside,
he turned his attention toward the immediate
surroundings of Little Ice Creek valley where he had
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spent most of his life. Crows cawed in the woods to the
south, cardinals and other birds chirped around him,
and tears creased his face as he heard them. But they
were tears of joy in the realization that he was getting
to hear them once more, near home. that he hadn’t died
in a land far away, like his brother-in-law had.
“Thank you, God,” he prayed aloud. “Thank you for
giving me strength enough to make this visit to this
beautiful place one more time. Thank you for the place
I’m going when I die. Thank you for Betty, and Lord,
give her your comforting Grace to go on with her life
when I’m gone, in the name of Jesus I pray, Amen.”
Peace settled through his spirit as he listened to the
natural symphony of the light afternoon wind that
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sighed through the sycamores, walnut, and willow
trees. A few dragonflies buzzed along the creek
surface. Strangely, he felt content. Yes, he was going to
die soon. But his faith in God was unshakable. He was
convinced beyond doubt that Heaven was his
destination because of his belief in Jesus, as he had
learned long ago at Ice Creek and other churches. His
faith had gotten him through the war, and it would get
him through Death.
He looked with fondness at the old school where he’d
spent eight years of his youth as he struggled back
toward the road. The word was that it would be closed
forever in a few years.
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Betty met him at the steepest part to help him make the
small climb. Settling into the car, Carl looked at Betty
and said “Now, let’s see if Dee and Josie are home! We
may not get another chance…you know, all four of us! I
hear those boys are growin’ like weeds!” Behind the
steering wheel, Betty had to fight back her tears for a
moment before pressing the starter.
“Carl, I love you,” she said softly, as she shifted the car
into gear and let out the clutch. As the car began
moving, as the finality of the moment set in, it was then
Carl’s turn to fight back tears as he watched the old
school and the Rock recede forever from his view…and
into memory.
The End
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Former Cabell-Wayne Computer Instructor Kermit
Nance retired in 2010, and now enjoys spending time
with his grandchildren, as well as playing harmonica in
church.
“The Rock” by Kermit Nance
Copyright C) 2017, by Kermit Nance
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
USED BY PERMISSION
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Epilogue:
Perhaps, as the character Wilbur Summers concluded,
you can’t go back home, literally. But you can
remember. Memories can be enlightening, amusing,
sometimes comforting, and, yes, even painful. They can
add to our understanding of the past, help in our
understanding of the present, and can, if we let them,
give hope for the future.
As with most things good and bad, they must come to
an end somewhere. So it must be with this small
literary effort which began from a suggestion by my
brother a few months ago that I write something about
the Rock. More episodes could have been included, but
the preceding episodes, centered on the one-room
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school and the Rock, surely show us a glimpse of rural
life in the first half of the twentieth century. They
remind those of us who experienced some of it what
once was… and never will be again.
Hopefully, whether an “alumnus” of a one-room school
or not, readers have gained something from this
reading experience, have been entertained at times,
sobered at others, and have been stimulated to take an
in depth look at their own lives, memories, and life
experiences.
Kermit F. Nance
THERE IS ONE PHOTO PLACED AT THE CONCLUSION
OF THE EPILOGUE, it shows Nance, in a very relaxed –
almost skouched – sitting position with script papers
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on his lap. A recording microphone is in front of him
and he has an almost-smile.
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Wednesday Recreation
(1:00 TO 3:00 UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED)ay
May 2nd Make-up class for baskets
May 9th Potting Party
June 6th Outdoor Games
June 13th Cooking
June 20th Music Appreciation
June 27th Bingo
July 11th Heritage Farm Tour (10a - 2p)
August 1st Outdoor Games
August 15th Cooking
August 22nd Bingo
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BOWLING!
Bowling is a popular CWAB® (registered trademark)
activity.
FIRST RULE! You don’t need to know how to bowl to
have fun!
Bowlers meet from 12:30 to 2:30 P.M. on specified
Mondays at the Strike Zone Bowling Center, in
Huntington. To sign up, call the Services Division
office at 304-522-6991.
RECENT HIGH SCORES
WITH BUMPERS:
Joann Wallace, 126; Mark Robertson, 87
WITHOUT BUMPERS:
Harvey Green, 109; Pearl Church, 98
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SUPPORT GROUPS
Cabell-Wayne Association of the Blind offers its
consumers a variety of specific interest support
groups.
These groups “hold up”, or “give assistance” to
consumers with similar needs. Whether that need be
for diabetics, for individuals who work and are either
blind or visually impaired, or parents of blind or
visually impaired children, the goal is the same:
discuss problems and situations, and offer possible
solutions or comfort. Groups occasionally make trips
to local areas of interest. Free transportation is
provided.
For more details, call the Services Division at 304-
522-6991.
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Here’s the schedule:
Group A: Joann Wallace, 2nd & 4th Thur., 11a to 1p.
Group B: Paul Slone/Brenda Fletcher, 1st & 3rd Thur.,
10 a.m. to Noon
Group C, Working: Heather McComas, 2nd & 4th
Thur., 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Group D, Diabetic: Paul Slone, 1st Tue., 11a to 1p.
Parents Group: Mary Parsons, 3rd Thursday, 6 p.m. to 8
p.m.
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The Wyngate of Barboursville will again host their
“Mayberry Days”, Summer Car Show and Vendor Sale.
The event will be held Saturday, June 23rd from 9 a.m.
to 1 p.m. at the Wyngate Senior Living Community, 750
Peyton Street, in Barboursville. Entertainment,
cookout, inflatables, games, and good ole fashioned
family fun! All donations to benefit Alzheimer’s
awareness. Call The Wyngate at 304-733-6800.
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Activities Calendar for 2018
April
19th - Teubert Prep Talent Share
May
3rd & 4th - Spring Rummage/Bake Sale
9th - Potting Party
28th - Closed to observe Memorial Day
June
2nd - Summer Picnic
16th - HIMG Health Fair
19th - Summer Trip to Jenny Wiley
July
4th - Closed for Independence Day
6th - McClanahan Memorial Concert
30th - Preparations for Rummage Sale
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ASSOCIATION MEETING DATES:
ALL CONSUMERS of Cabell-Wayne Association of the
Blind are urged to attend regularly scheduled monthly
association meetings.
These meetings are designed to keep consumers
informed and up-to-date on events and activities of the
Services Division and topics relative to the association
as a whole.
Remember, to have a quorum and to be able to discuss
and vote on association business, a fifty-percent plus
one attendance of voting-eligible members must be
present.
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Free transportation to these meetings is provided upon
request with advance notice and scheduling
availability.
Meetings are held the third Tuesday of each month
from 1 to 3 p.m.
For 2018, meeting dates include:
May 15th, June 19th, and July 17th, and August 21st,
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CWAB® (registered trademark) Services
TRANSPORTATION – Getting around is a major
roadblock to the blind and visually impaired.
Consumers are offered free transportation to work,
doctor’s appointments, shopping, and group activities.
Limited vision no longer means limited transportation.
ORIENTATION & MOBILITY – O&M’s goal is to train
consumers with techniques of safe, efficient travel both
in the home and into the community. Skills are taught
that are vital for independence, confidence and self-
satisfaction. Instruction is built around the goals and
needs of the student.
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REHABILITATION – Learning new skills to improve
daily living enhances quality of life for the visually
impaired. Magnifiers and talking devices are available.
Instruction in Braille, cooking, and even simple tasks
like phone dialing can lead to a more independent life.
COMPUTER TRAINING - Training is the key to computer
technology. Utilizing keystrokes and enhancement
software, the student learns to complete a variety of
tasks sighted computer users take for granted. Limited
vision should not limit your technical training.
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ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY - A CCTV can be used to
magnify books, newspapers, and magazine print to the
size of a regular television screen allowing individuals
the ability to enjoy reading again. Adaptive technology
can bring you back to the world, and the world to you.
RECREATION – Everyone knows the key to success is
the ability to play well with others. CWAB®’s
recreational program offers a variety of activities for
any age consumer. Both indoor and outdoor events are
scheduled on a regular basis.
For more information on services, volunteering, and
planned giving, call 34-522-6991.
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This is the end of the GUIDE PAGE MAGAZINE web
text edition for May 2018.
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