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GOP candidate promises to get federal budget under control
BY KASIE HUNT
Associated Press
CINCINNATI — Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney vowed
Saturday to lead America to a “winning season” and insisted that his party
would stick to the promises of fiscal responsibility that it had abandoned in
the past.
“We’re going to finally have to do something that Republicans have spoken about for a long time, and for a while we didn’t do it. When we had the
lead, we let people down,” Romney told a roaring crowd in Ohio as House
Speaker John Boehner, a longtime congressional leader, stood behind him.
“We need to make sure we don’t let them down this time. I will cut the
deficit and get us on track to a balanced budget.”
The former Massachusetts governor blames President Barack Obama, a Democrat, for the country’s
exploding debt and deficits.
Romney himself has not yet provided enough policy
detail to show whether his budget plan would cut the
deficit in the long term. The budget that his running
mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, wrote and
that House Republicans passed this year
shows a decline in the deficit each year
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Grants keep
recycling
affordable
Solid Waste Authority
gets $12,500 for grinding
of brush, Christmas trees
BY SAMANTHA CRONK
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
Journal photo by Michelle Horst
Pre-K students Aaron Dusing, Landon Bayles, Christopher McCaslin, Logan Weng and Jacob Gilliam learn about gardening.
A Green Education
Local students learn how their food makes it to the dinner table
BY MICHELLE HORST
ing, and they discussed which plants they wanted to bring in
for the fair the classroom held. The group of 4-year-old students got out measuring tapes and discussed which of the
MARTINSBURG — Jill Orsini uses garplants were the largest.
dening to help her students learn science,
Many of the students, Orsini said, do not know where their
math, health and improve language skills.
food comes from. In addition to explaining what seeds need to
Orsini, a pre-kindergarten teacher at Pikegrow and how to plant them, the students can understand
how their food grows and that its source is not the
side Learning Center in Berkeley County, is one
grocery store.
of several teachers who began the garden project in
Pikeside is using the gardens to prothe spring. For the third year, a neighbor has volmote healthy eating for its students.
unteered his time to plow the garden and prepare
Teachers and teaching assistants sit
it for planting.
with the children during breakfast and
“Each teacher can have a row to plant. This year
we have planted a lot of pumpkins. We also plantlunch and talk about what food is on their
ed sunflowers, other flower seeds and tomatoes,”
plates and where it comes from.
Orsini said.
Michelle Martin, director of pre-K programs for
“In the spring we study seeds, and talk about
Berkeley County Schools, said language and literacy
seeds that we eat and ones that animals eat. This fall
are two of the focal points for the preschools in Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan counties. The counties will be
we will look at corn – I’ll bring in corn stalks that have
field corn on it versus the sweet corn that we eat, and they get doing a collaborative staff development with the state department of education.
to feel it and understand it,” Orsini said.
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to keep voters
MARTINSBURG — The Berkeley County Solid Waste
Authority was recently awarded a $12,500 grant to help fund
brush- and Christmas tree-grinding activities provided through
the recycling program.
The West Virginia Solid Waste Management Board awarded the grant, of which $10,000 will be utilized toward grinding brush and Christmas trees, and $2,500 will fund capital
improvements to the BCSWA office.
Of Berkeley County’s three recycling facilities, two – the
Grapevine Road Recycling Center in Martinsburg and the
South Berkeley Recycle Center in Inwood – accept brush and
Christmas trees.
“We’re looking this year, between these two sites, to spend
between $40,000 and $45,000 to grind brush. So this
$10,000 will help a lot with that,” said Clint Hogbin, chair of
the BCSWA.
Use of the three recycling centers is free except for brush
deliveries. The BCSWA charges $5 for a large load of brush
or $1 for a small delivery of brush. While the fee helps offset
the cost of grinding the brush, it does not completely cover
grinding costs.
Currently the Grapevine Road facility has a pile of brush
covering more than an acre of the site, which is much more
than normal due to the debris from the June 29 storm, Hogbin
said.
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“We’re looking this year,
between these two sites, to
spend between $40,000 and
$45,000 to grind brush. So this
$10,000 will help a lot with
that.”
Clint Hogbin, chair of the BCSWA
Operation Recall
nets 38 fugitives
BY JULIE PACE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Don’t expect President Barack Obama to try to reinvent himself
next week at the Democratic Party’s national
convention. Instead, he and a slew of his
defenders will seek to convince voters to stick
with the president they know rather than gamble on someone new, a challenging task given
that most Americans say the country is heading
in the wrong direction.
“This Thursday, I will offer you what I
believe is a better path forward, a path that
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CLARKSBURG — The U.S. Marshals Service’s Mountain State Fugitive
Task Force apprehended 38 fugitives
last week during a weeklong operation
throughout the northern portion of the
state, the agency announced Thursday.
During “Operation Recall,” Deputy
U.S. Marshals and their task force partners scoured the state for subjects wanted on outstanding felony capias warrants
stemming from the state’s circuit courts.
Operation Recall resulted in 38 physical arrests, eight detainers being filed
after it was discovered the fugitives
were in custody on unrelated matters and
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arrested four times in 26 hours for blasting the
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