Blues for a Cure returns to Harrison

CADIZ — MPLX Gathering and Processing presents the 12 th annual Sean Carney’s Blues For A Cure 2022 – Harrison County. A free public concert will be held Friday, June 23, 6 p.m. start and Saturday, June 24, 4 p.m. start, at The Mark Stage at Sally Buffalo Park, 43000 Industrial Park Rd., Cadiz.

The proceeds benefit WVU Medicine Harrison Community Hospital Foundation and the Harrison County Cancer Crusaders. Since its inception, this annual charity concert event has raised nearly $270,000 for the local area. Blues For A Cure has raised over $400,000 since Sean Carney started the fund in 2007. This is the third year the event is a two-night concert and the first year to be hosted on the newly constructed stage, The Mark.

Blues super group, Southern Hospitality, will be headlining this year’s concert consisting of Victor Wainwright, JP Soars, Damon Fowler, Chris Peet and Terrence Grayson. Always paying tribute to local talent, organizers are thrilled to feature who they consider the best guitarist in the Ohio Valley, Roger Hoard, and multi-instrumentalist Dan Jones with the Hoard & Jones band. The festivities will be co-hosted by the event’s namesake 2007 International Blues Challenge Guitar Champion Sean Carney.

This Blues For A Cure concert will serve as the CD Release of

Old barn gets new paint

Blues Cures 14, the 14th CD in the series of Live Studio Jams with the artists who’ve been a part of the concerts in the past decade. Among the artists featured on this release are International Blues Challenge Champions Sean Carney, Noah Wotherspoon and Stacy Mitchhart, along with the Just Strange Brothers Horns, Tom Rastikis, Brian Aylor, Chuck Moore, Jim Godin, Tom Carroll, Lenny Fatigati, Jan Roll, Jamie Peck, Matt & Eryn O’Ree. The CDs will be available as a free gift for a donation of $10 or more.

This event is BYOB. Food, water and soda will be available for purchase from various food vendors. Please bring lawn chairs, sun tents and blankets.

Sobriety checkpoints planned in Har. Co.

Cadiz — Harrison County Sheriff Joe Myers announced the Harrison County Sheriff’s Office, along with other members of the State Highway Patrol, will be conducting sobriety checkpoint Friday, June 30.

Sheriff Myers advises that officers will conduct a roadside check of drivers for alcohol and drug impairment.

The sheriff’s office intends to inform the public that officers will be vigilant in detecting and apprehending impaired drivers. Deputies want to strongly recommend to those who will be consuming alcohol to plan for a designated driver or make other arrangements.

Response: Fracking concerns unfounded

This letter is in response to Dr. Randi Pokladnik who wrote concerning fracking in the Tappan Lake area.

While I do not hold a Ph.D, I do have a master degree from Kent State. I live in Harrison County surrounded by fracking wells. My property has not been drilled; however, my husband and I had to endure two years of heavy trucks on our dirt road while two wells went in nearby.

Even though that was annoying, we felt it was for the good of the area economy and the United States as a whole. You fail to mention the wells are more than a mile underground. Our well water has not been affected and we have not experienced any adverse health effects over the past 10 years.

Our country was well on its way to energy independence until this backdoor administration took over.

This independence not only guaranteed economic growth and prosperity for the locals, but also for the country as a whole. Lower costs of auto fuel, home heating, electricity, and electricity availability for our currently unstable electric grid were evidence of the benefits of fracking. We in the midwest are expected to bear the burden of all things possible for the larger cities throughout the country. I grew up 75 miles outside the heart of Manhattan and know from experience. The Midwest states provide electric and fuel, take their garbage, grow their food, and transport their goods via highways and railways and waterways. In return what do we get from them? We can live without them; they can’t live without us!

Our independence is being sapped by the environmental hoax. Please go to Americacanwetalk.org and watch the Jason Isaac video dated Oct. 31. It is archived on the site. Very informative.

As I said, the physical-health concerns with fracking are minimal com-

County Fair County Fair is more than just animals

Does your family tell you, “You make the best cookies?” If so, its time to enter them in the Harrison County Fair. The fair is more than 4-H and livestock. Originally, the fair was where farmers and housewives showed their innovation and prowess. The classes included any agricultural and homemaking products, including a class for the best set of carved false teeth! We are not quite that diverse today, but the competition continues.

Fair competitions are split into departments. The first six are for various animal care and livestock. Departments 7-12 are for everything from gift baskets to photography. Each department has prizes: $50 for first place, $30 for second, and $20 for third.

There is a category for everyone. The seventh department is agricultural with multiple divisions, including honey products, canned vegetables, jellies, eggs, and more. The eighth department is baked goods and confections with over 10 divisions that range from breads and cakes to cobblers and rolls. This year, there’s a special new division as judges are searching for the Cookie of the Fair: the cookie to beat all cookies and win a special award of $100. pared to the insanity of young children transitioning, untested vaccines, or the death of thousands of unborn children lauded by this administration. As far as the parks are concerned, the Muskingham Watershed has used money previously acquired from the gas-and-oil industry to improve their parks; most of which are frequented by city dwellers from miles away. My only suggestion to you if you don’t like living among fracking is to get into your little electric car and drive to a nice lake area somewhere else. Just remember that vehicle is most likely powered by coal or, better yet, fracked natural gas.

In the ninth department, there are fine arts with seven divisions, including drawing, painting, and photography. Photography has its own prizes. In the 10th dvision are domestic arts with a dozen divisions, including quilts, rugs, and clothing. The 11th department is antiques with 10 divisions for everything from jewelry to wood crafts. To round out the departments, floral cutlure is the 12th and final one with divisions for cut flowers, houseplants, outdoor plants and more.

To find out more details on deadlines and specific rules, please check the fair book, which can be found online at harrisoncofairohio.com. The fair will be held June 19-24 so make sure your entries are ready!

Anne Hausmann Harrison County

Open dairy show coming to the fair

The Harrison County Fair Open Dairy show will be held on Thursday, June 22, at the Harrison County Fairgrounds in Cadiz.

The 4-H dairy show will be held at 9 a.m. The open show will follow at 1 p.m. Exhibitors may move their cattle in the morning of the show. Exhibitors will not be required to keep animals at the fair, but for show day only. Late entries will be accepted.

Class premiums are $20, $15 and $10. The

Supreme Grand Champion over all breeds will receive $200 and the Reserve Supreme Grand Champion $100. The Supreme Junior Champion over all breeds will receive $200 and the Reserve Supreme Junior Champion $100.

For information, contact Sandi Thompson at 740-491-0001 or 740946-2805 or Doug Caldwell at 740-381-9730. The show is sponsored by the Harrison County Dairy Committee.