Volume 127 No. 15 Periodical Postage Paid at Clay, West Virginia 25043-0180 Wednesday, April 13, 2016 75 cents

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Dream team takes first in the 4x400 relay.

Dream team L-R Luke Young, David Tanner, Robert Daniels, and Trevor Armes.

Sizemore Greenhouse… Flowers and More Flowers Flowers and more flowers, a locally

owned greenhouse is opening their doors to sale. Mike Sizemore, the owner of Sizemore Greenhouse, has been pre-paring his greenhouse since January of this year. It takes up to 80 to 100 hours to plan what plants and flowers that he is going to grow for the season. He did put in a new addition to the greenhouse, an irrigation water system to the build-ing for his flower baskets so the baskets can be watered daily. Sizemore has over 70,000 plants this year. He is offering some new verities of plants, flowers, herb, hanging baskets, flats of flowers, garden plants and pro-mix. He sells 15 different varities of tomato plants, cab-bage, pepper plants and a special toma-to plant that is called an Amish yellow pea, it bears a tiny tomato the size of a green pea.

Sizemore will not be selling fresh

rproduce this year; it’s all greenhouse plants and flowers. The greenhouse is a 140x30 size building that faces east to

west so that the plants get the full sun and not too much shade. The green-house is wall to wall with hanging bas-kets and flats of garden plants. All of his plants are grown from seeds. Mike and one other person take the time to nur-ture these beautiful plants.

Folks, this greenhouse is full of veg-etable plants and beautiful flowers. Stop by and give a look. You just might end up giving your flower beds a whole new look for this summer.

Sizemore Greenhouse is located at 1566 Procious-Maysel Road, Maysel WV. 25133. Call (304)761-8270 for more information. Hours are Monday –Saturday, 9:00am -7:00pm and Sun-day from noon to 5:00pm. Mother’s day is just around the bend. Sizemore’s Greenhouse has your Mother’s Day gift and more, so stop in and enjoy what is offered.

On March 31, 2016, Chief Deputy Belt responded to two separate vehicle crashes. At approximately 7:15am report of a crash on Daubenspeck which resulted in a DUI arrest and at approximately 3:00pm a report of a crash on Triplett Ridge in which a car hit a parked truck and ran into the back of a garage, there were no injuries in either incident.

2 Accidents in Clay County

Accident on Daubenspeck results in DUI charge.

Auto impacts garage after hitting parked truck.

Chief Deputy Belt inspects damage.

Flowers and vegetable plants avail-able from Sizemoe’s

Students at Big Otter Elementary School who showed “Cooperation” were selected as the Awesome Braves for February and March 2016. These students cooperate with their teachers, classmates, and everybody they are around. Congratulations!

Pre K - Taylor - Hunter Sizemore & Acelyn Nicholas; Pre K - Rhodes - Shyann Jar-vis & Brilee Burdette; Pre K - Moore - Laney Sears & Mason Rouse; K - McKinney - Ryan McCune & Jacob Elkins; K - Collins - Daniel McCourt & Spencer Faulkner; 1st - Marks - Aubrey Cantrell & Ariel Dobbins; 1st - Jarvis - Abigail Runion & Katelyn Jarvis; 2nd - Douglas - Kamorrah Johnson & Geneva Montville; 2nd - Knopp - Prezlei Tanner & Caden Berry; 3rd - Underwood - Kaylee Hamrick & Josh Sheldon; 3rd - Holcomb - Landon Humprey & Devin Barss; 4th - Kleman - Morgan Adkins & Eric Sears; 5th - Chapman - Sarah Doss & Jack Haverty; 5th - Helmick - Lydia Hamrick & Adrianna Thompson.

Big Otter Awesome Braves!

With the upcoming primary election in May, candidates are attending ‘Meet the Candidates’ gatherings so voters in the community can get some one on one question time from the candidates that are running for office. Unfor-tunately, the weather over this past weekend wasn’t the

greatest and the turn out wasn’t the greatest, but the can-didates and those who attended had a good time in spite of the weather.

H.E. White Community School hosted a Chili cook off be-tween the candidates running for office in our county and in our districts, since Clay County is in two different districts. Candidates set up tables with their chili and toppings of choice if wanted, along with the normal campaign items such as pens, note pads, cups, etc. The gym at H E White Commu-nity School was decorated in multiple colors from all of the campaign signs, etc.

Grand Prize winner in the Chili cook off was Angela Walk-er Cantrell who is running for family court judge. Shane Mor-ton took First Place, he is running for Sheriff of Clay County. Susan Markle-Bodkins is running for Clay County Board of Education and she took second place. And third place went to Teresa Davis who is running for Clay County Assessor.

Meet the Candidates Chili Cookoff at H.E. White Community School

Candidates come out for Chili Cookoff

Clay County High School’s theater class pres-ents the 17th Annual Din-ner Theater Play Wipeout, April 16, 2016 at 6:00 pm. Tickets are $20 per person and are available at CCHS

or by calling 304-587-4226. Come out, enjoy dinner, then sit back and watch Clay County’s Youth as they sing, dance and maybe even do a little surfing. You won’t be disappointed.

17TH Annual Dinner Theater

Take Back Day in Clay County will be held Saturday, April 30, 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. at the Clay County Courthouse. This is a collab-orative effort between the Clay County Sher-iff’s Department, Drug Enforcement Agency and the Clay County Family Resource Net-work. The event will focus on removing potentially dangerous controlled substances from our nation’s medicine cabinets. This national take-back day will provide a uni-fied opportunity for the public to surrender expired, unwanted, or unused pharmaceutical

controlled substances and other medications to law enforcement officers for destruction. This one-day effort will bring national fo-cus to the issue of pharmaceutical controlled substance abuse. The program provides an opportunity for law enforcement, prevention, treatment, and the business community.

• On Saturday, April 30, local law enforce-ment agencies will have a collection site at the Clay County Courthouse from 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

• Controlled, non-controlled, and over the counter substances will be collected.

National Take Back Initiative Slated for April 30, 2016

The 7th annual Wallback Lake Youth Fishing Derby will be held on Saturday, April 16th, 2016. This event runs totally on donations and contributions from sponsors, all for the young sports boys and girls of today ranging from 3 years old to 14 years old. There will be give-aways and snacks for them. We will also have a casting contest hosted by Boy Scout Troop 123

Preschool – Kindergar-ten 8:00am – 8:45am; 1st & 2nd Graders 9:00am – 9:45pm; 3rd, 4th &5th Grad-ers 10:00am – 10:45am; 6th Graders through 14 years of age 11:00am – 11:45am.

All young sportsmen must be registered & accompanied by an Adult; Registration & Liability Form Must BE SIGNED; No fish are to be released; Two Trout limit.

At this time sponsors are: WVDNR; Carols Cross-roads Best; King’s Truck-ing & Wrecker Service; Fran King, Candidate for County Commission; Mor-gan Triplett; Ramsey’s Ex-cavating; Clay County Bank; Cunningham Motors; Dan-ielson Co.; Gapen LLC; Ap-palachian Timber Services; Strata Products; Zoom Baits, Elk Valley Physical Therapy, DG’S Construction, Jeanie’s Real Estate & Appraisals, Advantage Home Health, Angela Cantrell – Candi-date for Family Court; Da-vid Walker – Candidate for House of Delegates; Teresa Davis – Candidate for Clay County Assessor; General Pipeline Construction Inc.; Wilson-Shamblin-Smith Funeral Home; Rodney & Melissa McGlothlin; Total Comfort; Salisbury Auto

Salvage; NAPA; Dawson’s Service Center; Clay County Business Development As-sociation; Donnie Triplett, candidate for Clay County Sheriff; Sizemores Green-house, Suttons Auto; Clay Lions Club; Mister Twister LLC.; Amron Building Com-ponents; Donald Jarvis; Clay Farm Store; Ferrebee’s Auto Body; Mike & Karla Pier-son; Christa Ramsey; The Bait Place; Pierson Lumber Company; Randy Holcomb, candidate for Clay County Sheriff; Greg Fitzwater – Clay County Commissioner; Elk Valley Heating; Elswick Automotive Repair; Peter Triplett – candidate for Clay County Assessor; Shane Morton – candidate for Clay County Sheriff; Mike Asbury – reelect for Clay County Circuit Clerk; Friendly Bass & Buck; Dana Holcomb –

candidate for Clay County Commission; Clay Lumber; Nettles Equipment; Dr. Mi-chaela Kessler; Starcher’s Garage; Gould’s Electric Motor Repair; Connie’s; Connie Ramsey – candidate for Clay County Board of Education; Moon & Peach Mullins; Buzz Food Service; Laura Jane Sizemore; Bul-lard’s Exxon; Eric Workman Foundation

Making an appearance will be Jody Stutler’s Lightning

2016 Wallback Lake Youth Fishing Derby

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