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<title>Camp teaches teens about healthy choices</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va.  -- Teens who need a litle extra guidance when it comes to making healthy choices about substance abuse, dating, relationships, school and career goals may find some answers at the Regional Teen Institute.   For 13 years, the camp for six...]]></description>
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<title>Camp High-Tor helps kids build confidence, independence </title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Tri-County YMCA Camp High-Tor in Putnam County is a 52-acre camp that serves children ages 5 through 17. Children participate in activities designed to help them develop confidence and foster independence while focusing on the ...]]></description>
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<title>Donors gave $77,260 to needy in 09 drive</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Thanks to your donations, so much has been made possible. Children who had been sleeping on the floor now have beds. Their clothes are now stored in dressers instead of cardboard boxes. There are warm feet and dry ceilings and unde...]]></description>
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<title>Christmas Fund donors: Week 3</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Its a day early, but Happy Birthday Robert Kent Harris!&quot;He was born five minutes earlier than I,&quot; writes Roberts barely younger brother, Dr. William L. Harris in a letter that accompanied the Christmas Fund donation he made i...]]></description>
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<title>Single mother needs clothing for boys</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. --   Teresa, a 39-year-old single mother of two boys, ages 9 and 12, has struggled over the past few years with both colon cancer and a double hernia. Her health problems have left her unable to stand for any length of time, and she cant ...]]></description>
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<title>Growing family needs help with baby items</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Pam and Bill were both working, although for Bill, it was only odd jobs. Hed had a hard time finding anything permanent. Fortunately, Pams full-time job kept the rent and bills paid for the family with two little boys, ages 5 and 7.  E...]]></description>
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Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Young dad with leukemia needs insulation to keep house warm</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. --  This time of year brings many added hardships for families, but some are much more painful than others.   Mr. K, who is just 28 years old, was diagnosed with leukemia two years ago. He underwent one round of chemotherapy and a bon...]]></description>
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<title>Christmas fund donors: Week one</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- &quot;I am only one; but still I am one,&quot; wrote Helen Keller. &quot;I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.&quot;Coming from a woman who had so many strikes agains...]]></description>
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Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:45:00 -0500
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<title>Mother wants to keep family together</title>
<description><![CDATA[    <a href="http://www.wvgazette.com/200912030767" target="_blank">Read about Christmas fund donors </a>When the pressures of being a husband and father of four became too much for Danielles husband, he simply walked away, leaving them to fend for themsel...]]></description>
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Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:56:06 -0500
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<title>Its not too late to help a kid get to camp</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Although were finished running our daily stories on the individual camps in our 2009 Send-A-Child-To-Camp program, the fund drive isnt over -- and we still have a long way to go to meet our goal.When comparing contributions from this y...]]></description>
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Thu, 21 May 2009 23:45:00 -0400
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<title>Arts and sciences camp to have green theme </title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Creative Capers, an arts and sciences camp for first- through seventh-graders, has been around for 12 years and is still going strong.   &quot;Each year we have a new theme for our camp,&quot; writes one of the camps directors, Karen M...]]></description>
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<title>Harps inspire campers at Carnegie Kids College</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Its probably not unusual for a child to grow up without ever hearing a Celtic harp, much less play one. But thats not the case for the children who attend Carnegie Kids College in Lewisburg.   &quot;Last summer, one of our camp...]]></description>
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Wed, 13 May 2009 16:11:18 -0400
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<title>Kids with diabetes feel comfortable at camp</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- For most children, feeling as though they fit in -- that theyre just like everyone else -- is so important. Imagine, then, what life is like for a child with diabetes, having to carefully monitor what and when they eat, check b...]]></description>
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<title>Camp benefits parents as well as children</title>
<description><![CDATA[        CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Summer camp doesnt have a positive influence only on the children who attend. Sometimes, the childs parent is nicely influenced, too. From YWCA Child Enrichment Centers Summer Day Camp:&quot;Last year, on the first day of camp,...]]></description>
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<title>West Virginians generosity makes for a joyful Christmas for many</title>
<description><![CDATA[These past few months have had a few extra servings of difficulties for us, so it would have been easy to wallow and whine. But right in the midst of my problems (to be specific, just after the furnace and plumbing disasters, but before the car and electri...]]></description>
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Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500
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<title>Woman falls behind in rent, needs food</title>
<description><![CDATA[Edith, 79, has been living in the same West Side home for the past 12 years, and has always paid her rent on time. This past summer, she began having health problems that required her to be in and out of the hospital several times, and she fell behind on h...]]></description>
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<title>Mother with 9 kids to take care of needs beds</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Rita, age 42, has had a difficult life. There was a time when she was addicted to drugs and even served time in jail on a drug charge. Since her release, though, shes worked hard, not only to be a good mother to her 14-year-old daughte...]]></description>
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<title>Children in need of winter clothing</title>
<description><![CDATA[Life is a struggle for Christie, a 23-year-old widowed mother of three. Her husband (the father of her two youngest children) was killed in a boating accident one day after their wedding.Christie is working hard to make ends meet. Her job at a convenience ...]]></description>
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Mon, 22 Dec 2008 23:15:00 -0500
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<title>Christmas Fund: From the hearts of babes</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The Christmas Funds motto this year is, &quot;No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.&quot; The slogan appears in our ads, on our letterhead and Web page. We hoped people would be motivated to help without feeling t...]]></description>
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Fri, 19 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Single dad needs help keeping kids warm</title>
<description><![CDATA[John is a 41-year-old single father with two children, a 9-year-old daughter and a 13-year-old son. The childrens mother left when the youngest was just 3. They havent seen her since. The family is living in a tiny trailer on Johns $356 monthly unemploymen...]]></description>
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Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Mother faces surgery following holidays</title>
<description><![CDATA[Suzie, age 39, worked at a local restaurant until it closed. Although her husband is employed, without Suzies income, life has been difficult for the couple and their two children, ages 12 and 16. It grew even more difficult after Suzie became ill and was ...]]></description>
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<title>Jericho House needs carpet layers, kitchen cabinets and linens</title>
<description><![CDATA[ST. ALBANS, W.Va. - Jericho House is a small shelter in St. Albans that has been operating for the past 20 years through grants and donations. They primarily work with women and children, but help intact families as well. &quot;I first went to Jericho Hous...]]></description>
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<title>Disabled Vietnam vet needs help making home livable</title>
<description><![CDATA[When Bob was 17, he talked his mother into signing papers to allow him to join the U.S. Army. That was 1965. By the time Bob left the Army in October 1970, he was an artillery/mortar expert with the 101st Airborne Division, had survived the Tet Offensive, ...]]></description>
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<![CDATA[karinfuller@cnpapers.com (Karin Fuller)]]>
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Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Mom needs parts for shower installation</title>
<description><![CDATA[When she was a child, Jennas mother surrendered her parental rights and allowed the grandparents to raise her. When the grandparents died, they left their home to Jenna, but since Jenna was still so young, her mother took over the house and sent Jenna to l...]]></description>
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<title>Children in dire need of winter clothing</title>
<description><![CDATA[Until recently, Katie was employed by a local telephone company, but was laid off after her Crohns disease caused her to miss too much work.When Katies oldest daughter was 17, she committed suicide, leaving Katie to raise her 2-year-old granddaughter, alon...]]></description>
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<title>Mother of four needs money for car repairs</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Diane, age 46, is the mother of four children. Her youngest two, ages 3 and 16, live with Diane while the oldest two are in college and doing well both academically and socially.Several months ago, Diane left her husband, and although t...]]></description>
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<title>Washer-dryer would make big difference</title>
<description><![CDATA[Twenty-six-year-old Tina has cystic fibrosis. Shes blind, severely disabled, and bedridden. Her 46-year-old mother, MaryAnn, takes care of her in spite of her own health problems - a back injury so severe she wears an implanted morphine pump to help deal w...]]></description>
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<title>Single father and four children need clothing, household items</title>
<description><![CDATA[Carl, age 40, is a single father who lives in a small apartment with his four children. One night last November, while the family was sleeping, Carls wife left. Her note said shed met someone else. They havent heard from her since.Carl works as a mechanic,...]]></description>
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Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Gazette charities: Couple needs new door for home</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Sandra is 51 years old and her husband, Don, is 48. The couple lives on a fixed income of $952 per month. Don was employed on a regular basis until a work-related injury nine years ago left him disabled.A few years ago, the couple was s...]]></description>
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Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Gazette Charities: Single mother endures multiple hardships</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Tara, 43, is a divorced single parent of two children - a 3-year-old daughter and 8-year-old son. Tara moved to West Virginia from Texas when she was 18.Shortly after moving here, her father was killed in an auto accident. Her mothe...]]></description>
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Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:00:00 -0500
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