Bordas & Bordas Presents $10,000 to Oglebay Foundation’s Access to the Parks Program Provided September 30, 2019 Bordas & Bordas partner Scott Blass presented the Oglebay Foundation with a $10,000 check today, Monday, Sept. 30, at Oglebay’s Crispin Golf Course. The funds, proceeds from the Bordas & Bordas Amateur ...
Wells Fargo Advisors Funds Oglebay Foundation Efforts Provided September 13, 2019 Wells Fargo Advisors recently presented a $20,000 check to the Oglebay Foundation, which will provide scholarship funds for the foundation’s Access to the Parks program. Access to the Parks ensures all child...
WesBanco Funds Oglebay Foundation Efforts Provided August 15, 2019 WesBanco’s Regional President-Upper Ohio Valley Dawn Zenner-Gaudi presented a $12,500 check to the Oglebay Foundation on Wednesday. The bank’s financial support provides funds for the Foundation’s Access to ...
Celebrate Youth Festival to Bring Thousands to Wheeling Park Provided July 29, 2019 Around 4,000 people are expected to descend on Wheeling Park on Thursday, Aug. 1, as the summer’s biggest bash for Ohio Valley kids and families — the 12th annual Celebrate Youth Festival organized by Youth Ser...
Oglebay Foundation Honors Hess Family, Hydie Friend Provided April 25, 2019 At its second annual donor recognition and awards breakfast on April 24, the Oglebay Foundation honored the Hess Family and Hydie Friend for exemplary contributions to Oglebay and Wheeling parks. The breakfast ...
Barger’s Career Rooted in Oglebay’s Hillsides Phyllis Sigal August 10, 2018 4 “It gives me chills thinking about Brooks.” Andy Barger stood — as tall as a small tree at 6-foot-4 — near the “Brooks E. Wigginton Arboretum” sign on the hilltop, overlooking trees and flower plantings and ...
Spirit of Oglebay Award Goes to ‘Mr. Oglebay’ — Randy Worls Phyllis Sigal July 27, 2018 2 Every morning, Randy Worls wakes up with one thing on his mind: How to continue improving Oglebay and Wheeling parks. Sixty-four years — about 70 percent of the time that Oglebay has been a park — that’s how...
Dancing Down Memory Lane (Part 3): Park Dances — the ’80s Katherine Marsh July 6, 2018 If you’re from the Upper Ohio Valley, you may already be aware that the Wheeling Park Commission held summer dances for local teens during five decades of the 20th century — from the 1950s to the 1990s. The dan...
Dancing Down Memory Lane (Part 2): Park Dances — the ’70s Ellen Brafford McCroskey July 5, 2018 1 Those were the days — the decade of love, disco, equality, environmental awareness. Those of us who came of age in Wheeling in the 1970s remember that era well. One of the teenage rites of passage here in the F...
Dancing Down Memory Lane (Part 1): Park Dances — the ’60s Bill Orkoskey July 4, 2018 I just heard that they are having a recreation of the teen dances held at the White Palace at Wheeling Park on July 6. It is in honor of the dances from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. Unfortunately, they missed my d...
Oglebay’s Access to the Parks Program Provides Opportunities for Togetherness Laura Jackson Roberts July 4, 2018 When we think back to our own childhoods in the Ohio Valley, we likely find our memories are inextricably intertwined with the green hills of Oglebay Park. There are many storied traditions. Some families spend...
The 40th Annual Oglebayfest Is This Weekend Lindsey McGlaughlin October 5, 2017 The Ohio County Fair, the Phil Maxwell Artists’ and Gourmet Market in Mansion Woods, the Rathskeller, a parade and fireworks are just a few of the many festivities guests will enjoy at the 40th annual Oglebayfe...
Time to Hit the Ice at Wheeling Park August West October 21, 2016 Today marks the opening of the Wheeling Park Memorial Ice Rink. The opening also signals the completion of a $560,000 upgrade to the facility with the installation of new chillers for ice making and other impro...
