COVID-19: Experience Arts, Culture and History in Wheeling While Social Distancing Betsy Sweeny April 2, 2020 Editor's note: At Weelunk, we’re all about keeping you connected to your community. Because that looks a little different right now, we’re bringing you ways to engage while staying safe and healthy. We hope Wee...
Centre Wheeling’s Dinosaur Named After Scientist Phyllis Sigal February 26, 2020 Wheeling, meet Gideon — the T. rex that can be seen bursting through the second-floor window at the SMART Centre Market. "The name ‘Gideon’ won by a nose,” said Robert E. Strong who, along with his wife Libb...
Community Foundation, Women’s Giving Circle Award Grants Provided February 20, 2020 The Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley (CFOV) and the Women's Giving Circle awarded grants this week totaling over $105,000. CFOV awarded Community Impact grants to 10 organizations in the amount of $6...
SHOW OF HANDS: Female Entrepreneur Edition Set for Wednesday Phyllis Sigal January 21, 2020 “On my own I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn’t, I’ll create something else. I don’t have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.” — Oprah Winfrey Like Oprah Winfrey, the...
Couple Makes Strong Case for Dinosaur Project, Wins By a Head at Show of Hands Phyllis Sigal October 23, 2019 What do you call a T. rex who can’t accept defeat? ... A “saur” — (sore!) — loser. Well, that wasn’t the case for Robert and Libby Strong, proprietors of SMART Centre Market, who pitched their “dino-mite” pr...
No Shortage of Good Food … and Dinosaurs … at Upcoming Show of Hands Phyllis Sigal October 22, 2019 One is shooting for a "dino-mite" win. Another is no chicken in this match. A third is really working it for the dough. And the fourth one is hoping for a big serving of votes with a cool side of cash. At wh...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: First Footprints on the Moon — 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Robert E. Strong July 20, 2019 For untold generations, human beings had looked at the moon and wondered ... What was it? Was it a God? Was it a place? What was it made of? Did anyone or anything live there? Only poets, writers, philosophers ...
Party On, Kids! Stacey Miller Sacco June 14, 2019 Editor’s note: In an effort to help Wheeling families navigate what’s offered here, this story presents some options for kids’ birthday parties. Be on the lookout for an upcoming story on children's summertime ...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: SMART-Center Turns 25 — 50 Years Ago (Part 1) Robert E. Strong April 30, 2019 In elementary school, I labored under the common misconception that persists with most youngsters unabated to this day. I thought that “Science” is the accumulation of random facts and figures about a field of ...
Grand Vue Park Offers Grand Adventure Leadership Camps Ben Bolock March 8, 2019 If you ask adults to reminisce about their youth, many will give memories of their experience at summer camp. Summer camps can be some of the best times of a child’s life. They provide opportunities for youth t...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: Total Lunar Eclipse — Sun, Earth, Moon Syzygy Robert E. Strong January 19, 2019 Allow me to introduce you to one of my favorite words, a word that may be new to most of my gentle readers: “syzygy.” Syzygy (pronounced: sizz-ah-gee) is the alignment in a straight line of three or more c...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: The Golden Anniversary of the Apollo 8 Earthrise Image Robert E. Strong December 15, 2018 1 For the vast majority of the human tenure on this planet, the surface of the Earth — or very near the surface — was the sole domain of human direct first-hand experience of the universe. Other than the occasion...
A VIEW FROM THE MOON: An Introduction Robert E. Strong October 16, 2018 Years ago, nearly 46 to be more exact, I was a freshman in high school. I was 14 1/2 years old, it was a Saturday morning, dawn was shining on the still sleepy city of Richmond, (East) Va., and I was heading to...
Do Your Bidding; Drink Some Chocolate; Check Out Some Tin Weelunk Staff May 3, 2018 MMM ... CHOCOLATE Do you like freshly baked, cooked, grilled and melted chocolate? How about chocolate beer? If so, then you will LOVE the 29th annual Chocolate Extravaganza, 1-3:30 p.m. Sunday, May 6, at Te...
