Wal Mart

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A grand opening for the Wal-Mart Supercenter in northern Berkeley County has been scheduled for March 5, company spokeswoman Kelly Hobbs said Tuesday. "We're eager and excited to be opening finally," Hobbs said. The company opened a hiring center Dec. 18 and has received more than 300 applications for 340 full- and part-time positions at the 197,000-square-foot store in Spring Mills off W.Va. 901 near Interstate 81 and Williamsport Pike. Businesses committed to opening in the Wal-Mart store include Regal Nails, Smart Style hair salon, Subway and Wal-Mart Financial Services, Hobbs said.

MARTINSBURG, W.VA. ? A grand opening for the Wal-Mart supercenter in northern Berkeley County has been scheduled for March 5, company spokeswoman Kelly Hobbs said Tuesday. "We're eager and excited to be opening finally," Hobbs said. The company opened a hiring center Dec. 18 and has received more than 300 applications for 340 full- and part-time positions at the 197,000-square-foot store in Spring Mills off W.Va. 901 near Interstate 81 and Williamsport Pike. Businesses committed to opening in the Wal-Mart store include Regal Nails, Smart Style hair salon, Subway and Wal-Mart Financial Services, Hobbs said.

HAGERSTOWN ? The Wal-Mart surveillance images show it clearly: A young man in a black-and-white ball cap walks over to a wheelchair in the store's lobby, gets in and wheels himself out. But it wasn't his wheelchair. Tony Faison, 23, of Hagerstown, had left it with the store's greeter while he used a motorized cart to do some shopping early Friday. When he returned to find his chair gone, Faison, who has spastic paraplegia, was left wondering how he would get home, let alone get around his job as a stocker at a convenience store or afford to replace the $3,000 chair that was custom-built to keep his disability from getting any worse.

MARTINSBURG, W.VA. - Construction of the Wal-Mart Supercenter in the northern Berkeley County community of Spring Mills is going well and the store is expected to open early next year, officials say. Several other commercial enterprises also are springing up in that area. "Everything is about a month and a half ahead of schedule," said Allen Henry, president of Panhandle Builders & Excavating Inc. The company and its subsidiary, Rental Properties Inc., has played an integral role in the development of the Wal-Mart, the anchor store for the Spring Mills Towne Center at Exit 20 of Interstate 81. "We hope to hold a grand opening sometime in February," Wal-Mart spokesperson Kelly Hobbs said Friday.

Melissa Vega of Hagerstown looks over cats up for adoption Monday at the Morris' Million Cat Rescue interactive bus parked at Wal-Mart, presented by 9Lives.

Editor's Note: Tim Rowland is on vacation. This column was originally published on Tuesday, Nov. 21, 2006. "Has anyone in here ever heard of a dude named Kevin Federline?" That question, posed by me in an open newsroom, was greeted with about a dozen swiveled heads and looks of incredulity. No, looks of pity is more like it. One 20-something colleague ventured to take me under her wing and help me limp through the ins and outs of pop culture, much like a Candy Striper would sympathetically assist a geezer tottering his way down the hall to get physical therapy on a broken hip. If, like me, you are older than Robert Byrd's grandfather, here's the dope: Kevin Federline, aka K-Fed, is a purported rap musician who has basically failed in the area of tunage, but temporarily succeeded in the area of marriage to one B. Spears.

Bankers Life and Casualty Co. of Hagerstown sponsored "Forget Me Not Days" on May 19 and 20 to raise funds for the Western Maryland Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. Bankers raised more than $750 for the first event. The funds were matched by the Wal-Mart Supercenter at the Centre at Hagerstown. Bankers Life and Casualty staff members taking part in the event included Yancy Long, Todd Varney, Dave Luttrell, Cragle Black, Aaron Woodard, Joe Polasek, Frank Gmernicki, Michelle Stitely, Margie Stevens, Glenda Brown, Autumn Fao and Chris Emmert.

SPRING MILLS, W.VA. - Berkeley County fourth-grade teachers Melissa Golliday and Wendy Bird are among the more than 4,000 teachers across the nation that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. officials announced are receiving Teacher of the Year honors this week. Golliday, a first-year instructor at Potomack Intermediate School, and Bird, who has taught at Mountain Ridge Intermediate School for two years, were surprised with the honor on Tuesday. "Honestly, I thought we were in trouble for something," Golliday said after being presented with a plaque and flowers in the school's gymnasium.

Edward Jones to host Savage broadcast The six local Edward Jones financial advisers will host a free broadcast presentation entitled, "Take Charge of Your Financial Security" on Tuesday, May 8, at 11:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Syndicated personal financial columnist Terry Savage will provide practical strategies for moving forward to secure one's financial future. The interactive event will be presented at select Edward Jones branch offices nationwide via the firm's private video network.

Man robs banks inside Wal-Mart A man who threatened he had a gun got away with an undisclosed amount of cash after a robbery Thursday afternoon at Fidelity Bank inside Wal-Mart on Garland Groh Boulevard, the Hagerstown Police Department said. Police said no handgun was shown during the 4:13 p.m. robbery. After the robbery, the man ran to a parked vehicle in the Wal-Mart parking lot. The bank robber is a clean-shaven white man in his mid-20s with a slender build.