Poplar Forest, the home of West Virginia collectible crafts, will join the 50th year Celebration of the Sutton Dam and the Sutton Artz Market today.
Come pop a balloon at Poplar Forest for a $1 to $20 ticket inside toward any purchase in the store Saturday. Every person who comes in the door will receive a genuine leather key ring until supplies run out.
Bob Henry Baber, the Mountain Party gubernatorial candidate will be signing his just released book Pure Orange Sunshine that day, and will offer the book at $10 off the retail price.
Poplar Forest is located at 200 2nd Street downtown Sutton. Parking is available across the street on the lot at the corner of Main and Second Street.
Saturday evening at 7 p.m. Eskar Morris and friends will be playing his brand of West Virginia country rockin' in the Elk Hotel lobby.
For more info e-mail poplarforest@yahoo.com or call 1-304-300-7767.
Sutton Dam Celebrates 50th Anniversary
Huntington, W.Va. - Fifty years ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dedicated the Sutton Dam in Sutton, W.Va., and to mark the anniversary, a ceremony will be held at the dam's Downstream Day Use Area on Friday, July 22 at 6 p.m.
Speakers at the ceremony include Huntington District Commander Col. Robert Peterson,
Rep. Shelley Moore Capito and Kelley Goes, State Director for Sen. Joe Manchin.
The program
will recognize those who worked on the construction of the dam along with retirees.
The event is part of the 3rd Annual Mountain Lakes Festival, which includes a number of
activities at Sutton Lake, including a bass tournament, a 5-kilometer run across the dam and
through the town of Sutton, a cook-off, a kid's fishing contest, a professional jet-ski
demonstration, an "Anything That Floats But a Boat" contest, a water skiing demonstration,
musical performances and a fireworks display.
Congress originally authorized the construction of Sutton Dam in 1938, but construction
didn't start until 1949. It was halted by the Korean War, and resumed in 1956. The completed
project was dedicated July 8, 1961.
Over the past 50 years, the 210-foot-high concrete dam has provided more than $404
million in flood damage reduction.
For more information, contact Public Affairs at 304-399-5353. | 
