BECKLEY AREA FOUNDATION EXISTS TO INSPIRE AND FACILITATE GENEROUS CHARITABLE GIVING THAT ADVANCES OUR COMMUNITY.
Double Your Impact: Matching Gift Opportunity Until June 30th!Thanks to a matching opportunity from a generous donor, any gifts made to the "Veterans Cemetery Fund" will be matched dollar for dollar up to $5,000, until June 30th, 2024!
The Veteran's Cemetery Fund was created to ensure that the final resting place of these American Heroes is properly maintained for future generations. |
Applications for Multisensory Structured Phonics Training Due June 30th!BAF and Marshall University's H.E.L.P. Program is proud to offer a transformative two-day training event on Thursday, July 25th, and Friday, July 26th, 2024.
This intensive session will equip teachers with practical and research-backed strategies centered around two indispensable pillars of the science of reading: Multisensory Structured Phonics and Phonemic Awareness. |
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Roy H. Casto, Jr.Roy H. Casto, Jr., passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his loving family on January 20, 2024. Roy was born in Charleston, WV, on May 16, 1939.
Roy graduated from Dunbar High in 1957 and worked his way through college with a variety of full and part-time jobs. He graduated from Concord College in 1964 with a B.S. in biology, and Northeastern Illinois University in 1970 with an M.S. in biology. Roy taught biology, and anatomy and physiology, and served as biology department chair for many years at Woodrow Wilson High School. He served as president of the Raleigh County Education Association. In addition, his teaching career included being an adjunct instructor at West Virginia Tech and Mountain State University. Roy was a builder, having constructed a good portion of the family home. He loved his wife of 59 years Sharon Trail Casto, four children, seven grand-children and many nieces & nephews. His interests were broad and varied: gardening, beekeeping, bird watching, piano tuning, kayaking, bicycling, etc. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Sherman C. and Maxine Trail Scholarship Fund. |
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