Kind Words at "West Liberty Online"

West Liberty President Robin Capehart has a new blog called "West Liberty Online".

In one of the first posts at this new site, the work we're doing at West Liberty Television was mentioned with regard to the final home football game of 2008.

http://westlibertyonline.us/?p=53

Pay a visit if you get the chance.

We've Moved to Wheeling!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Is it any wonder why I love my little girl so much? This picture was taken the night we celebrated my 37th birthday. She is such a little sweetheart and is the 'apple of my eye'! She brings so much joy to Jennie and me...with that smile, how couldn't she.

Three days after my birthday, we closed on the new house at 73 Heiskell Avenue in Wheeling. Jenn has a terrific update on her blog on our move to Wheeling. Jenn's blog: http://www.wvu-mama.blogspot.com

Our family is back together (definitely a lot more than we were the 1st six months since I took the West Liberty job)...Elizabeth has started day care, Jenn is in Morgantown two or three days a week, but we're together as a family a lot more and now have a house that was only a dream for us before pulling up tent stakes and making a new life for ourselves in the northern panhandle. Things at West Liberty are much busier during the summer months than I expected they would be...we've always got the 'next thing to do' to build our television station into what we want it to be....football season is just around the corner and soon we'll be broadcasting our games (combination of live & tape delay) to over 100,000 cable homes...it's exciting. Plus, our home games will look great on TV thanks to the beautiful new playing surface at West Liberty's football field...check it out: http://www.hilltoppersports.com

I'll be posting some new photos of our home now that it is 'lived in' by us. Expect that here soon...but, I wanted to send an update.

More soon...

Reid

A New Home for the Amos Family in Wheeling!

We have exciting news from Jenn, Elizabeth and me...plus, when considering my mother's penchant for e-mail newsletters, my DNA is guiding me to send you a note and revive my old blog with a family update (its only been since January of 2007 since I last posted to it)!

After I had casually looked around the Wheeling market for the last four months (and hadn't found anything that really excited us), we found a home that we absolutely loved the first day Jenn and I toured houses together! Our offer on that wonderful home at 73 Heiskell Avenue in the heart of the Woodsdale area of Wheeling was accepted yesterday afternoon! We had to move on it quickly to get it and it is much more than we imagined we would find!

The house was built in 1915 (Jenn especially loves the architecture of older homes), 2,500+ square feet - all above grade, 1,200 unfinished square feet in a very functional (and dry) basement! Beautiful main level living room, dining room, family room, and huge kitchen; and in the upstairs: three bedrooms, beautifully remodeled bathroom, and a separate attic office!

If you'd like to see it, click the link below to see the pictures or click on the picture of the house below.
LOOK: PICTURES OF THE NEW HOUSE IN WHEELING ON SNAPFISH! - CLICK HERE!

If everything goes as planned, we'll have possession of the house late June!

An update on our move: Things are terrific at West Liberty State College (soon to be University). The West Liberty campus community has been extremely welcoming to us and my boss, President Robin Capehart, is terrific to work for. I feel like I've found the place I'm supposed to be - the opportunity at WLSC has been even better than what I expected it would be. For those of you that haven't seen it, the Media Arts Center where I work is truly phenomenal.

Thanks to people like the Capeharts, Dr. McCullough, the Minches, the Gretchens, the Watsons, the Huffmans, the Ulloms, the Crutchfields, the Baronaks, and the Clarks who have been so good to us in helping us make it home up here. Looks like my new friends at West Liberty are stuck with me now :)

For Jenn, AACE has agreed to her telecommuting with occasional trips to Morgantown, which we're equally thrilled about, so we'll be settled in up here over the summer...we're looking forward to not living out of two places anymore...anyone need a house in Fairmont? I've already got the traditional offer by one friend "to be the first to spill beer on your floor" in Wheeling...please plan to be the 2nd, the 3rd and so on...Come see us, our spot in Woodsdale will be less than 4 miles from Oglebay resort...and we've got plenty of room!

We hope things are good in your world, too...

Enjoy the holiday weekend - Reid, Jennie & Elizabeth (and Kennedy too!) :)

The Intelligencer: 'WLSC Rolls With the Times'

The Wheeling Intelligencer recently completed a four part series about what is currently being dubbed "The Exciting Era" of West Liberty State College Athletics.

It was very flattering to have my addition at West Liberty and our WLTV-14 Television broadcasts featured as one of the articles in the series.

At left is the picture from the article, here I am with my new broadcast partner for women's basketball - WVIAC '25 at 25' honoree and WLSC All-American Ashlea Bland-Minch. She's a lot of fun to work with.

From: The Wheeling Intelligencer 'WLSC Rolls With the Times'
2/22/2008 - By: Jim Elliott - The Intelligencer.net
Click Here for the Full Story: http://www.theintelligencer.net/page/content.detail/id/506157.html