As a girl in the upper Kanawha County coalfields, Freda Price played nurse with her dolls. Now, as a 77-year-old nurse at Quarry Manor, she owns two trophies that salute her commitment to that long-ago dream. In 2001 and again this year, the West Virginia Health Care Association named her as the state's Outstanding Assisted Living Professional.
In 1952, Price graduated from Saint Francis Hospital’s nursing school and moved immediately into a part-time position at the hospital.
Innerviews: Commercial diver has river water in his blood
Something about the river tugs at him. The mystique captivated Eric Gardner even as a small boy living along the Kanawha on Campbells Creek. At 43, he bleeds river water. The river is his life, and his living. He works on water - and under it.
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