
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 5, 1991                   TAG: 9102050257
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: BLUEFIELD                                LENGTH: Short

EDITOR PAYS OFF BET, COVERS COUNCIL MEETING

Tom Colley, executive editor of the Bluefield (W.Va.) Daily Telegraph, does not regularly cover meetings of Bluefield Town Council in Tazewell County.

But he did so recently, having lost a bet with Mayor Cecile Barrett.

The bet was whether the United Way Pacesetter Program, with Colley as chairman, or "Barrett's Babies," the mayor's Virginia-side counterpart, would have a bigger percentage increase in donations this year. If the mayor lost, she was to write a glowing editorial for the newspaper.

Although the Pacesetters' campaign brought in $220,000, last year's campaign brought in more than $237,000. Barrett's Babies collected more than $22,000, compared to the previous year's $18,679.

- Southwest bureau

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