Brad Paisley's Homegrown Talent

From: The Washington Post | Date: February 18, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

OVER THE holidays, country star Brad Paisley played Santa Claus to his home town of Glen Dale, W.Va., about 10 miles from Wheeling.

First, Paisley made a major donation toward a 20,000-square-foot concrete skate park -- the first of its kind in West Virginia. Nobody has mentioned a figure, but the cost of such a park is in the quarter- million range.

Then on Jan. 15, Paisley headlined a benefit concert at Wheeling's WesBanco Arena for victims of September flooding as remnants of Hurricane Ivan moved through the Ohio Valley. Wheeling is situated where the prone-to-overflowing Ohio River ...

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