Raffle will give another chance on building implosion

Mon. March 23, 2009; Posted: 03:23 PM

Mar 23, 2009 (The Charleston Gazette - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- UK | Quote | Chart | News | PowerRating -- CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The chance to push the button that will implode the former Union Carbide headquarters, known as Building 82, in South Charleston on Saturday is still up for grabs.

Chris Belcher, president and owner of Cincinnati-based Pinnacle Environmental, won the ebay auction run by The University of Charleston to blow up the building after placing a winning bid of $5,207 on Saturday.

Belcher, who is a 1987 graduate of UC and a former player on the baseball team, has decided to donate the ticket back to the university and the baseball team, who will sell raffle tickets at $10 a piece to the community.

"I won the auction and I paid for it. And instead of being the one to push the button, I decided to donate the ticket to the baseball program at UC," Belcher said.

The winner of the raffle, who will be announced in a drawing at UC on Friday, will get to pull the switch on Saturday at 9 a.m.

Belcher donated the ticket to the baseball team with hopes that the money they raise during the raffle will go to a fund to help students get baseball scholarships at UC.

Belcher and his brother both played baseball at UC and saw the auction as a great way to give money back the university.

"We both received baseball scholarships, and it was the only way we could go to school there."

Pinnacle is the environmental consulting firm for the Building 82 implosion.

Anybody who wants to buy a raffle ticket should contact the local Pinnacle Environmental Office at 200 Prestige Park in Hurricane, W.Va., or at 304-757-5204.

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