06/05/2026
ARH NEWS RELEASE – Summers County ARH employees celebrate a lunch break wedding
HINTON, W.Va. – Kelly Elkins, ARH Community Health and Impact Manager for West Virginia, was knee-deep in community benefit tracking recently when she received an unexpected text message.
“It said, ‘You working in Beckley today?,” Elkins recalled. “‘You busy? More importantly, are you ordained?’
“That was followed by a laughing with tears emoji.”
Elkins’ response to Summers County ARH Head Nurse Manager Sarah Barnett was brief and to the point.
“I said, ‘Yes. No. Yes. What are you doing??’”
Barnett’s texts explained she and her then boyfriend Will Blagg, a peer recovery coach at Summers County ARH, had decided to take a couple of hours away from work for a quick lunchtime wedding.
“She said they were going to the Summers County Courthouse to get their marriage license and asked if the judge couldn’t marry them that day, could I,” Elkins said. “And I told her yes.”
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