Default having occurred in the payment of an obligation to PIONEER COMMUNITY BANK, by APPALACHIAN BIO-KILNS, LLC, which obligation was secured by a Deed of Trust executed by JOSEPH N. HOWARD, Member of Appalachian Bio-Kilns, LLC, which Deed of Trust is dated November 25, 2024 of record in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Raleigh County, West Virginia, in Trust Deed Book 5084 at Page 3979.
The undersigned Substitute Trustee, acting under the authority of a Substitution executed by Carl Bowman, CCO/EVP, dated February 9, 2026, recorded in said Clerk's Office in Trust Deed Book 5087 at Page 3753, will sell at public auction at the front door of the Courthouse in Raleigh County, West Virginia, on the 21st day of May, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. to the highest bidder in the following described property situate in Raleigh County, West Virginia, bounded and described as follows:
"Those certain tracts or parcels of land situate near the City of Beckley, in Town District, Raleigh County, West Virginia", more particularly bounded and described as follows:
"Tract B on a Plat Map with descriptions of Tracts A, B and C appended, labeled as property survey of Lots 11, 12, 20, 22, 23, 24 and part of Lots 8, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 21 of Section 21 of Lilly Land Company Addition to the City of Beckley, dated January 31, 2008, scale 1" = 30' by Proline Surveying, Inc., by Raymond E. Fink, Jr., Professional Surveyor, said map recorded in Book 5031 at page 2844", and being the same property bounded and described as follows:
TRACT B: "BEGINNING at a set PK nail, said point being on the right-of-way of Eisenhower Drive (50' R/W) and on lot 8 of the Lilly Land Addition, thence leaving said Eisenhower Dr. R/W and through said Lot 8; N 50° 02'E, 10.82 feet to a set PK Nail, thence continuing through said Lot 8; N 30° 41' W, 78.74 feet to a set 5/8' rebar, said point of being on Lot 9, thence continuing through Lot 9; N 13° 16'169.50 feet to a set 5/8" rebar, said point being on the Right-of-Way of Cuthrill St. (40'R/W) and on the line of Lot 12, thence with said R/W and said Lot 12; S 72° 30' E, 241.87 feet to a set 5/8" rebar, said point being a comer to Lot 24 and on the Right-of-Way of Larew Avenue, (40'R/W), thence leaving aforesaid Cuthrill St. and with said Larew Ave. and Lot 24; S 17° 30'W 150.0 feet to a set 5/8" rebar, said point being a corner to Lots 21 and 22; thence leaving aforesaid Larew R/W and with the common line of Lots 21 and 22; N 72° 30' W. 101.34 feet to a fence post, thence leaving aforesaid Lot 21 and continuing through aforesaid Lot 21; S 50° 02' W. 112.29 feet to a set PK nail, said point being on the Right-of-Way of aforesaid Eisenhower Dr., thence with said R/W; N 29° 02'W, 20.37 feet to the point of BEGINNING AND CONTAINING 0.96 ACRES, MORE OR LESS consisting of part of Lots 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, Lots 23 and 24 Section 21 of the said Addition."
"This property is SUBJECT TO a permanent easement to Tract A through Tract B by way of the asphalt driveway to the retaining wall to inspect and repair the marked retaining wall located on Tract A. The Owner of Tract A has by Deed accepted responsibility for maintenance of the retaining wall in a manner to not interfere with the use of or damage Tract B."
The terms of sale will be cash in hand on the date of sale. The purchaser shall assume any and all taxes which are now due or to become due.
The undersigned reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
WILLIAM S. WINFREY, II.,
Substitute Trustee
1608 West Main Street
P.O. Box 1159
Princeton, WV 24740
Phone: (304)487-1887