Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, May 11, 1990 TAG: 9005110645
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: Donna Alvis
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Post the sign on your door, grab your tackle box, load the kids in the car and head for Saturday's fourth annual Family Fishing Rodeo sponsored by the Twin County Ruritan Club.
The fish should be hungry at 7 a.m.
Children under 14 years old and accompanying adults may start fishing then, and the older kids can try their luck at 11 a.m. The fishing will continue until 2 p.m.
The Ruritan Club has stocked a section of the Roanoke River with hundreds of bass. To get there, take U.S. 460 to Virginia 11 (two miles west of Dixie Caverns). The site is across from Wilson's Restaurant in Elliston.
Tickets are $2.50 at the gate. Door prizes and trophies will be awarded.
Don't worry about digging up night crawlers tonight or getting up at the crack of dawn to pack your lunch. Organizers will have a concession stand with food, drinks and plenty of yucky bait.
More than likely, you'll be reeling in those fish right and left. But there is one catch - you're only allowed to keep six of 'em.
\ THIS SMELLS FISHY, TOO: If catching fish isn't your thing but eating them is, you're still in luck.
The Mount Tabor Ruritan Club will hold a fish fry Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. at Slusser's Chapel picnic shelter on Mount Tabor Road in Blacksburg. This is the first of five fish suppers the club will sponsor through September.
The menu features fish (of course!, french fries, coleslaw, cake and a beverage and, best of all, it's all-you-can-eat fare.
The cost is $4 for adults and $2.50 for children under 12.
Proceeds will be used to support some worthwhile projects of the club. The 33 members raise funds to provide two annual college scholarships, two scholarships to youth leadership conferences and Christmas food baskets for needy members of the community. In addition, the club supports projects such as the Fourth of July parade in Blacksburg, the local 4-H program and a number of community clean-up efforts.
The only thing you have to do to help out Saturday evening is clean up your plate.
\ PETS, PLEASE: Do you have a dancing mouse? A cat in a hat? A frog in your pocket?
Bring your favorite pet to Gilbert Linkous Elementary School Saturday and enter him/her/it in the pet show.
The Southwest Regional Association for Licensed Veterinary Technicians is sponsoring the event in conjunction with National Pet Week.
From 2 to 2:30 p.m., children in grades 1-6 may register their pets in any number of categories - cutest, most unusual, best dressed, ugliest, smallest or largest. Pets also will be judged for performing the best trick and there's even an owner and pet look-alike contest.
To avoid chaos, catastrophe and/or calamity, the folks running the show are asking pet owners to restrain pets with a carrier or lead.
The entry fee is $5 with proceeds benefiting continuing education projects for veterinary technicians.
The public is invited to Saturday's show, 2-5 p.m. Gilbert Linkous Elementary School is on Tom's Creek Road in Blacksburg.
\ ITCHING FOR FUN? Warm Hearth Village, the Blacksburg retirement community, will hold its fifth annual flea market and spring festival from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.
The resident council has organized this year's event which features baked goods, crafts, cake walks and bingo games. You can spend some time rummaging through the clothes or take your chances on raffles they will be offering throughout the day.
You're bound to walk away with a bargain.
Warm Hearth Village's own Kitchen Kettle Band will provide the entertainment. Shows are at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
\ STEPPING BACK: The day was May 9 - the year, 1864. On a farm in Pulaski County that day more than a thousand men fought their last battle. The Battle of Cloyd's Farm was one of the fiercest of the Civil War.
The Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee Historical Foundation will commemorate that sad day with a program and battle re-enactment on Sunday at Captain Cleburne Wayside on Virginia 100, two miles north of Dublin. The events begin at 1 p.m.
Jim Tucker of Dublin, president of the foundation, said re-enactment units from Tennessee, Virginia and Ohio will participate in the mock battle.
The program is free to the public.
by CNB