
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, May 13, 1990                   TAG: 9005140358
SECTION: HOMES                    PAGE: D-2   EDITION: METRO 
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SEMINARS IN HIGHLAND TEACH BUILDING SKILLS

Practical building skills that allow you to serve as your own contractor will be the topics of week-long seminars beginning this month at Bear Mountain Outdoor School Inc. in Highland County. The cost for a seminar is $450, which includes lodging, meals and instructional material.

The seminars will be May 20-26, June 10-16, Aug. 26-Sept. 1 (for women) and Sept. 16-22.

Related building workshops planned include log cabin construction, July 1-7; stone masonry, July 29-Aug. 4, and timber framing, Sept. 9-15.

Bear Mountain Outdoor School is in Hightown in the Allegheny Mountains on 500-plus acres. In additional to the building seminars, the school has workshops on mountain ecology for youth, spinning and basketry, wearable arts-and-storytelling.

For information call 703-468-2700 or write Bear Mountain Outdoor School Inc., Hightown, Va. 24444.

Briefly

Jean Thomas, who won the 1989 Rookie of the Year Award from the Roanoke Valley Association of Realtors has joined Waldrop Realty. She is a native of the Roanoke Valley and a graduate of Virginia Western Community College with an associate degree in real estate. She formerly was with Mastin, Kirkland, Bolling.

Judy Barricks, an agent with Barker Realty Co. in Salem, has been awarded the Certified Residential Specialist designation.

W. Peter Smithson of Hall Associates Inc. has received the Certified Commercial-Investment Member designation from the Commercial-Investment Real Estate Council.

by CNB