Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, August 13, 1993 TAG: 9308120133
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: Donna Alvis-Banks
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
If the name is Mustang, Camaro or Corvette, it's a classic.
If the name is Clark, Montana, Gretzky, Earnhardt or Ali, it's a champ.
If you like macho machines, don't miss the annual Jesse Conner Memorial Car Show and Auction Sunday at Floyd County High School. The event runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and features 28 classes of vehicles, as well as an auction with auto racing and sports memorabilia.
Antique cars, convertibles, muscle cars, street rods, race cars, pickups and motorcycles are just some of the categories in the show. Custom cars and classic models will be on display, too.
The Floyd Parks Committee, sponsor of the event, will award 85 trophies, including prizes for a model car contest.
Lots of treasures will be up for grabs at the big sports auction, starting at 1 p.m. Everything from autographed bats to boxing trunks hits the block.
Most of the autographed items come with certificates of authenticity and include such big names as Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Julius Erving, Muhammad Ali, Joe Montana, Wayne Gretzky and Dave Marcis.
Two tickets to a Washington Bullets basketball game will go to the highest bidder, too.
The gates at Floyd County High School open at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Entries for the car show will not be admitted earlier.
Tickets at the gate are $4 for adults. Kids under 10 will get in free with a paying adult. The fee includes admission to the auction.
In case of rain, the event will be postponed until Aug. 22.
For more information, call the Floyd Recreational Authority at 745-9363.
\ HEART OF ART: After 32 years, the Palette Art Gallery has moved.
Thank goodness, the move was just next door.
The new location at 2840 Roanoke St. in Christiansburg is next to the old gallery. The relocation has created more space for displaying the work of favorite local artists, as well as pieces by artists new to the Palette.
"We already have four new artists," said gallery director Fran Carson. "We are really optimistic. . . . We're getting more people coming all the time."
To celebrate the move, the gallery will have an open house Saturday with a reception for the artists from 1 to 5 p.m. Vance Miller, Harold Little, Louise Davis, Joan Henley and other artists will attend.
"Many of the artists helped with the renovation," Carson said. "We've had a lot of people helping us in different ways. It's very encouraging."
Carson said she hopes art patrons in the New River Valley will show support at Saturday's reception.
Refreshments will be served on the lawn, and the gallery will be open for browsing. In addition to the artwork, a selection of books by local authors will be for sale.
Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. From Interstate 81, the gallery is one mile east of Exit 118 on U.S. 460 and 11.
\ OLD-TIME RELIGION: It's time once again to make a joyful noise!
Monthly gospel singing continues Saturday with a concert at the OCAW Building on Peppers Ferry Road in Fairlawn. It starts at 7 p.m.
This is the 41st month of continuous gospel music by local groups. Saturday's performers are The Highland Gospel Singers, The Gospel Strings, The Redeemers Quartet and Young at Heart.
Admission is free and spectators are welcome to bring video cameras.
Pastor Carl Ratcliffe is the organizer. For details, call him at 382-7571 or 382-4654.
\ GOOD EATS: If you like spicy beef barbecue, you'll find it at Lafayette United Methodist Church Saturday. The Twin County Ruritan Club is putting out the spread to kick off its fund-raising campaign for a regional park in eastern Montgomery County.
The Ruritans will be dishing out the barbecue from 4 to 7 p.m. You may eat at the church or get a take-out tray. Tickets are $5. The Lafayette United Methodist Women will be selling lots of homemade desserts, too.
Meanwhile, there's a fish fry at Slusser's Chapel on Mount Tabor Road in Blacksburg.
The Mount Tabor Ruritan Club will be serving tasty fish, french fries, coleslaw, cake and beverages to raise money for its various community projects. The cost for the all-you-can-eat meal is $5 for adults or $3 for kids under 12.
The fish fry will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the Slusser's Chapel picnic shelter.
\ YOUNG SCIENTIST: Kass Kastning of Radford has been honored as a four-time finalist at the annual International Science and Engineering Fair, as a Naval National Science Award winner and as a finalist in the prestigious Westinghouse Science Talent Search.
He just graduated from Radford High School last spring.
Kastning, who will enter James Madison University this fall, is involved in the continuing research of caves. His interest may give us new insights on environmental problems, such as how easily water and pollutants can travel in cavernous rock.
Kastning has spent the last four years doing a study of Grand Caverns and other caves in the Shenandoah Valley. His work was supported in part through research grants from the National Speleological Society and the Virginia Junior Academy of Science.
The result of his efforts is a number of photographs, color diagrams, models and rock samples which help explain the nature of ground water flow in the limestone, the age of the caves and the rate of land erosion in the central Atlantic region over the last million years.
Kastning has received 55 awards for this project.
The project is on display in a showcase at the Norwood Center in downtown Radford. It's scheduled to remain there until the end of this month.
It's an exhibit you'll be proud to see.
by CNB