Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, August 21, 1993 TAG: 9308210157
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
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NEWPORT NEWS - Timing is everything. Just ask Julie and Douglass Lawrence, parents of a baby girl born Thursday.
Their daughter, Alyssa Ann, won a two-year scholarship to Thomas Nelson Community College by being the first Peninsula baby born Aug. 19 - the day marking the school's 25th anniversary.
"I didn't even know they were having a contest," said the mother, cradling her 6-pound, 6-ounce girl. "I was like, `Wow!' I can't believe this."'
Alyssa was born at 1:15 a.m. at Mary Immaculate Hospital, one of five babies to arrive on the Peninsula by 8:30 Thursday morning. Four of those babies were born at Mary Immaculate, the fifth at Sentara Hampton General.
The mother said the prize will come in handy. "College is definitely in her plans," she said.
- Newport News Daily Press
Feuding neighbors shoot each other
MARION - A long-running boundary dispute erupted into a gun battle in which two neighbors fired more than two dozen shots, authorities said.
David L. Lowery, 43, and Edward L. McGhee, 46, both suffered at least two wounds in Thursday morning's shootout and have been hospitalized, Smyth County Sheriff John Grubb said.
"We had had previous calls up there over domestic problems, and they had been in court over the situation several months ago and been told to stay away from each other," Grubb said.
- Associated Press
Wilder seeks relief for 5 more counties
RICHMOND - Gov. Douglas Wilder on Friday requested federal disaster designation for five more drought-stricken Virginia counties.
Wilder told U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy that the drought has caused about $8.7 million in damage to farms in Caroline, Goochland, King George, Lancaster and Russell counties.
"This represents a loss of nearly 40 percent of the value of the potential crop yields that could have been realized with normal rainfall," Wilder said.
- Associated Press
Wolf Trap reverses nursing mother policy
VIENNA - Women will be allowed to breast-feed their babies at Wolf Trap Farm Park's Theatre-In-The-Woods, where rangers had told several women they couldn't nurse because their milk would attract bees.
Wolf Trap director Joe Lawler said the official reason for the breast-feeding ban at the outdoor theater actually wasn't the bees, it was to prevent people from being distracted during shows.
Bees are a potential problem at outdoor theaters, park officials said.
There is little scientific merit to the theory that breast milk attracts bees, according to La Leche League International, an organization that educates the public about the practice.
- Associated Press
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