Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, September 23, 1994 TAG: 9409240017
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Joe Kennedy
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
On Saturday, other Virginia writers will speak and participate in workshops. The writers are poet Charles Wright, non-fiction author Peter Svenson, poet Katherine Soniat and novelist Amanda Cockrell, with her editor, Pamela Lappies.
Tonight's session costs $10. The fee for Saturday is $50, or $25 for full-time students. That includes coffee, lunch and a reception.
TAKING CARE OF KIDS: Horizon, a traveling fashion production for men and women, will play at the Roanoke Civic Center tonight at 6:30 to raise funds for the affordable child care project of the Junior League of Roanoke Valley.
Models, music and multimedia displays all will be featured. Tickets are $15, or $35 for patrons.
YOUR FILL OF FESTIVALS: The Valleydale Harvest Festival will be Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the Roanoke City market. Seasonal activities, music, food, crafts and such, of course, plus a bus to the Virginia Museum of Transportation, the Mill Mountain Zoo and Explore Park, where period crafts and other activities will be demonstrated.
Historic Fincastle's Festival will be Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 12:30 to 5 p.m. Crafts, book fair, silent auction, music, food, walking tours and more.
Centerfest '94 in Bedford will be Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. All the usual attractions plus a street dance from 4 to 11 p.m.
The Smith Mountain Wine Festival will be Saturday and Sunday at the Bernard's Landing Resort. Tastings by 15 Virginia wineries, music from the LeJeune Jones Cajun Band, arts, crafts and food. Call (800) 676-8203. Tickets $8 for tasters, $3 for those under age 21.
Septemberfest '94, in Radford, is Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., and features a car show, singer Hal Ketchum, Blackwater, Don and the Deltones and others. Train displays, chili cookoff and so on. Call 731-3656.
Fall Craft Show and Sale of Vinton Junior Woman's and Woman's Club will be today and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Lake Drive Plaza in Vinton.
The Grayson Highlands Fall Festival will be Saturday from 10 a.m to 6 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m. It's at Grayson Highlands State Park near Marion.
POPS: The Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra will play a pops concert Sunday afternoon at 3 at E.C. Glass Civic Auditorium. Pianist Dee Roberts will be featured. He'll perform arrangements by Tommy Newsome and Doc Severinson, Gershwin favorites and ``An American in Paris.''
Tickets are $10 for adults, $4 for students.
PLEASE STOP: Hector Olivera will perform at the dedication of the restored Echo Division organ of Calvary Baptist Church in Roanoke on Tuesday night at 7:30. He'll also play a Yamaha console. He was born in Argentina, where he started playing the pipe organ at age 3, became organist for the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Buenos Aires at age 5 and entered the Buenos Aires Conservatory at age 6. At 18, he was head of the organ department at the University of Buenos Aires. He has recorded widely.
Admission is free. Call 342-4224.
by CNB