Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, October 16, 1994 TAG: 9410280038
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-5 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
WYTHEVILLE - After considering five sites for a convention and wellness center, the town of Wytheville is back where it started with its Community Center location.
The Community Center had been the town's first choice but drew protests from many people who did not want an expanded building encroaching on the Elizabeth Brown Memorial Park behind it.
The protests led Town Council to consider other sites, including the Spiller Elementary School Annex, two properties owned by local banks, and a possible expansion of the Municipal Building.
None of them worked out.
Council has scheduled an information session on the proposed center to be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Community Center.
The convention and wellness center was proposed several years ago as a partnership between the town and Wythe County Community Hospital and to provide a facility to accommodate larger conventions that might be held in Wytheville.
Records on the move
WYTHEVILLE - Wythe County officials will remove records from the Sunset Memory Gardens cemetery at Rural Retreat and store them in the courthouse basement.
The county Board of Supervisors voted last week to take the action and to place locks on entrances to the cemetery mausoleum and office.
The cemetery has been in limbo since owner Don Magallenes failed to appear for trial on charges of not fulfilling cemetery contracts. Magallenes is still a fugitive.
People with relatives buried in the cemetery or who had purchased plots for themselves were left in limbo until the county stepped in.
Last month, a circuit judge authorized the county to maintain and secure the mausoleum and office building. The supervisors also agreed to insure the property until the cemetery can be sold at public auction.
by CNB