Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, September 20, 1995 TAG: 9509200030
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
CHRISTIANSBURG - Minority employment will be the focus of discussion in a meeting of the Montgomery County Chapter of the NAACP, Sunday, at 3:30 p.m. at Christiansburg Community Center on High Street. The meeting is public. Call 382-6751.
Multicultural education
CHRISTIANSBURG - Parents and community members are invited to hear presentations on multicultural education today at Christiansburg Middle School. Larry Bell of Prince William County schools will talk at 8:30 and 10 a.m., and at 3 p.m., in the school library. Bell will talk about concepts and techniques for multicultural education at Christiansburg Middle School. Call 382-5168.
'Hokie Hour'
BLACKSBURG- Virginia Tech's New River Valley Alumni Chapter will host "Hokie Hour" at The Cafe at Champ's Sept. 28, at 5:30 p.m.
Library 'Jumpstart'
CHRISTIANSBURG - The Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library and Radford Public Library will join thousands of libraries around the country in the "Jumpstart" program. The Prudential along with the American Library Association will sponsor the program to encourage parents of first-, second- and third-graders to participate in "Jumpstart," supporting increased library card sign-up and use among children.
Throughout September, Library Card Signup Month, schools in Radford, Montgomery and Floyd will distribute the Jumpstart newsletter to parents. The newsletter will offer students a temporary library card to be exchanged for a permanent one when they visit the library, and a sweepstakes will be held for a chance to win a college scholarship, computers or encyclopedias. Entry forms will be available in the newsletter.
When children return to class with their card, schools will provide Jumpstart "sign-in" posters and offer stickers.
Kool Country remote
CHRISTIANSBURG- Kool Country (100.7 FM/ 990 AM) and Levi Garrett will be broadcasting from Sears in the New River Valley Mall Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Also scheduled are Kool Country and the Gang, some local race drivers, the pace car from the New River Valley Speedway and the Sears Diehard Supertruck. A drawing will be held for speedway tickets, Diehard batteries and free thrust alignments.
Seminar, support group
CHRISTIANSBURG - People who have pedicle screw spinal implants are invited to a seminar and support group Sept. 29, at 7 p.m. at the Christiansburg library. A health professional will speak. Call Louis Fernandez at 382-8758 or Sherry Mabry at 381-4073.
Abuse, anxiety groups
CHRISTIANSBURG - Lewis Gale Counseling Center is sponsoring support groups for adult survivors of childhood abuse and for sufferers of anxiety disorders.
A 10-week group therapy seminar for survivors of abuse begins in October. The group will meet Tuesdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at Lewis-Gale Counseling Center in Christiansburg.
The seminar costs $40 per session with a prescreening interview that costs $85.
Meeting in Pulaski will be a group for people who are experiencing acute or chronic anxiety, panic attacks, nervousness and phobias. Anxiety reduction skills will be taught.
The 10-week seminar begins Oct. 16 and will meet on Monday nights from 5:30 to 6:20 p.m. at the counseling center's Pulaski office.
Each session will cost $25 and a diagnostic interview will cost $85.
Dorinda Miller, a licensed clinical psychologist, will lead. Call 381-1100 or 994-9128.
Hospice program
CHRISTIANSBURG - "Coping With Loss and Bereavement" will be the topic of a four-week support group sponsored by New River Valley Hospice.
The group will meet Wednesdays from 6:30 to 8 p.m. beginning Sept. 27 at the Hospice office in Christiansburg. All sessions are free and open to the public. For more information, call 381-5001 or (800) 834-9281.
Deaf-awareness group
BLACKSBURG - Hands of Virginia Tech, a sign-language and deaf-culture awareness group, will meet Thursday, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Squires Student Center.
Hands was founded last year and accepts deaf and hearing members from the university and community. The group goes on picnics, trips to see deaf theater groups, silent weekends with deaf children, and teaches sign language to anyone. Call Leanna Blevins at 231-8068 or Sonia Smith 231-3787.
Speaking at RU
RADFORD - Jim Wayne Miller, a novelist, poet, essayist and guest lecturer at Radford University's Highland Summer Conference, will speak on Appalachian literature Friday, at 7 p.m. in Heth Student Center.
Miller is the author of "Dialogue with a Dead Man" and "The Mountains Have Come Closer." A teacher of German at Western Kentucky University, Miller is co-editor of the "Appalachia Inside Out" anthologies. Admission is free. Call 831-5324.
Beautification plan
Last fall, Christiansburg's Visual Enhancement Committee began to inventory the trees along many of the town's major roadways. The committee is made up of volunteers from Virginia Tech's College of Forestry.
Later, the Community Design Assistance Center of Tech enlisted the services of a design team made up of several undergraduates, a graduate student and a faculty member from the landscape architecture and urban planning departments. The team's main goal was to provide a recommendation for beautification of Christiansburg's roadways. The roads reviewed were U.S. 460 Business from Interstate 81 to Virginia 114, U.S. 11 from the town boundary to Main Street, and the proposed Depot Street from Franklin Street to Main Street.
by CNB