Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, November 22, 1995 TAG: 9511220051
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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CHRISTIANSBURG - Recording artists the Flat Ridge Boys will be featured at the WKEX remote broadcast Friday, Nov. 25. The group will perform at the Market Place Shopping Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The band plays traditional country, bluegrass and gospel music, with CDs available in all three categories. WKEX Happy Clown also will be at the event.
Progressive Men's Club to meet
DUBLIN - The New River Valley Progressive Men's Club will hold its third annual Harvest Fest Banquet at 7 p.m. Friday in the T.J. Anderson Lounge of Martin Hall at New River Community College.
The main speaker will be Elder Ronald Watson, pastor of the Church of God in Christ at Radford. Gospel music will be provided by the church choir under the direction of his son, Mark Watson.
Tickets are $10, with proceeds going to the club's scholarship fund. They will be available at the door, or they can be purchased from club members or by calling 639-1888 or 980-1226. The club gives a college scholarship each year.
Tech receives grant to study fish
BLACKSBURG - The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $280,000 grant to researchers at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine's Aquatic Medicine Laboratory. The grant will be used to study the role fish might play in assessing environmental toxicity.
The objective of the three-year study is to ascertain the fish's suitability as a laboratory animal in assession immunotoxicity, according to Steven Holladay, an immunotoxicologist in the college's Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology.
Christmas musical at historic house
PEARISBURG - The Andrew Johnston House, an 1829 Georgian Federal House on Main Street, will be open for "A Musical Christmas" candlelight tour Friday-Sunday, Dec. 1-3. Hours are Friday 5-8 p.m., Saturday 1-8 p.m. and Sunday 1-5 p.m.
The Andrew Johnston House is owned by the Giles County Historical Society and has been open for holiday tours each year since the society acquired it in 1985.
The house will be decorated with live greens and other natural materials in traditional style. The music motif also will be woven into the decorations. Each room and hallway, as well as the two-story formal staircase, will be decorated by different members and friends of the society.
Admission is $2 for the general public and free for students. Refreshments will be provided.
For information, call Gloria Zucchet at 921-3834.
by CNB