ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, December 30, 1995 TAG: 9601030001
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
COLUMN: Applause
The Christiansburg Police Department Memorial Scholarship Inc. Fund has received a donation from the son of a department police officer.
Josh Brumfield, son of Gary L. Brumfield II, organized a softball tournament and donated $527.32 to the scholarship fund, started by the department after Officer Terry Griffith was killed in the line of duty in 1994.
Griffith's graduating high school class, Christiansburg High '75, recently donated $500 to the fund, and Christiansburg Police Department employees donate to it through voluntary payroll deductions.
The police department does not actively solicit donations but will accept checks made payable to the fund.
The mailing address is Christiansburg Police Department, 100 E. Main St., Christiansburg, Va. 24073.
Virginia Tech's Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity collected more than 1,500 pounds of canned food in a recent door-to-door food drive. The fraternity donated the food to the Interfaith Food Pantry.
The Southwest Virginia Racking and Pleasure Horse Association has donated $1,000 from the proceeds of its summer horse sale to the Presbyterian Children's Home in Wytheville, a residential care facility that provides counseling and school programs for approximately 125 children each year.
The association also donated $200 to Craig Springs Retreat Center, which offers a church camp, and camping for underprivileged children, family getaways and reunions.
Residents of Radford University's Floyd Hall donated $450 to the Radford Parks and Recreation Department, to be used for the department's "Time Out" after-school program.
The students raised the money in a date auction and penny war.
The Montgomery County Kiwanis Club has donated $600, raised from food sales at the annual YMCA Craft Fair, to the Junior Achievement program to teach young people about the free enterprise system and economics and business.
Last spring, three Kiwanis Club members conducted five classes on business and economics for students at Blacksburg Middle School.
Brownie Troop 561 planted fall flowers and spring bulbs at Prices Fork Elementary School during its fall service project. The flowers were donated by Third Day Nursery, and the bulbs were donated by Farm & Country and Wal-Mart.
The Blacksburg Mountain View Garden Club has donated $30 for a tree for Virginia Tech's Horticulture Garden in memory of member Kate Hoge.
The club also donated $25 to Prices Fork Elementary School for its garden program for children.
Participants in the Couples Summer Bridge Marathon raised $60 for the Montgomery County and Radford United Way.
Officer Donald Cromer, the Christiansburg Police Department's DARE officer, and Sam Snuffer, with the Christiansburg Jaycees, made Christmas brighter for 50 children in the area.
Cromer approached Snuffer with the idea of buying toys for children who "would have little or no Christmas otherwise," he said.
The Jaycees spent about $600 on toys, and Kmart and Big Lots reduced toy prices for the group.
Snuffer said they had to drive all the way to Big Lots in Roanoke just to find enough basketballs for the children.
The Jaycees had enough left over to buy food baskets for 16 families.
On Christmas Eve, Cromer and his friend Larry Sowers, who dressed as Santa, delivered the gifts in a police car.
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