ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, July 14, 1996 TAG: 9607150016
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-7 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
Auburn cannery sets schedule
RINER - The Auburn Community Cannery will be open Mondays and Wednesdays, through Sept. 1.
Use of the cannery is by appointment. There is a one-time membership fee of $5 and a processing fee of 15 cents per container processed. Apple butter will be processed at $1 per gallon. Safety regulations must be followed and small children may not be brought to the cannery. The community cannery has been used by the public for 40 years to quickly and safely can fresh produce and vegetables.
Call Betty Edwards at 382-4612, or Auburn High and Middle School at 381-5160 for further information.
Musical scheduled at Community College
WYTHEVILLE - "Nunsense," an adult musical comedy by Dan Goggin, will be performed at Wytheville Community College at 8 p.m. July 19, 20, 26 and 27 in the Grayson Hall Commons.
Admission is $5 ($3.50 for senior citizens and children up to age 12) for the play only. On July 20 and 27, people can come early for a catered dinner buffet. Tickets for the dinner and play are $13 ($11.50 for senior citizens and children). Dinner theater tickets must be reserved by calling 223-4795. Regular tickets can be reserved or bought at the door.
"Nunsense" is about five nuns in the Order of the Little Sisters of Hoboken who escaped the food poisoning which wiped out their order because they were out playing bingo. They lack the financial resources for all the necessary burials, so they are having a talent show to raise the money while the dead remain on ice in the freezer.
Radford grad to head arts group
WINCHESTER - A Radford University graduate has been elected chairwoman of the Virginia Commission for the Arts.
Janet Copple Davis, who also has a master's degree from Shenandoah University, has performed with the Winchester Music Viva Choir for 13 years, taught music in Franklin County and Clarke County schools, and is director of the multicounty Blue Ridge Choristers Children's Choir.
Ex-candidate suing Police Department
WYTHEVILLE - An unsuccessful candidate for Bland County sheriff is suing Wytheville and its Police Department for not giving him a leave of absence to run for office.
Steven Moses, a former Wytheville police officer, said his request for a leave was denied, and he had to resign from the department. He claims his constitutional right to seek public office was denied and is seeking reinstatement in the Police Department, back pay and fringe benefits dating from June 30, 1995, and $1.2 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
Sheriff Melvin Cox was re-elected in Bland County.
Civil War expert to present program
WYTHEVILLE - James I. Robertson Jr., professor of history at Virginia Tech with expertise on the Civil War, will give a program Monday at the Wytheville Recreation Center. Admission is $3 and reservations are required by calling 228-4047.
A social hour with Robertson will start at 6:30 p.m. with the program at 7:30 p.m. Musical entertainment will be provided by Irish folk-singer and balladeer Frank Emerson.
Robertson teaches a popular course on the Civil War at Tech and produces a weekly program on it for National Public Radio. He has published several books including a children's book, "Civil War! America Becomes One Nation," and "Soldiers Blue and Gray" which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.
Violin-viola duo to perform today
WYTHEVILLE - The violin-viola duo of Tamara Meinecke and Clare Yang will perform at Saint John's Episcopal Church at 3 p.m. today as part of the church's 150th anniversary year. Admission is free.
Meinecke, the niece of the Robert Meinecke family of Galax, and Yang, originally from Taiwan, play in the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. Their violin-viola duets will range from Thomas Morley's light-hearted "The Cricket" to a gypsy waltz by Robert Fuchs and a sonata by Mozart.
Council's lone woman re-elected vice mayor
WYTHEVILLE - Jackie King, Wytheville Town Council's only woman member, has been re-elected by the governing body as the town's vice mayor for another term.
King was re-elected to council in May. In other decisions at council's organizational meeting last week, Councilman John Jones was chosen as the representative to the town Planning Commission and Ralph May, subject to approval by the Wythe County Board of Supervisors, to the Wall of Honor Committee.
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