ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, November 17, 1996 TAG: 9611180008
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-25 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
Dance clases
WYTHEVILLE - Wytheville Parks and Recreation is offering weekly dance classes at the Wytheville Community Center starting Tuesday morning and continuing for five more Tuesdays through Dec. 31.
Square dance lessons will be from 9 a.m. to 10:20 a.m., and round dance from 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon. The cost is $12 per class, or $22 for both classes.
The instructors are Ernie and Lucy Smith of Wytheville, who teach classes in Dublin and Johnson City, Tenn. They have been dance instructors since 1989.
Registration forms are available at the Parks and Recreation Department at 250 S. 4th St. Further information can be obtained by calling 223-3378.
New director hired
WYTHEVILLE - The Wythe County Board of Supervisors has voted to hire Donald Crisp, a Rural Retreat native working with Anderson & Associates in Blacksburg, as its new water and wastewater director.
Crisp would succeed Cellell Dalton, who was hired earlier this year as county administrator after Billy Branson retired from that post. The job includes overseeing the massive Max Meadows and Fort Chiswell sewer project, under construction in eastern Wythe County along Interstate 81-77.
Branson is being considered for a roving town manager position with the Mount Rogers Planning District Commission. He was on the staff of that commission when he was named Wythe County administrator almost 20 years ago.
Fine levied
ABINGDON - Gerald Griswold, who formerly ran an agency which managed Private Industry Councils in the New River Valley and Mount Rogers Planning Districts, has been fined $30,000 and placed on probation for 21/2 years in U.S. Western District Court.
Griswold, 53, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in inducing someone to pay him $15,000 to renew a federal Job Training Partnership Act contract with the person. He could have received up to 10 months in prison and a $100,000 fine.
The prosecution did not name the individual who paid the $15,000 to Griswold.
Artwork displayed
CHILHOWIE - The Art Place in Chilhowie, operated by Pulaski arts supporter Edna Love, will showcase work by George Chavatel during November.
Chavatel, professor emeritus at Emory & Henry College, has had work shown at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Norfolk's Museum of Arts & Sciences and the Gallery of Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, N.C., among other places. He has won a number of awards and had illustrations, calligraphic work and portraits commissioned for regional publications and public spaces.
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