The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Tuesday, January 17, 1995              TAG: 9501170338
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   17 lines

CLEARING YESTERDAY FOR TOMORROW

ILLUSTRATION: BILL TIERNAN/Staff

Welder Wilbur Brinkley of Norfolk cuts away one of the last segments

of a fire escape on the former Smith and Welton building in downtown

Norfolk. The building is being converted into the downtown campus of

Tidewater Community College.

by CNB