THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, April 9, 1995 TAG: 9504070188
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 03 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Column
SOURCE: Eric Feber
LENGTH: Medium: 85 lines
The folks who work at Bill Lewis Chevrolet on Western Branch Boulevard are always willing to lend a hand to charity.
For a face.
Not only will employees of the auto dealership participate in the annual March of Dimes WalkAmerica beginning at Western Branch High School at 9 a.m., April 30, they will also allow their faces to be used as targets for flying pastry.
The Bill Lewis ``Pie-A-Thon'' takes place Thursday from 5-7 p.m. at the dealership.
For just $2 a throw you'll be able to sling a pie in the face of dealership owner Ashton Lewis. Or you can slam a pie into the faces of Mike Bunch, Darrell Gifford, Reese Johnson, Louis Latham, Gene Luke, Rick Menke, Ric Morrison, Carol Murphy, Bill Refakis, Sharon Terry, Lloyd Veale, Larry Ward Jeff Waugh and Gina Wilkinson.
The good sports will stand behind and place their heads through plywood cartoon characters, making tempting targets for the pies.
Pie-A-Thon organizers are urging Chesapeake folks to support next week's pie-in-the-eye event and the end of the month's WalkAmerica.
In fact, the fund raising efforts of the March of Dimes should be supported by as many Chesapeake citizens as possible. The national charity raises money to support research and treatments to put an end to birth defects and infant mortality.
According to Cheryl Lutton, a member of the local March of Dimes committee, Chesapeake has ``an alarmingly high number of low birth weight and premature birth incidences in the Tidewater area.''
For more information on the Pie-A-Thon, call Gina Wilkinson at 483-1999 and for more details on the Chesapeake-Portsmouth WalkAmerica, call 486-1001. Chesapeake kids know
Last Friday, the Science Museum of Virginia in Richmond was the site of the National Geography Bee for Virginia, sponsored by the National Geographic Society of America.
Guess which South Hampton Roads city sent the most contestants to the competition?
It was Chesapeake, which sent a grand total of three contestants to try their wits at state and international capitals, languages, mountain ranges, rivers, bodies of water, continents, land forms and exports.
The Chesapeake kids who made it to the state competitions were:
Patrick E. Jackson, a fifth-grader at Great Bridge Intermediate School.
Ryan Wycliffe, an eighth-grade student at Tidewater Junior Academy of the Seventh-day Adventists.
Erich A. Heckel, an seventh-grader at Western Branch Middle School.
The competition pits fourth- through eighth-grade students from across the country, vying for a grand prize of a $25,000 college scholarship.
The Chesapeake threesome earned the right to represent their city by winning their individual school geography bees and achieving a top score on a written exam prepared by the sponsoring National Geographic Society.
Each state winner will receive $100 and prizes, along with an all-expenses-paid trip to the finals in Washington, May 30-31. Oman: locally, nationally
Sidney M. Oman, who hosts the WCTV-23 public affairs program ``Sounding Board,'' was in the nation's capital last week interviewing Virginia's senators and representatives.
The former mayor of both Chesapeake and Elizabeth City, N.C., interviewed senators John W. Warner and Charles S. Robb and representatives Owen Pickett and Tom Bliley about issues affecting Chesapeake.
His Capitol Hill shows will be aired on Chesapeake's WCTV-23 at 9 p.m., April 16; 9 a.m., April 17; 1:30 p.m., April 18; 9:30 a.m., April 20; and at 7:30 p.m., April 21.
While Oman was taping his show for the local television audience, he was being taped by a CNN crew for the national audience.
During Oman's interview with Bliley, CNN taped the former mayor interviewing the congressman.
The cable news network made the tape as part of a special documentary it was preparing on the life and work of Bliley, who now heads the House Commerce Committee.
Oman's appearance on nationwide TV will be seen at a later date. by CNB