THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, April 14, 1996 TAG: 9604120213
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 03 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 67 lines
Saturday, April 6
9:30 a.m. - Food Lion on Sandbridge Road.
Dorothy Kordak has recently made arrangements to donate her body to Eastern Virginia Medical School after she dies.
Shopping this morning, she sees a car in the grocery parking lot bearing an EVMS sticker. ``That caught my eye right away,'' reports Kordak.
When the owner of the car returns to the vehicle, Kordak says she walked up and asked the woman if she were from the medical school.
``I just wanted you to know I donated my body to your school,'' Kordak says she told the driver.
``She laughed at me,'' Kordak adds, ``and said, `I won't be looking for you just yet.' ''
- Melinda Forbes
2:10 p.m. - Villas of Glenwood.
A 4-month-old girl is sitting in an infant seat, waiting eagerly for her first spoonful of oatmeal baby cereal.
Her mother tells a visiting aunt and grandmother that the rice cereal she had been trying to feed the baby made her sick.
``Every time I gave it to her she would eat it,'' the mom confides, ``but the rest of the day she would scream and cry and stiffen up. It was awful. I hope the oatmeal is easier for her to digest.''
The aunt, who has been mixing one teaspoon of oatmeal with three teaspoons of water in a cup, asks the mom how many seconds the oatmeal should be microwaved. The mom turns red and grins sheepishly.
``Uh, you're supposed to cook it?'' she asks, as everyone guffaws. ``I thought you just had to mix it with hot water.''
- Pam Starr
Tuesday, April 9
3:15 p.m. - Salem Elementary.
A dark-haired boy is helping kindergarten assistant Linda Dodson stack tiny blue-seated chairs after class.
These aren't ordinary little people chairs. A sliced yellow tennis ball sits at the base of each chair leg and at the base of each table leg in the classroom.
``Hey, that's really neat,'' a visitor remarks to Dodson. ``But what's the purpose?''
Dodson smiles. The balls help keep the chairs quiet against the floor.
``The tennis clubs have been great about giving us their used tennis balls,'' she adds. ``And you would not believe how quiet it makes the chairs. It has been wonderful.''
- Pam Starr ILLUSTRATION: Photo by L. TODD SPENCER
Here's pie in your eye
Commissioner of Revenue Bobby Vaughan, left, City Treasurer John
Atkinson and City Manager Jim Spore were the targets in a VIP pie
throw at noon Thursday on the lawn at City Hall. Tickets were sold
for $1 each. At 11:30 a.m. Thursday, 20 tickets were drawn and those
lucky tickets-holders got a chance to toss a pie into the official
face of their choice. Proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society
and the march of Team Virginia Beach '96 in the Cancer Society's
upcoming Relay for Life.
by CNB