DATE: Thursday, September 18, 1997          TAG: 9709180378

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HAMPTON ROADS

HAMPTON

Sound-light show celebrates 50 years of the Air Force

Langley Air Force Base's annual Tattoo, a sound-and-light show that celebrates the Peninsula's military heritage, will salute the Air Force's 50th anniversary this year.

The show also will celebrate Langley's 80th birthday and the Air Combat Command's fifth birthday.

The Tattoo will begin at 6:30 p.m. Friday and be performed by Colonial Williamsburg's Fife and Drum Corps, ACC's Heritage of America Band, Langley's silent precision drill team, and a flyover of F-15 Eagles, in addition to smoke, fireworks and stage lighting.

The show will be held at Memorial Park and is free and open to the public. Guests are encouraged to pack a picnic meal and show up early to get good seats on the lawn.

A special feature this year will be the unveiling of a 32-cent commemorative stamp to mark the 50th anniversary of the Air Force.

The stamp shows a slightly cloudy blue sky with the Thunderbirds, the Air Force F-16 aerial demonstration squadron, in the forefront, flying in a diamond formation. The new stamp will be available for sale beginning at 5 p.m. near Memorial Park.

REGION

Volunteers are needed

for coastal cleanup

Volunteers are needed to participate in the 12th annual International Coastal Cleanup, coordinated by the Center for Marine Conservation, from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.

Local sites will be set up at the following locations:

Virginia Beach: 30th Street to 44th Street. Meet at 30th Street on the Boardwalk.

Virginia Beach: Owl's Creek. Meet behind the Virginia Marine Science Museum at the floating dock.

Virginia Beach: False Cape State Park. Meet at Little Island Park at the south end of Sandbridge.

Chesapeake: Northwest River Park. Meet at the paddle boat/ canoe basin.

Hampton: Fort Wool. Meet at Hampton City Hall for bus transportation, corner of Lincoln and Eaton.

For more information, call Heather Green at 496-0920.

PORTSMOUTH

Move your cars! Streets

of Olde Towne get cleaned

The city's Engineering and Technical Services Department will sweep the streets of Olde Towne from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. today through Saturday.

``We now have a lot of gravel in the curbs, gutters and intersections'' since the streets were resurfaced several months ago, said Youssef Khalil, a senior civil engineer for the city. All vehicles, boats, trailers and the like should be removed from these streets:

Washington Street from Crawford to Hampton and from Hampton to High.

Green Street from London to High.

Dinwiddie Street from London to Waverly.

Court Street from Crawford to London.

Middle Street from London to North.

Hampton Place from Washington to Dinwiddie.

Waverly Boulevard from Dinwiddie to Court.

North Street from Washington to Crawford.

Glasgow Street from Washington to the parking lot, from the parking lot to Dinwiddie, from Dinwiddie to the next parking lot and from Middle to Crawford.

For details, call 393-8592.

30 ministers to attend

Jeremiah Project meeting

About 30 ministers will attend a meeting of the Jeremiah Project today to firm up plans for a summit on Oct. 5.

The interdenominational coalition of ministers started about seven months ago with six clergymen who have worked continually to increase the number and diversity of church leaders involved.

The organization takes its name from the message of the Old Testament prophet, Jeremiah, of seeking the welfare of the city in which one lives.

The organization's goal is to identify areas of need in Portsmouth and to share solutions and resources to solve some of those problems.

The Jeremiah Summit, a day when church leaders and members will gather to work on such solutions, has been in the planning stages from the project's beginning.

The citywide summit will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. at Willett Hall Oct. 5.

Today's meeting will be held at noon at Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, 2111 High St.

For more information, call Sister Anna Mae Crane at 398-4900.

NORFOLK

Awards, Britt scholarships

to be revealed at banquet

Three individuals and two organizations will receive community service awards Friday at the annual fund-raising banquet of the L.D. Britt M.D. Scholarship Fund. As well, the first scholarship recipients will be named for Norfolk State University students hoping to attend medical school.

The scholarships are named for a local surgeon and philanthropist.

William E. Russell, an assistant superintendent of the Chesapeake Public Schools and a Baptist pastor, organized church members and friends to form the scholarship committee in honor of Britt in 1993 after Britt operated on him.

Community service honorees will be Edward L. Hamm Jr., president of E.L. Hamm and Associates, a Virginia Beach-based international management and engineering firm; Dr. Oswald W. Hoffler, a Suffolk surgeon and mentor of Britt; Horace S. Savage Jr. of Chesapeake, a retired Portsmouth educator; Lee's Friends, a local fund-raising, outreach and service organization for cancer patients and their families; and Virginia Power, which contributes 100,000 hours a year to family and community projects through its Employee Volunteer Program.

The banquet will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Scott-Dozier Hall at Norfolk State. The keynote speaker will be the university's new president, Marie V. McDemmond. For more information, call 488-7876. Virginia Beach

Traffic routes will change

during Oceana air show

People entering Naval Air Station Oceana for the Neptune Festival's Twilight Air Show on Friday at 5 p.m. can enter the Main Gate off Oceana Boulevard or the rear gate off London Bridge Road.

On Saturday and Sunday, all traffic departing the base through the main gate and back gate will be one-way from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Because there will be only one-way traffic departing the air show from the base after 3:30, the main gate and back gate will be closed to incoming traffic.

On Saturday after 3:30 p.m., vehicles entering the base for the Pam Tillis concert will be parked in the Wherry housing area off Harpers Road. Buses will provide transportation from the parking area to the concert. MEMO: Staff writers Jack Dorsey, Janie Bryant, Matt Bowers and Rebecca

Myers Cutchins contributed to this report.

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