DATE: Monday, October 6, 1997               TAG: 9710060090

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SOURCE: Staff writer Debbie Markham contributed to this report.

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HAMPTON ROADS

VIRGINIA BEACH

City wants people's

views about dredging

of the Rudee Inlet

A public workshop on dredging Rudee Inlet will be held at 7:30p.m. Wednesday at the Virginia Marine Science Museum. The findings of two studies related to Rudee Inlet maintenance will be discussed, and officials hope to hear people's views of the recommendations in the studies.

The studies investigated alternatives for dredging at the inlet, which is at the south end of the resort strip. The channel between the ocean and Lake Rudee has been plagued by silting problems that have stranded boaters at times and denied for other commercial and recreational watercraft.

It has cost taxpayers, too. The city agreed last week to pay $10,000 to the owner of a charter boat that ran aground last year in the inlet. The city paid $55,000 to another boat owner in March and faces another lawsuit that goes to trial later this month.

Call 427-4167 for details.

NORFOLK

Woman dies after car

speeds off an I-64 ramp

A Navy woman was killed in a one-car accident early Sunday.

The identity of the woman was not released, pending notification of next-of-kin.

Tammy Van Dame, spokesperson for the Virginia State Police, said the accident occurred at 2:55 a.m. when a 1991 Chevy Cavalier came off Interstate 64 onto the Chesapeake Boulevard off-ramp at a high rate of speed. The car went off the road and came to rest at the bottom of an embankment.

The male driver of the car and a male passenger in the back seat were taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. The woman, who Van Dame said was stationed here in the Navy, died at the scene.

FRANKLIN

Dinner recognizes Mental

Illness Awareness Week

Valerie Marsh, executive director of the Virginia Alliance for the Mentally Ill, will speak Monday at 6 p.m. in the East Pavilion auditorium of Southampton Memorial Hospital.

The potluck dinner is sponsored by the Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Western Tidewater and the Western Tidewater Community Services Board in observation of Mental Illness Awareness Week, which will end Saturday.

Marsh will discuss reform of the mental health care system statewide from institutionalized care to community-based care.

The Virginia Alliance for the Mentally is a private, non-profit agency with 26 chapters statewide.

Also: A free depression screening will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at Western Tidewater Mental Health Center, 518 N. Main St., Franklin.

For more information, call Carol Evans, 562-2988; or April Knight, 562-2208.

Candidates for sheriff

take questions from public

Candidates for Portsmouth sheriff - incumbent Gary Waters, Paul J. Battle and Voyce D. McGinley - will speak at the Cradock Property Owners Association at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Cradock Recreation Center, 45 Afton Parkway.

A question-and-answer period will follow their presentations.

This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, call Elizabeth Croker at 485-2798 or Dolores Wyatt at 485-9471.

COMING UP

SATURDAY

Virginia Beach - The Knights of Columbus, Father Habets Council 4632, will sponsor a Columbus Day dinner dance at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at 1236 Prosperity Road. The supper will include an Italian buffet. The cost is $12.50 per person. Call Lou Soscia at 486-1297. KEYWORDS: ACCIDENT TRAFFIC FATALITY

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