ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, December 10, 1995 TAG: 9512110024
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-15 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
Christmas concert
WYTHEVILLE - Adult and children's choirs from three Wytheville Churches - the Baptist church, the Presbyterian church and St. Paul United Methodist Church - will perform Christmas music at St. Paul United Methodist Church at 3 and 7 p.m. today.
The adult choirs will perform Vivaldi's "Gloria" and three choruses from Handel's "Messiah." Three Christmas anthems will finish the concert.
The children's choirs will sing "Were You There?" "Glad Tidings" and "Mary's Song."
The choirs will be accompanied on organ and piano, and a small orchestra of area musicians will play.
Wythe board plans
WYTHEVILLE - The incoming Wythe County Board of Supervisors is looking at retreats and workshops as possible tools for getting a handle on their work in the coming year.
Current Chairman Mark Munsey had an informal meeting last week with carry-over Supervisors Tom DuPuis, Carleton Rose, Charles Dix and new Supervisor Bucky Sharitz.
Two others who will begin their terms in January, Harvey Atkinson and Clay Lawrence, were unable to attend. But the group is planning another session Jan. 2 to gear up for its first meeting of 1996.
"I know no one likes a lot of meetings," Munsey said, but the board has many items with which to deal next year, such as a drop in state school funding.
The board currently meets at 10 a.m. on the second Tuesday of each month and 7 p.m. on the fourth Tuesday. It will decide at its first meeting Jan. 9 whether to keep those dates. It may also schedule planning sessions for the conclusion of regular business at those meetings, and do some planning then if the meetings have not run too long.
Pilot ground school
WYTHEVILLE - Private pilot ground school will be offered by Wytheville Community College during the spring semester. The course offers training for the Federal Aviation Administration's ground school examination and airplane instruction.
The course will meet from 7 p.m. to 9:40 p.m. Tuesdays starting Jan. 9 and continue for 15 weeks. Tuition is $141.45. Further information is available by calling Gary Laing at 223-4802 or toll-free 1-800-468-1195.
Central Drug closes
WYTHEVILLE - Central Drug Co., a landmark in downtown Wytheville for most of the century, will close its Main Street store Dec. 18 and merge with the Revco Drug Co. store on North Fourth Street in the Evansham Plaza Shopping Center.
Files and records will be transferred to the new location by Dec. 19.
Pool contract
RURAL RETREAT - Shelor Inc. of Dublin has been awarded a contact for a new swimming pool and bath house at the Rural Retreat Lake Park in Wythe County.
The county Board of Supervisors had hoped to fund the $568,000 project through a state outdoor recreation grant, but has found it does not qualify because it cannot guarantee to the state Department of Game and Inland Fisheries that the facilities will be operated in perpetuity. The lake authority, which oversees operations, has a 20-year lease on the park.
The county will seek other methods of funding the project.
Farm poster awards
WYTHEVILLE - Two young people from Wythe County have been recognized by the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation for creating posters depicting farm life.
Southwest District winners were Matthew Heldreth, son of Kirk and Laura Heldreth, and Aaron Crowgey, son of Eric and Lisa Crowgey. They were among 14 winners statewide.
Lecture on artist
EMORY - A lecture on the work of artist Carol Burch-Brown, associate professor in Virginia Tech's Center for Interdisciplinary Studies and its College of Architecture and Urban Studies, will be presented at 3:30 p.m. today at Emory & Henry College in its Van Dyke Center.
John Dixon, professor emeritus of religion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give the lecture. Paintings and drawings by Burch-Brown have been on exhibit at the college.
Burch-Brown, an honors graduate of Abilene Christian University, earned a master of fine arts in drawing and painting from the University of Chicago.
Drying workshop
DUFFIELD - Fred Lamb, professor of wood products and processing at Virginia Tech, will lead a workshop from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday on wood-drying technologies and dry kilns at the Duffield Ramada Inn in Scott County.
The workshop is free and open to the public. It will cover various types of wood-drying systems, costs, management needs, efficiency and drying times of different dry kilns. To register or for more information, call 623-1121.
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