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Coming up, a company in Danville says it needs thousands of seasonal workers to handle the holiday crush...
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And Hollywood stars help raise loads of money for the Democrats, as the party convention gets set to open. We will have more on those stories in just a few minutes.
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Good morning, I'm Denise Allen.
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And I'm Leo Hirsbrunner.
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It's Sunday August 13-th. Welcome to New-7 Sunday Morning.
We are welcoming a new person to the News 7 team this morning.
Joining us is Leo Hirsbrunner.
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The e-Toys distribution center near Danville needs plenty of workers this fall ... about two thousand of them.
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e-Toys is the on-line retailer that opened the center in Pittsylvania County earlier this year.
Now company officials say they'll hire two-thousand more employees to handle demand during the holiday season.
The new jobs will pay between seven-twenty-five and nine dollars an hour - and will run from October through December.
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A Danville store clerk thought he saw a shoplifting attempt in the works. Now he's in the hospital with a gunshot wound.
38-year-old William Edward Cassell (Cazzell) is an assistant manager at the Quick Check Mart on Worsham Street.
He was shot in the back after questioning a man he thought was shoplifting.
The shooter is described as a young black male, 5 foot 3, 135 pounds wearing baggy jeans, a black baseball hat and a bandana.
Cassell is in stable condition.
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Union workers at the Celanese plant in Giles County say they may go on strike this week, if the company does not head back to the bargaining table.
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Workers voted down the company's latest contract offer late last week.
The vote could send the union and company negotiators back to the bargaining table.
But if it doesn't, union leaders say a strike will be authorized.
The local union president says he hasn't heard from the company or the international union representing the workers.
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A day before the Democratic National Convention is set to begin, it's President Clinton that's grabbing the spotlight.
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The Clinton family attended a Hollywood fund-raiser Saturday night to fill Hillary Clinton's war chest as she continues her U.S. Senate bid.
The gala featured performances by Patti LaBelle, Diana Ross and Cher.
The President also took time to praise his Vice President.
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"A-list" stars in attendence included Shirley MacLaine, Muhammed Ali, John Travolta, and
Whoppi Goldberg.
The event is expected to have raised over $1 million by the time the final tallies are made.
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In West Virginia, Greenbrier County residents will vote this fall, on whether to permit casino gambling at the Grenbrier Resort.
Supporters say it will bring more revenue and jobs to the area, but opponents are already gearing up a challenge.
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The resort hopes to open a Monte Carlo style casino in the space that served as a cold war bunker for members of congress.
A coalition of groups is trying to defeat the measure.
The anti-gambling campaign will include flyers, advertising in local media and door-to-door visits.
Opponents also plan legal challenges.
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In sports, Bobby Labonte is on the pole at Watkins Glen.
The second attempt at qualifying was rained out for "The Global Crossing at the Glen" so the road race positions were based on season points.
Here is the field for today's race.
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Still ahead, U-VA's Thomas Jones makes his mark in pre-season N-F-L action.
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And we'll talk football in this week's Virginia Newsreel. Mike Stevens remembers the N-F-L replacements.
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The number of cases of the deadly form of skin cancer, melanoma, are on the rise.
That's just one of the stories topping this week's health check.
Joy Sutton has more.
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(( The American Cancer Society says the number of cases of melanoma is increasing by four percent every year.
But about 80 percent of skin cancers could be prevented if people protected themselves from the sun's rays.
Those who are fair skinned and burn easily are most at risk.
And Dr. Karanita Ojomo at the Lewis Gale Regional Cancer Center says it can take 10 to 20 years for the cancer to develop after the skin has been damaged.
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((DR. KARANITA OJOMO/RADIATION ONCOLOGIST: IT'S NOT EVEN AN IMMEDIATE EFFECT AND THAT'S WHY IT'S SO DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN TO YOUNG PEOPLE YOU SHOULDN'T BE A TANNER YOU SHOULDN'T BE A SUN WORSHIPPER BECAUSE LATER YOU MIGHT PAY FOR THIS))
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Ojomo says sometimes the cancer won't show up for 10 to 20 year after skin has been damaged.
In other health news, Carilion Family Medicine in Christiansburg is one of four sites in the country participating in a pilot program called About My Health.
The program allows patients to go on-line to view their medical records.
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((DR. BRENT LAMBERT/CARILION FAMILY MEDICINE: IT INCLUDES THEIR PROBLEM LIST, THEIR MEDICATION LIST, AND THEIR PAST MEDICAL HISTORY, THEIR ALLERGIES, CERTAIN DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION. FROM THIS SITE THE PATIENT HAS THE ABILITY TO USE THIS TO REVIEW AND TO PRINT THAT INFORMATION))
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Doctor Brent Lambert say once the pilot program is finished Carilion will most likely make the program available to all its patients.
And a relatively new pap smear may reduce the number of repeat pap smears a woman may need to undergo.
It's called the ThinPrep test and unlike the conventional method doctors don't smear the specimen on a slide - they place it into a vial of preservatives that is processed in the lab.
The machine filters out the unnecessary material like blood and mucus, making a cleaner sample to read.
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((JEANNINE: THE CHANGES THAT WE SEE ARE MUCH MORE DEFINED AND WE CAN TELL THE DOCTOR WHAT WE THINK IS GOING ON AND ACTUALLY CUT OUT SOME REPEAT PAP SMEARS AND GO STRAIGHT TO TREATMENT))
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The Lewis Gale Clinic is the only clinic is Southwest, Virginia that can administer and process the test.
That's this week's Health Review, I'm Joy Sutton.))
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Warner Brothers hopes its movie, "The Replacements," will score big at the box office this weekend.
It's based on a true story -
In this week's Virginia Newsreel - Mike Stevens takes us back to a time when some Washington Redskins replacements were the ones scoring big... as a result of an N-F-L strike.
Here's the story as it aired in 1987.
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In sports, a cornucopia of highlights for you as Mike Stevens covers baseball, football and golf in his first report.
Good morning Mike.
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Big Stone Gap native and UVA grad Thomas Jones made his mark in Arizona's preseason win last night.
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Jones takes the hand off and shakes off tackelers to score from 12 yards out. He had 33 yards on six carries.
Seattle's Glenn Foley found Cardinal defenders all night long, Pat Tillman gets the pick and travels 45 yards for the score.
Arizona intercepted Foley six times in this contest. Justin Lucas makes the grab at the goal line, finds his blockers and the 100 yard run is good for the Cardinal touchdown. Arizona beats Seattle 21 to three.
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Coming up......e-Toys is looking for two thousand workers at its Danville center this fall.
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And a sheriff's deputy is fortunate to escape this encounter alive, one caught by the camera in his car.
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Good morning, I'm Denise Allen.
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And I'm Leo Hirsbrunner.
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It's (time) on Sunday Welcome back to News-7 Sunday morning.
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Two thousand jobs.
That's what e-Toys says it will add at its distribution center near Danville this fall ... but the positions are not permanent.
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Company officials say they'll hire two-thousand more employees to handle demand during the holiday season.
The new jobs will pay between seven-twenty-five and nine dollars an hour - and will run from October through December.
e-Toys is the on-line retailer that opened its Pittsylvania County center earlier this year.
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Danville police are looking for the man who shot a Danville store clerk.
38-year-old William Edward Cassell (Cazzell) was shot in the back after questioning a man he thought was shoplifting. Cassell is an assistant manager at the Quick Check Mart on Worsham Street.
The shooter is described as a young black male, 5 foot 3, 135 pounds wearing baggy jeans, a black baseball hat and a bandana.
Cassell is listed in stable condition.
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A close call for a Georgia Deputy, when a traffic stop ends in a shooting.
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Richmond County, deputy Shannon Mitchell is lucky to be a live.
It happened Thursday night.
The dashboard camera caught everything on tape as Darryl Wilson punches and kicks Mitchell.
Mitchell tries to use pepper spray, he then reaches for his gun, fires twice and hits the suspect on the backside.
But Wilson grabs the deputy's weapon, it jams and the deputy isn't shot.
The struggle lasted about five minutes until back up arrived.
Officer Mitchell was taken to a local hospital where he received stitches.
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Playboy founder Hugh Hefner says he's still planning to vote Democrat in November .. even though the party did not consider his mansion a suitable place for a fundraiser.
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California lawmaker, Loretta Sanchez bowed to party pressure and moved her fundraiser to Universial Studios.
It's a party to raise money to fund the moment to get Latinos to register to vote.
Hefner hosts about eight charity events a year at his mansion.
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Sanchez was told by the Democratic National Convention to either move her fundraiser or lose her chance to speak at the Convention, which begins tomorrow.
She moved it and she will speak at Staples Center in the coming week.
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Getting through to Firestone or Ford about the major tire recall may require plenty of patience.
Ford has set up additional hotline centers in Canada and Colorado to handle the calls, but they're still swamped.
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340- people are manning the hotline center in Denver.
The phone- lines at Ford's tire hotline center have been overloaded with anywhere from 15 to 20- thousand calls a day.
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Ford Motor Company has told almost three-thousand dealers not to wait for Bridgestone/Firestone's rolling recall of six and a-half million tires, which the tire maker is stretching out over one year.
Ford has authorized dealers to replace tires immediately with models from Firestone competitors, including Goodyear.
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The Verizon strike is now in its second week.
Talks with striking telephone workers are continuing, but there's no agreement yet.
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Union members walked off the job Sunday, after their contract expired.
The strike involves former Bell Atlantic employees in Virginia and eleven other states.
The unions fear Verizon will distribute work to areas where labor is cheaper.
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Ballroom dancing might become the next Olympic sport.
If that does happen - Morely Safer tells us it's one area where the British have a leg up.
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That story and more on 60 Minutes tonight at seven here on your Hometown Station.
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Still to come on News 7....... Roger Ebert with video picks from Tom Cruise to The Beatles.
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And this week's Virginia profile goes to the theater ... a Lynchburg theater with a second life.
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It's a long way from becoming the next Broadway, but Lynchburg's Commerce Street neighborhood is starting to attract theater- goers on a regular basis.
In this week's "Virginia Profile", Steve Smallshaw tells us how the Renaissance Theater is living up to its name.. and helping with the rebirth of the downtown area.
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(( Some might say the heyday of Lynchburg theater ended when the curtain came down on the Academy of Music in the 1950's..
For decades, there was no viable downtown theater for live entertainment.. all that changed a few months ago.
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Now the inside of an old hardware store on Commerce Street has been transformed into a vibrant, working theater.
For three years, Tom Nowell and dozens of volunteers with the Renaissance Theater group have poured their time and energy into renovating the building and turning it into their group's first permanent home.
This is show business on a small scale.. the "black box" theater as it's called can be adapted to all different kinds of sets.. it seats no more than a hundred.. so don't come here expecting a big production.
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So it's just right for plays like "April Morning", a three- person show written and directed by local playwright Linda Nell Cooper.
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((I KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE PRETTY ROUGH ON YOU, ESPECIALLY WHEN I'M GONE.. I COULD STAY IF YOU NEED ME..))
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Cooper's play could have debuted anywhere, but she says her work and the Renaissance were a perfect fit.
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((THEY'RE KNOWN TO BE A THEATER THAT TAKES RISK, THEY'RE KNOWN TO BE A THEATER THAT'S EXPERIMENTAL.. WE DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER THEATER THAT'S A BLACK- BOX STYLE LIKE THIS IN LYNCHBURG.. YOU HAVE TO GO TO CHARLOTTESVILLE OR ROANOKE, SO IT'S THE FIRST TIME TO HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS WHERE YOUR WORK CAN BE DONE, SO THAT'S QUITE AN HONOR.))
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Opening night for "April Morning" was sold out, and the Nowells say people are starting to discover the Renaissance Theater and the downtown area.
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((PAM NOWELL: PEOPLE NEED TO BE AWARE OF ALL THE GOOD THINGS THAT CAN HAPPEN DOWN HERE.. AND THERE'S A LOT THAT CAN HAPPEN IN THE EVENING IN TERMS OF EATING PLACES AND ENTERTAINMENT PLACES AND OF COURSE THEATER.))
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Steve Smallshaw, News7, Lynchburg.))
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Tom Cruise, Anthony Hopkins, and The Beatles.
They're all in this week's video picks from movie critic Roger Ebert.
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You can see Roger Ebert's reviews today at Eleven here on Your Hometown Station.
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A couple of former Friday Football Extra stars are making their mark at VMI.
Mike Bradley and Chris Morris are part of a defense the Keydets expect to be a much improved defense.
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(( Football wasn't the only sport Chris Morris played for Alleghany. Morris also made some moves on the hardwood in high school.
But these days he's lining up as an outside linebacker for the Keydets. Coach Cal McCombs says his role on the squad is one that includes of high intensity.
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Mike Bradley came to VMI from Jefferson Forest. The sophomore is at the other outside linebacker spot.
The Keydets allowed more than 36 points a game last year, the worst in the Southern Conference.
Bradley and the other defenders expect the experience they gained last season under Coach McCombs to help them improve on last years performance.
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Football is not the only lesson, Bradley says he'll take away from VMI.
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Bimbo is on the move, plus highlights from the majors and the story from Watkins Glen.
Mike Stevens has the details in sports.
Good morning again Mike.
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Fifteen-year-old Michael Phelps is the youngest male swimmer in 68 years to earn a spot on the U-S Olympic team.
The Baltimore native, who turned 15 on June 30th, finished second to Tom Malchow in the 200-meter butterfly. The 23-year-old Malchow called Phelps ``awesome.''
Phelps is the youngest member of the U-S men's Olympic swim team since 13-year-old Ralph Flanagan competed in the 1932 Games.
Here are the scores.
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[Sale]
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Organizers are calling it the "Sale of the Century". Whatever you might call it, a lot of the items are available through your home computer.
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They include a Mark McGwire home run ball from 1998, Muhammad Ali's signed shoes from his first fight against Joe Frazier, and Johnny Carson's microphone from the Tonight Show.
Some items were auctioned off yesterday at Dodger Stadium.
The Butterfields auction house will continue the sale on line.
Some of the proceeds benefit baseball manager Tony LaRussa's Animal Rescue Foundation.
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