Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 21, 1993 TAG: 9304210175
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Virginia Western Community College in Roanoke will hold its 12th annual 5,000 meter run May 1 at 9 a.m.
The 3.1 mile run begins in front of Webber Hall and includes both level ground and challenging hills.
Male and female participants will be divided into the following age categories: 13 and under, 14-17, 18-22, 23-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-69, and 79 and over.
Plaques will be awarded to the first four places overall and medals to the first four places in each division.
The entry fees are $5 (no T-shirt), $7 (short-sleeve T-shirt) and $10 (long-sleeve T-shirt). There is a fee increase after today. .
Maps of the course are available in the college's counseling office. Call 857-7237.
El Salvador lecture
Post-war El Salvador will be the subject of a lecture this evening at Hollins College's Janney Lounge in the Moody Center.
David Holiday of Americas Watch Respresentative for Central America will discuss "The Politics of Peace: A Report From Post-War El Salvador at 7:30 p.m.
Holiday has worked on Salvadoran and Central American human rights and political issues for eight years. For the past two years of peace negotiations, he's lived in El Salvador
For more information, call 362-6451.
Dinosaur hours extended
The Science Museum of Western Virginia, in anticipation of a flood of last-minute dinosaur seekers, is extending its hours during the final week of its latest exhibit, "Downtown Dinosaurs."
Through Saturday, the museum in downtown Roanoke's Center in the Square will remain open till 8 p.m.
Author to speak
Marshall De Bruhl, author of Sword of "San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston," will speak at Washington and Lee University's Lee Chapel on Tuesday at 8 p.m.
Published on March 2, 1993, the 200th anniversary of Houston's birth and Texas independence day, this is the first modern biography of the soldier, statesman and adventurer.
It traces his beginnings as a frontiersman who lived among the Cherokee for many years, becoming a passionate defender of Indian rights; the soldier who served under Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812; the politician who became governor of Tennessee while still in his 30s and went on to become Texas' first president and first U.S. Senator. Houston was born in Rockbridge County in 1763.
De Bruhl is a native of North Carolina and a graduate of Duke University.
by CNB