Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 24, 1993 TAG: 9306240094
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people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." - Doug Larson
If you don't have a fishing pole, head for the nearest mart. The eighth annual Claytor Lake Family Fishing Tournament is Saturday.
Sponsored by WJJJ (1260 AM) and Claytor Lake State Park, the event promotes family fun and environmental awareness. The fishing tournament coincides with the annual lake cleanup project.
"We want everyone to come out and enjoy the lake, go fishing and pick up some litter while they're at it," explained park manager Richard Johnson.
WJJJ has prizes for people who bring in specially marked "treasure bottles" with the litter they pick up around the lake. Friends of Claytor Lake, a local environmental group, is supplying the trash bags and taking care of the trash disposal.
The fishing tournament is open to all ages with divisions for youths (13 and under) and adults (14 and older). Cash and trophies will be awarded to winners in both divisions who catch the largest fish in each of five categories: small mouth bass, large mouth bass, catfish, crappie and sunfish.
Hold your hooks - there's more.
The lucky angler who catches Sly Sam, the tagged bass, wins $5,000! A consolation prize will be awarded if Sam is caught after the tournament but before Sept. 6.
The tournament begins at 8 a.m. Entrants should check in at the gazebo near the Howe house at Claytor Lake. The final weigh-in is at 3 p.m.
Participation in the tournament is free but everyone must fill out and submit a registration card. The cards, available at WJJJ in Christiansburg and other businesses in the New River Valley, list the contest rules and entitle participants to free admittance and boat launching at Claytor Lake State Park Saturday.
More bait: New River Cruise Company will offer a free ride on The Pioneer Maid at 10 a.m. and the game warden will give a lecture on Claytor Lake wildlife at 11 a.m. Questions? Call WJJJ at 382-4993 or Claytor Lake State Park at 674-5492.
\ AH, MUSIC: On Saturday, the Fine Arts Center of the New River Valley will present "A Little Light Music at Night," a program featuring dance, song and music. It begins at 7:30 p.m. at the Women's Club Annex, 44 Fourth St., in Pulaski.
Soloist Dick Bethune, tenor, will entertain with tunes that are easy on the ears: "Born Free," "Night and Day," "Sunrise, Sunset," "Moon River and "My Funny Valentine."
Pianists Virginia Bethune and David Jones are featured in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3.
Wallace Easter, French horn, and Margo Easter, oboe, are guest artists for the evening. They will perform as soloists and in Reinecke's Trio in A Minor, Op. 188, with accompanist Brenda Williams.
The Tonechime Players will render a medley of songs, including "Three Blind Mice," "Frere Jacques" and "When the Saints Go Marching In."
Dancers Suzanne Kirby and Kelly Campbell, students of Melanie Ondich, complete the list of performers.
Admission is free.
\ WHO'S SAM VANCURREN? He's the actor who landed the best part in Virginia Tech's Theatre Arts-University Theatre production of "The Real Inspector Hound."
He's the corpse.
VanCurren's role calls for him to remain on stage through the entire play, but he never says a word.
Tom Stoppard's comedy satire is the latest production for Blacksburg's Summer Arts Festival '93. Set in the 1930s, "The Real Inspector Hound" is really a play-within-a-play, a murder mystery with audience participation.
Director Gregory Justice said his cast is having great fun with the play. Justice, a theater arts faculty member, is being assisted by Charles Dudley, director of the University Honors Program at Virginia Tech.
The cast is made up of Virginia Tech students Aristide Henderson, Howard Simpson, Emily Berger, John Cook, Darryl Gibson, Amy Martin, Melissa Munson and Eric Wolfrey - and, of course, Sam VanCurren.
Show times are at 8 tonight and Saturday in Squires Studio Theatre. The play will have a second run July 8-10.
Admission is free but you'll need to get there early for a good seat. Reservations are not accepted.
\ THEY'RE KIDDERS: Marcia and Woody McKenzie love kids!
That's why they're giving a special concert Saturday for children. It starts at 1 p.m. at the Radford Public Library, 30 First St.
The duo's repertoire uses guitar, mandolin, banjo and fiddle and includes traditional and newfangled folk songs, children's songs, novelty songs and original works. While they're performing, the twosome has been known to do a little clogging, too.
Saturday's free performance is a special event for the library's summer reading program for kids 3 to 14.
\ LUCKY DUCKS: The New River Valley chapter of Ducks Unlimited is having its annual "Greenwing" picnic Saturday, beginning at 2 p.m., at the Appalachian Power Company's picnic grounds on Claytor Lake.
Greenwing is the youth division of the organization. Greg Oakley, chairman of the New River Valley chapter, says the purpose of the program is to help children develop a sense of responsibility for waterfowl and the wetland environment.
Saturday's picnic offers games, B.B. shoots, demonstrations by retriever dogs and talks by Virginia wildlife biologists. Domino's Pizza will provide the food.
The picnic is open to children and adults. For more information, call Oakley at 731-0141.\ \ IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN: Yard sales! Don't cha love 'em?
The Fine Arts Center of the New River Valley is having its annual A-B-C (Attic, Closet and Basement) sale Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the VFW Hall in Pulaski. It's at Dora Highway and Washington Avenue.
In Shawsville, members of the Shawsville Rescue Squad are putting on a yard sale and bake sale to raise funds for the volunteer organization. The rescue workers need supplies and equipment to do their great community service.
The sales begin at 9 a.m. at the rescue squad building in Shawsville. Bluegrass musicians from the Roanoke band Omega V will entertain you while you hunt for bargains.
by CNB