Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, October 12, 1993 TAG: 9310120048
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-5 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: MELISSA DeVAUGHN
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
Kitty Brennan heads Auburn Middle School's Archaeology and Ecology Club, which is in charge of the recycling program. She said that even though signs direct people to the new collection site, recyclables are still being dumped at the old site, over the fence and through the cracks of the gates.
The ecology club, with the help of the Montgomery County Public Works Department, installed new recyclable collection containers in an area behind the high school cafeteria. Brennan says aluminum, all colored glass, No. 1 and No. 2 plastics are collected. The county takes the glass, but the ecology club gets money from the aluminum.
For more information on recyclables in the Riner area, or on the ecology club, call Brennan during school hours at 382-5160 or 382-3084 after school.
If you want to see what your kids are up to at\ BLACKSBURG MIDDLE SCHOOL, the Parent-Teacher Association is holding an open house tonight at 7 at the school.
For further information, call the school at 951-5716.
Prices Fork Elementary School is having its\ FALL BOOK FAIR today through Friday in the school library. The hours are:
\ Today: 9 a.m.-9 p.m., interrupted briefly by a Parent-Teacher Association meeting at 7 p.m.
\ Wednesday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
\ Thursday: 9 a.m.-7 p.m.
\ Friday: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
All money raised at this fair will help purchase software for the library. For further information, call 951-5736.
Don't forget, best-selling author Jim Trelease will be at Christiansburg High School to speak about MOTIVATING CHILDREN TO READ Friday at 7 p.m. The event is free with refreshments and child care. A book fair will follow the presentation.
For more information, call the Montgomery County Chapter I program at 382-5123.
To make school more fun and interesting, the MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS system is seeking proposals from contractors to provide a number of services to county students. They are: art therapy, outdoor-based or recreational counseling, music therapy and other forms of structured learning based counseling.
A preproposal conference will be held at the administrative office, 200 Junkin St., Oct. 20 at 1 p.m.
Elliston-Lafayette Elementary School will hold its HALLOWEEN CARNIVAL Oct. 30 11 a.m.-4 p.m. and is accepting registration for those wishing to sell crafts or flea market items at the event.
There also will be games, food, drinks, a haunted house and pony rides.
Craft tables may be rented for $15; flea market tables are $10. Call Ronnie Raines at 268-5339.
Discovery Works . . . a children's museum, is sponsoring two performances for several New River Valley area elementary and middle schools.
Theatre IV's five-member cast will bring " YOUNG THOMAS JEFFERSON" to 10 schools, telling the story of his youth from his elderly perspective and through the eyes of his three grandsons.
Walt Michael and Company will present "MUSIC ACROSS THE POND," which demonstrates the changes in rural folk music and dance after encounters with the great melting pot of America.
Parents and friends of the schools also are invited to the performances, which will be held Oct. 18-22. Call Discovery Works for a listing of times and places at 633-2233.
The third graders at GILBERT LINKOUS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are working on a community project for the Inter-Faith Food Pantry. Each month the pupils will collect a different item to be donated to the pantry. They kicked off the project with a tour of the Food Pantry.
Martha Ann Stallings is the teacher in charge of the program. If you would like to donate items, call her at 951-5726.
Area high schoolers who have been recognized in THE 1994 MERIT PROGRAM:
\ Commended Students: Matthew Henley, Geoffrey Morris and Todd Pontius of Radford High School; Crystal Clay, Jeremy Cosgriff and Aaron Payne of Christiansburg High School; and Brien Davis, Larissa Duncan, Rebecca Hansen, Margo Hasselman, Margaret Hendricks, Abigail Murrmann, Jesse Pappas, Emily Reisinger, Zachary Warren and David Webster of Blacksburg High School.
\ Semifinalists: Jared Espley of Christiansburg High School; Tristan Carolan, Koren Donahue, Adam Jortner, Christopher Tyson and Jonathan Tze of Blacksburg High School. (Radford High School's information was not available).
Also, Jennifer Njambi Good of Blacksburg High School was recognized as a commended student in the National Achievement Scholarship Program for OUTSTANDING NEGRO STUDENTS.
More than 1 million students competed in the Merit Program. There were 35,000 commended students and 15,000 semifinalists.
If you have an interesting news item from your school, write to Melissa DeVaughn, whose feet are recovering well from her recent Appalachian Trail thru-hike, at P.O. Box 540, Christiansburg, Va. 24073.
by CNB