Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, December 15, 1993 TAG: 9312150031
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: ADRIENNE PETTY STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
A week after liquor by the drink was approved overwhelmingly by voters in the Union Hall district Nov. 2, Willard's private club applied for a mixed-beverage license from the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, according to Wallace Van, assistant special agent at the ABC office in Roanoke.
Dec. 7, his license was granted.
Members of his private club started sipping cocktails last weekend.
"Our membership was very happy to see mixed beverages," Willard said. "Our business was good last weekend."
Willard's Waterfront Country Club, in the Gills Creek district, has been selling mixed drinks for two years.
"It puts us up equal to the Gills Creek district, because they've had [liquor-by-the-drink] for about two years," said Willard, who has been an advocate for the district's decade-long quest for liquor by the drink.
Water's Edge is the only business in the Union Hall district that has applied for a license, Van said. Applicants for mixed-beverage licenses must show that they are bona fide full-service restaurants with monthly food sales of at least $4,000 - $2,000 of which must be in the form of meals with entrees.
Apparently, the only other restaurant in the Union Hall district is Sal's Pizza. Owner Bruno Brasile said he does not plan to apply for a license.
"There's no businesses there," Willard said. "I'm kind of the Lone Ranger."
Memo: shorter version ran in the Metro edition.