Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, December 30, 1993 TAG: 9312300085
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE:
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
The Foundation for the Roanoke Valley is accepting proposals for up to $8,000 in grants from the Patsel Fund for early childhood development programs.
For the grants, the foundation is focusing on the areas of improving parenting skill and basic infant care.
Proposals from qualified charitable organizations in Roanoke, Salem and the counties of Roanoke, Botetourt and Craig should be submitted by Friday.
For more information, call Alan Ronk at (703) 985-0204.
Songwriters' group elects officers, board
Sydney V. Crosswhite has been elected president of the Southwest Virginia Songwriters Association's board of directors.
Other officers include: Robert W. Arrington, vice president; Pat Pfister, secretary; and Claude R. Leftwich, treasurer.
Executive board members elected are William "Bob" Coulter, Greg T. Trafildo and Charles H. Divers.
Roanoker is recipient of Dare to Care award
Judith S. Lienhardt of Roanoke is one of eight individuals to receive Dare to Care Outstanding Supporter Awards from the Adopt-a-Highway program.
The award recognizes her enthusiasm, creativity and extra efforts to raise interest in the program.
Lienhardt is community affairs secretary for the Salem district of the Virginia Department of Transportation.
Project Discovery study seeks former students
Total Action Against Poverty's Project Discovery is seeking former participants for a follow-up study.
Project Discovery is a college orientation program for sixth- through 12th-grade students.
Participants who graduated from high school in 1992 or 1993 should call Brenda Cobb at 342-1928 or 342-1861.
Student named finalist for national book award
Sarah Meadows, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Meadows, formerly of Troutville, is one of five finalists in the 1993 National "Written and Illustrated By" awards contest for students.
The Bedford Middle School seventh grader was one of 250,000 students from the United States and Canada who wrote and illustrated their own books.
Hers was titled "The Tale of Tillie Tutwiler." It is about a pocket mouse who lives in a broken teapot in the garden of a decaying mansion, "Faded Glory." The mouse, Tillie Tutwiler, shares stories of the abandoned plantation house with her friends at tea parties.
The contest is sponsored by Landmark Editions Publishing Co.
by CNB