Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, April 11, 1994 TAG: 9404110063
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C3 EDITION: METRO
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"Young Roanoke Sings" performed popular songs such as "Deep Purple" and "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" beginning at 1:30 p.m. each Saturday. On the mornings of performances, they practiced and sauntered from WSLS offices in downtown Roanoke to Guy's Restaurant in the Shenandoah Building to sip a shake and socialize.
On April 22, many Young Roanoke members plan to congregate once again at Guy's. The reunion will include\ Wayne Poucher of Buchanan, who was the show's announcer.\ Reg and Mary Alice Hutcherson, who joined the group in the 1950s, are helping put the gathering together.
\ All in the family
\ Kenneth and Judy Miller won't be fighting fires side by side anymore. The husband and wife have been with the\ Riner Volunteer Fire Department in Montgomery County for more than two years and they're both still part of the department. But as of March 31, one of them's been going to the fire while the other listens for a different siren: the cry of baby\ Morgan Mackenzie Miller (6 pounds, 4 ounces).
Judy Miller, who didn't tell the department she was going to have a baby until five months into her pregnancy, says her husband probably will watch Morgan while she answers fire calls for a while. She missed the excitement during her four-month maternity leave.
"It wasn't fair," she said. "He got to run calls while I stayed home."
Last week, both parents stayed home happily with their new baby.
"Another girl firefighter," Kenneth Miller said.
\ Painting the town, for 240 years
\ Clara Coleman, mother of a Roanoke paint contractor, joined Bev Blount, manager of Devoe Paint in Roanoke, and Dennis Simmons of the Roanoke County school system in raising a cake toast Thursday in honor of the nation's seventh-oldest business, Devoe Co. of Louisville, Ky., which is in it 240th year.
The guests were among 285 Devoe customers who breakfasted or lunched with Blount at his annual "Pro Show and Sale."
Blount's distribution center has annual sales of $2.5 million. It opened in 1963, but Devoe paint has been distributed in the Roanoke Valley for more than 100 years.
\ If you see this book . . .
Back in 1924, a company called Underwood & Underwood took aerial photographs of the Roanoke Valley: Lakeside, Southeast, the American Viscose plant, Salem, Vinton, Gainsboro, all over town.
They were so clear, you could pick out individual houses. The Virginia Room of Roanoke's Central Library had a book of about 40 8-by-10s. The set was bound in black and stamped in gold. It was kept in a locked room with other irreplaceables.
Now it's gone. Librarian Carol Tuckwiller says someone must have walked out with it last year. Also missing is a tiny book of Abraham Lincoln's speeches and a miniature dictionary. "It makes me sick," she said.
\ Recycle this book
The recycling craze has reached Roanoke - at least when it comes to phone books.
Roanoke residents have rescued 16,860 pounds of last year's phone books from the landfills. At approximately 2 1/2 pounds each, that works out to be 6,744 books tossed into recycling bins at Kroger grocery stores since March 23.
Kroger has sponsored a phone book recycling drive for several years, and so far this year's yield has delighted organizers.
"The response has been overwhelming. . . . Those people deserve a pat on the back," said Waste Management's Dan McDilda.
Waste Management supplied Kroger with 12 containers - one for each Kroger store. There's also a bin for Cycle Systems, which will be handling the actual recycling process. Another bin is for Mountain View Elementary School, where pupils will recycle books as part of their Arbor Day celebration.
Kroger store manager Ed Taylor said he hopes the craze continues through the remaining two weeks of the drive.
"We've had to dump our bins every three days," he said. "The way it's going now, we'll reach our goal of 37,600 books."
That's 94,000 pounds.
by CNB