Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 16, 1994 TAG: 9407120110
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CHRISTIANSBURG - The Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library is accepting registration for the summer reading program for children and young adults. This year's theme is "The Enchanted Forest," and the program begins on Monday and continues through Aug. 13 at all branch libraries and bookmobiles.
Weekly programs will feature magic, puppets, stories and crafts. Prizes and gifts from local merchants will be given away for reading or visiting a library a certain number of times.
For more details, call Dot Ogburn at 382-6966.
Conference on children
BLACKSBURG - The 1994 :Parents, Professionals and Children: Putting the Pieces Together" Conference will be held at the Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center on August 12 and 13. More than a dozen workshops will be presented on topics such as nutrition and healthy snacks, reading to children, guidance and discipline and conflict resolution.
Parents, grandparents, college students, teachers, child care providers and others who work with children are welcome to attend. For details, call 231-3213.
Blacksburg band
RADFORD - Blacksburg Community Band, a 45-piece volunteer concert band directed by Ed Schwartz, will perform a free concert at Bisset Park in Radford on June 28 at 7 p.m. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. If it rains, the concert will be cancelled.
For more information, call Mary Jane Harmon at 731-3634.
Brooms and bulbs
BLACKSBURG - The Lions Club conducted its annual broom and bulb throughout May and will continue sales during the summer as supplies permit. Money raised benefits the visually impaired persons who make the brooms and pack the bulbs, as well as local citizens and organizations.
Volunteer award
BLACKSBURG - The YMCA at Virginia Tech received the 1994 Governor's Award for Volunteering Excellence for the large number of student volunteers and the diversity of the projects undertaken. The award represents "a culmination of all the hard work that our staff, students and board have done over the years," stated executive director Barbara Michaelson.
The YMCA, chartered as a student service organization in 1873, is responsible for many activities, including the Open University, the Thrift Shop on South Main Street, tutoring programs, craft fairs, hiking trips and environmental awareness projects.
More than 500 Virginia Tech students volunteer each year in some capacity. Two new programs are the Native American program, which brings Native American speakers and sponsors visits to an Indian reservation, and a concerted effort to increase aid to international families in Blacksburg.
For more information on the YMCA and its programs, call 231-6860.
by CNB