Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, June 21, 1994 TAG: 9406210135
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: RAY REED
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
|J.T., Roanoke A: There will be some public access to the reservoir, but don't look for much to happen before 1996.
Recreation depends on what the Health Department allows and how much money Roanoke County can provide.
The probabilities include hiking trails, picnic shelters and restrooms.
A possibility is fishing, although that's not certain.
Two no-nos are swimming and motorboats. They won't be allowed, said Gary Robertson, county utilities director.
In the meantime, an observation area is open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. seven days week. It's reached by driving up Dry Hollow Road until it ends, then turning right on a dirt road.
Robertson said the target date for having the reservoir fully operational is December 1995. The reservoir is expected to be filled by November of this year.
Pete Haislip, director of parks and recreation, said efforts were under way to renovate Camp Roanoke, the old YMCA camp on the reservoir property.
The county plans to market programs at the camp next spring. Cabins on the property may be restored.
The camp is close enough to provide water access when that's approved. Apparently, though, that won't be included in the camp's first year.|
Jackie and church|
Q: Was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis ever parted from the Catholic Church after she married a divorced man? How did she get around that rule of the church?|
|E.H., Roanoke A: She apparently kept a relationship with the church; her funeral was held in a Catholic church in Manhattan.
After she married Aristotle Onassis in 1968, the Vatican responded to questions about the matter by saying she was considered to be living in a state of mortal sin. The church did not reject her, though.
A 1978 biography, "Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis" by Stephen Birmingham, said she continued to receive the sacraments.
Beyond that, little is known about the religious life of the former first lady who once had a private audience with the pope.
After the '70s, Jackie Onassis was seldom in the public eye, and she understandably felt she owed no explanations to a public that, in her view, invaded not only her privacy, but her family's safety.
Anything that may have taken place between her and the church remained private, as it should, because she lived those years on her terms.|
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