Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, October 22, 1994                   TAG: 9410250014
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-8   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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AROUND NEW RIVER

CHRISTIANSBURG - The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors seeks applicants for the Board of Equalization for the 1995 real estate reassessment.

Board members must own property in Montgomery County. The board addresses public concerns about property values determined during the reassessment process.

Training for members is conducted by the Virginia Department of Taxation.

The application deadline is Nov. 15. Interested individuals should send a letter of intent to Betty S. Thomas, County Administrator, P.O. Box 806, Christiansburg, Va. 24073.

Hospice office moves

CHRISTIANSBURG - New River Valley Hospice Inc. has moved its office from Blacksburg to Christiansburg. Its new location is 111 W. Main St.

The new telephone number is 381-5001 or 1-800-834-9281.

Trash-off today

RICHMOND - The Virginia Department of Transportation announced that more than 50,000 Adopt-a-Highway volunteers will participate in the Great State Trash-off today.

According to VDOT, during the Adopt-a-Highway program's six-year history volunteers have donated more than $6 million of litter control services to the state.

Any citizen, group or business can participate in the program, which is the second largest in the nation, with 6,000 groups.

For more information about the trash-off, or to join Adopt-a-Highway, call 1-800-774-3382.

'Miss Julie' highlights

BLACKSBURG - The Virginia Tech Theatre Arts-University Theatre will present selected scenes from August Strindberg's "Miss Julie" Monday through Wednesday, at 8 p.m. in 204 Performing Arts Building.

Admission is free, but seating is limited.

For further information, call the Division of Performing Arts Information Line at 231-5200.

Wild bird disease

BLACKSBURG - The Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine issued an advisory to poultry producers that an infectious disease, mycoplasmosis, has been identified in wild birds in the Mid-Atlantic States.

The disease is not harmful to humans. However, its spread to domestic stocks, such as chickens and turkeys, could have an economic impact on the poultry industry.

Symptoms of the disease are swollen, crusty eyes and loss of vision. Anyone seeing a bird showing these symptoms should contact the local office of the state wildlife agency or the Wildlife Center of Virginia at (703) 234-9453.