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

DATE: SUNDAY, January 8, 1995                   TAG: 9501090008
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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`STOP FOR PEDESTRIANS' SOMETIMES IGNORED

What a great idea, a "stop for pedestrians" in crosswalk sign! There are a few of these in Radford, at the university and in front of the Norwood Street Post Office. Now, if people would actually pay attention to them. I have seen numerous people almost run over by those who disregard these signs.

Funny, though, as I was waiting to pull out from a parking spot in front of the Post Office, an elderly man was standing at the end of the crosswalk waiting to cross. Many cars passed by. Then a Radford city police officer drove through - not stopping. He then turned into the Norfolk Southern station, came back out on Norwood Street and drove once again right past the poor gentleman standing at the edge of the crosswalk waiting to cross safely. What are these signs really for?

S. Harvey

Radford

Center for the Arts is long overdue

The column on a full-service Center for the Arts, written by Steve Gerus in the Dec. 4 Current, really got my attention. The dream of a creative arts center that already has been researched, put on the drawing board and is almost ready to become a reality is very exciting.

As a pottery instructor for the YMCA Open University, I know full well, both from my own experience and from comments made by my students, we have a great need for a viable arts center. I would like to participate in a center that offers work space for beginning through advanced students, that would accommodate guest artists who would give workshops, and that could serve the handicapped with access and equipment, such as specially equipped potters' wheels.

We have needed a center for the arts for a long time, and the work that Creative Arts Inc. has done on this project is quite impressive. I'm looking forward to seeing and hearing more about the project, and I hope that support will come from many directions, since the center will benefit the whole community. The project certainly will get my support.

Nancy F. Keenan

Blacksburg

by CNB