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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 1, 1995                   TAG: 9502010036
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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AROUND TOWN

Child care providers can learn about taxes and record-keeping at a workshop in Roanoke on Feb. 18.

Tom Copeland, a nationally recognized speaker on family child care and record keeping, will lead the workshop. The cost, which is tax-deductible, is $7.50. Pre-payment and registration are due by Feb. 13.

For more information, call 985-0131 or (800) 717-3377, outside of the Roanoke area. Virginia Tech's Resource and Referral Service will provide transportation from Christiansburg. Call 231-3213 to reserve a space.

Wireless communication

BLACKSBURG - Robert G. Templin, Jr., the new president of the state's Center for Innovative Technology, will talk about research in wireless communication in Southwest Virginia during a breakfast at Virginia Tech marking National Engineers' Week Feb. 22.

New River Valley and Roanoke business, education, and political leaders will attend.

Templin, who was recently featured in Fortune magazine, became CIT president in September 1994. Previously he was president of Thomas Nelson Community College, and he has held faculty and administrative positions within the Virginia Community College system, the University of Virginia, and at colleges and universities in Maryland, North Carolina and Kentucky.