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

DATE: FRIDAY, March 3, 1995                   TAG: 9503030118
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-13   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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AROUND NEW RIVER

PULASKI - Organizers of the fifth annual Community Yard and Bake Sale, scheduled for May, have started collecting items for the event.

Local groups that stand to benefit from the sale include the Pulaski Free Clinic, the youth emergency shelter, New River Valley Habitat for Humanity, the Emergency Needs Task Force and the SHARE Christmas basket fund for the needy

Donations of items such as furniture, books, household items, crafts and clean clothes will be accepted from 8 a.m. to noon on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Bring donations to the former People's drug store near Wade's in the Maple Shade Mall across from Jackson Park.

Volunteers will be needed before and during the sale.

Baked items will be accepted on the mornings of sale days, scheduled for May 4-6.

For more information, call Anna Powers at 980-2418.

Discussion on assault

RADFORD - State Attorney General James Gilmore and campus and local officials will discuss sexual assault and harassment at Radford University on Thursday.

Joining Gilmore will be Betty Jones, the university's substance abuse and sexual assault counselor; Pat Brown, the director of the Radford Women's Resource Center; Randal Duncan, Radford's commonwealth attorney and a representative from the Children's Trust Fund.

Students can learn about their rights in sexual assault and harassment cases and ask questions during the panel discussion. It will be at 2 p.m. in Heth Commonwealth Room and is open to the public.

Vet school Phase IV

BLACKSBURG - The Virginia -Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine has opened its Phase IV building. The project culminates a 17-year building program on the Virginia Tech campus.

Peter Eyre, dean of veterinary medicine, said the Phase IV project includes new educational facilities for students, additional research laboratories and more clinical facilities for agricultural animals. Eyre noted that the construction effort completes the college's Virginia Tech campus as envisioned by planners in 1978.

Funding for the project came from the $472.4 million general obligation bond for higher education approved by Virginia voters in 1992.

The research laboratory component of the new complex will be dedicated as the William E. Lavery Animal Health Research Center. Ceremonies will be held May 12.