Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, March 14, 1995 TAG: 9503140103
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: LAURA ZIVKOVICH
DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
The students learned and discussed effective methods to advocate stricter tobacco controls in their schools and communities as well as the state of Virginia. Speakers addressed the issues of VIrginia politics, tobacco control in Southwest Virginia and teen advocacy.
While touring the Capitol, the students got a greeting from Del. Morgan Griffith, R-Salem, who was on a quick break from a General Assembly meeting.
In small groups, the students planned how to present their new ideas to the rest of the student body, brainstorming campaign names and possible opening events. They hope to extend the limits of the schools' smoke-free environment to include all school grounds and campaign against the abuse of chewing tobacco.
Regina Meredith, an English teacher and adviser to the Teens Need Teens peer support group, who also attended the training, said the students left the conference with a good idea of how to propose and support legislation and the importance of committee work. "That they can actually plan something for themselves and the community is the most meaningful," she said.
The students in attendance from the New River Valley were:
Auburn High School: Stacie Boothe, Dana Garnand, Erin Bull, Emily Trivette, Jeremy Cultice, Tim Smith, Amber Croy, Nathaniel Reed, Jack Angert, Anilia Angert, Amber Tannenbaum, Jennifer Lyons.
Blacksburg High School: Robby Emmett, Sarah Rogers, Kathryn Yaun.
Christiansburg High School: Garret Bonnema, Nathan Brewbaker, Jay Clark, Sabrina Cole, Karen Cox, Chad Danner, Lacy Maxwell, Janice McGuire, April Orange, David Sowers, Jenni Beller.
Floyd County High School: Mandy Loy, Holly Nolen, Chris Weddle.
Pulaski County High School: Melinda Hicks, Brandy King, Crystal Montgomery, Cheryl Bowling, Crystal Meredith, Amanda Clay, Damion Payne.
Shawsville High School: Christina Conner, Bobbi Workman.
The Radford School Board honored a team of Dalton Intermediate School students at its March 2 meeting for winning first place at the Southwest Chapter Mathcounts competition at Virginia Tech.
Team members are Andrew Gregory, a seventh-grader, and Robbie Hiltonsmith, Alison Singer and Mark Tong, eighth-graders. Seventh-grader Ryan Tucker competed as an alternate.
Mathcounts is a national competition designed to stimulate student interest and achievement in mathematics. The Virginia Society of Professional Engineers sponsored the Feb. 18 competition at Virginia Tech.
Shawsville High School junior Angela Nicole Creed has been selected to sing at the three-day All-Virginia Chorus in Alexandria in May. Selection for the group is the highest state honor for choral students.
She prepared for her audition under the direction of Bonnie Sitz, Shawsville High School choral teacher, and Betty Turner, an instructor at Radford University.
Angela is the daughter of Gary and Linda Creed of Shawsville.
Radford High School sophomore Brian Ducker's poetry appears in "Echos of Yesterday," a collection of works compiled by the National Library of Poetry. He wrote his entry, "Day Dream," last year as part of an English assignment in Janet Johnston's English class.
The poem will also be submitted in the National Library of Poetry's North American Open Poetry Contest, which awards more than $24,000 in prizes each year.
Brian is the son of Lane and the late Rev. George Ducker of Radford.
Prices Fork Elementary pupils more than doubled their collective READING MONTH goal of reading for 100,000 minutes in February.
For every 100 minutes of reading, faculty members added a piece to a large mystery puzzle on a bulletin board display. The first classes to guess the puzzle subject, Carol Hall's first-grade and Laura Sexton's fifth-grade, received a set of paperback books.
Other Reading Month activities included guest readers, Drop Everything and Read times, shared reading across grade levels and making posters and book jackets to advertise favorite books.
Principal Dollie Cottrill, who promised to perform a student-selected activity if the goal were met, dressed as a clown for a school assembly March 3.
Seniors-of-the-Month
TERRY MILLIRONS of Auburn High School is president of the Monogram Club and captain of the varsity basketball team. He also works at Angle's Florist in Christiansburg. Terry is the son of Timothy and Ella Millirons of Radford.
GREG SHOCKLEY of Blacksburg High School is a three-year academic athlete and president of the Monogram Club. He is a three-year starter on the varsity basketball, baseball and football teams. Greg is the son of Jim and Carolyn Shockley of Blacksburg.
SOON-IL SONG of Christiansburg High School holds highest grade point average in the class, 4.32. He is treasurer of the National Honor Society and editor-in-chief of the school's literary, art and music magazine. Soon-il is taking five advanced placement courses which will earn him six advanced placement credits. Soon-il is the son of Moo Boo Song and Midori Kobayashi of Christiansburg.
TRESHA TAYLOR of Shawsville High School is treasurer of the Beta Club, secretary of the Drama Club and captain of the Mountain Academic Competition Conference math team. She is a member of the tennis team, her church youth group, and the marching, concert and jazz bands. She plans to attend Virginia Tech in the fall. Tresha is the daughter of Stanley and Bobbie Taylor of Elliston.
Meetings & More
The Montgomery County School Board will discuss BLOCK SCHEDULING at a meeting at 7:30 tonight. Block scheduling would change the high school day from seven 45-minute classes to four, 90-minute classes. The plan has been approved at Christiansburg High School and Shawsville High and Middle School, but the School Board will have the final say.
The meeting, which will be held at the School Board office on Junkin Street in Christiansburg, will include a presentation on the Block Scheduling procedure. If approved, the new teaching method will begin in the 1995-96 school year.
Both schools have scheduled forums for public comment at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Shawsville High and Middle School and Christiansburg High School.
For more information, call the School Board office, 382-5100.
Check your blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar and catch up on fitness information tonight at 7 at a HEALTH FAIR at the Bethel Elementary Parent Teacher Association meeting at the school.
First- and fourth-graders will perform songs and skits about health and fitness.
For more information, call the school, 633-3215.
The Kipps Elementary Parent Teacher Association will sponsor a HEALTH AND SAFETY NIGHT at its general meeting Thursday at the school.
Fifth-graders will give demonstrations. Participants may visit informational tables and check blood pressure and height and weight measurements.
For more information, call 951-5760.
The Riverlawn Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization will sponsor a craft fair Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the school.
Vending booths will offer jewelry, wooden crafts, hand-sewn and quilted items and concessions.
Admission is free. Door prizes will be awarded throughout the day.
Proceeds from the event will help purchase new playground equipment.
For more information, call the school, 639-4241.
Christiansburg Elementary fifth-graders will demonstrate their food-serving abilities at the Christiansburg Primary School and Christiansburg Elementary School Parent Teacher Association's spaghetti dinner Friday, 5 to 8 p.m., in the Christiansburg Elementary School cafeteria.
Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for children ages 5-10 and free for children 4 and under.
Carryout is available.
The safety patrol will hold a bake sale at the event.
by CNB