Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, March 26, 1995 TAG: 9503290001
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
WYTHEVILLE - While most localities worry about having to get rid of too much solid waste, the Wythe-Bland Joint Public Service Authority has the opposite problem.
The amount of trash being brought to the authority's trash transfer station, where it is hauled out of state by a private contractor for burial, has been decreasing. Wythe County Board of Supervisors Chairman Mark Munsey said it has dropped by 900 tons a month for two months.
Normally, that might seem like good news. But if trash tonnage drops, so do tipping fees customers pay to use the transfer station. It was originally estimated that an average of 80 tons of trash per day, six days a week, would be needed to fund the service.
Munsey said the trash gap largely is caused by C&M Carting, a private company, hauling trash to a landfill in West Virginia and the Roll-It Co. hauling industrial trash to Bristol. Eventually, he said, the lack of trash could strain the authority's operating budget.
Newman Library sets book sale
BLACKSBURG - Virginia Tech's Newman Library will hold its seventh annual gift book sale April 7 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Most hardback books will be $2 and most softcover books will be $1. Proceeds will go to the Virginia Tech Foundation to support library programs.
A handmade quilt will be raffled off at 2 p.m. Tickets are $1.
For more information, call Joann Day at 231-4886.
Police officer wins weight-lifting medal
WYTHEVILLE - Wytheville Police Sgt. Trent Crockett brought home a bronze medal in the World Police and Fire Games held in Australia this month.
Crockett, 39, was the oldest participant in the 30- to 39-year age division and 242- 275-pound weight class. He competed with weights in squat, bench and dead-lift categories and hoisted a total weight of 1,308 pounds.
He first became interested in weights after joining the Marines in 1978, using the activity as a stress reliever. He said he never seriously thought of competing until two years ago.
Fire chief mulling supervisor run
MAX MEADOWS - Mike Farris, chief of the Max Meadows Volunteer Fire Department and commissioner of the Wythe County Firefighters' Association, has expressed interest in running on the Republican ticket for the at-large seat on the county Board of Supervisors.
That seat is held by Democrat John Davis, a teacher at George Wythe High School who has said he will not seek a second term.
Farris works as a systems supervisor at Kingston-Warren Corp. and lives in the Carter's Park section of the county.
Other board seats to be filled in the Nov. 7 election are in the Fort Chiswell, West Wytheville and Speedwell districts.
Williamsons to sing of Scottish ways
RADFORD - The Williamsons will bring
The family performs in the tradition of Scottish Travelers, nomadic people who settle where they can find work.
The show is free. For more information, call 831-5342.
Wythe County plans hazardous-waste day
WYTHEVILLE - Wythe County will schedule a hazardous-waste collection day in May for residents.
The waste can include coal tar products, driveway sealers, herbicides, pesticides, paint thinners, kitchen cleaners, swimming pool chemicals, insecticides, inks, dyes, glues, poisons and garden products.
Waste dropoff will be allowed from cars, small trucks and minivans but not from tractor-trailers, dump trucks, buses or trailers. No waste will be accepted from businesses or industries. No explosives, radiological or biomedical wastes will be accepted.
by CNB