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

DATE: TUESDAY, March 28, 1995                   TAG: 9503280051
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-6   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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AROUND NEW RIVER

BLACKSBURG - Sharyn McCrumb, an award-winning local novelist, will give a free lecture on folklore today at 7:30 p.m. in the Donaldson Brown Center Auditorium on Virginia Tech's campus.

Her lecture is entitled, "Keepers of the Legends: The Use of Folklore and History in Contemporary Fiction." It is sponsored by the university's Appalachian Way and Appalachian Studies program.

For more information, call 231-5327.

Sculpture lecture

RADFORD - A representative from a group called Save Outdoor Sculpture - formed to inventory and assess outdoor public monuments and sculpture - will speak at Radford University today.

The free lecture will run 1-4 p.m. in Flossie Martin Gallery. For more information, call Alex Woodham at 831-5754.

Recycling containers

BLACKSBURG - The cardboard recycling containers behind the Blacksburg branch library will be moved to the University Mall Thursday, March 30.

The move comes in preparation for reconstruction at the library.

As before, people using the recycling service must remove packaging material and flatten boxes before placing them in the bins. Only corrugated cardboard - with fluted material inside - is suitable at this site. Don't bring paperboard, wax-coated or plastic-coated boxes.

Other recycling locations include Gables Shopping Center, Food Lion Plaza on North Main Street and the Public Works Facility in the industrial park on South Main Street.