Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, March 30, 1995 TAG: 9504010005
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-12 EDITION: METRO
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Connections, a Roanoke-based foster care agency, is seeking foster families for children and teenagers.
A need exists for full-time foster parents, weekend foster parents and for transitional-living foster parents who can help prepare an older teen-ager for living on his own.
Connections provides foster family training, 24-hour casework support, covers the child's expenses and give foster families a tax free income supplement. For more information call Sara Dalton at Connections, 342-0411.
Project LINK gets $1,250 grant
Blue Ridge Community Services recently received a $1,250 grant for Project LINK from the Foundation for The Roanoke Valley. The funds will be used to support a series of six eight-week training modules for 60 Project LINK mothers.
Project LINK provides counseling and prevention services to pregnant women, mothers of infants, and women of childbearing age.
Civitans taking award nominations
The Civitan Club of Roanoke is seeking nominations for its Good Samaritan Award. The award is given each year to honor a Roanoke Valley resident for volunteer work.
The winner, who will be chosen by a panel of three people who are not Civitan members, will be announced at a banquet May 12 at the Vinton War Memorial. A $500 donation will be made to a certified charity of the winner's choice.
Letters of nomination may be sent to: Kenneth Wood, 3227 Fleetwood Ave. S.W., Roanoke 24015. The deadline for submitting nominations is April 14.
Roanoke Rotarian to visit Australia
Thomas R. Schroeder, vice president of sales for Schroeder Optical Company, will visit Australia for five weeks this spring as part of a group study exchange team of Rotary District 7570, Rotary International.
The Rotary Foundation provides travel grants for the exchange of teams between paired Rotary districts in different countries.
The visit will allow Schroeder an opportunity to improve relations and understanding between the people of the United States and Australia.
Schools compete at state chess games
Several Roanoke schools recently placed in the Virginia Scholastic Chess Championships in Spotsylvania County.
Individual winners from Roanoke schools are:
Middle school division: Mark DiProsperis, Addison, second; Jessie Hsing, Madison, sixth; Justin Marlles, Madison, eighth; and Jonathan Tanner, Addison, ninth.
In the elementary division: Martin Davis, Raleigh Court, seventh; and Adam Tanner, Raleigh Court, eighth.
In the primary division: Tom Raney, Fishburn Park, third; and Giles Roberts, Fishburn Park, ninth.
In team competition, James Madison Middle School won second place in the state for the middle school division and Addison Aerospace Magnet Middle School placed fourth. Madison team members were: Bobby Holt, Allison Holt, Katie Holt, Jessie Hsing, Nathan Taylor, Justin Marlles, Kamau Foderingham, Akil Foderingham, Floyd Welton and Andi Muse. Addison team members were: LaRue Dickerson, Alvin Baytops, Keith Thompson, Greg Overholser, Jonathan Tanner, James Clark and Mark DiProsperis.
In the elementary division, Raleigh Court placed fourth in the state and Lincoln Terrace placed fifth. Raleigh Court team members were: Martin Davis, Philip Marlles and Adam Tanner. Lincoln Terrace winners were: Frank Meldrum, April Lee, Antonio Cunningham, Monica Dehaven and Destiny English.
In the elementary division, Fishburn Park placed first in the state. Team members were: Jake Hughes, John Mobley, Tom Raney, Giles Roberts and Fielding Link, first.
Roanoker places in world poetry contest
Richard Raymond III of Roanoke was among the prize-winners in the 1995 Poetry Contest of the World Order of Narrative and Formalist Poets.
Raymond received three first-place prizes, two second-place prizes, one third-place prize and six honorable mentions in the contest.
The annual contest attracts poets from Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland and Switzerland in addition to poets from the United States.
Workers available through RAM house
Roanoke Area Ministries announces that daily workers are available for lawn work, gardening, painting and general cleanup.
Please contact RAM House's shelter manager at 343-3753 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Arrangements for the work, transportation, tools and any remuneration are the responsibility of the person to be hired and the prospective employer.
Women's group honors reporter
The Roanoke's Valley Network of Business and Professional Women recently named Melissa DeVaughn the Roanoke Valley's Young Careerist of the Year.
The Young Careerist program recognizes the accomplishments of young, professional women, success of their careers and community activities.
DeVaughn, who is the education writer for the Roanoke Times & World-News' New River Valley Bureau, submitted a written account of her professional responsibilities and her activities in the community. She also went through individual and group interviews and then gave a speech to the club.
DeVaughn will go to regional competition in Lynchburg.
TAP/Head Start enrolling pupils
TAP/Head Start is recruiting 3- and 4-year-olds for fall part-day and full-day enrollment for its centers in Roanoke, Salem and Vinton.
For more information, call 345-6781, or visit the Head Start administrative office on the seventh floor of the Crystal Tower Building at 145 Campbell Ave. in Roanoke.
Roanoke group raises $4,950 for JDF
The Juvenile Diabetes Foundation recently raised $4,950 during its raffle fund-raiser for the JDF.
District 24E of the Lions Club of Virginia and the Virginia Association of Life Underwriters sold the most tickets for the Super Bowl Sweepstakes.
Mitch Wheeler of Wheelers Cleaners in Roanoke won the raffle and a trip to Super Bowl XIX and a cruise to Freeport, Bahamas.
LOA honors several with annual awards
The League of Older Americans recently presented Allstate Insurance with the Babe and Sidney Louis Award for "outstanding contribution that improves the lives of older Virginians."
Since 1984, Allstate has accumulated more than 8,240 Corporate Meals-on-Wheels volunteer hours. The Allstate Foundation has contributed more than $18,600 to LOA since 1985 and has been major patron of the annual Meals-on Wheels benefit, Lunch on the Lawn.
The Roanoke Redevelopment and Housing Authority, a partner agency with LOA's home repair program, received the 1995 Exemplary Interagency Cooperation Award.
Larry C. Shelton of Salem was the first recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award for showing the most self-improvement in LOA's Employment and Training Program.
Service America Corporation received the Outstanding Public/Private Partnership Award.
by CNB