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

DATE: TUESDAY, April 11, 1995                   TAG: 9504110116
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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AROUND NEW RIVER

BLACKSBURG - Ernst Kastning, geology professor at Radford University, will speak on the environmental impact of proposed power lines and highways in the New River Valley, Tuesday, April 18, 7:30 p.m., at the Virginia Tech Museum of Natural History.

Service and transportation corridors may affect water quality through contamination of surface streams and groundwater.

The Friends of the New River will sponsor the lecture.

Health care forum

BLACKSBURG - The League of Women Voters of Montgomery County will sponsor a public forum on health care options Tuesday, April 18, 7:30 -9:30 p.m., at the Blacksburg Municipal Building.

The guest speakers are Kim Barnes, executive director, Richmond Area Business Group on Health; Richard Roerk, director, Health Systems Agency of Southwest Virginia; Mark Cruise, executive director, Free Clinic of the New River Valley; and Lisa Craff, director, Blue Ridge Regional Health Care Coalition.

A 30-minute question and comment period follows the presentations.

For more information, call Bobbie Littlefield, 961-1418.

Tiananmen leader

BLACKSBURG - Li Lu, a leader of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations in China, will speak Tuesday, April 18, 7:30 p.m., in Colonial Hall, Squires Student Center, Virginia Tech.

The free program is presented by the Virginia Tech Union Speakers & Issues Committee.

For more information, call 231-7117.