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

DATE: SATURDAY, April 29, 1995                   TAG: 9505020046
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-10   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: KATHY LOAN
DATELINE: ALLEGHANY SPRINGS                                LENGTH: Short

`HOUSE-RAISING' FOR SLAIN OFFICER'S FAMILY

When Christiansburg Police Officer Terry Griffith was slain last September, his widow was overwhelmed with offers to help with anything she needed.

Diane Griffith is ready to accept that help now and has sent out a call for volunteers at a "house-raising" starting Wednesday.

Griffith's friends and law enforcement colleagues have been helping lay a bridge to and foundation work for a new home a few miles away from the house the Griffiths and their children lived in.

Diane Griffith expects trusses and walls to arrive Wednesday, and wanted to let people know they could drop by and help with the construction starting that day. Work will be done from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.

"They said let me know. Now I need them," she said. "I have to be out of this house in eight weeks."

The Griffiths current home has been sold and will transfer to new owners June 30.

The new home is being built on Mount Pleasant Road, about four miles down and on the right after turning at the top of Christiansburg Mountain off Roanoke Street.

"All they need to do is bring a nail apron, a hammer and pack a lunch," Diane Griffith said. "I need every hammer we can get."

by CNB