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

DATE: FRIDAY, May 5, 1995                   TAG: 9505050054
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-15   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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AROUND NEW RIVER

PULASKI - Ribbon-cutting is Tuesday at Riverlawn School to celebrate the opening of the school's new playground equipment. The Riverlawn PTO will hold its general meeting after the presentation.

Highland conference

RADFORD - Writing and culture of Appalachia is the focus of the 18th annual Highland Summer Conference at Radford University June 19-30, sponsored by the university's Appalachian Regional Studies Center and the English Department.

Anndrena Belcher, a storyteller, actress and writer from Scott County, will lead the first week. She is a frequent leader of workshops in creative writing, dance, music, traditional games, oral history and folklore. Belcher also will give a public performance Thursday, June 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Heth Student Center.

Jim Wayne Miller, a poet, novelist and essayist who teaches German at Western Kentucky University, will lead the second week. Miller is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Zoe Kincaid Brockman Memorial Award for Poetry and the Appalachian Writers Association Book of the Year Award. He will present a public reading on Thursday, June 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Heth Student Center.

Registration deadline is June 1. The conference is limited to 20 students. Students can receive three semester hours credit, pass-fail.Call Grace Toney Edwards at 831-5366 or Jo Ann Asbury at 831-6150.