Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, May 28, 1995 TAG: 9505310043
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-8 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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DATELINE: LENGTH: Long
The municipal offices in Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Radford, Pulaski and Wytheville; and Montgomery, Pulaski, Floyd, Giles and Wythe counties, will be closed on Monday in observance of Memorial Day.
Garbage collection in Blacksburg and Pulaski will be on regular Monday schedules.
Residents and businesses who put out trash on Mondays in Radford and Christiansburg should put it out on Tuesday by 6 a.m. in Radford and by 8 a.m. in Christiansburg.
Tuesday collection in those towns will include both Monday and Tuesday customers.
Va. 94 to be straightened
IVANHOE - The Commonwealth Transportation Board has given the go-ahead for work to straighten Virginia 94 in Wythe County near Ivanhoe.
The board voted this month to spend $3 million on a curvy section of the two-lane road near Cripple Creek and Virginia 605.
The road is unsafe for the volume of traffic it carries, according to the Virginia Department of Transportation.
Plans for improving the road had been the source of controversy. More than 100 citizens attended a public hearing earlier this year, when five petitions signed by a total of 1,500 people were submitted with signatures both for and against the project.
The Wythe County Board of Supervisors endorsed the alternative project in January by a 4-3 vote.
Project bids will not be advertised until late 1996. Construction should begin by spring 1997, officials said.
Pre-school for at-risk kids
WYTHEVILLE - Wythe County will fund a pre-school program to help at-risk 4-year-olds prepare for school.
The county Board of Supervisors has approved $9,200 in local funding and $3,000 in in-kind contributions to go along with a $30,800 state grant.
The money will buy a mobile classroom to be set up at Jackson Memorial Elementary School.
It will serve eight 4-year-old children at a time, along with eight more students from kindergarten through second grade who otherwise would be in the Head Start program at Max Meadows.
The program is a joint effort of the county Board of Supervisors, Wythe CountySchool Board, the Department of Social Services and Mountain Community Action Program.
School's out on June 1
WYTHEVILLE - Wythe County schools will close for summer Thursday and reopen Aug. 21, a day earlier than they did this year.
Five snow days are built into the 1995-96 calendar.
Any additional missed days will be taken from Easter vacation or added at the end of the school year.
Ceremony at the Wall of Honor
WYTHEVILLE - Army Lt. Col. Douglas Huthwaite will be guest speaker at a Memorial Day ceremony at 2 p.m. today at Wytheville's Wall of Honor in Withers Park.
A 1973 Virginia Military Institute graduate, Huthwaite has served in both Special Forces and Airborne units.
Booklets featuring the names of Wythe County citizens who lost their lives in military service, which are on the Wall of Honor War Memorial, are on sale at the Wytheville Municipal Building and will be available at the Memorial Day observance. They are available in $3 and $1 editions.
The Wall of Honor was dedicated May 30, 1993.
Granite stones continue to be sold by the Wall of Honor Committee in honor of loved ones or recognition of individuals or groups, from $100 to $1,000 donations.
Information on granite blocks or donations to the Wall of Honor is available by calling 223-3352.
Public service attorney appointed
WYTHEVILLE - The Joint Public Service Authority of Wythe and Bland counties has appointed James E. Cornwell Jr., a Pulaski lawyer, as its attorney.
Cornwell has 20 years of experience in Virginia local government law, having served as town attorney for Narrows and Glen Lyn in Giles County as well as the Giles County School Board and Department of Social Services, and as full-time attorney for Dinwiddie County.
His practice concentrates on local government law.
Currently he is attorney for Craig, Bland and New Kent counties, the Dinwiddie County Water Authority, the Craig-New Castle Public Service Authority and the Craig-New Castle Solid Waste Authority, and special projects counsel for Brunswick County.
New River Valley art on display
ABINGDON - Artists from the New River Valley have work on display in "From These Hills: Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachian Highlands," an exhibition of new works at the William King Regional Arts Center in Abingdon through July 16.
Featured artists include Charlie Brouwer, Anna Fariello and James Knipe of Radford; David Crane, Robert Henry Graham, Janet Niewald and Joni Pienkowski of Blacksburg; Ray Kass of Christiansburg; and Pat West, Pembroke.
Painting, sculpture, photography and ceramics are among the categories represented.
The Arts Center at 415 Academy Dr. holds the exhibit every two years. Admission is free.
Further information is available by calling (703) 628-5005.
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