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

DATE: SATURDAY, June 10, 1995                   TAG: 9506120045
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-11   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY  
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DATELINE: PEARISBURG                                LENGTH: Short

HOTEL LOSES ROOF

High winds blew the roof off the Western Hotel in downtown Pearisburg during a storm Thursday night.

The hotel's occupants were quickly moved out of the building's nine apartments. There were no injuries.

Around 7 p.m., high winds picked up the building's rolled seam tin roof and "peeled it back like a carpet," according to Ann Angert, executive director of the Giles County Housing and Development Corp.

"The local Fire Department was a great help," Angert said. The Fire Department cleaned up the debris and prevented the metal from causing injury or further damage.

A temporary roof is in place and the residents have returned to the hotel, at Main and Winona across from the Giles County Courthouse.

by CNB