Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, July 17, 1995 TAG: 9507170050
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-3 EDITION: METRO
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If you didn't get to see the play, presented by the Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre at Ferrum College, don't fret.
Cable 12, a local access station in Franklin County, has received permission from theater director and playwright Rex Stephenson to rerun the play. Dean Doyle, co-owner of the station, said its television premiere is tentatively set for July 27.
Stephenson said "Glen Myth" is one of the most successful plays in the dinner theater's history. A special performance had to be scheduled to accommodate ticket demand.
Many local news makers got a kick out the show - and the play's uncanny portrayal of their participation in real-life Boones Mill happenings.
Lynn Frith, the town's police officer, attended the play and even invited the actor who played Glen Myth, Jon Cohn, to take a ride with him in his souped-up, gadget-stocked, Camaro patrol car.
Stephenson said people are now calling for a "Boones Hill, Part II."
"If they can give me enough material, you might see it," he said.
Open all night, maybe
Shawn Higgs, Amanda Loving and Chris Arnold traveled a great distance (10 miles) and endured hardship (being pulled over by the police for an expired inspection sticker) just to eat at the Star City Diner.
``It's supposed to be open 24 hours a day on Fridays and Saturdays, right?'' asked Higgs. With all of the neon lights still blazing, it sure looked open.
Wrong.
At 4 a.m. on a recent Sunday, they were waved away by employees inside after pulling on locked doors.
Finally, Phil Full, the manager on duty, unlocked the door.
``Well, we really are open 24 hours a day,'' he explained. ``But we do close. For an hour maybe. To clean up. People had complained it was dirty, so we close sometimes to clean up. Besides, no one ever comes in here this late.''
Just then two others turned up in search of food.
Higgs, Loving and Arnold headed off to find a real open-24-hours eatery, one that manages to feed people and clean up without locking the doors.
Their suggestions?
The Texas Tavern on Church Avenue, Gary's Little Chef on Williamson Road and the Brown Derby on Peters Creek Road.
Looking for helping hands
Gov. George Allen is still looking for volunteers to help with flood cleanup across the state.
Through last week, his "Hands Across Virginia" program has received more than 250 calls offering skilled labor, building materials and supplies, manufacturing homes and even bales of hay.
Allen said carpenters, plumbers and masons are especially needed to help flood victims rebuild.
To volunteer time, money or materials, call 1-800-932-3543.
After the deluge
Flooding caused considerable damage and losses up and down the Blue Ridge last month, but some folks held on to their sense of humor.
Rockbridge County Clerk of Court Bruce Patterson, convention chairman for September's annual meeting of the Virginia Court Clerk's Association, wrote this in a cover letter accompanying convention material:
"Weather-related events in central Virginia ... may enable our committee to schedule tours of the Eastern Grand Canyon, recently formed in nearby Madison County; the New Niagara Falls, currently forming in southern Augusta County; and Virginia's newest city, Atlantis, formerly known as Buena Vista."
by CNB