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

DATE: THURSDAY, July 27, 1995                   TAG: 9507280047
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: S-4   EDITION: METRO 
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APPLAUSE

A softball tournament sponsored by The Roanoke City Firefighters and the National Softball Association raised $3,500 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Thirty-one teams batted for Jerry's Kids with General Electric, Young Guns and Demolition each winning in their classes.

The Kathryn Woods Cobb Charitable Remainder Trust donated $200,000 to the Col. James Woods Scholarship Endowment. The gift will fund scholarships to full-time Roanoke College students from the Roanoke Valley.

The Roanoke Redevelopment and Housing Authority received a third place award for one of its human services programs from the Southeastern Regional Council/National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials. The program assists parents in achieving self-sufficiency by improving academic and parenting skills and giving families educational resources and a place to spend quality time.

Central Fidelity Bank and Trigon Blue Cross Blue Shield are the recipients of Junior Achievement of Southwest Virginia awards for their outstanding contributions during the 1994-95 school year. Central Fidelity received the Exceptional Growth Award for increasing its volunteer support and continued expansion of its education programs. Trigon received the excellence award for providing volunteer role models in Junior Achievement's elementary, middle and high school programs.

by CNB