Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, November 11, 1995 TAG: 9511130031
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-7 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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BLACKSBURG - If you missed it the first time, you can catch it again.
"Choices and Challenges: Quality of Life in the Blacksburg Electronic Village" will be rebroadcast Monday, Nov. 13, at 7 p.m. on WTOB-Channel 2.
Tuesday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m., "Spotlight on Blacksburg" will feature an interview with Beth Tront, co-chairwoman of the Montgomery County Christmas Store. The segment also will include the Blacksburg High School Thanksgiving Day Basket Drive, the Blacksburg Electronic Village and a town update on the Comprehensive Plan.
Thursday, Nov. 16, at 7 p.m. "NRV News," a produced by media studies students at Radford University, will be broadcast. "VT News," produced by communication studies students at Virginia Tech and Gayle Noyes, will follow at 7:30 p.m.
Alliance for Mentally Ill
CHRISTIANSBURG - Kenneth Singletary, staff writer for The Roanoke Times, will speak at a meeting of the Alliance for the Mentally Ill of the New River Valley today at 10 a.m. at the New River Valley Mental Health Association, 205 W. Main St. In early October, Singletary's series of articles on mental illness appeared in the New River Current.
Call Lori Mick at 639-1509 or Winola Carman at 382-2428.
On world government
CHRISTIANSBURG - Glen Martin, a Radford University philosophy and religious studies professor, will discuss world government as a concept on Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Norwood Hall lounge No. 1.
The talk is sponsored by RU Amnesty International, a student organization that supports human rights worldwide. Martin is a member of the World Constitution and Parliament Association and has been faculty advisor to RU Amnesty International for 10 years. Martin is chairman of the eastern division of the International Philosophers for Peace. He was a principal organizer of the fourth World Conference of IPPNO in San Jose, Costa Rica, in 1994 and has been designated as a delegate representing IPPNO to the fourth Provisional World Parliament (of the World Government) in Innsbruck, Austria, next summer.
Call Glen Martin at the philosophy and religious studies department at 831-5918.
Help for the grieving
CHRISTIANSBURG - The bereavement and spiritual counseling staff of the New River Valley Hospice Inc., will sponsor a session titled "Coping with Grief Through the Holidays." Sessions are Wednesday, Nov. 15, 6:30-8 p.m., at the Bank of Floyd, 101 Jacksonville Circle; Friday, Nov. 17, 6:30-8 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 408 N. Jefferson Ave., Pulaski; Tuesday, Nov. 21, 6:30-8 p.m., First United Methodist, 1101 Valleyview Drive, Pearisburg.
The sessions are open to the public free of charge. The New River Valley Hospice Inc., is the only community-based not-for-profit hospice in the New River Valley. Call Bhanu Iyengar at 381-5001 or 800-834-9281.
Tech chamber music
BLACKSBURG - Virginia Tech's music department presents a University chamber music concert featuring music from the Romantic period. Performances will be Saturday, Nov. 11, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 12, at 3 p.m., in the Recital Salon of Squires Student Center.
Tickets are $7 for general admission and $5 for students and senior citizens and may be reserved at the Squires Ticket office by calling 231-5615. Contact the division of Performing Arts at 231-5200.
Alliance for Mentally Ill
CHRISTIANSBURG - The Rev. Charles McHose of St. Paul's United Methodist Church in Christiansburg will speak at the meeting of the Alliance for the Mentally Ill of the New River Valley on Saturday, Dec. 9, at 10 a.m. The meeting is in the conference room of the New River Valley Mental Health Association at 205 W. Main St.
McHose will discuss the Interfaith Volunteer Care-Givers Coalition of the New River Valley. Call Lori Mick at 639-1509 or Winola Carman at 382-2428.
by CNB