ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, January 11, 1996 TAG: 9601110162
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: E-7 EDITION: METRO
10 years ago (1986)
Jan. 2: Roanoke Valley public libraries start using a new uniform library card that patrons can use to check out books and other materials at any library.
Jan.12: The YWCA of Roanoke Valley moves its downtown Salem facility to the former Lutheran Children's Home of the South. YWCA officials say the facility will serve more people and allow the facility to offer additional classes.
Jan.15: Lewis-Gale Hospital underwrites the funding for 10 outdoor exercise courses in the Roanoke Valley. The hospital, a regional sponsor of the Wells Fargo Bank National Fitness Campaign, is giving $3,000 in grants for Gamefield Fitness Systems at Hollins and Roanoke colleges; William Fleming, Salem, Glenvar and Northside High schools, East Salem Elementary and Hidden Valley Junior High schools; and Waldron and Garst Mill parks. Wells Fargo is matching the grants.
Jan. 20: On the first observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday as a national holiday, Roanoke ministers and more than 300 people march from First Baptist Church on First Street to Hill Street Baptist Church on Madison Avenue Northwest for a commemorative service.
Jan. 30: Patricia Fuqua-Ames, an employee in the general offices of Norfolk and Western Railway, chases a 17-year-old male when, in her car, she witnesses him steal the purse belonging to a co-worker, Kathy Bond, at the corner of Wells Avenue and Jefferson Street. During the early afternoon chase, Fuqua-Ames has a city utility truck call the police who arrest the suspect, charging him with robbery by violence.
Jan. 31: The Mill Mountain Star shines its red lights in honor of the astronauts killed in the Challenger explosion on Jan. 28. The lights shine from 5:30 p.m. to 2:30 a.m. through Feb. 6.
25 years ago (1971)
Jan. 4: A Roanoke girl and a Roanoke County boy, both 19, become the first Roanoke Valley teen-agers to register under the 1970 Voting Rights Act allowing those between 18 and 20 to register for federal elections.
Jan. 4: The Hollins Branch of the Roanoke County Public Library opens as a cultural center for the county's northern region. The new library is the first to offer recordings for its patrons to check out. Emily Bower of Hollins, a retired schoolteacher, is the first person to check out a book at the library.
Jan. 6: Gilmer Elementary School, 316 Gilmer Ave. N.E,, Roanoke's oldest school, is razed to make way for industrial development.
Jan. 10: Forty adults participate in Virginia Western Community College's first foreign study tour. The tour, called "Scandinavian Workshop," is taught by Myron Brody, an assistant art professor, and is the first to be sponsored by any of the 16 schools in the community college system.
Jan. 17: A sculpture, "Earth Desecrator," by Peter Harholdt, a Roanoke sculptor and photographer, is on display at the Unitarian Church as part of a nationwide exhibit dealing with environmental pollution, and sponsored by "Psychology Today" magazine. Roanoke is the second stop of the tour, which began in New York City in December 1970.
Jan. 20: Students at Salem's Andrew Lewis High School raise $500 selling magazine subscriptions and holding "wear what you like" days so Rancho Norte in Bolivia can finish an addition to a two-room school. The students contributed the money through the Peace Corps' School Partnership program.
Jan. 20: The George Preas Dairy, distributor of Sealtest dairy products in Roanoke, announces it will stop home delivery service on Jan. 30. The company says it's no longer feasible to serve only 1,600 homes on nine routes. Officials say the company also has had trouble finding "good" milkmen.
Jan. 26: An early morning fire in downtown Roanoke destroys Globe Record Shop and the Adorable Shop and damages a neighboring Ewald-Clark camera shop and Fallon Florist Shop in the first block of Church Avenue Southwest. Fire officials estimate the damage at $250,000 and cite electrical wiring in Globe Records as the probable source of the blaze.
Jan. 31: A bear cub that escaped from the Polack Brothers Shrine Circus during a Salem-Roanoke Valley Civic Center engagement is picked up several hours later by a policeman on Idaho Street near the civic center.
50 years ago (1946)
Jan.1: Roanoke police report what may be a first in the city's history: No one was confined to the downstairs detention cells during New Year's celebrations. Two people arrested during the early morning aren't confined.
Jan. 6: A survey reveals that Roanoke's five hospitals are unable to take any new patients, with the city's sole black hospital having only a few vacant beds.
Jan. 9: "Wolf," a pet dog belonging to Derwood Anter of Roanoke, is back home with his master after being honorably discharged from the Army. In 1943, Derwood, then 11, enlisted his dog in the Army for war service because he was too young to serve. First shipped to New York to begin a three-year hitch in the Army and Coast Guard, "Wolf" served in Europe.
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