ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, February 4, 1996 TAG: 9602050006
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-11 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
Search under way for clinic director
WYTHEVILLE - A part-time executive director for the C. Brock Hughes Free Medical Clinic in Wythe and Bland counties is being sought to start work in March.
Interviews of applicants are planned this month. The position is funded by a $20,000 grant secured from the Virginia Health Care Foundation by the organization which established the clinic, called Helping Overcome Poverty's Existence.
The board of HOPE will conduct the interviews. Resumes from people interested in the position should be sent to HOPE at P.O. Box 392, Wytheville, Va. 24392.
"We're excited about what the Free Clinic is doing here in Wythe and Bland counties, and we look forward to the hiring of a part-time executive director who will help us fulfill the goals of the Free Clinic and the HOPE board," said Wythe County Social Services Director Mike Hall, HOPE chairman.
The clinic was set up to provide health care to people who could not reasonably be expected to pay for such services and have no other health care access. It is open Wednesdays from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Wythe County Health Department. Clients must be referred to the clinic by a social services department in Wythe or Bland County.
Exhibit of oils planned in Pulaski
PULASKI - Oil paintings by Penny Moseley of Hillsville will make up the first 1996 exhibit at the Casimir Company gallery at 69 W. Main St., being shown starting Tuesday through March.
The 20-painting collection, titled "Down on the Farm," emphasizes the artist's love for the rural mountains of Carroll County and particularly the farm animals seen from around her home. She has her own gallery, Penelope's Gallery, in Hillsville.
Moseley has been a self-taught artist starting in childhood, but followed a banking career for 25 years. In May, she will graduate from Hollins College with a master of arts in liberal studies with a concentration in studio art. Her master's thesis was titled "The Business of Being an Artist."
She is showing and exhibiting her work in Virginia and North Carolina, and has won First Place in Oils at the 8th annual Spring Art Show in her native Mount Airy, N.C., and at the Harvest Art Festival in Galax last year where she also won the People's Choice Award. She is currently represented in Dimensions '96, the 32nd annual National Juried Art Competition of the Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, N.C.
8th collection site opening in Wythe
WYTHEVILLE - Wythe County will open its eighth trash collection and recycling center Monday on Virginia 690 near Rosenbaum's Store to cover the Cripple Creek, Piney and Slate Spring Road areas of the county.
Metal green trash disposal boxes in those areas will be removed Wednesday. The county is gradually replacing its green boxes with the disposal and recycling centers.
This latest Slate Spring Road center will be open from 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday, with an attendant present to help users in disposing of household trash and use the proper recycling bins.
All eight of Wythe County's centers are for use by county residents, including those in the towns of Wytheville and Rural Retreat.
Lately, the county's green box trash containers have proved unable to hold all the trash people have been bringing to them. Wythe County Administrator Bill Branson said, at a joint meeting of the county Board of Supervisors and Wytheville and Rural Retreat Town Councils, that there is not enough space along roads where the green boxes now are placed to accommodate enough of them to handle the overflow.
The overflow grew much worse this year when the town of Wytheville began a per-bag charge for its weekly trash pickup in town.
The recycling center in the town of Wytheville has been moved from the Acme Market shopping center to a space between the Wythe County jail and Wytheville's Withers Park, which includes the town swimming pool, walking track and other facilities.
"What a horrible place to put that thing," said Sheriff Wayne Pike. "When you have a busy Saturday morning over there, it's chaos. They get in there and they can't get out."
The additional traffic also increases jail security problems, he said.
Annexation plans hold up expansion
RURAL RETREAT - Rural Retreat Mayor Doug Humphrey Jr. has offered to meet this week with Harry van Beek, president of Klockner-Pentaplast of America Inc., on the town's plans to annex an area of Wythe County which could include the Klockner plant just outside town.
Klockner had planned an expansion which would increase plant jobs by 100 people, but kept it on hold until Wythe County agreed to reduce its machinery and tools tax. Now, the expansion is on hold again because of concerns that Rural Retreat taxes would be more than Klockner wants to pay.
Humphrey wrote to van Beek offering to meet with him this week "and resolve some or hopefully most of your concerns."
Metric conversion course at WCC
WYTHEVILLE - A one-credit course in metric conversion will be offered by the Continuing Education Office at Wytheville Community College starting at 8:30 a.m. Saturday in Carroll Hall.
The class will meet for four consecutive Saturdays. It is designed for primarily contractors who must submit bids using metric units of measurement. The Virginia Department of Transportation now requires plans, specifications and estimates to be developed using the metric system.
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