ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, July 18, 1996 TAG: 9607180021
SECTION: NEIGHBORS PAGE: N-5 EDITION: METRO
Due in part to a three-month fund-raising campaign and the efforts of customers and associates at area Hills stores, Hills Department Stores will donate $11,441 to the Virginia Children's Healthcare Network. Roanoke's two Hills stores raised $631 by selling special Children's Miracle Network paper balloons and by holding in-store bake sales, raffles, canister collections and other events.
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Wallace LaRue of Roanoke has been named the 1996 Reynolds Recycler of the Year for the Reynolds Recycling center at the Family Dollar Store in Vinton. LaRue collects aluminum cans and scrap from the local Amvets building and from other small businesses in the area.
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The Rescue Mission, a shelter for the homeless, announced the receipt of $8,599 from the GE Fund's "More Gifts. . .More Givers." This gift matches contributions made by GE employees and retirees to the Rescue Mission in 1995.
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The Virginia Broadcasters Association has honored Roanoke radio station WJLM for an innovative promotion that brought in more than 600 bikes for Toys for Tots in December.
Disc jockey Slam Duncan and Steve Gardner, a drive coordinator for the U.S. Marine Reserve, rode 93 feet in the air in a trailer hoisted by a crane. They said they were refusing to come down until 93 bikes were donated.
The stunt, which easily surpassed its donation target, won an association award for the best community service campaign in 1995 by a metro radio station in the state. The station is at 93.5 on the FM dial.
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