ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, August 25, 1996 TAG: 9608260084
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV20 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
PULASKI - Cakes are needed to help celebrate the 100th birthday of the Old Pulaski County Courthouse as part of Count Pulaski Day Oct. 5.
The Citizens' Courthouses Exhibits Committee has invited groups such as county churches, schools, civic organizations, Extension and garden clubs to bring a cake to the festivities. Participants should call the county's administrative office at 980-7705 by Sept. 15 to reserve a cake display space.
Cakes should measure 9 inches by 13 inches and be mounted on cardboard or some other disposable base, and decorated to reflect the participating organization. Display tables will be set up to receive the cakes between 9 and 10 a.m. Oct. 5.
A centerpiece cake decorated to represent the 1896 courthouse will be featured, with other cakes arranged around it like squares in a quilt. The cakes will be on display from 11 to 11:30 a.m., when they will be cut and the party will start with cake and punch.
Cake servers and tour guides, who will explain courthouse exhibits and show videotapes from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., will be dressed to represent the various facets of Pulaski County's heritage. Visitors are invited to dress in heritage regalia as well.
Christiansburg hosts Lemley party today
CHRISTIANSBURG - Christiansburg residents are invited to a reception for John Lemley, the town's retiring manager, at the fire station on Depot Street today from 2 to 4 p.m.
Lemley will have been manager 40 years to the day when he steps aside Sept. 1.
During Lemley's tenure Christiansburg has grown from a bucolic county seat to the New River Valley's retail center and a vibrant residential town.
Latex paint to be exchanged
CHRISTIANSBURG - Free paint will be available at the third Latex Paint Exchange on Sept. 14, from 8 a.m. to noon, at the Christiansburg High School parking lot. The event is sponsored by the Montgomery County Improvement Council.
All paint brought in for disposal must be latex-based, in the original labeled container and usable. Paint donors should arrive as early as possible. Recipients should come later so donations can be accumulated. Call Linda Crable at 382-5793 for more information.
Electronic village on Wythe's agenda
WYTHEVILLE - A meeting to inform Wythe County residents about the status of a coming electronic village network has been set for 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sept. 21 at the Wytheville Community Center.
Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Abingdon, announced plans earlier this month for the Wytheville Information Network, patterned on the success of the Blacksburg Electronic Village. In Wythe, computers will be available to the public at the Wytheville Town Hall and Wythe County Public Library probably by October.
Wythe people involved in the project include Jim Stallard, who is in the business of creating home pages on the Internet; Jay Tice, executive director of the Manufacturing Technology Center at Wytheville Community College; Wytheville Town Manager Wayne Sutherland; Rural Retreat representative Jane Hall Schroeder; Ann King, an employee of the Joint Wythe County Industrial Development Authority; Perry Brown of Mountain Empire Electronics; Rusty Jones, a certified public accountant; and Jay Cox, president of NetAccess, which provides Internet service for the county.
"It is precisely the kind of effort now under way in Wythe County that we hope to expand to every town, city and county in the Ninth District in the course of the coming year," Boucher said.
Work begins at WCC on new building
WYTHEVILLE - Wytheville Community College has broken ground for its $3.9 million Learning Resource Center, a one-story, 27,000-square-foot building scheduled to be in use by the spring of 1998.
The building near the center of campus will house a new college library, the Continuing Education and Instructional Technology departments, two electronic classrooms and new faculty office space.
College President William Snyder credited state Sen. Jack. Reasor, D-Bluefield, and Del. Tom. Jackson, D-Hillsville, with getting state funding for the project approved in the General Assembly.
Jackson said the project had to compete with others at The College of William and Mary and James Madison University "and we won. ... I know that, when we have the resources, our students can compete with students anywhere in the country and in the world, and have done so."
Wytheville Community College will produce its own distance-learning courses for delivery to off-campus sites.The new electronic classrooms will make courses and educational opportunities available to students and the public. They will also help offer more teleconference training.
New River writers win short story awards
MARION - Several New River Valley writers are winners in the 1996 Sherwood Anderson Short Story Contest.
Shivan Sarin of Blacksburg placed third in the primary school category for a story titled "The Stuff in Fish City." R. Anderson Sears of Shawsville was first among the middle school entries with "The Longest Road Home." Deborah S. Barbour of Blacksburg took an honorable mention in the adult category with "Splinter."
The winners will receive their awards at a dinner program at the Marion Best Western Inn Sept. 14. The program, at 4 p.m., and the awards presentation following the 6:30 p.m. dinner are open to the public. Reservations for the dinner are $10 and must be made by Sept. 11 by contacting Don Francis, P.O. Box 1161, Marion, Va. 24354 (work telephone 496-7716 and home 783-8230).
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