ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Monday, August 26, 1996 TAG: 9608270020
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 4 EDITION: METRO
Copper Hill festival
The Willing Workers class at Copper Hill Church of the Brethren will hold a fall festival Sept. 14 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the church on U.S. 221 in northern Floyd County.
The event will include an auction at noon, bake sale, crafts, mobile mammography unit and bluegrass and gospel music.
For more information, call 651-4897.
Volunteers sought
Good Samaritan Hospice, an in-home program for patients with terminal illnesses in the Roanoke Valley and Smith Mountain Lake areas, is seeking volunteers who are available during the day, two to four hours per week.
Volunteers will be asked to sit with patients while their families take some needed time away.
The next training program begins Sept. 17.
For more information, call 776-0198.
Singles' trip
Spirit FM and the Roanoke Valley Baptist Singles will present a Singles Mystery trip Oct. 5.
The adventure will begin aboard a modern, smoke-free motorcoach equipped with lavatory and VCR monitors, departing from the First Baptist Church parking lot at 7:30 a.m.
The $39 cost per person includes round-trip transportation, continental breakfast, tickets to three attractions and the services of a tour escort.
To register, call 774-9798 or (800) 774-9798.
Choral auditions
Auditions for the Jefferson Choral Society will be held Sept. 9 and 16 at Quaker Memorial Presbyterian Church, Lynchburg, following the group's 7:30 p.m. rehearsal.
Adult singers with past choral experience and the ability to read music reasonably well are invited to participate in the first two rehearsals. The society is planning three major concerts this season and will tour four central European countries in June.
The church is located at 5810 Fort Avenue.
For more information, call 237-1822 or 237-8979.
Va. Film Festival
The Virginia Film Festival will be held in Charlottesville Oct. 31-Nov. 3 for ``Wild Spaces, Endangered Places.''
Thirty screenings will feature desert landscapes of John Ford and Michelangelo Antonioni; a history of the road movie, from ``It Happened One Night'' to ``Thelma and Louise''; Roger Ebert's three-day workshop; independent and avant-garde landscape films presented by nationally-known scholars; and visiting screenwriters, directors and actors.
Tickets can be mail ordered beginning in mid September, once you've received the 1996 Festival Guide. To receive your copy, call (800) UVA-FEST. Phone reservations and festival box offices open Oct. 1.
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