ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, October 15, 1996 TAG: 9610150089
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Environment forum
``Sharing the Earth's Water Supply,'' a Choices and Challenges project, will be held Thursday at The Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center and at Virginia Tech's Donaldson Brown Hotel.
The forum will explore the historical, ethical, legal and cultural traditions that influence our thinking about water and the natural environment. It will include a discussion of the Lake Gaston pipeline controversy.
The forum is free, but pre-registration is requested. Call 231-5182.
Art lecture
Salah Hassan, professor of African art history and visual culture at Cornell University, will speak Oct. 21 at 6:30 p.m. in Radford University's Flossie Martin Gallery on the modernist experience in African art.
Hassan will focus on the Sudanese modern art movement. A reception will follow the lecture.
The talk is free and open to the public.
For more information, call 831-5324.
Christmas relief
The Salvation Army Christmas Bureau will accept applications Oct. 21-24, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at the Corps Community Center, 724 Dale Ave. S.E. for those needing help during the holiday season.
Social service agencies, churches and civic groups distributing Christmas relief may use the services of the bureau as a clearinghouse to avoid duplication of aid.
Residents of Roanoke City, Salem, Vinton and the counties of Craig, Franklin, Botetourt, Floyd, Bedford (Vinton side) and the town of Boones Mill are eligible.
Anyone not receiving public assistance must apply in person. Those receiving welfare are requested to apply with their case workers.
Positive identification and proof of the number of persons residing in the household must be furnished, as well as birth certificates or Medicaid cards for children 14 and under, proof on income for all household members and proof of expenses (rent, utilities, gas, etc.).
The bureau's telephone number is 343-5335.
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