ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, November 13, 1996 TAG: 9611130026
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
Radford's president to be on TV
RADFORD - Radford University president Douglas Covington will be featured on "Talk of the Town," airing on the university television network's cable Channel 9 at 7 p.m. Wednesday and again at 2 p.m. Friday.
The one-hour program will include an interview with Covington and excerpts from his Founders Day address.
Local authors to hold anti-hunger readings
BLACKSBURG - Writers at Virginia Tech will be helping one of the nation's leading organizations raise money to fight hunger. Share Our Strength, through its annual "Writer's Harvest: The National Reading," brings together writers from around the country to focus attention on the problem of hunger in the world.
The local reading will be at Virginia Tech's Volume Two bookstore in the University Mall at 7 p.m. Thursday. Faculty members Katherine Soniat, Ed Falco, Lisa Norris, Gyorgyi Voros, Jeff Mann, Simone Poirier-Bures and Lucinda Roy will participate.
Tickets will be $4 for students and $8 for the general public and will be on sale before the event and at the door. Last year Virginia Tech readers raised $500 which was donated to local anti-hunger groups.
Free health screening for preschoolers
CHRISTIANSBURG - The Montgomery County Public Schools and the New River Valley Early Intervention Council are sponsoring a free health screening for preschoolers from 1 to 4 p.m. Friday at the Center for Women's Health Education at the New River Valley Mall.
Children up to age 5 will have their vision, hearing, speech, development and health checked. For information, call 381-6175 or 381-6298.
Photo exhibit on display at RU
RADFORD - A collection of black and white photographs by Carlie Collier is on exhibit at Radford University's Flossie Martin Gallery. "Muses," features photographs of women such as finger painter and yoga instructor Mary Ann Brandt and portrait sculptress Margaret Sanders. The exhibit will be on display through Sunday. For more information, call 831-5754.
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