ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Friday, December 13, 1996              TAG: 9612130073
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: B-1  EDITION: METRO 

GETTING STARTED IN A NEW HOME

LENGTH: Short :   21 lines
ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  ROGER HART Staff. Melanie Brown, 4, makes a make-believe
          hamburger for Thomas Stokes, youth specialist at the Red Cross, as 
          Krendy Elliott, a teacher for Total Action Against Poverty, looks 
          on. TAP dedicated its new Head Start Center on Shenandoah Avenue in 
          Northwest Roanoke Thursday. The center - called the Brand Hardin 
          Sims Child Development Center - is in the building where TAP started
          its Head Start program in 1965. The building was the only thing 
          spared by a 1989 fire that destroyed much of TAP's offices. The 
          $900,000 renovation was funded by local and federal money. color.