ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, December 29, 1996 TAG: 9612300019
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-10 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
Wytheville college to offer home study
WYTHEVILLE - Wytheville Community College will offer courses ranging from microcomputer software and developmental math to law enforcement administration and private pilot ground-school training in the coming semester.
In addition, the college will also have a variety of home-study courses. Students in home-study do not attend classes but take classes at home using audiotapes or videotapes as well as texts.
All students signing up for these courses will meet at 7 p.m. Jan. 8 in Grayson Hall to receive materials and buy textbooks. After a general orientation session, they will divide up according to subject areas.
After that, they will study at home and pick up materials at the college's testing center in Bland Hall. Materials can also be obtained at the college's Galax Education Center in downtown Galax or Smyth County Education Center in Atkins.
Two economics courses and a marketing course will be taught over television through Blue Ridge Public Television.
Further information is available by calling Dan Jones, chairman of the Business, Humanities and Social Services Division, at 223-4736 or toll-free (800) 468-1195.
Students for regular classes can register in Bland Hall. The earliest classes for the coming semester start Jan. 13.
Secret donor offers to double humane funds
CHRISTIANSBURG - An anonymous donor is pledging to give two dollars for every dollar other people give to the Humane Society of Montgomery County.
The donor is offering up to $25,000, meaning the Humane Society could reap $37,500 if other people pledge a total of $12,500.
Ron Brown, Humane Society director, said the money will be used for vinyl siding, new windows, a renovated bathroom and an expanded office area for the society's shelter on Flanagan Drive.
Donations are tax deductible. They can be sent to P.O. Box 287, Blacksburg, Va., 24063. For information, call the shelter at 382-1166
Wythe industrial board eyes rejected prison site
WYTHEVILLE - The Joint Wythe County Industrial Development Authority will seek a new industrial park next month.
It will ask the county Board of Supervisors to buy 1,210 acres to develop the park. This is the same site once considered for a private state prison, which ended up being rejected by the most recently elected board following citizen objections.
The county's existing Fairview and Rural Retreat industrial parks are nearly full. The proposed new site, known as the Ratliff-Suthers property, has been studied by Anderson & Associates of Blacksburg and the results of the study will be presented to the supervisors.
Work on developing the park, if approved, would be done in phases.
At its meeting in December, the authority also passed resolutions of appreciation for departing members Dr. Jack Baumgardner and Pete Viars.
Viars has been treasurer of the authority since it was formed in 1989, and Baumgardner has been its chairman since that time. Neither man is eligible for reappointment, having served for two consecutive terms.
Raids in Wythe County net five arrests
WYTHEVILLE - Raids at three locations in southern Wythe County in December netted five arrests and the seizure of 28 firearms, several grams of cocaine and six gallons of moonshine along with a moonshine still.
Four Ivanhoe residents in their late 40s to 60s were arrested on charges ranging from illegal possession of firearms to possession of drugs. One Pulaski teen-ager was also arrested on a felony drug possession charge.
Sheriff Wayne Pike said the operation leading to the series of raids started several months ago. Pike said he had assistance from members of the Bedford County Sheriff's Office, which provided an undercover agent. Although the two departments are not close geographically, he said, they exchange personnel for undercover work and cooperate in other ways.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Drug Enforcement Administration, state police and the state Alcohol Beverage Control office also assisted in the operation, he said.
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