ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, April 20, 1997 TAG: 9704210003
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-12 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
Wythe high schools set graduation dates
WYTHEVILLE - Graduation ceremonies have been scheduled for Wythe County's three high schools. The first will be at Rural Retreat High School at 7 p.m. May 23. Fort Chiswell will hold its graduation at 11 a.m. May 24, and George Wythe High School at 4 p.m. May 25.
Snowville firefighters hold supper Saturday
SNOWVILLE - The Snowville Volunteer Fire Department will hold its annual ham and chicken supper from 3:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Snowville Elementary School. Admission is $6 for adults and $3 for children.
Applicants needed for Community Services Board
CHRISTIANSBURG - Applicants are sought for a vacant seat on the Montgomery County Community Services Board. The board reviews finances of mental-health and -retardation agencies.
To apply, submit a letter of intent and a resume to Jeffrey D. Johnson, county administrator, P.O. Box 806, Christiansburg no later than Monday.
Three leaders honored by regional chamber
WYTHEVILLE - Former Wytheville Mayor Carl E. Stark, former Councilman Richard Phillippi and farmer Roger King have been honored by the Wytheville-Wythe-Bland Chamber of Commerce.
Stark, a recently retired physician now active with the American Association of Retired Persons, was named as the chamber's Citizen of the Year.
Phillippi, owner of a Wytheville car dealership and a partner in a restaurant and motels, has served on many civic groups including the Wythe County Joint Industrial Development Authority. He was named the chamber's Businessman of the Year.
King, who operates a dairy farm and orchard in the Crockett area, was chosen as Farmer of the Year. He also serves on the boards of the Virginia Farmers Market and Southern States Cooperative.
Wythe, Pulaski counties featured in magazine
WYTHEVILLE - Blue Ridge Country, a bimonthly magazine covering the mountain regions of Virginia, North and South Carolina, Maryland, West Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia, has an article featuring Pulaski and Wythe counties in its May-June issue.
It covers New River Trail State Park which winds through both counties, as well as Gatewood Park, historic Newbern, the restored Pulaski Train Station, the Count Pulaski Bed & Breakfast and Draper Mountain Overlook in Pulaski County, and, in Wythe County, the Boyd Museum, Rock House Museum, Log House Restaurant, a Main Street apartment building in Wytheville where Edith Bolling, the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson, was born, and a flower shop in Rural Retreat that once housed a drug store where Dr. Charles Taylor Pepper is supposed to have come up with the formula for the Dr Pepper soft drink.
A directory of places to visit and festivals in both counties also included across the bottom of two pages
Pulaski youth singers perform here today
WYTHEVILLE - The Kingdom Kids from Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Pulaski will present a musical program called "Resurrection Rock" during the 11 a.m. service today at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Wytheville. The church is at 405 W. Main St. in Wytheville.
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