ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, April 22, 1997 TAG: 9704220068
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY CLASS
SOURCE: HALE SHEIKERZ
Earth Day 1997 will be celebrated today across the country. When it started in 1970, more than 20 million people participated in demonstrations and activities. The spirit has continued, and today people participate in various activities on the local, regional and national level. Activities include collecting aluminum cans, cleaning riverbanks and getting educated on the environment.
New River Valley students also are celebrating Earth Day with various activities.
Third-graders in Pulaski County will participate in a two-part educational program on water conservation. The program includes demonstrations and hands-on activities such as how to practice water conservation habits and what actions to take to keep the water supply clean. The program is being sponsored by the Pulaski County Extension Office.
Students at the Blacksburg New School have been celebrating Earth Day throughout the year. The school will have an Earth Fest on Saturday with events such as student presentations, projects, games and a pot-luck dinner for students and family members.
Students at Margaret Beeks Elementary will plant a white pine and a dogwood today. Two members of the school's ecology club will also give a presentation about the significance of trees.
Butterflies have been the focus of study at Elliston-Lafayette Elementary. Students have made stained glass butterflies and have watched caterpillars grow into butterflies. They now will make butterfly houses. In addition, students will take time today to collect litter from the school grounds, make posters and write poems and stories about endangered species and plants.
Belview Elementary students will spend their recess cleaning up the school grounds today.
At Riverlawn Elementary, students have displays, experiments and posters about Earth Day in the library. Members of the ecology club expanded the Children's Forest at the school by adding some honeysuckles and lilacs and pansies.
Peggy Gray's class at Prices Fork Elementary will honor Earth Day by wearing green and blue. The students have been learning about the history of Earth Day and have made a book about it.
Five students from Radford High School were winners at the Western Virginia Regional Science Fair. The fair was April 12 at Virginia Western Community College. Listed below are the categories and names of the winners from Radford:
Medicine and health: Janice Martin, second place.
Botany: Alan Brainard, second place.
Environmental science: Monica Jalilium, third place; Aamir Wyne, honorable mention; Mattius Sweet, honorable mention, American Water Works Association Special Award.
MEETINGS, EVENTS AND HAPPENINGS
The Christiansburg High School After Prom Celebration committee will meet Thursday at 7 p.m. All volunteers need to attend. Final plans for the party will be taken care of. The prom is May 10. For more information, call 382-8260 or 382-4895.
Claremont Elementary School will have a reading fair Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Title I program of the Pulaski County Public Schools. Activities include drawings for free books and special guests. For more information, call 980-6200.
Margaret Beeks Elementary School will have its annual spring fair Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. Activities include a dunking booth, plant sale, silent auction, arts and crafts and music. There also will be a "Garfield's Caf," where food and snow cones will be served.
SCHOLARSHIPS & AWARDS
Two awards are being offered by New River Community Action to individuals from the New River Valley.
The first is the Rev. George L. Ducker Memorial Scholarship Award. The $300 scholarship award will be given to a low-income graduating senior who will enter college in the fall of 1997. The student should meet income guidelines. Consideration will be given to students with high academic achievements, extra-curricular activities and community service involvement.
Ducker was a member of the New River Community Action Board of Directors 1986-92, member of the NRCA Radford Local Advisory Board, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Radford, Radford City School Board and a United Way Board member.
The second is the Philip M. Sadler Memorial Community Service Award. An award will be given to an individual for outstanding service to a local community. The award is in memory of Sadler, a Pulaski lawyer, community leader and humanitarian, active supporter of the NRCA and various other community projects.
Deadline for both awards is May 16. For more information or application, call Terry Smusz at 382-1385. Names of nominees can be sent to Community Service Award Committee, Terry Smusz, NRCA, P.O. Box 570, Christiansburg, VA 24071, or fax to 381-6186.
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