THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, June 9, 1994 TAG: 9406070145
SECTION: NORFOLK COMPASS PAGE: 04 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: Medium
DATELINE: 940609 LENGTH:
12:30 p.m. - Granby Shores neighborhood.
An elderly woman is watering the flowers in her meticulous front yard on Executive Drive, while a baby nearby in an infant walker watches contentedly.
Grandma turns her back on the little one for a moment to direct the spray on the far side of the flower bed. Quickly, the baby leans over, grabs some flowers and pulls.
She opens her little fists to examine the prize - bright yellow pansy petals. Then she lets go and watches them flutter to the ground.
- Barbara Price
\ Saturday, May 21
About noon in Lafayette Residence Park, Versailles Avenue.
A woman browsing at a yard sale asks a mom how much she'd take for her ``precious little girl.'' The mom, politely pointing out that it was a little boy, then replies, ``Make me an offer.''
Mom's 7-year-old son is even more willing to deal. He says he'll sell the slightly used 1 1/2year-old brother for a mere $100. You can get some real bargains at yard sales.
- Marcia Mangum
\ Sunday, May 22
3:35 p.m., DePaul Medical Center.
Helen Yates, maternity child educator, is giving a tour of DePaul's facilities to a group of very pregnant women. Trying to maintain some humor among the somewhat uncomfortable tour group, she encourages any who are interested in sticking around afterward and starting labor to go right ahead. ``Things are kind of slow around here today,'' she says.
- Marcia Mangum
\ Friday, May 27
2 p.m. - Lone Star Steakhouse restaurant, Military Highway
Led by a lone male, about a dozen twentysomething females dressed in dark pants and T-shirts do several rousing cheers in the middle of the restaurant's parking lot.
The cheering waiter and waitresses wave in-between routines as motorists pass by.
- Joan Stanus
\ Wednesday, June 1
9:45 a.m., Waterside
Fellow dignitaries prevail upon former-Mayor Vincent Thomas to cut the ribbon for the new visitors center at Waterside and the first showing of a movie about Norfolk's history.
``We need an old mayor out of history to cut the ribbon,'' suggests George Haycox, a member of the Norfolk Historical Film Committee.
Thomas, who left office in 1984, takes the good-natured ribbing in stride. He even adds: ``They dug up an expired mayor for this event.''
After making the ceremonial cut, Thomas continues: ``These sissors will be taken immediately to the museum and bronzed.''
- Mike Knepler by CNB