THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, December 11, 1994 TAG: 9412090274
SECTION: CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER PAGE: 03 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: - Deloris Moyler and Eric Feber
LENGTH: Medium: 82 lines
Twenty-five teens and pre-teens who live at the Woodshire Mobile Park on South Military Highway learned the true meaning of Christmas by collecting food to help feed the hungry during the holidays.
The youngsters, ages 12-17, collected more than 500 canned foods to be donated to the Southeastern Virginia Food Bank.
According to project coordinators Mary Brewer, a park resident, and Dottie Gilman, Woodshire Park manager, the kids collected cans every day beginning in November.
To applaud their efforts, an appreciation party will be given in their honor at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Woodshire Mobile Park Community Center. City Councilman Peter P. Duda Jr. is scheduled to attend.
One of the youths, Jennifer Worsley, will receive a grand prize for collecting more than 150 cans.
A representative from Southeastern Virginia Food Bank will pick up the food Friday. A family affair
Most folks get their holiday turkeys at the supermarket. Not the Lashley family.
They win theirs in shooting contests.
All three members of the family - dad Troy, mom Lisa and 11-year-old son Jimmy Miller - have each won a frozen 12-pound turkey thanks to their prowess with a shotgun.
The family participated in the Indian River Ruritans' annual Turkey Shoot, held next to the Merchant's Tire Center on North Battlefield Boulevard.
The first one to snag a chilled gobbler was mom. The story of her bull's-eye was told in a ``Close-Up'' feature in last Sunday's Clipper.
But - as the man says - here's the ``rest of the story:''
After his wife's winning shot, Troy Lashley recovered his masculine pride by winning a 12-pound bird for himself.
Then their son, Jimmy Miller, a sixth-grade honor student at Indian River Middle School, made it a Lashley Family sweep. He bagged a turkey, too, using his own smaller-gauge shotgun.
It was an amazing accomplishment, mom said, since her son is still recovering from an eye injury.
``About a year ago he suffered an injury to his right eye and had to have an operation,'' she said. ``He still doesn't have full vision in that eye so I thought it was remarkable he was able to win the shoot.''
So what will the Lashleys do with all those frozen birds?
They ate one for Thanksgiving, of course, and will probably consume another at Christmas. That leaves one more they won and another bought by Lisa Lashley's mom.
``We're already getting a little tired of turkey,'' she said. 100 years young
Marion Wesley became Chesapeake's youngest centenarian last Friday. She turned 100 at a party held in her honor at her residence, the Chesapeake Health Care Center nursing home.
According to Mrs. Wesley's only living child, daughter Helen Stancil, the party was attended by more than 100 residents, relatives, friends and neighbors.
In addition to Stancil, Mrs. Wesley has 59 grandchildren, 51 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren, who live all over the country. The special party was attended by five of the grandkids, two great-grandkids and three of the great-greats.
Members of the Providence Square Civic League, Mrs. Wesley's old neighbors, took up a collection from her old neighbors to create a unique money tree.
Stancil said her mother still participates in various nursing home activities, loves her weekly Bible study, does weekly exercises, reads the newspaper daily and enjoys reading her Bible and scripture passages.
``She loves people,'' Stancil said. ``As long as somebody is around her she's all bubbly and excited.''
Stancil said her mother loves to laugh and still has a good sense of humor.
``They brought out her cake with 100 candles and it said `Happy 100th Birthday, Mother,' '' Stancil said. ``When she saw it she asked, `Who's a hundred?' '' by CNB