THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, February 4, 1996 TAG: 9602020192
SECTION: SUFFOLK SUN PAGE: 12 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 98 lines
Friday, Jan. 19
12:30 p.m.
North Main Street, Suffolk
Our feathered friends have their own way of showing their denominational preference.
About 20 of them are flying over the `street of churches' - not in any particular formation.
When they decide it is time to take a rest, they fly to the top of their favorite church - Main Street United Methodist - landing and lining up neatly atop the house of worship.
They are not heard chirping hymns, but they may be thinking, ``His Eye is on the Sparrow.''
- Frank Roberts Sunday, Jan. 21
4:15 p.m. - Cypress Chapel Christian Church, Suffolk
Several members of a downtown church have come to an organ recital to dedicate the new organ at Cypress Chapel.
One of the outsiders greets Frank Taylor, vice president of NationsBank, and asks if he belongs to the country church with the lovely stained glass windows.
No, he says, but his wife had been the organist there.
Their congregation recently contracted to buy a similar organ, and they've got less than two months to raise a down payment.
``We might be by to see you, Frank,'' says one of the group, as they leave.
- Susie Stoughton
Wednesday, Jan. 24
10 a.m. - Windsor Elementary School
Children in the library are celebrating the school's first Reading Is Fundamental book distribution - a book for each student.
The kindergartners are lined up to have their names printed inside the covers by parent volunteers, then to have the book autographed by a ``celebrity'' guest.
Taylor Layne waits patiently as a celebrity pens a greeting - ``Happy reading!'' - and signs the book.
When the youngster is handed back her very own copy of ``Pocahontas,'' she stares at the message and rolls large, brown eyes up to the woman doing the signing.
With the kind of innocence only a child her age can muster, Taylor points to the signature and asks: ``Is that what you call scribbling?''
- Linda McNatt Thursday, Jan. 25
8:15 p.m. - National Guard Armory, Suffolk
Fran Alwood has just been honored with the Chamber of Commerce's annual Athena Award, given to a woman who exemplifies the virtues of Athena, goddess of wisdom, skill, and warfare.
In her acceptance speech, Alwood shares with the audience the response Bob Alwood, her husband of almost 45 years, gave when someone asked him what it was like to be married to a goddess.
``I'll get used to it,'' he quipped.
- Phyllis Speidell Monday, Jan. 29
5:40 p.m. - Bennetts Pasture Road, Suffolk
It's no trouble to tell where lie the loyalties of the Driver Volunteer Fire Department and paid firemen stationed at its quarters. Some of them, at least.
The two-tier message on a portable sign outside the headquarters tells all: ``HOW ABOUT/THEM COWBOYS?''
And just as obvious this evening is the now unlighted sign at a home just up the road. ``GO STEELERS,'' the white-lighted letters had urged.
But that was before the final play of Sunday's Super Bowl 30, in which the Dallas Cowboys outdid the Pittsburgh Steelers, 27-17.
Ride on, Cowboys fans.
- John Pruitt Wednesday, Jan. 31
3 p.m. - Holmes Ltd., Suffolk Shopping Center, Suffolk.
A salesperson is telling a gentleman customer how much her husband cares for their cat.
``When he comes home at night, he pets and kisses the cat before he kisses me,'' she says, laughing.
The gentleman spies some beaded apparel and asks if it is lingerie. The salesperson explains that it's a beaded shawl, puts it on over her jacket and models it for him.
``You wear that home tonight,'' the customer says, ``and I'll bet your husband kisses you before he kisses the kitty cat.''
- Shirley Brinkley ILLUSTRATION: Photo by DAWSON MILLS
The Paula Raye work boat sits idle beside the Chuckatuck Creek in
Eclipse - Suffolk's northernmost corner.
by CNB