THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, February 11, 1996 TAG: 9602090171
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS PAGE: 07 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Medium: 65 lines
Chatterbox is a not-quite-newsy look behind the scenes from City Hall to City Park.
CALENDAR GIRL - Three years ago Honey was just another dog at the Portsmouth Humane Society whose time was running out.
Fortunately Jane Cherry - wife of former Deputy City Manager Roy Cherry - caught sight of her one day on a televised adopt-a-pet spot.
``I took one look at her and immediately fell in love with her,'' Jane Cherry remembers.
Honey was about to learn that every dog really does have his - or her - day.
One day she was face to face with the dog catcher and the next, she was the Cherrys' family princess, all dolled up and ready for fame.
Today she's a calendar girl, posed in a wicker basket on the Nov. 18 page of the national Humane Society's ``1996 Year-In-A-Box Calendar.''
The calendar features 314 dogs selected from more than 20,000 photographs sent in by hopeful owners.
You can find the calendar - a fund raiser for the humane society - at local book stores, Cherry said.
FAMILIAR STYLE - Who else but Ralph Wolfe Cowan could have painted it?
Portsmouth readers of New York magazine will be stopped on page 33 of the Feb. 12 issue by a portrait of Donald Trump.
The portrait hangs in the bar of the elegant Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, a place just across the bridge from West Palm Beach, where Cowan lives.
Trump created the $1,000-a-day quarters at the 118-room estate built by Marjorie Merriweather Post and her second husband, E.F. Hutton. The initiation fee for membership is $75,000 and dues are $5,000 a year. Overnight accommodation, meals and services are extra!
Cowan's painting is unmistakably Cowan - casually elegant, featuring Trump in a tennis sweater.
SOUTHERN LIVING - The Children's Museum got a good plug in a recent issue of ``Southern Living.''
Written by Les Thomas, the story was headed ``Serious Fun'' and really was a positive review of the museum.
``Spend a few minutes inside the museum's spacious new location in Olde Towne Portsmouth and you'll wish you were a kid again,'' Thomas wrote. ``The more than 65 interactive exhibits are so much fun that parents are caught up in the spirit of discovery with their children.''
The magazine layout also includes a listing of the four other museums within walking distance of the Children's Museum.
NO GRIP - GRIP has become TIPS.
That is Taxpayers Improving Portsmouth's Stature instead of Government Reform In Portsmouth.
``We're not trying to reform government,'' chairman Hank Morris said. ``And we think the organization will have more appeal with taxpayers in the name.''
Morris said the group now is working to ``define issues'' for the upcoming election.
``We have a committee working on it,'' he said. ILLUSTRATION: Honey appears in the Nov. issue of the Humane Society's
calendar.
by CNB