THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, March 31, 1996 TAG: 9603290193
SECTION: VIRGINIA BEACH BEACON PAGE: 03 EDITION: FINAL
LENGTH: Long : 102 lines
Wednesday, March 20
10 a.m. - Oceana Naval Air Station Exchange.
A line has formed behind a woman at the customer service counter.
It seems she ordered two crystal brandy snifters in October and hasn't gotten them yet.
The employee on duty has searched her files and has now resorted to long-distance dialing to find out why the stemware is five months overdue. She calls the Waterford crystal distribution center in New Jersey. After a few moments on the telephone with a clerk there, she hangs up looking slightly stunned.
She seems to brace herself and then allows that it's a simple problem, easy to clear up.
``When they placed the order, they wrote you wanted a pair of snifters,'' she says, pausing. ``They aren't sold in pairs.''
- Krys Stefansky
Friday, March 22
2:30 p.m. - Pembroke Elementary School.
A second-grader hears the announcement about the following day, Saturday, being a make-up day because of snow. He looks concerned.
When his mother arrives to pick him up, he voices the cause of his concern.
``If I have to wear make-up,'' he tells his mom, ``I'm not coming to school. I don't care if it's important.''
- Gary Edwards
Saturday, March 23
12:30 p.m. - Taste Unlimited on Pacific Avenue.
A young man wearing a Richmond Law School sweat shirt and his female companion are looking around the store, selecting purchases.
A middle-age man carries his croissants to the cashier and says to her, ``I guess the guy (in the law school sweat shirt) may be looking for the sweet torts.''
She looks over, smiles and replies, ``I don't know. He just seems to be looking into the case right now.''
Gary Edwards
1 p.m. - Parking lot of Bouy's Restaurant on 17th Street.
A brief romantic encounter between two people starts with a short peck and ends with a long passionate kiss.
Inside, lunchers seated at tables and booths have a full view of the action because the couple is standing next to a window. With everyone staring, and a few giggling loudly, one man says, ``I don't know if they can't see us in here because they can't see through the windows. . . or if they just don't care.''
- Melinda Forbes
Sunday, March 24
3:30 p.m. - Central Library.
Nature photographer Joyce Russell of Kilmarnock is speaking to the Hampton Roads Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society. Her topic is ``Flight of Fancy,'' a slide presentation on butterflies.
Butterflies are an appropriate subject for the Christian season of Lent, she tells the group. The winged creatures are a symbol of immortality because of their metamorphosis from egg to caterpillar to butterfly.
- Mary Reid Barrow
Wednesday, March 27
9:15 a.m. - Optometrist office on Holland Road.
Dr. William Holcomb enters the exam room and greets a new patient.
``Hi,'' says the bespectacled, bearded doctor. ``I'm Brad Pitt.''
The patient snickers.
``Oh, I see your eyesight isn't that bad.''
- Debbie Messina
9 p.m. - Ramada Plaza Resort.
The agriculture community is honoring David Flanagan, Virginia Beach Man of the Year in Agriculture, at a banquet.
Flanagan is especially well known for the plump Princess Anne turkeys that he raises.
Before reading a formal city proclamation to Flanagan, Mayor Meyera E. Oberndorf has a presentation of her own to make. She gives Flanagan a toy - a colorful, stuffed turkey.
- Mary Reid Barrow ILLUSTRATION: Staff photos by CHARLIE MEADS
It was not a pretty picture
``You name it, it's there including the fabled kitchen sink,'' Dan
Baxter, of the Virginia Beach Clean Community Commission, says of
the mountains of trash volunteers rounded up on land owned by the
Nature Conservancy within the North Landing River Preserve. About 60
people, about half Kellam High School students, spent Saturday
morning, March 23, clearing the site of garbage, including numerous
household appliances, roofing shingles, siding, more than 700 tires
and even a 3-ton crane. The clean-up was organized by the Tidewater
Environmental Network.
Dan Baxter, board member of the Tidewater Environmental Network,
picks up a piece of trash that will be added to the pile of junk -
including more than 700 tires - collected by him and the other
volunteers.
by CNB