THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, September 20, 1996 TAG: 9609200544
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
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VIRGINIA BEACH
PETITIONS SEEK REBUILT FARMER'S MARKET AT CURRENT SITE: A group of concerned citizens will be gathering signatures this weekend on a petition calling for the city to rebuild the burned-out Farmer's Market on its current site at Dam Neck and Princess Anne roads. Only a portion of the market's 20-year-old wooden structure survived an unexplained fire Aug. 22. Although nothing has been decided, there have been suggestions that the market not be rebuilt on its present site.
The petitions will be available at the annual Neptune Festival Country Fair Day Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Farmer's Market.
Also, members of the Salem High School Key Club will be collecting signatures from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at several Virginia Beach shopping centers, including Providence Square, University Shoppes, Kempsville Plaza, Kemps River Crossing, Fairfield, Parkway, Pleasant Valley, Kempsville Market Place, Princess One and Salem Lakes.
MEETING ON SENIOR CITIZENS AND CRIME TO BE HELD: The Virginia Beach chapter of the SALT/TRIAD Committee - formed by the Virginia Beach Sheriff's office, the chief of police and AARP to combat crimes and abuse against older citizens - will meet Saturday at 10 a.m. in Marian Manor Retirement Home.
This will be a general membership meeting and is open to the public. Pat Reline, from the Victim-Witness Program of the Virginia Beach Commonwealth's Attorney's office, will speak on how the program can help seniors.
TRIAD aims to reduce victimization of seniors and encourage the use of law enforcement services.
Marian Manor is at 5345 Marian Lane, off Cleveland Street, in Virginia Beach. Call Marian Manor at 456-5018.
SUFFOLK
CHAMBER HONORS FARM FAMILY: A lifelong Holland farmer and his family have been named as the Suffolk Chamber of Commerce's 1996 Farm Family of the Year.
The chamber announced Thursday that Melton Walden, who farms 1,400 acres of corn, peanuts, soybeans, cotton and wheat, will be honored at a luncheon on Wednesday, Nov. 6.
Walden and his wife, Doris, have seven children. All but one still live within a mile of the family farm. Two sons work full time with their father; a third is a part-time farmer.
The speaker for the annual luncheon will be C. Clark Jones, state director of the Virginia Cooperative Extension, said Catherine Brinkley, chamber director.
For more information, or to make reservations, call the Suffolk Chamber at 664-2610. by CNB