DATE: Saturday, April 5, 1997               TAG: 9704050331

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HAMPTON ROADS [BRIEFS]

REGION

YWCA to honor ODU

basketball program

at Winners Dinner

The YWCA of South Hampton Roads will honor the Old Dominion University Women's Basketball team, coaches and staff at the 1997 Winners Dinner on Thursday at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott.

Nancy Lieberman-Cline, inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame after leading the ODU women to two national championships, will be the guest speaker. Tony Mercurio of SCORE 1310 will be the master of ceremonies.

Awards will be given to the honorees for their hard work and their high national rankings.

Proceeds go to support the YWCA's shelter for battered women. Tickets are available by calling 625-4248.

CHESAPEAKE

City honors Arbor Day with

giveaways, puppets, plays

The city will observe Arbor Day today at Greenbrier and Chesapeake Square malls with a program of special events.

Beale Street Puppets will perform ``Recycling Roundup'' at 11 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. inside the Greenbrier Mall's central court.

Chesapeake Master Gardeners will give away tree seedlings at Greenbrier and Chesapeake Square malls from noon until 4 p.m. The Chesapeake Council of Garden Clubs will distribute free packets of seeds.

Young Audiences of Virginia will present the play ``The Dreamer and the Seedling,'' a modern-day fable about ecology, in the Greenbrier Mall's center court at 2 p.m.

The city also will present several information displays. The Virginia Dare Soil and Water Conservation District's booth will offer information about backyard habitats, low-impact fertilization and home composting. The Virginia Department of Forestry and Phi Theta Kappa-Alpha Zeta Lambda of Tidewater Community College will be on hand to help homeowners choose the right trees for their yards. Volunteers also will update residents on the latest plans for the Chesapeake Arboretum.

Chesapeake also will kick off the monthlong Glad Bag-a-Thon neighborhood cleanup at Greenbrier Mall. The Chesapeake Environmental Impact Council will distribute Glad Bag garbage bags and hats from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. to individuals or groups who have registered to participate in the Glad Bag-a-Thon or Clean the Bay Day. The Glad Bag-a-Thon will continue through the end of April.

VIRGINIA BEACH

Firefighters install smoke

detectors for those in need

Virginia Beach firefighters will be visiting residents of Reedtown, Gracetown and the Lake Smith area today to deliver and install free smoke detectors and batteries. Firefighters will visit residents who have fliers that were distributed in the neighborhoods posted on their homes.

In the past two years, residents of Seaside, Triangle, Trailer City and Colony trailer parks, and Queen City, Newlight, Doyletown, Beechwood, Mill Dam, Newsome Farms and Seatack neighborhoods have received smoke detectors through the joint efforts of the fire departments, Housing and Neighborhood Preservation and a HUD Community Development block grant.

In addition to the grant program, the Fire Department's Operation Smoke Detector Program, which was established by firefighters and the Virginia Beach Kiwanis Club, offers free fire detectors to anyone who cannot afford one or cannot install one.

All residents who cannot afford a smoke detector or are not able to install one, may call Operation Smoke Detector at 471-5826.

Lawyers shed serious side

for region's ``funniest'' title

Lawyers, whether they be celebrity defense attorneys or ambulance chasers, are nearly always thought of as serious people: Three-piece suits and conservative ties, country clubs and golf, BMWs and Grand Cherokees.

That could change on April 25 when seven local legal eagles attempt to shed the ``serious'' label by vying to become the region's ``funniest lawyer.''

The competition, sponsored by Family Services of Tidewater Inc., will be held at Grand Affairs on Pleasure House Road in Virginia Beach. It will start at 7 p.m. Cost to attend is $15 and includes heavy hors d'oeuvres.

Money raised from the event, which will include a silent auction, will go to benefit Camp Civitan, a summer recreation program for persons with mental disabilities.

Competing for the ``funniest'' title will be: Michael F. Imprevento of Breit, Drescher and Breit; Michael A. Robusto of Slipow, Robusto and Kellam; Philip L. Russo Jr. of Schafer and Russo; George Schaefer of the Norfolk Circuit Court Clerk's Office; James M. Boyd of Boyd and Boyd; Mark Del Duca of the Virginia Beach City Attorney's Office and Katherine E. Fine of Fine, Fine, Legum and Fine.

For more information, call 622-7017, Ext. 125.

PORTSMOUTH

First Sunday adds two new

businesses to Olde Towne

First Sunday in Portsmouth, a monthly celebration of the arts staged by Olde Towne galleries and antique shops, is expanding this month with two businesses planning to be open in the Olde Towne area on Sunday.

A selection of paintings by well-known regional artists will be at Prison Square Antiques at 327 High St., and wearable art from Ghana and West Africa will be displayed at Westreasures, 325 High St.

All of the First Sunday participants will be open 2 to 5 p.m.

Other First Sunday activities this weekend include:

``A Contrast of Style with Two Old Friends,'' an exhibit of work by Ruth Splichal and Filie Norton, Olde Towne Art Gallery, corner of High and Court streets.

``Tribute to Women,'' an exhibit featuring paintings by Lisa Carol Jeffress and Ethel E. Clarke of Virginia Beach, photographs by LeBarbara Jones-Mack and ceramics by Robin Hodges of Norfolk, Art Atrium II Gallery, 629 High St.

First Sunday Lecture on the importance of art in education by Minette Cooper of Norfolk at 2 p.m. at the Portsmouth Community Arts Center in the 1846 Courthouse, corner of High and Court streets.

Also, four shows are hanging in the 1846 Courthouse galleries:

Images of the New England Seacoast, 1900-1950, a collection of 50 American paintings and prints.

``Stations of the Cross,'' a juried exhibition of works depicting the life of Jesus by students at the Tidewater Community College Visual Arts Center.

``Chesapeake Bay Now,'' a juried show organized by the Tidewater Artists Association.

``Down by the Seaside,'' drawings by local school students sponsored by the Outreach and Education Departments of the Portsmouth Museums.

COMING UP

TODAY

Norfolk - From 9 to 11 a.m. at the Norfolk Parks and Recreation Garage on Dana Street, volunteers from the Norfolk Master Gardeners will wrap 5,000 tree saplings in preparation for the annual Arbor Day tree giveaway April 12. Call 441-2237 for details.

Portsmouth - The Portsmouth Child Abuse Prevention Rally will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Cradock Afton Square, 45 Afton Parkway. City Councilman Cameron Pitts and Commonwealth's Attorney Martin Bullock will be the keynote speakers.

Chesapeake - The 36th Masonic District will sponsor a turkey shoot today and Sunday from 9 a.m. to sundown at the Khedive Shrine Activity Building on Woodlake Drive to benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Only 12-gauge shotguns will be used.

Region - Area Kiwanis Clubs will serve pancake breakfasts at four sites in Hampton Roads from 7 a.m. to noon today to benefit a worldwide Kiwanis project to eliminate iodine deficiency disorder.

The breakfasts will be served at the following locations:

The American Legion Hall, South Battlefield Boulevard and Kempsville Road, Chesapeake;

St. Jude's Catholic Church, Clay Street, Franklin;

Centenary United Methodist Church, 3312 Cedar Lane, Portsmouth; and

Nansemond-Suffolk Rescue Squad Building, Market Street, Suffolk.

MONDAY

Virginia Beach - Coleman Andrews will formally announce his candidacy for lieutenant governor at 8:30 a.m. at the Virginia Beach Central Library to kick off his four-day, 22-city campaign tour. MEMO: Staff writers Jon Frank and Ida Kay Jordan contributed to this

report. ILLUSTRATION: Photo

Nancy Lieberman-Cline

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