DATE: Friday, June 6, 1997                  TAG: 9706060676

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HAMPTON ROADS [BRIEFS]

SPSA reduces rates

at its local facility

transfer stations

On May 28, the Southeastern Public Service Authority approved a staff-recommended tipping fee reduction for commercial processable solid waste delivered to several SPSA transfer stations. The reduction will go into effect July 1.

Processable waste is waste generated by businesses such as banks, restaurants, hotels, office buildings and retail establishments that is capable of being processed into fuel at SPSA's waste-to-energy plant.

The fees for commercial processable waste will be reduced from the $48.50/ton disposal rate to the following fees:

Chesapeake Transfer Station, $29/ton

Norfolk Transfer Station, $30/ton

Landstown Transfer Station, $31.50/ton

Oceana Transfer Station, $32.50/ton

Isle of Wight Transfer Station, $36.50/ton

Franklin Transfer Station, $38/ton

For details, call 420-4700. Chesapeake

Agency begins spraying

to tackle mosquito crop

The city's Mosquito Control Commissions have begun spraying to exterminate this season's crop of the pesky insects. Spraying will continue through October.

Chesapeake residents who have particular problems should call the commission in their area of the city: 558-0917 in Deep Creek; 547-9264 in Great Bridge; 545-4749 in South Norfolk; 547-9264 in Washington Borough; or 484-7617 in Western Branch.

Mosquito control officials say residents can reduce the mosquito problem by ridding their yards of standing water, where the insects breed.

HAMPTON

Hampton nurse recognized

for excellence in her field

Mae F. Felton Bryant, community health nurse coordinator for the Hampton Veterans Medical Center, won a 1997 Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary's Award for Excellence in Nursing, for a registered nurse.

Bryant received the award locally and for the region encompassing VA medical centers in Virginia, North Carolina and southeastern West Virginia.

As community health nurse coordinator, Bryant conducts monthly visits to contract nursing homes, contract adult day care centers, community residential care and respite care programs.

Her client list includes an average of 80 veterans in 41 facilities.

Bryant began her nursing career in 1978 as a staff nurse at the Hampton VA Medical Center.

NORFOLK

Cancer specialist launches

lecture program at EVMS

A nationally known cancer specialist will help launch a new lecture program at Eastern Virginia Medical School that honors Harry H. Mansbach, one of the prime forces behind the school's establishment.

Dr. Robert J. Mayer, chief of the division of clinical oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, will speak Monday in the Hofheimer Hall Auditorium.

Before Mayer's 5 p.m. lecture on management of colorectal cancer, a reception will be held at 4 p.m. in honor of Mansbach. Both events are free and open to the public.

The Harry H. Mansbach Endowed Lectureship was established last year by Mansbach's children as an 85th birthday tribute to their father. Mansbach, a lawyer, civic leader and philanthropist, was a member of the committee that laid the groundwork for EVMS in the 1960s. From 1970 to 1973, he helped lead a fund drive that raised more than $17 million to establish EVMS.

COMING UP

SATURDAY

Suffolk - The Lake Kennedy Civic League will sponsor Community Clean Up Day from 8 a.m. to noon at Lake Kennedy Park. Suffolk Vice Mayor Charles Brown will be guest speaker. The theme is ``Uniting Together As One.'' There will be food, basketball, volleyball, baseball and horseshoes.

Norfolk - The Iota Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. will host a free computer literacy workshop for Tidewater students from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Robinson Technology Building, Room 301, at Norfolk State University. The workshop will teach students in grades four to 12 how to access and browse the Internet, send and receive e-mail, and other computer skills. Call 874-7119 for more information.

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