DATE: Tuesday, August 5, 1997               TAG: 9708050129

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B2   EDITION: FINAL 
                                            LENGTH:  144 lines

HAMPTON ROADS - NEWS BRIEFS

The city police department is sponsoring the first local version of the National Night Out, a program designed to involve communities in crime-prevention in their neighborhoods.

Several Suffolk community groups and the police will sponsor block parties, cookouts and neighborhood walks in Cypress Manor, Hollywood, Jericho, Burnett's Mill, Saratoga, Lake Kennedy and Magnolia Lakes between 6 and 10 p.m.

Residents are encouraged to turn on their outside lights, lock their doors, and join neighbors in a community walk. Special programs will be held by community police officers to emphasize crime and drug prevention.

The National Night Out program began 14 years ago, and this year will involve more than 9,000 communities across the country. HAMPTON Council appoints Wallace as the new city manager

Hampton City Council named veteran city employee George E. Wallace city manager. He took the post Monday, replacing Robert J. O'Neill Jr. who left to become Fairfax County executive.

Wallace, 58, has 22 years of experience in city administration and has served as assistant city manager since 1975. He assumed additional responsibility of development director in 1995.

Wallace was responsible for developing the city's first strategic plan and for structuring sound fiscal policies. Between 1988 and 1992 he led a team that developed the city's operating and capital budgets.

Wallace is a native of Williamsburg. He earned a B.S. degree in accounting from North Carolina Central University in Durham and a master's degree in public administration from Golden Gate University in 1977. Coast Guard rescues boaters near Buckroe

Life jackets probably saved the lives of three people who fell off a boat Monday near Buckroe Beach and were rescued by the Coast Guard.

The rescue began about 5:20 p.m. when someone reported a 43-foot sailboat floundering in Chesapeake Bay, within a mile of Buckroe Beach. A Coast Guard helicopter found two men and a woman floating in the Bay, clutching life jackets. None of the three required medical attention.

Two of the boaters said they were knocked overboard by a funnel cloud around 4:30 p.m. The third jumped into the water to save them. None of the three wore life vests, but all three clung to them in the water.

The three were identified as Kathy Moore and David Silverthorne, both of Poquoson, and Barry Hinchey of Newport News. Their ages were unavailable. VIRGINIA BEACH Donate $1, drive a BMW, help fight breast cancer

If you've ever dreamed of test driving a BMW without making excuses to the salesperson about why you can't buy one, now's your chance.

And you'll be helping a charity at the same time.

In an unusual partnership, BMW of North America Inc. and The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation are hoping to raise $1 million by Oct. 31 for breast cancer research and public awareness through a nationwide program called ``Drive for the Cure.''

Two caravans of specially marked BMW vehicles are stopping in 90 cities at various BMW dealerships to allow people to test drive the cars. The Komen Foundation receives $1 for each mile driven in each fleet car.

Peggy Johnson, a local volunteer with the Komen Foundation, said that ``Drive for the Cure'' has raised $400,000 so far.

You can test drive one of the specially marked BMWs today at Casey BMW on J. Clyde Morris Boulevard in Newport News. For more information, call toll-free (800) 972-2873. CHESAPEAKE 2nd welfare reform summit expected to draw big crowd

The Social Services division will present a second welfare reform summit from 9 a.m. to noon today at Oscar Smith High School, at 1994 Tiger Drive in Great Bridge.

Organizers expect about 800 participants for the summit, which will inform welfare recipients about welfare reform. Organizers also will to motivate potential candidates for the VIEW (Virginia Initiative for Employment not Welfare) program, the workfare component of welfare reform.

It will be the last mass meeting before VIEW goes into effect Oct. 1. For those eligible to receive aid, the VIEW program will then be phased in over six months.

Registration for the summit will be from 9 to 10. Then a series of speakers - including Clarence Carter, commissioner of the state social services department, Chesapeake Economic Development Director Donald Z. Goldberg, and three former welfare recipients - will address the crowd.

For more information, call Susan VanHorn at 382-2290. NORFOLK Five chosen to serve on medical Board of Visitors

Five community leaders have been appointed to serve on the Medical College of Hampton Roads Board of Visitors, the governing body of Eastern Virginia Medical School.

Members are appointed either by local governments or by the EVMS Foundation's Board of Trustees.

The five chosen to replace five people whose terms have expired are:

Henry U. ``Sandy'' Harris, vice president of Virginia Investment Counselors in Norfolk, appointed by the foundation.

W.R. Scott Curtis Jr., a doctor with Obstetric & Gynecologic Associates of Hampton, appointed by Hampton City Council.

Edward L. Hamm Jr., president of E.L. Hamm & Associates, a management and engineering consulting firm, appointed by the Virginia Beach City Council.

Arthur J. Kamp, a lawyer with David & Kamp, appointed by the Newport News City Council.

Alan E. Gollihue, president and chief executive officer of Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation, appointed by the Portsmouth City Council.

Two other members were reappointed for three-year terms:

Oriana M. McKinnon was named by the foundation. Vice Rector Joseph A. Leafe was the choice of the Norfolk City Council. PORTSMOUTH Commission will tour Naval Shipyard Museum today

Members of the Portsmouth Museum and Fine Arts Commission will tour the Naval Shipyard Museum today as part of their regular monthly meeting which has been moved to the museum adjacent to the new High Street Landing.

The shipyard museum's interior was repainted and exhibits were cleaned and refurbished earlier this year. In addition, naval cannon and artifacts suitable for outdoor display have been moved to the area around the new landing outside the museum entrance.

The commission's 4 p.m. meeting is open to the public. ALSO. . .

Norfolk - The weekly 9:15 a.m. Wednesday meetings between the Military Highway Alliance, merchants in the Military Highway/Virginia Beach Boulevard corridor, VDOT and construction contractors now are going to a bi-weekly schedule. Meetings now will be held every other Wednesday at 9 a.m. at the normal location. The next meeting will be Aug. 13. For more information, call 455-0835. COMING UP

FRIDAY

Portsmouth - Capt. Timothy E. Scheib will relieve Capt. William R. Klemm today, to become the 99th commander of the Norfolk Naval Shipyard since it became a federal facility in 1794. Vice Adm. George R. Sterner, commander of the Naval Sea Systems Command, will be the keynote speaker at the change-of-command ceremony at 10 a.m. in Trophy Park. MEMO: Staff writers Marie Joyce, Pam Starr, Ida Kay Jordan, Louis Hansen

and Lewis Krauskopf contributed to this report.

Send Suggestions or Comments to webmaster@scholar.lib.vt.edu