DATE: Monday, August 25, 1997               TAG: 9708250096

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B2   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: Staff writers Phyllis Speidell and Ida Kay Jordan contributed

        to this report.

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HAMPTON ROADS

PORTSMOUTH

Builders to celebrate

completion of house

for scholarship fund

A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Tidewater Builders Association Scholarship House in the Bishops Green neighborhood of Portsmouth will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Mayor James Holley III will speak at the ceremony. Other participants will include Lyle Wermers, president of Genesis Group, which built the house; Joe Addington, chairman of the TBA Scholarship Foundation; and Larry Hill, association vice president.

A house is built each year for the scholarship foundation, with proceeds from the sale going into the fund. Since 1965, the association has awarded more than $577,000 in assistance to students.

For more information, call Kim Cosner at 491-1985.

SUFFOLK

Group seeks plan to reduce

rate of single-mother births

Strategies to reduce the number of out-of-wedlock births and their impact on society will be discussed at the Partners in Prevention meeting Tuesday.

Members of the state-sponsored Partners in Prevention coalition in Suffolk include local clergy, educators, social agencies and interested citizens who met in June to discuss concerns about single-mother births. The coalition was developed after Congress offered states five $20 million grants through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996.

The meeting, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the Suffolk Health Department, 1217 N. Main St., is open to the public. An overview of programs already in place and the possibility of expanding them will be discussed.

For information, call 686-4901.

ALSO . . .

Virginia Beach - City Council member Louisa Strayhorn's monthly town meeting will be Sept. 3 at Larkspur Middle School, 4696 Princess Anne Road, from 7 to 9 p.m. This month's topic is ``Referendums.'' All Beach citizens are invited.

COMING UP

TODAY

Suffolk - The Suffolk-Nansemond Izaak Walton League, in cooperation with the Virginia Game Commission and the Suffolk Department of Parks and Recreation, will sponsor a hunter education course from 6:30 to 9 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at the Suffolk Senior Center, 301 N. Main St. To register, call Jerry Greene at 539-2110 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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