DATE: Tuesday, August 26, 1997              TAG: 9708260391

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B2   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: Staff writers Mary Reid Barrow, Lynn Waltz and Jon Glass

        contributed to this report.

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HAMPTON ROADS

PENINSULA

Langley mosquito

spraying harmful

to bees, not humans

Langley Air Force Base and parts of the surrounding community will be sprayed Wednesday and Thursday to control mosquitoes and help prevent the spread of mosquito-borne diseases.

A specially equipped C-130 aircraft from the 757th Airlift Squadron, Youngstown Air Reserve Base, Ohio, will do the spraying.

The flights are scheduled between 5 and 8:30 p.m. Areas to be sprayed include Langley Air Force Base proper, Hampton, Poquoson, southern portions of Newport News and York County.

The insecticide is not harmful to most humans and animals. The spray is fatal to bees, however. Area beekeepers should protect their hives from the spray. Residents allergic to Dibrom should remain indoors for at least 30 minutes after the spraying.

For details on areas to be sprayed, call 726-2946 in Hampton; 868-3590 in Poquoson; 890-3784 in York County; 249-5744 in Newport News; 878-2585 in Fort Eustis; and 764-2018 in Langley Air Force Base.

REGION

New SPSA chairman will

speak at public meeting

CHESAPEAKE - Norfolk City Councilman Conoly Phillips will take on a new leadership role in regional waste disposal as chairman of the board of SPSA, the Southeastern Public Service Authority.

Phillips will speak Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. when the board meets at its offices at 723 Woodlake Drive in Chesapeake.

Present Executive Director Durwood S. Curling will retire early next year. SPSA plans to do a national search for a replacement.

NORFOLK

Public invited to comment

on proposed zoning change

A proposal to change the zoning and land use of two adjoining tracts on the west side of Church Street between Augusta Avenue and 18th Street will go before the City Council tonight.

The public can comment on the plans at 7:30 p.m. in the council's meeting room on the 11th floor of City Hall.

The changes, proposed by the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority, would create space for businesses to locate after the street is widened from two lanes to four lanes beginning next summer.

A row of businesses on the west side of Church Street in the 1500 to 1700 blocks - including Graves Funeral Home, the Acey Ducey Restaurant, the Goody Goody barbershop and a strip of vacant storefronts - will be razed to make way for the widening.

The redevelopment agency has purchased or is in the process of buying the land that would be rezoned.

PORTSMOUTH

ODU's Elderhostel program

continues in Olde Towne

Old Dominion University's Elderhostel program will continue to offer classes in Portsmouth at Holiday Inn-Olde Towne.

Elderhostel offers affordable, short-term academic studies for seniors 55 and older. Each week, students may attend a bloc of classes or may select an alternative choice, if available.

The classes:

Aug. 31 to Sept. 5 - The Korean War; Music of the '30s and '40s; and Dance.

Nov. 9 to 14 - The Wonderful World of Watercolors.

Elderhostel participants take classes during the day and can use their free time for sightseeing or participating in extracurricular activities. Tuition covers all meals, accommodations, classes, activities and registration fees. Call Stephanie Carcano at 683-3737 about fees or for more information.

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. today, 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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