Virginian-Pilot


DATE: Wednesday, September 24, 1997         TAG: 9709240437

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HAMPTON ROADS [BRIEFS]

REGIONAL

5 cities looking for delegates to Youth Summit

Each of South Hampton Roads' five cities - Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk and Virginia Beach - is accepting nominations and selecting delegations for a Youth Summit Oct. 13 at Virginia Wesleyan College.

About 400 youths, about 80 from each city, are expected to attend the summit.

Those interested in attending should call their city contact for an application:

Virginia Beach - Roscoe Brown Jr., 340-1428.

Portsmouth - Monte H. Martin, 393-8639.

Chesapeake - Faye Wade, 382-8639.

Norfolk - Landis D. Faulcon, 664-4779.

Suffolk - Bethanne Bradshaw, 925-5500.

Dr. William Greer, president of Virginia Wesleyan College, and Scott Sachs, a junior at Kempsville High School in Virginia Beach, have been named co-chairpersons for the Youth Summit.

The Youth Summit will focus on hearing youths' concerns and solutions under the five fundamental resources stated at the Presidents' Summit for America's Future in Philadelphia. The goal is to help ensure that at least 2 million youth nationwide by the year 2000 have access to these fundamental resources: a healthy start, an ongoing relationship with an adult, a safe place to learn and grow, a marketable skill through effective education and an opportunity to give back to the community through community service.

CHESAPEAKE

Board approves marker for county almshouse

The Virginia Board of Historic Resources has approved Chesapeake's proposal for a historical marker commemorating the Norfolk County Almshouse.

The marker will be installed at the Chesapeake Civic Center on Cedar Road, near the site of the original poor house. The Virginia Department of Transportation will install and maintain the marker. Chesapeake historian Elizabeth Hanbury wrote the text for the marker.

The marker will be paid for by a grant from the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, which requires a local contribution of at least 20 percent. The new marker is one of 2,000 official state historical markers in Virginia.

The text of the marker will read: ``During the colonial period, the established church cared for the poor as in Great Britain. Beginning in the late 18th century, local governments began to appoint overseers of the poor instead to support indigents with donated funds or house them in facilities built for this purpose. On 18 Dec. 1854, George A. Wilson donated 175 acres here to the Norfolk Country overseers for an almshouse.

The county cared for its indigent citizens here from 1855 to 1929, when the facility closed and the residents were moved to the Norfolk City Home. The City of Chesapeake Civic Center now stands on the site.''

State awards arts agency $4,500 for local projects

The Virginia Fine Arts Commission has awarded the Chesapeake Fine Arts Commission a grant of $4,500 to promote local arts opportunities.

The Chesapeake Fine Arts Commission will match this grant with money from its budget, which already has been allocated.

Chesapeake's arts commission will use the $4,500 for ``challenge grants'' to local arts groups that perform in the city, Fine Arts Coordinator L. Randy Harrison said. Challenge grants are awarded to arts organizations to defray their basic operating costs.

Chesapeake Fine Arts Commission project grants are awarded to offset the costs of individual productions.

The City Council also has allocated the Chesapeake Fine Arts Commission more than $154,000 for grants for 1997-98.

PORTSMOUTH

All-American Festival at shipyard Saturday

The All-American Community Festival, free and open to the public, will be held Saturday at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard's Trophy Park.

Activities begin at 11 a.m. and continue until 7 p.m.

More than 30 performing artists, including country singer Jeff Wood and the Atlantic Fleet Band, will appear.

Free rides for children, a health awareness tent and food vendors will be available.

Visitors should enter the shipyard at Gate 3, just off First Street, which parallels the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River south of Portsmouth's City Hall.

For more information, call 396-7321.

ALSO. . .

FRIDAY

Norfolk - State attorney general candidates William Dolan and Mark Earley are scheduled to appear at a forum Friday sponsored by the Hampton Roads Coalition Against Crime. The forum, to be moderated by Barbara Ciara of Channel 13 News, will be from 7 to 8 p.m. in the Norfolk City Council Chambers. MEMO: Staff writers Liz Szabo and Ida Kay Jordan contributed to this

report.



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