DATE: Saturday, September 27, 1997          TAG: 9709270377

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HAMPTON ROADS [BRIEFS]

REGIONAL

Registration deadline

is Oct. 6 to vote

in Nov. 4 elections

Time is running out to sign up to cast ballots in the Nov. 4 election, in which Virginians will pick a governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and at least five local legislators. The deadline is 5 p.m. Oct. 6. New laws make it quick and convenient. To find out if you are registered, or if you have recently moved, contact the registrar in your city.

Chesapeake 382-6141

Norfolk 664-4353

Portsmouth 393-8644

Suffolk 925-6391

Virginia Beach 427-8683

Registration forms are available at those offices; at any Department of Motor Vehicles office; or at offices of the Virginia Departments of Health, Social Services, Rehabilitative Services, Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Mental Health, Visually Handicapped, or Game and Inland Fisheries, or Department for the Rights of Veterans with Disabilities. Some Veterans Administration hospitals also have the forms.

PORTSMOUTH

10 students treated after

school bus and car collide

Ten students were treated at local hospitals and released after complaining of injuries from a collision of a car and Churchland High School bus at 2:10 p.m. Friday.

The bus and a four-door Toyota were southbound in the 4100 block of Cedar Lane when the driver of the car attempted to change lanes, and the Toyota struck the front side of the bus, according to a police report.

The driver of the car, Larry Donahue, 44, of the 2000 block of Livingston Way, Virginia Beach, was charged with an improper lane change, but there was no evidence of speeding, police said.

According to the police report, Donahue was not injured. A school nurse checked the students on the bus for injuries and found none, according to Kerri L. Albertson, public information officer for the Portsmouth school system.

But later, 10 students complained of injuries and were taken to the emergency rooms of two hospitals, she said.

Albertson said the bus was towed from the accident scene because the fender had been pushed into the wheel.

Attorney general candidates

to be at town hall meeting

Virginia's candidates for attorney general, William D. Dolan III of Arlington and state Sen. Mark L. Earley of Chesapeake, will appear at a ``Town Hall Meeting'' at 7 p.m. Thursday at Willett Hall, 3701 Willett Drive.

Details are being finalized, but the format is expected to be that of a classic town hall meeting, in which citizens can address questions to the candidates.

The meeting is being sponsored by the Young Lawyers division of The Virginia Bar Association.

SUFFOLK

Bone-marrow donor registry

to be held at Obici Hospital

A national bone-marrow donor registry program will be held in Suffolk in the Obici Hospital lobby on Wednesday from noon to 7 p.m.

Sponsored by Obici, the program is free to participants who take about 15 minutes to give a small sample of blood and agree to be entered on the National Marrow Donor Program registry.

According to the Red Cross, 2,000 people a day search the registry for a lifesaving match. Of those, 30 or 40 die without finding a suitable donor.

For more information or to register, call 934-4999.

Two brothers honored as

Farm Family of the Year

Two brothers who operate a family farm and work full-time jobs at an area shipyard have been named the city's Farm Family of the Year.

Wayne Byrum and J. Mack Byrum Jr. operate M&W Farms Inc. They grew up in the Box Elder section of Suffolk, near Holland, working on the family farm with their father, J. Mack Byrum Sr., now retired.

The Byrum brothers took over the farm about the same time they went to work at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth. Both plan to retire from the yard next year, after 25 years.

The Byrums own about 400 acres and lease enough to make up the 1,700-acre M&W Farm operation. They grow wheat, soybeans, corn, peanuts and cotton.

Suffolk's Farm Family of the Year will be honored by the Suffolk Chapter of the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon in November.

CHESAPEAKE

Concert, tours of Navy ship

are scheduled for Oct. 11

A U.S. Navy ship will dock at the Great Bridge Lock on Oct. 11 for public tours, as the United States Navy Steel Band performs at the Chesapeake Central Library.

The concert, featuring the traditional steel band music of the Caribbean island of Trinidad, will begin at 10:30 a.m., but the ship will be open for tours throughout the day. There will be no charge for either event.

The band, under the direction of Musician Senior Chief Dennis Allard, performs on hand-crafted instruments built from 55-gallon oil drums.

Band members are Navy musicians who perform with the band as their primary duty.

The events, sponsored by the Chesapeake Fine Arts Commission, have been scheduled in observance of Fleet Week. MEMO: Staff writer Linda McNatt contributed to this report. KEYWORDS: ACCIDENT TRAFFIC SCHOOL BUS INJURIES

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