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2 Martinsville Bulletin, Tuesday, October 18, 1988-Page 5-A New piers, trails designed for disabled She is now a "Brown," but was once a "Gill." Ms. Althea is now at the top of the hill! Happy Birthday with love from your husband, children, grandchildren mother-in-law ROANOKE (UPI) The Jefferson National Forest is responding to a nationwide initiative to make federal facilities accessible to the disabled by building fishing piers and trails that can be used by people in wheelchairs. The U.S. Forest Service and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries are sharing the $90,000 cost of three new fishing piers and gently tree Lake in the reation Area near sloping, paved trails at Bear- ing to promote handicapped Mount Rogers National Rec- Construction will Damascus, said Tom Bryce, piers and paved trails facilities." southeast of Norton, two fishing decks designed begin this month on the to provide wheelchair access are nearly comat Beartree, Bryce said. plete, Seyden said.

Council reviewing proposals to boost Southwest economy PEMBROKE, Va. (UPI) The phasize tourism, 'create a Southwest Virginia Economic marketing organization to bring in Development Commission, which new industry, develop of a farmlast year recommended 16 ways ers market, wage an "all-out the region could improve its flagg- assault" on adult illiteracy, and ing economy, is meeting again to seek increased funding for determine how to implement those elementary and secondary educarecommendations. tion. The commission met Monday and prepared to convene again to- The commission also proposed day at the Mountain Lake resort in creation of a revolving loan fund Giles County. Task force meetings to provide low-interest financing were scheduled today to discuss to new and relocating businesses, education, transportation, establishment of a regional tourism, natural resources, business assistance program, utilities and marketing strategies.

more research to develop new In June 1987, the commission uses for coal, and more funding issued a report recommending for roads, sewer treatment and that Southwest Virginia em- water service. Report cites James concerns NEWPORT NEWS (UPI) A the river. It concentrates on the number of Virginia's potential 100-mile stretch of the James, environmental trouble spots are from Hopewell to Newport News, identified in a new study of the and points to some serious enJames River, which is aimed at vironmental problems. helping local planners wade "I don't think counties have through a number of difficult enough time or people to find inland-use issues. formation like (that found in the The 157-page study was 18 mon- report)," said Virginia Gabriele, a ths in the making, and its authors spokeswoman for the Lower consider it one of the more com- James River Association, which prehensive studies ever done on published the study.

'Potty-parity' issue examined RICHMOND (UPI) A state Board of Housing and Community legislator is urging approval of a Development, which is expected change in Virginia's plumbing to come up with a response. codes to require more female fa- "No one was willing to record a cilities in public places. negative vote. The joking stopped Del. Jack Rollison, R-Wood- when the voting started," said bridge, said scientific studies Rollison, who acknowledged that show that women spend more time he had heard every possible pun in bathrooms than men.

about his "potty parity" resoluThe Virginia General Assembly tion. endorsed Rollinson's resolution He said he does not mind leading last winter, and Monday he the way on what appears to be a pitched his appeal before the state women's issue. fisheries biologist for the national forest. Similar projects are under way elsewhere in the forest or are already completed, said Terry Seyden, spokesman fort the forest. "For the last several years we have tried to make sure that our developed areas are available as much as possible to the handicapped," Seyden said Monday.

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