Roanoke Times & World News back issues from October 2005:
FOR THE RECORD
Oct 01, 2005 ... Blacksburg Town Council appointed several new members the Board ofBuilding Code Appeals this ...
ARLO WAS SOLD OUT FOR A REASON
Oct 01, 2005; ... Arlo Guthrie didn't masacree "Alice's Restaurant" and everybodygot what they wanted. Guthrie's Thursday night concert at a sold-out ShaftmanPerformance Hall was a trip in the way-back machine to the mid-1960s, when America was divided by war and protests. Even withtoday's "same ...
HARVEST TIME-PHOTO
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CLAY STREET REMAINS CLOSED
Oct 01, 2005; ... BLACKSBURG -- The stretch of Clay Street between Church and SouthMain streets in Blacksburg will ...
CAN CLEANING UP GRIME REALLY FIGHT CITY CRIME?
Oct 01, 2005; ... In Norfolk, bands of city inspectors sweep neighborhoods citingevery weedy lawn and abandoned vehicle they can find, and a rank-and-file building inspector can take you to court. Landlords get letters threatening criminal charges if they don'tget rid of drug-dealing ...
THE NEW MARTHA
Oct 01, 2005; ... Martha Stewart's people must be scratching their heads and prayingright now, wondering whether the domestic diva will pull off herdramatic and almost Titanic-sized comeback. Last month was in every way colored by Stewart's highlyanticipated return from the big house. And Americans ...
UNBOTTLING A BIG IDEA
Oct 01, 2005; ... GALA -- Jerry Fraley has been hunting and buying up land inBotetourt County for nearly 40 years. But until last week, his only connection to many residents wasthrough hunting. Fraley, a self-made multimillionaire, was thrown into thelimelight with a disclosure that Nestle ...
'SERENITY' OFFERS B-MOVIE ESCAPE
Oct 01, 2005; ... Don't expect dizzying space battles with laser beams andexplosions so authentic you momentarily lose your breath. This is not "Revenge of the Sith." The spaceships in "Serenity," the feature-length adaptation ofJoss Whedon's canceled TV show "Firefly," look like something ...
NEW POLICE OFFICERS ARE CHIPS OFF THE OLD COPS
Oct 01, 2005; ... Economics, marketing, accounting. The more Josh Bocanegra studiedthe subjects for his college business courses, the more he realizedhe wasn't all that interested. He had been thinking of going into sales. But he'd seen traveling salesmen in action at a previous job and he realized ...
FURNITURE INDUSTRY'S FUTURE HANGS ON FUEL, MARKETING
Oct 01, 2005; ... Hooker Furniture's chairman and chief executive officer saidThursday that energy costs will be the wild card in the months aheadas the furniture industry anxiously wonders about consumer demand forits products. And then there's the iPod factor. More about that later. In a ...
VIRGINIA TECH TEAM MAKES ROCKY START IN RACE QUALIFYING
Oct 01, 2005; ... Virginia Tech was hit by two setbacks in its first attempt toqualify for the Grand Challenge, the Defense Department's 150-mileautonomous-vehicle race through the Mojave Desert on Oct. 8. Tech has two teams at the National Qualifying Event in Fontana,Calif. (the semifinals to you ...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Oct 01, 2005 ... Sheehan's message stirs anti-America sentiments Cindy Sheehan's photograph made the Sept. 25 front page of TheRoanoke Times. She is blowing a kiss at the anti-war demonstrationthat was held in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 24. With the death of her son in Iraq, Sheehan has been ...
IS DOGGIE FLU EPIDEMIC OVERBLOWN?
Oct 01, 2005; ... Virginia Tech researcher Dr. Brad Fenwick has spent years battlingthe various ailments that occasionally sweep through racing-dogpopulations. Lately, though, the internationally recognized greyhound experthas found himself working to prevent the spread of what he deemsundue panic ...
NASCAR SWITCHES TALK TO THE SHOCKS
Oct 01, 2005; ... TALLADEGA, Ala. -- NASCAR found nothing illegal with the shocks itconfiscated from Jimmie Johnson's winning car last weekend at Dover,but a planned rule change could affect the championship chase. NASCAR could issue a rule change as early as this weekend to limithow much a shock ...
NRV BRIEFS
Oct 01, 2005; ... Radford man accused of stabbing wife A 35-year-old Radford man was arrested Thursday after police foundhis wife with a knife wound in her chest. Lee Warren Greene Jr. was charged with aggravated maliciouswounding soon after Angela Greene told Radford police that herhusband ...
MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION PLAN BROADENS COVERAGE
Oct 01, 2005; ... There's good news about sweetened benefits for prescription drugusers, Medicare said Friday. Medicare released a glimpse, though not complete details, of morethan 60 drug plans for which Virginia Medicare beneficiaries can signup starting Nov. 15. They compared favorably with ...
CORNERSHOT
Oct 01, 2005; ... She was supposed to be job hunting, but in the end, Bedford'sAngie Stejakoski came up the big winner on Ellen DeGeneres' talk showand spent a couple of days in sunny Los Angeles. Having entered the Watch & Whims Sweepstakes, the 41-year-old stay-at-home mom got a call Sept. 20 ...
HOOKER FURNITURE SEES DROP IN 2005 SALES SO FAR
Oct 01, 2005; ... The big drag on Hooker Furniture Corp.'s results these days is thecompany's own wood furniture manufacturing. During Hooker Furniture's third quarter, sales of wood furniturebuilt in Hooker's plants dropped nearly 40 percent when compared withthe same period last year. In contrast, ...
RISING GAS PRICES CUT INTO CAB BUSINESS
Oct 01, 2005; ... Brenda Troutt said she feels like she's become a broker on the NewYork Stock Exchange during the past few weeks as the cab drivers shedirects around Christiansburg and Blacksburg report the almostconstant rise and fall of fuel costs. As the morning dispatcher for Blacksburg Taxi ...
GIVE ALL VIRGINIANS SAME BENEFITS AS POLITICIANS
Oct 01, 2005; ... Will your private retirement and health care benefits pay off whenyou need them? As private plans get shaky, political office incumbents and manychallengers don't worry. They are covered by state-run retirement andhealth plans. Corporations owe billions to trust funds needed ...
PAINSTAKINGLY FAMILIAR
Oct 01, 2005; ... All-American defensive end Darryl Tapp has enjoyed a multitude ofhighs in his Virginia Tech career the past 3 !-- 2009(unknown) --> sup>1 !-- 2044(unknown) --> sub>2 years. This week, however, Tapp confessed his mind has been sacked byflashbacks of his ...
FULLER, HAIRSTON CARRY CELTICS TO WIN
Oct 01, 2005; ... Kevin Hairston scored from 4 yards out, culminating an 11-play, 65-yard drive that took some five minutes, to clinch Roanoke Catholic's36-27 home victory over Greenbrier Christian. Catholic (4-1), the top-ranked team in the Virginia IndependentSchools' Division III poll, gained 500 ...
JUST ANOTHER BALL GAME-PHOTO
Oct 01, 2005 ... GIVE US YOUR BEST SHOTS. Send us photos featuring the people ofthe New River Valley. Photos must have been taken within a month ofsubmission and include subjects' names, location, date and contactinformation for the photographer. Photos will not be returned. Sendto: The Roanoke ...
GROH WOULD PREFER A WIN AT MARYLAND FOR ONCE
Oct 01, 2005; ... Reporters rarely have seen Virginia football coach Al Groh asangry as he was following a 27-17 loss at Maryland in 2003. That was the night Maryland assistant coach James Franklinwandered into the middle of UVa's pregame drills, drawing words fromGroh and incurring a penalty that ...
SPORTS MAILBAG
Oct 01, 2005 ... As a faithful Mountaineer and a native Roanoker, I am completelyoutraged by the suggestion that all Mountaineer fans are brutal.Please do not think for one minute that being raised in Hokie countrywas a delightful experience for a young Mountaineer. Hokies are verycapable of vicious ...
PROVE SIMON WRONG
Oct 01, 2005; ... You won't see Paula or Simon, but you could be well on your way. "American Idol" auditions will be held in Greensboro on ...
LOOK 'INTO THE BLUE' FOR PRETTY SCENERY, NOT PLOT
Oct 01, 2005; ... It's too bad the new sunken treasure movie, "Into the Blue,"wasn't released about three weeks earlier. Then it would've come outahead of the second-season premiere of "Lost." Both involve tropical locales, downed planes filled with drugs,shady scavengers, a pirate ship sitting ...
SOMETIMES SURFING THE INTERNET REALLY ROCKS
Oct 01, 2005; ... A few years ago, Roanoke guitar player Steve Finch went online anddiscovered that Mic Gillette, former trumpeter with the well-knownTower of Power funk and soul band, had moved to Knoxville. Domino, the regional band Finch plays with, needed a horn playerto fill in for the late ...
OWNER PLANS TO REBUILD KENNEL
Oct 01, 2005; ... HILLSVILLE -- Hillsville fire officials had not pinpointed thecause Friday of a fire that killed 30 to 40 puppies Sunday afternoon,and the owner is making plans to rebuild the kennel. Junior Horton said Thursday night that not all his puppies were inthe converted mobile home that ...
BLACKSBURG CHURCH HARVESTS ITS POTATO CROP FOR CHARITY
Oct 01, 2005; ... One day in May, Joe Hunnings was gazing out at the large fieldbehind his church and he had an idea. This week, Hunnings and others witnessed the fruition of that idea-- to use Northside Presbyterian Church's field to grow a crop ofpotatoes to give to the Blacksburg Interfaith Food ...
A SHIMMER, A GLINT OF HOPE
Oct 01, 2005; ... BLACKSBURG -- Linda Mitchell knows what it's like to feel broken. Raped by a stranger in 1981, she spent almost 20 years battlingthe loneliness and emptiness that come with too many unansweredquestions. But like the pieces of beach glass she attaches to her handmadesurvivor ...
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL
Oct 01, 2005 ... Salem stays undefeated with victory over William Fleming Quarterback Keith Gaines rushes for a pair of long fourth-quartertouchdowns to rally the unbeaten Spartans past William Fleming 14-6. Franklin County routs Martinsville Eagles' running back Antonio Terry rushes for ...
'TEACHER TRAVELS' FOLLOWS LIFE-CHANGING ADVENTURES
Oct 01, 2005; ... Of late, a steady list of travel shows has provided glimpses intofar-off worlds, global issues and other ways of life. Some are pureentertainment ("The Amazing Race"). Others are simply informative("Trippin' "). And a few are real stinkers ("Taradise"). New to the mix this fall is ...
NO COPPING OUT
Oct 01, 2005 ... New Jersey's Sheriff Jerry Speziale is in a lather because anAugusta County sheriff's deputy stopped a convoy of his officersalong Interstate 81 who were returning home from Hurricane Katrinarelief work. And the professional breach was no isolated incident, he fumed.State police ...
ROANOKE MAN FACES SODOMY CHARGE
Oct 01, 2005; ... A 46-year-old Roanoke man accused of impersonating a fireinvestigator at a skating rink was charged this week with forciblesodomy of a minor, authorities said. A child told city police that Kenneth Dale Bailey handcuffed thechild and bound the child with duct tape before ...
VDOT AIRS WONJU ST. PROPOSAL
Oct 01, 2005; ... The Virginia Department of Transportation is seeking public inputon proposals to deal with the congestion at Wonju Street and ColonialAvenue in Roanoke, including possibly extending Wonju Street all theway to Brandon Avenue. VDOT is hosting an open house informational meeting at ...
FOR THE RECORD
Oct 01, 2005 ... CORRECTIONS In a story published Thursday, Franklin County ...
NASCAR INSPECTION LEADS TO HARVICK PENALTY
Oct 01, 2005; ... TALLADEGA, Ala. -- Elliott Sadler scored his third pole win of theseason Friday at Talladega Superspeedway, while Kevin Harvick'squalifying time was disallowed. Harvick qualified second before failing an inspection after hisrun. Series officials found that his trunk area had not ...
NON-ACC SCHEDULE NEEDS WVU OOMPH
Oct 01, 2005; ... Oh, Jack. You've been away too long. Even though you work at the Charleston Daily Mail now, you stillknow how to make us Southwest Virginians feel important. So Virginia Tech has become so prosperous that it doesn't needWest Virginia anymore, eh? Well, we'll see about ...
DEFENSE ALLEGES EVIDENCE DELETED
Oct 01, 2005; ... RADFORD -- A defense attorney in the homicide case against Radfordphotographer Bob Shell said Friday that police purposely deletedevidence on computers seized from Shell's home, office and studio. The claim has caused another delay in the long-awaited jury trialfor Shell, who is ...
SUBTEXT MAKES FOR RICH 'VIOLENCE'
Oct 01, 2005; ... Director David Cronenberg is mainly noted for super-stylish,envelope-pushing horror films. "A History of Violence," his newest movie, isn't a horror moviebut it does some envelope-pushing of its own when it comes to scenesof sex and violence. This is not a movie for those ...
FACES-PHOTO
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WILL GOING WITHOUT WHEELS DRIVE HER CRAZY?
Oct 01, 2005; ... I can be pretty thrifty unless I'm spending money on something Ireally want, like sushi at Metro or some other form of instantgratification. I generally don't like to shell out on necessitiessuch as gas. Since Hurricane Katrina spiked fuel prices in early September,I've done my ...
BUSCH RACE RETURNING TO MARTINSVILLE
Oct 01, 2005; ... TALLADEGA, Ala. -- NASCAR's Busch series, the Triple-A of stock-car racing, is set to return to Martinsville Speedway next year forthe first time since 1994. International Speedway Corp. announced Friday it purchased PikesPeak International Raceway in Fountain, Colo., and has ...
AN OPPORTUNITY TO UNITE, NOT DIVIDE
Oct 01, 2005 ... Americans would need to step back to the Vietnam War generationbefore finding an era as divisive as today. When George W. Bush first sought the presidency, he promisedAmericans he would be "a uniter, not a divider." In nominating ajurist to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice ...
OBIT - MATHEWS, NORMAN S.
Oct 01, 2005 ... Norman S. Mathews, 73, of Salem, went to be with the Lord Monday,September 26, 2005 at the Salem Health and Rehabilitation Center inSalem. He was born August 14, 1932 in Orange, N.J., a son of the lateLeRoy B. and Rita Madge Sparks Mathews. In addition to his parents hewas preceded in ...
OBIT - RADFORD, ANNA BELL MARIE CANNADAY
Oct 01, 2005 ... Anna Bell Marie Cannaday Radford, 94, of Buchanan, died Wednesday,September 28, 2005. Graveside service 12:30 ...
OBIT - SIGMON, PERRY OTIS
Oct 01, 2005 ... Perry Otis Sigmon, 69, of Callaway, went to be with his Lord andSavior on September 29, 2005. He was a loving son, husband, fatherand grandfather. He shared his wisdom with all of his loved ones andwas always ready to listen and guide us through life. He loved tofarm and loved his two ...
OBIT - MAHONE, WILLIAM IV "BILLY"
Oct 01, 2005 ... William "Billy" Mahone, IV, 78, of Roanoke, Va., died onWednesday, September 28, 2005. Mr. Mahone was born in Petersburg,Virginia on December 2, 1926. He attended Virginia Military Instituteand, after serving in the United States Army in the Pacific Theaterof World War II, he returned to ...
OBIT - GILLUM, MARTHA IRENE JACKSON
Oct 01, 2005 ... Martha Irene Jackson Gillum, 87, of Roanoke, Va., formerly of Halland Pleasant Ridge, W.Va., passed away on Thursday, September 29,2005 in Lewis-Gale Hospital in Salem, Va. Irene was a loving wife,devoted mother, and loyal sister. Irene was preceded in death by herparents, Roscoe and ...
OBIT - TALIAFERRO, ALDA MOLES ATKINS
Oct 01, 2005 ... Alda Moles Atkins Taliaferro, 91, of Roanoke, passed away ...
OBIT - AYERS, MAXIE G. JR. (MAX)
Oct 01, 2005 ... Maxie G. (Max) Ayers, Jr., 48, of Vinton, passed away Wednesdaynight, September 28, 2005. He is preceded in death by his parents,Maxie G., Sr. and Janet Marie Ayers; brother, Barry Gordon Underwood,Sr. He is survived by his wife, Treva Diann Ayers; children, BrittanyMarie Ayers, Tony ...
OBIT - CHEWNING, EMILIE MARIE
Oct 01, 2005 ... Emilie Marie Chewning, of Vinton, went to be with he Lord onThursday, September 29, 2005 at the Berkshire Health Care Center inVinton after a courageous battle with cancer. She fought with courageand dignity to the very end. Marie will be sadly missed by family andfriends. She retired ...
OBIT - NELSON, CURTIS EUGENE SR.
Oct 01, 2005 ... On Thursday morning, September 29, 2005, Curtis Eugene Nelson,Sr., was released from the pain and suffering of an illness which hadincapacitated him for 14 years, to join his loved ones who havebefore him, taken this journey. Curtis was born November 6, 1922 inthe Boones Mill section of ...
OBIT - DOBBINS, JAMES E.
Oct 01, 2005 ... James E. Dobbins, 73, of Roanoke, passed away Friday, ...
OBIT - JOURNIETTE, RONALD EDWARD (RONNIE)
Oct 01, 2005 ... Ronald E. (Ronnie) Journiette, 50, of Roanoke, passed away Friday,September 30, 2005 after a long illness. He is predeceased by hisfather-in-law, Charles William Gill (1936 2001). Ronnie is survivedby his wife, Trina G. Journiette; his sons, Devin and WilliamJourniette; parents, Joseph, ...
OBIT - ROBERTS, THOMAS WILMER
Oct 01, 2005 ... Thomas Wilmer Roberts, 80, of Salem, passed away September 30,2005. The family will receive ...
OBIT - DOYLE, BILLIE J.
Oct 01, 2005 ... Billie J. Doyle, 74, of Roanoke, died Friday, September 30, 2005.Billie served in the United States Army in Korea and was a 1953graduate of Roanoke College. He was a retired partner with Kennett &Kennett Certified Public Accountants and was also a member of PennForest Christian Church ....
OBIT - TOCH, PAULA
Oct 01, 2005 ... Paula Toch, 61, of Roanoke, died Friday afternoon, September 30,2005. Graveside ...
OBIT - BOND, MARY STEVENS
Oct 01, 2005 ... Mary Stevens Bond, 87, of Bedford, passed away Friday, September30, 2005. Graveside services, 1 p.m. Monday, in ...
OBIT - EDWARDS, ROY CECIL
Oct 01, 2005 ... Roy Cecil Edwards, 83, of Roanoke, died Thursday, September 29,2005. He was born in Henry County on March 26, 1922 to the late PoseyLee and Elsie M. McMillian Edwards. He was preceded in death by hiswife, Elizabeth Mason Edwards. Mr. Edwards served his country in theU. S. Army during ...
OBIT - SMITHSON, FRED JR.
Oct 01, 2005 ... Fred Smithson, Jr., 76, of Roanoke, passed away Friday, ...
OBIT - HYLTON, MELVA JEWELL CLARKE SAUNDERS
Oct 01, 2005 ... Melva Jewell Clarke Saunders Hylton, of Hardy, died ...
OBIT - SMITH, HAZEL FREEMAN
Oct 01, 2005 ... Hazel Freeman Smith, 90, of Roanoke, passed away Friday, September30, 2005. Funeral 11 ...
OBIT - WRAY, HOWARD ELMER (POP)
Oct 01, 2005 ... Howard Elmer (Pop) Wray, 97, of Boones Mill, died Wednesday,September 28, 2005. A funeral service will be held ...