Feb. 20, 1984

Staff

Published Monday, February 21, 2005

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Reid named top citizen

The Cosmopolitan Club named Dr. Margaret Reid Suffolk's First Citizen on Saturday night, making her just the second woman to receive the honor.

The first black woman to practice medicine in Suffolk, Reid has been in practice for 38 years, and has served thousands of patients without pay, rendering quality health care before it was available for many blacks.

She also established the black-arts section at Morgan Memorial Library. Mayor Andy Damiani awarded Reid the honor on Feb. 13.

The drive goes on

The Nansemond-Suffolk Rescue Squad spent their weekend out on the streets helping their fund drive along. It was a pretty successful weekend apparently.

The squad is still counting the change they collected this weekend, but they've counted over $5,000 from the weekend's work.

Members of the squad are asking that Suffolk residents continue to respond to the mail campaign, the organization's primary means of fund raising.

Proceeds from the drive will help the squad meet operating expenses for the coming year and enable it to continue its tradition of life-saving to the people in Suffolk.

Planning group agenda set

The Suffolk Planning Commission will hold public hearings on three conditional-use permit requests when it meets at 2 p.m. Tuesday afternoon

Calvary Baptist Church is asking to demolish its existing church and construct a new one on North Sixth Street.

The Wynnewood Associates apartment business is requesting that it be allowed to construct a 158-unit multi-family dwelling unit on College Drive in north Suffolk.

Frances and Lewis Frank Ryman Jr. are asking to place a mobile home off Lake Meade Drive.

Suffolk Beauticians observe National Beauty Week

The Suffolk Beauticians Chapter observed National Beauty Week Feb. 12 through 18. To start off observance of the week, the Suffolk Beauticians Chapter worshipped at East End Baptist Church on Sunday, Feb. 12.

Monday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. a clinic was held at Thelma's House of Beauty with two nationally-known haircare technicians, Hosea Edwards of Havre DeGrace, Md., the Bush Doctor of Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Pamela Walters of Newport News, consultant for Soft Sheen Products, Inc., Chicago, featuring the care-free curl and the latest trend in hair cuts.

In attendance were beauticians from Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake, Windsor and Smithfield.

Patriots turn back Peninsula, 85-32

Suffolk Christian Schools' boys closed out their regular season home basketball schedule with an 85-32 romp over Peninsula Christian, but face tougher opposition this week in two road games.

The Patriots go to Greenbrier Christian tomorrow night and then travel to Azalea Christian Friday in the regular-season finale. Greenbrier has lost only to Nansemond-Suffolk Academy thus far this season and holds an earlier victory over Suffolk Christian.

Tony Cheery hit a career high 21 points to pace the Patriot scoring against Peninsula. Richard Bradshaw was a close runner-up with 17 and Wade Brown and Carl Taylor netted 10 a piece.

Suffolk Christian is now 11-4 overall, 10-3 in the Eastern Christian Conference. The Patriots' will host the conference tournament March 8-10.

There was no girls' game Friday. The Suffolk Christian junior varsity won, but the score was not immediately available.

Women's Club meets

Miss Nora D. Butler, M. Ed., a counselor in the Western Tidewater Mental Health Center's Emergency Department, Community Coordinator of the Spouse Abuse Prevention program, will speak to the Suffolk Business and Professional Women's Club Tuesday, Feb. 21 at a dinner meeting at the Dining Room at 6:30 p.m. The program was established in August 1983 is funded by a grant from the Virginia Family Violence Prevention Department of Social services.

Miss Butler will show a 15-minute film citing situations of spouse abuse.

She has been involved with the issue of battered women since 1978 when she served on the Steering Committee of the Nashville Consortium on Domestic Violence and worked on the YWCA Program Committee on Domestic Violence.

She assisted in planning and implementing a conference on battered women that was sponsored by Scarritt College and has continued her studies on spouse abuse.

-Compiled by Jennifer Rose

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