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-x May 5-May 111983 The Charlottesville OBSERVER 6 i ews Digest xif 'T' -w services to go into effect on July 1 The meeting will be in the County Office Building and the following changes will be considered: System Connection Charges: these will be a (1) Service Connection Charge a Local Facilities Charge a System Development Charge a Buck Mountain Surcharge a Fire Protection Charge Service Charges and Volume Charges Charges will be based not on minimum allowances but on metered consumption Customers who use 7000 or fewer gallons per month will see a decline in their charges from current average charges of $2114 per month to $2073 Consumers of 15000 gallons per month or more will see a slight increase in average charges from $4110 to $4133 according to information from the Service Authority destroys cancer cells A new laser or at the UVa Medical Center quickly and easily removes pre-cancerous growths on the cervix according to a recent report from the dividion of gynecologic oncology Thus a condition which once required hospitalization can be treated in less than an hour at the Primary Care Center The new laser is the Medical first to be used for ambulatory surgery Women who are treated with the new laser need only a local or no anaesthetic According to American Cancer Society estimates cervical cancer will be found in 16000 women in 1983 and 7000 of these will die from the disease Student ambassadors (I to from top) Ricardo Nunez Emily Deck Kimberly Mooney Kimberly Grooms and 16 other high school students will travel to Italy this summer Interest and dividends to be withheld Beginning July 1 1983 payers of interest and dividends must withhold ten percent of each payment for federal income tax according to the Internal Revenue Service Tax will be withheld when the interest and dividend payments are made to the individual or credited to the account Certain taxpayers will be exempted from withholding if they file certificates with payers and if they meet certain requirements For information call 804-771-2262 in Richmond and ask for Susan Linden-Brooks Rabies increase requires prevention Unprovoked attacks by wild animals or oddly behaving pets may signal rabies according to Dr Jack Gwaltney Jr of UVa There has been a dramatic rise in the reports of rabid animals in Virginia in the last two years Last month a 31-year old construction worker was treated for rabies after he was brought to the UVa Emergency Room with cat bites and scratches A stray cate had attacked the man and bitten his hand without provocation according to the victim Rabies immunica-tions were administered to the man because the animal which had bitten him could not be tested for rabies Recently the most common rabies carriers in Virginia have been bats and raccoons Cases of raccoon rabies have jumped from zero in 1977 to 432 in 1982 according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta Foxes are also common carriers of rabies Multiple Sclerosis campaign opens Sunday May 2 is the official opening of the 1983 National Multiple Sclerosis Society Hope Chest Campaign Concerned men and women in the blue Ridge Chapter will ring doorbells to collect money for patient care for victims of ms and to fund research programs to find a cure According to Barbara Deaver chairman of the Blue Ridge Chapter there are over 600 persons in western Virginia with ms Pickford denies injunction against meals tax Charlottesville Circuit Court Judge Herbert A Pickford has sent a letter to lawyers for the CA Restaurant Association and the City stating that meals tax ordinance enacted by the City Council on Dec 20 1982 is The restaurant association had sought an injunction against the tax contending that the definitions of and were vague and unenforcible Precedent for the decision was cited by City Attorney Roger Wiley in a Roanoke case That city imposed a tax on a florist despite various items being subject to different interpretations Student ambassadors will visit Italy The Casa Italiana is a program of exchanging students from the CharlottesvilleAIbemarle area with those in the twin Italian cities of Prato Poggio a Caiano this summer Twenty local students will depart June 20 and return July 18 The Italian students will arrive on August 1 and depart on August 28 Each group will have three adult chaperons The cost for each Virginia student will be $1200 In order that the cost will not prevent any of theTocal students frcmv going' there -wifl be a com un i ty camp a i gn I to secure contributions from local sources As far as possible families will pay their expenses The estimated expenses for the program are between $27000 and $35000 School Board Member Dora Brooks and Assistant Superintendent of Schools John A Eberhart who are making arrangements for the program are eager to raise community support for funding the expenses and find hospitality for the Italians The 20 students from this area include: Lisa LaBruno Francis Todd Buck Joseph Edward Capizzi Mercy Carr Emily Sanford Deck Kimberly Jeanean Grooms Victoria Ann Graham Patrick Evan Iachetta Gina Denise Jackson Cynthia King Venna Kuma Kimberly Eileen Mooney Deborah Ann Moore Glydon Morris Donald Paul Nimey II Ricardo Alfredo Nunez Sandra Gail Mays Laura Thomas Claire Margaret Vickery and Gayle Elizabeth Wood Purchase of fair site negotiated Albemarle County Fair Inc is negotiating with the Albemarle Farm Equipment Inc to buy a site for the fair near Avon Street Extended and Interstate 64 The site has 28 acres The purchase depends on approval from both the City and County Last year County Fair Inc spent $8000 to rent an 8-acre site on Fifth Street A larger attendance is anticipated for the fair in 1983 which will be held in the week before Labor Day Owner of the proposed site for the fair is Randall Barnett who is said to have made a very generous offer to sell the land WVIR-TV will buy building Downtown Owners of WVIR a local television station with offices downtown on the Mall and on East Market Street have contracted to buy a building on the corner of East Market and Sixth Streets The site is acroos the street from the City Parking Garage and presently serves as a garage for car repairs The building has belonged to Leonard Milgraum who also owns 100 Court Square the Milgraum Center (formerly on the Downtown Mall and the old Paramount Theater WVIR-TV is an affilate of NBC The move to the new building will take place in about a year and a half according to sources at the station County to hold hearing on utility rate changes The Albemarle County Service Authority will hold a public hearing at 9 am on Tuesday June 28 to hear comments on proposed rate changes for water and sewer A Beautiful Bouquet of Balloons A great remember your how specia Van Yahres Tree Service Inc Quality Tree and Plant Care Member of National Arborist Association International Society of Arboriculture Old Woolen Mill 293-3134 A free concert on the downtown mall Mother's Day is May 8 Balloons on Wheels Saturday May 7 11am -1pm Central Place sponsored by Downtown Charlottesville Incorporated 979-7427.