PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT


CHARLOTTESVILLE AUTHORS TO COMBAT HUNGER

	Local authors will share their works as part of a hunger
benefit called "Writer's Harvest:  The National Reading."  The event
will be Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m. at the University of
Virginia's Newcomb Hall Theater.  Sponsored by the U.Va. bookstore,
the readings are part of a benefit for Share Our Strength, a
national organization that works to alleviate hunger.  U.S. Poet
Laureate Rita Dove, poet Charles Wright and novelists Rita Mae Brown
and Mary Lee Settle are some of the authors who will read selections
from their works.  The minimum suggested donation is $5, and all
proceeds will go to the Thomas Jefferson Area Food Bank.  For more
information, call the U.Va. bookstore at (804) 924-1073.

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October 12, 1994

START DATE:  Immediate
KILL DATE:   Nov. 3, 1994