Bennett said the health department will probably make changes to the advisory sometime this week. Testing began after Bennett and Sen. Charles Hawkins, R-Chatham called together a group of citizens to form an advisory committee to look at the PCB problem in Staunton River last fall. The idea for the committee came about after the Virginia Health Department issued a health advisory in July of last year warning the public not to consume more than two eight-ounce servings each month of striped bass, white bass, or carp from the Staunton River. Although the contamination was first discovered in 1993, the Department of Environmental Quality delayed making public information it had on fish contamination for over four years. When Ann Siddle was named director of the Estelle H. Womack Museum of Natural History several years ago, she had one goal in mind - to see that as many people as possible, especially children, know about the museum located on the campus of Danville Community College.
Adults enjoy it too.
There's really something here for everybody. Siddle, who spent more than 23 years in the broadcasting industry after retiring from Piedmont Broadcasting in 1981, now is taking on a new challenge to spread the word about the museum's varied collections. It is a wonderful collection of bird and bees, turtles and lizards, rocks and fossils, snakes and spiders and skunks and foxes. The museum also contains one of the largest collections of birds in the Southeast - 90 to be exact. Siddle explained that the museum received permission from the U.S. government to display the bird.