The Roanoke Times: Business news

Holiday layaway back in style - roanoke.com

More stores are setting up the service all year or for the season.

The concept of paying for Christmas gifts over a period of time, without using a credit card, appealed to the Ingram family for the first time ever this holiday season.

Anthony Ingram was laid off from his job at Walmart in January, and now he's working as a crew manager at McDonald's in Roanoke. His hours are unpredictable, so the Vinton resident does not know how much money he will earn weekly.

Upcoming business events - roanoke.com

Information on public events of interest to businesspeople can be sent to Upcoming, The Roanoke Times, P.O. Box 2491, Roanoke VA 24010, e-mailed to upcoming@roanoke.com or faxed to 981-3346. Deadline for submissions is two weeks before the event. For more information, call Heather Brush Froeschl at 981-3340.

Dec. 1

Meeting

National Association of Retired and Veteran Railway Employees Unit 130 meeting.

When: 11:30 a.m.

Where: Plantation Creations, 7342 Plantation Road, Roanoke

Realty transfers - roanoke.com

The Roanoke Times publishes realty transfers from the Roanoke Valley as a matter of public record. Go online at http://www.roanoke.com/realty/ to search for recent land transfers as part of the homes.roanoke.com site.

ROANOKE

Over $300,000

Foster, Susan A. and others to Susie V. Jamison, 613 Avenham Ave. Roanoke VA 24014, $340,000 10/23/2009.

$200,000 to $300,000

Names and changes - roanoke.com

Please submit only color photographs. Other guidelines available at www.roanoke.com/business/wb/xp-namesandchanges

EDUCATION

MALCOLM POTTS, professor of biochemistry in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech, has been conferred the professor emeritus title by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.