
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, August 3, 1995                   TAG: 9508030020
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-10   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI                                LENGTH: Medium

PULASKI'S SENIOR CITIZENS, POLICE TO UNITE AGAINST CRIME

Senior citizens in Pulaski County soon will get tips on how to keep from being victims of crime.

The educational crime prevention program is known as SALT, Seniors And Lawmen Together, and participants will sign the agreement implementing it in Jackson Park at 10 a.m. Aug. 11.

David East, a Neighborhood Watch coordinator on Henry Avenue, will be program chairman. Participants will include the Pulaski and Dublin police departments, Pulaski County Sheriff's Office, and the American Association of Retired Persons.

Pulaski Town Council had just proclaimed Tuesday as "National Night Out" in Pulaski, an observance in which participants turn on the lights inside their homes and businesses for an hour and gather outside to demonstrate solidarity against crime.

Vanessa Hill, the Pulaski Police Department representative who has helped organize Neighborhood Watch groups in Pulaski, said this year marks the 12th year of this observance nationally. She noted that Councilwoman Bettye Steger was among those who had helped organize Neighborhood Watch programs in Pulaski in recent years.

In other action, council approved a resolution honoring Roscoe Cox for his work as director of Pulaski's Main Street Program and interim economic development director.

"I know you love the town of Pulaski," Mayor Andy Graham told Cox. "I know you have retired and come back again and you have made things happen on Main Street, and we appreciate it."

Cox, associated with Jefferson Mills in Pulaski 30 years ago, moved back here after his retirement and agreed to head the Main Street program on a temporary basis. The temporary job lasted several years, and evolved into the new program coordinated by a 30-member town Economic Development Board.

The town has hired Barry Matherly, formerly special projects manager with the Economic Development Assistance Center at Virginia Tech, as economic development director effective this month which allows Cox to retire once more.

by CNB