Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, July 21, 1990 TAG: 9007230280
SECTION: EDITORIAL PAGE: A-11 EDITION: METRO
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The viaduct leg was basically nothing more than a 30-year-old exit ramp. The 60-year-old hospital-owned apartment building was a landmark vestige of what used to be one of the city's most attractive streets. The viaduct gave way for a project of great importance to the Roanoke Valley's economic vitality. The Jefferson building is being demolished, its tenants evicted, to make way for new construction. But the hospital refuses to say what's planned.
What gives?
EXPLAINING why Pratt and Whitney billed the Air Force $999 for a pair of pliers, company spokesman Robert Carroll said: "They're multipurpose: Not only do they put the clips on, but they take them off." And when not so occupied, they put the squeeze on the taxpayer.
COMMUNITY cleanups, sponsored by Roanoke's Clean Valley Council and like-minded groups elsewhere, have become annual affairs; recycling programs are expanding; Roanoke's city government has revived its eyesore-identification program. Signs that Western Virginia is a pigsty? No, signs of community pride and appreciation of the region's beauty. In these parts, it's the slobs who draw scorn.
NOT EVERYBODY likes the Kennedy clan. But all should salute its matriarch, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, as she turns 100. From the philanderings of her husband, Joe, through the several tragedies that have struck her progeny, she has remained steadfast, courageous and optimistic. Asked once what she wished to be remembered for, she said: "A house full of love and laughter." Joe was wealthy, but she was the provider.
by CNB