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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 6, 1991                   TAG: 9103060264
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: PULASKI                                LENGTH: Medium

PULASKI TO SEEK STATE GRANTS FOR TOWN IMPROVEMENTS

Pulaski would add $31,760 to the project if the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development approves the project.

Plans include 7,250 feet of sewer line to 32 homes along Bridge Street, Bentley Hollow Road, Bentley Hollow Lane, Cedar Lane and Tower Street.

The area is an older part of town, with low- and moderate-income residences. The town will build and waive connection fees to the 27 homes classified as low to moderate income.

The project would eliminate four pit privies in the area and replace them with indoor toilets. It would complete the town's sewer system except for some rural areas.

The Cool Springs neighborhood is the only concentrated town area with unpaved and substandard roads. The project would also let the town complete drainage improvements and pave parts of Tower Street and Bentley Hollow Road and all of Cedar and Bentley Hollow lanes.

Appalachian Power Co. would install 25 street lights and poles along Prince Avenue, Oak Lane, Bridge Street, Bryant Circle, Bentley Hollow Road and Cedar Lane.

Council also voted to send a letter of thanks to Jim Delehanty for civic projects he spearheaded while living in Pulaski.

Mayor Gary Hancock said that Delehanty, who has moved to Blacksburg, had headed fund-raising drives to improve the Train Station tourism center in downtown Pulaski and for improvements to the Pulaski County Courthouse. He also organized Pulaski's support-the-troops rally here Jan. 26.

Delehanty did not live here a long time, Hancock said, but it was "quality time."