SNOWVILLE TURNOUT WAS STRONG FOR COUNTY SUPERVISORS' ROAD TRIP PULASKI

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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 10, 1993                   TAG: 9302100097
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: SNOWVILLE                                LENGTH: Medium
SNOWVILLE TURNOUT WAS STRONG FOR COUNTY SUPERVISORS' ROAD TRIP PULASKI
Citizens' interest is holding up well for the traveling meetings that the Pulaski County Board of Supervisors has been holding in communities around the county.
It was Snowville's turn Monday night, and more than 60 people showed up to ask questions about roads and other concerns when the board met at Snowville Elementary School.
The number was about the same as those attending earlier every-other-month meetings Sept. 21 at Fairlawn and Nov. 16 at Newbern.
The board began taking those special meetings outside the county seat at Pulaski to see if public interest warranted having them. It is unusual for as many as 60 people to show up at a regular board meeting in Pulaski.
County officials also give reports at these community meetings on such topics as work on the county courthouses or progress on the 911 emergency communications system.
The emergency system requires specific number addresses, and the board announced Monday that county residents served by the Radford Post Office would be the first users of the new address system.
Letters are scheduled to go out Monday to county residents with Radford rural-route addresses, giving them the four-digit number assigned to the residence or business.
The letters will include instructions on displaying the new numbers.
The numbers will help emergency workers answer calls faster under the new system.
Residents can start using the new addresses as soon as they get the written notification, according to Stan Crigger, Pulaski County's emergency-services coordinator.
They have a year from then to complete change-of-address notifications, have new addresses printed on checks and stationery, and to do all the other things that must be done when an address changes.
People who receive mail in post-office boxes will be notified later as to their new house numbers.
The numbering system was developed with a grid assigning four-digit numbers every 35 feet so future development could be accommodated.
New numbers will be assigned to other rural routes in coming months, Crigger has said. The county will move slowly at first to iron out any problems that come up.
Supervisor Joe Sheffey asked that residents be patient with county officials and postal workers going through this process.
County workers will be trying to replace road signs that have been torn down or damaged and will be putting new signs on private roads.
The signs also are important in locating a residence in an emergency. Missing signs should be reported to Crigger by telephoning 980-7710. He and Martha Kelley Sayers have been instrumental in drawing up the new addresses system.

by Archana Subramaniam by CNB