Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, April 22, 1993 TAG: 9304220161
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
It will be set up in the former location of Martin's Pharmacy on Main Street. Its activities will include bingo games, programs by other civic groups and a monthly health screening that has been held in the combined Pulaski office of state Sen. Malfourd "Bo" Trumbo and Pulaski Main Street.
Those offices are moving to smaller quarters on Main Street this month, and the last health screening at their former location was held Tuesday.
"We had over 100 people, mostly elderly, that came in today for the screening," said Alma Holston, a council member who is Trumbo's Pulaski aide. She had arranged to move the screenings to the Elks' community room if it was approved.
George Penn said he would bring back a revised request for a loan from Urban Development Action Grant funds for Ellery's Blues and More, a musical performance center and restaurant he started about a month ago.
"We need the help to remain an ongoing concern," Penn said. "It won't be as much money as we asked for before."
Council accepted a low bid of $138,727 from APAC, a Sylvatus construction company, for town street improvement projects this year.
It added $40,000 to the budgeted $80,000 to rebuild the Critzer sewage pump station, because design revisions from health and engineering agencies raised the project cost.
The original station, built by Pulaski County in 1971 and annexed by the town in 1988, is aging and has been having mechanical breakdowns.
Acting Town Manager Rob Lyons reported that six diseased elm trees along First Street in Jackson Park would be removed in the next two weeks. Because the trees can interfere with power lines and need regular pruning, Appalachian Power Co. has agreed to take care of removing them at no cost to the town.
The trees will be replaced through a Green Virginia Tree Planting grant secured by the town. The new trees will be crabapples, which should not require pruning.
The town also will plant 12 Bradford pear trees by the southern boundary of Jackson Park, along the railroad, and 20 kousa dogwoods along the remaining two sections of the Sixth Street boulevard, from Washington to Jefferson avenues.
Half the cost of the 44 trees are paid for by the $3,300 grant.
by CNB