Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, May 4, 1993 TAG: 9305040480
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV7 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: Paul Dellinger Staff Writer
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
It never actually has had an official one, just various logos on stationery and other places. Now it is getting closer to adopting one.
Ideas for its design are pretty much wide open, but the county Board of Supervisors seems to be leaning toward something that incorporates the recently restored 97-year-old stone courthouse on Main Street in the town of Pulaski.
Terri Gregory, the county's community relations coordinator, suggested to the board this week that it look at some of the designs put on Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce T-shirts over the years by artists working under the chamber's Community Attitude Quality of Life Committee.
She said the board could choose a few of those from the six created by the chamber to date and give them to Pulaski County High School students who received top grades on their submissions for a redesigned county seal. The students could refine them, with some guidance as to what the supervisors are looking for.
The county originally had allocated $500 for the contest seeking a redesigned seal in the form of a scholarship to the student with the best submission, but none was selected. Gregory proposed that each student willing to re-submit a design receive $50 and that an additional $100 go to the winning designer.
Supervisor Bruce Fariss said he had assumed that the illustration of the Old Courthouse that now appears on county stationery was the seal.
"What's this thing on this piece of paper that I'm looking at?" he asked, pointing to the board agenda.
County Administrator Joseph Morgan said it was just a stationery emblem at this point, but it could be chosen as the seal. But he noted there is nothing printed about the county on it or anything besides the illustration itself.
"I like the courthouse. We put a lot of money into it," Fariss said.
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