Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 26, 1993 TAG: 9305260030
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
Balloons, bands, beauty queens and the formal openings of new stores are on the program, along with drawings for prizes and free food.
Performers from Pulaski County High School will include a jazz band, the mimes troupe from the PCHS Players, and Appalkids, a group that grew out of an Appalachian studies class in 1985 and, with a succession of students joining and graduating from it, recently completed its 200th musical performance.
The man most responsible for the celebration would have to be Roscoe Cox, who accepted the job as part-time director for the Main Street program one year ago.
Cox had returned to Pulaski five months earlier, when he retired after 20 years with Alliance Electric Co. in Aiken, S.C.
Cox, 70, took a program which had little activity for nearly a year and recruited antiques dealers and other businesses for buildings that had been vacant.
He will join Mayor Gary Hancock; State Sen. Malfourd "Bo" Trumbo, R-Fincastle; Del. Tommy Baker, R-Dublin; Pulaski Town Manager Thomas M. Combiths; and Pulaski County Administrator Joseph N. Morgan for presentations at 10 a.m. on a stage on Main Street.
Peggy Holdren of NationsBank will be master of ceremonies. The Rev. Steve Weston of Christ Episcopal Church will deliver a blessing.
The program will be followed by a ribbon-cutting to open Pulaski's newly revived Main Street.
There will be individual ribbon cuttings for new stores, including Bike Man, Gibson Girl, Summer House, Pulaski Antiques, Memories, Aloma's Snap Shop, Colony Antiques and Upstairs-Downstairs.
They will join other new or relocated businesses, including Glenn Insurance, Daynell's Delite, Courthouse Antiques, Briar Patch and Main Street Galleries.
People will be able to register at any of those businesses for a 4 p.m. drawing.
by CNB