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

DATE: THURSDAY, April 14, 1994                   TAG: 9404140325
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-4   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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DATELINE: DUBLIN                                LENGTH: Short

DIRECTORS CHOSEN FOR YOUTH SHELTER

An organization that's planning a Youth Emergency Shelter for Pulaski County has chosen a board of directors to guide the project.

Installed in a recent ceremony were Deborah Dobbins, Winsdon Pound, Mary Todd, Margaret Stevens, Becki Gunn, Alma Holston, Max Campbell, Mike Lewis and Ty Harrison.

A shelter task force formed in 1992 has raised nearly $2,000 so far "on the faith that this shelter will really happen," said Dave Bell of the Pulaski County school system.

The task force is made up of representatives of various agencies who deal with young people and who found the lack of an emergency shelter to be a problem.

"It's a very real need in any community," Bell said. "Violence is a fact of life in the world today."

Others who have served on the task force include Pulaski County Superintendent of Schools William Asbury; Freddy Blevins, of the system's Alternative School; Harry DeHaven, operations supervisor for schools; Vicky Collins of the Community Services Board; Brenda Conner, juvenile intervention officer with the town of Pulaski; Ellen Moore, supervisor with the Pulaski County Department of Social Services; Robert Sisk, 27th District Court Service Unit; Dreama Thomas, Office on Youth; Jim Wallis, director of the county Social Services department, and Janet Johnson, New River Community Action.

by CNB