Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, November 11, 1994 TAG: 9411110038
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: NEW RIVER VALLEY BUREAU
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
The Architectural Review Board for the town of Pulaski unanimously accepted a revised plan for the veterans' memorial at a special meeting Wednesday night.
The memorial is being constructed in front of the county's Old Courthouse on Main Street in downtown Pulaski. It is in the town's historic district, which means such projects must be approved by the review board.
The board approved the project as a whole months ago, but with three changes.
It did not believe that the fragile courthouse bell, salvaged from a courthouse fire in 1989, should be part of the outdoor exhibit. It wanted some planned sidewalks eliminated, and it wanted two regular matching flagpoles instead of one traditional pole and one yardarm pole.
The county appealed the decision to Pulaski Town Council, which upheld the review board, and had filed notice of another appeal to Circuit Court that will now be dropped.
Representatives of the town, county and veterans groups worked out a compromise that the review board accepted. The bell will not be included (the county Board of Supervisors is looking into the feasibility of installing it in its meeting room in the county Administration Building). Sidewalk plans will be shelved until pedestrian traffic patterns are determined. The second flagpole will be converted to yardarm style only on patriotic holidays and special occasions.
The new plan also includes an eternal flame as part of the exhibit. The supervisors had eliminated that from a memorial committee's original plans, but reinstated it when the new plan was being worked out.
County Administrator Joe Morgan said a water line as well as a gas line will be built to the flame monument, in case one day the county decides to convert that part of the memorial to a fountain. He said there are no plans for that now.
``Well, we've finally come to an end on this,'' said Dr. Rick Mansell, review board chairman.
by CNB