ROANOKE TIMES 

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

DATE: MONDAY, March 6, 1995                   TAG: 9503060008
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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THE CHANGING COUNTRYSIDE

``I certainly do not mind driving to Roanoke to go shopping. Thirty minutes to the mall to me is nothing. Some people complain, but I think it's neat. I'm building a house where I can see the Peaks [of Otter]. I have no problem driving 20 minutes to the grocery store.''

- Sherry Ayers, Bedford teacher

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"The cost of watering and sewering just that one portion of Franklin County around Smith Mountain Lake is as much or more than our whole annual budget.

``Nine different elementary schools need new classrooms and new facilities. It's really hard to serve scattered development. How can we pay for all this? One of the few things we can do is work on industrial development, new sites, new jobs and so forth to try and build up our revenue base.''

- Macon Sammons, Franklin County administrator

\ ``I really like having good industry more so than I do residential for neighbors. They're more compatible, in essence.''

- Mike Beahm, Cloverdale farmer who has been a neighbor of Ingersoll-Rand for 25 years.

\ ``It's very important to have the urban services, and I think there are very, very few people who are so purist as to deny that. They may not need to come to the symphony, but they're going to go to the supermarket and they're going to go to the Wal-Mart.''

- David Hunt, Roanoke anesthesiologist 


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