Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, June 6, 1995 TAG: 9506070016
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-11 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
She is now the Rev. Terri Gregory, and is leaving this month to become pastor for three churches on a United Methodist circuit in Greene County, Tenn.
"I'm going to be 53 miles from my husband, though," she said.
The Rev. Richard Gregory will become pastor at other United Methodist churches in Elizabethton, Tenn., at the same time.
"We have to see each other during the week," she said, because they will both be working on Sundays.
Distance is not a new situation for them. When they were married in 1987, she lived in Dublin and he lived in Carroll County where he has been pastor until now of Oakland United Methodist Church. After a year, she moved to Carroll and commuted to her jobs in Pulaski.
And she had plenty of jobs. The main one has been as administrator of the Pulaski County Office on Youth since 1980.
In fact, she created the office. While working at the New River Youth Services Department of Corrections, she had written a grant to fund the Office on Youth and the county then hired her to run it.
She has also been:
Pulaski County's community relations coordinator for the Board of Supervisors and staff since 1990;
Coordinator for the county's Clean Community Council;
Organizer for the Pulaski-Dublin-Pulaski County Recreation Commission, which expanded youth sports opportunities in the county;
Lead staff person for the county's sesquicentennial in 1989 and for providing information on the bond issue that is financing restoration and renovation of county courthouse facilities;
Contact for the heritage exhibits on display in the Old Courthouse
Chairwoman of the Pulaskians Encouraging Progress and county Chamber of Commerce Quality of Life Committee.
In her spare time, she recruited tenants for the former Jefferson School building, which now has offices for Headstart, New River Community Action Agency, New River Health District Home Health Care, Pulaski County Free Clinic, Clothing Closet, Adult Education, Straight Street, and businesses including D'Ardenne Associates, Mexabilly Salsa and Western Temporary Services.
Board of Supervisors Chairman Jerry White had to pause for breath when reciting Gregory's accomplishments in a resolution of appreciation adopted by the board.
"Bear with me," he said. "Terri has been very busy."
"She has worked with us, cried with us, struggled with us, and it has been a productive time," said County Administrator Joe Morgan.
"Believe it or not, there is only one Terri Gregory," said Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce President Wayne Carpenter.
Sometimes it has just not seemed that way.
by CNB