Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, August 8, 1995 TAG: 9508080046
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-6 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLLEY
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DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Short
The meeting will be at the Renaissance Restaurant.
The organization welcomes participation by any business people in Pulaski.
In fact, it will need widespread business support to take on any part of the festival. Alliance officials organized the festival last year, when no other group seemed ready to do so, but has served notice this year that assistance will be needed from other quarters for a job this size.
A Pulaski Town Council committee had discussed the possibility of having only one festival per year, and making that the Depot Festival held this year and last year in June.
But downtown business people expressed their reluctance to let go of the traditional Count Pulaski festival, which brings hundreds of visitors to Pulaski and has become a tradition.
Mayor Andy Graham then asked the Alliance if it wanted the responsibility for the Count Pulaski festival. Alliance members responded last month that they would shoulder part but not all of that responsibility. The town's newly-formed Economic Development Board, which recently hired Barry Matherly as its executive director, may play a role in the activity this year.
by CNB