ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, July 25, 1996 TAG: 9607250024
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: PULASKI
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
Taping has been completed on a syndicated outdoors television program which will feature Pulaski, Galax and Wytheville.
The three localities shared the cost with the state of bringing the "Jim Baugh's Outdoors" crew to the area to gather material for one of its programs. The New River Trail is the element tying the three localities together for the segment.
Pulaski Economic Development Director Barry Matherly said Wednesday that the taping was done Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The scripting for the show will be done during the next two weeks, and reviewed by the participating localities to catch any misspellings or errors.
In the Pulaski area, taping included bicyclists crossing one of the former railroad bridges on the linear trail, which stretches from Fries and Galax to Pulaski along what was once a Norfolk Southern Corp. rail bed.
Taping was also done in downtown Pulaski and the town's Gatewood Park, where some of those being recorded tried their hand at fishing.
Unfortunately, Pulaski area residents will not be able to see the program when it is broadcast because the syndicated show is not carried by Adelphia Cable, which serves this area. It is carried by Cox Cable, whose service area includes Roanoke and Montgomery counties, and is also shown in major metropolitan markets.
Those are the markets that local officials want to hit, anyway, Matherly said during a meeting Wednesday of the Pulaski Economic Development Board Executive Committee.
In other business, the executive committee discussed ways of tying in the annual Count Pulaski Day celebration Oct. 5 with Pulaski County's observance of the 100th "birthday" of its Old Courthouse. The birthday event will be celebrated with cakes from civic organizations, churches and other groups as well as courthouse tours and other events.
Matherly said local industries with international connections or headquarters in other countries are being contacted about participating in an international heritage part of the celebration. Previously, only the town's Polish heritage was celebrated, because Count Pulaski, a Revolutionary War figure for whom the town and county are named, was from Poland.
Matherly said plans are under way for a downtown market analysis as suggested by the state Main Street Program office in Richmond. He hoped to have it carried out by some student interns from Radford University this fall, and to use the data to recruit still more businesses in downtown Pulaski.
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