ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Thursday, August 29, 1996              TAG: 9608290035
SECTION: CURRENT                  PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: COMPILED BY PAUL DELLINGER AND ELISSA MILENKY 

PUBLIC PULSE

* The Pulaski County Board of Supervisors will honor the late Harry DeHaven by naming the park area at Harry's Point on the south side of Claytor Lake in his memory.

The board passed a memorial resolution for DeHaven, 47, who died Aug. 20. He was director of operations for the county school system, where he had worked for 26 years.

But Supervisor Charles Cook said a resolution was not enough for DeHaven, considering how popular he was and how many lives he touched over the years. Supervisor Bruce Fariss suggested naming the park for him and the board agreed.

Also this week, Pulaski County hopes to add a square mile of potential industry land to its enterprise zone territory. Enterprise zone designation brings state and local tax and other incentives to new businesses locating within such zones, and the square mile near New River Valley Airport at Dublin is the only industrial park land in the county not in a zone. The county Board of Supervisors voted this week to apply to the state to have the airport land added to its industrial park on the former AT&T property at Fairlawn as a subzone, which need not be connected to the major zone.

* The Economic Development Department for the town of Pulaski will confer by telephone with an Alexandria-based factory outlet developer on the possibility of placing a battery of outlet stores downtown.

Economic Development Director Barry Matherly said Wednesday that outlet agency officials thought that outlet malls along roads were no longer the best option, and that outlet stores in interesting or historic downtowns are now the way to go. Agency representatives would visit Pulaski if they decide to pursue it.

Matherly also reported that the town has a home page on the Internet (http://www.pulaskitown.org). "It's nice for out-of-town people to look in and see the town, but there's a lot of stuff on there for local residents," he said. "They can learn a lot about their local government by just looking at their [World Wide] Web page."

* Blacksburg Town Council appointed Albin Butt and Michelle Lowe to the town Planning Commission Tuesday.

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