ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, September 26, 1996 TAG: 9609260034
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: COMPILED BY PAUL DELLINGER, KATHY LOAN AND LISA APPLEGATE.
*All three governing bodies in Pulaski County have agreed to help pay for equipment to help heart attack victims, after learning Tuesday night that the county's emergency medical services program had qualified for more than $20,000 in state funds. Based on population, Dublin Town Council will pay $2,000 and Pulaski Town Council $12,000, leaving $8,000 to come from the county. The county Board of Supervisors and both Town Councils voted individually to pay the local match at their quarterly joint meeting.
The money will buy four semiautomatic defibrillators, more than doubling the number available in the county. Defibrillators deliver an electric shock to restore regular heart rhythms. David Smith, emergency medical services director, said he had applied for five matching state grants and, to his surprise, had been approved for all of them and had lacked the local money to match them all. Local governing officials took those approvals as an indication that the state approves of how Pulaski County has decided to handle its emergency services, with a county-wide program combining paid staff and volunteers.
The three governments also heard from Assistant County Administrator Peter Huber on progress toward setting up the entire county as an electronic village. Computers are being placed in public buildings for people to try out, he said. The county is also fortunate in having three service providers for Internet access, while most counties have just one.
*Upcoming:
The Montgomery County Board of Supervisors and the county School Board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday to discuss site selection issues for three proposed new schools.
School Board Chairwoman Annette Perkins asked for the joint meeting after the supervisors passed a resolution Sept. 9 that supported a new Blacksburg Middle School on the school's present site. The School Board wants to build a new school elsewhere.
The meeting at the Christiansburg Middle School Library also will include discussions about proposed sites for a new middle school to serve Christiansburg and a new high school for the Shawsville area.
The two boards also will meet at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 29 at a location to be determined, as a follow-up to their joint meeting last month, where school sites and the budget process dominated the discussion.
*Parents interested in forming a Radford High School PTSA should meet in the high school's library at 6 tonight.
Both McHarg and Belle Heth elementary schools have parent-teacher organizations, but Dalton Middle and Radford High schools do not. Former School Board Chairman Guy Gentry, who has a child at Radford High, said he's expecting a good turnout of people who want to stay involved after elementary school ends.
"You have parents in and out of school so much, this is a way to organize and harness that energy," he said.
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