Pulaski Southwest Times (Newspaper) - November 8, 1999, Pulaski, Virginia PULASKI COUNTY SPORTS Annual chamber banquet to be held Tuesday evening CITY OF RADFORD For see page 3 Hokies grab 2 spot in AP poll after Perm State loss For see page 7 November 263 Serving Clogging tradition kept alive University For see page 5 w s 93rd YEAR 19061999 50 cent GOOD EVENING Rec department holds basketball PULASKI The Town of Pulaski Parks and Recreation will hold its Youth Basketball sign ps on 20 at L Pulaski Municipal from 10 to 2 and from 58 Participation fee is per Age groups are 68 Boys 1112 1518 Girls 12 Age on 1999 determines For more call Peak Creek Mission hosts allaround sale PULASKI The Peak Creek Mission on Case Knife will hold a and bake sale 13 from 9 to 5 Sale includes plate hot dogs with home made hamburg pinto baked desserts and DEATHS James Daniel Kirby Evelyn Carlton DeHart Eva Brickey Hughes WEATHER Kaitlyn 5 McHarg Child of Andy Dodson High 60 to Light wind becoming south west Around 10 Low 40 to Southwest wind 5 to 10 Partly sunny and High near Yesterday High 64 Rain 0 Wythe youth faces charges By SCHRADER Staff Writer PULASKI A 13yearold male from Wythe County faces charges of attempting to elude reckless driving and grand larceny following the al theft of a car in Wytheville and a chase through The incident reported today by police occurred 9 when town police received a message to be on the lookout for a red 1991 Ford Thunderbird with The car had been sto len in Wytheville where the teen ager faces a grand larceny charge for stealing the It was also involved in a acci dent Police spotted the car travel ing east on Memorial driven by a very young Traveling at 45 miles an Coca Cola dies at 82 See page 2 Harvey Turner By SCHRADER Staff Writer PULASKI The man known as the Coca Cola man about town and the community for some 38 years has Harvey Bascom of 213 Madison died Sunday 1999 in Pulaski Community For over 10 years he was em ployed at Randolph House and could be seen around the com munity on errands and trans porting residents of the He was a familiar sight at OK Barber Shop oa Main Street usually several times a Steve Swecker Well miss He would come and go get our lunch or any thing we If there was nothing for him to hed find Asa Burchett and I went o See page 2 Bob Volunteer parents and others joined together Saturday to smooth out the batting mound the infield for better and lay new sod around the infield at Joe Hodge Field in where Little League ball is Volunteers revamp citys Joe Hodge Field for kids By BOB THOMAS Radford Bureau Chief RADFORD Volunteer a former Bobcat football and soccer and other inter ested folks in Radford gathered Saturday morn ing at youth baseball Joe Hodge to put it into shape for the coming Working with a front end loader and even a the group leveled bumpy areas behind home mounded the infield for better and put new sod to outline the infield and at the back stop area at home Ken Director of Radford Parks and said the group wanted to work at the field because so many city kids play ball there during the summer and fall Among those helping was former Radford High School Bobcat star Casey who is now a top groundskeeper for Virginia He was operating the front loader and providing Abie All sports for the was there with both his son and his Richard Sandoe and the latter a stayed all The city public works department provided a and earlier the city elec department had trenched for new drain age The front loader was loaned by local busi nessman Darryl of DGs and the sod machine came from Radford The field is at Preston and Pendleton in West End Goodyear was pleased with the volunteer since he says there is just not enough bu iet in the Parks and Rec Department to do a1 e things hrM like to see get done in the as recreation areas in the his a community to hold annual ceremony for Veterans Day DUBLIN The New River Community College Veterans Office invites the public to at tend the Veterans Day cer be ginning at The event begins with flag raising at the entrance to the administrative wing of Godbey From there the ceremony will move to Edwards Room where scheduled events include a guest speaker and a Tom Army will be the guest There will also be a recognition ceremony for retired those who served in the military during war as well as those in active duty and reserve compo nents of the military in the See page 2 Officer of the Week OGrady to speak on VT campus BLACKSBURG Captain Scott the fighter pilot who was shot down over war torn Bosnia more than four years will be the featured speaker at Virginia Tech on Veterans His talk is Return with which is also the title of his bestselling 1995 an account of his struggle for sur vival and dramatic rescue by the See page 2 Hamblin known for community service By ROBERT ROBERTSON Staff Writer DUBLIN Seventeen years Ronald Hamblin was out of a The forced free time al lowed him to pursue a career that eventually fit him as snug as his dark blue uniform po lice officer with the town of The Pulaski County native has been recognized several times for his service to the com He was promoted to lieu tenant last My Hamblin was a deputy with the Pulaski County Sheriffs said and I thought that I would like to be a police officer He said hes tickled of the success and satisfaction hes gained from his role as a law enforcement Hes worked his entire career in During his the 50 yearold Hamblin was named police officer of the year by the Pulaski Jaycees and rescue See page 2 DMS student writes with emotion By HEATHER FETROW Staff Writer SNOWVILLE When read ing a recent poem written by Mara one Would think she is an Many adults cannot express their but Mara has mastered that ability at the tender age of She ex presses her emotions through her Writing that is filled of what she is feeling at the mo Mara is a stu dent at Dublin Middle School who has a knack for writing and being creative when doing She may not be able to explain what she other then tell you it just came Isnt that what they call pure talent In she wrote a poem about the shootings at Colum bine High School in She intended to write it for a but she was too It is a shame because its pretty darn By knowing most kids her very few can talk about such a And Mara seems to be the giggly which is why it is amaz ing to think a child can write with such Shes always throwing stuff at me that she Stephanie her When a mood hits there it Mara said she felt confused when she heard about the Col umbine shootings and Stuff like thats not supposed to From she just sat down at the computer one 0 night and started writing the I think the whole thing re ally impacted her whole way of Stephanie Fuller Mara said it was the main topic of conversation at school for a while and her classmates would discuss what if something like that would happen at Mara said she does not know what made her write the moving It just started coming to my head and I just started typ she She said she often writes just when she feels like it See page 2 Mara Fuller Call 9805220 to subscribe to today 3 months for
