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Pulaski Southwest Times (Newspaper) - December 31, 2003, Pulaski, Virginia GCS officials visit to town By JASON DUNOVANT Staff Writer PULASKI Representatives of Global Contact Services GCS met with town and county officials Tuesday to discuss companys recent decision to locate more than 300 jobs to GCS announced last Tuesday that the company locate a customer contact center in the former Advanced Health Services Building at 58 North Washington Avenue in the Town of The call center will provide 150 jobs for the area as early as February of GCS plans to pro vide another 150 jobs by the end of 2004 by expanding their operation into another building in the Town of Pulaski Mayor Charles Stewart stated during the conference that the jobs provided by GCS will help the town and county in moving toward more The loss of Renfro jobs and the gain of the GCS places emphasis on the fact that we are in a transition from an old economy to the new econ Stewart GCS will begin operation shortly after Renfro will permanently cease operations early next eliminat ing more than 300 jobs in the Town and county officials hope work ers laid off from Renfro will be able to find jobs at GCS and ease the burden of losing such a major employer for the These jobs are of monumental importance to the county and the Town of Stewart These are entry level jobs into the informa tion technology Greg CEO of was also present at Tuesdays conference to discuss the future of GCS in Alcorn stated that employees hired by See page 5 Robert director and vice president of Global Contact Services right and Greg CEO of middle discussed plans Tuesday to pro vide more than 300 jobs for the Smoke consumes home By JoBETH WAMPLER Intern Writer DUBLIN Firemen came from the smoking home at 6032 Heather ing in this mornings cold winter Early this morning before Jeff Aikens family had begun the they were shocked to find a fire had ravaged their backyard owner of the he was by his daughter scream decks on fire After everyone had exited the Aikens stood outside watching Dublin and Newbern firefighters water down and rip the burnt pieces of material from the Aikens said hehad built the deck himself and attached the with his bare He says he has no clue how the fire was A few minutes into the Aikens sons walked back to the residence from a neighbors where they took mother and sister to stay Both boys stood in their bedtime one shoeless with a thin blanket and socks to keep him Aikens said his children had been home from school today and he was which kept him from going the roof had to be replaced any one of the sons According to it hadnt been the See page 5 Dublin and Newbern firefighters pre pared a ladder to assist In pulling charred building material from the roof of Jeff home at 6O32 Heather JoBeth outdated and aging technological Radford Foundry finally closed its doors yesterday approximately 7 months after the May Only two cars remained in the parking Radford Foundry closes doors By JoBETH WAMPLER Intern RADFORD outdated and aging technologi cal Radford Foundry finally closed its doors yesterday approximately 7 months after the May Inthe front only two cars sat in the desolate parking In the back only eight were The only sounds that could be heard were that from the adjacent New River According one only shipping workers and foundry security remained at the facility since many work were allowed to leave the day Foundry workers may find problems in the New River Valley with unemploy ment rates the recent business One worker said she may go back tp and another said he didnt what he would do now that the foundry had According to Mike Intermet Communications the foundry announced in late May the closing of the foundry sched uled for Intermet received See page 5 Local economy rides roller coaster in 2003 By JANE and JASON DUNOVANT Staff Writers PULASKI The local economy has been on a roller coaster ride dur ing the past year news fol lowed by bad by good news followed by bad news followed by The year started with upbeat news for the New River with Congressman Rick Boucher ing that Echo Star Customer Service Center in Christiansburg would be hiring 800 new It ended with Mark Warner saying that 300 new jobs are coming to Warner announced 23 that Global Contact LLC will bring a customer contact center town early in the new GCS began holding interviews December at the Virginia Employment Commission GCS has made offers W 43 people and will be sending 22 to Mount where they will Year In Review 2003 begin On Volvo Trucks North said it would be hiring 300 more workers here in a its productions The goal was to bring employment from workers to The local truck plant manufactures both Volvo and Mack High on the lists of good news was Jefferson Mills announcement in mid September that it had emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy The local company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a year earlier in September 2002 after suffering tight cash flow problems primarily due to the foreign influx of According to presi dent of Jefferson over the year it was in bankruptcy the business reor and consolidated into a smaller but stronger Since filing for bankruptcy in 2002 the company has consolidated its operation of producing raw yarn from two plants into a single plant and decreased its workforce from mately 200 employees to Another local textile was not able to overcome the influx of foreign announced it will close its doors in January 315 See page 5 Price 50 cents Copyright The Southwest Times The Southwest Times will not publish Thursday due to the New Years Offices will reOpen Friday at 8 VMM III Tonight Tomorrow Matthew 7 Northwood Elementary Child of Stacy t and Kelsey Hodge Low of High of L 25 55 Todays Quote The past at least is Daniel Webster

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