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Oh,
To Be 100...
County
Second-Graders Imagine Growing Older |
by Cathy St. Clair
News Editor
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When
it comes to imagining the future and what it will be like to
be old, some second grade Buchanan County students have some
pretty definitive ideas.
Students
in Lana Davis' class at Riverview were asked to write a
journal entry on the 100th day of school this year to muse
about what they would like like and what they would be like
when they turned 100 years old.
While
most appear to associate aging with gray hair, wrinkles,
canes and wheelchairs, there are a few, who think
differently.
Some
fully intend to continue to enjoy life and after listing
their likely ailments and the various devices they will need
to get around -- canes, wheelchairs and the like -- state
definitively that despite all that ... "I'll still like
candy."
Another
forward thinking young lady decided when she's 100, she'll
be rich, live with her mother and as for food and drink ...
it's water and steak for her.
Yet
another decided despite the fact that she'll be wrinkled and
old, she'll still be living with her husband. She'll
maintain 20/20 vision and won't be requiring glasses and
when it comes to company, she's got it all planned out . . .
she'll have a grandson.
Another
youngster decided he would have a maid and added he hoped
when he turned 100 he would be kind.
Perhaps
most heart-warming to some of the mothers out there is that
several of the youngsters responding to the question stated
when they were 100 they would still be living with their
Moms . . . so that would make Mom's age 120 or so???
Evidently some of the students are speculating on advances
in medical science which might change the average life-span!
Whatever,
their responses to the question, however, they appear below,
exactly as they were written
-- read them as they sound and you'll get the general
picture!
For
more of the story, see the print edition of the Mountaineer,
on sale at newsstands now. To subscribe to the Mountaineer,
call 276-935-2123 today. |
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Town Council to Purchase
New Police Radio System
New System Will Allow
Contact Between Law Enforcement Agencies |
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by
JoBeth Wampler
Staff Reporter
Grundy Town
Council decided last week to fund a new police radio system.
According
to Grundy Police Chief Mike Cox, the department's radio system only
allows officers to communicate with one another and the Buchanan
County Sheriff's Dispatcher.
For an
estimated $15,100, a new system would allow the department to
contact not only each other, but state and county agencies, he said.
It would be wireless and would include radios for five cars and six
handheld devices.
Cox
suggested the new radio system would be required by the Commonwealth
in the coming years and said the town's street department had
offered purchasing the old radios.
"Sounds
to me like it's an essential change," councilman Gary Prater
said.
"And,
like he (Cox) said, we'll have to do it in 2009 anyway," Bill
Stokes added.
After
Diann Hagy suggested funds could be moved around in the budget to
pay for the expense, Stokes made a motion to transfer $3,000 from
the street department fund to the police department fund.
Chris
Mitchell seconded the motion.
It was
passed unanimously.
In other
business, after months of preparation, Grundy Town Council will hear
public comments related to a police auxiliary at its next regular
meeting on Tuesday, March 13.
Cox
announced he had created a draft of the policies and procedures he
expects the town may be interested in utilizing. Before presenting
the council with a final draft, he asked that all members provide
their opinions and corrections.
Town
Attorney Tom Mullins added he had drafted a resolution to adopt the
police auxiliary, which must be passed by council to create a police
force. The resolution would authorize Cox, as Grundy Police Chief,
to create new policies, which would then need council approval
before implementation.
It would
also set a maximum amount to employ on the police auxiliary, Mullins
added.
Cox
brought the idea of creating a police auxiliary before council in
September last year, as a means of alleviating common problems with
traffic flow and parking among its numerous benefits.
Stokes
made a motion to hold a public hearing related to the adoption of a
town police auxiliary at the next council meeting. That motion was
seconded by Hagy and passed unanimously.
For
more of the story, see the print edition of the Mountaineer,
on sale at newsstands now. To subscribe to the Mountaineer,
call 276-935-2123 today.
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Supervisors
Hold Meet to Transfer Funds |
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A
five-minute meeting last Thursday saw members of the Buchanan
County Board of Supervisors convene in special session to vote
to transfer funds from one account to another.
Rocklick
Supervisor David Ratliff made the motion and Knox Supervisor
Pat Justus made the second to transfer $100,000 from the
General Fund Capital Outlay account to the board of
supervisors account to be placed in the professional services
line item of the budget.
The
professional services line item is where the county pays its
attorney bills, audit bills and engineering bills, according
to County Administrator W.J. Caudill.
The
account from which those funds are normally taken had been
depleted due to the payment of professional services bills
since the new budget took effect last July.
The
vote to authorize the transfer was unanimous among those
present.
Garden
Supervisor Buddy Fuller and Hurricane Supervisor William P.
Harris were not in attendance at the special called meeting.
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