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Distributed Free Each Friday Since 2009 June 29, 2018 www.pcpatriot.com Locally Owned And Operated County’s Only Medal of Honor Winner WWII hero Bausell honored by board By MIKE WILLIAMS The Patriot County native to be The Pulaski County Board of Supervisors on focus of July 4th ceremony Monday approved a resolution in honor of the county's first and at the Pulaski Theatre so far, only Medal of Honor Citizens are invited to attend the annual July 4th recipient, Lewis Veterans Remembrance Ceremony sponsored by the Kenneth Bausell. Pulaski County Board of Supervisors, the Pulaski A native of County Courthouses Exhibits Committee, and the Pulaski, Bausell Pulaski County WWI & WWII Commemoration was born April Committee. The ceremony will be held at the 17, 1924 to Historic Pulaski Theatre, 14 West Main Street, Lawrence and Pulaski, Virginia, beginning at 12:30 p.m. Margaret This year groups participating in the ceremony Bausell. The include several local veteran organizations, boy and Bausell family girl scout troops, and the Wilderness Road Chorus. lived on Henry The ceremony will conclude with a 21 gun salute and Avenue prior to the playing of Taps on the lawn of the Old Historic their moving to Pulaski County Courthouse at the War Memorial. Washington, Refreshments will be served at the end of the cere- Lewis Kenneth Bausell WEEKEND WEATHER D.C. mony to the public in the New River Room of the Old According to the resolution passed Monday Courthouse, and tours of the Courthouse will be SATURDAY SUNDAY morning, following the bombing of Pearl Harbor on offered by members of the Courthouses Exhibits Committee. Sunny and hot, with a high near Mostly sunny and hot, with a Dec. 7, 1941, Bausell left his high school in D.C. and enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps at the age of At this year's ceremony, Corporal Lewis Kenneth 91. Calm wind becoming high near 91. Bausell, a United States Marine and posthumous southeast around 5 mph in the 17. By 1942, Bausell had risen to the rank of corpo- recipient of the Medal of Honor will be honored and afternoon. Sunday Night - Partly cloudy, remembered. with a low around 68. ral and was shipped overseas where for the next Saturday Night - Mostly clear, two years he saw combat in the battles of Tulagi, with a low around 68. Gavutu, Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester and finally to protect and save his fellow Marines - valiantly Peleliu in the Palau Islands in the Pacific while threw himself on top of a Japanese grenade taking serving with the 5th Marines, 1st Division. On Sept. 15, 1944 at Peleliu, Corporal Bausell - See BAUSELL, page A3 County budget includes only middle school tax hike By MIKE WILLIAMS county's history at over $21 million. The Patriot "One of the board's biggest accomplishments in next fiscal year's budget are the significant invest- The Pulaski County Board of Supervisors on ments we are making in public education," said Monday morning adopted the county's budget for McCready. "We are funding the school system at the 2018-19 fiscal year. the highest local levels in the county's history. We Board Chairman Andy McCready said the budg- approved more than $15 million in county funds for et includes a 13-cent increase in the county's real school system operations, teacher and paraprofes- estate tax rate, which voters approved in November sional raises, new technology and infrastructure, to pay the debt service payments for the new mid- capital outlay and the purchase of new school dle school, but no increase in the personal property buses. And we suspect we will be receiving a tax rate or use of any reserve funds to balance the request from the school board to appropriate even budget. more money in carry-over funds for their slated The budget also, according to County capital improvement needs." Administrator Jonathan Sweet, provides local It was noted the supervisors' budget actions had funds for schools at the highest level ever in the See BUDGET, page A2 Page A2 - The Patriot - Friday, June 29, 2018 covered during the day by three Economic Development ambulances - one each in Authority to better position the Budget Pulaski and Dublin which run community to attract more for- Continued from page A1 24 hours per day - and one in eign direct investments. Fairlawn which runs 16 hours "As a result, the supervisors helped the school board achieve per day. The ambulances are have made financial prepara- its top seven out of nine budget manned primarily by paid staff tions to fund a new priorities, including teacher and supplemented by volun- International Baccalaureate pro- raises, investments in technolo- teers. gram within our high school and gy and others. The additional funds provided to do so with an additional McCready noted that during by the board will go toward appropriation above the more the spring, there was discussion funding an additional fire / than $21 million the county has on the possibility of raising the medic ambulance, which will already set aside for schools in county's personal property tax operate five days per week, 12 2018-19," Pratt said. rate by 20 cents on $100 of hours each day roughly from 7 According to the release, the assessed value. a.m. to 7 p.m. daily. International Baccalaureate (IB) The increase was considered The unit will be manned by program is an international edu- as a way to raise more money medical personnel who are also cational foundation headquar- for REMSI, which McCready certified as fire fighters. The tered in Geneva, Switzerland said was having trouble at times unit will be dispatched whenev- and founded in 1968. responding to a growing num- er a wreck or fire call comes in It offers four educational pro- ber of rescue calls from citizens. - when it is available - to sup- grams: the IB Diploma Program However, he said, the board plement existing fire and rescue and the IB Career-related was able to find a way to pro- personnel. Program are for students aged vide an additional $137,000 to In a press release issued by 16 to 19. To teach these pro- REMSI without the need for Sweet following approval of the grams, schools need to be hiking the personal property tax budget, Vice Chairman Dean authorized by the International rate. Pratt stated the board had been Baccalaureate Organization. McCready explained that working with the county's Sweet said the budget meets Mayor breaks tie, Pulaski County is generally the mission of the board in for- mulating the 2018-19 fiscal town’s budget passed year budget, as well as its theme of "Getting Stuff Done." By MIKE WILLIAMS smooth path to approval. The budget totals nearly $134 The Patriot At that time, the proposed million in revenues and expen- budget was balanced with no tax ditures from all sources - local, In likely one of his final official increases. state and federal. acts as mayor, Nick Glenn broke a However, East, Radcliffe and Local real estate taxes 3-3 tie Tuesday evening, siding Penn made it clear they would not account for $19.6 million in with half of Pulaski Town Council support a budget that proposed revenue, while personal proper- to approve a budget for the 2018- increased spending by the town. ty taxes add another $5.3 mil- 19 fiscal year. While the spending increase in the lion. Some $4 million comes in proposed budget was small at from machinery and tool taxes, Glenn was joined in voting for only $46,000, they contended the and $465,000 is raised from passage of the budget resolution proposed budget was continuing penalties and interest. by councilmen Jamie Radcliffe an annual trend of increased and Lane Penn and Vice Mayor spending that could not be sus- On the expenditure side, Greg East. Councilmen Joseph tained. counting local state and federal Goodman, H.M. Kidd and soon- East argued that the town's funds, the largest appropriation to-be mayor Dave Clark voted expenses had outpaced revenues of some $50.9 million goes to against the resolution. from 2016 to the 2019 proposal schools, cafeterias, school capi- by some $250,000. The vote brought to an end a At the end of that June 5 meet- tal and Governor's School oper- tumultuous month among council ations. ing, in an effort to stop the trend, and town staff over the budget, East proposed Town Manager which prior to council's June 5 legislative session appeared on a See TOWN, page A6 The Patriot - Friday, June 29, 2018 - Page A3 Bausell Continued from page A1 the full blast of the explosion. After being evacuated to hospi- tal ship DuPage, he died from his injuries three days later on Sept. 18, 1944 and was buried at sea. On June 11, 1945, Corp. Bausell was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor - the nation's highest military honor - by President Franklin D. Roosevelt for his courage and sacrifice of life. The medal was presented to his mother and father in the Navy Department in Washington, D.C. by Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal. On Nov. 19, 1945 in Bath, Clockwise from top left: Maine, a new Navy destroyer, the Medal of Honor USS Bausell, was christened by presentation; the Telegram his mother. notifying Bausell’s parents The destroyer saw action dur- of his death; Lewis Bausell ing both the Korean and Vietnam as an enlistee; his mother wars and was decommissioned christens the USS Bausell on May 30, 1978. at Bath, Maine in 1945; a In addition to the Medal of young Lewis (left) with his Honor, Bausell was also posthu- brother and sister in mously awarded the Purple Heart, Presidential Unit Citation, Pulaski; Corp.