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Locally Owned And Operated Insuring You & Yours Public hearings on proposed solar farm project set for Jan. By MIKE WILLIAMS The Patriot

Two public hearings are planned in mid-January on a Special Use Permit application from Hecate Energy Pulaski, public comments and take action at Pulaski County High School, LLC to operate a solar farm on on the matter. to learn more about Hecate/ Karen Tuggle Brad Alley Lynn White 40 parcels in Pulaski County The supervisors will make ASP’s New River Valley Solar zoned for agriculture. the final decision on whether to Project. Home • Auto • Life • Business During the first hearing the approve the Special Use Permit “We were happy to clear up Pulaski County Planning Com- clearing the way for the solar some common misperceptions mission will review the Special farm’s development. which existed about the project, Use Permit application and a More details on the two hear- and answer questions from Pu- Comprehensive Plan Review ap- ings can be found inside this laski County residents,” said Jay plication for the same project. week’s edition in a Public No- Poole, spokesperson for AgriS- Planners will hold a public tice running in our Classified unPower. “It was a good chance hearing at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, section, and on the county’s to provide factual information Jan. 12 at Pulaski County High Board Docs platform linked to to the public that describes the School’s Little Theatre to re- the county’s website home page enormous financial benefit to ceive public comment on the at www.pulaskicounty.org the County that the project can 611 East Main Street project. The public notice includes in- provide.” Dublin, VA 24084 • 540-674-4678 The Planning Commission formation on submitting com- Poole noted the new revenue will hear comments, consider ments on the project. stream for the county of more www.insurancecenterofdublin.com the application and make a rec- AgriSunPower, Hecate En- than $400,000 annually to be ommendation to the county’s ergy’s development partner on generated by the solar farm Board of Supervisors. the project, recently hosted an project is especially significant. WEEKEND WEATHER Two weeks later, on Jan. 25 informational meeting for area “This totally new revenue at 7 p.m. – also at PCHS’ Little citizens who joined a ZOOM stream for Pulaski County,” New Year’s Day Weekend Theatre – the supervisors will presentation, or who attended an host a public hearing to receive in-person information meeting See HEARINGS, page A2 Showers. High near 50. Chance Saturday - Mostly sunny, with of precipitation is 90%. a high near 55. Saturday Night - A chance of Friday Night - A chance of showers. Ainsley named interim director showers before 1am. Mostly Sunday - Partly sunny, with a cloudy, with a low around 42. high near 44. of Pulaski County Chamber Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce Announces New In- terim Executive Director Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce President, Shelia Smith would like to announce that Shannon Ainsley has been named Interim Executive Director of the understanding of the needs of our membership as well as imple- Chamber. This change follows Chamber members. She brings ment new programs to keep the former Executive Director, Peggy knowledge in marketing and Chamber moving forward.“ White’s acceptance of the Pulas- graphic design, familiarity of the The Executive Committee is ki County Tourism position. The Chamber operations and member- looking forward to the new ex- change will take place January 4, ship, as well as new, exciting pro- citing programs in store for 2021. 2021. gram ideas for 2021. January will kick off with The RV & Primitive Serving as Pulaski County “I am excited to hit the ground BOSS’s Table where business Camping Chamber of Commerce Mem- running January 4th with the sup- owners will have a candid con- Campground bership Director since May 2015, port of the Chamber Executive versation about their successes Kayak much of the business community Committee” says incoming In- and struggles in their journeys as Tubing is familiar with Shannon Ainsley. terim Executive Director, Shan- business owners. Other new pro- Shuttle Service In her 5.5 years at the Chamber non Ainsley. “My experience grams will be Power Hour and an she was mentored by former Ex- with the Chamber will allow me outdoor business expo with an in- ecutive Director Peggy White, to continue the Chamber’s role as ternational flare to celebrate our 2257 Reed Creek Drive, Draper, VA 24324 allowing for a smooth transition an economic champion for Pulas- many international businesses (276) 620-1374 into the role of Interim Execu- ki County promoting workforce in Pulaski County. We will con- [email protected] tive Director. Her time as a small development and small business, tinue popular events such as the Like Us On Facebook business owner gives her a strong remaining a valuable resource for See AINSLEY, page A2 New Positions, Companies & Area Great Opportunity If You Great Opportunity If You Live Live In Barren Springs, Pulaski and Galax, Hillsville and Floyd. 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We've Got Got We've Locally Owned & Operated • www.valleystaffingjobs.com Page A2 - The Patriot - January 1, 2021 Hearings Holiday sales tick up as shoppers Continued from Page A1 Poole indicated, “is made pos- ed that many of these jobs may invest in their homes and food sible by recently-enacted state be filled locally, based upon ex- legislation allowing localities perience that AgriSunPower’s NEW YORK (AP) — Retail to get a jump-start to avoid deliv- online shopping. Already, more to impose an energy generation Development partner Hecate sales increased a modest 3% ery delays. During the traditional than 40 U.S. retailers have filed fee on solar projects.” has had on other projects. during a longer holiday season holiday period, between Nov. 1 for Chapter 11 bankruptcy pro- This new revenue stream can Hecate Energy LLC is the this year, as homebound shoppers and Dec. 24, retail sales rose 2.4% tection since the pandemic start- be used for all sorts of projects largest privately held indepen- spent more on furnishing and year-over-year, according to Mas- ed forcing shutdowns in March. which benefit county residents, dent solar development com- food but less on clothing and jew- tercard’s data. Holiday department store he said. pany in the United States, with elry, according to figures released Steve Sadove, senior advisor for sales fell 10.2% year-over-year, In a recent article on the over 50 projects in the United Saturday by a firm that tracks all Mastercard and former CEO and according to Mastercard. Spend- project in the Roanoke Times, States or around the world are forms of payments. Chairman of Saks Incorporated, ing on apparel plunged 19.1%, County Administrator Jonathan in some stage of development. The increase fell short of pre- said the surge in online spending and jewelry sales fell 2.3%. Sweet noted the additional rev- Poole emphasized that, “not dictions from the National Retail and the early shopping was “a tes- Shoppers instead invested in enue generated by the project once, not one single time, has Federation, the nation’s largest tament to the holiday season and their homes. Furniture and fur- could be used by the county to Hecate not finished a project it retail trade group, which had ex- strength of retailers and consum- nishing sales increased 16.2%, construct a recreation center started.” pected sales to rise between 3.6% ers alike.” while spending on home im- in the county – a facility long and 5.2% this year compared to Buying trends benefited e-com- provement rose 14.1%. Consum- sought by members of the com- “With a partner like Hecate, 2019. merce giant Amazon and big-box ers also favored electronics and munity. perhaps the most significant As expected, a surge in online stores like Target and Walmart, appliances, a category where Direct economic impact from part of the project is that Pulas- shopping fueled much of spend- which already had robust e-com- sales rose 6%. the area’s COVID-ravaged ki County citizens will receive ing. Online sales rose a record merce operations and were al- Clothing stores and specialty economy was also a highlight of the financial benefits associated 49% year-over-year between Oct. lowed to stay open during the retailers offered big discounts the presentation by Hecate and with a $400+ million capital 11 and Dec. 24, according to the pandemic, attracting shoppers and promoted curbside pickup in AgriSunPower. investment with no – ZERO – Mastercard SpendingPulse fig- who wanted to avoid visiting mul- the hopes of rescuing the holiday More than 130 jobs will be investment by Pulaski County ures, which exclude services, au- tiple stores. season and surviving a difficult generated during the year-long taxpayers required.” tomotive and gasoline sales. But the pandemic has been year. There was some payoff, construction-phase, which will “The nature of the project The holiday shopping season detrimental for smaller shops, as online clothing sales rose provide a direct and significant itself means there will be no was considered longer this year clothing brands and department 15.7%, according to Mastercard. infusion of consumer spending burden to county services – as retailers offered promotions stores, which had already been E-commerce sales at department into the local economy. schools, roads, water and sewer sooner and encouraged customers struggling to adapt to the rise of stores also ticked up 3.3%. During the question-and-an- – as the project is being con- swer session which followed the structed and once the project is recent presentation, it was not- on-line,” Poole indicated. Ainsley Continued from Page A1 Membership Luncheon at Calfee Executive committee member The Chamber Executive Com- Your Story Is Unique... Park, the Annual Networking on and LewisGale Pulaski CEO, mittee would like to thank Peggy the Green golf tournament and Sean Pressman says “We are White for her impact, guidance of course, the Chamber of Com- fortunate that one of the Cham- and contributions to the Cham- merce Annual Meeting. Tuesday ber’s strongest and most talented ber of Commerce over the past Topics will continue with a new resources remains on board, and 20 years and congratulate her twist promoting member busi- that Shannon will continue to on her new position. “After two nesses. build upon the tremendous mo- decades in service to the Cham- mentum we have collectively cre- ber, we know Peggy leaves a No VFW Bingo ated. The entire Board of Direc- long-standing legacy on this or- tors is looking forward to working ganization and this community. Saturday, Jan. 2 more closely with her during this We wish her well in her new role transition. Her strong background with Pulaski County and know Due to the governors restric- and connections across our com- we will continue to work close- tions the VFW Auxiliary will not munity will serve her and the ly with her in the years to come” be able to have Bingo Saturday, Chamber well.” says Sean Pressman. January 2nd 2021. Please have a safe New year and thank you for your support.

Miss An Issue? See it online at www.pcpatriot.com Click on ‘View The Paper’ And Select the Date. The Patriot - January 1, 2021 - Page A3 Pulaski County’s January meetings, closings • Friday, January 1, 2021, ford, Virginia; 5:30 p.m. (Con- in Pulaski County. • Tuesday, January 19, 2021, tact: Ashley Edmonds, Exec- Pulaski County Offices will be tact: Ashley Edmonds, Exec- • Tuesday, January 12, 2021, Economic Development Author- utive Secretary and Clerk to closed in observance of New utive Secretary and Clerk to Pulaski County Planning Com- ity Board of Directors Meeting, the Board of Supervisors, 143 Year’s Day. The Pulaski County the Board of Supervisors, 143 mission Meeting, Little Theatre/ Basement Central Conference Third Street N.W., Suite 1, Pu- Public Service Authority billing Third Street N.W., Suite 1, Pu- Auditorium, Pulaski County Room, Pulaski County Admin- laski, VA, 24301, 540-980-7705, office will be closed on Friday, laski, VA, 24301, 540-980-7705, High School, 5414 Cougar Trail, istration Building, 143 Third [email protected]). January 1, 2021, in observance [email protected]). Dublin, Virginia, 7:00 p.m. Street N.W., in the Town of Pu- The Board of Supervisors is of New Year’s Day. The Dora The Board of Supervisors is (Contact: Markie Quesenberry, laski, Virginia, 10:00 a.m. (Con- the governing body for Pulaski Highway, Pulaski, Bagging the governing body for Pulaski Clerk, 143 Third Street N.W., tact: Megan Bird, Clerk to the County and is responsible for Plant Road, Dublin and Mason County and is responsible for Suite 1, Pulaski, VA, 24301, Board, 143 Third Street N.W., the budget and concerns of its Street, Fairlawn convenience the budget and concerns of its 540-980-7710, mquesenberry@ Suite 1, Pulaski, VA, 24301, citizens. centers will be closed on Jan- citizens. pulaskicounty.org). This Com- 540-980-7705, mwbird@pulas- • Tuesday, January 26, 2021, uary 1, 2021, in observance • Tuesday, January 12, 2021, mission oversees land – use, kicounty.org). The Economic Pulaski County Sewerage Au- of New Year’s Day. All con- Pulaski County Public Service zoning and subdivision issues Development Authority serves thority Board of Directors venience centers will reopen Authority Board of Directors related to Pulaski County prop- as the economic development Meeting, Conference Room, on Saturday, January 2, 2021. Meeting, Board Room, Pulaski erties. arm of Pulaski County working Peppers Ferry Regional Waste- There will be no garbage collec- County Administration Build- • Monday, January 18, 2021, with local industries and pro- water Treatment Authority Ad- tion on Friday, January 1, 2021. ing, 143 Third Street N.W., in Pulaski County Offices will viding building spaces to local ministration Building, 7797 Thursday and Friday garbage the Town of Pulaski, Virgin- be closed in observance of Dr. employers. Mason Street, Fairlawn, Vir- collection will be picked up on ia, 9:00 a.m. (Contact: Natasha Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. • Monday, January 25, 2021, ginia, 6 p.m. (Contact: Fair- Thursday, December 31, 2020. Grubb, Clerk to the Board, 143 The Pulaski County Public Ser- Pulaski County Board of Su- lawn Tax and Bookkeeping, • Wednesday, January 6, 2021, Third Street, N.W., Suite 1, Pu- vice Authority billing office will pervisors Regular Meeting, 7436 Peppers Ferry Boulevard, Pulaski County Board of Super- laski, VA, 24301, 540-980-7710, be closed on Monday, January Little Theatre/Auditorium, Pu- Fairlawn, Virginia, 24141, 540- visors Organizational Meeting, [email protected]) 18, 2021, in observance of Dr. laski County High School, 5414 639-6926). This Board manages New River Room, New River This Board is responsible for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Cougar Trail, Dublin, Virginia; daily operations for the sewer Valley Business Center, 6580 the operation of water, sewer, Garbage collection will remain Executive Session, 5:30 p.m., infrastructure in the immediate Valley Center Drive, in Rad- garbage and streetlight service on regular schedule. Open Meeting, 7 p.m. (Con- Fairlawn area. US home prices rise at fastest Truck plunges off bridge into Chesapeake Bay pace in more than six years VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Coast Guard officials said Tues- WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. with more room for a home of- followed by Seattle with 11.7% day evening that they have suspended their search for the driver of a home prices jumped in Octo- fice, a bigger kitchen, or space and San Diego at 11.6%. box truck that plunged into the water after crashing on the Chesapeake ber by the most in more than to work out. Bay Bridge-Tunnel six years as a pandemic-fueled “The data from the last sev- Home sales slipped in No- The truck crashed about 8:20 a.m. on the east side of the bridge’s buying rush drives the number eral months are consistent with vember, according to the Na- northbound lanes, according to Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel offi- of available properties for sale the view that COVID has en- tional Association of Realtors, cials. to record lows. couraged potential buyers to after rising steadily for the pre- Fire, police, and EMS units arrived to find the vehicle floating in the That combination of strong move from urban apartments vious five months. Even after water, said Virginia Beach Fire Department Battalion Chief Richard demand and limited supply to suburban homes,” said Craig the decline, sales were nearly Trent. pushed home prices up 7.9% Lazzara, Managing Director at 26% higher last month com- Witnesses saw a man get out of the truck and drift westward in the in October compared with S&P Dow Jones Indices. pared with a year ago. Sales water, Coast Guard officials said. It was not clear whether the driver climbed or fell out, said Petty Officer First Class Tara Molle. 12 months ago, according to All 19 cities reported larger have also been boosted by low Tuesday’s S&P CoreLogic mortgage rates, which reflect Coast Guard rescuers joined with the fire department, emergency year-over-year price gains in medical services and police to search for the driver. Case-Shiller 20-city home price October than in September, La- the Federal Reserve’s moves to index. That’s the largest annual keep its benchmark short-term According to several media outlets, CBBT officials identified the zzara said. Detroit wasn’t able driver of the truck as Erik Mezick, 47, of Fruitland, Maryland. increase since June 2014. to fully report its home sales rate at nearly zero. The coronavirus outbreak The Virginian-Pilot reported that Mezick was driving the truck for data because of delays related Cloverland Greenspring Dairy, a Baltimore-based company that sells has forced millions of Amer- to a coronavirus lockdown. The number of homes for sale icans to work from home and fell to 1.28 million in Novem- food products to hospitals, private and public schools, convenience it’s curtailed other activities The biggest price gain was ber, the Realtors said, enough stores and supermarkets in the mid-Atlantic region, including Virgin- like eating out, going to movies in Phoenix for the 17th straight to last just 2.3 months at the ia. or visiting gyms. That’s leading month, where home prices rose current pace of sales. Both fig- more people to seek out homes 12.7% from a year ago. It was ures are record lows. Man wanted for Wythe County robbery caught in Bristol, Tenn. On Dec. 29 at 4:33 am, an Wise County, Virginia. with another stolen vehicle out of armed robbery occurred at the While the Wythe County Sher- Kingsport. Speedway convenience store lo- iff’s Office was investigating the Evidence was found in the sto- cated off of I-81 on Ready Mix armed robbery, they were able to len vehicles to link Sarver to the Rd, Wytheville. determine Timothy Allen Sarver robbery in Wythe County. A white male produced a (date of birth Oct. 18, 1976) was He has been arrested and taken handgun and demanded money the suspect. Sarver was suspected to the Sullivan County Jail in Ten- from the clerk. The male then of committing crimes in Wythe, nessee. exited the store and left the scene Wise, and Dickenson counties. with an undisclosed amount of A Be On the Lookout notifica- money. tion was sent out to agencies. At Upon investigating the rob- 9:15 a.m. the Bristol, Tennessee bery, it was linked to a stolen ve- Police Department went to a ga- hicle and breaking and entering rage located on Volunteer Park- that took place in the 3100 block way and found Timothy Sarver. of West Ridge Road in the town Officers located the stolen GMC of Wytheville on Dec. 18. The Sierra from Wythe County along stolen vehicle was a 2007 GMC Sierra. This stolen vehicle was involved in several larcenies in 1801 Wysor Road (Rt. 100 South) Holy Cow Exit 89A From I-81 Dublin Town Antiques, Gardens and Draper, VA. 24324 Offices closed Great Finds 540-250-1775 Friday Belle Dublin Town Offices will be We Got That closed Friday, January 1, 2021. Holiday Feeling!

County, PSA, Santas, Snowmen, garbage pickup Snowflakes and Angels. schedules listed Ornaments and Decorations, Friday, January 1, 2021, Pu- Garden and Gifts old & new. laski County Offices will close and reopen on Monday, January Hours: Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sundays 1-5 p.m. 4, 2021, in observance of the New Year. The Pulaski County Public Service Authority billing office Pulaski Drain Service will be closed on Friday, January 1, 2021, and reopen on Monday, and Plumbing Repairs January 4, 2021, in observance of the New Year. Water Heaters The Dora Highway, Pulas- Faucets • Toilets & More ki; Bagging Plant, Dublin and Mason Street, Fairlawn conve- Reasonable Prices nience centers will be closed on No Job Too Small Friday, January 1, 2021. All convenience centers will reopen on Saturday, January 2, 'The Right Way, 2021. There will be no garbage col- Right Away!' lection on Friday, January 1, 2021. Thursday and Friday gar- bage collection will be picked up on Thursday, December 31, Call 540-998-1223 2020. Experienced, Licensed & Insured Page A4 - The Patriot - January 1, 2021

OLGA HELEN SYLVIA MAJOR BOBBIE JEAN CAMPBELL JIMMY “JIM” LEONARD DAVID JACKSON SALAMANCA-GONZALES DIGGS HAWKS JARRELLS ROBERTSON Olga Salamanca-Gonzales, age Helen Sylvia Major Diggs Bobbie Jean Campbell Hawks, Jimmy “Jim” Leonard Jarrells, David Jackson Robertson, 81 72, of Pulaski, formerly of Mex- age 93 of Pulaski passed away devoted wife, loving mother, nana age 78 of Hiwassee passed away of Pulaski died Tuesday morn- ico, died Sunday, December 27, Wednesday, December 23, 2020 and great-nannie, age 78 passed Sunday, December 27, 2020 at the ing, Dec. 22, 2020 at his home. 2020 at Carilion New River Val- at Pulaski Health Care Center. away on December 24th, 2020 Radford Health & Rehab Center. He was born in Pulaski on May ley Medical Center. She was born Born February 27, 1927 in Can- at Lewis Gale Pulaski Hospi- Born September 24, 1942 in Pu- 4, 1939 and was the son of the in Acapulco, Mexico on May 17, ton, Ohio, she was the daughter of tal. Born December 30th, 1941 laski he was the son of the late late Orville Jackson Robertson 1948 and was the daughter of the the late John Major and Pauline in Ivanhoe she was the daughter Roy Leonard Jarrells and Mary and Mabel Merl Akers Robert- late Felipe Salamanca and Olipita Baila Major. of Louise Campbell Dunford. Pearl Trail Jarrells. His brother, son. He was also preceded in Gonzales. Olga was faithful in She was preceded in death by She worked in Pulaski County Ronnie Lee Jarrells also preceded death by his wife, Ruby Wright attending Trinity Baptist Church her husband, Marion W. Diggs. Public Schools cafeteria for over him in death. Robertson and grandchildren, in Pulaski, and was the proud ma- Surviving 40 years, providing her famous He is survived by his Kelly Dalton, Lisa Edwards and triarch of her loving family. Daughters- yeast rolls, cinnamon rolls, and a Sisters – Linda Jarrells – Hi- Brad Ratcliffe. Also by a sister In addition to her parents, she Carolyn M. Diggs-Gaithers- smile to every student who came wassee, Louise (Wayne) Edwards and brother-in-law, Pauline and was preceded in death by two burg, MD through her line. She was preced- – Max Meadows John Porterfield. brothers and one sister, along Janis Pauline Burke and hus- ed in death by her mother Louise Brother – Billy Wayne (Brenda) He was a retired employee of with a grandson; Jose Guadalupe band Larry- Pulaski Campbell Dunford. Jarrells – Hiwassee Jefferson Mills, Pulaski and was Almenta. Son- She is survived by: Special Niece & Nephew – Lu- a veteran of the U.S. Navy and She is survived by two sons: Danny W. Diggs and wife, Tra- Her husband of 60 years – Dan- cas & Jeannie Booth was a member of the Thornspring Enrique Valdez, and Julio Agui- cie- Westover, MD iel Herman Hawks, Draper Other special nieces and neph- United Methodist Church. lar: five daughters; Irma Valdez, Three Grandchildren, Four Daughters – Jennifer (Mark) ews – Rhonda, Ronnie, Rocky, Surviving are: Gabriela Aguilar, Cecilia Garcia, Great Grandchildren, Two Great- Ducker – Cedar City, UT, Nicole Leonard, Tracy and Viva Daughters and Sons-in-law: Maria Aguilar, and Maricela Lo- Great Grandchildren (Timothy) Ward – Pulaski Patty and Dennis Dalton, Judy pez: five sisters; Margarita Sal- Brothers- Brother – Joseph (Bridget) Graveside funeral services Turner and Debbie and Mike amanca, Elsa Salamanca, Elvira Milton Major- MD Kline – Summerville, SC were held Wednesday, Decem- Radcliffe. Salamanca, Lupe Salamanca, John Major- DE Stepsister – Marlene (Dana) Jo- ber 30, 2020 at the Trail Family Son and Daughter-in-law: Norma Salamanca. She is also Graveside services were held nas – Wytheville, VA Cemetery, Hiwassee with Pastor Randy and Kathy Warden survived may many grandchil- Wednesday, December 30, 2020 Sister – in – law – Marie Wil- Donald Scott officiating. To sign Grandchildren: Mark Dalton dren and many great-grandchil- at the Oak Lawn Cemetery, 7225 liams – Greensboro, NC Jimmy’s online guestbook, please and Matthew Dalton dren. Eastern Avenue, Baltimore, MD. Grandchildren visit www.bowerfuneralhome. Great-Grandchildren: Josh Graveside funeral services 21224. Tiffany (Joshua) Riggins – Pu- com Dalton, Brian Dalton and Kayden were held Wednesday, December To sign Mrs. Diggs online laski, Reed (Samantha) Ward – Bower Funeral Homes, Pulaski Radcliffe 30, 2020 at Oakwood Cemetery guestbook, visit www.bowerfu- Pulaski, Dakota Ward – Pulaski, is handling the arrangements for A graveside service was held in Pulaski. Online condolences neralhome.com Jared Ducker – Los Angeles, CA the family. Saturday from Thornspring may be sent to the family by vis- Bower Funeral Home, Pulaski Morgan Ducker, (Gabe Lin) Cemetery with Rev. Teresa Tol- iting www.seaglefuneralhome. is handling arrangements for the – Glendale, CA, Amanda Duck- bert officiating. com Arrangements by Seagle family er – Colorado Springs, CO, Jack ELLA REED WARD Arrangements by Stevens Fu- Ella Reed Ward, 61, of Dublin, Funeral Home, Pulaski. Ducker -Aviano AFB, Italy neral Home, Pulaski. passed away on Monday, Decem- Great-Grandchildren ber 28, 2020. Billy Chrisley II – Pulaski, The Ward family is in the care PLACE A CARD OF THANKS Adam Ward – Pulaski, Antonio of Mullins Funeral Home & Cre- Hendricks – Pulaski Thank those who helped and supported you matory. www.mullinsfuneral- Special Aunts and Uncle home.com during your time of loss with a Edna Bond – Kernersville, NC, Juanita Gibson – South Carolina, CARD OF THANKS Harlan Campbell – Greensboro, In The Patriot NC [email protected] Many Aunts, Uncle, and Cous- Winter nutrition tips 540-808-3949 or ins and friends Bobbie loved God, and her fam- Healthy eating during the winter months can pose a problem for ily with all her heart. She was a many reasons, and the holidays are a clear one. When people gather faithful servant and trusted in for the holiday’s food is a part of the celebration. The issue with hol- God in all that she did. She loved iday eating is that it can lead to weight gain by consuming too many going on adventures and watch- unhealthy options such as cookies, pies, cakes, etc. ing her grandchildren play and Maintaining a healthy diet is essential during the winter months, enjoy this life. She will be truly and sometimes people need an extra reminder. When attending hol- Miss An Issue? missed by so many. The family iday events, fill up on lower-calorie fruits, vegetables, low-fat dips would like to thank Lewis-Gale & chips, and nuts. Then, savor a piece of pie or a small amount of See it online at www.pcpatriot.com Pulaski Hospital for all of their chocolate cake. care during her illness, and a spe- During the winter, fresh produce prices increase, and that can put Click on ‘View The Paper’ cial thanks to the ICU nurses who a strain on a family’s food budget. I recommend purchasing frozen And Select the Date. provided such loving care during vegetables because they aim to be more nutritious than canned veg- her final days. etables, which may lose nutritional value during the preservation Funeral services were held process and contains too much salt. Also, I recommend purchasing Thursday, December 31, 2020 at winter fruits and vegetables such as cranberries, citrus fruits, grapes, the Bower Funeral Home-Chap- winter squash, pumpkin, and brussels sprouts. Consuming these el with Pastor Lonnie Frazier of- foods will add a healthy dose of vitamins and nutrients to your plate. For healthy winter recipes, go to: https://eatsmartmovemoreva.org/ See DEATHS, page A5 recipes/ .

Visit www.pcpatriot.com Daily For New Obituaries The Patriot - January 1, 2021 - Page A5 Don’t ‘race’ through Common Winter health problems the holiday season By Laura Reasor weight gain. Low humidity Associate Family and goes along with cold weather, Consumer Science Agent, which can dehydrate your skin. Celebrate responsibly to ring in new year Pulaski/Giles Remember to drink water daily and avoid taking very hot show- RICHMOND – Everyone distractions and individuals not of friends during the holidays, With winter in full swing, ers. Apply a moisturizer daily to wants to say goodbye to 2020, but wearing seatbelts.” please remember: it is important to know of six soften the skin. racing to get there may increase Virginia State Police is urging • Plan ahead. Designate a so- common health problems that Mood changes can be a result your chances of not reaching the every motorist on the road this ber driver or call a friend, call are more likely to occur during of decreased sunlight and day- finish line. Throughout 2020, holiday season to be responsi- family, call a cab or use public this season. Asthma is one of light hours. Seasonal depression Virginia has seen a spike in fatal ble, obey the traffic laws, ditch transportation. the most common respiratory can be alleviated by attempting speed-related crashes according distractions and wear a seatbelt. • If you know someone has illnesses and freezing tempera- to get natural sunlight during to data from the Virginia Depart- Whether heading to the grocery been drinking. Do not let them tures can trigger this. Be sure the day and limiting days spent ment of Motor Vehicles Highway store, the post office or deliver- drive. Arrange another safe way to cover your mouth and nose entirely indoors. For those who Safety Office. Year-to-date there ing gifts to family and friends, home. with a scarf or face warmer to have heart disease, take extra have been more speed-related choose to do it safely and do it • If you believe you see an im- keep from breathing in the cold, precautions when spending traffic deaths than in all of 2019. responsibly. paired driver on the road, call dry air. Because such cold tem- time out in the snow, such as This year has been one of chal- Every year during the hol- police. Remain alert and don’t peratures are keeping people in- shoveling a walkway. Research lenges and this holiday season idays, there is an increase in hesitate to dial #77 to notify your doors, close proximity of others shows that in winter months, will be like none in recent mem- drunk-driving related fatalities nearest Virginia State Police can allow other sicknesses to heart attacks are more common ory, but speeding, driving under and crashes across the nation. Emergency Communications easily spread. Be sure to wash and more severe. Strenuous ac- the influence and not buckling up According to the National High- Center. Your actions could save your hands thoroughly, as well tivities put more pressure on the is no way to finish out 2020. way Traffic Safety Administra- someone’s life. as clean and sanitize all surfac- heart, especially if it is already “Not only have speed-related tion (NHTSA), in December In addition to complying with es, especially shared ones. working harder to keep you traffic deaths increased this year, 2018, there were 839 lives lost traffic laws, drivers are reminded Exercising may already be a warm. so have alcohol-related traffic in drunk-driving crashes nation- that effective January 1, 2021, it struggle for many, but cold and These are only a few of the deaths. Virginia is on pace to have wide. Of the 839 deaths, 285 oc- will be illegal to hold a handheld unruly weather can really di- possible health effects winter more total fatal traffic crashes in curred during the Christmas and personal communications device minish motivation. Exercising can bring. Be sure to listen to 2020 than in 2019,” said Colonel New Year’s holiday period. while driving a moving motor indoors and practicing intuitive your body and take care of your- Gary T. Settle, Superintendent of “Remember, drinking and vehicle on Virginia highways. eating can help avoid excess self. Virginia State Police. “And all of driving is never an option,” says Get into the habit of putting this while overall traffic crashes Settle. down your cell phone now, be- in Virginia this year are down Drivers and passengers have fore the state-wide law goes into significantly. This means each many alternatives to arrive home effect. For more information on Deaths Remember Your crash has been deadlier – dead- safely. If you plan to attend a par- the new law, visit phonedown. Loved One On A lier because of speed, alcohol, ty or celebrate with a small group org. Continued from Page A4 ficiating. Interment followed at Special Day With the Draper Valley Presbyterian An Church Cemetery. County officials grateful for The family will be meeting at In Memoriam the home of her daughter, Nicole Notice. Ward,1221 Newbern Road, Pulas- broadband survey response ki, VA 24301 We request all in attendance to Call On November 13th, Bland & (679/17,302). “We were hoping to for the company’s deployment of observe social distancing and the Pulaski Counties announced have strong citizen participation new electric meters and distribu- use of masks 540-808-3949. a regional initiative to study with the surveys, so we were very tion automation (DA). The new To sign Bobbie’s online guest- broadband internet accessibility pleased when we received such a smart meters and DA equipment book, please visit www.bowerfu- and capacity. This study is part high level of citizen response,” improve service reliability for neralhome.com Deadline Is Noon of a larger three county proj- stated Joseph Guthrie, Chair of power customers. Space on Ap- Bower Funeral Home, Pulaski Wednesday. ect, which includes Montgom- the Pulaski County Board of Su- palachian Power’s middle-mile is handling the arrangements for ery County, in correlation with pervisors. “The amount of com- fiber infrastructure is then leased the family. Appalachian Power and private pleted surveys and the data they to internet service providers. Ap- internet service providers in the yielded will go a long way to un- palachian Power’s pilot broad- deployment of fiberoptic and derstanding our need for broad- band projects are made possible other broadband infrastructure band, and perhaps be the key to by the 2018 Grid Security and to unserved and under-served deploying services across our ru- Transformation Act, 2019 Broad- areas of the three localities. ral counties. At this time, we re- band Pilot Program legislation. The survey of residents was the main quite optimistic that we can first step in the study, which has advance this project, and we look Appalachian Power is current- concluded with significant par- forward to our continued work ly developing a preliminary mid- ticipation from residents, with with Appalachian Power and our dle-mile fiber design. Following 1,346 completed surveys (667 regional partners.” the broadband study of Bland Bland / 679 Pulaski). The first step in this regional and Pulaski Counties, Appala- “We are excited to be working broadband initiative is the study chian Power’s intention is to file with our citizens, Appalachian of existing infrastructure and to an application seeking project Power, and with our neighbor- determine the capacity of down- approval from the Virginia State ing counties on this project,” load and upload speeds avail- Corporation Commission in the stated Adam Kidd, Chair of the able to residents and businesses. first half of 2021. Bland County Board of Super- Montgomery County has already visors. “This is a united initia- completed its comprehensive The three-county project is tive to improve connectivity in broadband study and Bland and projecting to serve approximate- our communities that will have Pulaski Counties are working to- ly 15,000 unserved broadband lasting positive impact into the gether with the same consultants customers. This pilot project future.” Residents of the two as Montgomery County, Thomp- will require approval from the counties were asked to complete son & Litton / Blue Ridge Advi- Virginia State Corporation Com- a survey to assist in obtaining sory Services Group, to analyze mission. State and federal grant information for the regional the current broadband capacity. funds may be available to assist broadband study. The main goal Now that the survey portion is the localities and internet service of the study is to identify those completed, consultants will be- providers with the last-mile in- areas of need in which a plan gin working with Appalachian frastructure buildout. can be developed with Appala- Power over the next couple of chian Power and internet service months analyzing the data and providers to develop the appro- developing potential network de- priate infrastructure to rectify signs. broadband needs. The response The project involves installing rate of the surveys were 20% of fiber optic cable on Appalachian the households in Bland Coun- Power’s utility poles, with the ty (667/3,356) and 4% of the added benefit of providing a more households in Pulaski County robust communications platform

NOW OPEN IN DUBLIN 180 Broad Street, Dublin • 540-518-7088 Two Other Locations: 400 N. Washington Ave., Pulaski • 540-980-4060 100 W. Buck Ave., Rural Retreat • 276-250-2160 Page A6 - The Patriot - January 1, 2021 OPINION www.pcpatriot.com New Forensic Nurse Examiner Services To Be Offered in Pulaski The Town of Pulaski has been awarded a grant by the Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of No, Joe, Justice (DOJ) to develop a new community based Foren- sic Nurse Examiner (FNE) Program called SAFE Center of Southwest Virginia (SWVA). The goal of this program We’re Not is to provide confidential, compassionate, comprehensive, trauma-informed services to adult and adolescent victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and In A stalking. SAFE Center of SWVA will provide medical care and referrals to help victims heal after an assault and will collect evidence to improve the investigation and ‘Climate prosecution of these cases. These services will be offered to anyone in the Town of Pulaski, Pulaski County, Dub- lin, or surrounding areas. Crisis’ According to RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Former Obama chief of staff Network), 1 out of every 6 American women has been Rahm Emanuel’s famous axiom the victim of an attempted or completed rape in her is that a crisis is a terrible thing lifetime (14.8% completed, 2.8% attempted); Every 73 to waste. It’s an even worse seconds another American is sexually assaulted; About thing to manufacture. 3% of American men—or 1 in 33—have experienced an Although President-elect attempted or completed rape in their lifetime; From 2009- Joe Biden obviously disagrees. 2013, Child Protective Services agencies substantiated, or Creating an unwarranted sense found strong evidence to indicate that, 63,000 children a of drama and urgency around year were victims of sexual abuse; Of victims under the climate change is central to his age of 18: 34% of victims of sexual assault and rape are approach, in order to catalyze under age 12, and 66% of victims of sexual assault and action unsupported by the facts rape are age 12-17. or common sense. For a local perspective on the need for a FNE pro- In announcing his climate and gram, data obtained from law enforcement in the Town energy team, Biden declared of Pulaski and Pulaski County for the year 2018 include: climate change a crisis requiring Domestic assaults-387, Sexual assaults-54. These are a “unified national response.” the victims who reported to law enforcement. There Going even further, he called are many who do not wish to report to law enforcement it “an existential threat of our but need the care of an FNE. The department of social time,” a frankly preposterous services data from July 1, 2017 to June 30, 2018 includes claim if taken literally, or even 2,019 referrals, 560 investigations, and 336 founded cases seriously. for Child Protective Services, and 100 reports of elder To maintain that increasing abuse. global temperatures are a threat A Forensic Nurse Examiner (FNE) is a Registered to human existence itself entails Nurse or Advanced Practice Nurse who has received believing that human beings special education and training to enable them to pro- -- an endlessly adaptive species vide care to victims of violence. FNEs provide trauma that has drastically increased informed care to victims, blending the holistic care of its own lifespan over the past nursing with standards from medicine, science, and century -- will be snuffed out law. A forensic patient is a patient who has a healthcare if the planet gets a few degrees issue and overlaps with the legal system. While evidence Biden’s climate change hotter. collection and courtroom testimony are part of the FNE If the worst comes and sea role, the medical wellbeing of the patient is the primary levels rise significantly, we concern of the FNE. litmus test won’t move away from the Memorandum of Understanding Partners involved coasts and find better ways to with this grant are Lewis Gale Hospital Pulaski, the By Cal Thomas, majority of citizens should decide such control flooding. If summers Pulaski Police Department, the Pulaski County Com- Tribune Content Agency crucial matters, leaving decisions instead get much hotter in places monwealth’s Attorney’s Office, The Women’s Resource to unaccountable elites. unaccustomed to it, we won’t Center of the New River Valley, and the Pulaski County From the looks of President-elect Joe This is the stuff of dictatorship, little invest more in air conditioning. Department of Social Services. The SAFE Center of Biden’s selections for cabinet positions different from what communist leaders If droughts markedly increase, SWVA hopes to collaborate with many other community and other high offices it seems belief in have done in the past, and in the present in we won’t husband our water agencies to provide the best care possible to victims “climate change” has become a litmus China. resources more intelligently. April Bennett BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P will test. Biden appears to have raised climate President-elect Biden has called climate If some areas become be the FNE providing exams for this program. April change to the level of a religious doctrine. change a “crisis.” How many crises uninhabitable, we won’t leave has 33 years of experience as an RN, and 17 years as In namingJohn Kerry a climate “czar,” can we deal with at one time? I thought for more hospitable climes. an FNE. She has been nationally certified as a Sexual Rep. Deb Haaland(D-NM) to head the COVID-19 was a crisis. How about No, a humanity that Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) for adult/adolescents Dept. of the Interior -- if confirmed Haa- getting that under control before we start is wealthier and more (SANE-A) for 14 years and for pediatrics (SANE-P) for land would become the first Native Ameri- addressing climate, which is changing, but technologically proficient than 13 years. Cristina Trout, FNP will be the medical direc- can cabinet secretary in history, a diversity for the better in many places and provably ever will be content to expose tor overseeing the program. Mrs. Trout has been a nurse priority for Biden -- and Michael Regan, in the U.S. itself to the worst depredations for 45 years and has been an FNE for 22 years. She has head of North Carolina’s Department of According to the International Energy of nature that it has done so been nationally certified as a SANE-A for 14 years and Environmental Quality, who would be the Agency, a Paris-based autonomous inter- much to master over the past SANE-P for 13 years. first Black man to lead EPA (ditto on di- governmental organization “committed to millennium. Medical Consulting Services, LLC is a company versity), Biden has signaledhe is all-in on shaping a secure and sustainable energy This is a laughable account owned by April Bennett that will be seeing forensic pa- using government to change the climate, future for all,” “The United States saw of how the world works. tients that do not fall under this grant’s guidelines (such which some believe is already improving the largest decline in energy-related CO2 The globe has been getting as pediatric physical abuse and sexual abuse). The Free because of technology and innovation in emissions in 2019 on a country basis - a warmer for decades now, with Clinic of Pulaski has very generously donated 2 rooms the private sector. fall of 140 Mt, or 2.9 percent, to 4.8 Gt. no adverse effects on human to Medical Consulting Services, LLC to be used for Here is a fundamental question: If U.S. emissions are now down almost 1 population or longevity. Heck, forensic exams and office space. The Free Clinic has also Biden thinks government has the power to Gt from their peak in the year 2000, the even polar bears, once held out agreed to allow these rooms to be used for SAFE Center change the climate (it doesn’t), why hasn’t largest absolute decline by any country as the pitiable victims of global of SWVA. If a patient is not medically stable, they will government been able to prevent hurri- over that period.” warming, aren’t being driven to remain at Lewis Gale Hospital Pulaski and the FNE will canes and other natural disasters? Opinion polls have been all over the extinction. examine the patient in the hospital. COVID-19 is being used by politicians place on this issue. Prior to the election, an In a climate speech during the The National Children’s Alliance states nearly 700,000 -- nearly all of them Democrats -- to erode NPR/PBS News Hour Marist poll found campaign a few months ago, children are abused in the U.S each year. An estimat- our liberties. If given the power to dictate climate change taking over the top spot Biden relied on the tried-and- ed 678,000 children (unique incidents) were victims what we drive, the type of house we can of concerns for Democrats. The economy true alarmist tack of attributing of abuse and neglect in 2018, the most recent year for live in and other freedoms we have long remained the number one issue for Repub- every adverse weather event which there is national data. However, this data may be taken for granted, government will not be licans with climate change not registering to global warming, including incomplete, and the actual number of children abused is able to resist adding even more demands among those polled. the flooding in the Midwest. likely underreported. More than 3.5 million children re- in the name of saving the planet. The media will join politicians and Somewhat counterintuitively, ceived an investigation or alternative response from child At the 2016 World Economic Forum some “experts” to promote climate change Biden also blamed drought in protective services agencies and an estimated 1.9 million in Davos, Switzerland, climate change during the Biden administration, including the Midwest on climate change. children received prevention services. Child abuse is disciples laid out their vision for America’s end-of-the-world scenarios with little or Finally, Biden cited Hurricane deadly. In 2018, an estimated 1,770 children died from future. By 2030, some forecast: no scientific information that contradicts Laura, the Category 4 storm abuse and neglect in the United States. The youngest -- The U.S. will not be the world’s lead- their line. Two years ago, “Meet the Press” that made landfall in Louisiana, children were most vulnerable. Children in the first year ing superpower. host Chuck Toddannounced he would not as yet more climate-driven of their life had the highest rate of victimization. -- A billion people will be displaced by have any guests on who doubted climate extreme weather. The studies This grant is giving the Town of Pulaski the opportu- climate change. change. This is censorship and the promo- do show more storm activity in nity to develop a free-standing clinic outside of a hospital -- Polluters will have to pay to emit tion of a single point of view constitutes the Atlantic, Lomborg writes, setting. SAFE Center of SWVA and Medical Consulting carbon dioxide. indoctrination. but there’s no global trend in Services, LLC wanted to move outside of a hospital and -- There will be a global price on carbon Implementing the Biden climate doc- tropical cyclones. into a more calming and soothing environment to start (and) this will help make fossil fuels trine will cost a fortune and result in an Biden spoke of “a feeling of the patient’s healing process. The Town of Pulaski and history. outcome most Americans will not like. dread and anxiety” over climate Medical Consulting Services, LLC are grateful to the If these initiatives are enacted, it will Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaed- [email protected]. Look for Cal Thomas’ change, but this isn’t a sentiment Office on Violence Against Women for providing this turn the United States into something that, to the extent it exists at all, opportunity to offer these services to our community other than what we have enjoyed for two new book “America’s Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers and the he wants to address or assuage. and hopefully be able to teach others how to develop a centuries. Some comments by the Davos attendees dismissed the notion that a Future of the United States” (HarperCollins/ program for their community. Zondervan). See LOWRY, page A7 Locally Owned And Operated Since 2009 The Patriot is published in its print form every Friday by Patriot Publishing, LLC and is available at locations in Pulaski and Wythe Counties and Radford City. An electronic version can be accessed daily on the web at www.pcpatriot.com P.O. Box 2416 • Pulaski, VA 24301 • www.pcpatriot.com • (540) 808-3949 The Patriot - January 1, 2021 - Page A7 As COVID-19 ravages US, shootings, killings up too DETROIT (AP) — When An- we all have in common?” Craig nation’s third-largest city are up killings in New York through Oct. “This year, is it because of dre Avery drives his commercial said of the slayings and shootings. more than 60% compared with 11 — 90 more than at the same COVID? The political polariza- truck through Detroit, he keeps “That’s when you start thinking last year. time last year. tion we have seen?” asked Sgt. his pistol close. about COVID.” President Donald Trump Between Jan. 1 and Nov. 5, Dan Adams, spokesman for the Avery, 57, grew up in the Mo- Washington, D.C., a city of claimed spiking crime was some- 165 homicides were recorded in Grand Rapids Police Depart- tor City and is aware that homi- about 700,000, has seen more how related to massive protests Milwaukee, the most since 1991. ment. “This year has been a year cides and shootings are surging, than 187 homicides this year, over police brutality that swept And in Chicago, after three years like no other. I don’t think you even though before the pandem- eclipsing last year’s total by more the nation this year, but the major- of falling homicide numbers, can point to any one ‘why.’” ic they were dropping in Detroit than 20. Among the most hor- ity of those protests were peace- the totals skyrocketed to 739 in It is the same for other mid- and elsewhere. His gun is legal, rible: A 15-month-old baby boy ful. Trump also claimed the crime mid-December compared with sized cities. Last year, there were and he carries it with him for pro- was shot to death during a drive- was concentrated in Democrat- 475 at the same point last year. 18 homicides in Rockford, a city tection. by shooting. ic-run cities, but there have been Even smaller cities like Grand of about 170,000 people in north- “I remain extremely alert,” said “We’re all sick of the heinous spikes in Republican-run cities as Rapids are suffering. By mid-De- ern Illinois. More than 30 have Avery, who now lives in nearby crimes in our city,” said Mayor well. Federal agents and resourc- cember there were 35 homicides been killed so far this year, in- Belleville. “I’m not in crowds. Muriel Bowser. es were poured into Detroit and a compared with 16 through all of cluding three Saturday at a bowl- If something looks a little suspi- Crime in parts of the U.S. number of other cities this sum- 2019 and nine the year before. ing alley. cious, I’m out of there.” dropped during the early weeks mer to help local authorities collar From this January to October, “As we come to the end of this In Detroit, Chicago, New York, of the pandemic when stay-at- the rising crime rates. non-fatal shootings topped 200 in most difficult year and we look Philadelphia and even smaller home orders closed businesses By early October, more homi- the city, which is home to about ahead at this New Year upon us, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and and forced many people to remain cides — 363 — were recorded in 200,000 people. Over the same we know that this type of vio- Milwaukee, 2020 has been dead- indoors. Philadelphia than the 356 com- period last year there were 131 lence needs to stop,” Rockford ly not only because of the pan- University of Pennsylvania eco- mitted in 2019. There were 354 non-fatal shootings. Mayor Tom McNamara said. demic, but because gun violence nomics professor David Abrams is spiking. said crime began to spike in May Authorities and some experts and June when initial orders in PULSE say there is no one clear-cut rea- some states were lifted. January 7 On going: son for the spike. They instead Some people “may have been a point to social and economic up- little stir crazy,” Abrams said. “At VFW Post to Meet Alcohol Anonymous meet Mondays at 8 p.m. heaval caused by the COVID-19 the end of May, George Floyd’s The American Legion, Harvey-Howe-Carper Post (closed meeting); Wednesday (noon) and Thursday virus, public sentiment toward killing led to protests and looting. 30 will meet on Thursday, January 7, 7pm at the at 8 p.m. (open meetings) at Pulaski Presbyterian police following George Floyd’s That led to police reform move- VFW Post Home on 102 Watts St. in Radford. In the Church of America located at 975 Memorial Drive. death in Minneapolis police ments. Any of that could have event of heavy snowfall or ice, the meeting will be Contact number is 540-440-0066. Note: At present custody and a historic shortage potentially affected individual cancelled. For further information, please contact time masks are required and social distancing ob- of jobs and resources in poorer behavior and also the police re- 250-2283 or 239-9864. served. communities as contributing fac- sponse to that.” tors. It’s happening in cities large Calls for some cities to reduce January 12 The Radford Clothing Bank is open by appoint- and small, Democrat and Repub- funding for police departments ment only. To qualify for free clothing, you must lican-led. may have led some officers to take Sons of Confederate Veterans receive Medicaid or SNAP (Food Stamps). Call the Two years ago, Detroit had 261 a less aggressive approach to po- The Sons of Confederate Veterans, Stuart Horse Clothing Bank at 633-5050, Monday – Saturday, homicides — the fewest in de- licing, he added. Artillery Camp 1784 will meet on Tuesday, January from 10 a.m. – 12 a.m. to make an appointment. cades. That year there were about What the COVID-19 virus did 12, 7pm at Aly’s Family Italian Restaurant on 3204 Hours for shopping are Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 750 nonfatal shootings in the city was exacerbate all of the frustra- Riner Road. Jonathan McPeak will present the “His- from 10 a.m. – 12 a.m. and Thursday from 4 p.m. – 6 of more than 672,000. tion and anger that some in Black tory of the 24th Virginia Infantry Regiment”. p.m. The Clothing Bank is located at 2000 West St., But with only a few days left and brown communities already Members of the United Daughters of the Confeder- Radford, Va. Donations of clothing, shoes, purses, in 2020, homicides already have were dealing with, according to acy are also invited to attend. and linens are being accepted. topped 300, while non-fatal retired Michigan State University For further information, please call 320-4315 or 239- shootings are up more than 50% sociology professor Carl Taylor. 9864. Pulaski Al-Anon Family Group (a support group at more than 1,124 through the The virus has killed more than for friends and families of alcoholics) meet every middle of December. 300,000 people across the coun- January 25 Monday night at 8 p.m. at Pulaski Presbyterian “I think the pandemic — try, with minority communities Church of America located at 975 Memorial Drive. COVID — has had a significant hardest hit. Good Neighbor Club Contact number 540-818-0621. Note: At present emotional impact on people “The COVID has been abso- The Good Neighbor Club will not meet this month. time masks are required and social distancing is ob- across the country,” Detroit Po- lutely the trigger of an everlasting Plans are to have a meeting on Jan. 25, 2021 at 5 p.m. served. lice Chief James Craig said. “In- bomb that’s exploding in many at Anderson Memorial Presbyterian Church. dividuals are not processing how parts of our community,” he add- they manage disputes. Whether ed. domestics, arguments, disputes Nowhere is that more true over drugs, there’s this quickness than inside people’s homes. “The to use an illegally carried fire- COVID crisis and the economic arm.” shutdown is forcing people into About 7,000 guns had been their homes, creating conditions seized through mid-December in where people are more volatile,” Detroit, with more than 5,500 ar- said Kim Foxx, the top prosecutor rests for illegal guns. There were in Cook County, which includes 2,797 similar arrests last year. Chicago. And the most jarring “I’ve not seen a spike like this. statistic that illustrates that vol- But when it’s happening in other atility is this: The number of do- cities — some smaller — what do mestic-related homicides in the Lowry Continued from Page A6 Instead, he seeks to stoke it, and if that requires frankly distorting the scientific consensus to paint catastrophic scenarios, so be it. There is no doubt that human activity contributes to climate change. It is a long-term challenge that we should seek to understand better and prepare to address through adaption and innovation should the worst come decades from now. But that’s not enough for Biden. He doesn’t want to get us thinking about climate change, but rather to suspend all rational thought about the issue -- especially about the downsides of costly measures to crimp the U.S. economy in the name of saving the planet. In short, he needs a crisis atmosphere, the facts and science be Happy New Year! damned.

Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review. Thank you for using our service in 2020.

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Forage - Grassland Council guidelines released Virtual Winter Forage Conference set for January 18-22 No candy, cake for VFGC) is pleased to announce our 2021 Winter morning of January 22, we will conduct the VFGC Forage Conference: Building Resilience in Grass- business meeting and host a live Question and An- Based Farms. This year’s conference will be vir- swer session with our speakers. The list of topics kids under 2 tual, and will feature a combination of live online by day follows below. By CARLA K. JOHNSON WHAT’S ON YOUR PLATE? presentations, videos, and live Question and An- Conference Schedule Associated Press Most Americans fall short of fol- swer sessions. Monday Jan 18. 6-7:30 pm Building Resilience lowing the best advice on nutrition, The virtual conference will spotlight two speak- with Grazing Management & Winter Feeding. Dr. Parents now have an extra rea- contributing to obesity, heart dis- ers and focus on strategies they utilize to build Greg Halich son to say no to candy, cake and ice ease and diabetes. Much of the new resilience into their grass-based livestock opera- Tuesday Jan 19. 6-7:30 pm Building Resilience cream for young children. The first advice sounds familiar: Load your tions. in Soils, Plants, & Animals. Mr. Greg Brann U.S. government dietary guide- plate with fruits and vegetables, and Greg Brann owns and operates Big Spring Wednesday Jan 20. 6-7:30 pm Profitable Stock- lines for infants and toddlers, re- cut back on sweets, saturated fats Farm, which is 675 acres with 220 acres being ing Rates & the Downward Spiral of Overstock- leased Tuesday, recommend feed- and sodium. grazed by cattle and sheep. Greg direct markets ing. Dr. Greg Halich ing only breast milk for at least The guidelines suggest making his 100% grass fed & finished livestock. Greg be- Thursday Jan 21. 6-7:30 pm Adaptive Grazing six months and no added sugar for small changes that add up: Sub- lieves in diversity of livestock as well as diversity Management: Multispecies Grazing. Mr. Greg children under age 2. stitute plain shredded wheat for in pastures. Greg has overcome many challenges Brann “It’s never too early to start,” frosted cereal. Choose low-sodium over the years including unpredictable weather, Friday Jan 22. 9-9:30 am VFGC Business meet- said Barbara Schneeman, a nutri- canned black beans. Drink spar- weeds, poor conception rates & low gains, and ing tionist at University of California, kling water instead of soda. overgrazing. To do this he has experimented with 9:30-11 am Conference recap/Speaker Q & A Davis. “You have to make every “It is really important to make various levels of management-intensive grazing, bite count in those early years.” healthier choices, every meal, every multi-species grazing, warm-season forages, live- The conference will be limited to 500 house- The guidelines stop short of two day, to develop a pattern of healthy stock genetics, and novel feeding strategies. Be- holds. Registration will be advertised to a nation- key recommendations from sci- eating,” said Pam Miller of the Ag- hind it all has been a focus on integrating soil, an- al audience beginning January 1, 2021 so register entists advising the government. riculture Department’s food and imal, and plant health for the improvement of the now to reserve your spot! Those advisers said in July that nutrition service. whole system. Register ONLINE at: https://vaforages. everyone should limit their added There’s an app to help people Dr. Greg Halich is a forage specialist and ag org/2021-virtual-winter-forage-conference/ $20 sugar intake to less than 6% of cal- follow the guidelines available economist with the University of Kentucky. Greg registration per household ories and men should limit alcohol through the government’s My Plate has worked with farmers across the Southeast to Virginia Cooperative Extension programs and to one drink per day. website. improve their operations through grazing manage- employment are open to all, regardless of age, col- Instead, the guidelines stick with ment, grazing economics, and feeding strategies or, disability, gender, gender identity, gender ex- previous advice: limit added sugar READ LABELS to enhance productivity and profitability. In this pression, national origin, political affiliation, race, to less than 10% of calories per day The biggest sources of added year’s conference, Greg will be sharing research religion, sexual orientation, genetic information, after age 2. And men should limit sugars in the typical U.S. diet are and experiences related to bale grazing, an emerg- veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. alcohol to no more than two drinks soda and other sugar-sweetened ing tool for managing pasture and hay feeding. An equal opportunity/affirmative action employ- per day, twice as much as advised beverages, desserts, snacks, can- Greg will also be discussing adaptive manage- er. If you are a person with a disability and desire for women. dy and sweetened coffee and tea. ment of stocking rates and the effect of stocking any assistive devices, services or other accommo- “I don’t think we’re finished These foods contribute very little rate on farm profitability. He will seek to show us dations to participate in this activity, please con- with alcohol,” said Schneeman, nutrition, so the guidelines advise how stocking rate and density are powerful tools tact Scott Baker at (540)586-7675 (TDD: (800) 828 who chaired a committee advising limits. for improving soil health and animal performance. 1120) during the business hours of 8:30 a.m. and the government on the guidelines. There’s information on added Our speakers will offer presentations night- 5:00 p.m. to discuss accommodations 5 days prior “There’s more we need to learn.” sugar on the “Nutrition Facts” label ly from January 18 through January 21. On the to the event. The dietary guidelines are issued on packaged foods. Information on every five years by the Agriculture saturated fats and sodium is on the Department and the Department label too. of Health and Human Services. The government uses them to set Sister of man shot standards for school lunches and other programs. Some highlights: by police enters Virginia governor’s INFANTS, TODDLERS AND MOMS race in 2021 Babies should have only breast RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The milk at least until they reach 6 sister of a Black man who was months, the guidelines say. If killed by Richmond police in 2018 breast milk isn’t available, they has formally announced her candi- should get iron-fortified infant for- dacy for next year’s Virginia gu- mula during the first year. Babies bernatorial race. should get supplemental vitamin D Princess Blanding, the sister of beginning soon after birth. Marcus-David Peters, said Tuesday Babies can start eating other that she is running under the ban- food at about 6 months and should ner of the newly formed Liberation be introduced to potential allergen- Party. ic foods along with other foods. Peters, a 24-year-old high school “Introducing peanut-containing biology teacher, was fatally shot by foods in the first year reduces the a Richmond police officer while risk that an infant will develop a experiencing a mental health crisis. Just before the confrontation, Pe- Registration open food allergy to peanuts,” the guide- lines say. ters had struck several cars with his There’s more advice than in vehicle, then ran onto Interstate 95, prior guidelines for pregnant and naked and unarmed, during rush- breastfeeding women. To promote hour traffic. The officer, who also healthy brain development in their was Black, pointed a stun gun at for spring semester. babies, these women should eat 8 Peters, who then ran toward him, to 12 ounces of seafood per week. shouting and threatening to kill They should be sure to choose fish him. The officer deployed the stun — such as cod, salmon, sardines gun, which appeared to have no ef- and tilapia — with lower levels fect, and then shot Peters with his of mercury, which can harm chil- service weapon. dren’s nervous systems. Since her brother’s death, Blan- www.nr.edu Pregnant women should not ding has become an activist on po- drink alcohol, according to the lice reform and social justice issues. guidelines, and breastfeeding women should be cautious. Caf- feine in modest amounts appears safe and women can discuss that with their doctors.

ALCOHOL AND MEN In July, the science advisers suggested men who drink alcohol should limit themselves to one serving per day — a 12-ounce can of beer, a 5-ounce glass of wine or a shot of liquor. Tuesday’s official guidelines ignored that, keeping the advice for men at two drinks per day. Dr. Westley Clark of Santa Clara University said that’s appropriate. Heavy drinking and binge drink- ing are harmful, he said, but the evidence isn’t as clear for moderate drinking. Lowering the limit for men would likely be socially, religious- ly or culturally unacceptable to many, Clark said, which could have ripple effects for the rest of the guidelines. “They need to be acceptable to people, otherwise they’ll reject it outright and we’ll be worse off,” he said. “If you lose the public, these guidelines have no merit whatso- ever.” More careful scientific research into the long-term effects of low or moderate levels of drinking is needed, he said. www.pcpatriot.com SPORTS The Patriot - January 1, 2021 - Page B1 Hokies hold on, beat ‘Canes to go 8-1 Sacrifice BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Picked to finish 11th in the ACC and stress in the league’s preseason poll, upstart Virginia Tech will enter 2021 with at least a share of the How players top spot in the conference stand- ings. handled season Keve Aluma scored a ca- reer-high 26 points and No. 24 of COVID-19 Virginia Tech made crucial free By RALPH D. RUSSO throws in the final minute on the Associated Press way to an 80-78 victory over Mi- ami on Tuesday night. The Saturday night after win- Aluma hit 9 of 16 shots from ning an afternoon home game is the floor and 7 of 10 from the one of the best times to be a col- line for the Hokies (8-1, 2-0 At- lege football player. lantic Coast Conference), who Family and loved ones usually won their fourth straight game. await with congratulatory hugs. Aluma added six rebounds and Then there is a nice dinner and four assists. maybe more celebrating with “I don’t really know if I’m teammates and friends. Few surprised,” Aluma said of the things get a college town hop- Hokies’ hot start. “I don’t think ping like a football victory. anyone is really super worried But not this season. about rankings. I think we’re all “I’d pretty much go home, lay just trying to come out and take on my couch, watch (video) cut- each game one at a time.” ups of the game like two or three Justyn Mutts added 15 points times. Probably go pick up some for Virginia Tech, which made food,” Notre Dame offensive three free throws in a sloppy final tackle Liam Eichenberg said. 37 seconds to hold off the ‘Canes To play through a pandemic, (4-3, 0-2). Tyrece Radford fin- players had to sacrifice much of ished with 13 points, and Jalen their lives away from the game, Cone had 12 for the Hokies, who along with some of the best as- turned the ball over twice and pects of being part of a team. missed four free throws on their To reach the playoff, No. 1 Ala- final six possessions. bama, No. 2 Clemson, No. 3 Ohio “Fortunate to win,” Virginia State and No. 4 Notre Dame had Tech coach Mike Young said. to go a combined 37-2 on the field “Sometimes, I’ve played well and keep the coronavirus at bay. and lost. I’d much prefer to play “It’s been incredibly challeng- poorly and win the game, and we ing,” Clemson coach Dabo Swin- did that.” ney said. “I just tell them, don’t Isaiah Wong and Matt Cross give up what they want most for paced Miami with 16 points what they may want at the mo- apiece. ment. It’s just really that simple. The ‘Canes trailed by as many And the teams that do this the as 17 points in the second half, best and manage this the best, but rallied in the closing seconds. that’s who’s going to finish the Wong missed a 3-pointer with best.” five seconds left that would have Doing so required lots of given Miami the lead. Mutts Hokiesports.com COVID-19 testing, and the anx- See HOKIES, page B2 Virginia Tech’s Hunter Cattoor goes up high for two points Tuesday night against Miami. iety that comes with knowing the next test could be the one that puts a season on hold, and little time spent with anyone outside Playoff defenses face big challenges the team. By JOHN ZENOR ranked Tide, No. 4 Notre Dame, you know, it’s very difficult not to But ’Bama doesn’t rank higher Even when the players were Associated Press No. 2 Clemson and No. 3 Ohio give up some yards. than 12th nationally in the four together, there were obstacles — State into contention heading “So you’re seeing fundamen- major defensive statistical catego- both literal and figurative — to My how times have changed into Friday’s College Football tally sound defense. You’re still ries. Notre Dame isn’t better than bonding with teammates. in college football since the last Playoff semifinal games. seeing the same principles. You’re 14th and Ohio State has been stin- “Eating together as a team, time Alabama and Notre Dame Alabama may have the na- seeing at times elite play in cer- gy against the run and more gen- we do it with a glass divider be- met. tion’s best offense. tain position groups at Alabama. erous to opposing passers. tween us,” Notre Dame receiver The Crimson Tide rode the na- “This is not pro I, let’s run it up And then an offense now that can Then there’s Clemson, which Ben Skowronek said Monday tion’s best defense into that Janu- inside and play great defense,” rival the very best college offens- ranks sixth in total defense, giv- during media Zoom sessions for ary 2013 national championship said Notre Dame coach Brian es in the country.” ing up 298.5 yards a game. the CFP. “I miss those meals and matchup, yielding a paltry 184 Kelly, whose team will face the Only the Tigers, who play the The AP All-America teams had just getting to know people in the yards and eight points a game. Crimson Tide in Arlington, Tex- Buckeyes in New Orleans, have an eight representatives from the locker room. All that stuff.” Fast-forward to the new reali- as. “They’re still playing funda- elite defense statistically among playoffs on the first-team offense Another oddity brought on by ty: Offense wins championships. mentally sound defense, but with the playoff teams. The other three and three on defense: Alabama the pandemic: Four days before Or at least it’s carried the top- the offenses as they are today, have been plenty good enough cornerback Patrick Surtain II, the New Year’s Day semifinals, to support those high-scoring of- Notre Dame linebacker Jeremiah the playoff participants were still fenses. See DEFENSE, page B2 on their respective campuses. Alabama faces Notre Dame in the relocated Rose Bowl at BISHOP the home of the Dallas Cowboys in Arlington, Texas. Clemson and Ohio State meet at the Sug- INSURANCE ar Bowl in New Orleans in a rematch of last year’s thrilling semifinal. Typically, teams arrive at the site of their semifinal about five or six days in advance. The bulk of the preparation for the game • Home has already been done. At the host city, there are media avail- abilities, practices and a walk- • Auto through or two at the stadium. There are activities away from the field, outings and meals. Plus, • Life some unsupervised time for the players. “Going to a bowl site is always what you work for,” Clemson linebacker Baylon Spector said. “It’s very fun. You get to do a lot of different things.” 540-443-3900 As for this week, Spector said: 272 A West Main Street, Dublin, Va. “Tonight, we got bingo night. We’re enjoying it as much as we www.bishopins.net can.” The teams will arrive at the host cities on Wednesday. Alabama and Clemson gave players some freedom to be with family on Christmas and other breaks this season, but with strict orders to mask up and keep their distance, even with loved ones. Notre Dame and Ohio State were more cautious, keeping their players on campus over the recent holiday weekend. There is still more COVID-19 testing to be done, and each team has learned through experience that nothing is guaranteed this season. “It was really stressful, but the See SEASON, page B4 Page B2 - The Patriot - January 1, 2021 Outdoor Resolutions As we enter this a New Year of waters that are up to my belt 2021, most all of us make a num- and the pack of them is in my ber of resolutions and as a rule Woods, tackle box on the bank. I since are prone to soon break them. Water & have always worn my vest that I, for one, hate to leave the year has many pockets with all extra 2020 as it denotes perfection (20 Wildlife needed supplies and is high vs 20 perfection as in our seeing enough to stay dry on my chest. ability). Some goals we like to put on ourselves are difficult such W.A. "Doc" We often camped out in an old as trying to drive a square peg Davis refurbished bus in a good area in a round hole and we are soon for hunting deer in the archery struggling to accomplish and season. I won’t ever try a near give up trying. muzzle and can see clearly the impossible shot at a deer that I I am going back over some inside of the barrel and even missed without knowing that the experiences of hunting, fishing the lands and rifled grooves and rules were the other members of etc., and state that I hope to never even lead built up if this be the the group could cut your shirt make those decisions, mistakes case. Using an oiled patch on tail off for this miscue. Hunting or whatever again. One that I your cleaning rod will insure a camps are known to be places recently touched on was grab- clean and fined-tuned gun for where tricks are played on one bing my favorite rifle and not shooting with no obstructions another. One has to be careful check to see that I had a full clip in the gun. I recently reread a and resolve to not be the object of ammunition. I was fortunate book of a couple up the Canadian of a big joke. I could get into to get the turkey with the lone wilderness coming across an old some things about trapping es- bullet I chambered into the gun. trapper with a beat up British capades and some pitfalls to be Another miscue was not realizing .303 rifle that had a bulge in the aware of, but will hold off as this the classic .22 Marlin rifle that I barrel. I don’t know how anyone will have to be a column in itself got that had once been that of my survived the first shot that caused for another time. grandfather with the barrel being this defect and wouldn’t want to leaded up. By careful cleaning nearby if he fired it off again. Safety and good sense should and visual inspection, I could I have had a number of mis- be adhered to in the outdoor have been made aware of this cues in fishing. One I recall was woods or water activities we Hokiesports.com situation. A proper way to clean carrying my matched Mitchel engage in. How we live our lives Keve Aluma scored a career-high 26 points for the Hokies. a gun is another thing that I have 300 rod and reel unassembled. I should be. in the same respect, often not done as I should have. was wading through swift waters by respecting others and enjoy it First and foremost is never clean and the forward tip of the rod to its fullest. The year 2021 can a gun until you are absolutely fell into the stream and I wasn’t be more rewarding if you put Hokies sure that it is not loaded. There able to find it. I ended having to the Good Lord first and invite Continued from Page B1 have been many accidents of peo- buying another type rod, but it Him into your life, if you do not then missed two free throws for wholesale changes,” Young said. ple being shot by handling what was not balanced to the reel as know Him. He is always there the Hokies with 3 seconds left, “I know what we’re going to see. they believed was an empty gun. the original one. When fishing, I at the door ready to be invited but Tech’s Wabissa Bede stole an We look forward to the competi- I use a simple process if I am always hope to have all my back- in by you as noted in Revelation outlet pass after the second miss, tion.” not taking the gun down com- up needs with me such as extra 3:19a, “Behold, I stand at the closing out the game. POLL IMPLICATIONS pletely such as removing the bolt hooks, leaders etc. with me when door and knock…” “All in all, if you get kind of an The length of the Hokies’ sec- action. I simply pull the bolt back in a midstream with waders. I open 3-point shot at the top of the ond stint in the Top 25 will be de- and place a dime in the chamber have often needed additional spilt Until next time – wishing all a key to win on the road against a termined Saturday in Charlottes- and shine a light down from the shot sinkers in the swift moving Happy New Year Top 25 team, pretty much you’d ville. A win there should propel take that,” Miami coach Jim Lar- them several spots in the poll. ranaga said. MAKING A POINT Defense BIG PICTURE The Hokies weren’t complain- Miami: The ‘Canes have lost ing about the officiating following Continued from Page B1 three of their last four, and in- their two-point win — after all, Owusu-Koramoah and Ohio State CLEMSON their sixth consecutive league juries continue to plague them. they made more free throws (13) cornerback Shaun Wade. The Skinny: The Tigers are not crown. Preseason All-ACC guard Chris than Miami attempted (10). But The playoff teams have three of as star heavy and don’t have an Lykes missed his fifth consecu- Young wants to see officials light- the four Heisman Trophy finalists. Isaiah Simmons-type to lead the NOTRE DAME tive game with an ankle injury, en up on bench warnings. Virgin- way. That balanced approach has The Skinny: Under third-year and guard Kameron McGusty ia Tech received several during ALABAMA Clemson giving up fewer points defensive coordinator Clark Lea, has missed three straight with the course of the game, but Young The Skinny: The Tide have vet- this year than last season’s group. set to become head coach at alma a hamstring injury. The ‘Canes encourages his bench players to eran standouts like Surtain and The soft spot may be in pass cov- mater Vanderbilt, the Irish en- missed both, too, as they com- be enthusiastic during the game, linebackers Dylan Moses and erage, where Clemson is giving tered their final regular-season mitted a season-high 19 turn- mainly because an empty are- Christian Harris and rising star up 198 yards a game, about 30 game against Syracuse with a overs, which contributed might- na leaves game energy up to the freshmen like pass rusher Will yards more than last year. top 10 defense. But they’ve given ily to their demise. players instead of the fans. Anderson and defensive back Best player: Linebacker James up 955 yards combined the past Virginia Tech: Behind Aluma “We’ve got to stand down with Malachi Moore. Have been stin- Skalski is a fierce hitter and the two games and have a tendency and Mutts, the Hokies played that sort of thing right now,” gy at times but gave up yards and glue that holds the group together. to allow big passing plays. well until the final 1:30, but two Young said. “Our first three points galore to Mississippi and When he missed games against Best player: Jeremiah Owu- turnovers and shoddy free-throw games in here, we weren’t very Florida. The Tide have 21 sacks Boston College and Notre Dame su-Koramoah. A first-team As- shooting — 3 of 7 in that span — good. The energy level was not over the last four games and 32 with an injury, Clemson allowed sociated Press All-American nearly led to them squandering what we needed, and here we are total. 75 points and lost to the Irish. and Butkus Award winner, the a huge second-half lead. They in league play, and we’re certainly Best Game: Alabama became With Skalski back the past three 6-foot-1, 216-pound senior has will need to get that cleaned up, not embarrassing anyone. We’re the first to shut out a Mike Leach games, the Tigers have given up 56 tackles, 11 tackles for loss, an as they get set to take a step up pulling for our teammates. We’ve team, beating Mississippi State just 37 total, including only 10 to interception, three forced fum- in competition Saturday, when got to generate that kind of emo- 41-0 and allowing just 163 total Notre Dame in the ACC Champi- bles and a fumble recovery for a they play at No. 23 Virginia in tion from the unit.” yards while forcing three turn- onship rematch. touchdown against Clemson. their first true road game of the UP NEXT overs. Worst game: At Notre Dame, Worst game: The 34-10 loss to season. Miami: The ‘Canes host Clem- Worst Game: Alabama allowed where the Tigers gave up 518 Clemson in the ACC champion- “I know Tony (Bennett, Vir- son on Saturday. a whopping 647 total yards in a yards — unheard of against a ship game. The Irish struggled to ginia’s coach) well enough to Virginia Tech: The Hokies play 63-48 win over Mississippi. It Brent Venables-led defense — defend quarterback Trevor Law- know there’s not a bunch of at No. 23 Virginia on Saturday. was the most yards a Tide defense and permitted the Irish a long rence and running back Travis had ever surrendered, and the touchdown drive at the end to tie Etienne. most points by an unranked team a game they’d eventually win in Best game: The 31-17 victory at PET OF THE WEEK against ’Bama. “It humbled us a double overtime. North Carolina on Nov. 27. Held lot,” Surtain said. Best game: The rematch with the prolific Tar Heels, whose of- OUR WISH LIST Best Player: Surtain is a shut- the Fighting Irish for the ACC fense was averaging 563.4 yards • Leashes and collars ( may be gently down cornerback who was the crown. 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PUBLIC NOTICE The Pulaski County Planning Commission will convene to review a Special Use Permit application and a 15.2-2232 Comprehensive Plan Review application for the same project. A Public Hearing will be held at 7PM on TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2021 at the Pulaski County High School Auditorium, 5414 Cougar Trail Rd., Dublin, Virginia, 24084 to receive public comment about the project. The Planning Commission will consider the matter and make a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors regarding this Special Use Permit application. The Board of Supervisors will make the final decision.

The Pulaski County Board of Supervisors will convene to review the same Special Use Permit application, host a Public Hearing to receive public comments and take action on the matter. The meeting will be held at 7PM on MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021, at the Pulaski County High School Auditorium, 5414 Cougar Trail Rd., Dublin, Virginia 24084.

The inclement weather date for both of these meetings is the Thursday following each meeting date, at the same location and time. In the event of inclement weather, visit pulaskicounty.org for information. The application under review is described below;

Project Applicant: Hecate Energy Pulaski LLC Purpose: Special Use Permit to operate a Solar Farm Use in Agriculture Zone District Property tax map numbers for the subject parcels: Forty (40) parcels under separate ownership (#026-1-9)(#026-2-1,2,4,5,7,7A,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,24,25)(#027-1-40)(#027-2-3) (#036-1-3A,9,10)(#036-2-20, 21, 22, 23) (#036-4-1)(#037-1-5,6,11,31,32)(#038-1-6) (#047-1-13)(#047-50-9,16)(#056-35-17,18,19,20,21)

The agenda items are available at the Board Docs platform which is available at https://go.boarddocs. com/va/copva/Board.nsf/Public and linked from the pulaskicounty.org home page. Please ensure that either the Planning Commission or Board of Supervisors dropdown tab is chosen for the meeting you are interested in.

The public can request information and/or submit comments as part of the public hearing process. Send comments or questions to Elaine Holeton, Planning & Zoning Director E-mail: eholeton@ pulaskicounty.org Phone: 540-980-7877 or 540-980-7710 Regular Mail: Planning & Zoning Department, County of Pulaski, 143 Third Street, NW, Suite 1, Pulaski, VA 24301. In Person: By attending the meetings at the location listed. For disabled individuals who may require special auxiliary aids or services, the County upon request will make reasonable accommodations available. Contact the County’s ADA Compliance Officer at (540) 980-7800 (TDD accessible) or (540) 980-7705, ten (10) days prior to the above meeting date to arrange for these special accommodations.

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We don’t like to think about their owners. zero tailpipe emission, battery-electric vehicle to the North American market, with a production it, but end-of-life planning is I wish you and your pets a start of early 2021. important, and our pets need to happy, healthy 2021. be part of that planning. 4. Build lasting memories. Send your tips, comments and Volvo to build electric Take as many photos with your questions to ask@pawscorner. pets as you can. Make scrap- com. truck at NRV truck plant NRCC offers apartment From Volvo Trucks Benefitting from Volvo Trucks’ Gold Contract provides assurance North America global experience in manufacturing and peace of mind as customers in- maintenance tech program electric trucks, Volvo Trucks North tegrate the new Volvo VNR Elec- Volvo Trucks North America America has engineered the Volvo tric trucks into their fleets. Volvo Registration is open for an up- Technician (CAMT) Certification has announced the commercial in- VNR Electric model to provide the Financial Services (VFS) provides coming apartment maintenance Exam. Upon successfully passing troduction and sales start of its zero power, performance and reliability flexible financing solutions specif- technician short-term training pro- the exam, students will receive tailpipe emission, battery-electric that U.S. and Canadian fleet oper- ic to the Volvo VNR Electric and gram at New River Community their provisional certificate from vehicle to the North American ators need and expect. The electric required charging infrastructure. College. NAAEI. After completing one market. The Class 8 Volvo VNR driveline is a fully integrated, Vol- VFS will also offer access to in- NRCC, in partnership with the year of experience in the industry, Electric truck model has a sched- vo proprietary solution, rated at surance solutions for the VNR National Apartment Association NAAEI will grant students their uled production start of early 2021. 455 horsepower and generating up Electric in select U.S markets via Education Institute (NAAEI) and full certificate. “The Volvo VNR Electric to 4,051 lb.-ft. of torque. The Volvo third-party licensed agents. the Virginia Apartment Manage- The regular price for the pro- marks a significant step forward VNR Electric features a two-speed Volvo leads the transition to ment Association (VAMA), is of- gram is $1,950; but, with special for electromobility in an industry Volvo I-Shift transmission that de- electromobility in North Ameri- fering the 13-week training begin- state funding the discounted price that we are committed to leading livers smooth and efficient acceler- ca and Europe, and the collective ning Feb. 6, 2021. The course will is $650. Additional financial assis- as it undergoes rapid, significant ation with excellent startability and learnings and expertise have en- provide virtual classroom instruc- tance may also be available. change,” said Peter Voorhoeve, low-speed maneuverability. Models abled the company to further se- tion and in-person lab activities to The course is one of 10 NRCC president of Volvo Trucks North are offered in three configurations: cure the seamless introduction and become a maintenance technician FastForward programs that pro- America. “Volvo Trucks believes • Single-axle straight truck with same high product quality and re- in the residential property or com- vide affordable and short-term and invests in sustainable electro- a gross vehicle weight rating of liability with the VNR Electric as mercial building industry. Students training through the Office of mobility. Our deep understanding 33,200 lbs. with all Volvo truck models. This will learn the basics of electrical, Workforce Development. of the transportation ecosystem— • Two tractor configurations – new all-electric truck will be fully plumbing, HVAC, mechanical, To register, visit www.nr.edu/ the technology, infrastructure and 4x2 with a 66,000-lb. gross com- integrated into the production and appliance, construction, painting, workforce, Classes & Programs, applications in the trucking indus- bination weight rating (GCWR) manufacturing processes at the lock and key services, and repairs. Non-Credit Course Offerings and try—have enabled us to deliver a and 6x2 with an up-to 82,000-lb. NRV assembly plant in Dublin. Students who complete the search with the class ID number solution that is both advanced yet GCWR in specific applications. “For us, it is more than just the course will be eligible to sit for the (#18996); call 540-674-3613 or easy to own and operate.” The Volvo VNR Electric in- truck. The transition to electromo- Certified Apartment Maintenance email [email protected]. The Volvo VNR Electric offers cludes Volvo Trucks’ full uptime bility requires a tight stakeholder the same state-of-the-art agility promise, with best-in-class onboard collaboration,” said Voorhoeve. and visibility as the highly suc- telematics including Remote Diag- “We are committed to working cessful Volvo VNR regional-haul nostics and a new real-time battery closely with our customers and model, so drivers benefit from a monitoring service from the Volvo dealers, providing end-to-end con- fast learning curve, ease of oper- Trucks Uptime Center. Volvo Ac- sultative support, matching avail- ation and service, and a seamless tion Service offers 24/7 access to able incentives, understanding the transition from miles per gallon highly trained uptime experts who required charging infrastructure to kilowatt hours per mile. In can quickly manage service, sched- and matching the right model and the Volvo VNR Electric, drivers ule repairs and tackle any other is- specifications to their operation- are provided with a familiar hu- sues that happen on the road. al needs. As we hit this landmark man-machine interface, operation With the launch of the Volvo milestone, moving forward with and design. At the same time they VNR Electric, Volvo Trucks North our pioneering customers toward a experience a significantly quiet- America is providing customers shared vision of the future, Volvo er ride and an improved working with a range of operational solu- Trucks is making electromobility environment, reducing stress and tions. A premier Volvo Gold Con- accessible, efficient and operation- fatigue and increasing comfort. tract includes scheduled and pre- ally viable. The future is here and The industry-leading safety ventative maintenance, towing and we are proud to bring this new, criteria and features found in the vehicle repair which includes the very real solution to the North Volvo VNR model are retained lithium-ion batteries and complete American commercial trucking in- in the Volvo VNR Electric model electromobility system. The Volvo dustry today.” including the highest safety stan- dards in the construction of the cab and chassis. The construction of the battery support carrier system Helping Hands was also designed with these same safety standards in mind. The VNR Electric features the same Mowing Service best-in-class active safety systems as the VNR model. In addition, the specifically designed location of Experienced, the batteries on the side of the ve- hicle as well as the air compressor Quality Service under the driver door also enhance serviceability. 540-674-4277 or The Volvo VNR Electric is de- signed for customer applications 540-616-9064 and driving cycles with local and Licensed & Insured regional distribution ranges, in- cluding food and beverage and pick-up and delivery routes. The 264-kWh lithium-ion batteries, which charge up to 80% within 70 minutes, have an operating range of up to 150 miles based on the truck’s configuration. Advanced Ms. Audre’s battery chemistries deliver in- creased power at reduced costs, Fabrics while self-learning controls opti- 206 Main Street mize energy usage. Regenerative braking can increase range by re- Narrows, Va. (540) 921-2042 turning power up to 15% back into the battery, depending on the duty Open 10 - 6 Tuesday - Friday cycle. Cutting-edge battery moni- 10 - 4 Saturday toring technology relays the state of health for the energy source in real time, streamlining service needs and maximizing uptime. Page B6 - The Patriot - January 1, 2021

Draper Valley Baptist Church First United Methodist Church Draper's Valley Presbyterian (PCA) 3200 Lee Highway 301 N. Jefferson Ave. - Pulaski 2755 Old Baltimore Road, Draper, VA 24324 Draper, Va. 24324 (physical address) Mailing address: Same as above Pastor: Alan Pearce 135 Fourth St., NW - Pulaski Pastor's Name: Rev. Robert E. Davis Service Times: (mailing address) Associate Pastor: Rev. Roland Mathews Bible Study Sunday, 5 p.m. Pastor's Name: Will Shelton Primary Service Times: Sunday Worship, 11 a.m. Associate Pastor: Sunday Morning Worship Service Sunday Evening, 6 p.m. Sebastian Ruiz, Hispanic Pastor 8:30 and 11:00 Prayer Service, Wed. 6:30 p.m. Sunday Services Sunday Evening Worship Service 6:15 p.m. Phone: 980-1028 9:00 AM - Hispanic Worship Wednesday Evening (5:45 Supper in the www.drapervalleybaptist.org 9:00AM - Contemporary Worship Fellowship Hall (Sept thru May) - Youth Groups 10:00AM - Sunday School and Adult Bible Study 6:30 p.m.) It is Grace Baptist Church 11:00AM - Traditional Worship Contact Info: 552 E. Main Street Contact Info. Phone - 540-994-9015 Dublin, Va. 24084 Phone: 540.980.3331 e-mail - [email protected] possible to Pastor: Doug Testerman e-mail: [email protected] website - www.dvpca.org 674-1762 website: www.fumcpulask.org Primary Services: Trinity Lutheran grieve and 9:45 a.m. Sunday School Belspring Baptist Church Church ELCA 11 a.m. Sunday worship 6887 Depot Street 2 Fifth Street, N.W., Pulaski Sunday Night Power Hour, 6 to 7 p.m. Belspring, VA 24058 540-980-3624 quench the Wednesday Night 7 to 8 p.m. Pastor Darrell Linkous The Rev. Terrie Sternberg Grace Kids and Teens Bible Study Service Times: trinitypulaski @gmail.com Sunday School: 10 a.m. Sunday Worship 11 a.m. Holy Ghost Open Door Baptist Church Sunday worship: 11 a.m. (Sept. - May) 4576 Miller Lane Wednesday Bible Study and Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. Through Grace, all True Pulaski, VA 24301 Youth Group: 7 p.m. (June - Aug.) Christians, have received the Pastor: Rev. N.K. Howlett Darrell Linkous: 353-0081 Bible Study: Wednesday, 12:30 same blessing Abraham re- Primary Services: [email protected] www.trinitypulaski.org ceived. The promise of the Spirit Sunday School, 9:45 a.m. of God through faith. The most Worship, 11 a.m. Memorial Baptist Church Trinity United Methodist distinguishing mark of the gen- Wednesday Night, 7 p.m. 995 Peppers Ferry Road Pastor: Judy Yonce uine Christian is the gift of the Phone: 980-2046 Pulaski, VA 24301 Sunday Worship - 9:45 a.m. Holy Spirit, also called the Holy Pastor: Michael S. Jones Bible Study - Wednesday, 7 p.m. Ghost in the KJV. God don’t Draper United Methodist Church Sunday 528 5th Street, S.E. give the Holy Ghost to sinners. 3080 Greenbriar Road 9:45 am - Sunday School Pulaski, Va. Often we hear it said that the Draper, VA 24324 11:00 am - Worship Phone - 980-0820 Holy Ghost will not dwell in an Pastor: Mark Asbury Wednesday unclean Temple. Primary Service Times: 6:30 pm - Prayer Meeting Snowville Baptist Church 2 Cor. 6: 16-18. “For we Sunday School, 10 a.m. (540) 980-4731 3238 Gum Log Road, Hiwassee are the temple of the living Worship, 11 a.m. Email: [email protected] Pastor: Rev. Tony Hart God; just as God said, I will Phone: 276-477-3835 Sunday School: 10 a.m. dwell in them and walk among River of Life Church Sunday Services: 11 a.m., 6 p.m. them; And I will be their God, Newbern Christian Church 5311 Black Hollow Road, Dublin, Va. 24084 Wednesday Night Service: 7 p.m. and they shall be My people. Disciples of Christ Shawn Burchett, Pastor “Therefore, come out from their 5183 Wilderness Road, Newbern Sunday School 9:15 AM Fairlawn United Methodist Church midst and be separate,” says the Rev. Denise and Ken Walker Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 AM 7584 Brandon Road, Fairlawn, Va. 24141 Lord. “And do not touch what 540-440-8733 Wednesday Evening Life Pastor Mark A. Miller is unclean; and I will welcome Building Service 7:00 PM [email protected] you.” Christ Episcopal Church www.rolcdublin.com 540-674-4500 Cell) 540-320-2431 The Holy Ghost doesn’t move 144 North Washington Ave., Pulaski Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. in and out every time a believ- Service: 10 a.m. every Sunday Delton Church of God Sunday Worship (with children's message): er slips and makes a mistake. Phone: 980-2413 of Prophecy 11 a.m. He gives us time and space to Email: [email protected] 4570 Boyd Road, Draper, VA 24324 Bible Study, Wednesday: 7 p.m. repent and to obtain forgiveness. www.christpulaski.dioswva.org Pastor Vickie Lee Viars Youth Ministr y If the Holy Ghost moved out ev- [email protected] (276) 620-3191 Facebook.com/Fairlawn-United-Method- ery time some who are supposed Jordan's Chapel UMC Sunday mornings - 11 AM to 12 PM ist-Church to be Christians sinned, the door Pastor: Rev. Becky Wheeler Sunday evenings-Facebook live services to their heart would be just like Worship: 9:30 a.m. announced on Facebook Grace Ministries a revolving door. Sunday School: 10:45 a.m. Wednesday evenings- To be announced at Church of God of Prophecy Around the perimeter of a Wednesday Bible Study: 7 p.m. later future time until COVID-19 ceases 1021 Macgill Street basketball court there is a line Delton COGOP is following all COVID-19 Pulaski, VA 24301 of demarcation. It marks the Cecil's Chapel United Methodist Church safety guidelines of social distancing, masks, Church: 540-980-2118 inbounds area from the out of 5801 Cecil's Chapel Road, cleaning, and disinfection. Cell: 276-233-8083 bounds area. If a player happens Hiwassee, VA 24347 Bus Ministry: 540-385-9972 to step out of bounds, he is not Pastor Mark Asbury Heritage Church www.pulaskigracemin.com thrown out of the game and not Worship service is 8:45am-9:45am 6195 Cleburne Boulevard, Dublin Email: [email protected] allowed to participate any more, Sunday School is 10 - 10:45am Pastor Mike Pierce Pastor Mike Williams but rather he is allowed to step Ricky Dishon, 540 239 6360, www.facebook. Service Times: Children's Ministry back in bounds and to continue com/cecilschapel.umc Wednesdays, 7 p.m.; Aaron & Becky Sampson to play the game. Sundays, 10 a.m. Morning Worship 10:30 a.m. If a man or a woman insists Newbern United Methodist Church (540) 674-9220 Children’s Church 10:30 a.m. on sinning willfully, and will 5155 Wilderness Road Website: www.heritagechurch.net Children’s Free Breakfast 10:30 a.m. not repent and come back inside Exit 98 off I-81 Newbern Facebook.com/ Ages 5-12 the boundaries that God has Rev. Paige Wimberly HeritageChurchDublinVA Men’s & Women’s Ministry Wed. 6:30 established, then they are in 674-6111 danger of being ejected from Worship Services: 9:45 a.m. Fairlawn Baptist Faith Bible Church the game. If sin isn’t dealt with, Sunday School: 11 a.m. 6758 Oxford Avenue 110 LaGrange Street, Pulaski, VA 24301 forsaken and forgiven, the body Fairlawn, VA 24141 Pastor: Jim Linkous or the Temple where the Holy Valley Harvest Ministries Associate Pastor: T.J. Cox Ghost resides, is defiled, and the 1 Harvest Place First Missionary Baptist Church 540-980-5433 Holy Ghost will not stay around P.O. Box 458 7318 Manns Drive / P.O. Box 90 www.facebook/faithbiblechurch in a defiled Temple. Dublin, VA 24084 New River, Virginia 24129 Sunday School: 10 a.m. My dad used to raise hogs Senior Pastor Steve Willis (540) 639-5331 Sunday Worship: 11 a.m. back years ago. And I remem- Associate Pastors: email: [email protected] Sunday Children’s Church: 11 a.m. ber how filthy the hog pen was. Perry Slaughter, Elaine Wood, Derick Burton Pastor: Rev. Richard A. Goodman, Sr. Sunday Evening: 6 p.m. Excrement and slop all over the Sunday Worship: 10 a.m. Associate Minister: Wednesday Evening Bible Study: 7 p.m. place. It was a place for pigs and Wednesday School 7 p.m. Rev. Annette Cheek Children’s Meal: 6:30 p.m. hogs. Not a place for a human www.vhmdublin.org Clerk: Mrs. Carlotta Lewis Children’s and Youth’s Group Classes: 7 p.m. to live in. Even the prodigal 540-674-4729 Sundays: son got sick of living in the hog Morning Worship 11:00 a.m. Dublin Christian Church lot and returned to his father’s Mountain View United Methodist Church The Lord's Supper - Each First Sunday 5605 Dunlap Road house. Now, how many of us 6648 Wilderness Road Wednesdays: Prayer Meeting & P.O. Box 1330 would be willing to live in a hog Dublin, VA 24084 Bible Study 6:30 p.m. Dublin, VA 24084 pen for any length of time? The Phone: 540-674-6111 (540) 674-8434 answer is, none of us would. mountainviewumc.yolasite.com/ Dublin United Methodist Church www.dublinchristianchurch.com And neither will the Holy Ghost. Pastor: Paige Wimberly P.O. Box 577 Richard R. Goad, Jr. He will not dwell in a body that Adult Sunday School: 10 a.m. 424 East Main Street Senior Minister has been defiled by sin. But if Morning Worship with Children's Church at Pastors Don Hanshew & Don Shelor Sunday School 10 a.m. the sin is repented of, forsak- 11 a.m. (540) 674-5128 Worship 11 a.m. en and forgiven, then He will [email protected] Sunday Evening Worship and remain in His Temple. Dublin Baptist Church Early Worship - 8:45 am Youth Meeting, 6 p.m. The Holy Ghost can be 100 Hawkins Street Sunday School - 9:45 am Wednesday Bible Study and Children's Bible grieved enough to leave. Un-re- Dublin, VA 24084 Praise & Worship Small Group - 10:00 am Classes, 7 p.m. pented of Sin grieves Him and 540-674-6061 Worship - 10:55 am He’ll not stay long where sin is [email protected] First Presbyterian Church allowed to reign in a person’s Website: dublinbaptistva.org Freedom Fellowship Church 408 N. Jefferson Avenue, Pulaski heart. Pastor: Dennis Jones 1730 West Street Pastor Melissa McNair-King Eph. 4:30 says, “And grieve Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Radford, VA 24141 (540) 980-2132 not the Holy Spirit of God, Morning Worship: 11 a.m. Sr. Pastor: Jerry W. Collins [email protected] whereby ye are sealed unto the Children's Church and Nursery 540-577-5780 www.firstpresbyterianpulaski.org day of redemption.” Evening Service: 6 p.m. [email protected] Sunday Services: The New Living Translation Tuesday: Women's Bible Study, 10 a.m. Sunday Service: 10 a.m. Sept.-May: Sunday School, 9:45 a.m., says it this way. “And do not Wednesday, Adult Bible Study 7 p.m. 11 a.m. Children’s Church Service 11 a.m. bring sorrow to God’s Holy Wednesday - 7 p.m. Service June-Labor Day: Service 10 a.m. Spirit by the way you live.” Re- 7 p.m. Youth Service Wednesday Family Night, 6 - 7:30 p.m. member, he has identified you as See MCCR AW, page B7 The Patriot - January 1, 2021 - Page B7 Thornspring United Methodist Church Pulaski Christian Church, Inc. Pulaski First Church of the Brethren 5670 Thornspring Church Rd. 4531 Brookmont Road, Pulaski, VA 24301 1749 Newbern Road Dublin, VA 24084 www.pulaskichristianchurch.com/ Pulaski, VA 24301 McCraw Pastor Frank Peters Pastor: Rev. Teresa Tolbert Rev. Kathy Warden, Pastor, Continued from Page B6 Sunday School: 10 a.m. (540) 250-2974 Sunday School: 9:45 Worship: 11 a.m. his own, sealing you and guaran- Worship Service: 11 a.m. Sunday School 9:45 a.m. teeing that you will be saved. Phone: (540) 980-2927 Worship 11 a.m. Wednesday Bible Study: 7 p.m. 980-3798 Got Questions.org defines Worship 7 p.m. what grieves the Spirit of God First Baptist Church Monday Bible Study Abundant Life Ministries by using scripture from Romans 5473 Baskerville Street 7 to 9 p.m. Chapters 4 and 5. We grieve the Dublin, VA 24084 Wednesday Bible Study 3050 Lee Highway Pulaski, VA 24301 (540) 980-5506 Spirit by living like the world. Pastor Wallis Brown 7 p.m. (Mon. - Fri., 9 a.m.-1 p.m.) (Rom. 4:17-19.) And by lying 540-674-2677 Pastor Randall K. Lawrence Sr. (Romans 4:25), by being angry Service: 11 a.m. Aldersgate United Methodist Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. (Romans 4:26-27), by steal- 1946 Medallion Drive Sunday Evenings 6 p.m. by announcement ing (Romans 4:28), by cursing New Dublin Presbyterian Church Pulaski, VA 24301 Wednesday Evenings (Family Night) 6:30-7 (Romans 4:29), by being bitter 5331 New Dublin Church Road (540) 980-1349 pm children fed, 7:15 pm Bible Classes all ages (Romans 4:31), by being unfor- Dublin, VA 24084 Pastor Becky Wheeler Adult Bible Class giving (Romans 4:32), and by Pastor: Sara Jane Nixon Sunday School 9:45 a.m. THRIVE Teen Class being sexually immoral (Romans Website: newdublinpres.org Sunday Worship 11 a.m. Children’s Bible Class and 5:3-5). To grieve the Holy Spirit 540-674-6147 Special Activitiy Classes is to act out in a sinful manner, Services 11:00 AM Sundays First Baptist Church whether it is in thought only, or 220 Magazine Street New Life Church of the Nazarene in both thought and deed. 45 S. Jefferson Avenue Community Christian Church Pulaski, VA 24301 The Holy Ghost is a person. 5382 Grace Street, Dublin VA, 24084 540-980-3336 Pulaski, VA 24301 540-980-2001 He is the third person of the Tri- 540-674-4308 Email: [email protected] une Godhead. And as a person Sunday School 9:30 a.m. Pastor: Rev, Douglas Patterson www.newlifepulaski.com email: [email protected] He can be grieved, much like you Worship Service 10:45 a.m. Sunday School 10 a.m. and I, as persons, can be grieved. Sunday Worship 11 a.m. Pastor: Julie Armbrister Sunday School (all ages) 9:30 a.m. And He can also pack up and First Dublin Presbyterian Church (ECO) Monday's Child Youth Group, Monday leave rather than to remain in an 409 Church Street, Dublin, Va. 24084 Evening 6 p.m. Sunday worship: 10:45 a.m. Wednesday Bible Study: 6 p.m. unclean Temple. P.O. Box 2027, Dublin, Va. 24084 Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 p.m. When and if a Christian would first-dublin-presbyterian-church-eco.com Trinity Baptist Church lay with a harlot, the bible tells Minister: Pulaski Presbyterian Church 4008 Robinson Tract Road us that he or she joins Christ The Rev. Dr. Olin Marsh Whitener, Jr. (PCA) Pulaski, VA 24301 into the act. So it’s no wonder 975 Memorial Drive Telephone: 980-8186 the Holy Ghost gets grieved, and Max Creek Baptist Church Pulaski, VA 24301 Pastor Johnny Howlett leaves when something like that 3000 Old Route 100 Road, Draper, Va. 24324 Office Phone:980-2631 Minister of Education Rev. Steve Taylor happens. www.maxcreek.org Email: [email protected] Sunday School - 9:45 a.m. Know ye not that your bodies www.facebook.com/maxcreekbaptist Website: www.pulaskipca.org Sunday Worship - 11 a.m. are the members of Christ? Senior Pastor: Mike Coleman Stated Supply: Rev. John Gess Sunday Bible Study - 6 p.m. Shall I then take the members Youth Minister: Charlie Prince Sunday School: 10:00am Wednesday - Adult Bible Study and Youth of Christ, and make them the Director of Visitation: Ersel Alderman Worship Service: 11:00am Group - 7 p.m. members of a harlot? God forbid. Sunday Services What? Know ye not that he Grace Fellowship Baptist Church Sunday School: 10 a.m. Sure Foundation Christian Fellowship which is joined to a harlot is one 2640 Max Creek Road Morning Worship: 11 a.m. 6598 Annie Akers Road body? For two, saith He, shall be Teen Social and Class: 5 p.m. Radford, VA 24141 P.O. Box 326 Hiwassee, VA 24347 one flesh. Evening Worship: 6 p.m. (540) 639-3443 “Know ye not that your body Wednesday Bible Study & Classes:7 p.m. Pastor Steve Phillips Pastor: Jason N. Aker Phone: 276-699-3176 is the Temple of the Holy Ghost Sunday Morning Worship: 10:00 am which is in you, which ye have Pulaski Church of God Sunday Night Prayer: 5:30 pm [email protected] Sunday School: 10 a.m. of God, and ye are not your own? 1621 Bob White Boulevard Wednesday Night For ye are bought with a price: Pulaski, VA 24301 Prophetic Teaching: 6:30 pm Sunday Worship Service: 11 a.m. Wednesday Night Bible Study: 7 p.m. therefore glorify God in your Pastor Donald Jones body, and in your spirit, which 540-980-8880 New Hope Chapel St. Edwards Catholic Church are God’s. Know ye not that www.pulaskicog.church 1555 Case Knife Road Corner of N. Washington Ave. and ye are the Temple of God, and Sunday Services Pulaski, VA 24301 7th Street N.W., Pulaski that the Spirit of God dwelleth Sunday Life Groups: 9:30 a.m. Pastor Darrell Gray Phone: 980-6511 in you? If any man defile the Sunday Morning Worship: 10:30 a.m. (276) 733-6080 Fax: 980-6511 Temple of God, him shall God Wednesdays Midweek Connect: 7 p.m. Pastor Gray and congregation invite you to Priest: Fr. Bernie Ramirez destroy; for the Temple of God is New Hope Chapel. Mass: 11 a.m. Sunday, 5:30 p.m. Thursday holy, which Temple ye are.” Showers of Blessing Church of Service Times: So if a person willfully joins God in Christ 10 a.m. Sunday School Warriors for Christ II the Holy Ghost to an act of im- 305 Newbern Road, Dublin 11 a.m. Sunday Service Bishop Sherman Buckner morality, and fails to repent, the Pastor Elder Stephen Muse 600 Skyline Circle Holy Ghost is going to pick up Pulaski, VA Come and Worship With Us! Family Worship Center and leave without so much as a Sunday School: 10:30 a.m. First Pentecostal Holiness 540-315-2317 Sunday School: 10 a.m. “by your leave.” Sunday Worship: 11:30 a.m. 955 Memorial Drive, Pulaski Another way one can lose Tuesday Night Bible Study: 7-8 p.m. 540-980-7287 Worship: 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Thursday: 7 p.m. Service the gift of the Holy Ghost is to Jeff Willhoite, Pastor quench the Spirit. When the Randolph Avenue Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Holy Ghost wishes to manifest United Methodist Church Sunday Worship 10:45 a.m. Bob White Boulevard Baptist Church 3826 Bob White Boulevard Himself in us and we refuse to 1607 Randolph Avenue KidsZone 10:45 a.m. allow it to happen, we are in Pulaski, VA 24301 Evening Worship 6 p.m. Pulaski, VA. Pastor: Allen Harman grave danger of causing the Holy Pastor: Rev. Dr. Elston McLain www.fwcpulaski.church Sunday School: 9:45 a.m. Ghorst to manifest Himself in Worship Service: 11 a.m. Preaching: 11 a.m. someone else instead of us. This Phone: (540) 980-8775 Sunday Evening: 7:30 p.m. would result in making us the Wednesday Prayer Service: 7:30 p.m. biggest losers. When the Spirit of FUNDAMENTAL God is moving in a Church, we Seagle need to get out of the flesh and Funeral Home into the Spirit. Todd Bruce, Manager 415 N. Jefferson Ave., Pulaski, 980-1700 Bible Trivia 1. Is the book of Leviticus in the Old or New Testament or nei- ther? 2. For possible New Year’s resolutions, Proverbs 16:3 says, “Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be ...”? Resolved, Established, Di- rected, Bountiful 3. In Luke 2, what prophetess spoke of Jesus “to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusa- lem”? Anna, Jezebel, Damaris, Whore of Babylon 4. In which month of the reli- gious calendar did the new year begin in the Bible? 3rd, 5th, 7th, 9th 5. From Matthew 2, to what country did Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus flee? Jordan, Syria, Oman, Egypt God wants us to learn from the past 6. Who told Joseph about the From the writings of the Rev. generally good health -- we find failures. death of Herod? Melchior, Angel Billy Graham ourselves rejoicing. This is what the Apostle Paul’s (in a dream), Augustus Caesar, Q: This has been a hard year If we close the year with goal was: “But one thing I do, Phanuel and I hope that the new year regret, we should pause and forgetting those things which are ANSWERS: 1) Old; 2) Es- will bring a more peaceful prayerfully ask two important behind and reaching forward to tablished; 3) Anna; 4) 7th; 5) society. My friends say that I questions. First, how does God those things which are ahead, Egypt; 6) Angel (in a dream) have my head in the sand. Are look on the past, and did it bring I press toward the goal for the Sharpen your understanding of we doomed? -- T.P. us any closer to Him? Did it prize of the upward call of God scripture with Wilson’s Casey’s A: Looking back is difficult expose any weaknesses in our in Christ Jesus” (Philippians latest book, “Test Your Bible for many people. When a year lives? Could we have disappoint- 3:13-14). through hard times and good Knowledge,” available in book- brings heartache and loss, trage- ed the Lord in how we responded May the new year bring new stores and online. dy and sorrow, we do hope that to the challenges life brought us? times, to remember that He opportunities to trust the Lord we can turn the page to greater What lessons can we take from never leaves us nor forsakes us. more and to grow in the knowl- days ahead. For those who have one year to the next? This is the great hope for those edge of Him. experienced life that brings God wants us to learn from who follow Jesus Christ as their (This column is based on the blessings -- a marriage, a new the past and He also wants us Savior and Lord. We should words and writings of the late baby, a new home or job, or just to thank Him for being with us not be bound by the past and its Rev. Billy Graham.) Page B8 - The Patriot - January 1, 2021 Thank You! Don’t let budgeting myths I have thought of 50 million different ways to start this week’s “Dear Members,” but sabotage your finances I finally decided to just come out and say it: This will be my Dear Dave, accurately and successfully. last letter to you. I have taken I made a resolution to start Believe me, I hear dozens of a new position as the first tour- following your plan in 2021. other excuses, too. You’d be ism director for Pulaski Coun- I talked to my parents about amazed at how many people ty. I am really excited about this, and while they like some don’t make a budget every having the opportunity to focus parts of your teaching, they month because they think it’s all my energies into promoting don’t think living on a budget “boring.” Others claim they can is necessary if you make good the natural assets we have here they say hello. I had to chuckle do their budgets in their heads. money. They also said budgeting in Pulaski County. when my daughter’s New York I don’t think so! For a budget is extremely difficult. Are they I have some mixed emotions City boyfriend was here and to really work, it needs to be right? as I write this column for the went out for a run on the trails. something you can track down last time (especially as I was My daughter quickly pointed Jensen to the last penny. And if you’re going through some old files out to him to make sure you Dear Jensen, married and saying you can do For whatever reason, I’m and I came across the first say hello or wave back. It is a monthly budget in your head, afraid your parents are way off newsletter I put out back in not something you would do in that means only one of you is base on this one. A lot of people October of 2002). Central Park. involved in the decision making. trash talk the idea of budgeting, Of course, it looked a little Go into TJ’s Restaurant, and That’s a recipe for disaster in and make up all kinds of ex- different, but it was filled with he gives you a TJ greeting. your finances and your relation- cuses for not living on one. The upcoming events, current Nothing like that to make you ship. truth is a written, monthly bud- events, and information for the feel welcome. When it comes A budget represents your get is essential when it comes to but the process soon becomes members. As the newsletter to hospitality, Debbie Gard- financial game plan for the beating debt and winning with faster and easier. All it takes is a evolved over the years, I started ner, New River Retreat & upcoming month and years money—period. It’s the map little practice. writing to you, the members, in Draper Merc sets the bar high. ahead. As Benjamin Franklin you need to get where you want If you think doing a budget 2008 and have been writing it Recently there was a photo said, “If you fail to plan, you are to go in your financial journey. is only for people who have ever since. I have tried to share agency using Draper as a back- planning to fail.” There are lots of myths, and trouble making ends meet, think personal anecdotes that would drop for their shoot. —Dave just some bad information, out again. My wife and I have lived * Dave Ramsey is a seven-time #1 give encouragement, support, When the Australian model there where living on a budget by a written, monthly budget national best-selling author, personal and just plain observations on arrived, he said this place is just finance expert, and host of The Dave is concerned. Making a budget every single month for about 30 business that might stir you like the song “Rocky Mountain Ramsey Show, heard by more than 16 isn’t rocket science. If you can years. It doesn’t matter whether into action. High.” We are not WV, but million listeners each week. He has ap- do basic math, you can create you’re a multi-millionaire, or peared on Good Morning America, CBS It is hard to sum up twenty Debbie realized that that song a budget. Your income minus if you have just $100 to your This Morning, Today Show, Fox News, years of building relationships was something he identified your outgo needs to equal zero. name, knowing exactly how CNN, Fox Business, and many more. in every sector of our commu- with and made sure to have it Since 1992, Dave has helped people re- That’s it! You might spend a much money you have—and nity - local and state. However, playing during the lunch break gain control of their money, build wealth couple of hours tallying all your where it’s going—is an essential and enhance their lives. He also serves I realized something during the following day. The entire expenses when you first start, part of managing your finances as CEO for Ramsey Solutions. my recent interview when I crew was blown away by the was asked, “What are Pulaski hospitality and how they were County’s strongest assets?” made to feel welcome. Visitors Think about that for a min- come here, and they just do not ute and how you would have want to leave. answered that question. Would People make the place. People you have given the obvious: are the difference in whether Claytor Lake, New River Trail, you want to ever return. It is all four wineries, 16 parks? Or about how you feel. I’m going maybe you would have said to leave you with my favorite Calfee Park and baseball, or quote by Maya Angelou, “I’ve Pulaski Theatre, and great learned that people will for- outdoor adventure. Yeah, we get what you said, people will have all those things. But there forget what you did, but people is something more. will never forget how you made I have traveled quite a bit them feel.” and moved a lot too, and what really makes a place memora- Thank you, Pulaski County, ble or welcoming is the people! for letting me be a part of your We have some of the greatest community for the past twenty people I have ever met. They years. Continue to work hard, go out of their way to welcome be productive, and - above all you to the area, they wave, and else - stay positive. Nine HCA hospitals awarded ‘A’ safety grades RICHMOND – Nine HCA for their unwavering commit- Virginia Health System hospitals ment to our patients and to our were awarded an ‘A’ in the Fall mission focused on the care and 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Safety improvement of human life,” said Grade, the top score in a national Tim McManus, HCA Healthcare distinction recognizing the hos- Capital Division president. “Our pital system’s achievements pro- high Leapfrog scores are concrete tecting patients from harm and evidence of the quality of care we providing safe healthcare. Leap- provide and our dedication to pa- frog assigns an ‘A’, ‘B’, ‘C’, ‘D’ tient safety.” or ‘F’ grade to general hospitals The Leapfrog Group is an in- across the country based on their dependent national watchdog or- performance in preventing med- ganization committed to improv- ical errors, injuries, accidents, ing health care quality and safety infections, and other harm to pa- for consumers. Developed under tients in their care. the guidance of a national ex- Of the more than 2,600 hospi- pert panel, the Leapfrog Hospital tals graded nationwide, only 33 Safety Grade uses up to 27 mea- percent earned an “A” grade for sures of publicly available hospi- meeting some of the industry’s tal safety data to assign grades to highest standards. The following more than 2,600 U.S. acute-care nine HCA Virginia Healthcare hospitals twice per year. The Hos- hospitals received an ‘A’ grade: pital Safety Grade’s methodology • Parham Doctors’ Hospital is peer-reviewed and fully trans- • Retreat Doctors’ Hospital parent, and the results are free to • Henrico Doctors’ Hospital the public. • Johnston Willis Hospital “We are extremely grateful • Chippenham Hospital to hospital leadership and health • Reston Hospital Center care workers who have remained • LewisGale Hospital-Pulaski steadfast in prioritizing pa- • LewisGale Medical Center tient safety as our nation battles • Lewis Gale Hospital-Mont- COVID-19,” said Leah Binder, gomery president and chief executive “I’m incredibly proud of our officer of The Leapfrog Group. medical staff and support teams “These ‘As’ are a testament to the care and commitment of those who work for the HCA Virginia Honor Your Health System. With the current Loved One With pandemic exposing existing flaws within the U.S. health care sys- An tem, we appreciate you putting In Memoriam patient safety first. 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