6-A-Martinsville Bulletin, Tuesday, February 5, 2002 OBITUARIES Linda Sue Carter Linda Sue Carter. 44. of Stuart, died Monday. Feb. 4.
2002, at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home in Winston-Salem. N. C. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Howell Funeral Home.
Stuart. Ida K. Hutcherson Ida Kate Hutcherson. 94. of Patrick Springs, died Monday.
Feb. 4. 2002. at R.J. Reynolds Patrick County Memorial Hospital in Stuart.
She was born in Patrick County on Sept. 30, 1907. to the late George Dillion and the late Mary Lou Craig Dillion. She also was preceded in death by her husband. John W.
Hutcherson; a daughter. Virginia Parnel: and several brothers and sisters. She was a member of the County Line Church of God of Prophecy. Hutcherson is survived by Schools- (Continued from Page 1-A) up for less money from the city, said Trollinger. For 2001-2002, the schools had sought more than $8 million from the city, but were budgeted $7.77 million.
he said. At the request of city officials. the school depleted its remaining fund balance of $569.000 to make up the difterence, Trollinger said. Fund balances generally are used to cover one-time expenses. such as a construction project or major equipment purchase.
Trollinger said. "Once you use the fund balance the money is gone. Therefore, most people hesitate to use fund balance for operating expenses since they are recurring." he stated in a memo to the school board. But the schools agreed. working "long and hard with the Martinsville City Councilto help the city get through the budget crisis when Tultex filed for bankruptcy" he said.
Now. Trollinger will ask the city for $250.000 more than the $7.77 million the city provided last year to simply help the school system stay even. In a recent joint school board city council mecting. council members told the school board that they expected to provide the same $7.77 million in the coming fiscal year. "It is time that our city councilmen helped us maintain our top quality programming.
small ratios and our neighborhood schools for the near future. Failure to do so would mean that an additional 7.25 positions would have to be cut or our smallest elementary schools would have to be closed." Trollinger wrote to the school board. STATE FUNDING The state annually gives Martinsville schools about $3.100 per pupil. Because of increased enrol'ment along with other state revenue sources, Trollinger looks to get $250.000 more from the state. The school system has budget for 20 additional students for the next -chool year.
a forecast Trollinger termed "conservative." City school officials have said that inquiries and applications by Henry County students have risen since the Henry County school Roark- (Continued from Page 1-A) hole." "No matter how you cut it this was never grand larceny cast," he said "Wal-Mart was stretching real hard to inflate the charge. At the worst. this is a case of petty larceny with an allegation of a prior (criminal) record." Grand larceny is defined by Virginia law as stealing property worth more than $200 and is punishable by as many as 20 years in prison. A preliminary hearing on the grand larceny charge had been set for Wednesday. It was canceled when the charge was dropped.
Blancy said Roark would in Roanoke Circuit Court later this week on a procedural matter of transferring his to the new charge. Roark has been free on $2.500 bond since shortly after his arrest. Ferris said no court date has been set. but one would be shortly. CALENDAR three daughters.
Madeline Walker of Bassett, Mary Ruth Kendrick of Martinsville and Margaret Foley of Patrick Springs. a son. Junior Hutcherson of Floyd, 24 grandchildren: 46 great grandchildren: and 19 great-great-grandchildren. The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Moody Funeral Home chapel in Stuart.
The Revs. Freddie Bonds and Bernard Handy will officiate. Burial will be in the Critz Baptist Church cemetery. The family will receive friends today at Moody Funeral Home from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Everett Shields III Everett Damon "Trai" Shields III. 30. of 172 Tanyard Road. Martinsville. died Sunday.
Feb. 3.2002. at Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry County from injuries received in an automobile board announced consolidation-reconfiguration plans for next year. Additional money should come from the state as a result of increased federal funding under President Bush's education bill and a lower composite index for Martinsville. said Trollinger.
SCHOOL SYSTEM CUTS Trollinger said he has been working with administrators and principals to find $250,000 in cuts for next fiscal year. "We will trim funds from all line items by up to 10 percent and also reduce personnel at the central office and schools." Trollinger said. "We will do our best to protect our teachers who teach our children directly." Trollinger called the 2002. 2003 budget "the most challenging" because it is largely shaped by fixed cost which he has no control over. For example.
the schools Property and Casualty Insurance will increase approximately 20 percent, or the Virginia Retirement System rate will increase two tenths of a percent, resulting in an additional cost of $30.000: teacher pay increases implemented on Dec. 1 will have to be paid for the entire vear. meaning $100.000 in additional cost; and the triennial school census has to be conducted next year at the cost of $15.000. Trollinger said he will meet with City Manager Earl B. Revnolds Jr.
and Finance Director Wade Bartlett next week to discuss the budget. "If additional tax revenue does not come through the sale of the hospital. be explor ing the possibility of a tobacco tax to generate new funds." he told the board. Trollinger added that finding funding also was critical since the state is doing away with the $279.000 in construction funding generated from lottery money. In other business Monday, the board: Heard a renovation update of the Albert Harris Interme.
diate School auditorium. Facilities Director Bill Lester said, with the laving of the new ceiling. the project was twothirds complete. He added he is using school maintenance staff to paint. put down new Roark was arrested in the carly morning of Nov 4 outside the Wal-Mart on Franklin Road in Roanoke.
According to Roanoke police spokeswoman Shelly Alley. a Wal-Mart employee had seen a man in the store "grabbing several music CDs and taking them out the door." Alley would not identify the employee. Court records and the indictment issued Monday identified store assistant manager John M. Megimose as a prosecution witness. Court records also state that Roark is accused of stealing 14 CD.
from the store: the records do not identify the CDs According to Alley, the store employee and other followed the man out of the store and to his Jeep. They got him out of the Jeep when he refused to do so. Roark a- treated and released from Roanoke Memonal Hospita! before he was arrested, according to Alley and a hospital spokesman. According to previous Bul- accident. Collins Funeral Bassett is in arrangements.
Karoljean Smarr A memorial Karoljean Forestine Smarr Services in charge of service for Smarr. 52. of Harford Gardens Nursing Home. Baltimore, and formerly of Martinsville, who died Dec. 6, 2001.
in Baltimore, will be held Wednesday in Baltimore. She was born July 2. 1949. in Martinsville. a daughter of the late John Forrest Smarr and the late Lillie Virginia Deck Smarr.
She was a member of Fayette Street Christian Church. She is survived by a daughter, Tamika Smarr of Landover, four grandchildren: and a number of relatives in Martinsville. Joe Lewis Stanley The funeral for Joe Lewis Stanley, 64, of 3205 Bassett Heights Bassett. who died Jan. 31, 2002, was held Monday at Friendship Baptist Church with Bishop T.
Hargrove and the Rev. James Tinsley officiating. Burial was in the Stanley family cemetery. Pallbearers were James Manns. Larry Ross.
Willie Gray Manns, Jerry Ross, Pete Manns, Charlie Brown and George Manns. Honorary pallbearers were grandsons, and flowerbearers granddaughters and other family members. Arrangements were handied by Collins Funeral Services in Bassett. City board OKs going ahead with merger study The Martinsville School able to start the study by earBoard gave the Martinsville- ly April. 2 Henry County Chamber of With the goal of producing Commerce on Monday the the best education at the best okay to go forward with a fea- cost.
Adkins said the consulsibility study of merging Mar- tants would be looking at tinsville and Henry County everything from merging proschool systems. grams and departments to After Kim Adkins. executive merging the entire school vice president of the chamber, divisions. updated the board on where She said both school divithe chamber stood on the sions are dealing with probstudy, the board agreed to con- lems created by limited local tinuc. and state funding and the Adkins said the chamber study's information will help has been in contact with the them make decisions on how Virginia Tech Department of best to handle those problems.
Education and the Weldon Adkins said Martinsville Cooper Center for Public Ser- and Henry County School sysvice at University of Virginia. tems will have to work coopShe expects to get cost pro- eratively with the consultants posals for the study from both because that's where the groups by Feb. 22. information for the study is A preliminary projection going to come from, but she puts the project's cost at added that the chamber also $40.000 to $75.000, she said. is sensitive to the fact that Based on promises from pri- Henry County school officials vate.
funding sources. the are dealing with the stress and chamber is confident it can strain of its own consolidation raise the money. she said plan. Adkins said the next step At the latter part of last year. then would be to give the con- the school boards created sultants' proposals to school subcommittees to work with superintendents Ira one another on exploring Trollinger of Martinsville and ways to share resources.
SubSharon Dodson of Henry committee members for the County and to the school divi- Martinsville school board are sions' respective subcommit- Chuck Davies and Cynthia tees. The school divisions Ingram: for the Henry Counwould determine which pro- ty School Board, the members posal to go with. she said. are Kelly Cecil and Jim adding that she hoped to be Franklin. carpeting and replace bad stage boards.
Heard an update of the national "Read Across Amer ica" program Middle school teacher Betsy Ivey told the board that city schools will celebrate the program on March 1. Learned that Martinsville School System has entered a partnership with Averett College. Nancy Bowen, assistant superintendent for instruction. said the partnership entailed such benefits as the college providing teacher development services and college students tutoring children In return. Martinsville schools will provide internship for Averettstudent and letin articles.
Roark has been convicted four times in the last 16 vears. In December 1985. he was convicted in Campbell County General District Court of stealing $35 worth of property from Williams Lumber Co. in Brookneal in July of that vear, former Martinsville Commonwealth's Attorney Randolph Smith said in 1992, quoting Camphell County court records. Roark was given a suspended 10-day jail term.
fined $100 and ordered to pay $35 restitution, Smith said. citing the court records. less than 3 week after appearing in Campbell County court, Roark was arrested at Kruger in Madison Heights and charged with taking $8388 worth of Polaroid videotapes, Smith said in 1992. again citing court records. Roark pleaded guilty in Amherst County General District Court on Jan.
9. 1986. to shoplifting and was fined $50. Today, Feb. 5 United Way of Henry Coun- annual meeting at noon at The Gallery on Memorial Boulevard.
Officers and directors for the upcoming year will be elected. as well as recognition of volunteers and outstanding company campaigns; 638-3946 for more information. Southwest Piedmont Beekeepers Association: 7:30 p.m.. right side board room. Henry County Administration Building.
The "Bookkeeping for Beekeepers." will be presented by Eric Eberly, extension agent, farm management. Martinsville High School Band Boosters: 6:30 p.m.. in the school band room. Parents and supporters are encouraged to attend. Ridgeway TOPS Va.
413: 6 p.m. weigh 6:30 p.m., meeting, in the basem*nt at the Ridgeway Rescue Squad; 956- 3056. Henry County School Board: meet at 9 a.m. at the Henry County Administration Building for school tours. Heart Health: Integrating Traditional and Alternative Therapies for a Holistic Approach to Healing." by Julius Torelli, M.D.
of Integrative Cardiology Center, High Point. N.C.. will be presented at 7 p.m. in the first floor classroom. Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry County.
Parent Resource Center: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. SOL testing and accommodations for students with disabilities. at the center in Liberty Fair Mall; Debbie Bliss. transition coordinator for Henry County Schools, is in charge: 634-4751 for more information.
Martinsville Business and Professional Women's Club: 6 p.m. meeting at Best Western. Backpacking Club: monthly meeting, 7:30 p.m. at Axton Baptist Church. Will Franck, owner of Backtrackers, a wilderness survival school in Axton.
will speak. For more information contact Robert Meador. 650-1958. Narcotics Anonymous: New Vision Group, 8 p.m., Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. TOPS Va.
626: 6 p.m. weighin: 7 p.m. meeting. Fieldale United Methodist Church; 956- 2708. Alcoholics Anonymous meetings: 7:30 a.m.
closed discussion. House of Prayer, Patrick Henry Mall; AA closed discussion and Alanon meetings, both at 8 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Martinsville: 8 p.m. study closed discussien meeting at Stone Memorial Christian Church, Collinsville. Narcotics Anonymous: New Vision Group.
8 p.m. at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Church Street Extension, Martinsville. Christian Recovery Support Group: 7 p.m. at the Martinsville Church of God. corner of Clearview Drive and Barrows Mill Road.
This is a nondenominational 12-step group. Naturalists Club: 7 p.m. at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. Kermon Thomasson. who lived in Nigeria for sev-.
eral years. will give a program on the natural history of Nigeria. The public is invited. Senior citizens dance: 7:30 p.m. to 10p.m at the Rangeley Ruritan ('lub.
with music by the Friday Night Band. TOPS Va. 218. 930 a.m weigh-in; 10 a.m. meeting at Chatham Heights Baptist Church: 957 3409.
Henry County Department of Planning and Community Development: 6 pm. community meeting at St. John's Church on Axton Road, to discuss the Sandy Level Housing Rehab project and other topics. Contact Deb Hill, grant administrator, 634 4620 for more information. Wednesday, Feb.
6 Red Cross: blood drive, noon until 6 p.m at Rotary Field. Stuart. For an appointment or information. call 1-800 GIVE LIFE or visit the Red Cross Web site at www.redcross.org. Alcoholics Anonymous: 8:30 a.m., closed discussion, House of Prayer.
Patrick Henry 6 p.m. women's closed discussion group. and 8 p.m. regular A.A closed discussion meeting. both at Friendly Christian Church.
Virginia 684, Spencer. Thursday, Feb. 7 Prostate cancer survivors: the American Cancer Society's support group for prostate cancer survivors called "Man to Man" will meet at 7 p.m. in the first floor conference room, Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry County. A roundtable discussion v.ill follow the program.
Call 638-8944 for more information. Henry County Republican Committee: 7 p.m., special meeting at the Henry County Administration Building. For more information contact Chairman Don Lawson, 632- 7508. Alcoholics Anonymous: 7:30 a.m.. closed discussion.
at the House of Prayer, Patrick Henry Mall: and 8 p.m.. open speakers meeting, First Baptist Church Fellowship Hall. Martinsville. Martinsville Transportation Safety Commission: 9 a.m., Room 200. City Municipal Building.
Bereaved Parents support group: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the administrative board room, Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and Henry County. This group offers support for parents who have experienced the death of a child. and is free to the public.
Rose Howell of McKee-Stone Funeral Services will speak: 666-7469 for more information. County Historical Society: 7 p.m. at the Blue Ridge Regional Library. The program will be on the late Cassyc Bonner Gravely. the author of the salute to the Virginia Flag that has been the center of controversy in the state government recently.
Desmond Kendrick, Henry County archivist, president of the society, will speak. Henry County School Board: 9 a.m. closed session: 10 a.m. regular (budget work session), at the Henry County Administration Building. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No.
4637 and the Ladies Auxiliary: 6:30 p.m dinner meeting, at the post home at Chatham Heights. Book discussion: 10 a.m.. Reynolds Homestead. Critz. Rachel Wright will lead the discussion on Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart," a portrait of Nigerian tribal life before and after colonialism in Africa in which the ruin of one man mimics the destruction of a culture.
SCORE will provide free counseling services for new, prospective or established small businesses, noon until 2 p.m. at the Chamber of Commerce, 115 Broad Martinsville; 6326401 for more information. You do not have to be a member of the chamber for this service. Exchange Club of Martinsville: 630 p.m. dinner mecting.
at Best Western. The program will be the Martinsville Jazz Band: visitors are welcome. DMV mobile customer service unit will be stationed at the Patrick County Community Center at Dehart Park and Johnson Street. 9am. to4 pm.
for vehicle registration and renewal, driver's license tests and renewals. photo ID dealer titling, motor carrier services and other services. Notices should be mailed in advance to Calendar, Martinsville Bulletin, P.O. Box 3711. Martinsville.
Va. 24115: faxed to 638-1409: or delivered to 204 Broad Martinsville. a place for college professors to field test some of their new teaching theories and methodologies. Watched a demonstration of a group of martial arts students from Albert Harris Intermediate School. Trollinger said the program was implemented last April to to help students increase focus and self-discipline.
Tae Kown Do instructor Preston Rodgers and Trollinger cited three students whose grades and school attendance have increased significantly since joining the program. Under the direction of Rodgers, 11 students went through a series of kicks, punches and kata movements. Smith said at the time. In 1988. Roark pleaded guilty to stealing $100.000 worth of video equipment from an Asheville.
V.C.. television station, Buncombe County, prosecutor Bob Clark said at the time. Roark was arrested on the charge in Henry County after a sheriff's deputy stopped Roark on suspicion of speeding and saw video equipment in the car, according to police reports at the time. In exchange for the guilty plea, Roark agreed to pay $1.000 in restitution to TV and to serve three years of probaton. according to a Bulletin article.
In 1992 Roark was fined $300 and given a three month jail term. which was suspended. after he was convicted of stealing two Martinsville Bulletin newspapers from a coin- -operated rack in October of that year, according to a Bulletin article. A misdemeanor charge of resisting arrest was dismissed. City hit by power failures resulting from high winds About 25 customers in the Druid Hills area of Martinsville were without power for about an hour Monday evening when a line fell on Grattan Road.
A tree limb probably fell on the Martinsville electric line because of the high winds, said Matt Hankins. public information officer for the city of Martinsville. The wind caused several problems for electric customers throughout the day, but fewer than 50 customers were affected all together, Hankins said. Most were isolated to one or two buildings at a time. but the ore in the Druid Hills area had the most impact.
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