
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 29, 1990                   TAG: 9004280256
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-10   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: DUBLIN                                LENGTH: Short

NRV ALLIANCE HALFWAY TO GOAL OF $1 MILLION

The New River Valley Economic Development Alliance is more than halfway to its $1 million fund-raising goal.

The public-private partnership is raising money for a four-year marketing campaign that it hopes will bring 5,000 jobs to the valley.

The group, a united marketing effort for Montgomery, Floyd, Giles and Pulaski counties and Radford, has served as host for five prospects and has several more scheduled, according to an alliance news release.

Business leaders, with the help of Rep. Rick Boucher, D-Abingdon, kicked off the fund drive in February. Campaign chairman Skip Griggs said then that the group already had about $200,000 in pledges.

Now it has more than $500,000.

"Responses from business and industry have been extremely positive," said Griggs, president of Industrial Drives in Radford. "Almost every business we have contacted has made an investment in the alliance."

The group said 150 volunteers are working on its campaign, which it calls New Vision, and it expects 80 more to join them before it is over.

by CNB