ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Thursday, March 28, 1996               TAG: 9603290007
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                PAGE: NEIGHBORS EDITION: METRO 

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ILLUSTRATION: PHOTO:  CINDY PINKSTON/Staff. Richard Winstead says he was 
          "jerked around" in his efforts to get 3 feet of city sidewalk in 
          front of this Patterson Avenue Southwest house repaired. He says the
          insurance on this house that Winstead leases to a mental health 
          services agency was canceled because of the sidewalk, which was 
          broken in 1993 when Appalachian Power Co. (now American Electric 
          Power) was outside installing lights. It took him six weeks to get a
          new policy, but it took only a telephone call from a newspaper 
          reporter to get the sidewalk repaired recently. An American Electric
          official said failure to repair the sidewalk earlier was a mistake 
          and "something that got overlooked by our contractor." color.