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<br />.~ '<' <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />JUNE 22, 1982 <br /> <br />The regular semi-monthly meeting of the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, <br /> <br />with Mayor Barry A. Greene presiding, was held Tuesday, June 22, 1982, in the Council <br /> <br />Chamber, City Hall, beginning at 7:30 P.M., all members being present, with the exception <br /> <br />of Councilman Francis T. West (who was on business away from the City), viz., Barry A. <br /> <br />Greene, Mayor; William C. Cole, Jr., Vice Mayor; L. D. Oakes; and Henry C. Reed. <br /> <br />Following the invocation, Council unanimously approved--as recorded--the minutes of its <br /> <br />regular meeting held June 8, 1982. <br /> <br />In recognition of Mrs. Annie Mae Jones, who recently retired after long and faithful <br /> <br />service to the City and its citizens as a School Crossing Guard, Council unanimously <br /> <br />adopted the following resolution: <br /> <br />WHEREAS, under date of September 14, 1950, the then-City Manager Kent <br />Matthewson was authorized by Martinsville City Council to organize, for <br />the first time in the City's history, a women's traffic patrol, consisting <br />of what later evolved into a "Patrolmothers Unit" and, subsequently, School <br />Crossing Guards, for the purpose of safeguarding local school children from <br />harm and accidents while crossing busy and dangerous street intersections <br />as they walked to and from their respective schools; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Mrs. Annie Mae Jones, having been a School Crossing Guard con- <br />tinously and faithfully since September 1, 1953, has protected and helped <br />maintain safety for thousands of local school children during her twenty- <br />nine years of public service to the City and its citizens, from which <br />service she is now retiring; now, therefore, <br /> <br />BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Martinsville, Virginia, in <br />regular meeting assembled this twenty-second day of June, 1982, that-- <br />with much appreciation and gratitude--it does not only hereby publicly <br />recognize and commend Mrs. Jones for her outstanding record of public <br />service to the City's school children and their parents but also wishes <br />for her many healthful and happy years of retirement. <br /> <br />Vice Mayor Cole, on behalf of Council, presented a gavel (with appropriate inscription) <br /> <br />to Mayor Greene in recognition of Mayor Greene's outstanding service to the City during <br />