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by Amelia Harper
During the Nash County Board of Commissioners meeting slated for Monday, two local heroes will be celebrated for their long service to Nash County in their roles as emergency medical service providers.
Nash County EMS Director Scott Strufe will present two employees for special recognition.
“Paramedic Cleveland Hunt and Paramedic Ricky Turner began serving Nash County as EMS providers in 1969,” Strufe said in the agenda. “Over the last 50 years, they have witnessed the evolution in health care in our community. They have comforted and saved countless citizens of Nash County. Both bring an enormous amount of experience and wisdom to our organization.”
Strufe said such long years are rare in this profession.
“I am unaware of another case of a full-time EMS provider reaching 50 years of continuous service,” Strufe said. “Ricky and Cleveland joined Nash County EMS full time in 2006. Cleveland currently serves as a paramedic on an emergency ambulance. Ricky Turner currently serves as our convalescent services coordinator.”
Nash County commissioners also will hold a public hearing concerning whether sporting goods stores and bicycle shops should be permitted as a retail land use in rural commercial zoning districts.
According to the agenda for the meeting, a “sporting goods store, bicycle shop” is a commercial land use that includes the retail sale of sporting goods, sporting equipment, bicycles, bicycle parts, bicycle accessories, firearms, ammunition, hunting equipment, bait or fishing tackle. The Nash County Unified Development Ordinance currently only permits the development of this retail land use in the GC (General Commercial) Zoning District.
However, the county has had a request from Paul C. Engram III to amend the Table of Permitted Uses in order to add “sporting goods store, bicycle shop” as a retail commercial land use to be permitted for development by right in the RC (Rural Commercial) Zoning District as well, the agenda states.
Other items on the agenda include the Elm Street Drainage Project, the 2018 Community Development Block Grant Neighborhood Revitalization Grant, the Ambulance Remount Bid, the Governors Highway Safety Program Amendment and the 2019 Homeland Security Grant Ordinance.
The meeting will be held at 9 a.m. Monday in the Frederick B. Cooper Commissioners Room in the Claude Mayo Jr. Administration Building in Nashville.
The meeting is open to the public and members of the public can sign up to speak before the meeting begins.
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