Roanoke County awarded for environmental improvement

Roanoke County's department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism received two awards at this week's conference of the Virginia Recreation and Park Society. The Best Environmental Improvement award was granted to the agency for last year's Garst Mill Park Stream Restoration project which improved the health and beauty of Mud Lick Creek through stream realignment and erosion controls. Roanoke County also received an award for Best Promotional Effort for a specialty piece, for a promotion for last year's Enchanted Eve new year's eve celebration in Vinton. These projects were judged to be the best in the commonwealth in their population categories.