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Article: MOUNT PLEASANT RISES UNITED: AVOIDING ANOTHER LANDFILL, A HIGHWAY AND EXPLORE PARK WERE BIG VICTORIES Series: This place, its people
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- January 28, 1999
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Mount Pleasant is the kind of quiet place where regular folks get
married, raise their kids and stay.
"It's still one of the best places to live. I wouldn't trade it
for any place I've ever seen," said Gene Wagner who has lived in
Mount Pleasant all of his 73 years.
It's the kind of place where red-nosed children gather around a
bonfire on snowy days to warm their mittens for another round of
sledding.
Whether they're learning or playing, children are at the center
of life. Their parents rally around Mount Pleasant Elementary
School, the community's thriving churches and its rec club.
"They are independent and tend to do for themselves," said county
Supervisor Harry Nickens, who lived in ...