The New River Valley Public Health Task Force will host its next interactive, virtual town hall on COVID-19 and its impact on local and small businesses on Wednesday, June 3, from 6 to 7 p.m. All area residents are invited to participate.
This is the fifth in a six-week series of town halls. The final town hall in the series will be held on June 10 from 6 to 7 p.m. Each town hall has a specific focus and features a panel of local experts, who will offer remarks and answer questions. The theme of the June 3 town hall is education/K-12. The panel will include representatives from the Radford public schools, and the public schools of Floyd, Giles, Montgomery and Pulaski counties.
The June 10 town hall will focus on education/colleges and universities. On the panel will be representatives from New River Community College, Radford University and Virginia Tech.
Residents may submit questions to the panelists anytime as follows: in writing at http://montva.com/NRVtownhall; by voicemail through recording questions at 540-391-0385; and on Twitter with the hashtag #NRVStrongerTogether.
Written questions can be submitted during each town hall at montva.com/NRVtownhall and will be addressed as time allows.
The town halls stream live at www.youtube.com/montgomeryva, and are archived on YouTube, agency websites and social media, and rebroadcast on local cable access stations including Comcast and Shentel Channel 190 (Christiansburg and Montgomery County) and Comcast Channel 2 (Blacksburg).
The New River Valley Public Health Task Force is composed of local health, public safety, education and government agencies that work to proactively provide local residents and communities with information about COVID-19, to coordinate efforts to reduce its local impact and to facilitate community recovery.
For more information, visit www.montva.com/coronavirus and www.vdh.virginia.gov, or call the New River Health District public health call center at 540-267-8240. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to noon and Sunday, noon to 4 p.m. After hours, leave a message.
