
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, July 3, 1990                   TAG: 9007030307
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-7   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: By JOEL TURNER MUNICIPAL WRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

FORMER OFFICIAL RETURNS

Michelle Bono, who resigned as Roanoke's public information officer last year and moved to Colorado, has returned to the city job that has remained vacant since she left.

Bono returned to work Monday, almost a year after she left to become public information officer for Thornton, Colo., a city near Denver.

"I called and asked if I could reapply for my job and they said, `Yes,' and I got it," she said.

Bono said she and her husband and two children moved back to the Roanoke Valley because they think it is a good place to raise a family. "We didn't realize how good a place it was until we got away," she said.

Bono had been public information officer for Roanoke for 2 1/2 years when she left last July. She was information director for Hollins College for two years before she took the city job.

As city public information officer, she supervises publication of the city's annual report, edits a newsletter for city employees, writes news releases, arranges news conferences and handles other duties.

Bono, who originally is from Kansas, graduated magna cum laude in journalism from Wichita State University.

She also has worked as a radio reporter and news anchor, as an editorial assistant in public relations for Beech Aircraft Corp., and as editor of the company's publication, The Beechcrafter.

by CNB