Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, December 11, 1993 TAG: 9312130309
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By BRIAN KELLEY STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Medium
The advisory councils include people from all parts of the 12th House District and from both political parties.
Shuler, a Blacksburg Democrat, described the groups as a way to tap into the valley's ``brain power and expertise.''
A delegate, Shuler said, must deal with more than 2,000 pieces of legislation during the two-month General Assembly session.
``No one delegate can be an expert in every issue,'' he said. ``I will call on members of these councils, along with other citizens, to advise me on particular issues.''
Moreover, the councils will help form proposals to benefit the region and the state. ``By bringing together the expertise and perspectives of these individuals, we hope to offer solutions to some of the critical issues,'' Shuler said.
The Blacksburg veterinarian is assembling another group to advise him on educational issues. Its membership will be announced later this month.
Blacksburg real estate broker Pat Cupp, who last spring unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination to run against Shuler, is a member of the business panel.
``I honestly had to think about it a while,`` Cupp said. But, ``I think what Jim's doing will help the county. As a citizen, I'm obligated . . . obligated and honored.''
Blacksburg restaurateur William Ellenbogen will chair the business issues council. Among its 18 members are representatives of small businesses, banking, insurance, auto sales, manufacturing, tourism, economic development groups and local government.
Its members include: William Aden, chief executive officer of Draper Aden Associates, a Blacksburg engineering firm; Charles Beller, a Christiansburg lawyer; Steve Cochran, the vice chairman of the Montgomery County Democratic
Committee; Bev Collins, president of Patrick Enterprises, a Pembroke-based fabrication and machining business; Paul Duncan, owner of University Motors in Blacksburg; Joncq Halberstadt, a Roanoke-based real estate broker who lives in Christiansburg; David Rundgren, executive director of the New River Valley Planning District Commission; J. Ken Shaw, a Virginia Tech math professor; T. Cooper Via, president of L.L. Brown Agency Inc., a Blacksburg insurance firm; Louise Baker, a real estate broker with Owens & Co.; T.W. Bonham, associate dean of Tech`s business school; Taylor Cole, a Central Fidelity Bank vice president in Christiansburg; Waldon Kerns, a Tech professor of agriculture and applied economics; H.M. Scanland, the general manager of Mountain Lake Hotel in Giles County; Janet Tuckwiller, the Giles county administrator; and Davis Walker, director of human resources with Litton Poly-Scientific, a manufacturing company in Blacksburg.
Retiring Del. Joan Munford, a licensed nursing-home administrator, will chair the 15-member health issues advisory council.
Its membership includes: Dr. Elizabeth Dedman-Alexander, director of student health services at Tech; Andicq Isenhourcq of Christiansburg; Dr. Steve Jacobs, a Blacksburg optometrist; Kerry Redican, a Tech associate professor of public health and physical education; Lindsay West, chairwoman of the Montgomery Democratic committee; Susan Donkers, a nurse practitioner; Faye Harper, a registered nurse; Albin T. Butt of Blacksburg; Dr. James Garrison, a Blacksburg psychologist; Douglas Martin, Tech's benefits programs manager; Lynn Keister, a nurse and coordinator for a nonprofit children's health program in the New River Valley; Judy Tynan of Montgomery Regional Hospital; Dr. Kenneth Walker, a Pearisburg physician; and Rebecca Noftsinger, executive director of the Free Clinic of the New River Valley.
by CNB