Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, December 21, 1993 TAG: 9312240206
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-4 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: By PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: DUBLIN LENGTH: Medium
But he found himself getting a special award at the county employees' recognition breakfast for his 12 years on the county Board of Supervisors.
Vaughan was a supervisor from 1968 through 1979, and his nameplate had recently been discovered in the county Administration Building. The county staff mounted it onto a plaque citing his years of service.
County Administrator Joe Morgan noted that no sooner did Vaughan step down as a supervisor than he was put on the authority. ``I guess they thought they hadn't gotten enough out of him,'' Morgan said.
About 75 people came to the breakfast at the armory building near Dublin.
Some of them were recognized for perfect job attendance.
Jack Stilwell had not missed a day for 11 straight years; George Hazel, nine years; Morgan, seven years; Jerry Graham, four years; and Rick Gordon, Barry Lyons, Walter Lewis, Larry Vest, Diane Stanley, Doug Mayberry and John Myers, three years or less.
Safe driving awards went to Stilwell, Graham, Gordon, Lyons, Vest, Mayberry, Myers, Rick Crowder, Dale Hoffman, Joe Garlick, Chris Goins, Darrell Farmer, Diane Stanley, Gary Nuckols, Jim Tabor, Richard Thomas, Tony Dehart, Mike Tolbert, Troy Jackson, Ray Underwood, Tim Dye, Don Cressell, Joyce Crowder, Eddie Fisher, Richard Chumbley, Robert Byrd, Taylor Boyd, Tim Dalton, Ronnie Ryan, Carl Viars, Arnold Altizer, Doug Stilwell, Bill Rigney, Fred Doody, Christine King, Peter Huber, Melody Taylor, Stan Crigger, Johnny Kanode, Ronnie Coake, Charles Goins and Kenny Stoots.
``Your safe practices are saving the citizens a lot of money'' by allowing lower insurance rates, Morgan told the group,.
Stoots had driven the same 1979 Dodge pickup truck on the job for nearly 230,000 miles for the Public Service Authority. The county finally replaced it, and offered to sell him the old one with a $100 discount on whatever its value is now.
``I hope you don't end up paying him cash,'' Morgan joked. Stoots said he guessed he would take the offer.
Service awards went to Nancy Burchett for 20 years of service; Mayberry, Fisher, Hazel, Dehart, Underwood, Gena Hanks, Joy Taylor, Melinda Zalecki and Chris King, 15 years; Farmer, Coake, Wanda Saunders and Vanessa Bartley, 10 years; Byrd and Doody, five years.
But the award that generated the most interest was the Count Casimir Sure Shot Performance Award for Action in Battle, given for goofs ranging from backing into a parked car to an upsetting canoe trip.
Coake explained that the award stemmed from Pulaski County's namesake, Revolutionary War hero Count Pulaski, who was accidentally killed by his own troops. Winners from the nominees were based on audience applause - Morgan, for an oversight several years ago involving a car he drove away with a gas hose still attached to it; Assistant County Administrator Peter Huber, for bumping another bicyclist on New River Trail; and Emergency Services Coordinator Stan Crigger for taking an ax to the wings of a downed airplane so it could be hauled off.
Award statuettes were presented to the three winners by Melody Taylor. ``We expect these to sit on your desks and, when people ask questions, you should explain why,'' she said.
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