THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, November 2, 1996 TAG: 9611020346
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B2 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
LENGTH: 39 lines
CHERYL BYRD
Republican
Age: 53
Home: Southern Shores
Education: Master's in Mathematics, University of Wisconsin; B.A in Mathematics, Wells College, New York.
Occupation: Retired. Worked as a program planner, cost and budget analyst, computer information systems analyst and a mathematics teacher.
Membership: Dare County Republican Women's Club; League of Women Voters of Dare County; Southern Shores Civic Association; Nature Conservancy.
Family: Husband, Bob. Five children, six grandchildren.
Cheryl Byrd has kept close watch on the county government even before she decided to run for a commissioners seat, attending more than 35 commission meetings in the last year. Several things became apparent to her in her observations over the months, she said.
``The biggest reason that I'm running is I want everyone to know that everything is being run fairly,'' Byrd said. ``The other issue is planning for the future - we have an awful lot of things we want government to do, but we don't seem to want to pay for it.''
A Dare County property owner for 11 years, Byrd said her first priority if she was elected would be to make the commissioners meetings ``more civil.''
``They're awfully rancorous now,'' Byrd said. ``People are at each other's throats.''
Byrd also wants county job openings to be advertised, to implement long-range planning, provide more year-round jobs and affordable housing. ILLUSTRATION: Photo
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