ROANOKE TIMES

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

DATE: THURSDAY, April 19, 1990                   TAG: 9004200665
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W2   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

STEVE SMITH, a delivery driver for United Parcel Service, recently was recognized by the company for completing 20 years driving without an accident. His territory includes the Bent Mountain and Floyd areas.

\ ELAINE WEINGARTEN of Roanoke, a division manager for World Book-Childcraft, has received the Honor Society Award, one of the company's top sales awards.

\ DONALD S. BLANDING and WILLIAM GREGORY BROYLES have joined the Medical Center Pharmacy, an affiliate of Carilion Health System.

Blanding is responsible for managing the marketing and sales of durable medical equipment and the development of in-home respiratory programs.

Broyles is a licensed pharmacist and has responsibility for managing and marketing home intravenous therapy programs and prescription services.

\ TIM LANNING, formerly of Roanoke, has been appointed manager of the Harrisonburg branch of Williams Supply Inc.

\ BETTY K. BUSSEY Bussey of Roanoke has been named manager of the new office of Central Fidelity Bank, at 4143 Franklin Road S.W. Bussey joined Central Fidelity in 1987 and has served in various positions, most recently as a teller trainer for the southwestern region.

\ HONEYTREE EARLY LEARNING CENTER has started an after-school program for children up to age 12 at its Salem center on Roanoke Boulevard. Activity rooms are available for study, play and arts and crafts. The back yard has a skateboard area, basketball hoops and room for other games.

Tina Kitchen, director of the Salem center, is in charge of the after-school program.

\ DAVID W. STAFFORD of Salem has been named operations officer for corporate operations and technology at the Western Operations Center of Sovran Bank.

Stafford joined Sovran in Norfolk in 1969 and held various positions at the Abingdon Operations Center before coming to Roanoke.

\ WILLIAM E. VOLTZ, formerly of Roanoke, has been named vice president of merchandise marketing at Norfolk Southern Corp. He formerly was vice president of marketing.

\ ROBERT W. COFFEY, vice president of sales and industrial development at Norfolk Southern Corp. and formerly of Roanoke, has retired after 42 years of service.

\ THERESA MATHIS has joined the Roanoke campus of National Business College as assistant campus director. She coordinates the college's associate, diploma and certificate degree programs.

\ DOTTIE A. WHITESIDE, a registered nurse at Roanoke Memorial Hospitals, has received the Nursing Practice Award from the Emergency Nurses Association. Whiteside, who has been in nursing practice since 1961, is a member of the hospital's Strategic Emergency Response Team.

\ THE ROANOKE DIVISION OF APPALACHIAN POWER CO. has won the large-division category in the American Electric Power System annual safety competition. This is the second consecutive year that the Roanoke Division has won the award.

Roanoke Division employees had accumulated 3,669,370 safe hours by the end of 1989. The last disabling injury occurred on April 18, 1985.



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