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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 2, 1990                   TAG: 9005020253
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LEXINGTON                                LENGTH: Short

BLACK INCUMBENT LEADS LEXINGTON COUNCIL RACE

Incumbent City Councilman Andrew C. Jordan, who made a "last-minute decision" to run for re-election, led a field of five City Council candidates here Tuesday.

Jordan, the only black on the council, unofficially garnered 587 votes, ensuring his return. Also elected to the three council seats were Timothy Golden, financial aid director at Virginia Military Institute, and Patrick Mayerchak, a VMI political science professor.

Out of luck were builder David Hunsicker and James Berger, owner of Lexington Building Supply and Mill Inc.

Jordan, a retired college athletic director, tossed his hat into the ring when no one else volunteered to run for council from the city's black neighborhoods. "I just felt we needed a representative from the black community," he said at the time.

Mayerchak was the next-highest vote getter, with 568 votes. Golden received 544 votes, Berger, 493 votes, and Hunsicker, 366 votes, according to the unofficial tally.

- Lexington bureau

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