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

DATE: TUESDAY, October 12, 1993                   TAG: 9310120221
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
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CITY COUNCIL SAYS GOODBYE TO VICE MAYOR FITZPATRICK

As Roanoke Vice Mayor Beverly Fitzpatrick Jr. left Monday night, he remembered the sanitation workers, utility line repair crews, police officers, firefighters and hundreds of other city employees.

"They are the people who run the government and they make sacrifices to do their jobs," he said.

Fitzpatrick said he hopes City Council and top city administrators don't forget the workers who do their jobs quietly and without public recognition.

City Council bid farewell to Fitzpatrick, who has resigned to become director of the new Century Council. Council recognized him by approving a resolution commending him for his work the past five years.

Mayor David Bowers thanked him for his support and work on Amtrak train service, downtown `They are the people who run the government and they make sacrifices to do their jobs. Beverly Fitzpatrick Jr. mounted police and the Virginia Museum of Transportation.

by CNB