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

DATE: THURSDAY, November 25, 1993                   TAG: 9311250260
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D4   EDITION: HOLIDAY 
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DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

GAME AND INLAND FISHERIES HOT-TUB VACANCIES FILLED

Gov. Douglas Wilder on Wednesday replaced two members of the Board of Game and Inland Fisheries who resigned over a hot-tub incident in a hotel.

Wilder named former Accomac Sen. William Fears and Richard Walker of Seven Mile Ford to replace Roger Buyrn of the Eastern Shore and Thomas Cash of Tazewell County.

Buyrn and Cash said Secretary of Natural Resources Elizabeth Haskell asked them to resign because of an appearance of impropriety in the hot-tub incident. Haskell would not comment on the resignations.

Wilder also named Hudson Reese of Scottsburg to replace Gerald Spates of Farmville, a third board member who attended the hot-tub gathering at a Virginia Beach hotel. Spates said he was not asked to quit, but resigned earlier so he could devote more time to his job as Farmville town manager.

The hot-tub incident occurred during a three-day meeting of the board in August. The three board members said they went to the hotel's tub and swimming pool at midnight. They said nothing happened that would warrant their removal.

- Associated Press

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