Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, March 19, 1994 TAG: 9403210174
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV1 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: STEPHEN FOSTER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Medium
Hubbell Lighting Inc. of Christiansburg was named winner of the Business/Industry Education Award, which recognizes a local business for its contribution to education in the county's public schools system.
Hubbell Lighting holds tours for sixth-grade students at Christiansburg Middle School. The company has supplied certificates for honor roll students, provided judges for the school's academic fair and holds a safety poster contest with a savings bond as a prize. The manufacturer of lighting products employs 547 people.
Litton Poly-Scientific of Blacksburg won the chamber's Commerce Award, given to businesses that demonstrate one or more of the following: employment and productivity growth, volunteerism and donations to the community , beautification efforts or employment of the handicapped.
Forty years old, the company started with five people and now employs 625. It develops products for commercial, industrial, institutional, aviation, aerospace and military markets.
Robert "Bob" Poff, president of Valley-Wide Management Inc., was presented with the Outstanding Service Award.
Poff also heads Bob Poff Realty, Inspections Inc. and PCI Management Inc. He is a former director of the chamber, as well as the National Association of Home Builders. He has served as president of the New River Valley Home Builders Association and the Rotary Club of Montgomery County.
James "Buddy" Earp was named as the chamber's Distinguished Citizen of the Year.
A resident of Christiansburg since the 1950s, Earp served on the town's planning commission, the Christiansburg Area United Way and as president of the local Kiwanis Club. He also helped organize the town's bicentennial celebration last summer.
Bev Fitzpatrick, director of the New Century Council, spoke at the banquet.
by CNB