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

DATE: FRIDAY, April 29, 1994                   TAG: 9404290120
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV_2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: By KENNETH SINGLETARY STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

CHALLENGER'S MOTHER SEEKS MAYOR'S JOB

Barbara Capozzi, 50, a Main Street innkeeper and mother of Ben "Chip" Capozzi, a 19-year-old candidate for Town Council, says she wants to be a write-in candidate for mayor.

"What really cinched this thing for me was when Jack Via [at a candidates' forum Wednesday] said ... he wanted to 'keep on keeping on.'" she said Thursday. She has scheduled an announcement for 11 a.m. today at her Evergreen bed and breakfast inn.

She said she knew the mayor does not vote in council decisions unless a tie occurs among the six council members, but "Barbara Capozzi as mayor can do a lot of things that Barbara Capozzi as innkeeper can only think about."

Harold Linkous, who is running for re-election Tuesday, said "that's fine. That's her privilege."

Linkous, 67, said he has not faced competition in his two previous bids for mayor.

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