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

DATE: SATURDAY, December 10, 1994                   TAG: 9412120007
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV8   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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IN BUSINESS

At the National Bank of Blacksburg, J. LEWIS WEBB JR., a Narrows dentist and member of the bank's Giles County Advisory Board, has been elected to the boards of directors of the bank and its parent company, National Bankshares.

JAY JOHNSON, former commercial banker for the New River Valley at First Union National Bank, will become a bank vice president.

DAVE CAPWELL will manage the bank's South Main office, where he previously was assistant manager.

Gilmer, Sadler, Ingram, Sutherland & Hutton of Pulaski recently welcomed three attorneys to the firm: TIMOTHY E. KIRTNER, SCOTT A. ROSE and JAMES R. MONTGOMERY.

Kirtner and Rose are resident associates in the firm's Pulaski office; Montgomery is a resident in the Blacksburg office.

Anderson & Associates of Blacksburg announced that BRAD STIPES is the new project manager who will oversee transportation projects. Another addition to the firm is project manager MARTIN JANSONS, a registered professional engineer specializing in water/wastewater utilities, industrial development and recreation.

Draper Aden Associates named DONALD SHEPHERD project manager of its air-quality and emission-control projects. He previously was directoe for 14 years of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality's Roanoke Air Office.

HIAWATHA NICELY JR., president of New Century Consultants, has been named special adviser to Tetsuyuki Suzuki, Magnox Inc. president. He will provide consulting and public-relations services to Magnox.

ED KOPAKOWSKI joined Force Inc. in Christiansburg as vice president of sales and marketing. He is responsible for worldwide marketing of the company's fiber-optic transmission products.

The New River Media Group recently appointed three new advertising employees. BRYAN S. NEAL and TOD TRUONG joined the WVVV (104.9 FM) advertising team. GARY MOENCH is an advertising representative for WJJJ (1260 FM).

The Radford Business and Professional Women's Association named KATHY KLEPPIN the 1994-95 Young Careerist. Kleppin is the learning-resources specialist for distance education at the New River Community College.

BOB and MICHELE ADKINS, owners of Arby's in Radford, donated 10 percent of the restaurant's profits on Monday nights in October to Bethel Elementary School to help the fifth-grade classes with a spring trip to Washington, D.C.

GENE B. WRIGHT, chief executive officer of Montgomery Regional Hospital, is a newly elected director of the Virginia Hospital Association.

BRENDA C. CARPER is the new nurse practitioner at Floyd Family Practice. She received bachelor's and masters degrees in nursing from the University of Virginia and became a board-certified adult nurse practitioner in 1984.

JOHN BEAMER, district manager for The Franklin in Christiansburg, is a new member of the Franklin Circle of Champions Club, a national honor organization of the company's most successful managers.

JUSTIN LANE is Blue Ridge Cellular's October Top Account Executive.

At Warm Hearth Village, former executive secretary CHRISTINE SNIDER is office manager and marketing assistant for the Showalter Assisted Living Center. MELISSA NEWMAN has been named to replace her.

KATHLEEN RYLAND, administrative assistant in the office of development and marketing, is Warm Hearth's employee of the year.

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