Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, June 11, 1995 TAG: 9506300102
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
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PULASKI - Sometimes, Jill Riblett has to train her patients as hard as she trains herself.
She's a dietician at Pulaski Community Hospital, where a big part of her job is educating people about good nutrition. Changing high-fat diets - which contribute to the county's high heart disease rate - isn't something she can do overnight.
Rather, Riblett says, she has to painstakingly train patients to change their life styles and eating habits.
As a marathon runner, rigorous, dedicated training is something to which she is accustomed. And her dedication to her job has earned her the title of state 1995 Young Careerist, as selected by the Virginia Business and Professional Women's Organization.
Riblett, 23, who finished this year's Boston Marathon, sees herself as an advocate for her patients, especially women. "We must continue to lobby for preventative services that are needed by women, such a mammographies, Ob/Gyn visits and prenatal care. We must also push for new research to be done looking at the female population," she said in her speech during the BPW competition in May.
Riblett, who is from Delaware, will attend the University of Virginia in August, where she will pursue a master's degree in exercise physiology. That degree will allow her to combine her interests in sports and medicine.
"I've loved living down here," she says. "The people are great."
Cole promoted at Central Fidelity
CHRISTIANSBURG - Taylor Cole has been promoted to senior vice president and area manager for the Blue Ridge region at Central Fidelity Bank.
Cole, of Blacksburg, will supervise retail banking operations for banks from Blacksburg to Abingdon. He joined Central Fidelity in 1987 as commercial banking manager for the New River Valley. Previously, he had been a commercial loan officer for First Union.
Cole received an undergraduate degree from Washington and Lee University in 1975 and a master's of business administration from Duke University in 1984.
He is active in a variety of civic organizations, including the Blacksburg Chamber of Commerce, Warm Hearth Village Foundation, United Way, New River Valley Development Corporation, New River Small Business Assistance Center, New Century Council and New River Community College Foundation.
Phillips honored for landscape service
CHRISTIANSBURG - The Virginia Nurserymen's Association recognized its president, Douglas R. Phillips, of Floyd, for his service last year.
Phillips, who operates Phillips and Turman Tree Farm in Floyd, helped reorganize the Southwest Virginia Nursery and Landscape Association, which culminated in a landscape design show in Salem in March. The Nurserymen's Association also lobbied state General Assembly members about Right to Farm legislation and funds for Virginia Tech's Cooperative Extension service.
by CNB