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

DATE: THURSDAY, October 12, 1995                   TAG: 9510120084
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: E-3   EDITION: METRO 
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IN BUSINESS

BRYAN E. GRUBB, an electrician with Varney Electric Co., has been named the Outstanding Electricity Graduate for 1994-95 at the Roanoke Regional Apprenticeship Center at Gibboney Technical Center.

Grubb, a 1988 graduate of Northside High School, is the first recipient of the award that is sponsored by Klein Tools Inc. of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and was one of five graduates of the electricity class. He is in the Marine Corps Reserve and has worked for Varney since 1988.

The center has 250 students enrolled in apprenticeship programs leading to licenses and/or certification in such fields as electricity, cosmetology, building maintenance, plumbing/pipe fitting and sheet metal work.

HONEYTREE EARLY LEARNING CENTERS has announced several promotions: Annette Swestyn has been promoted to director of the Roanoke Boulevard center. She has been with Honeytree since 1992, as a lead teacher and an assistant director at the Patrick Road and McVitty Road centers.

Lead teacher Deanna Clark of the Patrick Road center has been promoted to assistant director of the McVitty Road center.

Tina Kitchens and Karen Oliver have been named multisite directors. Kitchens, who is director of the Patrick Road center, also will supervise the Roanoke Boulevard and McVitty Road centers. Oliver, who is a program director, will supervise the centers on Electric Road and West Main Street in Salem.

LAANS HOKANSON, formerly of New Castle, has been named co-manager of the 84 Lumber store in Falling Creek, where he will be responsible for operations, sales and inventory control. Hokanson came to work for the 84 chain in 1994 in its Pulaski store.

STEPHEN M. KREHBIEL of the Roanoke Beltone Hearing Aid Center has passed the competency examination of the National Board for Certification in Hearing Instrument Sciences and has become board certified.

LEED'S MUSIC CENTER has been included in Music Trades magazine's Top 200 List, a ranking of music products retailers in the United States based on sales in 1994. Leed's placed 153rd on the list.

J. PAT GREEN, CAROL M. SIMMONS, FERMAN W. WERTZ, J. ROBERT VIERS JR. and R. DICKSON TIGRETT III of Green & Associates, a provider of automotive products and financial services to dealers and banks, have passed the Association of Finance & Insurance Professionals' certification program.

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