ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, March 7, 1996 TAG: 9603070035
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: RADFORD
SOURCE: KRISTEN KAMMERER STAFF WRITER
Two City Council seats will be open for the May 7 elections and two people have filed petitions to run, unopposed, for those seats.
Incumbent David A. Worrell filed his petition with the city registrar on Monday, and newcomer Annyce Levy, filed on Tuesday.
Councilman Robert Nicholson, whose seat also is up for re-election, cited the desire for more time to devote to volunteer activities as the main reason he would not run.
"I've enjoyed my time on council, but it's been a big time commitment," he said.
Worrell, who is finishing up his third term, says he wants to continue working on plans to renovate the city's water plant as well as its court buildings and Police Department.
He also hopes to find support for building new facilities for the Department of Parks and Recreation.
"The Recreation Department's services cover more people from birth to death than any other department in Radford," he said Wednesday. "We talk about the low crime rate we have, and I attribute much of that to the programs provided by the [recreation] department ... but it needs a better building to continue its good work."
Levy, who was encouraged by a friend to run for council, is a school nurse at Pulaski County High School and has worked for more than 30 years in child and adolescent health care. In addition to children's issues, she says that Radford's future economic development is another area she'd like to work on.
Levy says raising four children as a single parent has given her the necessary skills for politics. "I have learned to be very patient and to never give up," she said. "I look for the best in everything and bring out the positive. I try to begin all new projects with this attitude."
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