ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Saturday, March 9, 1996 TAG: 9603110074
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A-4 EDITION: METRO
Leading women to be honored
The New Century Women's Leadership Award, a new citation that grew out of the New Century Council's recommendation that area communities do more to recognize leaders, will be given at an April 24 banquet at Hollins College, the program's sponsors said Friday.
A group of professional women put the program together, with help from Hollins College, the Blue Ridge Regional Business Journal, Crestar Bank, Gentry Locke Rakes & Moore and the Regional Chamber Small Business Development Center in Roanoke, formerly the Blue Ridge Small Business Develoment Center.
The achievement award is to honor an outstanding woman who lives in the Roanoke or New River valleys or Alleghany Highlands.
Nominations must be received by March 22 at Box 386, Roanoke 24403. For nomination forms or information, call Cynthia Dillon, 344-8958.
- Staff report
Chesapeake Corp. shakes up top
RICHMOND - Paul A. Dresser Jr., president and chief operating officer of Chesapeake Corp., has resigned amid a high-level management shake-up.
Officials at the Richmond-based paper company, which operates Chesapeake Packaging Co. in Roanoke, declined to comment on the circumstances surrounding Dresser's departure, except to say he ``has resigned to pursue other interests.''
Dresser's job as chief operating officer won't be filled. J. Carter Fox, chairman and chief executive officer, will assume the title of president along with his other duties.
Chesapeake said it has shifted several top posts to sharpen its focus on graphic packaging and retail store displays.
The job of group vice president of packaging has been eliminated. Samuel J. Taylor, who held that post, has left the company, according to a company statement.
- Associated Press
Communicators to link computers
The CFW Foundation, a charitable organization of the CFW Communications Co. of Waynesboro, has committed up to $85,000 toward a computer network linking public schools in the Covington and Alleghany Highlands area.
The company has said it will match 25 percent of a total outlay of $340,000 for the network. The company also said that it will provide technical support for installations and will house and maintain shared equipment in its telephone offices in Covington, Clifton Forge and Waynesboro.
Engineering design work for the computer link is already under way; installation is scheduled to begin in May or June and be completed by August.
- Staff report
Briefly ...
A.P. Green Industries Inc. of Mexico, Mo., which operates a lime plant in Giles County through its APG Lime Corp. subsidiary, has announced a joint venture with Scana Corp. of Columbia, S.C., to build and operate a $25 million industrial lime production plant in Berkeley County, S.C.
The plant will be the only commercial lime plant in the four-state area of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida and will begin operation in 1997 with an initial capacity of 200,000 tons per year.
Office Suppliers Inc. will move to a 30,000-square-foot warehouse June 1, doubling its space. Gary Mitchell, the company's president, said the new space at 2480 Patterson Ave. S.W. was leased from L&M Properties. It was formerly occupied by Theimer Foods, according to Fred Thomas of Hall Associates Inc., who handled the site acquisition.
Mitchell said the current building, at 3787 Aerial Way Drive, is too small.
Donald R. Johnson has moved his law office from Bristol to the Sugar Loaf Crossing office park at 1950 Electric Road, Roanoke. A graduate of Virginia Tech and Washington and Lee University's law school, Johnson was senior assistant general counsel for natural resources at the Pittston Co. in Lebanon from 1978 to 1985.
He was a spokesman for the coal industry in drafting the 1982 Virginia Oil and Gas Act, and he served on the working group appointed by the Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy to develop regulations for the 1990 act. His law practice has emphasized energy, real estate and environmental law.
The SW Virginia Internet Society meets Tuesday at the Roanoke County Hollins Branch Library on Peters Creek Road. Events start at 7 p.m., and at 6:30 for new computer owners.
nCavalier Equipment Corp. of Cloverdale has won a $33,193 contract from the Defense Construction Supply Center in Columbus, Ohio, for a stationary refuse precrusher.
Litton Systems Inc. of Blacksburg won a $29,162 contract from Robins Air Force Base in Georgia for slip ring and deroll assembly.
Bankruptcies ...
Four bankruptcies with business affiliations have been filed in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Western Virginia at Roanoke. Two of them are personal bankruptcies that the court listed as businesses because they have commercial connections and could be of interest to business creditors and customers.
Conflor Technologies Inc. of Abingdon, a concrete restoration contractor, filed for liquidation with assets of $100 and liabilities of $191,024.
Ronnie Helms and Nannie Helms of Rocky Mount filed for a wage-earner plan for repayment of debts with assets of $221,579 and liabilities of $137,957. They operate XYZ Home Day Care.
Melvin J. Ashby III and Donna R. Ashby of Vansant filed for liquidation with assets of $163,960 and liabilities of $74,881. Melvin Ashby trades as Southern Belt Sales.
Harry C. Sisk Jr. of Ferrum filed for liquidation with assets of $3,149 and liabilities of $16,970. He is a self-employed musician with copyrights on several songs.
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