ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Sunday, February 2, 1997 TAG: 9702030014
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
RU offers class in small business
RADFORD - Radford University's Business Assistance Center is offering an eight-week course on "Starting and Managing a Small Business" beginning Tuesday.
The workshop will provide an introduction to business regulations, marketing research and planning, raising capital, financial management and creating a business plan.
Participants who complete the workshop will be able to apply for a loan from area banks and from a loan fund available to small businesses in the New River Valley.
All classes will meet in the New River Valley Mall's Community Room on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 5:30 p.m. until March 25. The cost is $199 and includes a book and handouts. Individual workshops are also available for $49 to $69, depending on the the class. Call 831-6056 for information.
Public health director participant in institute
RADFORD - Jody Hershey, director of the New River Health District, has been selected to be one of 60 participants in the sixth annual Public Health Leadership Institute.
Participants will take part from their homes using computer networks and self study. A weeklong intensive training workshop will be in California in March.
The institute is funded by the Centers for Disease Control, which established the program to enhance leadership in public health issues.
Hershey was selected in a competitive application process that included essays on public health issues as well as his own professional achievements.
Radio's Dayle joins H&H Carpet Mart
CHRISTIANSBURG - Ron Dayle, a New River Valley radio personality, has joined H&H Carpet Mart as the store's retail sales coordinator.
The company, which has a retail store at 2095 Roanoke St. in Christiansburg, is owned by Tim Harris and Bill Hobbs.
Dayle is host of a weeknight show a Eagle Country 107 PSK Radio's "Radical Ron."
JoLynn Price manager of bank's new center
CHRISTIANSBURG - JoLynn Price will be manager of the retail branch at First National Bank's new center, when the retail section opens in March.
Administrative employees will occupy the building later this month.
Price is a resident of Blacksburg who will also become a vice president at the bank. She is president of the United Way for Montgomery and Floyd County and Radford.
She is a graduate of the bank management school at the University of Virginia. She holds an associate's degree in business management from New River Community College and a certificate from the Virginia Bankers Association. Supervisory Development School
Priscilla Morris is Realtor Institute grad
BLACKSBURG - Priscilla Morris, a real estate agent with Re/Max Gallery, has been awarded the Graduate, Realtor Institute (GRI) designation.
To receive the designation, Morris had to complete 90 hours of classroom instruction on legal liabilities, professional standards, construction and new home sales, and specialized areas like appraisal, financing, real estate investments and taxation.
Morris was sales associate of the year in 1996 for the New River Valley Association of Realtors.
Kimberly Ritchie joins Sands, Anderson firm
RADFORD - Kimberly S. Ritchie, a specialist in education law who represents the Montgomery County School System, has joined the Richmond-based law firm of Sands, Anderson, Marks & Miller. She will work in the firm's Radford office.
Formerly in practice by herself, Ritchie was a state assistant attorney general where she represented the special education division of the Virginia Department of Education. She is a graduate of T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond.
At Sands, Anderson, she will work with other local governments and school systems that are clients of the firm.
Bank promotes Thomas Murphy
BLACKSBURG - Thomas M. Murphy has been named senior vice president and trust officer at the National Bank of Blacksburg.
Murphy has worked at the bank since 1986 and has headed its Trust Department since 1989. He is a Certified Financial Service Counselor and has completed the National Graduate Trust School. He has a bachelor's degree from Virginia Tech and a master's degree from Florida State University.
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