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Posted Feb. 27, 2004

RA Candidates Endorsed by ABC

To the editor:

The Alliance for a Better Community (ABC) has enthusiastically endorsed three excellent and talented young leaders for the three seats in the upcoming election for the Reston Association Board: Sunder Briar Cluster past-President Robin Smyers for the Lake Anne-Tall Oaks seat, incumbent Douglas Bushée for the North Point seat, and Co-Chair of the Save Lake Newport and President/CEO of TracerNET Corporation Rick Beyer for the At-Large seat.

They are exceptionally strong candidates representing a new generation of leadership for the community and the Reston Association, leadership needed now as the community approaches the crucial referendum on our governing documents. They are the kind of candidates who will continue ABC's record of winning support for positive leadership to make Reston an even greater place to live, work, and play.

Robin Smyers is a second generation Restonian, a 1982 graduate of South Lakes High School, a member of RA's Design Review Board, full of energy, and a born leader.

Doug Bushée has served as RA's liaison to the Greater Reston Chamber of Commerce, as a member of RA's Planning and Evaluation Committee, the Transportation Committee, and Chair of the Legal Committee, and has been a hard-working spokesperson for the interests of his North Point constituents.

Rick Beyer has been a leader in the very successful Friends of Reston fundraising drive to build the Nature House, a very "green" environmental education center about to be built in RA's Nature Center.

As Chairman of the Board of Olivet College he transformed the college so that within two years it produced its first operating surplus in over a decade. Success included record enrollment, productivity, quality and capacity improvements, reinvestment in infrastructure and a very bright outlook for the future.

We urge your support for these three candidates for the RA Board of Directors.

Joe and Marcia Stowers

Reston