The hard-driving town manager and doting grandmother eschews publicity to the point of declining to discuss the “good things” she’s helped bring to fruition in Clifton Forge.

It’s all fun and games at Center in the Square - plus you can sneak in a little learning for kids big and small, too.

The busy, diverse, business-lined roadway has roots to The Great Road, to another great road (U.S. 11), and is today, of course, its very own great road.

Get to know Roanoke's city manager and his unbridled enthusiasm.