July 17, 2002
Virginia Commerce Bancorp, Inc. reported second quarter earnings of $1.9 million, an increase of 59.4 percent over 2001 second quarter earnings of $1.2 million. Total assets as of June 30, 2002 were $577.8 million, up 24 percent from $464 million as of June 30 last year. Virginia Commerce Bancorp, Inc. is the parent company of Virginia Commerce Bank, a full-service community bank headquartered in Arlington, with 13 branches and two mortgage lending offices serving Northern Virginia.
CommuterPage.com Mobile Services has been launched by the Arlington Department of Public Works. The network will bring Arlington Transit (ART) and selected Arlington Metrobus schedules and daily commuter news to handheld PDAs and mobile devices such as Palms, Pocket PCs and Web-enable cell phones. ART and Arlington Metrobus are the first systems in the region to have their schedules available in these formats. Visit www.CommuterPage.com/handheld.
Locks of Love is partnering up with the Haircuttery for the month of July. The salon chain will be offering free haircuts to anyone who donates 10 inches or more of healthy hair in one of their salons. Locks of Love is a non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children suffering from long-term medical hair loss. To find the nearest Haircuttery, visit www.haircuttery.com or call 7-800-956-HAIR (4247).
George Munoz, of Arlington, president of Munoz Investment Banking Group, has been appointed to the Board of the Virginia College Building Authority by Virginia Gov. Mark Warner.
Arlington-based Linda Roth Associates, LLC (LRA) has announced the appointments of Carrie Foster and Andrew Fisher to the position of account executive.
Before joining LRA, Foster served as press secretary for Representative Richard Burr (R-North Carolina). A resident of Capitol Hill, she began her career in Washington as a media relations assistant for APCO Worldwide, Inc. She graduated from Wake Forest University in 1998 with a B.A. in politics and communications.
Fisher worked in marketing and public relations roles in the defense engineering and information technology industries with Rolls-Royce North America, and later in the information technology division of IKON Office Solutions. He is a 1998 graduate of American University's School of Communication.