Moshannon Valley Economic Development Partnership board members selected, officers installed

PHILIPSBURG — Officials of the Moshannon Valley Economic Development Partnership announced that five candidates for seats on the partnership’s board of directors have been elected for three-year terms.

‘In late October, the MVEDP held its annual board of director’s election,’ said Stan LaFuria, executive director of the partnership. ‘Six people were running for five available seats on our 15-member board of directors. We received just under 50 percent of the ballots back from the partnership’s members, which was a very respectable response rate.”

Board incumbents Jeff Herr, John Shimko, Bill Jones and Karen Blair were re-elected to their seats on the board. Jim Richtscheit, of CBT Bank, is the newly elected board member.

The other 10 MVEDP board members are Rusty Christoff, president; Steve Lyncha, first vice president; Michael Kovalcin, vice president; Jared Ricotta, vice president; Laura Holden, treasurer; and Jim Pollock, assistant treasurer.

The MVEDP is a private, nonprofit economic and community development organization that is dedicated to working with both the public and private sectors to stimulate new investment and improvements throughout the Moshannon Valley Region.