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Meet Stephens City’s next mayor<br />
Unopposed, Joy Shull will be town’s first female leader<br />
Unchallenged candidate Joy Shull will soon become Stephens City’s first female<br />
mayor.<br />
By Brandon Davis<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Sherando</strong> Time<br />
After serving 16 years as the<br />
Mayor of Stephens City, Ray Ewing<br />
will step down after the town<br />
elections, held on May 4th. Taking<br />
his place will be unopposed<br />
mayor candidate Joy Shull, who<br />
will be the first woman mayor of<br />
Stephens City.<br />
Shull lived in Winchester prior<br />
to moving to Stephens City in<br />
197 , where she taught at Handley<br />
High school <strong>for</strong> 33 years as an<br />
Earth Science teacher be<strong>for</strong>e retiring<br />
in 000. Not a new face at<br />
town meetings, Shull has served<br />
as Councilwoman <strong>for</strong> 30 years.<br />
According to her this is the longest<br />
anyone has ever severed on<br />
a town council in the state of Virginia.<br />
Joy Shull sat down with <strong>The</strong><br />
<strong>Sherando</strong> <strong>Times</strong> to share a little<br />
about herself and her future as<br />
the town’s mayor.<br />
Davis: Why do you think you’re<br />
qualified to be Mayor of Stephens<br />
City?<br />
Shull: Well, I have been Vice<br />
Mayor <strong>for</strong> most of those years (as<br />
a Councilwoman) and I’m pretty<br />
familiar with the routine and<br />
what is going on. And that’s one<br />
of the things that I think is important<br />
<strong>for</strong> continuity. We have<br />
so many projects going on right<br />
now <strong>for</strong> someone to walk in who<br />
hasn’t at least served on Town<br />
Council or have been part of the<br />
workings of the town it would be<br />
very difficult.<br />
Davis: What do you see as the<br />
town’s biggest issues it faces?<br />
Shull: I don’t think we have any<br />
major issue that’s facing us. We<br />
have some ongoing projects of<br />
course the one that is close to my<br />
heart because I have been Chairman<br />
of Water and Sewer all these<br />
years is expanding and upgrading<br />
our system. We have development<br />
going into the north of us<br />
that we need to provide the infrastructure<br />
<strong>for</strong>, so that’s a major<br />
thing.<br />
Davis: So, on the flipside what<br />
do you see as the positives or the<br />
strengths of the town?<br />
Shull: <strong>The</strong> town itself and its citizens.<br />
I think we have a nice community<br />
here where the citizens<br />
seem to enjoy living in this environment.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y are supportive, interested<br />
in the town, and I think<br />
they want to keep that small town<br />
atmosphere but yet they want to<br />
have some of the modern conveniences<br />
too.<br />
Davis: What would be your top<br />
two or three goals as mayor or in<br />
other words what would you like<br />
to have finished or at least have<br />
gotten started?<br />
Shull: I’d like to have a smooth<br />
transition because we will have<br />
a new council member because<br />
Mike Grim is not running <strong>for</strong><br />
council. We’ll have a replacement<br />
<strong>for</strong> me and I’ll be the new mayor,<br />
so there will be some transition<br />
there and I would like it to<br />
go smoothly. Without any major<br />
interruptions to anything that is<br />
going on. Of course we have a<br />
very good staff and they keep us<br />
straight when need be. <strong>The</strong>n I’d<br />
like to see the major projects are<br />
completed the way they should be<br />
and not just haphazardly. I’d like<br />
to have good relations with our<br />
neighbors and I think that’s important.<br />
I have lived here <strong>for</strong> over<br />
40 years now and we have people<br />
that were here be<strong>for</strong>e I was but<br />
then there are also people who<br />
move in and move out. I’d like to<br />
have perhaps <strong>more</strong> contact with<br />
the citizens and the town and<br />
get feedback and in<strong>for</strong>mation <strong>for</strong><br />
them. I hope that they always feel<br />
like my door is open and that they<br />
can always come and talk. To me<br />
that is important.<br />
Davis: I know you’re going to<br />
start your first four year term but<br />
do you think you will run again as<br />
Mayor?<br />
Shull: I’ll consider it when the<br />
time comes. Let me get through<br />
the fist term. I have found that<br />
each time I came up <strong>for</strong> reelection<br />
<strong>for</strong> council that I was in the<br />
mist of some big project or the<br />
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