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July 6, 2006
Andy Fox Brings “My Hampton Roads” to Region’s TV Screens

In the spirit of the Year of Regional Citizenship, WAVY TV’s Emmy award winning reporter Andy Fox has begun a new weekly series called “My Hampton Roads”.

In each installment, which airs on Thursday evenings during the station’s 5:30pm newscast, Fox is profiling residents from throughout the 17 localities that comprise the Hampton Roads region. 

“My favorite stories have always been ones involving people,” says Fox, who has won three Emmy awards during a more than two-decade career with the NBC affiliate. “And this new weekly series will give me an opportunity to share the lives and experiences of a wide variety of people who make Hampton Roads such an intriguing, progressive and diverse community.”

The first profile on July 6 was of Walter Brown, who serves on the Southampton County Board of Supervisors but is also the current chief of an historic Virginia Indian tribe.  Wearing full Native American regalia, Brown represented the County at the signing of the Proclamation declaring April 26, 2006-April 26, 2007 to be the Year of Regional Citizenship.  On the July 6 newscast, Fox displayed the original proclamation signed by the mayors and chairs of the 17 area localities.

“The Hampton Roads Partnership is very pleased that Andy and WAVY are doing their part to call attention to what is good in our vast and diverse region,” says Dana Dickens, President of the Hampton Roads Partnership,” and we’re hoping more media outlets will devote air time or print space to covering intriguing people and critical issues that are important to all of us in southeastern Virginia.”