[RP TownTalk] RPBA MEETING: Wednesday, Nov. 13 @ 6 pm

Tue Nov 12 19:57:20 UTC 2019

*NEWS **from the Riverdale Park Business Association*

*RPBA MEETING: **Wednesday, Nov. 13 @ 6 pm*

Riverdale Park Business Association’s November meeting will be held at
*Riverdale
Park Town Hall, 5008 Queensbury Rd., Riverdale Park, MD 20737.* Among the
topics to be discussed RPBA’s participation in Riverdale Park’s June 2020
Centennial celebration, county and town regulation enforcement, RPBA’s 2020
marketing and communication programs, membership drive, and choose a
location for RPBA’s holiday gathering.

Annual RPBA elections were conducted in October. Four individuals from the
business community were elected to leadership positions and will serve
until mid-October 2020.

Former Riverdale Park Mayor *Mike Herman* was elected president of the
Riverdale Park Business Association. He moves into the office after
association founding member *Pete Spiropoulos* opted to step down. Mike is
the principal attorney in the Riverdale Park law firm, Michael D. Herman &
Associates which he found in 2010. Mike specializes in business law,
litigation, land use/zoning, personal injury, and government relations. His
clients range from small to mid-sized businesses, non-profit organizations,
as well as individuals. The firm has since expanded to include other
attorneys and practice areas.

After graduating from the University of Michigan, he earned a law degree at
American University’s Washington School of Law. He has been a practicing
attorney since 1992. Mike served eight years as an Assistant State’s
Attorney in Prince George’s County before becoming Chief of Staff to the
Prince George’s County Executive. As a prosecutor, Michael was primarily
focused on prosecuting felonies and vehicular homicides. He has tried more
than 500 cases and has conducted more than 100 jury trials.

As Chief of Staff, he oversaw several county agencies, and developed an
appreciation and keen understanding of legislative processes in the state
and county, as well as administrative and regulatory processes, including
land use and zoning. He served as supervisor over the County Office of Law,
which employed more than 40 attorneys. He also oversaw the entire federal,
state, and county government relations and legislative practice. He later
acted as Prince George’s County’s principal lobbyist to the Maryland
General Assembly after leaving county government in 2009.

*Dalton E. Patterson, Esq*., is an associate attorney with Riverdale Park’s
Meyers, Rodbell, & Rosenbaum, P.A., where he specializes in civil
litigation, medical malpractice and personal injury. Prior to working at
the firm, Dalton clerked for the Honorable C. Philip Nichols, Jr. in Prince
George's County Circuit Court. After taking time to work on two political
campaigns, he began practicing as a Plaintiff's attorney for a boutique law
firm in Washington, D.C.

Dalton is also a proud graduate of the University of Maryland and Notre
Dame Law School.  In his free time, he enjoys watching the Terps and the
Irish play football and basketball. He is also a proud volunteer with
Capital Partners for Education, an organization committed to graduating
inner city youths from high school and college.

*Lorena Vallejo* has been elected treasurer. Lorena has been branch manager
for Old Line Bank at Riverdale Park Station since it opened two years ago.
She has been in banking since 1992 when she took a part-time teller’s
position at Maryland National Bank. Lorena, who attended Montgomery
College, American University and the University of the District of
Columbia, has worked for Wachovia, SunTrust, TD Bank, and for the White
House Federal Credit union during the Clinton Administration. She has also
worked in several law offices and for the DC Public School System.

Lorena recently worked with former RPBA treasurer and veteran RPBA
member *Bruce
Wernek* to consolidate RPBA accounts at Old Line Bank and streamline our
finances, making it possible for RPBA to now accept credit cards for
membership dues and expand our financial activities. In addition to serving
as RPBA Treasurer, Lorena is spearheading the business association’s
reinvigorated outreach to the area’s Latin community.

*Page 2*

*NEWS **from the Riverdale Park Business Association*

*RPBA MEETING: **Wednesday, Nov. 13 @ 6 pm*

*Jeffrey Yorke* was elected secretary of RPBA. He is president of Yorke
Partners/Yorke Property Management, a small family-owned property
management operation founded in 1982. It owns and manages the Natoli Place
Apartments in Riverdale Park, and other properties in Maryland, Virginia
and Delaware. The company specializes in providing housing to medical
school students and medical professionals inside the Beltway.

Jeffrey was a reporter at *The Washington Post* where he covered a variety
of beats including steeplechase racing, entertainment features in Weekend,
metropolitan news, and for 13 years, he wrote the “On the Dial” column in
the Style section. He later worked as a writer/editor at the Food & Drug
Administration. Jeffrey was also Washington Bureau Chief/Business Editor
for the now defunct *Radio & Records*, an industry publication. He is
currently editor of RPBA’s *The Biz*.

RPBA is looking for energetic participants for its all-important membership
committee and advertising, marketing, and communications committee. RPBA is
also forming a special RPMD 100 Committee to help organize and coordinate
with ATHA a custom car show as part of the Town's centennial celebration in
June 2020.

If you operate a business in Riverdale Park or the greater Riverdale area
including Brentwood, Hyattsville, College Park, Edmonston, and Mount
Rainier, join us and let's ring the cash register together! *As a special
bonus, join today and enjoy more than 13.5 months of membership for the
price of 12 when they complete the application and send $50 to RPBA*.

*Riverdale Park Business Association*

*Representing and Building Businesses in the Greater Riverdale Area*

*2020 RPBA APPLICATION*

*Date: ____________*

*NAME OF BUSINESS:_________________________________________*

*Address of Operation:_________________________________________*

*Business Phone:___________________  Website:_______________________*

*Contact:______________________
Title:________________     Cell:___________________*

*Email:_________________________*

*Type of Service-Business:_____________________Year Begun:______*

*Business BIO:_________________________________*

*Hours of Operation: ____________________________*

*Would You Serve as an RPBA board member or participate on one the RPBA
Committees? *(circle one or more)

*Membership Committee*

*Planning Committee*

*Advertising, Marketing, Communications Committee*

*Join RPBA Today!*

RPBA is accepting new members, rebuilding its committees, and sharpening
its focus. If you own and operate a business in Riverdale Park, Greater
Riverdale or the surrounding communities, join us and help ignite a
thriving business environment in Greater Riverdale. *We meet on the Second
Monday of the Month at 6 pm. Usually meetings are held in Riverdale Park
Town Hall, 5008 Queensbury Road, RPMD, 20737* but we also do a Road Show
that takes our meetings to our members’ establishments or a rotating basis.
And that’s the FUN part!

The business association is currently developing a roadshow series that
will conduct meetings in *Greater Riverdale Area businesses *to showcase
those businesses and provide RPBA members with an on-going toolkit to
success. Members will also get news and information, and an eye on business
development that they won’t get anywhere else.

*Annual membership fee is $50. *Call *Treasurer Lorena Vallejo *at WesBanco
(formerly Old Line Bank), 240-696-4017 or lvallejo at oldlinebank.com, or
call/text *Secretary Jeffrey Yorke*, 301-502-1243, or email Jeffrey Yorke,
yorkedial at gmail.com, with your credit card information or make checks
payable to RPBA.

Mail this completed application with an enclosed check to:

*RPBA c/o Town of RPMD*

*5008 Queensbury Rd.*

*Riverdale Park, MD 20737*

Visit us on the web at www.shoplocalriverdalepark.com.

11-1-19

-- 
Jeffrey Yorke
Yorke Property Management, Inc.
Yorke Partners
Jeffrey at YorkeRents.com
301-502-1243
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