[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 161 (Friday, September 28, 2018)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1340-E1341]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




IN RECOGNITION OF AN EXTRAORDINARY PUBLIC SERVANT, SERENA R. ``RENNY'' 
                                 MANUEL

                                 ______
                                 

                         HON. BARBARA COMSTOCK

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 28, 2018

  Mrs. COMSTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize an extraordinary 
public servant, Serena R. ``Renny'' Manuel, whose management of the 
Winchester Regional Airport in the northern Shenandoah Valley, has 
established the airport as a critically important asset of the region's 
dynamic economy. This region of the 10th Congressional District, that 
includes Frederick County, the City of Winchester and Clarke County, is 
growing rapidly and the Winchester Regional Airport has become a 
catalyst for this growth by supporting business aviation, law 
enforcement, agricultural and lifesaving services, air ambulance 
operations and organ transports, freight and package delivery, as well 
as recreational activities.
  All of these benefits were developed, improved upon and managed by 
Executive Director Renny Manuel, with the able guidance of the board of 
directors of the Winchester Regional Airport Authority. Starting as an 
Office Assistant at the airport in 1991, Renny Manuel's extraordinary 
conscientiousness and reliability, coupled with her humility, humor, 
and cooperative spirit, caused her to be given progressively greater 
responsibilities and, in 1999, the Authority officially appointed her 
Airport Director, in which role she served with distinction until her 
retirement on July 30th of this year. In addition to skillfully 
overseeing the day to day operations of the airport and complying with 
numerous federal and state regulations and orders, Mrs. Manuel's 
excellence as a team leader was most apparent as she managed numerous 
complicated capital and airport redevelopment projects, such as the 
runway rehabilitation design and construction project, the general 
aviation terminal building renovation, the airfield lighting upgrade, 
airport perimeter security fencing, the T-hangar apron rehabilitation, 
land acquisition, relocation and rehabilitation of Taxiway ``A'', the 
snow removal plan and equipment project, the wetland mitigation 
project, and oversight of construction of a second corporate hangar 
facility.
  Airport Director Manuel's reputation for effectiveness and 
reliability was acknowledged by her colleagues throughout the 
Commonwealth of Virginia when they asked her to serve as Secretary of 
the Virginia Airport Operators Council. And in further recognition of 
the high regard that those in the aviation industry have for her, she 
was recently presented with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award 
by the Virginia Department of Aviation.
  Mr. Speaker, I take great pride in recognizing and thanking 
Winchester Regional Airport Director Renny Manuel for her 
extraordinarily dedicated service to the people of the northern 
Shenandoah Valley and ask you and our colleagues to join me in wishing 
her and her husband much happiness, as they spend more time with family 
and have more time to travel, in their retirement years.

[[Page E1341]]

  

                          ____________________