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RENAMED – The Jefferson County commissioners presented Geary Bates, original board member of Jefferson County Regional Airport Authority, with a resolution renaming the Jefferson County Airpark the Geary A. Bates Jefferson County Airpark. Bates has been a board member since its inception in 1992 and has served in many roles at the facility.
-- Andrew Grimm
STEUBENVILLE – Officially on the agenda to discuss the budget and an ongoing hangar project at the Jefferson County Airpark, Geary Bates got quite the surprise during Thursday’s meeting of the Jefferson County commissioners.
Bates, who is an original board member of the county Regional Airport Authority and has been a part of every aspect of the airpark from the beginning, was presented with a resolution to rename the airpark in his honor, the Geary A. Bates Jefferson County Airpark.