Employee Spotlight – Jacki Perry

  1. Employee name: Jacqueline Perry (Jacki)
  2. Where were you born and where is your hometown? Born in Blossburg, PA and hometown is Virginia Beach
  3. What division and position do you work for? VB Convention Center, Operations Assistant
  4. How many years have you worked for the CVB? 13 ½ years
  5. How many years have you worked for the City of Va. Beach? 13 ½ years
  6. What is the best vacation you’ve been on? Years before my husband and I moved to Key West, he won the Ernest Hemingway look- alike contest at Sloppy Joes in Virginia Beach.  Anheuser Busch flew us round trip to and from Key West for the yearly finals contest.
  7. What is your favorite thing to do in the wonderful City of Virginia Beach? Just about everything. That’s why I do staycations.
  8. What is your favorite quote? “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt” – Abraham Lincoln
  9. Do you have an office nickname? If so what is it? Yes,  “The Glue”
  10. Tell us something about yourself that would surprise us: I caught a 750 lb. blue marlin in 2000 and a replica hangs on the wall at my home.
  11. What do you like to do for fun? Fish Ruddee Inlet or Ocean, swim (beach or pool), jog at the beach, cooking, gardening, computers, sewing, surfing, reading, walking our dogs, jeeping
  12. What is one thing you cannot resist? Helping someone out.
  13. What is on your bucket list? It’s a small bucket list – I’m looking forward to dusting off the surf board and exchanging my hard top for my soft top on my jeep. (soon)
  14. What is your hidden talent? Nothing hidden. My talents are listed above J

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