Business and community leader to leave for Texas

Community and business leader Wayne Pedlar will be moving to Texas next week to resume his career managing a manufacturing plant.

Pedlar, 53, resigned his position Friday as a Carson City planning commissioner, a seat he has held for two years.

He also served on the Nevada Manufacturers Association as president. He also was on the Nevada Taxpayers Association, the Nevada School to Career's Partnership board and was chairman of the committee that wrote the ballot language in favor of the sale of Carson Fairgrounds.

As the manager of a plastics manufacturing plant in Dayton, Pedlar also served on the Carson City Area Chamber of Commerce board of directors, serving many roles including chairman. He was president of the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce in 1999.

Pedlar said he enjoyed serving the community and felt it helped him be part of the solution instead of the problem.

"You need to try to give something back to the community and make the community a better place to live and work," Pedlar said.

He also was proud to say he was a 20-gallon blood donor and encourages others to take the time to give.

"It's a simple way to get involved," he said. Pedlar already has located a place to begin donating blood again in Austin, Texas, where he will move Monday.

Pedlar and his wife, Cheryl, and youngest daughter, Leanne, moved to Nevada from New Jersey in 1996. He worked as the general manager of RTP Co., a small, custom-plastics company in Dayton. The company folded more than a year ago.

A father of three girls, Pedlar grew up in Cleveland. He received a degree in chemical engineering and master's in business administration from the University of Cincinnati. He's was an active member of the Carson Valley Christian Center, serving on the church's finance committee and singing in the choir.