Tuckasegee Reader published the full-length letter of thanks from Jackson County's six-year veteran Greenways Project director, Emily Elders (excerpts below):
This is, first and foremost, a letter of gratitude, to the people who live here in this most beautiful place on earth. ... Your hard work and encouragement make it even more difficult to say that I’ll be leaving my position as the Project Manager for the Jackson County Recreation & Parks Department as of August 31, 2011.
This was a difficult decision, but I’m looking forward to the opportunity to go back to school full-time and complete my degree at Western Carolina University in May 2012. After ten years of working, raising my beautiful daughter Mason, and trying to take classes where I could, it will be an incredible accomplishment to graduate at last.
When I began working with the Greenways Commission in 2005, it felt a little bit like trying to catch moonlight in a Mason jar....
When we completed our master plan in 2009, we used a quote from John Sawhill on the first page: “Our society will be defined, in the end, not by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.” This principle has guided and informed our planning and outreach process in a hundred different ways ...
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This is, first and foremost, a letter of gratitude, to the people who live here in this most beautiful place on earth. ... Your hard work and encouragement make it even more difficult to say that I’ll be leaving my position as the Project Manager for the Jackson County Recreation & Parks Department as of August 31, 2011.
This was a difficult decision, but I’m looking forward to the opportunity to go back to school full-time and complete my degree at Western Carolina University in May 2012. After ten years of working, raising my beautiful daughter Mason, and trying to take classes where I could, it will be an incredible accomplishment to graduate at last.
When I began working with the Greenways Commission in 2005, it felt a little bit like trying to catch moonlight in a Mason jar....
When we completed our master plan in 2009, we used a quote from John Sawhill on the first page: “Our society will be defined, in the end, not by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.” This principle has guided and informed our planning and outreach process in a hundred different ways ...
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