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Thanks for your service

This past week, members of elected councils and boards resumed their work with different people at the dais. The changing of the guard is a natural part of the cycle of elected bodies, but the local people who’ve left should be commended for their willingness to serve.
We commend former county commissioners Ron Shimanski and Rich Pohlmeier, former city councilor Milan Alexander and mayor Randy Wilson, former school board director Kevin Kuester and any elected officials who have completed their service. We owe them all a huge debt of gratitude for their service.
People willing to serve should be commended in an era when it’s easier to sit back and criticize decisions from a keyboard by critics some of whom don’t even know who represents them. State and local city councilors, county commissioners, school board members and other elected officers log many hours studying issues, participating in meetings addressing issues, talking with constituents and weighing potential decisions for the good of all against their own values.
There is little glory serving on a locally elected body. People tend to serve to make their communities better. People who don’t know all the facts, only their own self-interests, often criticize them. But as Theodore Roosevelt said 110-plus years ago, “It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”
For those who choose a place in the arena, we thank you for your service.
- jm