Cristal and Yeremy flew back to the Dominican Republic on Thursday March 12. Yeremy´s father picked them up at the airport and they all traveled about 50 miles west of Santo Domingo to Bani, Yeremy’s hometown. Ingri and Cristal slept there that night and continued their travel of some 100 additional miles to their hometown of Barahona on the southwest coast the next morning.

 

Thanks are due to GOL New England, to the medical team at MMC and to Rotary’s own Paul Emery, for these two Gifts of Life.

Angela is an Alaska native, born and raised in Juneau. She worked at the Alaska Public Offices Commission while attending the University of Alaska Southeast and later, after participating in a student exchange program, she transferred to Binghamton University.  She worked for the City of Binghamton NY as Project Officer, Deputy City Clerk, and finally City Clerk.  She is a graduate of Binghamton University with BA in Philosophy, Politics and Law.

 

Angela joined the City of Westbrook in December 2014.  She has great respect for history and the history of government, and appreciates Westbrook’s concern for historical preservation. In fact, one area of focus for her this year will be records preservation and retention.  In her short time in Westbrook, she has seen a strong concern for people in Maine and appreciates the great city/town clerk network we have here.

She has found that the role of city clerk can vary from one state to another. For example, in NY she did not oversee elections as she will here.   City clerks support goals of the community such as: