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Show We appreciate both your efforts for the past years and feel the duties were competently handled and wish you both contentment and success in future endeavors. en-deavors. "Red" We never recommended that WIC be dropped. When asked the pros and cons of this program, we gave our opinions, which did not include ending it. This decision de-cision was entirely made by the county commissioners. commission-ers. We appreciate the fact that you are there in person to report these meetings ;how-ever ;how-ever we felt that our positions po-sitions on the issues needed need-ed to be corrected. This is a portion of the minutes of the County Com -mlssioners in their October Octo-ber 2nd meeting: "Llnley Jefferson,County Health Nurse and Gail Webster, Web-ster, secretary of the WIC Program, met with the Board to resign their positions. They both reported they had new employment; They thanked the Board for all their cooperation in the past. Linley will stay until Nov. 1, 1980, giving time for replacement. re-placement. Gail will work until October 15, 1980. The County Clerk to advertise for County Nurse position (part time)." Sincerely, LINLEY JEFFERSON GAIL WEBSTER EDITOR'S NOTE: As you should know, minutes do not contain a word for word report re-port of what happened, only a synopsis. When asked by the Commissioners if the WIC program was worth keeping, you stated it no longer was serving it's purpose. pur-pose. When later advised by Mr. Larson that the contract con-tract was up October 1, the Commissioners dropped the program. You also stated the job lacked stimulation and that you preferred to go on to other things. We could go on, as the conversation at Commission meeting did, but feel that unnecessary. We do feel that the story in the COUNTY NEWS accurately stated the events, though abbreviated. (lSEUO " feedback . J commissioners as they had been most cooperative with us in the past. We told the board that we were both employed elsewhere now and so difficult for us to find time for these previous positions. po-sitions. We had made these arrangements because of our dissatisfaction with the increasing in-creasing paper work of the WIC program. The other reason being the constant changing of the rules and regulations for the operation of the WIC program. , ; Dear Red: We feel that the record of our meeting with the county commission needs to be clarified after reading your account in last week's Beaver County News. At that meeting, we met in order to resign our positions as County Nurse and WIC Clerk in person, thereby making our reasons known to the |