Longtime County Health Educator to Retire

DAYTON-Vickie Hodgson will be in the office at the Columbia County Health Department only four days in September: the 12th through the 15th. She will then move out of the health department, where she has worked for the last 38 years, and into retirement.

Hodgson has worn many hats at the health department: as the Women Infant and Children's coordinator, health educator, and tobacco coordinator for the Department of Health. She also sits on the board for the Coalition for Youth and Families.

"It's been rewarding working with my clients and being able to help with referrals to doctors, dentists,...