City Manager Elaine Aguilar and Mayor John Buchanan "bookend" Toni Buckner
Posted 9/18/11 – The City held a retirement ceremony for Toni Buckner Friday night in the Sierra Madre Room, and it was a full house. Toni’s last day isn’t until this coming Friday, but they held the ceremony on the 16th. I’ll be posting an article about it, and I shot lots of video, some of which I’ll also be posting, but I don’t have time to work on that right now. So, I thought I’d at least get the photo gallery posted, that doesn’t take as much time. Click on a photo to enlarge it…
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- A slideshow of pictures through the years was on a loop all night
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- Bean Town Coffee House provided the food
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- Ditto
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- De Alcorn was one of the Friends’ volunteers serving wine
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- Emcee Pat Hall and Patty Murphy pose with Buckner
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- Memory guest book signing
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- Bean Towners stocking up the food
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- City Manager Elaine Aguilar and Mayor John Buchanan “bookend” Toni Buckner
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- Buckner with Laura Aguilar and Miguel Hernendez of City staff
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- MaryAnn MacGillivray, Bart Doyle, John Buchanan, Pat Hall
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- Buckner is joined by another recent City Staff retiree, Paul Hagen
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- CPS Director Elisa Weaver, Councilman Josh Moran, Erica Blodgett
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- Crowd shot
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- Crowd shot
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- Buckner with husband Bob, not sure who the other lady is
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- City Manager Elaine Aguilar
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- Mayor John Buchanan
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- First of several standing ovations for Buckner
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- Library Board of Trustees Chair Catherine Adde
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- Friends of the Library president Darlene Traxler with Buckner
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- Library Staff
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- Archivist Debbie Henderson
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- Buckner and Polly Bonnett with new “Read” poster
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- Library Staff, Buckner and the Read poster
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- City Department Heads presented Buckner with personalized books
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- An emotional Karen Schnaider read the note in her book, which was connected her husband and her son with Buckner
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- Former children’s librarian Cathy Ryne
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- Council member MaryAnn MacGillivray
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- Council member Nancy Walsh
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- Gurdon Miller presented a check for $1000 in Buckner’s name for the library, from the Historical Preservation Society
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- Library Trustee Rob Stockly
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- Former City/Library staffers returned to pay tribute to Toni
Thanks, Catherine. Looking forward to finding some time soon to write up the article. I also have somewhere in the range of 30 minutes of video to work on, too. Hopefully soon. Maybe this weekend.
Thank you Bill, you got some great shots and most important – Toni’s big evening was well covered. Good job!