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
Thank you Bill, you got some great shots and most important – Toni’s big evening was well covered. Good job!
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.