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07/12/2006: "Two New Planners Join The Team"

(L to R: Director Ron Henrickson with Colin Maycock and Shannon Fitzgerald)

Two vacancies in the Planning Department of Community Development & Planning have finally been filled. Colin Maycock has accepted a position as a long range planner, and Shannon Fitzgerald will assume the role as a Senior Planner for current planning projects.

Colin Maycock has two Master's degrees, one in Urban Geography from the University of British Columbia, the other in City and Regional Planning from the University of Texas at Arlington. Colin told the Island Guardian that prior to becoming a planner he " enjoyed a wide variety of employment experiences such as a journalist, a salmon fisherman on the west coast of Vancouver Island, a roustabout on Oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico and a Line driver on seismic crews in Yemen and Alberta along with many other far less exotic occupations.

Shannon said that she "is happy to join her mom and sister's family who live on San Juan Island" and that she is also very pleased to be working with the Planning Department. For the last 17 years, Shannon has worked on various groundwater, watershed and dredging projects with the U.S. EPA in San Francisco. Prior to that, she taught at North Seattle Community College.