âTry Your Best Each Dayâ is the mantra that Peggy Hopwood has followed during the past 42 years in her cooperative career. She is calling it a day at the end of December as she is retiring as the Senior Vice-President of Member Services for Central Valley Ag.
Her co-op career began in Shelby in 1978 when she started part-time in the evening doing data entry for Lefty Gabriel who was running the Farmers Co-op there which encompassed Shelby, Rising City and Gresham locations. Gabriel then came to her and asked if she would like to go full-time. She said yes and her co-op journey began.