Tom Johnson is set to retire April 30 after eight years with the county. 6:00 am, Mar. 6, 2021 ×
Johnson
WORTHINGTON When Nobles County Administrator Tom Johnson announced to commissioners in a closed session Tuesday morning that he would be retiring at the end of April, it didn’t come as a surprise.
Johnson had begun talking about his impending departure a year and a half ago, when the county hired a deputy county administrator in a dual role as emergency management director.
“March (2021) was a speculative date a year and a half ago,” Johnson said Wednesday.
In the position for slightly more than eight years he started in February 2013 Johnson said it’s time to see his kids and grandkids more often. He and his wife have five grown children, scattered across the country from Utah to Georgia, and 10 grandchildren.
Worthington couple invested in building of Ecumen Meadows, where they now reside 6:30 am, Feb. 12, 2021 ×
Russell and Jan Rickers, who invested in 1990 in the Worthington facility that s now home to Ecumen Meadows, became residents of the assisted living complex in September 2020. (Special to The Globe)
WORTHINGTON As a nearly lifelong Wortington resident, Russell and Jan Rickers were interested in investing in his community’s future.
Russell, who moved to Worthington at the age of 3, and his brother, Don, sold Rickers Photography Studio in August 1981. “Russ” then worked with Client Community Services Inc. from 1982 until his retirement in 1994.
It was about 1990, he recalled, when he learned about an effort to build a new living facility for seniors.