Everyone looks forward to retirement and Grace Potter, the administrator for the rural municipality (RM) of Estevan, is retiring this year after 30 years in public service.
"I have been in Estevan for almost five years and altogether I've been in my career for 30 years. Most of my time was spent in Shaunavon, working in the RM office up there," said Potter.
"I didn't wait too long after high school to get into my current career, and I guess I was just interested in it. I had a grandfather that served on council forever and this job just ended up suiting me," she added.
Her grandfather sat on a municipal council for 28 years.Â
After she graduated high school in the late 1980s, Potter continued some education in administrative work. A job quickly became available while she was in school. She took and ever since she has been a public servant.
"The most interesting thing I can remember is at one time I had my whole council quit; that was back in 1998," said Potter.
"There was a lot of internal problems that were going on at the time in that particular council and they just all quit one day and I was the only one left," she added.
While working in Estevan, she has seen lots of interesting things, the most memorable for her is how much the RM has expanded in recent years.
"Now that I am retired me and my husband are moving back to the family farm because it unexpectedly became available for purchase. I can't wait to move back," said Potter.
In her retirement, Potter does have some travelling planned; she will be going to China with her husband for a few weeks, and once things getting sorted out on the farm they may do more travelling.
"My old job is open for someone else to take it but that will be solved with internal hiring. Michelle Dickie who has been with us for about 12 years will be taking over my old job," she said.
