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stmaster Linda Walker retires mailbag after 34 years
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17 years dutifully serving the
inity, Canada Post's Local Area
ntendent Linda Walker cele -
her last day of work Friday.
er retired her mailbag October
your of some long awaited fam-
e after 34 years on the job with
a Post. Walker has served the
unities from Myth to Huron
nce 1994, acting as the go -to gal
nch operations and is known
the service as 'Miss Canada
er has always been a southern
o girl. She started her career
ianada Post in 1977 out of
I . From there, she transferred
mira where she cultivated her
r the rural atmosphere before
g in Goderich in 1994, Just in
he recalls, to experience the
ing cyclone that whipped the
community in 1995. Walker,
ith her husband and twin girls,
I in the Ridgewood,Park area.
rth of Goderich. Now with her
way at school and her father
in, Walker said there is one
he's looking forward to as she
n to retirement - Christmas.
"It will he my first Christmas off, it's
always our busiest time of year [at
Canada Post]," she said. "I'm going to
make Christmas cookies, the kids will
be home ... 1 think I'll even do a happy
dance at the first blizzard we get."
In the months leading up to her
retirement, Walker and the entire Can-
ada Post staff have worked overtime to
ensure mail service was restored as
quickly and fully as possible in the
days and weeks following the August
21 tornado.
"After setting up a temporary office
at the mall and working through all of
this, it has been a pleasure working
with the staff and having the opportu-
nity to watch their personal and pro-
fessional growth. It was an honour,"
Walker said.
"I have a great deal of appreciation
for my staff in all the offices for their
loyalty to their communities. That's
paramount."
Walker plans to remain at home in
the community well into retirement,
and says she and her father are enjoy-
ing 11 a.m. coffee time daily.
Her role as Local Area Superintend-
ent has been filled by Rhonda Gibson.
Walker says she is confident she has
left operations In "very good hands."
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Canada Post's Local Area Superintendent Linda Walker has bookended the last stretch of her career with two
of the worst storms Goderich has seen in quite some time. After her final day of work October 28, Walker said
she feels proud to have worked for the last 34 years with Canada Post.
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