Sue joined Ashby Village in 2010. Two years later, she took the training class and soon began doing data entry in the office once a week. When AV started using Salesforce, Sue’s job eased up. As she says, “with less complicated software, others were doing what I had done, and I was asked to take care of the AV Calendar.” Now, when people notify Sue of an event, she converts it into a calendar item, making tweaks as needed. “I’m so appreciative of Sue’s dedication, she also tutored AV’s nature walk leaders to post their own events on the website. This empowered others to help lessen the load, I really enjoyed seeing that.” Pat says.
In these days of shelter-in-place, she has had to remove many of AV’s usual events and add various Zoom events. Sometimes Sue also enters registration and attendance of events. She reminds us that signing up ahead of time allows event sponsors to know how many people to expect. Sue adds, “I can do my job from home, which is handy. At this point I see myself continuing to do this job for AV for the foreseeable future.” A testimony of Sue’s work comes from Audre Newman, co-leader of Ashby Village Nature Walks. "Sue has been a friend, mentor, “we-can-do-this” person for years. She puts together the calendar, answers questions, and solves problems lickety-split. I am so grateful for her! What a treasure she is for all of us!"
I think we can all agree with Sigrid when she says, “Ashby Village members have much to offer to us all.” It brings her hope when she meets people who are growing older but still having fun in life.
Thank you Sigrid and Sue!