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Ira
Long:
Working Hard for his Native County
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by Su Clauson-Wicker
Ira Long started his working life at 16
picking coal out of Brush Mountain’s Hoge Mine during the Depression. "It was
hard work, but I didn’t know anything else," he says.
Last month, as he retired from public service, the
Montgomery County Public Service Authority (PSA) and the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors passed 18
resolutions thanking him for everything from 16 years on the county board of supervisors
(two terms as chairman and two as vice chairman) and 16 years on the PSA (nine years as
chairman) to his efforts in creating the Huckleberry
Trail, completing numerous water and sewer projects, and obtaining the funding to make
the PSA financially independent.
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