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Union County commissioners read resignation letter, offer condolences after Commissioner Gary Sides’s death
Summary
At its April 20 meeting the Union County Board of Commissioners read a resignation letter from Commissioner Gary Marshall Sides and several commissioners and residents offered public remembrances and condolences. Sides cited community service priorities, concern for seniors and a glioblastoma diagnosis in his letter.
Chairman Helms opened the April 20 meeting of the Union County Board of Commissioners by reading in full a letter from Commissioner Gary Marshall Sides that the board received March 31 and Sides asked be entered into the record.
In the letter Sides described his public service goals and health struggles: “From an early age, I always wanted to be involved in some way to work with others to make the community I lived in a better place for all,” and later wrote that he had been diagnosed…
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