[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 99 (Wednesday, July 22, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E1383-E1384]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         THANK YOU, EVIE FOSTER

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                          HON. JAMES A. BARCIA

                              of michigan

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 22, 1998

  Mr. BARCIA. Mr. Speaker, we all have concerns about how to best deal 
with crime, and are likely to agree that the best solution is one in 
which the impetus for criminal action has been removed. At no time is 
this more important than when we are dealing with young offenders. 
Those skilled individuals who help juveniles turn away from the path of 
crime are special people, and deserve to be celebrated.
  The people of Bay County, my home county, have had the good fortune 
to have had Evie Foster as the Community Services Coordinator for 
youthful offenders for the past eight years. She is retiring from the 
Office of the Bay County Prosecutor after a term of great 
accomplishment. In that time, she has placed over 1,000 young people in 
various work sites around the County, helping them learn the value of 
productive effort. Judge Paul Doner hired Evie to work in the Probate 
Court as the Coordinator in 1990, and we all thank him for that 
excellent decision.
  It is no surprise to anyone who has had the privilege of knowing Evie 
Foster that she has been so successful. She started working at

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the Bay County Juvenile Home nearly twenty-four years ago as a youth 
development worker. She became Team Leader after five years, 
supervising other child care workers, and served as Interim Director of 
the Juvenile Facility until a new Director was hired. She most 
deservedly was named in 1982 as the Child Care Worker of the Year for 
the State of Michigan by the Michigan Juvenile Association.
  Her care for children extends beyond her professional tasks. She has 
served a two-year term on the Youth Board Ministry for Immanuel 
Lutheran Church, two terms on the Compensation Board for the City, and 
as volunteer coordinator for the annual Christmas Dinner for the 
residents of the Bay Medical Care Facility and their families.
  Evie has three children, Larry, Bob, and Brenda, a daughter-in-law 
Julia, and several grandchildren, Adam, LaSelle, Robbie, Julia, 
Vanessa, and Jared. They have learned valuable lessons about the need 
to support young people from Evie, and we are all better for it.
  As Evie Foster leaves the Office of the Bay County Prosecutor to have 
more free time for golf, fishing, and other matters of significance to 
her, I ask you, Mr. Speaker, and all of our colleagues to join me in 
thanking her for the important and vital work she has done, and the 
example she has set. May her retirement be as satisfying as her years 
of devotion to her community.

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