[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 118 (Thursday, July 17, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1492]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        HONORING FORMER MAYOR BOB JEHN OF CLOVERDALE, CALIFORNIA

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                           HON. MIKE THOMPSON

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, July 17, 2008

  Mr. THOMPSON of California. Madam Speaker, together with my colleague 
Lynn Woolsey, I rise today to recognize my good friend, Bob Jehn, who 
retired from public office on July 4, 2008 after serving 14 years on 
the city council of Cloverdale, California.
  During Mr. Jehn's tenure on the council, he served four times as its 
mayor. He was also a three-term member of the board of directors on the 
League of California Cities, past chairman and the longest serving 
member of the Sonoma County Transportation Authority, past chairman and 
member of the North Coast Rail Authority and Chairman and member of the 
Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit Authority.
  He was the driving force behind the establishment of Cloverdale River 
Park, a 70-acre public access area along the Russian River, and led the 
successful effort to secure a permanent conservation easement for 250 
acres of hillside overlooking Cloverdale.
  His other civic duties included service on the Cloverdale Planning 
Commission and former Chair of the Cloverdale Economic Development 
Commission. He was an active member of the Cloverdale Rotary Club, the 
Cloverdale Chamber of Commerce, the Cloverdale Historical Society and 
the North Coast Association of Health Underwriters. He was honored by 
his community as volunteer of the year in 1994.
  Mr. Jehn and his wife of 30 years, Nancy, moved to California in 1977 
and to Cloverdale in 1990. He is a graduate of the University of Texas 
and a Navy veteran, serving aboard the USS Force, MSO 445, an ocean 
mine sweeper, from June 1963 through May 1965.
  Mr. Jehn plans to devote his time and his energies to his health 
insurance business and to his family, focusing and doting on his three 
grandchildren, Grace, 8, Billy, 6 and Sophia, 3.
  Madam Speaker, Bob Jehn, has been an exceptional public servant. He 
has served the people of Cloverdale and Sonoma County well and it is 
fitting at this time that we honor him today and wish him well as he 
enters the next phase of his life.

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