After a long and busy career in Uinta County, Amelia Rutner has started her retirement. She was a county employee for 42 years, starting during the boom in 1980.
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After a long and busy career in Uinta County, Amelia Rutner has started her retirement. She was a county employee for 42 years, starting during the boom in 1980. She is an Evanston native, having grown up in the small Front Street house she now owns.
According to Rutner, the county offered her a job without an application, as they were understaffed and desperate to keep up with a growing population. “We had people waiting in a line into the street to get titles, she said. “Hallways were lined with people coming to Evanston for work.” Rutner was quite young at the time, and estimates that she’d had only three jobs before the county employed her. “We laugh because I grew up at the courthouse,” she said, “I was a 20-year-old kid when I started.” Despite Rutner’s youth and society’s progress, she says she wasn’t often stressed about work. “I never worried about my job because I was satisfied doing it.”