Article: EGER TO SERVE.

So you think retirement means dwindling energy and shrinking interests? In that case, says SUSAN BURNS, you haven't met her mother-in-law, the untiring and inspiring civic activist, Rebecca Eger.

When my mother-in-law Rebecca Eger recently retired after seven years as a governing board member of the Southwest Florida Water Management District (Swiftmud), several articles in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune lauded her as an irreplaceable environmentalist and irrepressible public advocate. The articles were great, but too brief to do justice to the woman I have known and loved for the last 23 years.

Without a doubt, Rebecca is one of the most interesting, ...

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