A chunk of our success can be credited to her efforts. Among her many jobs over the years have been feature writer, columnist, copy editor, sounding board and, for the past few years, our city editor. Among her daily duties is sifting through this column and trying to make it make sense. She usually succeeds. Pat is moving south to become the bureau chief of our Carlsbad edition.
Nobody really knows what a bureau chief does, but our loss is their gain.
Some highly qualified and talented people have been hired to replace this trio. Each will quickly become aware of the size of the shoes left behind to fill.