Grateful resident donates $6,000 to emergency response services

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. People express their gratitude in different ways, from a heartfelt thank you, to a written note, to a meaningful gift, public praise, or performing a like act of kindness and paying it forward. A grieving Gretchen Wallace, who lost her husband under tragic circumstances not long ago, touched on several of the levels of gratitude with her $6,000 donation to the county’s emergency response services at a recent county commission meeting. In his introduction to the topic on Thursday evening, Dec. 19, Commission Chairman Austin Hosford touched on the tragic circumstances prompting the donation. He noted that Jefferson County had lost a wonderful man on