By: JOHN OURADA
Salina, KS
Every day, public servants carry out critical work that allows our society to function. We rely on public servants for our daily safety through emergency services and preventing crime and terrorism; to ensure we build and maintain the physical infrastructure allowing us to move from place to place, communicate across long distances, power our homes or drink clean water; to educate our children; to administer critical social programs like Social Security and Medicare; and much more.
In Kansas, Federal employees carry out programs that help conserve our soil and water resources, provide stability to our agricultural economy, support our armed forces, process our Social Security Checks and tax refunds, deliver our mail, and more.
Too often their work goes unnoticed until something goes wrong. Yet public servants work every day to provide a stable foundation for all of us to enjoy our lives and our freedom.
Since 1985, the first week of May has been designated as Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW) to recognize those who serve our communities and our country.
John Ourada, Salina, Retired NRCS-USDA Engineer and
President, Kansas Federation of National Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE)
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John Ourada (Salina), is a retired NRCS-USDA Engineer and President, Kansas Federation of National Active and Retired Federal Employees (NARFE)
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