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Longtime Wylie EDC boardmember retires

by | Jun 23, 2021 | Latest

Board members for civic and oversight organizations can come and go, but John Yea­ger stayed a long spell for the group he served.

That duration was close to three decades.

Yeager will retire from the Wylie Economic Development Corporation board at the end of June. A retirement party was given to him last week.

“I just wanted to be part of the community and kind of hopefully help with some eco­nomic development,” he said.

Wylie was the second city in Texas to start an EDC, with the EDC officially starting here in December 1990. Because Yeager was a board member at the time, that makes him the longest-running EDC board member in Texas. He was rec­ognized for his service to the EDC at the Wylie City Council meeting on June 22.

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By Don Munsch[email protected]

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