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Earth Matters : Honoring a local hero: After 40 years, Hitchcock Center bids farewell to educator and creative leader, Colleen Kelley

By Ted Watt & Helen Ann Sephton

This column honors Colleen Kelley, the education director at the Hitchcock Center, who will soon be leaving her post after 40 years. In the fall of 1984, Colleen walked into the Hitchcock Center — young, bright, idealistic, and fresh off a position as an environmental educator at another center. She had moved to the Valley and was looking for work. She hadn’t been there but a few minutes when a school bus pulled into the parking lot…