{"id":1320058,"date":"2020-05-17T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=996434"},"modified":"2020-05-17T19:54:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T01:54:13","slug":"monday-profile-city-clerk-catherine-mythen-fletcher-continues-to-keep-glenwoods-record-amid-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/monday-profile-city-clerk-catherine-mythen-fletcher-continues-to-keep-glenwoods-record-amid-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday profile: City Clerk Catherine Mythen Fletcher continues to keep Glenwood\u2019s record amid pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/profile-gpi-051820-1024x704.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/profile-gpi-051820-1024x704.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/profile-gpi-051820-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/profile-gpi-051820-768x528.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/profile-gpi-051820-1536x1056.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/05\/profile-gpi-051820-2048x1408.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p><figcaption><strong>Catherine Fletcher, Glenwood Springs\u2019 City Clerk outside of Glenwood Springs City Hall.<\/strong><br \/><em>Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Over the years, Catherine Mythen Fletcher has worn many hats as Glenwood Springs City Clerk \u2014 and even a face covering while conducting April\u2019s special election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a little stressful, I\u2019ll be honest,\u201d Fletcher said. \u201cBut, we pulled it off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the COVID-19 crisis and the financial impacts it has taken on the city\u2019s budget, Fletcher was unable to hire election judges this year.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, members of city staff volunteered to assist Fletcher and were able to process nearly 1,500 ballots and post election results just one hour after the final ballot box closed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row gspi-donation gspi-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2020\/03\/PI-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t have any experience at all with being an election judge,\u201d Fletcher said. \u201cThey did an absolutely amazing job. They were just wonderful to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Fletcher, her colleagues\u2019 willingness to help truly made this year\u2019s special election exactly that \u2014 special.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>A long way from Ireland<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Fletcher grew up in Ireland, in the little town of Tagoat, where she spent plenty of afternoons exploring County Wexford\u2019s endless fields and many evenings listening to the fierce ocean waves crash along the coastline.<\/p>\n<p>The oldest of seven children, Fletcher grew up in a middle-class family and always looked forward to family dinners with her two brothers, four sisters, parents and grandparents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ate a lot of potatoes, cabbage, bacon, steak\u2026just not a lot of spicy food of course,\u201d Fletcher laughed. \u201cReally good fish and homemade fries, basically, but we call them chips.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After studying hospitality in the nearby city of Waterford, Fletcher left home at the age of 23 and set out for Grand Cayman to work at the Hyatt Hotel.<\/p>\n<p>From waitressing to helping out at the golf club, Fletcher had originally signed on to only work in the Caribbean for six months but ended up staying for seven years and continued to work her way up the ranks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a really great time,\u201d Fletcher said. \u201cI love to scuba dive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, though, Fletcher traded in the Caribbean\u2019s warm waters for Colorado\u2019s snowcapped mountains when she transferred with Hyatt to Avon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a little chillier,\u201d Fletcher said. \u201cEspecially, when I didn\u2019t have a lot of winter clothes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher never envisioned becoming a clerk but her organizational skills and excellence in customer service afforded her the job as Avon\u2019s deputy clerk.<\/p>\n<p>The career Fletcher had never imagined for herself quickly became her passion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was out and about and somebody said to me, \u2018I\u2019ve heard the clerk is retiring in Glenwood Springs,&#8217;\u201d Fletcher recalled. \u201cMy eyes lit up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Fletcher officially became Glenwood Springs city clerk.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Handwritten<\/strong> <strong>history<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Not far from Fletcher\u2019s desk in city hall, one can find handwritten records from city council meetings dating back to the late 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so nice to look at those and the amount of work that went in,\u201d Fletcher said. \u201cIt\u2019s a very nice piece of history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over 130 years and several virtual meetings later, Fletcher has continued to document the city\u2019s story throughout the COVID-19 crisis for future generations to look back on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very proud of Catherine in her role as clerk,\u201d Fletcher\u2019s youngest sister Michelle Malone said in an email from Ireland. \u201cCatherine, as the eldest in our big Irish countryside family, has been a role model to us all and for that we love her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:mabennett@postindependent.com\">mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/monday-profile-city-clerk-catherine-mythen-fletcher-continues-to-keep-glenwoods-record-amid-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Fletcher, Glenwood Springs\u2019 City Clerk outside of Glenwood Springs City Hall.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent Over the years, Catherine Mythen Fletcher has worn many hats as Glenwood Springs City Clerk \u2014 and even a face covering while conducting April\u2019s special election. \u201cIt was a little stressful, I\u2019ll be honest,\u201d Fletcher said. \u201cBut, we pulled 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