BrownwoodNews – The Pecan Valley Republican Women’s monthly meeting will feature guest speaker Tony Aaron.
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The monthly meeting will be held this Thursday at 6:00 pm at The TSTC Building on Main in Brownwood. The entrance is at the rear of the building on Booker St, everyone is welcome.
Tony Aaron is a native of Brown County and Early City Administrator. He will be speaking on “The Best Way to Engage Your Local Government” and How to Follow Your Dreams, in Spite of The Obstacles Life Throws at you.
Aaron is a prime example of what a person with the right mind set, determination, faith, and an endless desire to serve his fellow man can achieve, overcoming the obstacles in life. He will speak on the best way to engage your local government.
Before Aaron became the City Administrator for Early, he had achieved multiple successes in various aspects if his life. Tony’s father was an entrepreneur and inventor who owned several small businesses and taught him the value of hard work and chasing your dreams. His mother instilled in Tony that you are never too old, underprivileged, or uneducated to set a goal, strive to achieve it, and reinvent yourself and your future as often as needed in order to obtain happiness.
With these lessons growing up, Tony went on to achieve great things; the greatest was beating Non- Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 1993. He served in the Army National Guard and Army Reserves from 1991 to 1999. Tony attended Indiana Bible College studying ministry and Christian education and graduate from Tarleton State University’s Police Academy as Salutatorian of his class. Tony attended Howard Payne University and obtained his Bachelor of Applied Arts and Sciences with a Major in Criminal Justice.
His law enforcement career included working for the Comanche County and Brown County Sheriff’s Offices for the next 18 years and he remains a Reserve Deputy Sheriff with the Brown County Sheriff’s Office today. He has served as a volunteer for the Ron Jackson Facility of Texas Department of Juvenile Justice, Brothers Big Sisters, served on the board of directors for the Boys & Girls Club of Brownwood, and the Pecan Valley Domestic Shelter. He is currently serving as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Brownwood Regional Medical Center, a member of the Natural Resources Committee, Law Enforcement Training Advisory Board, the Texas Municipal League Small Cities Advisory Council, and the Texas City Manager Association Professional Development Committee.
In 2014, he graduated from Sam Houston State University with his Masters of Public Administration; attended Texas A&M Mays Business School at the Center of Executive Development, and later that year became the City Administrator of Early, Texas
He never has and hopes he never will complete his life of education, and looks for ways daily to learn how to be a better person.
As City Administrator, Tony has developed a “Teamwork” mentality and environment for all the stakeholders of Early, Texas including the elected officials, employees, volunteers, partner organizations and its citizens. With the cooperation and engagement of the community, Early’s future is heading in a positive direction and the needs and expectations of citizens are being met. By instilling a servant leadership mindset, a proactive approach to problem solving, and by striving to reach strategic goals the organization has recently achieved great success for the community of Early. The story of success for Early, Texas has not yet been completed, but it has some exciting chapters so far and much more to come.
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