[Music] upon celebrating her 40th anniversary working with the city of Edina environmental health specialist and recycling coordinator solve Wilmont recently said that change is the constant in life since starting her career in the mid 1980s Wilmont has certainly seen her share of change Edina TV met with her recently to take a look back at the impact she's had in our community 40 years ago solve Wilmont was looking for a job I walked into the city what she found was a career it happened to be registration season and the staff there were swamped they said well if you can start today we'll put you on right now and so she began working for the Parks and Recreation Department at that point computers weren't widespread in the city yet we were using uh cards for limits on registration for swimming lessons once the cards filled up with names that class was full an even better fit in the city soon presented itself and Wilmot knew exactly what to say and I have a degree in biology and the health department was expanding by one person so I was able to use those words in the interview to say well Public Health isn't meant to harm people it's really meant to improve their well-being for the decades that followed Wilmont has been at the Forefront of many changes in public health I was part of the very early programs for the recycling um system from its expansion to a little bucket down at the curb collected weekly to the cart now that we use every other week and then the most recent expansion was Organics and the first memo I wrote was in 2012 and it took us till 2020 to actually initiate the program as well as overseeing major updates in swimming pool safety following a tragic event Abigail Taylor um the child that had a terrible accident at a pool because of a drain cover her family was involved here in Idina they lived here in Idina so I was part of the recreation water advisory committee when that new regulation came in pack I was a president of that Association that's one of the areas that I've really embraced in the public health system that we can make some significant changes that can benefit the water quality and the safety for reducing waterborne illnesses uh through those changes after being part of so much over four decades while making Idina a safer place to live and visit what has Wilmot learned the big thing about change is that it should happen um it's hard for us to embrace change sometimes because it's comfortable to be where we're at uh but man if things don't change I mean every year we age that's a change we just have to embrace right so that's where we need to look at change of something to embrace and see what we can do to make that change a good thing from E of Fire Station 1 I'm Scott Denfeld Edina TV one more area of change in wilmot's 40 years with the city included meeting her future husband while he was an electrician in the public works department the couple has two sons