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Weems honors Mills on golden anniversary
This time it was Lillie Mills’ turn to have a cake baked for her.
At a surprise party thrown last week as part of National Hospital Week, longtime Weems employee Lillie Mills was honored on the occasion of her marking 50 years working at the hospital.
“I appreciate everybody at Weems and everyone for thinking of me,” said Mills, who at age 71 is the mother of three sons, 16 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
Starting at age 21, in 1972, Mills has worked a variety of jobs, in housekeeping and admissions and her latest, in dietary, “I love working at Weems and I love the people of Franklin County,” she said.
Mills is known for doing unto others, including baking birthday cakes for friends and fellow workers, and making sure to visit the sick in Apalachicola.
In addition to a plaque and other gifts presented to her by Weems CEO David Walker and Chief Financial Officer Susan Daniels, Mills received congratulatory gifts from Pat Williams, the pastor’s wife at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, where Mills worships, and from Myrtis Wynn, secretary of Weems governing board of directors.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.