BLYTHEWOOD – The City of Blythewood has employed two folks to
deal with advertising duties for the City.
Kristi Coggins will take over as the brand new Doko Manor and Doko
Meadows Park Director, succeeding Steve Hasterok, who will retire on April 30.
Coggins, who will likely be paid $66,000 yearly, will start work
on March 28, and work with Hasterok for a month earlier than he retires.
City Administrator Carroll Williamson introduced on the Feb.
28, 2022 city council assembly that he has additionally employed Onye Cosom as advertising
and particular initiatives supervisor. Cosom is at present a scholar at Lander
College.
Williamson has not offered additional details about Cosom
besides to say that she’s going to be a part of the City workers Could 9 after her commencement from
Lander.
Coggins, a former head girls’s golf coach on the College of
South Carolina, has organized the Ladies’s SC Golf Affiliation match in
Blythewood the final two years.
She coached the USC girls’s golf workforce for 14 years, main
them to 12 journeys to the postseason and 6 NCAA championship appearances. In
1999, Coggins was the Southeastern Convention Coach of the 12 months in addition to head
coach for Workforce USA when it competed in opposition to Japan. She was inducted into the
USC Corridor of Fame in 2019.
For the final 13 years she helped her husband, Buck, arrange
his Blythewood Doko Rodeo and his Pioneer Days rodeo.
Hasterok has served as Director of the Manor since April
2015 and has managed Doko Meadows Park since 2017. He has reworked Doko
Manor into a preferred wedding ceremony vacation spot that’s booked virtually each weekend of
the yr.
Moreover, he oversaw the opening of the Palmetto
Residents Amphitheater, organized the City’s 4th of July celebration for a lot of
years, supervised the set up of a complicated safety digicam system
that covers your entire park and assisted the lodging tax and hospitality
tax committee.
“His management and contributions will likely be drastically missed as
he enjoys a well-earned retirement,” Williamson mentioned.