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Tom Farner

Board Member (Retired Farner Bocken Company)

Department: Board

TERM EXPIRES: December 2024


Q1. Why do you believe in Carroll County Growth Partnership? 

CCGP has been a very vital group of people coming together from the Carroll community and the towns located in Carroll County to meet and discuss different issues that are important to our county.  We try to come up with some of the best answers or solutions for our towns throughout the county.  By meeting on a regular basis we communicate and talk over any problems or opportunities that arise in our county and try to move forward in our best interest.

Q2. Why did you want to serve on the Board of Directors for CCGP?

I have served on CCGP for over 25 years and I have seen a lot of great things that this organization has done for the Carroll community and the surrounding communities in our county.  There have been a lot of good people on CCGP that have spent countless hours working on different solutions and some great opportunities for the best interest for our towns in Carroll County.  One of the great things we do serving on the board of CCGP is going out touring and visiting with the different business throughout the county to listen to their concerns or issues they might have.  I know they appreciate the time we take to come and visit with them.

Q3. Why do you love to live and work in Carroll County?

I was born and raised in Carroll and except for a few years when my wife Jean and I lived in other towns, we have always lived here.  What makes Carroll and the surrounding towns in our county so successful and great to live in is the amount of time that people spend doing volunteer projects and functions that take place in our county.  We have been so blessed with so many good people that step up to help get things done or to make it happen.  The people from our communities throughout Carroll County are very proud and happy they live and work in Carroll, and you can see it when you drive through the different towns in our county how they are very clean and kept up.  Farner-Bocken was very successful for 78 years and one of the main reasons is the people who worked for our company who dedicated so many years to our company, lived and grew up in Carroll and the surrounding towns in our county.

Board Coworkers

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Board Member (City of Glidden)

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Past President (Auen Distributing Co.)

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Board Member (Badding Construction)

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Board Member (Carroll Times Herald)