Riker retires

Following a 35-year career in special education, 24 years of which were spent in Carbon County School District No. 2 (CCSD2), Deb Riker has retired as the district’s Special Education Administrator. Riker has had the fortune to be one of those lucky people who has a career doing something they love.

“I knew I always wanted to be, somehow, in education, because I loved school. I was great in school. I’d line up the teddy bears and I’d teach them when I was little,” said Riker.

While Riker knew that she always wanted to go into education, she wasn’t sure she wanted to go into special education a...