During Monday's Fargo City Commission meeting, we honored City Forester Scott Liudahl and Children's Librarian Cindy Liudahl. The couple is retiring together after a combined 51 years of service to the City.
After 30 years of service, City Forester Scott Liudahl is retiring. Scott joined The City of Fargo as Arborist Supervisor in 1996 and became City Forester in 1998. Over the years, he helped shape Fargo's urban forest, built partnerships across the region and nation, established mutual aid agreements throughout North Dakota and led signature events like Arbor Day and Reforest the Red that have engaged thousands of community members in planting and caring for trees.
Fittingly, Scott and Cindy are stepping into retirement together. Cindy joined the Fargo Public Library in 2005 as part of the Bookmobile staff and later moved to the Northport Library location when it opened in 2006. Since 2011, she has served in Children's Services as a Children's Programming Associate, becoming a familiar, welcoming face for countless kids and families across the community. Through Storytimes, events and partnerships, she helped make the library a place where children felt they truly belonged. Cindy is retiring from the Fargo Public Library after 21 years of service.
Their legacies will live on in the trees growing throughout Fargo, the programs they helped build and the lives they touched along the way.
Thank you, Scott and Cindy. May your retirement be much like the Hackberry tree: strong, resilient and continuing to thrive for many years to come.