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Anderson-Faden excited in new role as commissioner

History was made last November in Kimball County when Daria Anderson-Faden became the first-ever female to be elected county commissioner here. She was recently sworn into office.

Anderson-Faden is a teacher at Potter-Dix High School. She will retire from the school in May. She grew up in Kimball, first attending school here when she was in the second grade. Her family has been a part of the businesses in Kimball and she remembers the wonder of the oil boom.

"We moved here when I was about in second grade during the oil boom and my dad had a gas station. I was raised here and went to schoo...