DAYTON-Peggy Guiterrez, who is the Drug Free Coordinator Grant Program Director in Columbia County, is retiring.

Guiterrez said she was serving as the Prevention Specialist at Blue Mountain Counseling when the Coalition for Youth and Families was encouraged by the state Prevention Services Manager to apply for the Drug Free Communities Grant in 2011.

"We applied in 2011 and missed the cut off by two points, so we applied again in 2012 and received the grant on our second attempt," she said.

Guiterrez was initially hired to serve as the Community Coordinator, which included serving as the Ad...