Saturday Spotlight: Inv. Susan Welch

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EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is the second in a series of profiles that manninglive.com will be posting each Saturday to highlight our first responders and dispatchers who keep Clarendon County a safe place to live. After each Saturday posting, the piece will appear in the following Thursday’s Manning Times. Clarendon County Sheriff's Office Inv. Susan Welch began her career as a volunteer with the Turbeville Rescue Squad in 1985. She joined the Sheriff's Office in 2014. WHAT MADE YOU WANT TO BE A FIRST RESPONDER? I wanted to be a first responder so that I could make a difference in my community and be involved in all the action and excitement. WHAT IS THE MOST CHALLENGING THING ABOUT BEING A FIRST RESPONDER? The most challenging thing about being a first responder is knowing that people’s lives, safety, and security are dependent on me doing my job. DESCRIBE A MEMORABLE MOMENT DURING YOUR SERVICE. We won’t even talk about the Thousand Year Flood that just happened to occur 2 weeks after I graduated from the Academy and brand new to patrol and shift work! Other than that, the most memorable moments that have happened while I was on patrol are not appropriate to be discussed in print! PLEASE TELL US ABOUT YOUR FAMILY. Joel and I have been married for 21 years. We have two beautiful, intelligent, hard-headed daughters, Jordan, 21, and Jada, 18. WHERE DID YOU GO TO HIGH SCHOOL? I went to East Clarendon High School. GRADUATION YEAR? 1988 IF YOU ATTENDED COLLEGE, WHERE DID YOU GO AND WHAT DEGREE DID YOU EARN? I earned an associate’s degree from Central Carolina in early 2000. I earned my bachelor of arts degree in criminal justice from Columbia College this year.