Audrey Caro
Cindy Rice has been serving the community of Sweet Home in some capacity for decades.
When her two sons, now in their 30s, were young, she volunteered in schools, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and 4-H.
Rice, 57, worked as the Linn County Peer Court coordinator for three years in the early 2000s. When that program was defunded three years later, she decided to go back to school.
It took about a year and…