Scott Swanson
New Sweet Home District Ranger Nikki Swanson found her calling in a summer job.
Swanson, who, incidentally, has no known relationship with the writer, had graduated from the University of Oregon in 1992 after majoring in biology and minoring in English.
She traveled with a veterinarian to see if that was what she was interested in, then tutored summer school students to determine if teaching was for her. It wasn’t.
Then she got…