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Greenway's new director
jbulger@journalnet.com
POCATELLO -- The Portneuf Greenway Foundation's new executive director has a confession. "I had never walked on the Greenway until six weeks ago," Tamara Rayborn said, "but I've walked it every day since." Rayborn, 49, has served as the Greenway's treasurer for the last two years. She now succeeds Hannah Sanger, who left the position in August to work for the city as an environmental educator.
Rayborn, a Jerome native, has lived in Pocatello the last 22 years. She came to the foundation through the auspices of a fellow Rotarian, who suggested she attend a board meeting. She's been with the group ever since. In many ways, Rayborn is the model of the kind of person the Greenway wants to attract. While not a consummate preservationist or naturalist, she takes a measure of delight in having a number of easily accessible quiet places to walk.
"We walk for about 40 minutes to hit all of Red Hill and then back to my work," she said. Rayborn works as the director of marketing for Green & Co., a certified public accountancy firm. The serendipity goes beyond her working for two "green" organizations. The Greenway's office is on the same floor of the Omni Building as Green & Co.
Rayborn's finance job brings a fresh perspective to the Greenway. She is looking at diligently pursuing funding, including corporate donations and grants, to complete the trail system. "I'm willing to try anything," she said. "We just need to get it done. People walk for a mile or two then have to get off the Greenway."
If the dream is achieved, Pocatello will have a trail system which runs from the J.R. Simplot plant all the way to the Portneuf Gap. Rayborn hopes her civic involvement will be an asset to her new position. She is a graduate of the Greater Pocatello Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Pocatello, a past president of the Edahow Elementary PTA, a Rotarian and a Girl Scout leader.
Rayborn kept mum about one past civic achievement, but her employer, David Green, would have none of it. Flashing a mint condition 1977 Miss Twin Falls Pageant Cavalcade of Queens program just out of Rayborn's reach, he turned to the contestant section and Rayborn's photograph as "Miss Gem State Oil." The photo depicts Rayborn seated, perhaps presciently, in a sylvan setting.
After allowing a quick scan, Green darted back into the safety of his office. "He used to be my boss," Rayborn said crossly. "I quit today."
By John Bulger
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