Rod Anderson: Visitor Bureau’s Volunteer of the Month

The Long Beach Peninsula Visitors Bureau honors Rod Anderson as Volunteer of the month. He was born in Mount Vernon and raised on a dairy farm in Western Skagit County. He graduated from Burlington-Edison High School and went on to Western Washington University where he received a BA in education in 1962.

He began his 33-year teaching career at Ilwaco Elementary in 1962. He taught Washington state history and geography, which later served him well at the Visitors Bureau.