Vickie Scott was named the new director of Alleghany CARES on June 20, replacing Mitzi Biggins, who resigned from the position.

Scott is named new director at CARES

Vickie Scott, the newest director of Alleghany Christians Associated for Relief and Emergency Service, has learned to follow her intuition and go through open doors. Scott took the position June 20, replacing Mitzi Biggins, who resigned from the position.

Scott noted that she had been asked to take the position at an earlier time, at which Scott declined because “I didn’t feel the timing was right,” she said. “When this one opened up and one the gentlemen from the board came to speak to me, I felt within my heart, within my intuition as you’d call it, that it was right. That is why I am here to offer my organizational skills, to take CARES to its next level, to make the store grow, to expand its visibility, to expand its whole operation and to the goals of the county; to keep within the county and take care of the people who are here to the best that we can by offering one to the other.”

A native of Bluefield, W.Va., she and her husband, Charlie, moved the county about five years ago. Ms. Scott was employed at the Sparta United Methodist Church as the administrative assistant for the past four years. Also a member of the congregation, Scott noted that she and her husband helped with the development of several organizations within the church.

“I was not looking for new employment, the job came looking for me,” Scott recalls. “We are each appointed opportunities that are opened for us. It’s up to us as individuals to accept to go through those doors. I think that God opened the door for me and I chose to go through this door and this opportunity. That is why I’m here. For that, as well as the mission that Alleghany CARES portrays, how we help our county, our neighbors in the county.”

Scott commented her employment with CARES came with one condition. “When I moved from the Methodist church and came to CARES, my one condition for coming to Alleghany CARES as employment was to bring with me the administration of the Minsterium’s relief fund,” Scott said. “It is now administered

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