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Longtime public servant retires 
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By Philip Jankowski Ask Linda Kaderka what she’ll be doing now that she’s retiring and she’ll say: A whole lot of nothing. “Nothing. Absolutely nothing,” Kaderka said. “People keep asking me what I’m going to do. I don’t even want to think about what I want to do.” The relaxed passivity towards her retirement is well deserved. Kaderka has spent nearly the last two decades in public service, working at precinct 4 Justice of the Peace Judy Hobbs’ office in Taylor and as the director of victims assistance for the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office. Kaderka and her colleagues held a party in her honor Friday afternoon in the JP courtroom. “It’s been very difficult to leave the judge,” Kaderka said. “She’s a personal friend, and I respect her for what she does. I don’t think people understand how hard her job is.” Anyone caught speeding or rolling through a stop sign around Taylor over the past five and a half years has probably met Kaderka. She collected payments for tickets at the JP office on Sixth Street. Prior to that, Kaderka considered retiring when she left the sheriff’s office, however the timing was not right. “I wasn’t ready to retire yet,” she said. “I told (Hobbs) I could work for two years.” That turned into five and a half years, she said. But when her work began to interfere with her personal life, Kaderka knew it was time to go. Kaderka does have some idea what she will do now that she is retiring. Her plans are not as ambitious as, say, an extended international holiday. She plans to spend more time with her husband Darvin, who retired from the Alcoa plant in Rockdale. She also will spend time with her grandchildren and great-grandchild in Taylor and the Houston area. Kaderka will also head Keep Taylor Beautiful next year and continue her Christmas lights work with Taylor Area Business?women. A little gardening is also on her short agenda
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