True to the Town
Robin Brandgard Exemplifies Community Service
Council president. “I played an active role in their life, and seldom missed their sports or school events. I also knew I wanted to play an active role in my community. I expressed my interest in being on the council, and one day someone called and asked me to run.” For 40 years, Brandgard has played an integral role in the development of Plainfield. In 11 elections, he has pulled in the highest numbers of votes against opponents - but he says that is not his greatest accomplishment.
“Helping to create the industrial park here in Plainfield has to be my greatest Writer and Photographer / Stephanie Singh Plainfield population was recorded at 9,191 accomplishment from my tenure on the Town Council,” Brandgard says. “The according to the United States Census industrial park laid the foundation for the It was the year Mount St. Helens erupted Bureau. Today, the population is around tax base here in Plainfield. It helped keep in Washington State, the Pac-Man video 32,000 people. taxes down, and allowed us to bring assets game was released, and the year John to this community that truly makes it the Lennon was shot and killed in New York. It “In 1980 my sons were five and two years was also the year Robin Brandgard would old, and being involved with them was very best place to live, work and play.” sit on the Town of Plainfield Town Council important to me,” says Brandgard, who The industrial park began to come to for the first time. In 1980, the Town of serves as the Town of Plainfield’s Town fruition in the 1990s - the same decade PlainfieldMag.com / AUGUST 2020 / PLAINFIELD MAGAZINE / 27
