Citizens, colleagues and family braved the damp weather to pay tribute to Rockdale County’s retiring and outgoing officials at a Community Appreciation Celebration Thursday evening at Scot Ward’s Green Meadow Chapel and Reception Hall. Ward and Julie Mills co-organized the non-partisan event to spotlight the nine departing public servants and their collective 148 years of service in the county. Former Coroner Dr. Stephen Boyle, former Sheriff Jeff Wigington, former Superior Court Judge Sidney Nation, former Probate Court Judge Lillis Brown, former Magistrate Court Chief Judge Rudy Horne,