Helena Welling, Bonneville County Supervisor of Elections - "The Mycorrhizae of Local Elections"
October is Rotary International Economic and Community Development Month.
October Program Chairman: Brad Cramer
October Sergeant-At-Arms: Lisa Schultz
September Greeter: Chris Aspinall
- Helena Welling is the supervisor of elections at Bonneville County where she is surrounded by the best possible team who keeps our elections free and fair and preserves her sanity and sense of humor.
- Helena has been employed by the Bonneville County Elections Office since 2010 and is one of the last people in the nation to know what a crimping machine is and how to use it. Hint, it is not a hair appliance. The correct answer is: Crimping machine was used to create ballots that would either be punched through, impregnated, or left hanging with chads (ref. 2000 United States presidential election in Florida).
- Helena was born and raised in Finland and came to study in America in 1985 at the Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah where she attained a Bachelor of Arts in Communication.
- She is the mother of three grown children and four growing grandchildren.
- Helena comes with a caution in the words of Mark Twain: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Be forewarned, Helena promises to know nothing but manages to get in plenty of trouble, nonetheless.