Cheney Free Press -

CHENEY – Steady effort and growth have helped Vicki Pagel get to where she is with the local post office, and she is set to soon retire after being with the Cheney office since 1997.

The long-time postal worker said she was born in Spokane, and primarily lived in the surrounding area although she lived in Olympia and wasn't too fond of that area.

Pagel said she started as a janitor in the small post office in Odessa in 1995 and kept putting in all the extra work she could while employed at the little office.

Pagel said she lived in Odessa for 11 years, and her family didn't have a lot o...