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Gulfport City Council Ward 2By Times staff writer© St. Petersburg Times published February 26, 2003 Dawn E. Fisher AGE: 69. BACKGROUND: Originally from Illinois, Fisher moved to Florida in 1985. She first purchased property in Gulfport in 1996 and became a resident a short time later. She has been active in the Gulfport Arts Council, is a board member of Friends of Strays and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, for which she had served as vice president and executive director. She also has helped organize Fourth of July events in Gulfport and the Taste of Gulfport. She spends most mornings picking up litter. Fisher graduated from the University of Illinois in 1955 with a fine arts degree and followed it up with graduate work at Kansas State University in the 1960s. Fisher is vice president and treasurer of D. Wolfe & Co., a family farm in her home state; owns the property of the Backfin Blue Cafe; and has a part-time collectibles business. Fisher is divorced and has three grown children and one grandchild. ASSETS: home, Backfin Blue Cafe property, 3,000-acre farm in Illinois, stocks. LIABILITIES: mortgage on cafe property. INCOME: Fisher Trucking Co., salary from D. Wolfe & Co., restaurant lease, city of Gulfport. Joyce McMahonAGE: 62. BACKGROUND: McMahon came to Gulfport from Pleasantville, N.J., in 1985. She was born in Camden, N.J., graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Westville, then the Steelmans Business School in 1959. McMahon worked in a variety of fields, including bookkeeping, customer service, and personnel. After moving to Gulfport, McMahon worked 13 years as a cashier at the Gulfport Beach Bazaar and as a city switchboard operator for a year and a half. She resigned to collect Social Security. She works part time at Walgreens. McMahon has put in more than 15 years of volunteering for Gulfport, including one year as office coordinator of the Chamber of Commerce, five years on the Waterfront Redevelopment Committee, and also on the committee to update the city charter. She has been president of the Gulfport Garden Club three times. Residents also can catch McMahon plucking the banjo during dances at the Senior Center. McMahon is married, with no children. ASSETS: home. LIABILITIES: none listed. INCOME: Social Security, Walgreens.
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