A Very Fine Man...

A couple of years ago I received a phone call from my fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Maureen Bourne. She proceeded to tell me that her husband Lloyd had read my column in the Journal that week and he said, “You’ve got to read Dale’s column.” She told me that she read it and then Lloyd insisted that she read it to their grandchildren.

The column as I remember it now was about the importance of hard work and team work and that success doesn’t come easy but it is worth all of the sweat equity that is invested, or at least words to that affect but a lot more of them.

To be honest, I was taken aback by...