Another Great Loss

When I was growing up and learned how to read, I always looked forward to Thursdays. The Ritzville Journal Times (JT) was delivered to our mailbox and we looked forward to reading our paper. It got passed around at our house and if there was a picture or a story about one of the Anderson kids, you could bet that my mom would cut it out once everyone had their chance to go through the paper two or three more times.

We knew who the publisher/owner was since we saw him in church every Sunday. For some reason John Pavlik was bigger than life to us because he was the newspaperman. We didn’t want to...