- On Dr. Otis Tillman
Moral courage is perhaps one of the most significant gifts we can give to our community. It is, in many respects, a sharing of one’s heart which has the capacity ...
- MISSION
Ema Mae Bowman, center, visits with Paul Lessard’s family after Paul and Jack rescued her from drowning in her car in raging floodwater.
The older I get the more I believe ...
- The Gift of our “Greatest Generation”
Those of us who have known and loved members of what Tom Brokaw so aptly described as our Greatest Generation have seen what I believe is the very best in ...
- How to give the gift of running
Next Tuesday a milestone will be realized when GO FAR celebrates its 15th year of impacting our local kids with the gift of running.
I can still remember the day Robin ...
- Angels in our Midst: our capacity for good
I’m sitting on a bench in the Hartley YMCA Fitness Center and I’m covered in sweat having just finished working out. I’m wallowing in both oxygen and energy debt and should ...
- Defeating the Violence
This past summer has been an unusually violent season for our city with multiple shootings and murders that have not only occupied our newspaper’s headlines, but also our thoughts, conversations ...
- Seeing What is Invisible to Others
In Memory of My Dear Friend and Mentor, Bill Horney
There is a lot of talk these days about Vision; who has it? How is it manifested? And what can it ...
- A real hero
Our culture has a tendency to highjack the true meaning of certain ideals and in the process we trivialize what should be very significant and profound life examples.
The one ...
- Marsha Slane, “Grace Always Conquers”
If someone were to ask me my definition of grace I would, without hesitation, reply, my friend, Marsha Slane. I believe God brings people into our lives to show us ...
- What do community foundations actually do?
Did you know that the very first Community Foundation, the Cleveland Foundation, was established in 1914 by a banker named Frederick Goff?
Chances are you didn’t, but his story is one ...
