Thank you, Herb Bacon, for supporting community
During these divisive and economically worrisome times, David Brooksâ column on Jan. 10 reminded us that âLeadership matters. Character matters.â No truer statement describes the impactful life of Herb Bacon. This humble, kind and thoughtful man and his family have enriched us all in Mesa County, the state of Colorado and the world.
Ten years ago, I went to the Republic of Georgia to implement a mentoring program for youth involved in the Georgian Ministry of Justice. Herb contacted and gave me a donation to help the Georgian Mentoring Program get started halfway around the world. He and Laura May had visited this former Soviet Union State in 1991 when for the first time in 74 years the Orthodox Churches could ring their bells.
101-year-old Virginia man remains inspired by father born into slavery
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CLARKSVILLE, Va. In Clarksville, Virginia a pair of bridges move traffic across the Roanoke River. But just down the road in Buffalo Junction, youâll find another span but no body of water in sight.
It s a bridge to another time.
âI love being where I am from and who I am,â George Sizemore said.
Sizemore turned 101 in November. He has lived nearly every one of those days in the same home.
âWe never had a lot of money. But we had a lot of love in the area,â he said.