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This Guy Has Certainly Shown A Lot Of Drive More than 200 synonyms for the word “drive” can be found in the vast repositories of our English language, and Englewood’s Roy Ault epitomizes a few of them in particular: nouns such as motivation, initiative, self-reliance and perseverance...
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A Self-Made Man Who Followed His Dreams There has been a long-standing argument in the sciences about “nature vs. nurture.” Are our lives shaped more by our environment or by our DNA? Learning in school and in life is obviously a huge factor, but what about one’s innate ability to …
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These Two Free Spirits Have Been Destiny’s Tots Englewood’s Les and Kim Beery are a fascinating couple, who have been married now for 54 years and just seem to go together, like Antony and Cleopatra or Napoleon and Josephine or cheese and crackers. That they got together at all defied …
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She Will Charm You One Way Or Another Englewood’s Amy Hibberd is an outgoing, friendly lady who captures your interest within the first few minutes of meeting her...
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James Bond He Wasn’t … Or Was He? Ray Humphrey is a man whose work was often a secret to many, but whose results were more often known to anyone who could read a newspaper. He has held so many positions that his briefest bio, in small type, would fill …
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Her Life Has Really Been A Circus Who among us hasn’t, as a kid, fantasized about running away from home to join the circus? Meet Leslie Young, who is living proof that such a fantasy can come true...
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His Message Is Clear: Be Prepared How does an Australian farm boy with “humble beginnings,” to use his words, end up keeping company with kings, queens, heads of state and international celebrities in far-off lands such as Austria, Brazil and Tanzania? ...
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He's A Well-Traveled Man It seems like Tom Coleman has spent a large part of his life “on the road.” Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1942, he spent his childhood in Chicago … and Pittsburgh … and Freeport, Long Island. Why the moves? “My dad kept getting promoted,” he explains. …
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A Multifaceted Career Has Served Her Well Englewood’s Sandra Adkins-Pertz is an active woman, having at one time or another been busily involved in six different professions, ranging from nightclub waitress to company CEO...
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He’s A Norman Rockwell Fan When Englewood resident Ray Hazel talks or writes about matters historical (and sometimes hysterical), he likes to invoke the name of Norman Rockwell, America’s most prolific illustrator and painter, known most famously for his cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post and Boys’ Life. Rockwell …
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She’s A Nifty Nonagenarian Even in our high-tech society, with healthcare advances occurring every year, it takes a lot of luck and a certain amount of grit to survive to the age of 90– and at age 97, Rosemary Hagen has had her share of both. In fact, she almost …
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He Flies High, Dives Deep For Englewood’s Don Musilli, those words constitute a perfect analogy for both his life as a business entrepreneur and his leisure activities. In each case he has been willing to take risks to achieve his goals–risks that maybe most people would shy away from. But …
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The Man Who Took A $50,000 Walk Mike Schyck is not exactly an unknown around these parts. For one thing, he’s lived here most of the time since moving to Englewood with his family 40 years ago. For another, he was the star of Lemon Bay High School’s nationally ranked …
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He went from wine to water Englewood’s Kenn Visser pretty much by accident found himself in the businesses of growing fine wines and making pure water. But in doing so, he has done a great service to a great many people...
