NUMBER TWO: MPORTANT CITIZENS OF MY HOMETOWN             When I was a young kid back around 1940 in Bellingham, Washington there were several well-known citizens of our little city that nearly everyone knew but without really knowing. One was Arthur a guy who sold newspapers at the main intersection every day. He had a kind…

MY UNCLE, MY BUDDY DALE McGINNIS             Dale was two years older than me, but we grew up pretty much as brothers, often in the same household. As kids we did almost everything, from backyard baseball to stealing Grandpa’s cigarettes, together. Our ways parted a bit in Junior High School, partly because my Mom placed…