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Age: Older than dirt!

Occupation: I am retired from Peabody Coal Co., where I worked as a senior environmental scientist - air quality. I am currently employed by the city of Steamboat Springs at the Bob Adams Airport FBO where I am a certified flight instructor. I am also an independent Mannatech associate with a home-based business and an opera singer.

Place of birth: Fort Collins,

Q. When did you move to Routt County and what brought you here?

A. In the fall of 1994. Peabody re-assigned me from the division office in Flagstaff, Ariz., to the Seneca Mine at Hayden.

Q. What's the biggest risk you've taken recently?

A. Getting into the same airplane as a student pilot!

Q. Describe your morning routine.

A. We don't even want to go there!!

Q. What's the best piece of advice you've ever been given?

A. "You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar!"

Q. What did you want to be when you grew up?

A. I've never figured this one out. My wife says I'm just a kid in a man's body, so I think that kind of lets me off the hook. I don't know what I want to be, and I really don't ever intend to grow up!

Q. If you could invite any four people to dinner, who would they be and what would you talk about?

A. They would be Sam Caster (founder and president of Mannatech), his wife, Linda, Ray Robbins (Mr. Mannatech) and his wife, Dianna. We would talk some about helping people live healthier lives, but mostly we'd talk about helping little kids all over the world through a program called MannaRelief.

Q. Do you collect anything?

A. Certainly! Like any good flight instructor, I collect shirt tails when students fly solo for the first time.

Q. In the Meatloaf song, "I'll do anything for love, but I won't do that," what is that?

A. Well, since I don't recall ever hearing the Meatloaf song, I think my response would be eat earthworms. That sounds about as appetizing as the song title!

Q. What was your first job?

A. Same as everybody else's - when I was a kid - sacking groceries for six bits an hour!

Q. Do you have a tattoo? If so, what of and why did you chose it?

A. Nope! I never could figure out why folks put pictures on their bodies. It's got to hurt, and you can't change or remove them when you get tired of them without a great deal of pain.