Citizen of the Year

This past Wednesday we had the honor of going to Kiwanis to honor their Citizen of the Year - Doug. Oops that was what Dale was told.
Arnold Baker began by announcing to the audience gathered at the Manson Grange Wednesday evening “We are proud to have this year’s recipient of the Kiwanis Citizen of the Year go to a descendent of a founding member, Leo England.” He then started to talk about how this recipient's son said at his senior presentation, "My dad buys and sells drugs." We then knew who the descendent of Leo was.

Arnold Baker gave the announcement. He had asked for a funny story to tell and the only one I could remember was the following:

(I am the narrator)

One winter Dale left with our boys and rode snowmobiles up to Slide Ridge to the TV tower with Don Riggin who lives on the south shore. I received a phone call from my son to see if I could see the fireworks they were setting off in the snow at the top of the mountain. I guess someone else also noticed the fireworks and called the police who went to check. They saw Don's truck and went to his house. Don's wife answered the door. The police officer asked if her husband was up snowmobiling. She replied yes. They told her people had reported seeing emergency flares on the mountain. She innocently told them, "Well yes he is up there with Dale Engand." Then the officers shook their heads and said, "Yeah well that figures," and that was all that was done.

Dale was clearly touched by the award. It's a show of support from the people he has served these past 25 years.