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Article: Readers Write.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- November 4, 2009
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Here's a scoop, kid: Work hard and be generous with time Regarding Nancy Barnes' Nov. 1 column on Sid Hartman's 65 years of service: Twenty years ago my then-ninth-grade son, who was finalizing a paper on a potential career in writing or more specifically in sports journalism, received a call from a guy with a gruff voice. It was about 10 p.m. on a Sunday night. It was Sid.
He and my son had a nice, informative and positive 15-minute conversation about life in the newspaper business. Today, my son is using his creative writing skills as a Lutheran pastor in Milwaukee.
The headline description "at your service ..." fits Sid to a T.
CHUCK ...