Centenarian still reading hometown paper
From the Longmont (CO) Daily Times-Call: No one can confirm whether this curiosity and willingness to change helped him reach the milestone. But Ernest Clark’s marathon life story sparkles with moments when he realized he could learn to be a better man.
The latest example began a couple of years ago when the Mississippi native — who moved to Longmont in August — wandered into the Winston County Journal newsroom in Louisville, Miss.
Clark’s parents took out a subscription 114 years earlier when the paper launched, and he grew up reading it. Though his career was split between public education and aviation, Clark wanted in his golden years to try journalism.
“After a hundred years of livin’, you don’t have much trouble (coming up with story ideas),” he said, chuckling.