Wear your life jacket

THE MISSING INK

I’ve been in the news business for more than 25 years. I can’t recall the number of stories I’ve done on lake drownings — all I know, is that I’ve done too many.

Dad got his first boat when I was pretty young. It was a 12’ aluminum V-hull with an Evinrude outboard. To say we spent a lot of time in that boat fishing would be an understatement. There were always life vests on that boat and all of Dad…