Alva Review-Courier -

Tiger Woods won The Master’s and The Oklahoma City Thunder is in the NBA Playoffs. These are highly-paid professionals who are paid to play.

Play is important to all of us; entertainment at its finest. How do you play? I recall my childhood in '60s-era Alva, playing with other kids in the neighborhood. Bill Sperry, Jim Tatro, Bev Barker, Sonny Paris, Johnny Jones, Pat, Steve, and Mike Parkhurst, Lynn Ridgway and others filled summer days with games and adventure all over town because we felt safe. Bicycles were the transportation mode of choice and it was seldom that any of us asked for a ride...