Must good things end?
When Rudy and Irmgard Jurke created Green Jay, I did not know them very well. I grew to consider Irmgard a person of mentorship ability. I do remember, however, a time when with a small sigh she said, “Sometimes I wish Rudy didn’t have so many ideas!” I’d known Rudy since my late teens. He was one of those one-room schoolhouse students who decided to stay in the community and benefit the life around them. I got to know him better when he and I, Jim Oliver, Ronald Rackham and John Sydoryk were picked to be a committee to get Lloydminster raw sewage out of the Big Gully Creek. When R...