Heroes Among Us
The Hero and The Little Fishes
It is always interesting to me how the people that make the greatest impact on my life are brought into it and for John McReynolds it was a skateboard competition that was the catalyst. A unique setting for two adults that were not proficient skateboarders. He was a sports reporter for the Lompoc Record and was the tasked with promoting Lompoc’s first skateboard competition at the new skate park. I was just trying to figure out how to run a skateboard competition. And so our paths crossed. What initially struck me about John was how he cared about the human element of the event. The tricks to be performed, the venue itself, what type of boards or wheels were not important in his approach. It was the participants, the competitors, the persons involved in making the event happen that he focused on and wrote about. I remember observing this with interest and realizing later this tells you much about who John is fundamentally. Â