High Plains
January 23rd, 2010 by John Creighton in Photo Per Day
Tags: Family, Flagler, High Plains Bank
Read more...Sorrow Is Our Evidence of Joy
December 13th, 2009 by John Creighton in Snapshots
Tags: Family, Friends, High Plains Bank, Parenting
I carried you for nine long months I cherish the close hour when we made you I anticipated with joy your first cry of birth A cry that never came These are a few lines from a poem read at a funeral I attended in Byers, Colorado yesterday. There are few things more sorrowful than the death of a child. As a parent, it is not something you even want to imagine. We have a few friends (and friends of [...]
Read more...A Standard for Community and Business Conduct
November 18th, 2009 by John Creighton in Snapshots
Tags: Atwood, Family, Flagler, High Plains Bank, Mentors, Neighbors
We often admire people from afar. We don’t really know that much about them. We catch glimpses of their actions. We may even have a few brief conversations. We listen to what others have to say. We take these bits of information and put together a picture, a narrative, of who the person is and what they stand for. One of the people who I admire from afar is Frankie Chvatal. We’ve only had a handful of conversations in my [...]
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