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A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. Those are words we should all learn to live by.

Several community members took the time to honor Chuck Burbridge last week as our most recent Loyd R. Ellis honoree.

The award is given each year by the Aurora Chamber of Commerce to someone who has given much to the community. The second highest award is presented in honor of an Auroran who believed in community service and leaving a legacy.

Join us this week as we talk about Chuck Burbridge and what he means to us as a leader, collaborator and team player.

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Aurora Administrator Ed Cook has been gone for over 35 years.

His legacy lives on today with scholarships, projects and activities designed to encourage leadership, ethics and sense of place in the rural Ozarks--a place he loved.

Ed Cook was a teacher, mentor, coach and friend.

He was resilient.

He loved Aurora. He loved being a Houn' Dawg.

It was an honor to present a scholarship in his memory last week at Aurora High School.

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With last week's storms and tornado outbreaks, my husband made a bad joke about pulling over to the side of the road and seeing the old lady go by on a bicycle. It took me a minute--while he stifled a nervous chuckle. I told him I got the reference, but it might be too soon to be cracking any jokes.

Humor is a coping skill at our house, though; we laugh about most everything--because simply--crying takes too much out of us in our old age!

That said, it did get me to thinking a little bit about some Wizard of Oz comparisons. And, at the end of the day, Dorothy was absolutely right!

There's no place like home.