Know Your Neighbors: Ryan Goode, Firefighter
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Ryan Goode, 21, of Caledonia, is a new Dixon City Fire Department firefighter; he starts Sept. 13. He is the son of Randy and Cheryl Goode of Caledonia.
On-the-job lesson: Don’t take life for granted. Make the most of every day, but don’t work too hard.
Alma mater: I graduated in 2006 from Belvidere High School and earned an associate degree in fire science from Rock Valley College.
Philosophy: Sometimes it’s necessary to go a longer distance out of the way to come back a shorter distance directly.
Oughta be a law: Seat belts should be optional.
Hearts: Playing baseball, basketball and hockey, going camping, hunting, fishing and four-wheeling, watching “Family Guy,” “Rescue Me” and “Psych.”
Darts: Math.
Haunts: Parks.
Heroes: All the emergency personnel who took part in 9/11.
First job: I worked at a grocery store, Woodman’s Food Market, in Rockford, when I was 16. I was a bagger and brought in carts. I didn’t like it.
First car: A Pontiac Grand Prix when I was 16.
Read this: “Blue Like Jazz,” by Donald Miller.
People say I look like: Actor Mark Wahlberg.
Phobia: Spiders.
In the dictionary next to: Hard-working.
Trading spaces: I’d like to visit Rome to go sightseeing.
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