Friday, July 15, 2016

A Team of Heroes


It’s Friday, late afternoon. It’s time to put aside all the terrible happenings of the past few hours…the needless deaths and the senseless political comments of presidential politics… for a few moments of reflection on life’s true heroes.

Heroes are those few people who are truly a breed apart from the rest of us. Somehow they find motivation and their reward by helping others less fortunate than themselves. So today, we honor the people of a Detroit program call Midnight Golf which “mentors young students, helps them get into college, teaches them life skills – and golf – and nurtures them until they get their degrees.”

Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley recently wrote about them in an article centered on DelShawn Fowler, a young man who refused to give up his dream of a college education. Fowler missed his ride to visit Ohio State University but convinced (former) Uber driver Kevin Fuller to help him get to Ohio and catch up with his campus tour bus.

DelShawn Fowler deserves a ton of credit for his never-give-up attitude and perseverance. But importantly he had his opportunity because of Renee Fluker and Winston Coffee, two of the outstanding mentors of Midnight Golf Program; his mom, Crystal Fowler; and former Uber driver Kevin Fuller.

Together they make an unique winning team of heroes.



*Photo Credit: DelShawn Fowler (18) by Salwan Georges, The Detroit Free Press 


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