SID SPRAGUE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU. (970) 420-5034

 

Retired printer Sid Sprague, who lives in Loveland, Colorado, is dealing with prostate cancer again and “would love to hear from” his former  BJ co-workers.

Phone him at (970) 420-5034 and make him happy. Colorado is a LONG way from Ohio and even Pawleys Island, South Carolina, where Sid was living when is wife passed away.

Sid goes in for his PhSA (prostate-specific antigen) test March 15 and has an appointment with his oncologist March 25.

I reported his cataract surgery for his eyes in 2020.

Sid’s significant other for 17 years, Nancy, is “doing well,” Sid said.

Nancy, who is from Canton, was neighbor and friend to Sid’s late wife, Sandra. After Sandy passed away, Sid and Nancy moved in 2005 from Pawleys Island to Loveland.

Sid moved from Cuyahoga Falls to Pawleys in the late 1990s. BJ Accounting Department retiree Harold McElroy and wife Linda joined them in 1999. Retired printer Dick Latshaw and Dick’s wife Pat, joined them in 2000. They all lived on the same street, which is only three blocks long. It was BJ south.

Latshaw and McElroy have passed away.

Sid’s granddaughter married July 3, 2021 in Connecticut.

His daughter, Suzanne Sprague Rutherford, lives in Costa Mesa, which is 37 miles southeast of Los Angeles, and is working toward being a veterinarian (docs for animals).

Sid’s other sons are Jeffrey Sprague, whose two sons live in the Columbus area, and Steve, who passed away in Middleburg, Virginia at the age of 38 in 2010.

Sid’s brother, Ken Sprague, passed away in 2010 in Cuyahoga Falls, where I often had meals with Sid on Front Street.

Sid has taken cruises to Alaska, the Caribbean (both Eastern and Western) and the “Mexican Riviera” on the Yucatan Peninsula with Cozumel as a jumping off point for the cruise ships before you take a tender to the mainland and the “Mexican Riviera.”

Sid once explained why he left warm and sunny South Carolina for Colorado where he’s up to his butt in snow for month after month:

 

“We had to evacuate (from Pawleys Island) every time there was a hurricane and that was a disaster. So I told myself, one more time and I’m out of here. The next hurricane came, a big tree fell on my house. As soon as I fixed the house, I sold it and we moved to Colorado.”

 

Sid was among the 45 retired BJ printers who benefitted from the successful healthcare lawsuit that the late Dave White filed against the BJ that restored retirement day medical coverage.

 

I piggybacked on Dave’s lawsuit by filing on behalf of retired BJ Guild newsroom members.

 

It saved me $80,000 because I got $4 90-day prescriptions not matter what that total cost of the pills were.

 

Canadian billionaire got out from under the lawsuit requirements 8 years later by making the BJ a shell corporation, stacked the debt ot it, filed bankruptcy to stop the $4 lawsuit benefits for Guild and retired printers.

 

As if he needed another million by taking thousands of dollars from BJ retirees.

 

Since the late BJ State Desk assistant editor Harry Liggett created this blog there have been 1.2 million pageviews. It’s my way of upholding Harry’s tradition of keeping BJ folks informed about each other.

 

The number of hits shows BJ folks are tuning in. If you want to see if there are articles on this blog about your former co-workers just go to the top left of this page where you see a white “b” on a red background, type in their name and hit your “Enter” key. EVERY article ever published with that name in it will show up!