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In the early 1980s, while working at KXLY in Spokane, Bob began to focus his career in radio broadcast on agriculture industry reporting. He has been a member of the National Association of Farm Broadcasters since that time, and has been with the Northwest Ag Information Network for 14 years. Bob has been recognized by the Idaho Grain Producers on two separate occasions for his excellence in news reporting. First in 1996 and again in 1999 he received their coveted Electronic Media Award. In an effort to build industry leaders Bob donates his time each year to the WA Ag and Forestry Leadership Program. Bob assists in training Ag and Forestry leaders in the art of handling difficult questions presented by an often bias media. Bob is a native of and current resident of Spokane. He moved to North Dakota with his family at the age of four where they farmed land his grandfather had homesteaded in the early 1900s. Bob and his sister still own this family farm. In the early 60s Bob's family moved back to Washington where Bob grew up doing the usual small town stuff like moving irrigation pipe, herding cattle, driving harvest trucks, working at the Ritzville Warehouse grain elevator etc.. Bob graduated cum laude from Pacific Lutheran University with a B.A. in political science. After taking post-graduate law classes at University of Puget Sound School of Law, he decided to follow his real passion and enrolled in radio school in Tacoma. His career in radio news broadcasting took him to Olympia and Aberdeen, then home to Spokane. Bob and his wife Kathy have been married for 30 years. They have three children and two Grandchildren. 

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