Worthington firefighters stand with Michelle Holmes (center) of Spirit Lake, Iowa, and her son, Fisher, Tuesday night at the Worthington Fire Hall. Holmes had contacted Worthington Fire Department member Nathan Kraft to thank all the rescue personnel who responded to the scene of a Feb. 3 head-on accident on Interstate 90 in which she and her son were involved. Two individuals died in the crash; three survived. (Ryan McGaughey/Daily Globe)
Holmes read a short letter to a group of firefighters and others Tuesday and presented them a plaque before a group picture was taken. “I talked to (chief) Rick von Holdt, and he said this is the first time anything like this happened,” Kraft said of Holmes’ request to meet and pay tribute to “all of her heroes.” Added Kraft: “It’s rewarding to her, and rewarding to us.”
Ryan McGaughey arrived in Worthington in April 2001 as sports editor of The Daily Globe, and first joined Forum Communications Co. upon his hiring as a sports reporter at The Dickinson (North Dakota) Press in November 1998. McGaughey became news editor in Worthington in November 2002 and editor in August 2006.
