About
Who is Grizzly?
During his 27 year fulltime career as a youth camp manager, Ray "Grizzly" Racobs somehow found time to be a volunteer firefighter, K-12 substitute teacher, on the board of three volunteer organizations and write a weekly newspaper column. During those years, he also obtained his Associate's Degree at Butler County College and his Bachelor's Degree through Friend's University.
For two years after his "retirement", the Vietnam veteran drove a school bus and continued (since 2007) driving an armored truck part time. He was, therefore, in charge of delivering two types of precious cargo.
He and his lovely and loving wife, Lynda, gave up living in the "sticks", after buying a home in metro Wichita, Kansas. Grizzly has evidently not yet grown accustomed to city life, because he will be quick to tell anyone, "If you live in the country, stay in the country."
His loves in life, After Lynda, who heads the list, are nature and being outdoors, the Colorado mountains, his therapy dogs; Oso Oro and Jay Jay, and writing "when it's too lousy out to do anything else".
Grizzly still writes a light humor column for The Kansas Senior Times and various other publications. He'd love to syndicate his work to your paper.
Eye surgery for a detached retina in June 2010 put an end to both of his professional driving positions. Grizzly has put to use, again, his sub license and fills in at various schools in the Clearwater and Haysville school districts.