MIKE OWENS

As a young boy, Mike worked as a laborer in truck patches, green houses and washed pots and pans in a restaurant, quickly learning about hard work for low pay. Chefs, waitresses and dishwashers would joke about how Mike would loudly sing in the heat while scrubbing the burnt pots and pans. After high school, he enlisted and served in the Army in Vietnam. Later, he went to college as an adult and received a bachelors degree.