David Rutter

Feb 22, 2024 | ffnews.com | Lauren Towner |David Rutter |Bob Wigley

R3, the enterprise distributed ledger technology (DLT) and services firm, has appointed Bob Wigley, to its Board as a Non-Executive Director. Wigley, who has Chaired UK Finance for the last six years, joins R3 after leading the UK Finance digital tokenization taskforce, which produced the report Unlocking the power of securities tokenization.

Dec 22, 2023 | shawlocal.com | David Rutter |NCChristmas Reindeer |Brenda-Lee B

It’s the Christmas season now, and that means Baby Jesus, the Manger and Big Sour Pickles. Every family has its quirks. You deal with it. Mine was a passion foisted on my family by my family with good intentions. I lived in a pickle family. My father was the Prince of Pickles. He nurtured them from optimistic cucumbers, canned them with his secret recipeand made relatives from here to Ashtabulah take them on festive holidays. Any day, really.

Nov 8, 2023 | shawlocal.com | David Rutter |Bobbi Jo W

Charlie Behan was a rangy 6-foot-3 football pass catcher end who became one of Crystal Lake’s first superb high school athletes in the late 1930s. But he was most famous for his exploits on Sugar Loaf Hill, a miserable rock pile on the miserable rock pile named Okinawa. Northern Illinois University (then the Northern Illinois State Teachers College) recruited him enthusiastically, and then he became a Detroit Lions rookie in 1942. But his fame came in Okinawa in the Pacific War.

Nov 7, 2023 | shawlocal.com | David Rutter |OKHoliday Cornbread Dressing

Robert J. Miller had the future figured out when he attended Wheaton North High School. He learned Latin, played musical instruments, plus virtually every sport, and taught children with autism. He was ambitious in the best definition of that, and amazingly capable at everything he tried. He most wanted to enter the Naval Academy. That was derailed because he was colorblind. When the 9/11 terrorist attack occurred, he joined the Army and became a Special Forces (Green Beret) weapons specialist.

Nov 7, 2023 | shawlocal.com | David Rutter |Bobbi Jo W |NCChristmas Reindeer

Abe Lincoln told Ulysses S. Grant who told William Tecumseh Sherman who told the farm boys in his Illinois volunteer army. Take Vicksburg, Miss., and we can win this war and go home. In 1863, the Confederates already knew who Grant was, but were less educated about his 35,000-man Army of the Tennessee and its 22,000 rural kids from Illinois. But the task at hand was a crucible. Control the entire Mississippi River from Vicksburg, and rend the Confederacy’s Civil War assets in half. Win the war.