VENICE — Growing up on a farm in New Jersey, Bob Herres, who turned 100 in April, learned hard work at an early age.
One of his first jobs, the Venice resident recalled, was walking behind a wagon loaded with manure, scooping up handfuls to plop onto the ground to become beds for corn seeds.
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