Moore in a good place

Published 1:56 am Saturday, December 24, 2011

By Mike Voss

Editor’s note: Fifty Plus is a weekly feature that provides a look at area senior citizens, their accomplishments and their life experiences. Fifty Plus prospects are asked to fill out a questionnaire concerning their lives.
This week’s Fifty Plus takes a look at William Moore, a retiree living in Washington.
Where are you from originally?
Portsmouth, Va.
When did you move here? Why?
2007. Good place.
To what clubs/church do you belong?
Baptist.
Education (list schools, starting with high school)
Aurora High School.
If you weren’t doing what you are doing now, what would you be doing?
Nothing.
If you had a million dollars, what would you do with it?
Spend it, give it to family members.
What is the thing most people don’t know about you?
24 years as a police officer.
What is your favorite food?
Steak.
What’s the last book you read?
“Jet” magazine.
What is your favorite TV show?
“Family Feud.”
Where would you go on your dream vacation?
Florida.
What is your pet peeve?
None. Easy to get along with.
What’s the best advice you ever received and who gave it to you?
Going to police school given by a police academy.
What’s the biggest difference between life as a senior as opposed to below age 30?
Cannot get a part-time job so as to have something to do.
Compiled by Mike Voss

About Mike Voss

Mike Voss is the contributing editor at the Washington Daily News. He has a daughter and four grandchildren. Except for nearly six years he worked at the Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg, Va., in the early to mid-1990s, he has been at the Daily News since April 1986.
Journalism awards:
• Pulitzer Prize for Meritorious Public Service, 1990.
• Society of Professional Journalists: Sigma Delta Chi Award, Bronze Medallion.
• Associated Press Managing Editors’ Public Service Award.
• Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Public Service Award, 1989.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Investigative Reporting, 1990.
All those were for the articles he and Betty Gray wrote about the city’s contaminated water system in 1989-1990.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Investigative Reporting, 1991.
• North Carolina Press Association, Third Place, General News Reporting, 2005.
• North Carolina Press Association, Second Place, Lighter Columns, 2006.
Recently learned he will receive another award.
• North Carolina Press Association, First Place, Lighter Columns, 2010.
4. Lectured at or served on seminar panels at journalism schools at UNC-Chapel Hill, University of Maryland, Columbia University, Mary Washington University and Francis Marion University.

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