are doing now, you would be...
AW: Teaching biology/animal scienc-
es.
PCT: What is your definition of your
best day ever?
AW: A day spent with family and
friends cooking out or spending the
day outside riding horses.
PCT: What is the coolest thing you
have ever done?
AW: Coolest thing I have ever done
is either helping with a wellness
exam on a male lion or working to
train primates for medical exams at
the zoo (my favorite being the friend-
ship I gained while working with a
young Bonobo named Andy).
PCT: What is your greatest accom-
plishment?
AW: Getting my bachelor’s degree.
PCT: What are the best words of
wisdom to live by?
AW: “Don’t sweat the small stuff” —
something my dad said to me all the
time growing up.
Rick Crosley
Rick is a patrol sergeant for the
Parker County Sherriff’s Office
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across a DWI or burglaries.
PCT: What is your favorite novel?
RC: I have read all of the Game of
Thrones books and easily more than
60 Star Wars books.
PCT: What do you do to decompress?
RC: Watch baseball. I also have a
motorcycle that I ride a lot. It can be
relaxing, until a deer runs out in front
of me.
PCT: What is something people don’t
know about you?
RC: I’m a nerd, but I’m an athletic
nerd.
PCT: What would you most like to be
remembered for?
RC: My sense of humor. It’s dry, but
people can still understand me.
PCT: What is the coolest thing you
have done in your life?
RC: That’s too hard to narrow down.
I feel like I have accomplished a lot
in my life, and I get to go to a job
that is always interesting.
Adam Feriend
Adam is the Owner and Chief
Operating Officers of JRJ
Construction
PCT: What’s your favorite way to pay
it forward?
RC: Taking care of as many people
as possible, so that when the karma
train comes back around, it’s slow
enough that I see it coming.
PCT: If you could have lunch with
anyone, living or dead in history,
who would be?
RC: My living person is definitely
George W. Bush. He’s an outstanding
character and I think he would make
lunch interesting. My not so living
subjects would have to be Winston
Churchill, Teddy Roosevelt, Nicolas
Tesla, and Lizzie Borden.
PCT: If you had to do another job
than what you’re doing, what would
you do?
RC: I would like to have been a
Major League Baseball player, if that
didn’t work out, maybe the grounds
keeper for Wrigley field. I don’t think
shark wrestler is a job, but I would
like to give it a go.
PCT: What is your definition of the
best day every?
Parker County Today: How did you
get into your occupation?
RC: I got into law enforcement
through working security. I checked
doors and responded to alarms for
businesses and occasionally ran
PCT: What’s the best piece of advice
you would give?
RC: If it’s wrong, it probably is, don’t
do it. Make good decisions. Drink
milk, don’t run with scissors. And
enjoy this life, you only get one.
RC: Having a good get together with
people that I love to be around,
eating good food, and listening to
music that I love. And seeing my dog,
Bird, chase a softball.
Parker County Today: How did you
get into your occupation?
AF: My mother-in-law, one of the
founders of JRJ, was ready to begin
phasing into retirement, and I told
them if my skill set could ever help
their business, I would be willing to
help however I could. They asked,
and the rest is history.
PCT: What is your favorite novel?
AF: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy by
J.R.R. Tolkien
PCT: What do you do to decompress?
AF: Watch a good movie
PCT: What is something people don’t
know about you?
AF: I used to perform opera for a
living.
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