• Kevin Boss (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • PYAC Executive Director Eddie Van Vlack hugs Dan Drivon’s daughter, Julie Nuñez, while she and her brother, Brandon Drivon, take the stage. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Eddie Van Vlack gives a presentation on Promise Builder Award recipient Dan Drivon. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • PYAC Executive Director Eddie Van Vlack (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • PYAC Executive Director Eddie Van Vlack (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • The Rev. Jim Hall gets ready to give the invocation while Blake Ecker looks on. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Blake Ecker and Kevin Boss (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Blake Ecker and Kevin Boss (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Blake Ecker introduces Kevin Boss as the guest speaker. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • PHS boys basketball coach Blake Ecker performs a bit with his cellphone as part of a joke on his friend Eddie Van Vlack, who is PYAC’s executive director. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • PHS boys basketball coach Blake Ecker performs a bit as part of a joke on his friend Eddie Van Vlack, who is PYAC’s executive director. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Blake Ecker and Kevin Boss (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Kevin Boss (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Kevin Boss (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Kevin Boss (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)
  • Philomath High graduate and former NFL tight end Kevin Boss talked about the importance of youth sports in his life — as a kid and now as an adult — as the guest speaker at the Dec. 1 PYAC Annual Fund Dinner. (Photo by Brad Fuqua/Philomath News)

Brad Fuqua has covered the Philomath area since 2014 as the editor of the now-closed Philomath Express and currently as publisher/editor of the Philomath News. He has worked as a professional journalist since 1988 at daily and weekly newspapers in Nebraska, Kansas, North Dakota, Arizona, Montana and Oregon.