Rich Broyles This is Me

 Web References

1. 1. The News-Review - Life

   www.oregonnews.com/article/200 - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/14/2005   Last Visited: 12/14/2005

   Rich Broyles is a regular. For the past few years, the 52-year-old Winston resident has taken up residence at the Jersey Lilly. If he has his way, he sits in the same chair at the same table to the right of the bar's entrance.
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   Broyles is a lab technician for Roseburg Forest Products and Eaton drives a delivery route for Pepsi.
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   What's great about the bar, Broyles maintains, is that each night is different. They get to sit so close to the performers that they could almost reach out and touch them. They see, and hear, the musicians improve their craft each week, and they've grown accustomed to a type of camaraderie they have yet to find anywhere else.
   
   "I guess it's noisy and loud, but you know people, so that's the way it is," Broyles says.
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   Broyles likes her because she accepts him the way he is.
   
   On their first date, he took her out for breakfast at Seven Feathers Truck & Travel in Canyonville. He had just gotten off the graveyard shift, so when he greeted her he had a day-old beard and was coated in sawdust. Despite his makeshift appearance, he made a good impression. The two have been talking on the phone every day since then.
   
   "I was just myself, that's all I had to offer and wanted to offer," he says, as he strokes Garcia's back.

2. 2. The News-Review - Life

   www.oregonnews.com/article/200 - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/13/2005   Last Visited: 12/13/2005

   Rich Broyles is a regular. For the past few years, the 52-year-old Winston resident has taken up residence at the Jersey Lilly. If he has his way, he sits in the same chair at the same table to the right of the bar's entrance.
   ...
   Broyles is a lab technician for Roseburg Forest Products and Eaton drives a delivery route for Pepsi.
   ...
   What's great about the bar, Broyles maintains, is that each night is different. They get to sit so close to the performers that they could almost reach out and touch them. They see, and hear, the musicians improve their craft each week, and they've grown accustomed to a type of camaraderie they have yet to find anywhere else.
   
   "I guess it's noisy and loud, but you know people, so that's the way it is," Broyles says.
   ...
   Broyles likes her because she accepts him the way he is.
   
   On their first date, he took her out for breakfast at Seven Feathers Truck & Travel in Canyonville. He had just gotten off the graveyard shift, so when he greeted her he had a day-old beard and was coated in sawdust. Despite his makeshift appearance, he made a good impression. The two have been talking on the phone every day since then.
   
   "I was just myself, that's all I had to offer and wanted to offer," he says, as he strokes Garcia's back.