Anyone who’s observed or been involved in El Dorado or Union County projects over the past three decades will enjoy ever so much being part of this year’s El Dorado Chamber of Commerce Annual Meeting with its theme “Profiles in Leadership – A tribute to the public service careers of Mike Dumas and Bobby Edmonds.”

These two guys grew up to do – at least vicariously – what most every little boy of their generations dreamed of: playing in the dirt, turning on the sirens and flashing lights, building dams and bridges, driving dump trucks and front-end loaders, being heroes in crises,...