The London and St. Thomas Association of Realtors (LSTAR) recently recognized one of its longest serving members with a plaque commemorating 55 years of service. Bill Putherbough joined the association in 1959 and he is still selling real estate.
“As you can imagine, we don’t give out a whole lot of 55-year plaques,” says Carl Vandergoot, LSTAR president. “Bill remembers a much smaller London, where everybody shopped downtown and convincing people to move all the way out to then new subdivisions like Oakridge Acres, Orchard Park and Sherwood Forest was a challenge… never mind that the board itself was a very different organization. It had yet to amalgamate with the St. Thomas Board. Its first offset duplicating machine was what passed in those days for leading edge technology and the term MLS had yet to be coined.”
Honored for their 45 years of service were Realtors Bill Bouris, Ruth Ann Drozd and, posthumously, Ron Boyle.
