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Stick your money in a conventional bank account and you’ll be lucky to earn 3 percent interest. Certificates of deposit — CDs — barely yield 5 percent at most banks, and require a hefty investment. The stock market may treat you better, but it’s risky business.

Ronald Hale, who retired in 1977 as CWA's director in the Pacific Northwest, died Sept. 22 at the age of 87.

John Risser, a retired CWA representative in Iowa who helped organize the state’s telephone workers in the 1940s and 50s, died Nov. 1 at the age of 98.

Richard “D.J.” Jarratt went to work for the phone company in the days when homes had a single, sturdy black rotary telephone — if they had a phone at all.

John Mestre’s daughter was 2 years old when he was summoned for jury duty on a case that would end in the largest punitive damage award ever against the tobacco industry — $145 billion.

By the time he finished the landmark trial, his daughter was 4.