Mike Long remembers his first meeting with Familian Northwest founder Jerry Stern.
“The first time I went to work there I got to the regional office at 6 a.m.,” Long recalls. “Some other guy shows up in a 1964 Chevy Impala and gets out to open the gate. I got out to help him and asked who he was. He said his name was Jerry Stern. I asked, ‘You are Mr. Stern?’ He said, ‘No! I’m Jerry.’ He was the most down-to-earth guy you could know.”