Meet Abel Magana

He is a deacon at Holy Family School in White Center.

Now residing in Burien, he was once a native of Puerto Vallarta in Mexico's Jalisco state.

He is married (deacons can be married) and the proud father of three girls. He showed me some wallet photos of the family and they all look like movie stars, including his wife.

I was a beginner publisher of the White Center News in the early fifties when Father Ailbe McGrath launched a fund drive to rebuild Holy Family Church and selected us to do all his printing. So I watched it grow into the magnificent edifice it still is today.

Abel's hometown is inland from the resort area but is booming with production of some of the world's most renowned tequila. The most expensive tequila is made of the Agave cactus, which thrives best in that climate.

I mention that because unemployment is rampant in Mexico but not there, thanks to the famous native cactus plant.