Honesty helps to overcome fear

I’m the executive director for the West Plains Chamber of Commerce. My job is to connect people, businesses and communities together with the vision of making our West Plains area a better place to live, work and play. I had the opportunity to attend the West Plains PACE awards ceremony last May and I think PACE is such a great program to honor students for demonstrating the traits that are in all of us and when practiced make our world a better place.

For February, the character trait of the month is honesty, which is sincerity and reverence or love for the truth. What I’ve learned throughout...