Difference Makers: Bill Ward

Bill Ward

Executive Director of the Regional Employment Board of Hampden County

Woody Allen once joked, "I'm not afraid to die ... I just don't want to be there when it happens."

The quote has been borrowed and bastardized in countless ways over the years, mostly by people addressing the subjects of death and dying.

Bill Ward, executive director of the Regional Employment Board of Hampden County, has put it to a different use.

He summons it when he talks with people about confronting business and societal matters that maybe they don't want to confront, but must- It takes a definite lack of fear - and generous amounts of determination - to prevail in such …