Dennis Norton:  

Life After graduating from Garinger, I worked with Campus Life for a year before going to college at Taylor University in Indiana. While at Taylor, I met my beautiful wife, Renee, and we married in 1977. I graduated from Taylor University with a degree in Christian Education, Biblical Literature and post-graduate studies in Systems Analysis. After graduation, Renee and I worked at Taylor University for a few years before moving to Illinois in 1981 where Renee went to work for World Vision International and I joined her father building residential homes in Arlington Heights, IL. In 1984 our son, Paul was born and in 1986, our daughter, Sarah was born. In that same year I left residential construction and became a stock broker. After taking a battery of various exams and certifications I eventually became a partner in an investment advisory firm. In 1989 Renee's father asked me to rejoin him at Lexington Homes to assist with a new product they were building. I sold out my interest in the investment advisory firm and rejoined Lexington Homes until 1991 when the company was sold and we retired from residential construction. In 1991 Renee and I opened Oasis Christian Bookstore in Lake Zurich, Illinois. Renee's father, Peter, retired to Harvard, Illinois and began what was going to be a very small apple orchard. But by 1994, he had planted over 5,000 apple, peach and plum trees. Then in 1995 he planted another 5,000 trees. By 1997 they had opened to the public and had over 10,000 apple trees and Royal Oak Farm Orchard w...Expand for more