On winter nights in the 1960s, Ray Smead would be out in the cold, working on the outdoor skating rink at Springfield's Blunt Park. "Sometimes he'd be spraying it, hosing it down to keep the ice good.

Hosted by Focus Springfield and moderated by G. Michael Dobbs (center, at podium), Springfield Ward 4 City Councilor Malo Brown (left) and incumbent State Senator Adam Gomez (right) sat for a ...