By Becky Bowers, Times Staff Writer
Friday, December 10, 2010
Rusty Miles, left, and Ray Bradley, right, visit with Alfonso Beltran at Innisbrook golf and spa resort in Palm Harbor where Bradley’s company, Raymow Enterprises, is the grounds maintenance company.
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Ray Bradley earned his nickname as a kid in the '80s cutting lawns around his Palm Harbor neighborhood. ¶ Where's Ray? his middle school buddies would ask. After school, the answer was easy. Bradley, often in cut-offs and a T-shirt, pushed his dad's gas mower to earn $5 a yard. ¶ "Ray's mowing" got shortened to "Raymow." And the nickname, like the hobby, stuck. ¶ Soon he was a skinny, muscular teen with a mop of dark brown hair — too young yet to drive — steering his own Snapper riding mower and trailer to adjacent neighborhoods. His mother still wonders how he got good grades. She doesn't know ...