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Drew Mills on leaving Comcast SportsNet to start his own business ~\n\n"I remember Jeff said, 'You can't leave, you have the best job in America.' I said, 'Jeff, I'm leaving. I'm starting my own business.'"\n\nDrew Mills, Founder and President of Mills Marketing & Communications,(right) and host Andy Ockershausen in studio for Our Town interview\n\nA Ockershausen: This is Andy Ockershausen and this is Our Town, and have a great, great opportunity to talk to a very dear friend that I worked with for a while when I worked. Now I don't work anymore. You understand that, Drew.\nDrew Mills: I do, I do.\nA Ockershausen: My wife ... 24/7 I work now. A man who grew up in Washington, was a great high school athlete, and was very well-known around the area. And I know he's a local, even though he grew up in Arlington, or was born in Arlington. Arlington is Our Town, Drew. Welcome to our town. \nDrew Mills: Yes it is. \nA Ockershausen: It's all over.\nDrew Mills: It's all over town.\nA Ockershausen: We go all over. Our Town goes all the way to Anne Arundel, as far as I'm concerned.\nDrew Mills: That's right, that's right.\nA Ockershausen: We have friends in Warrenton, Lynchburg. It's our town. Everything in the greater Washington area is our town. And you made such an impact. \n So tell me, Drew, about your early days, growing up in Arlington. Your family is how ... seven generations?\nDrew Mills - Seventh Generation Washingtonian - Homegrown History\nDrew Mills: Seventh generation Washingtonians, yup. So they all grew up in the Glover Park ... my parents grew up in Glover Park, my grandparents grew up in Glover Park. My grandfather was a milkman, back in the day. \nA Ockershausen: Is that right? What's the dairy? Chestnut Farm?\nDrew Mills: Yeah, that's right. You got it.\n Yeah, you got it.\nA Ockershausen: You know that was on Pennsylvania Avenue, that's now it's a big office building.\nDrew Mills: Yeah.\nA Ockershausen: You know, they used to have cows in there, I remember that.\nDrew Mills: Yeah, so we go way back.\nA Ockershausen: Way back, way back. And your dad grew up, and he's local. He grew up with some people that I know real well.\nDrew Mills: That's right.\nA Ockershausen: Frank Ford, who we don't have anymore.\nDrew Mills: Uh huh. \nA Ockershausen: We miss Frank.\nDrew Mills: Jim Cacheris. \nA Ockershausen: The judge.\nDrew Mills: The judge.\nA Ockershausen: You know, the judge and I were honored one night by Arlingtonians for a Better Community. Got some special award, I've got it somewhere. Just the judge and I. And the judge must've let somebody off from a drunk driving ... I don't know why. They honored me because we were doing something about drunk driving.\nDrew Mills: Sure, sure. \nA Ockershausen: And Jimmy was there. \nDrew Mills: He was a nice man.\nA Ockershausen: But Drew, how did a guy go from Arlington to D.C. to Gaithersburg?\nDrew Mills: Well, in the '60s, my parents were young and trying to get ahead, and Gaithersburg was a lot cheaper to live. So they moved--\nA Ockershausen: That's true.\nDrew Mills: From Arlington to Gaithersburg, and they bought their first house.\nA Ockershausen: Well you couldn't afford Arlington now, but Gaithersburg--\nDrew Mills: Correct.