In the winter of 1969 our peace and quiet was constantly being disturbed by snowmobilers running up and down the residential streets in Coon Rapids. I attended a council meeting to raise the issue and I came away thinking, “I could do better than that”. I was 26 years old and my neighbor Pat Cleath […]
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Comments Off on October 31, 2008 Dad served in the Pacific during World War II. Like a lot of veterans, he did not talk about it very much. After he died I found a book that he had written some notes in, beginning with, “I have a closet full of regrets”. It was an unusual collection of thoughts, ending with a […]
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Comments Off on October 24, 2008 Good morning from Collegeville, It is MEA weekend in Minnesota. Larry Nelson was a city kid whose grandparents had a farm near Upsala. He would spend summers on the farm and as a teenager he would come uptown to hang out with those of us who lived in town. He ended up marrying the banker’s […]
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Comments Off on October 17, 2008 Good morning from Collegeville, For years there has been a full service car wash on Division Street in St. Cloud. It was not a cheap date, but there were lots of cloth washing elements, no plastic brushes and lots of folks doing the pre-wash prep and even more young folks doing the drying. There was […]
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Comments Off on October 10, 2008 Good morning from Collegeville, In October of 1956, Ma was 36 years old. Two months earlier she had given birth to her sixth child, a boy. Our family of eight lived in a small house at 1620 Colorado Avenue in St. Louis Park. Dad had just smashed up his third car in as many years. […]
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