When I started working for MPR in October of 1999, one of the territories that I was asked to cover was the Brainerd area. I remember working out of our space on the campus of Central Lakes College and meeting Leif Enger, a reporter for MPR at the time. His father was the music teacher […]
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Comments Off on July 26, 2024 Apollo 11 landed on the moon 55 years ago tomorrow. “Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module, Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Neil Armstrong became the first person to step on the Moon’s surface six hours and 39 minutes later.” Source: Wikipedia In 1963 I […]
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Comments Off on July 19, 2024 The 39th annual Hagstrom/Osberg Golf Open Tournament, “The H2O”, at the newly remodeled Little Falls Golf Course was a hit. My mother’s sister, Leone, Auntie to me, married Duane Hagstrom, co-owner of Hagstrom Chevrolet in Upsala, Minnesota. Between the two families there were 10 cousins. Auntie’s youngest, Kevin, is a very good golfer and for many […]
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Comments Off on July 12, 2024 When my granddaughter Kaylin Marie was in the first grade she took her work very seriously. One day she brought home a paper that had the mark “one wrong”. The work sheet was a collection of scrambled words, which the students were to unscramble and write down the correct word. One was “h t i […]
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