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Good afternoon from Collegeville,

A record snow fall in St. Cloud yesterday, 12 inches in Upsala. Hard to believe. If I did want to get the Yukon Gold potatoes in by tomorrow, I would have to hire a snow removal crew. By the way, you can purchase cubed sweet potatoes at Target Super Store and use them instead of Butternut Squash in the “Vegan Squash Soup” recipe. It saves a lot of prep time. Two bags worked for us. Let me know if you want the recipe.

I am amazed by Wikipedia and I encourage you to send them some money once in a while. I found a framed drawing of a war ship in the Parsonage basement. It belonged to my Dad. He was a radar man in the bowels of the USS Vammen, a destroyer escort. In his journal, he wrote that the two months off of Okinawa were tough. The ship was launched on May 21, 1944, named after Ensign Clarence E. Vammen, Jr. a fighter pilot who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, posthumously. He was in the Battle of Midway. He died on June 6, 1942, failing to return from a mission. He piloted a Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless flying off of the Enterprise. When I found a picture of the airplane, I was amazed at the resemblance to the old toy plane that is on my shelf in the cottage.

The APHC show this week is a spring rebroadcast of a show originally broadcast from The Town Hall in New York from April of 2011. Special guests include the Assad Brothers, Robin and Linda Williams, and the DiGiallonardo Sisters. In the News From Lake Wobegon, Pastor Liz organizes an outdoor procession to celebrate Holy Week. Enjoy the show.

“Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.” Henry Ward Beecher