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Fifteen years of service. There were 15 of us that were recognized by the MPR Board of Directors yesterday at MPR headquarters. After spending 23 years of selling in the office furniture industry and 6 years in the office equipment industry, I was unemployed and spending the summer of 1999 painting old buildings in the Upsala area. I drove to Randall and went to the back room at Bermel’s Store, the local Red Wing Boot dealer. I picked out a good pair of sturdy work boots and started climbing ladders. My first job was the Post Office in Upsala and then I did an out building on my cousin Dave’s farm. Per my brother Bill’s instructions, I used oil based primer and latex paint. He let me use his power washer. The two buildings that I did the summer of 1999 still look good. The boots are in pretty good shape too.

In August I read an ad in the St. Cloud Times for a “Development Officer” for Minnesota Public Radio. I didn’t know what a “Development Officer” was, but it turned out to be sales. A perfect fit. It took two months and seven interviews to get the job, but it worked out well. Compared to “slamming boxes for Xerox”, this is more fun than it is work. I may shoot for 25.

The APHC show this week is a re-broadcast of a show from October 1, 2011. Special guests include tenor Raul Melo, Cantus performing “Wanting Memories” and Heather Masse singing “Early Autumn”. In The News From Lake Wobegon, a big wind causes havoc all over town. Enjoy the show.

“It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul” From the poem “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley.