Manda Steensma

Are you one of the lucky ones that has had braces? Or maybe you currently have braces like me. Yup, braces as an adult.  It’s funny how kids respond to them. “Oh, you have braces?” I think instead they want to say, “You’re old. Why do you have braces?” Why braces? Because something needs to be fixed. Was that too simple?  Okay, some reasons then: overbite, underbite, open bite, spacing,…

Once a year in Luverne we have the citywide cleanup or “junk days.” All the residents can go through their homes and almost anything they consider junk, broken, tarnished or simply unwanted gets thrown to the curb, literally. Right on schedule, city employees go around town with their trucks and trailers to haul it away.  Then after a week or so, all that junk is cleaned up and gone. It’s a…