Cruise-in for ‘American Graffiti’"American Graffiti" will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a showing at the Palace Theatre.The 1973 coming of age movie takes place one evening in a small California town.The movie, which premiered with little or no fanfare, quickly became a big hit and made big stars out of several of its actors and director.The cast includes Harrison Ford, Ron Howard, Charles Martin, Wolfman Jack, Richard Dreyfus, Suzanne Sommers, Cindy Williams, Paul LeMat and Candy Clark, who won an academy award for her performance.George Lucas, the director and writer of "American Graffiti," would later go on to create the "Star Wars" series.The movie has been fully restored; the film has never looked or sounded better.To promote the movie at the Palace, a cruise-in will be featured with 50 parking spots on Freeman Street saved for cars that are 1972 or older.The movie will appear at the Palace July 4 through 6. Show times are 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 and 7 p.m Sunday.If you would like to know more about the restored version of "American Graffiti," check out the following Web site.http://homevideo.universalstudios.com/americangraffiti/anniversaryF.htm… movies you might want to make down on your calendar include Holes, which will be shown on August 1,2&3 and Jaws has been booked to be shown on September 5,6&7.JaRiah to open MondayNext Monday Luverne will have a new hair salon but the face behind the chair will look familiar.Mary Aukes is opening JaRiah on Monday, June 30.The name JaRiah comes from a composite of her two kids, Jake and Mariah.Aukes started cutting hair in Luverne in 1989 and purchased Hair in 1994.Last year she sold Hair to take a job with a company that sold hair care products to salons like Hair.That job required more time away from home than she had realized, and now she has decided to get back in touch with her customers.Mary said in the past she has been both employee and owner. In the new operation she plans to work alone.The new store location is 222 E. Main, in the former Final Touch building.Her hours will be Monday through Friday, and Wednesday evening.Plan your July 4th trips with the help of 511Based on the my recent trips between Luverne and the cities I can tell you that you’re going to find a lot of detours on Minnesota roads this summer.To help make those trips a little easier the Minnesota Department of Transportation to plan their routes by using their 511 service.Eighteen states, including Iowa, North and South Dakota and Nebraska also offer the 511 service.What is the 511 service?By phone, travelers can use voice activation or the telephone keypad to also learn about weather, road conditions and traffic incidents.On the Internet, travelers can ge the latest travel information by logging on at www.511mn.org.The served is provided free of Charge. Helpfulhints for using 511 by phone include:* Use the keypad to enter the first three letters of the name of the city, then press#* To select a Highway, enter the highway number, followed by #* To get help, press *Blackbourn Media celebrates 10th birthday with Fey Industries.Ten years ago, in an effort to diversify their operation, Fey Industries decided to add a major component to their product line.In April of 1993 employees were told by their president, Norm Fey, that they had purchased Blackbourn Inc.Blackbourn media was a media packaging business specializing in thermoforming.Thermoforming is a process that uses heat and pressure to press rigid vinyl into shapes.In Blackbourn’s case, those shapes were usually in the form of packaging albums for software, multi-media, audio and videocassettes.Transporting the business from a 75,000 square foot facility in Eden Prairie to Edgerton, took 85 semi-trailer trips filled with equipment and materials.Prior to Purchasing Blackbourn, Fey Industries had been somewhat of a seasonal business, due to the seasonal nature of promotional products.With the purchase of Blackbourn, the employee count grew by 120 employees and currently employs 260 area residents, about 35 to 40 of whom are Rock County residents.Yesterday, June 25, the company celebrated the anniversary with a "parking lot picnic" from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.Publisher Roger Tollefson can be reached by e-mail at tolly@star-herald.com
