friends

Toast to Friendship
April 02, 2025
Longtime friends (from left) Marlene Erickson, Marshall, Kristi Franken, Luverne, Roxanne Westover, Garretson, Pam Luettel, Adrian, and Barb Wiebel, Slayton, have been gathering regularly for 50 years and have supported each other through personal losses. In March they gathered at Franken’s home in Luverne to toast their friend, the late JoAnne Lynch. They drank homemade Irish cream in…
Friends, fishing: 'No better way to spend four days'
By Rick Peterson, general manager
May 16, 2023
In recent weeks I have been planning for an upcoming fishing trip. For years my two fishing buddies, Leroy and Dan, and I — and yes, I have fishing buddies … I also have hunting buddies, side-by-side buddies, and I even have a group of Power Ball buddies, not to mention my coffee buddies — anyway, my fishing buddies and I get together for a four-day trip to the waters of the Missouri River. Due…