for what it's worth
By Rick Peterson, Star Herald General ManagerJuly 05, 2016Just in time for the Fourth of July we installed a new flagpole in front of our house. As with any project around our house, there is a certain amount of debate (argument) about the project. This time the debate (argument) was about the location of said flagpole. Before the location debate surfaced, a number of other issues had to be worked out. How high should the pole be? What color should the…
By Rick Peterson, Star Herald General ManagerMay 23, 2016If you haven’t notice already, today’s edition of the Star Herald has a number of mentions of the upcoming Memorial Day holiday. Today’s editorial reminds us of the many blessings we have as free citizens because of the sacrifices that tens of thousands of American servicemen and servicewomen have given to our country. Those sacrifices were not only for our benefit but also for the benefit of…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing General ManagerMay 09, 2016You know, sometimes no matter how well you plan something, sometimes things can go ... well, not as planned. Such a scenario happened to our daughter a couple of weeks ago. Emily, who lives in Des Moines, Iowa, was hosting a Garth Brooks concert gathering for her brother and his wife and her sister and her husband. Weeks, if not months, of planning went into this get-together. Tickets were bought…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing General ManagerApril 25, 2016They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks, but I am here to tell you this old dog can still be trained. I was on a sales call at Cragoe Realty last week and it’s not unusual for Gene Cragoe and me to get enthralled in a conversation about this, that or the other thing. Well, last week we had one of those conversations, and about midway through discussing the topic of the day, Gene leans over…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing General ManagerFebruary 15, 2016It’s been a couple of weeks since the youngest Peterson grandson took the ice for his first mini-mite tournament. Tournament maybe isn’t the right word because they didn’t keep score; there was no goalie in the net because there was no net. Come to find out that for the mini-mites instead of nets they use a wooden box with holes at each end that the kids try and shoot the puck into for a goal.…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing General ManagerFebruary 02, 2016Well, I believe this weekend will be my hockey fan “coming out party.” The youngest of the Peterson grandsons plays on the mini-mites team for Redwood Falls, and they’ll be in town this weekend taking on the locals. It’s almost un-American not to be a hockey fan in Luverne, and while I never played hockey, nor do I fully understand the rules, maybe it’s about time I did. One of my coffee buddies…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing General ManagerDecember 22, 2015Christmas 2015 is tomorrow, and while everything around us seems to be changing, at least the Christmas story remains the same. I noticed at least one other thing that hasn’t changed. It seems the Christmas shopping list has stood the test of time and modern technology. With the advent of the cellphone and all things computer, I was happy to notice shoppers pulling out their paper Christmas list…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing General ManagerNovember 23, 2015It’s Thanksgiving week so we tend to spend a little more time than normal thinking about those things we are thankful for. Because of everyone’s work and family schedules, our family celebrated Thanksgiving this past weekend. The time worked out well because it was also the weekend of the youth deer hunt at the Blue Mounds State Park. I entered our grandson Carter’s name in a drawing, and he…
By Rick PetersonNovember 09, 2015By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing General Manager Are you kidding me? Affordable health care, my A$$. This column is in no way a reflection on our local insurance agents. In fact, I can’t imagine the guff they are taking as the annual renewal time for health insurance is upon us. This is the second go-around for open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act, and health care has been…
By Rick PetersonOctober 12, 2015Well, both the Rock County Pheasants Forever banquet and the Minnesota pheasant hunting season opener have come and gone since my last column. To give you an update, the local Pheasants Forever chapter hosted one of its most successful events in recent years. Credit for that success goes to the hard-working committee that plans for months and to the tremendous support the local chapter receives…
By rick petersonSeptember 28, 2015I like to think after 38 years of marriage I know when my wife, Mary, is playing a mind game with me. Recently, however, I discovered she has me right where she wants me even though I think I am in control. Case in point. I was getting ready to watch the first Minnesota Vikings game of the season a couple of weeks ago. Like all good Vikings fans, all day long I was anticipating that night’s…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing General ManagerSeptember 14, 2015In August the Ken Burns documentary, “The War,” was being rebroadcast on public television across the country. I happened to be going through the channels one evening and was lucky enough to come across the film and found myself watching for hours. The reason I figured the “The War” was being broadcast across the country is because on Saturday, Aug. 29, we received a letter in our Star Herald…
August 31, 2015So the other morning I was going through the channels on television. I ended up landing on the History Channel and the show was about where words and sayings came from and how they got their start. I learned that the saying “Good Bye” actually got its start from that saying “God be with you.” The word “hello” got its start when Thomas Edison introduced it as a way to answer the new telephone…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing General ManagerAugust 17, 2015Did you feel it this past Sunday and Monday? I bet you did, and you more than likely said, “Oh my! There’s a touch of fall in the air.” If you did, you would be right. Fall, football and pheasant hunting are just around the corner, and I, for one, couldn’t be happier. The first day of fall isn’t until Sept. 22, but football is already underway, and the annual Rock County Pheasants Forever…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing general managerAugust 03, 2015I started my last column with the words “Mary and I.” The column was about the two of us babysitting our granddaughter. I use those three words, “Mary and I,” from time to time generally because we do almost everything together, except hunting, fishing, golfing and watching TV. So today the three words “Mary and I” can be followed by “have been married for 38 years.” I know what you’re thinking…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing General ManagerJuly 06, 2015While we are in the midst of a summer full of busy weekends, July seems to be the busiest month of all. The weekends are booked with our grandson’s baseball tournaments, a wedding and a couple of class reunions for good measure. I actually have two 40th class reunions myself this month alone. Mary had her 40th reunion last month. Mary’s class of 1975 was the largest graduating class in…
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