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- By Rick Peterson, general managerNovember 02, 2021Next Thursday, Nov. 11, is Veterans Day, and I just want to remind folks to take a couple of moments to think about and appreciate the men and women who have served and will serve our country in the armed forces. I never served in the military, and frankly it’s one of my greatest regrets in life. If I had a do over, I like to think I would have served our country. There are a number of Veterans…
By Rick Peterson, general managerOctober 19, 2021The Luverne Area Community Foundation (LACF) is organizing the MAX YOUR COMMUNITY fund drive from Nov. 1-11. On Tuesday, Nov. 11, there will be a live KQAD radiothon broadcast from the LACF’s Main Street office. Two of this area’s longtime trusted organizations, the Luverne Area Community Foundation and Red Arrow have come together to raise $100,000. The Red Arrow organization was for many years…
By Rick Peterson, general managerOctober 05, 2021You may not have noticed it, but last week hell froze over, a cow jumped over the moon, and Mary and I won a golf tournament. The chances of hell freezing over and a cow jumping over the moon are more probable than Mary and I taking home the championship trophy in a couples’ golf tournament. The tournament field is comprised of just four couples, and I believe this is the ninth year the four…
By Rick Peterson, Star Herald general managerSeptember 20, 2021You may or may not be aware that Page One in Slayton is where we print the Rock County Star Herald and Luverne Announcer. We send our pages online to the Slayton printing plant, and a driver delivers our papers to the post office for mail distribution and to our office for news stand distribution. Last week a fire broke out in the warehouse area of Page One, where many of the advertising inserts…
By Rick Peterson, general managerSeptember 07, 2021I would imagine every one of us remembers exactly where we were when we first heard the news of the attacks on the World Trade Center building. I was walking down Second Street in Redwood Falls on my way to the Redwood Gazette office. It was about 9:30 in the morning, and from across the street Jay Eykyn yelled over, “Hey, Rick, did you hear about the plane that flew into the World Trade Center…
By Rick Peterson, general managerAugust 24, 2021Earlier this month Mary and I celebrated our 44th wedding anniversary. A couple of weeks after that, I added another year to my age. I bring up both of those milestones because with our aging we have noticed some not-so-subtle changes that are starting to creep into our daily lives. Body aches and pains are more frequent, and I can handle that. But the hard part about those aches and pains is…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing general managerAugust 10, 2021I was having somewhat of a frustrating day a week or so ago. It was late in the afternoon and I was driving back to the office sulking a bit more than I should have. Nevertheless, it was a bummer of a day. I was listening to the Dan Barreiro radio show, and he was doing a segment on how important the arts really are. He was trying to convey the message that we never really can comprehend the…
By Rick Peterson, general managerJuly 27, 2021Just when you’re about to give up on people in general, something happens and you realize there are still good people out there … more than we realize. As strange as what you’re about to read may seem, it really happened. A week or so ago on a Saturday, Mary and I thought we would take our side-by-side to Rowena, South Dakota, to the junk fest. We were going to zigzag our way over there, and we…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing general managerJuly 13, 2021Mary keeps telling me that I need to stop getting so upset about things I can’t control and take some pleasure in the small things in life. So, with that in mind and as I was making my morning toast, I was lucky enough to be at the end of a loaf a bread, and there was the crust. The little things in life don’t get much smaller, so I stop to enjoy the crust. When I was growing up, the crust was…
By Rick Peterson, general managerJune 29, 2021Before you know it, we’ll be hitting the unofficial midway point of summer. I know the first day of summer was just a little over a week ago. Yet once the Fourth of July comes and goes, we unfortunately shift our thoughts toward the dog days of August, then Labor Day, then back to school, and summer is over. Don’t shoot the messenger, but that is the way it goes … if you let it. So here are a…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing general managerJune 15, 2021Sunday is Father’s Day and the funny thing about Father’s Day for me is I don’t consider it a day set aside for me as a father. I know that sounds rather confusing, but what I am trying to say is Father’s Day for me is more about three other very important fathers in my life. First is my father, or Dad, as I called him. He died of cancer at the age of 47 some 40 years ago. I think about him often…
By Rick Peterson, general managerJune 01, 2021Last year COVID-19 put the kibosh on my annual three-day fishing trip. For the past six years a couple of my buddies and I have been spending a few days fishing Lake Sharp on the Missouri River. We camp at the West Bend State Park in South Dakota. It’s not really camping when one of those buddies has a 40-foot RV. As good fortune would have it, the other buddy has a 20-foot Lund that we fish out…
By Rick Peterson, Tollefson Publishing general managerMay 18, 2021It seems that I have come to a point in my life where my short-term memory forgets to work. Over my working career I usually begin my day with a daily to-do list. The list generally serves two purposes: first, it gives me achievement goals for the day; but mostly, it helps remind me of smaller tasks I may forget over the course of the day. Just recently I was writing one such note to myself…
By Rick Peterson, general managerMay 04, 2021Mary and I spent a couple of days in Des Moines recently for a family gathering, and from there we drove to Redwood Falls for our grandson’s confirmation. We were a couple of hours into our trip when we pulled into a Kwik Star gas station. For whatever reason, what we know as Kwik Trips in Minnesota they call Kwik Stars in Iowa. On our way out the door headed to our car, I noticed this girl…
By Rick Peterson, general managerApril 20, 2021It’s always been a challenge to get high school spring sports games, matches and meets in due to weather. And last year the spring sports season was washed out altogether, thanks to COVID. This spring things looked promising. Games, matches and meets were scheduled and the early April weather gave everyone hope that soon players, coaches, parents and, in my case grandparents, would be outside…
By Rick Peterson, general managerApril 06, 2021Next to hunting season this is my favorite time of the year. I like to call it “change-over season.” It’s time to put all the winter gear away. Snow boots, coats, hats and gloves have been stowed away for another year. Putting the snow blower and shovels away is especially satisfying in that it gives me the feeling of “I made it through another Minnesota winter.” I know, I know. There is always…
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