May 12, 2006 - Friday

05/12/06 FRIDAY
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Todays Gazette is brought to you by The Grafton Sports Arena. In 1942
the Peavy Elevator Company leased the Arena to store grain in. It had
the capacity to hold 100,000 bushels of grain.
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The current temperature is 45 degrees.
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 51/34
Normal H/L temp for this date is 69/42
The low this date in 1953 was 26
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"Profanity makes ignorance audible."
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L O C A L news & stuff,.. mostly stuff.
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The price of gas has dropped about a dime in the past several days. No
one seems to know for sure if that's because of the local "drilling"
going on in town.
Someone has been drilling holes in the cement in front of the former
Hvidsten building. The holes appear to be in the same area as the gas
and fuel pumps used to be when the Hvidsten family ran the facility. I
don't think they'll find enough oil or gas down there to make it
profitable to install an oil well drilling rig.
Unfortunately, there could well (pardon the pun) be enough oil and gas
there to make the hazardous waste people a pile of money removing it.
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SOON, according to Webster; 1. in a short time 2. promptly; quickly 3.
ahead of time; early 4. readily;
Sooner or later is inevitably and eventually.
So that's what the signs say in the front windows of the former J. C.
Penney's building. They will inevitably, open eventually,..... sometime
soon.
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Work has started on yet another new business facility on the west edge
of town. Hagens Construction Co. started building the approach for the
new Spudnik potato handling equipment facility yesterday.
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I mentioned birthdays the other day giving Denise reason to share the
following. >>> Gary:
Birthdays are fun. In our family we celebrate them for several
days. I had to smile when you mentioned counting the days, weeks, months
after a child is born. We have always celebrated our son's half birthday
(which coincidentally falls on Valentine's Day), so it was bound to be a
day of celebration anyway. Our son is over 28 and a half and it wasn't
until a couple of years ago that I met another person who celebrates
half birthdays in her family. We enjoyed a chuckle as though we shared a
secret. Our family has several silly traditions -- they're part of what
make us a family. Wouldn't it be fun to hear about family traditions
from some of your readers?
Have a nice day.
Denise Sevigny <<< Thanks a million for caring and sharing Denise. I
certainly agree, it would be wonderful if several others would share
their family traditions.
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Speaking of family. The Gazette family tree has another new branch. >>>
Hi,
My name is Lowell Lykken. My sister, Millicent LaBerge, told me
about your newsletter. Would you kindly add me to you email
distribution?
Perhaps you know my bother, Glenn Lykken.
Thanks, Lowell <<< Welcome to the Gazette family Lowell. I can't
promise accuracy or punctuality beyond my seemingly endless God-given
ability to screw-up. I can guarantee you will not find as much babble
anywhere else as cheap as you will find it in the Gazette.
The Walsh County Record is the best weekly Grafton area "official"
printed news source, and, the Grand Forks Herald is the best daily
Northern Valley source of printed happenings.
For most of the year, (winter) the Gazette goes out almost daily.
Starting sometime next week, the Gazette's predictability will become
even more unpredictable.
For most of the summer we can be found at Arnesen's Rocky Point Resort.
Where I will be continuing my, ongoing, summer research project. Namely
how long can a leach stay on a fish hook til it gets eaten by a giant
walleye. (normally they die first)
We will return home from time to time to send out "updates", and, of
course we will be home during Grafton's Summerfest.
If anyone is looking for a fantastic place to fish, spend a vacation,
and enjoy the lake and the great outdoors. I highly recommend Arnesen's
Rocky Point on Minnesota's Lake of the Woods.
I encourage you to check them out on the world wide web at arnesens.com
OR give them a call at 800-535-7585. The fishings fantastic and
generally the catching is too. AND, the food and refreshments in the
Rock Harbor lodge are scrumptious to boot.
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Marian Hajicek sent the following note, I think geared mainly for us
older folks.
>>> Dear Gary, First of all I must commend you for you very
interesting news items that you have in the Gazette each day. Keep up
the good work. Next I must ask a favor of you. Would you please
put the following news item in your Gazette and put it in maybe for a
couple days. The Grafton Senior citizens are sponsoring a 2 day, half
day courses on May 24 and 25 at the Senior citizen room in the armory
and the hours are from 1 to 5 each day. The cost of the course is
$10.00 for both days and in return, you get a discount on your auto
insurance from your insurance company. You must contact them to find
out how much. I believe it is $100.00 to $200.00 for a period of 3
years. It is open to anyone 50 and over. Anyone can come in and
register for this and there will be coffee and goodies. So for doing
this for me, I thank you very much and keep up the good work on the
Gazette. Marian Hajicek
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GOTTA GO WORK ON MY DASH
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seems to me.


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