Monday, December 18, 2006

December 18, 2006 - Monday

Todays Gazette is brought to you by the 2007 Grafton SummerFest. June
21-23.
It's not to early to start planning.
This year will be Grafton's 125 year anniversary. Plans are to have as
many of the city's ORIGINAL FOUNDERS as possible attend the event.
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The current temperature is 18 degrees.
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 28/13
Normal H/L temp for this date is 19/1
I looks like we're experiencing a slight "glitch" in the global warming
theory.
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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 next time you hear someone say, "please pass the corn", it might
well be for heating and not eating. If you hear someone say "please pass
the potatoes" it's probably just an old radio recording of Frances
Phelan.
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We're still receiving information on the former Tollacks furniture and
hardware store. I received a call from Norman Russum the other day, he's
down enjoying the warm Arizona sunshine. He reported everything down
south is going well, and, he said, the supply of chocolate chip cookies
is as a good as ever. He also reminded me that Bill Tollack and Ben
Sell, at one time, were partners in the furniture/hardware business.
We also received the following insight from Maryann. She wrote. >>>
Tollacks ran a furniture store and Ray Collette was an employee - He
bought out Tollacks and ran a furniture store there for a number of
years - his wife was my husbands aunt and I know they owned the store in
the early 50's - cause in 1954 they presented our first child with
furniture from the store (she was their godchild) - they have 3 sons
still living = one in Mpls and the other 2 I believe live in CA-Larry,
Bob and Billy Collette-they probably can provide more history-know they
come to Grafton frequently for the annual summerfest-but someone may
have their address and can forward your request to them = Maryann
(Blanchard) Kennedy
Thanks a million for caring and sharing Maryann. As a matter of fact, I
gotta think we have a Collette family member, or two, in the Gazette
family. No definite word, yet, on the "official" re-opening date of that
building. I expect I might see something in the Wednesday Walsh County
Record,.. on Thursday.
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=== IT - IS - A - SMALL - TOWN ===
It happened just his morning, on the corner of Hill Avenue and Hiway
17. According to reports from two reliable sources, one was our son,
the other the mayor, a deer was seen at the aforementioned intersection
this morning. No,... it wasn't a John Deere, the wheeled kind. It was
the four legged kind. The ones that start life with neat little white
spots on them.
The one this morning was just past the spot stage,.... if I understood
the call correctly. Evidently, about the same time as a North Dakota
State Hiway Patrolman was giving a local resident a reason to "invest"
in our state hiway system on the south side of that intersection. Bambi
(not Lewie) was buzzing thru a red light heading for the Westside Drive
inn. Maybe he was on the way to the sugarbeet storage pile west of
Grafton.
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This has been a busy morning for some folks on main street downtown
too. A large Semi-trailer truck parked on the south side of the old
Nelson Drug, (most recently Ekatta's) and crews started unloading
numerous pallets of stainless steel equipment resembling something that
"might" be used for repackaging things that go in small packages. I'm
almost certain, we'll be able to read more about that in Wednesdays
Record,... on Thursday.
Anyway, for those of us that were wondering if the former Ekatta's
building was empty. By the looks of the stuff they're trying to stuff in
that building today. It won't be empty for long.
Or so it seems to me.
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GOTTA - GO - WORK - ON - MY - DASH
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The Gazette works best, when the folks that read it, write it. Or so it
seems to me.


Write if you can, call if you can't, and, tell your loved ones they are,
before it's too late.

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