Friday, May 18, 2007

May 18, 2007 - Friday - Grafton, ND

If you want to feel young, associate with young people. If you want to
realize your age, try keeping up with them.
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The current temperature is 56 degrees.
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 74/36
Normal H/L temp for this date is 71/44
The high was 95° on this date in 1988.
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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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If all the signs, paint arrows, stripes, and people looking down
manholes are any indication. It shouldn't be long before HcHugh Avenue
between 5th and 12h Street is closed down and torn up.
Working on the site of the new small grain drying facility on the west
edge of town and the McHugh Avenue street rebuilding project. There are
more Gowan Construction pickups in the Grafton area than Oslo.
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The giant drilling rig set up in the parking lot of George LaHaise &
Sons Plumbing and heating on the north end of town, isn't drilling for
oil. At least I don't think so. That drilling rig will be used to drill
almost two hundred holes (geothermal heating & cooling) in the ground
west of St. Johns Catholic Church.
Ironic isn't it? A religious organization drilling holes halfway to
hell, to heat the house of the Lord.
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Talk about irony. Have you noticed all the "hoopla" about the young
girl with more money than hotel rooms, and less brains than God gave a
goat. It would seem, to me at least, that a battalion of lawyers,
Entertainment Tonight (& tomorrow) along with the entire governing body
of the United States of America are hell bent on putting a girl with
more high heeled shoe's and thong's than Carters have liver pills in
jail. ONLY,.... to be over shadowed by an even greater segment of our
society working diligently to exonerate more than TEN MILLION
individuals that "everyone" agrees is here ILLEGALLY.
I haven't heard it, yet, although I'm wondering if congrees will see
fit to "forgive" the folks that broke into the Gate City Bank in Park
River the other day.
Of course robbing banks is illegal. However, I'm sure the robbers are
only doing it to afford (pardon the pun) them a better life style than
they would have otherwise.
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Have you noticed that most of the products sold on late night TV have
"results not typical" in extremely small print on them.
Does it surprise you that the same fellow peddling a thousand herbs and
spices to clean your colon,.... is full of it?
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Seeing Dr. Russell Lafevre's name in the Gazette the other day gave
Ralph reason to share the following. >>>
Russell Lefevre is home because he is receiving an honorary doctor of
letters degree from UND for a life time of important accomplishments.
Myron Ling told me recently that he and Harold Bliss always referred to
the people of that time as the "Class of 57". Often called the "children
of sputnik", they (and there are many of them from Grafton over a 5-7
year period) were part of America's answer to the Russian scientific
challenge. They were part of the reason America is still the only
country to have landed humans on the moon. Not bad for a bunch of kids
from Grafton, people with names like Lefevre, Loos, Lykken, and Moe
among others.
Ralph Kingsbury <<< Thanks a million for caring and sharing Ralph. It
could be said, "recognition is the most flattering form of historic
documentation." I have come to believe, "Most people do not do great
things to become great people. They're already great people. They simply
utilize their abilities,... to get things done."
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Speaking of great people. Just the other day Scott Johnston was
wondering how, or where, he might obtain a copy of Grafton's Centennial
Book.
To that end I received the following note from Bill & Pat Holt. They
wrote: >>>
Hi Gary,
Regarding the Grafton Centennial books, we have 2 of them and would be
happy to share one with Scott Johnston.He can just contact us and
we will arrange to mail it to him. Thanks for keeping us all in
touch.
Bill and Pat Holt <<< Thanks a million for caring and sharing Bill &
Pat. I'm confident your contribution will be greatly appreciated.
As soon as I received the Holts note, I sent a copy of it to Scott,
along with their address and phone number. Within minutes I received the
following note from Scott. He wrote >>>
Thanks a lot Gary. I would have never found one if it hadn't been for
the Gazette. Scott <<< Thank you Scott, I hope you enjoy
your new found treasure.
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Speaking of caring and sharing. Tom Kutz put together a picture
presentation of the 1949 Main Street paving project.
Hi Gary,
With all the talk about when main street was paved I thought that I
would put this little slide show together for you to enjoy. It is
only seven photos taken in 1949 - all the concrete was poured with this
big mixer and hand labor.
Somewhere I have a photo of the original paving of cedar wood blocks
being replaced. It shows the old wood blocks being dug out by
hand. I think it was taken in the late 1920s.
If you want to pass the link on to other for them to see - I think
this link would work.

http://photoshow.comcast.net:80/watch/dx4qw3Xe

Happy viewing!!
Tom
PS - Hope to get a chance to see everyone at the 125th next month <<<
Thanks a million for caring and sharing Tom. Unfortunately, my basic
method of moving memos won't allow me to open the link. I hope it works
better for others, and I'm sure it will.
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If you look toward the Northern Minnesota lake country, and listen very
carefully. You just may hear the sound of a Walleye combine harvesting
another fantastic shore lunch. It won't be long and one of those Walleye
combines will be mine.
When that happens, some Gazette's will be written with invisible ink.
However, every once in a while, when the Walleye combine comes in for
service, or gas, I'll send out a fishing report. Unfortunately I will
not be able to guarantee the accuracy of the size or number of fish
harvested. Sometimes, it seems, like so many other harvested crops, fish
tend to "grow" on their way through the combine.
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.

Grafton, ND

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