February 8, 2008 - Friday

Early Edition
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Todays Gazette is being brought to you, in part by the "Green Machine".
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The current temperature is 16 degrees.
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 14/-17
Normal H/L temp for this date is 20/1
We have been told to be on the lookout for blizzard conditions late
Friday night.
Rats, and I was planning on watching Little House on the Prairie.
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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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Workman completed the roof portion of the "longhouse" late Thursday.
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Tuesday afternoon the open basement on the property east of Ole Aasands
home was empty, partially full of snow and there was no sign of a house
to be found anywhere.
All that changed Wednesday when a house Moving Crew from South Dakota
came to town and started building a road from hiway 81 across what used
to be railroad tracks, to the new site. By Wednesday night, the house
that was built in Watertown, South Dakota was moved to town and almost
on it's new foundation.
The house moving crew pulled up to Granny's at 6:00 Thursday morning
and patiently waited for the restaurant to open for breakfast. (It seems
Granny's clock is set somewhere between Mountain and Central standard
time.) The movers said, they would have the house up and on the
foundation within a couple hours after they had breakfast.
And, I might add,.... they did. The new home will make a super addition
to that end of town.
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= Debbie Walsh shared the following. =
The Grand Essentials of Happiness are:
Something to do, Something to Love and Something to hope for.
"Allan K. Chalmers"
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Dorothy's note about Sonny and the Teapot Dome, gave Tom reason to
share the following memory. >>>>
Subject: GREETINGS, GARY!
Speaking of Sonny Wentz reminded me of his '38 Olds I bought from him
in 1951, complete with bullet hole in the hood. Drove it almost to
Camp Rucker, it broke down in Holly Springs, Miss. What an
adventure! Also, one of my first jobs was washing car windows with
Bill DePuy around the two Grafton hotels, Merchant and Basell, for the
Teapot Dome, leaving a note under the windshield wiper as advertising
for the business. Capitalism working at its best. Tom LaBerge <<<
Thanks a million for caring and sharing Tom. Some folks seem to
remember that old olds as the "Green Monster". Or, "The Mean Green
Machine."
Aren't memories wonderful?
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No word, yet, on the status of the "undocumented borrowers" that payed
a visit (pardon the pun) to a Park River Financial institution last
summer. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if they're not on the way to New
York City to get a drivers license so they can drive legally.
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===== ATTENTION PLEASE =====
The following persons will make the trip to The 1949 Tournament of
Roses.
Drum Majors; - Aurel & Bonnie Littlejohn, Ann Ensrud, Betty Gjerswold,
Norma Lee, Carol Hopperstad. Flag Bearers; Lucille Eng & Phyllis Gorder.
Trombone: Harold Blanchard, Charles Ordahl. Baritone; Al Johnson.
Saxophone; Rae Meier, Nancy Loos, Suzanne LaBerge, Francis LaBerge,
Bass; Freddie Stark. Snare; Betty Lamont, Allan Johnson. Bass Drum; Dick
Anderson. Cornet; Lynn (Jim) Thompson, Bert Overland, Dick LaBerge, Jack
Babinski, Clarinet; June Erlendson, Avis Stark, Marilyn Johnson, Aurel
DeSautel, Alice Miller, Leslie Anderson, Tommie LaBerge, Beverly Berg.
Extras: Saxophone; Russel LeFevre. Trombone; Lloyd Gillespie.
Baritone; Bill Depuy. Piccolo; Roy Miller. Cornets; Richard Torblaa &
Chuck Hvidsten. Cymbals; John Loos. Sousaphone; Roger Hvidsten. The Trip
doctor will be Dr. Rand with Milton Johnston as treasurer and H. B.
Ensrud will act as Ass't Treas. & Photographer.
Stanley Wysocki and Armond Pagliarini will be the trips Business Mgrs.
& Custodians.
The list original list, compiled by Joe, contained 52 additional
individuals. Can anyone remember their names, the instrument they
played, or, the part they played in the trip to the Tournament of Roses?
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GOTTA GO WORK ON MY DASH
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"Arguments are little more than the heated exchange of ignorance."
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.