October 2, 2008 - Thursday

Todays Gazette is brought to you, in part, by ==== Merle's Motor
Service ====
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The current temperature is 56 degrees.
Yesterdays H/L temperature was 62/33
Normal H/L temp for this date is 63/39
It was 19 degrees on this date in 1999.
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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 "original" Subway Sandwich Shop is actually starting to look like
it could be finished by early November. From the street it appears that
several out of town contractors have invaded the site and people are
running and crawling around the facility like it's a ant farm. It is
also becoming more and more evident that there will also be a gasoline
station on that corner as well.
When completed, Simonson's new combination Subway Sandwich Shop, gas
station will be an attractive addition to Grafton's business community.
And, if my information is correct and I think it is. There will also be
a brand spanking new car wash on that intersection too.
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"Life's tough....it's even tougher if your stupid" John Wayne
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New home construction is booming (with tongue in cheek) along Lessard
Lane on the west edge of town. Folks coming home for Grafton's 2009
SummerFest Festivities and class reunions will surely be surprised to
see how much residential construction that has actually taken place on
Lessard Lane.
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Although nobody seems real pleased with the idea of leaving a
percentage of sugarbeets in the ground this fall. NO-ONE, that I've
talked to, is complaining at all about the size and quality of the
sugarbeet crop they're harvesting this fall either.
Unfortunately, as usual, harvest labor throughout the area, is in short
supply. It's times like this that makes me wonder about the validity of
the unemployment numbers in the country.
Ironically, in the past few days, on two intersections along 32nd
Avenue in Grand Forks, we saw two couples (both with two or more dogs)
Holding up signs "begging" for money. One things for certain. There is
more than enough work for those four individuals. Or so it seems to me.
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It is with sincere regret that I share the passing of Thelma
(Freedland) Anderson.
Thelma and Merle, (her first husband) owned and operated Merle's Motor
Service in Grafton. Merle's Auto Body and Repair shop on the corner of
4th Street and Wakeman Ave. was the first such facility in our entire
area to have air conditioning.
For many years the Freedlands only lived a block away from our house,
and as a young boy I spent many hours at their house.
Thelma Freedland Anderson, age 88, of Park River, ND passed away on
September 30, 2008 at First Care Health Center in Park River.
Thelma Rose May Gilleshammer was born March 23, 1920 in Kittson County
near Halma, Minnesota, the daughter of Peter and May (Olson)
Gilleshammer. They moved from Minnesota to a farm by St. Thomas,
North Dakota in 1928. She attended Pembina County District #40 and
attended High School in Grafton, ND.
She married Merle E. Freedland on June 19, 1938. They lived in
Grafton and St. Paul, MN. They owned and operated Merle's Motor
Service in Grafton until his death on July 25, 1971. She married Earl
M. Anderson in 1973 and moved to Walhalla, ND, where she worked for the
Walhalla Clinic. She moved to Park River, ND and worked at Unity
Hospital in Grafton as a Health Unit Coordinator until retirement in
1992. Earl Anderson died in 1993. She resided at the Good
Samaritan Home in Park River for the last three years.
She is survived by daughter Janice (John) Meagher, Park River, ND;
daughter-in-law Marliss Freedland, Tacoma WA, seven grandchildren, 13
great grandchildren; brothers: Orvil (Joy) Gilleshammer; Allen (June)
Gilleshammer; Glenn (Lorretta) Gilleshammer; many nieces and nephews;
step-daughter Donna Anderson Robinson, Olathe, KS; four
step-grandchildren and four step great-grandchildren. She was
preceded in death by her parents, husband, son: Ronald and daughters:
Sherrill and Gail; sisters: Gladys Rutherford, Joyce Pede, and Betty
Jean Heisler.
Funeral services will be Monday, October 6, 2008 at 10:30 A.M. at the
Grafton Lutheran Church. Visitation will be Sunday from 4-6 P.M. with
a prayer service at 6:00 P.M. at the Tollefson Funeral Home of
Grafton. Friends may also call at the church on Monday for one hour
prior to the service. Interment will be at the Grafton Lutheran
Cemetery.
The Tollefson Funeral Home of Grafton is in charge of the arrangements.
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It is with regret that I share the passing of Lon Stenerson. I will
always remember Lon as a very kind, mild mannered individual.
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Lon Stenerson, age 78, past away Monday, Sept 29 at the Lutheran
Sunset Home in Grafton. Lon and his wife Arlene (Holt) were long time
residents of the rural St. Thomas area.
Funeral services will be 2 pm today (Thursday) at the Grafton Lutheran
Church. Burial will be in the St. Thomas City Cemetery
He was a member of Grafton Lutheran Church, a former member of St.
John's Lutheran Church in St. Thomas and the Ottum-Ball American Legion
Post in St. Thomas. He served on the Lutheran Sunset Board, the church
board and St. Thomas Grain board. Lon loved to sing and enjoyed singing
with 4 other men for several years.
Surviving Lon are his wife Arlene of Grafton; daughters Lonna (John)
Hillis of Cavalier and Leanne (Steve) Olslund of Fargo; son Montelle
"Monte" Stenerson of Iola, Wisconsin; 6 grandchildren: Sadie Hillis,
Whitney (Brady) Austfjord, Hannah Hillis, Jace Gilleshammer, Danelle
Stenerson and Grant Stenerson; sisters Lyla (Herb) Wogsland of Grand
Forks and Sandra (Loren) Johnson of Duluth, MN and brother Sterling
Stenerson of Shaker Heights, Ohio. He was preceded in death by his
parents and sister Sherry Lee.
Barnes, Henriksen-Kamrowski Chapel in Grafton in charge of arrangements.
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