The MPR Net Underwriting Sales Team annual retreat was supposed to be held this coming Sunday through Tuesday at Breezy Point Resort, but it had to be postponed until spring. One of the cabins at Breezy Point that is available to rent is the 11-bedroom Fawcett House. It was Breezy Point Resort’s founder Captain Billy’s […]
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Comments Off on September 26, 2025 It has been twelve years since Auntie passed. There are many stories to tell about Auntie, but my favorite comes from her son Kevin. They had been visiting Kevin’s uncle in Alexandria and Kevin told Auntie that he wanted to get back to her house in Upsala in time to watch the Preakness horse race […]
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Comments Off on September 19, 2025 In 2000 I took my first trip to Sun Valley, Idaho. I had been representing Minnesota Public Radio for almost one year and my boss decided to take the Brainerd territory away from me and give me the classical music station in Sun Valley to cover instead. St. Cloud, Worthington, Appleton, MN and Sioux Falls, […]
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Comments Off on September 12, 2025 Culture shock occurs when folks from one religion and background encounter folks from another religion and background. I experienced “culture shock” when I moved to Upsala in 1956. I was pulled out of St. Louis Park Junior High School and my mother and six of us children moved into an apartment above a grocery store […]
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