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Hi Ron,
Thank you for your many columns since since 1968. I read most of them. I've been a life-long journalist. I met you several times during the years I was at Baxter Advertising and you attended the annual Baxter wild game lunches at Murray's Restaurant. I worked on the ag accounts but always enjoyed the hunting/fishing accounts supervised by John Rausch.
These days, I mostly garden, hunt, fish and write a gardening column for Carver and Scott County newspapers. One of my hobbies may be of interest for Minnesota Bound...I make carved spoons, salad tongs, cribbage boards and walking sticks out of buckthorn. Although I've written extensively about buckthorn control and eradication, the wood is the most colorful and rich of any wood that grows in Minnesota. Recently Janet Larson of the City of Minnetonka hosted a buckthorn woodworking event and six craftsmen showed off their wood objects made from buckthorn. It was an interesting evening.
Good luck with the show and your time of greater leisure without the weekly column.
Best regards,
Cliff Johnson
Carver/Scott Master Gardener & Tree Care Advisor
Chaska, MN
Thank you Ron for all the years of interesting and fun shows and reporting!
Jon Spencer
GOOD MORNING
I just want to wish you a Very Happy 4th Of July; also. I live in Indiana and I was going to Minn 3 or 4 times a year on fishing vacations. A couple of years ago I had a heart attack and now I stay home. But it was so beautiful up there in God's Country. I love the Live Cams you do each year. I enjoy watching them ever so often from my computer. I hope you are able to continue doing them. The Loons and the Eagles Nests. Canada was the place I saw my first Eagle and Loon. I went with a bunch of men (13) of us. I was maybe 22 so it's been a while. We drove almost 24 hours to get there at the Camp. It was Sunset when we arrived and I walked down to the lake and went out on the pier. I was looking across the lake at how beautiful and peaceful it was. This was a hugh lake and I was thinking of all of the Walleye and Northerns in there. And wanting one on my rod. I had never caught Walleye before. All of a sudden there was a cry coming from the lake. To me it sounded like HELP HELP and it was a high pitched sound. My heart went up into my throat my eyes went wide open and I ran as fast as I could to our cabin. I said there is a woman drowning out in the lake she is hollering HELP HELP. I was so out of breath and I was all bent over trying to get my breath. They all ran with me back to the pier and the cry came again from the lake. They started laughing at me and said I was as crazy as a LOON. Then they said it was a bird doing their singing. Then I wanted to see one of those birds. The next day when we were fishing I saw one and then it cried out and I knew then it was a bird. But all night I was thinking what if it was a woman and she drowned and I heard her needing help. That's my memory of my first experience with a Loon.
Happy Holiday
A Friend from Indiana
Dannie Hoffer Sr.