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Ice Sculptures
(January 24th, 2012) by Don Reigstad
The rest of the world must think us northerners a little loony. We carve and sculpt ice! My wife and I have seen the ice sculptures in Rice Park, St. [...]
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The Bread Man
(December 23rd, 2011) by Don Reigstad
Has the bread-man come? One of our parishioners used to stop by a bread store before coming to church and picked up day old bread for the staff. Most Sundays [...]
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A Father’s Right
(December 17th, 2011) by Don Reigstad
“She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” Matthew 1:21 When it came [...]
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Saint Nicholas of Myra
(December 15th, 2011) by Don Reigstad
“Yes, Virginia, there really is a Santa Claus!” The famous quote comes from an editorial in The New York Sun, from September 21, 1897. The editor, Francis Church, was responding [...]
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100 Years of Gratitude!
(November 23rd, 2011) by Don Reigstad
My wife’s grandma Signe died at 109 years young! Born in 1899, she saw and experienced more than nearly any of us. Growing up on the farm, she ended up [...]
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Moore & Kutcher’s Pain
(November 21st, 2011) by Don Reigstad
Sad. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher are divorcing. Married in September of 2005, they’re calling an end to it just six years later. According to Tim Molloy, TheWrap, Moore says, [...]
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The Bus From Space
(October 13th, 2011) by Don Reigstad
Whew! You can stop looking up for fear of getting hit by a bus. Well, it was a bus-sized satellite, dead in the upper atmosphere and crashing to the earth. [...]
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Free at last!
(September 22nd, 2011) by Don Reigstad
Errant hikers Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer are free! After two years in an Iranian prison, held on charges of spying, were finally released on September 21. Landing in the [...]
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091101
(September 9th, 2011) by Don Reigstad
My brother is better at remembering numbers than names. He’s an accountant. I think we all remember 911 better than we could ever remember the names of 3000 Americans killed [...]
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Gadhafi fallen!
(September 9th, 2011) by Don Reigstad
When Israel’s King Saul and Prince Jonathan fell dead in battle, the new king, David composed and sang a lament for the two. The closing lines of the song are: [...]
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